Episode · Timcast IRL · 2020-07-03
Books mentioned on TimcastIRL #85 - White Woman Draws Gun On Black Family, Gets Arrested For Felony Assault
Tim and Adam unpack the recent story of a woman recorded in a Chipotle parking lot brandishing a gun in response to an aggressive, angry family who were accusing her of racism, and the result of her actions.
Mentioned: Maps of Meaning by Jordan B. Peterson and Ready Player One by Ernest Cline.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Maps of Meaning
Maps of Meaning by Jordan B.
Recommended“I was introduced to him last year through one of nature's friends and I the maps a meeting basically and yeah it's if you don't know it it's it's very enlightening check it out it's the maps of meeting on YouTube and it's it's basically one of his theories or one of his classes and you could just go watch”
Where to get it
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Ready Player One
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline is a science fiction novel set in a dystopian future where people escape their harsh reality by logging into an expansive, 1980s pop-culture-infused virtual reality world called the OASIS.
Discussed“have you seen ready player one yeah so I love this movie it's a great movie but there's one thing about at the end of the movie when they finally get control spoiler alert of the what is it I forget what the the world is called well anyway they they gain control of it and they turn it off”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing The art of John Bolton
“John Bolton that guy who I love man the onion read this article oh goodness it's a picture of John Bolton like this he's like gasping he's holding a gunshot wound and it says John Bolton breaks into Oval Office screaming that he'd been shot by Iran yeah that that dude and now and now it's no surprise he is”
Passing To Kill a Mockingbird
“it's like for someone as well versed on locusts mm-hmm what center-left candidate could you get that would appeal to any of those people I think David yang was one of the trees Andrea I'm sorry Andrew yang”