{"id":17720,"date":"2022-11-09T19:08:34","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T00:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=17720"},"modified":"2022-11-11T12:07:13","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T17:07:13","slug":"mid-term-post-mortem-on-the-brian-wilson-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/09\/mid-term-post-mortem-on-the-brian-wilson-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Mid-Term Post-Mortem on the Brian Wilson Podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot-2022-09-23-at-08-33-04-Something-Completely-Different-With-Brian-Wilson-on-Apple-Podcasts.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-17598 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot-2022-09-23-at-08-33-04-Something-Completely-Different-With-Brian-Wilson-on-Apple-Podcasts.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"392\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot-2022-09-23-at-08-33-04-Something-Completely-Different-With-Brian-Wilson-on-Apple-Podcasts.png 392w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot-2022-09-23-at-08-33-04-Something-Completely-Different-With-Brian-Wilson-on-Apple-Podcasts-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 392px) 100vw, 392px\" \/><\/a>Talk Show Legend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brianwilson.net\/2022\/09\/now-for-something-completely-different.html#more\"><strong>Brian Wilson<\/strong><\/a> and I had too much fun bantering about the mid-term election results.\u00a0 Our faith in democracy is fully restored, or at least it remains the same as it was pre-election.\u00a0 Brian has been a friend for almost 30 years and he works valiantly to protect me against my shameless deference to the status quo.<\/p>\n<p>From the interview: <i>&#8220;I think a lot of the GOP candidates failed on both of those things {expressing ideas and likeability} &#8230; they didn&#8217;t get the ideas across and some of them did not come across as charming as a New York City Talk Show Host.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the link to the<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/guest-jim-bovard-and-the-midterms\/id1638506178?i=1000585691357\"> Apple podcast<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Here is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iheart.com\/podcast\/269-now-this-with-brian-wilson-99216204\/\">link to iHeart<\/a> (thanks, JdL!)<\/p>\n<p>Here is the link to t<a href=\"https:\/\/music.amazon.com.br\/podcasts\/e5beece2-d13f-4965-a48e-1a782088567c\/episodes\/9a1c40ad-01a5-4915-acef-13758bc449b6\/something-completely-different-with-brian-wilson-guest-jim-bovard-and-the-midterms\">he Amazon version of the show<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is the <a href=\"https:\/\/player.fm\/series\/something-completely-different-with-brian-wilson\/guest-jim-bovard-and-the-midterms\">link to Player FM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a link to o<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brianwilson.net\/p\/podcast.html\">ther venues that offer the podcast<\/a> &#8211;\u00a0 Spotify, Google, etc.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talk Show Legend Brian Wilson and I had too much fun bantering about the mid-term election results.\u00a0 Our faith in democracy is fully restored, or at least it remains the same as it was pre-election.\u00a0 Brian has been a friend for almost 30 years and he works valiantly to protect me against my shameless deference [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2124,126,496,214,127],"class_list":["post-17720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-biden","tag-brian-wilson","tag-election","tag-mp3-2","tag-podcast"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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