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Luke Ford
Hosted by Luke Ford · EN
I've written five books (see Amazon.com). I've appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and Rolling Stone as well on 60 Minutes, ABC News, and Entertainment Tonight. I teach Alexander Technique in Beverly Hills (Alexander90210.com).
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Donald Trump Begins His Second Term (1-20-25)
Jan 20, 202503:04:49Tap to summarize01:00 Trump inauguration 07:00 Ezra Klein: Trump Barely Won the Popular Vote. Why Doesn’t It Feel That Way? 11:00 The changes in vibes — why did they happen?, https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2024/07/the-changes-in-vibes-why-did-they-happen.html 15:00 Politico: An Expert in Grand Strategy Thinks Trump Is on to Something, https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/01/16/logic-trump-global-ambitions-canada-europe-greenland-00198656 29:00 NYT: How Amy Klobuchar Treats Her Staff, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/22/us/politics/amy-klobuchar-staff.html 34:00 Julie Hartman looks great, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1yV-6_goEU 1:13:40 Eric Dezenhall on CA wildfire fallout: Don't see how the LA Mayor recovers from this, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zpg5DJ84mLc 1:22:00 Newsom Fiddles While California Burns, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHdr6KUi3fs 1:36:45 Ceasefire Cheat Day & Realtors In LA | The Tim Dillon Show, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfAF8ghYTU4 1:54:50 Ezra Klein: Democrats are Losing the War for Attention. Badly., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qgcdl7pFNE 1:55:10 Joe Rogan is better than Howard Stern ever was 2:08:50 Discussion with Martin Weiss and Mark Halperin, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xT2Hd8vt3Ok 2:42:40 Mark Halperin live on Trump’s Inauguration, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbjFWy1qdRM
Transcribe →Where Are The Elites Defending Mayor Karen Bass & Governor Gavin Newsom? (1-19-25)
Jan 19, 202503:15:27Tap to summarize01:00 LA fires represent the failure of liberal governance, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=158603 04:00 Red-pilled Billionaires, LA Fire Update, Newsom's Price Caps, TikTok Ban, Jobless MBAs, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQ35G6XI8Uw 08:00 LAT: Amid dangerous winds in 2011, LAFD engines stood ready. That didn’t happen this time, https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-18/amid-dangerous-winds-in-2011-lafd-engines-stood-ready-in-the-palisades-that-didnt-happen-this-time 23:00 Tiktok is back 44:00 Kip discusses oral loving 47:00 Kip's repetitive concerns regarding America's economy 49:00 The more charismatic the public speaker, the more likely they are cold in person 55:00 The degeneracy of modern American culture 1:57:30 Elliott Blatt joins to discuss creating incentives for pro-social behavior and disincentives for bad behavior 2:04:00 Muslim terror diminished under President Trump's first term 2:07:00 I was in Munich for the 1972 Munich Olympics 2:35:10 Mark Halperin on the New York Times pathetic coverage of Joe Biden's decline of mental acuity 2:43:00 Great Rabbinic Thinkers: Rabbi Samuel Mohilever (Part 7) || Dr. Marc Shapiro, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Re-r1y264TU 2:47:45 Zionist antisemitism, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionist_antisemitism 3:10:00 The Langer dispute, https://www.koltorah.org/halachah/great-controversy-in-israeli-batei-din-the-langer-case-by-benzion-rotblat-21
Transcribe →California Democrats See Their Political Ambitions Go Up In Smoke (1-17-25)
Jan 17, 202503:27:48Tap to summarize01:00 California symbolizes Democratic party governance 05:30 LAFD administrators call for chief's retirement, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVJ4_g4VJqI 08:20 Fire Department DEI Explained (by a firefighter), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ormDCbI37Zo 14:00 Female firefighters, https://technium.substack.com/p/firemen-firewomen-and-firefighting 20:00 'No one can find a rental, it’s insane': Real estate mogul, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dNkr6wJdZA 23:10 Housing developer discusses the monumental task of rebuilding L.A. after devastating fires, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0LhxgTqwmA 25:30 The Devastation of the LA Wildfires, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zy71pfPreuU 32:00 California leaders ‘not going to do it’: Celebrity real estate agent on wildfire rebuilding efforts, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD1BsfArk_o https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-01-17/lessons-from-the-burn-zone-why-some-homes-survived-the-l-a-wildfires https://www.wsj.com/opinion/home-insurance-federalization-john-kennedy-california-florida-ron-desantis-eedc07f7?mod=hp_opin_pos_0 36:00 Hugh Hewitt assesses the awful incompetence of state and local officials in California, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVL5l8iEZqM 57:00 Michael Shellenberger Exposes Who’s to Blame for the LA Fire Disaster, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4JjmzuycRo 1:25:00 Joe Francis of Girls Gone Wild, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Francis 1:58:00 Claire Hoffman: Joe Francis: ‘Baby, give me a kiss’, https://www.latimes.com/style/la-tm-gonewild32aug06-story.html 2:28:00 Ross Douthat: Marc Andreessen on Trump, Biden, Musk and Why Silicon Valley Moved Right, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEGVM6y6lwM 2:50:00 Students ask an Orthodox Rabbi ANYTHING at UCLA, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvqHDobqX0M 3:05:00 Ross Douthat: Neil Gaiman, ‘Babygirl’ and the Ethics of Social Liberalism, https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/opinion/neil-gaiman-babygirl.html
Transcribe →California Burning (1-16-25)
Jan 16, 202503:48:40Tap to summarize01:00 Real talk vs tv news talk, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYDQLQOl8f0 04:00 Karine Jean-Pierre was not selected as White House press secretary for her excellence 12:00 NYT: We Have to Stop Underwriting People Who Move to Climate Danger Zones, https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/opinion/la-fires-climate-home-insurance.html 15:00 Los Angeles mayor facing growing backlash over fires, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCohIcshSPU 18:00 LA Mayor Karen Bass is ‘one of the worst leaders’ in America, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fabMjJztuL8 34:30 Former Congressman John Campbell returns to the Hugh Hewitt Show to discuss the devastation of LA, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Medn1e4oN8A 59:50 My tiktok, https://www.tiktok.com/@lukeford613/ 1:20:00 Adam Carolla on the Left's Negative Impact on California, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hJcoLO_32Y 1:24:00 NYT: We Have to Stop Underwriting People Who Move to Climate Danger Zones, https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/opinion/la-fires-climate-home-insurance.html 1:34:00 Gutfeld blasts ‘leaderless’ LA: ‘Plenty of ash but no phoenix’, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpRl-0fR2mw 1:54:20 L.A. Mayor Karen Bass is Bad in a Crisis. Here's Why, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp3_vkoM_yI 1:57:30 Adam Carolla: Gavin Newsom is a Failure. The Proof is Everywhere., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFGEOjn8hng 2:01:00 Were the LA fires racist? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WC_F7ne7lCU 2:25:00 Daily Caller: Bush-Era Republicans Flourished As Anti-Trumpers — Scott Jennings Took A Different Path, https://dailycaller.com/2025/01/14/scott-jennings-cnn-bush-anti-trump-path-profile/ 2:55:00 Alexander Technique ASMR, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXqIuvav5hY 3:17:50 The Great MAGA Schism?, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcob6e0l4-s 3:26:20 BidenGPT and More on the Deal, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlrEQNDRT-Q 3:34:40 Israel's hostage deal with Hamas
Transcribe →Is LA Doomed? (1-15-25)
Jan 15, 202502:49:49Tap to summarize01:00 NR: Mayor Karen Bass Partied While Her City Burned, https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/mayor-karen-bass-partied-while-her-city-burned/ 04:00 LAT: L.A. fire officials could have put engines in the Palisades before the fire broke out. They didn’t, https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-14/firefighters-lafd-response-lack-of-staff-engines-pacific-palisades-fire 11:00 L.A. Mayor Karen Bass is Bad in a Crisis. Here's Why, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp3_vkoM_yI 18:00 CNN: ‘Beyond the brink’: Data shows LA Fire Department among the most understaffed in America, https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/14/us/la-fire-department-resourses-understaffed-invs/index.html 38:30 Hamas & Israel reach hostage deal 42:00 Paul Town on Mark Halperin's show, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KXqmGicrzw 52:00 Reviewing Pete Hegseth's performance at Senate hearing, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VxLCYm30jo 1:07:20 John Podhoretz, Noah Rothman were theater kids, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSI4GkkFzKY 1:08:20 Pete Hegseth nomination for SecDef 1:14:00 Greg Gutfeld on LA's fires 1:38:28 American Primeval, https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/09/arts/television/american-primeval-history-books-movies.html 1:39:00 John Podhoretz recommends American Primeval, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_N7MY1eFqU 1:58:00 Kip joins to talk about the decline of the organization man 2:33:40 Mark Halperin on the Israel - Hamas deal, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ve5rdeJI9E
Transcribe →The Dog Who Didn't Bark - Nobody Argues California Has Great Governance (1-14-25)
Jan 14, 202504:48:27Tap to summarize01:00 NR: Why Did California Cut Fire Prevention Spending While Keeping a Rainy-Day Fund?, https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/why-did-california-cut-fire-prevention-spending-while-keeping-a-rainy-day-fund/ 12:15 The FBI is terrible at background checks, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtgtSNMGBt0 14:50 Jonathan Haidt is wrong about morality | Prof Kurt Gray, https://www.aporiamagazine.com/p/jonathan-haidt-is-wrong-about-morality 19:00 Alpha: Eddie Gallagher and the War for the Soul of the Navy SEALs, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=158567 25:00 Jonathan Haidt is wrong about morality | Prof Kurt Gray, https://www.aporiamagazine.com/p/jonathan-haidt-is-wrong-about-morality?utm_source=publication-search 29:00 Best way to survive a fire is to be connected to your neighbors and to have resources (financial, social, emotional, purpose). I volunteer so I have a visceral sense of people depending on me. 30:00 The Anti-Social Century by Derek Thompson, https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/02/american-loneliness-personality-politics/681091/ 34:00 I was thinking about publishing my love poems 51:00 Japanese TV show Extremely Inappropriate, https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/29/world/asia/japan-extremely-inappropriate.html 1:20:00 I worked for a year in Australia after I graduated high school in June 1984, https://www.lukeford.net/luke_ford/bio/l3.html 1:38:50 Kip joins to talk about short-term memory 1:50:00 The advantages of elite universities 2:18:00 LA Fire Truths and Lies with Hotshot Director, https://www.carousel.blog/p/la-fire-truths-and-lies-with-hotshot 2:30:00 California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric--and What It Means for America's Power Grid, https://www.amazon.com/California-Burning-Pacific-Electric-Americas/dp/059333065X 2:31:00 California Burning author Katherine Blunt, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOyjOewSPqc 2:48:30 Just as I am 3:01:00 The MICE Method: How the CIA Persuades People to Betray Their Country, https://spyauthor.medium.com/the-mice-method-how-the-cia-persuades-people-to-betray-their-country-0bdb9094103b 3:05:45 Nathan Cofnas talks to Nicholas Wade about group differences, lab leak theory, https://ncofnas.com/p/talking-about-race-differences-with 3:20:00 Lab leak theory 4:07:10 DTG Christmas Quiz 2024 with Helen Lewis, https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/dtg-christmas-quiz-2024-with-helen-lewis-badstats 4:24:50 Noah Rothman joins Hugh to talk about California’s Chernobyl, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPKuObXvxKo 4:29:20 Evaluating Pete Hegseth's senate performance 4:40:00 The Theory of Dyadic Morality: Reinventing Moral Judgment by Redefining Harm, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1088868317698288
Transcribe →Who By Fire? (1-13-25)
Jan 13, 202503:24:03Tap to summarize01:00 Judaism's Haunting Prayer/Unetaneh Tokef, https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/255977?lang=bi 08:00 New York: Los Angeles shouldn't rebuild the same way, https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/los-angeles-shouldnt-rebuild-the-same-way-after-wildfires.html 11:00 Bloomberg: These Homes Withstood the LA Fires. Architects Explain Why In Pacific Palisades and Malibu, some houses with fire-resistant designs remained standing amid neighborhoods of destruction. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-13/los-angeles-wildfires-why-these-homes-didn-t-burn 16:00 WSJ: How the Left Turned California Into a Paradise Lost: Gavin Newsom promised to ‘Trump-proof’ the Golden State. If only he’d fireproofed it instead. https://www.wsj.com/opinion/how-the-left-turned-california-into-a-paradise-lost-government-policy-wildfires-48b88d6a 20:35 TRUTH about the CA Wildfires, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCbkS_CRypA 26:00 MEgyn Kelly: CNN's Fact Checker Incorrectly Checks Facts About LA Wildfires and Reservoir, with Stu Burguiere, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDEbjZVQt3Y 30:00 Lucy joins the show to discuss dating 49:00 Megyn Kelly: Gavin Newsom Tries to Salvage Political Career on Podcast in Wake of Wildfires, with Stu Burguiere, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc1EOTMvEvs 54:00 New Yorker: Does One Emotion Rule All Our Ethical Judgments?, When prehistoric predators abounded, the ability to perceive harm helped our ancestors survive. Some researchers wonder whether it fuels our greatest fights today. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/01/20/outraged-kurt-gray-book-review 1:05:00 Kurt Gray on Harm-Based Morality, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mbQ0ul9Jo4 1:14:30 Progressive failures, media failures, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/progressive-failures-media-failures/id1081967784?i=1000683795175 1:33:00 Jonathan Haidt is wrong about morality | Prof Kurt Gray, https://www.aporiamagazine.com/p/jonathan-haidt-is-wrong-about-morality?utm_source=publication-search 1:38:00 Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong on LA's challenges 1:59:00 My high school friend Rob Stutzman talks to Mark Halperin, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sn2aohL7Jy8 2:12:00 Column: A Democratic and Republican battled for Congress. They became unlikely friends, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=149613 2:23:45 Morton Halperin, Mark Halperin's lobbyist father, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton_Halperin 2:29:00 L.A. Leaders Can’t Hide Behind the Media Anymore, https://www.city-journal.org/article/la-wildfires-california-leadership-karen-bass-gavin-newsom 2:53:30 The Tragedy of California’s Wildfires with William Deverell, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHRqUCYbij0 3:18:00 Lockerbie: A Search for Truth, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31029686/
Transcribe →ENHANCED: Decoding LA's Fires (1-12-25)
Jan 12, 202504:36:35Tap to summarize05:00 WSJ: Fighting Fires—and the Rumor Mill—as L.A. Burns 09:00 Politics Fueled LA’s Fires, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=158555 10:00 California voters destroyed private home insurance, https://apple.news/AeXdYZP1qSfeNes1AGLzSAg 11:00 Fire experts describe how we can reduce these urban blazes, https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-11/fire-experts-asses-los-angeles-blazes-amid-changing-times 12:00 Disputes kill people, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzHFz5Jj7a0 21:00 Your Home Can Survive a Wildfire, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL_syp1ZScM 39:20 LA wildfires: fire disaster caused by 'neglected' landscape and flammable construction, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHQ3P4C1MsI 1:03:40 Mark Zuckerberg's path to masculinity 1:07:20 Meet the Palisades resident who defied evacuation orders and saved his home 1:08:00 White people in Canada are so racist 1:10:20 Los Angeles Fire Department's LGBT Leadership Under Scrutiny After Wildfire Disaster, w/ Jesse Kelly, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eVqgmmjKxg 1:48:30 What is the Message We Carry? | Rabbi Rami Shapiro, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3blU98MiwQk 1:54:00 The Breakthrough (2025), https://www.imdb.com/title/tt23221806/ 2:17:10 Kip joins to discuss the creep of liberalism, the destruction of American cities 2:41:00 Predisposed: Liberals, Conservatives, and the Biology of Political Differences, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=154845 3:32:00 Interaction ritual chains, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=139572 3:33:00 "Eminent thinkers are energy stars." https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=142879 3:40:00 "Pride is the social attunement emotion." https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=142897 3:59:30 Jerky men and crazy women, https://fakenous.substack.com/p/jerky-men-and-crazy-women 4:29:20 Navigating dark times
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