2025-04-19
34 分钟We are living in interesting times, a turning point in history.
Are we entering a dark authoritarian era.
Or are we on the brink of.
A technological golden age or the apocalypse?
No one really knows, but I'm trying.
To find out from New York Times opinion.
I'm Ross Douthat and on my show Interesting Times,
I'm exploring this strange new world order with the thinkers and leaders giving it shape.
Follow it wherever you get your podcasts from the New York Times,
this is the Interview I'm David Marchese.
Pretty much whenever I watch a buzzy new stand up comedy special,
at some point I end up having to scramble for the remote control to hit the mute button
because one of my kids has wandered into the room.
The material's just too blue for their precious little ears.
When I was watching Nate Bargetzi's latest special, though, my 10 year old walked.
I grabbed the remote and then I realized I didn't have to do anything
because the next joke he told with my daughter in the room was about drinking chocolate milk.
If standups today often catch fire by being seen as transgressive and dangerous,
saying the things others won't say about subjects others won't talk about in language others won't use,
then Bargetzi has captured the zeitgeist in a friendlier way.