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Referenced in the show:

NYT - N.Y.C. Mayoral Race Highlights: Adams Leads in Early Results Over Wiley and Garcia

Vanity Fair - Eric Adams interview

NY Daily News - ‘We don’t want fancy candidates’: Eric Adams declares himself ‘face of the new Democratic Party’

Jesse Bloom COVID origin research paper

Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap? by Graham Allison

Apple says third-party app stores would leave iPhone users vulnerable to scammers

The Pull Request - Bad Apple* by Antonio Garcia Martinez

Show Notes:

0:00 Besties hash out a new format & the purpose of the podcast

14:31 NYC rejects far-left candidates in mayoral primary; importance of crime, homelessness & drug abuse in elections

29:29 New developments in the Wuhan lab leak theory, ramifications for our relationship with China

54:07 Congress turns the heat on up big tech, Apple's App Store monopoly in trouble

1:09:25 Antonio Garcia Martinez's first Substack article on Apple

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