Today’s guest is Kat Timpf, whose new book is I Used To Like You Until…:(How Binary Thinking Divides Us). In a totally insane election season, this just might be the most important book of the year. A sequel of sorts to 2023’s You Can’t Joke About That: Why Everything Is Funny, Nothing Is Sacred, and We’re All in This Together, it seeks to show how politics overwhelms common decency and basic logic.
Timpf, who co-hosts the super-popular Gutfeld! late-night show, explains to Reason’s Nick Gillespie why she tells some people she works in porn instead of at Fox News, what it’s like being libertarian at a conservative network, and how she gets people to engage with each other rather than vilify one another. This podcast was taped in front of a live audience in New York City. For more information on Reason live events, go here.
0:00- Introduction
0:58- Timpf’s pregnancy and IVF
2:05- Timpf’s new book: ‘I Used To Like You Until…’
7:00- ‘Hate as a shelter’ & binary thinking
17:57- Ad: Zibiotics
19:43- Being a First Amendment absolutist
22:00- Will motherhood change Timpf’s views?
24:17- In defense of drag queens
30:12- Using vulnerability to combat binary thinking
33:00- Timpf’s husband
36:38- Being a libertarian on Fox News
38:20- Timpf’s upbringing
40:49- 2024 presidential election
44:15- Political ‘simping’ makes Timpf sick
Previous appearance:
Kat Timpf: Make America Funny Again! June 7, 2023
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Video Editor: Ian Keyser
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