Greg Proops returns to Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend to talk about The Smartest Book in the World, serial commas, his parents (a topic he says he’s never talked about in public), gambling, his father’s misogyny, Lou Dobbs, Greg Gutfeld, drugs, how podcasting has affected his life, “sweet perfume,” morning radio, driving, insecurities, poetry and so much more. We also did a round of Just Me Or Everyone (click here to see the JMOEs from this episode).
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Libertarians? We are the people who can explain his nonsense to them. Once you have smart squared away, the most important thing is to make sure bias doesn't destroy all the hard work.
Why does he like Hillary Clinton? Because she is the lead horse and his intellect is in thrall to the 2 party system.l and people convince themselves to like who is likely to win.
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Libertarians? We are the people who can explain his nonsense to them. Once you have smart squared away, the most important thing is to make sure bias doesn’t destroy all the hard work.
Why does he like Hillary Clinton? Because she is the lead horse and his intellect is in thrall to the 2 party system.l and people convince themselves to like who is likely to win.
Hmmm. Proops gets to profile 'gun toters,' which is half the population. I bet he wouldn't brook profiling other disparate impact groups. Why is that? Does he know? Will anyone ever ask him?
As a white dude, I don't want any oppression pity. I don't want anything from anybody except truth. The problem with corporations is you can't think of anything better. It seems like the big differences between me and Proops is I don't have to hate him because I think he has wacky politics and I don't need to drop disparaging personal jabs and simplistic political caricatures about his side every 10 minutes.
Hmmm. Proops gets to profile ‘gun toters,’ which is half the population. I bet he wouldn’t brook profiling other disparate impact groups. Why is that? Does he know? Will anyone ever ask him?
As a white dude, I don’t want any oppression pity. I don’t want anything from anybody except truth. The problem with corporations is you can’t think of anything better. It seems like the big differences between me and Proops is I don’t have to hate him because I think he has wacky politics and I don’t need to drop disparaging personal jabs and simplistic political caricatures about his side every 10 minutes.
Wow, this is the first time I've had to skip past a Proops podcast. Hating white guys is pretty last decade, dude. It's tired and it's a cop-out.
Not that I blame someone like him. Analyzing countries that are run by non-white people would get into some seriously unfashionable (and untenable) territory.
Wow, this is the first time I’ve had to skip past a Proops podcast. Hating white guys is pretty last decade, dude. It’s tired and it’s a cop-out.
Not that I blame someone like him. Analyzing countries that are run by non-white people would get into some seriously unfashionable (and untenable) territory.
Great interview. I appreciated his stances on quite a few things, as somewhat of a liberal myself. I can see how people who don't agree with his politics might have trouble with him though.
I loved his Afterward about the Oxford comma. Very funny.
LOVE Greg Proops!
Great interview. I appreciated his stances on quite a few things, as somewhat of a liberal myself. I can see how people who don’t agree with his politics might have trouble with him though.
I loved his Afterward about the Oxford comma. Very funny.
LOVE Greg Proops!
I hate when comedians do politics mainly because they just aren't very good at It. Then I have to explain to myself why I think comedians are good at everything else. Am i being biased? I don't think so. I have liked some Bill Maher liberal opinions when he has done them well and disliked FE when i thought he was being political instead of thinking it through. I come down that politics just makes everyone stupid. So I don't blame Proops so much for the fashionable opinions ad much as I feel like comedians should at least make them sound unfashionable.
I hate when comedians do politics mainly because they just aren’t very good at It. Then I have to explain to myself why I think comedians are good at everything else. Am i being biased? I don’t think so. I have liked some Bill Maher liberal opinions when he has done them well and disliked FE when i thought he was being political instead of thinking it through. I come down that politics just makes everyone stupid. So I don’t blame Proops so much for the fashionable opinions ad much as I feel like comedians should at least make them sound unfashionable.
I also don't get the “white men” thing. Warren Buffett says he looks for businesses that could be run by a ham sandwich. And I guarantee you, if a corporation thought that a ham sandwich CEO would make them more money they would hire a ham sandwich. Having worked in a corporation, you can't escape the constant drum beat of how great diversity is (and the green manure fad, the sustainability fad, etc.). Not that there is nothing to these fads, but they come and go and nobody apologizes for wasting our time. The white guys do their best to keep their heads down, ignore all the management fads and blind rabbit trails, and try to keep the wheels from falling off the bus.
I also don’t get the “white men” thing. Warren Buffett says he looks for businesses that could be run by a ham sandwich. And I guarantee you, if a corporation thought that a ham sandwich CEO would make them more money they would hire a ham sandwich. Having worked in a corporation, you can’t escape the constant drum beat of how great diversity is (and the green manure fad, the sustainability fad, etc.). Not that there is nothing to these fads, but they come and go and nobody apologizes for wasting our time. The white guys do their best to keep their heads down, ignore all the management fads and blind rabbit trails, and try to keep the wheels from falling off the bus.
Greg is fun and entertaining. He always has something interesting to chat about. However, I do enjoy the Oxford comma, so on that we part ways.
Greg is fun and entertaining. He always has something interesting to chat about. However, I do enjoy the Oxford comma, so on that we part ways.
I loved Proops and the episode, but Alison's whole spiel on why the Right dominates talk radio (because it taps into an anger/bitterness that the Left doesn't have) was positively preposterous. I adore Alison and think she's awesome in so, so many ways, but this is where she (like most liberals) could not be more wrong.
Talk radio is the ONLY area where the Right dominates. Look at eeeevery other movie or TV show (or major newspaper, artists, etc.) … they literally shat on all things Christian/conservative/Republican. I don't mean takes jabs at … LITERALLY shats on. And were does virtually ALL (I didn't say all, I said virtually all) of the political violence come from?? Liberals' ONE retort of claiming Tim McVeigh as a right-wing nut is indisputably false, and it says eeeverything that they constantly have to hold him up as their ONE example (oh, and the Westboro baptist church of 20 inbred crazies).
Either Alison doesn't watch any TV or movies, or she (like most of the political bent) have become so normalized to the accepted libel/slander from every other Hollywood production that they don't see it at all.
I loved Proops and the episode, but Alison’s whole spiel on why the Right dominates talk radio (because it taps into an anger/bitterness that the Left doesn’t have) was positively preposterous. I adore Alison and think she’s awesome in so, so many ways, but this is where she (like most liberals) could not be more wrong.
Talk radio is the ONLY area where the Right dominates. Look at eeeevery other movie or TV show (or major newspaper, artists, etc.) … they literally shat on all things Christian/conservative/Republican. I don’t mean takes jabs at … LITERALLY shats on. And were does virtually ALL (I didn’t say all, I said virtually all) of the political violence come from?? Liberals’ ONE retort of claiming Tim McVeigh as a right-wing nut is indisputably false, and it says eeeverything that they constantly have to hold him up as their ONE example (oh, and the Westboro baptist church of 20 inbred crazies).
Either Alison doesn’t watch any TV or movies, or she (like most of the political bent) have become so normalized to the accepted libel/slander from every other Hollywood production that they don’t see it at all.