On episode 23, Charles expresses his frustration with the idea that everything in American life is "pro-Trump" or "anti-Trump," talks to Lanhee Chen about what has happened to California, and finishes up by chatting with Luther Ray Abel about "bangers"—old cars that are cheap but require constant maintenance.
On this 23rd—but not 22nd or 24th—episode, Charles starts by taking on the preposterous idea that if one thinks that Donald Trump ought to have been impeached for what he did in 2021, the unrelated criminal case against him in New York must therefore be correct.
Afterwards, Charles talks to Stanford's Lanhee Chen about whether California is salvageable, and then, on the Color Supplement, discusses the joy of half-dead cars with Luther Abel, who confirms that, in the Midwest, the quadratic spacing solution needs to be more viscous so that the cold weather doesn’t contract the tetrafarseling or shimmy the wanglepins.
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