True Anon Truth Feed - [PREVIEW] Episode 105: Palantir
Aired: 2020-10-05
Duration: 04:57


=== Noah Colwyn Returns (04:52) ===

[00:00:04]  This is all things considered, and I'm Noah Colwyn.
[00:00:07]  20 years ago this week, the rock band Radiohead released what many consider their magnum opus kid A. Ex-girlfriends whined to our correspondent about why it sucked.
[00:00:16]  On Capitol Hill, leading physicians testified that the coronavirus pandemic is far from over.
[00:00:21]  Leaders at the CDC stress that the American people must not be, quote, bitch made, and that it's our duty to try and tough it out.
[00:00:28]  And finally, some good news from a research clinic in California.
[00:00:31]  Scientists are saying that they've made a world historical breakthrough.
[00:00:34]  That's right.
[00:00:35]  They've found a cure for racism.
[00:00:37]  This is Noah Colwyn, and you're listening to All Things Considered on NPR.
[00:01:05]  Brace, that's the first intro we haven't done together.
[00:01:08]  I know, it feels a little...
[00:01:10]  I just feel a little funky.
[00:01:14]  I think to rectify this crazy feeling that I have, I think we should do like a 35-minute UCB style like improv routine about bananas.
[00:01:27]  Yes.
[00:01:27]  And I don't know.
[00:01:29]  Man, I was going to do like a UCB joke and I couldn't remember what the phrase they say.
[00:01:33]  That's what they say.
[00:01:34]  Yes.
[00:01:34]  And I have, do you have an, I have, I have zero interest in improv.
[00:01:38]  Yeah, I'm good.
[00:01:39]  I'm like, I lived with two improv people.
[00:01:42]  No.
[00:01:42]  And I'll tell you what.
[00:01:44]  Yes, they got really mad at me for stealing all their silver spoons and using them to shoot junk with.
[00:01:49]  But they were awful.
[00:01:50]  They were always in the living room.
[00:01:55]  Yeah, I don't like that.
[00:01:57]  Listen, if you live with other people, you got a rash in your living room.
[00:02:00]  You can't be a guy that's just always in the living room.
[00:02:03]  I think that's very true.
[00:02:04]  You know, because then it kind of becomes your space.
[00:02:07]  No, like, no, man, I want to get caught jerking off there too.
[00:02:10]  Oh, my God.
[00:02:11]  Anyway, hello.
[00:02:12]  Welcome.
[00:02:12]  This is Truanon.
[00:02:14]  Hi, my name is Brace.
[00:02:18]  I'm Liz.
[00:02:19]  We are joined by Young Chomsky, who's our producer.
[00:02:24]  I did that weird.
[00:02:25]  Keep going, Liz.
[00:02:28]  So we have a kind of wild episode.
[00:02:33]  I don't know what to say.
[00:02:34]  We had a plan for this episode.
[00:02:37]  We had a plan.
[00:02:38]  We had our notes.
[00:02:39]  We were ready to go.
[00:02:41]  And it kind of went off the rails.
[00:02:43]  Yeah.
[00:02:44]  A phrase I came up with in 2012 to describe an unfortunate encounter I had with several men on the street is no plan survives contact with the enemy.
[00:02:55]  Not that Noah is the enemy, but Palantir, in fact, podcasting is my enemy.
[00:02:59]  And so our plan went off the rails, but I liked it.
[00:03:01]  Yeah, it was fun.
[00:03:02]  So we've got a wide, wide-ranging conversation for you guys with our old friend Noah Colwyn.
[00:03:09]  Who, yeah, this is Third Time's The Charm on his appearance on Truan.
[00:03:14]  And we're talking freaky deeky shit, you guys.
[00:03:18]  Let's do it.
[00:03:29]  Well, we got fucking Noah here again.
[00:03:40]  That's good.
[00:03:41]  I didn't ask to be here, man.
[00:03:43]  Hey, I'm not my problem.
[00:03:46]  Listen, baby, every few days I show up to the Google meet and somebody else is here.
[00:03:52]  Maybe it's just Liz.
[00:03:53]  I don't know.
[00:03:54]  I just go with it.
[00:03:55]  You think I read the notes of this kind of shit?
[00:03:57]  I don't know.
[00:03:59]  Well, we got Noah.
[00:04:01]  What the fuck are we talking about today?
[00:04:04]  No, we should say welcome.
[00:04:07]  Fray escape the game away.
[00:04:09]  We have Noah Colwyn here today.
[00:04:12]  Noah, how should we introduce you?
[00:04:15]  Why don't you introduce yourself?
[00:04:16]  We usually do this before we record.
[00:04:18]  Wait, let me try this.
[00:04:19]  Let me try this.
[00:04:20]  Noah is some position.
[00:04:23]  I can't remember if it's editor or not at Jewish Currents, or he's not anymore.
[00:04:28]  Okay, he's nodding.
[00:04:29]  And he's also the co-host of the very famous and rival podcast, Blowback Podcast, about the Iraq War, the second.
[00:04:41]  Yes, Iraq War, the two.
[00:04:42]  That's about right.
[00:04:43]  I mean, the particulars really don't matter.
[00:04:46]  They're sort of irrelevant.
[00:04:48]  Our most is that I'm here.
[00:04:50]  Exactly.
[00:04:51]  Yeah, this is third time, right?
[00:04:53]  Yeah, this is like fourth or fifth time.
[00:04:56]  I'm here for the three Pete.