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Today I talk to Zaid Jilani, who runs the Extremely Offline podcast, among other things.
We talk about his current project, trying to bring people with different views together, as well as where his own views came from. Zaid also dished a little dirt on Ezra Klein and Matt Yglesias, and talked about growing up in the “Dirty South” (OK, he didn’t say it was the “Dirty South”, but it was the sort of rural South). Finally, we talked a fair amount about Democratic party politics and primaries, a topic which Zaid has a lot of knowledge of.
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Razib Khan
Razib Khan is a Bangladeshi-American geneticist and writer. He is co-founder of Brown Pundits and runs Unsupervised Learning, a Substack on population genetics, evolution, history, and politics with more than 55,000 subscribers, alongside the accompanying podcast. He has blogged at Gene Expression since the early 2000s.
His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Review, Slate, India Today, Quillette, and UnHerd. He is Director of Operations at FUTO in Austin, Texas, and co-founder of GenRAIT, a life-sciences platform company. Earlier in his career he developed ancestry algorithms for Gene by Gene, the Genographic Project, and Insitome, and was among the first employees at Embark Veterinary.
Born in Dhaka and raised in upstate New York and eastern Oregon, he holds degrees in biochemistry (2000) and biology (2006) from the University of Oregon, and undertook doctoral work in genomics and genetics at UC Davis. He lives in Austin.
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“Zaid also dished a little dirt on Ezra Klein and Matt Yglesias, and talked about growing up in the “Dirty South” (OK, he didn’t say it was the “Dirty South”, but it was the sort of rural South).”
In India we say the opposite 😛
“UP is the Texas of India | Standup Comedy by Agrima Joshua”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrWwD5l-9RA
Very funny that South Bombay types have to go all the way to Texas to find a metaphor for UP.
I must say I quite enjoyed this podcast, especially all the inside baseball about the world of political writers/wonks like Matt Yglesias, Ezra Klein etc. A salary of over $500k for Ezra Klein for what he writes for Vox? My goodness. There are plenty of journalists writing better and more for $50k, and many for no money at all.