Transcribed from ep 847
“He’s doing okay… he and I hang out pretty frequently. He’s got some mobility issues and unfortunately some aphasia.”
“…But I’m over at his place every week doing readings about the Seven Years War and having fairly high level conversations with him about like the spread of global capitalism in the 18th century. Just not really in a way that is mic ready right now. We’ll see… I mean we’re working on it. We’re making a little progress every week. I see a path, I just have no idea what the timetable for any of this could be, and I don’t think he does either, so hopefully updates when we have it…”
He also said they’re putting out a book based on the Spanish Civil War episode scripts edited into a nice looking book. Limited run, with proceeds going to support Matt, his recovery, and his family. Preorder available sometime next month.
Here’s the credentialed guy: Michael Isikoff
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Isikoff
The Wikipedia top summary I feel probably just about sums him up… Michael Isikoff (born June 16, 1952) is an American investigative journalist who used to be the Chief Investigative Correspondent at Yahoo! News. He is the co-author with David Corn of the book titled Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin’s War on America and the Election of Donald Trump, published on March 13, 2018.
That book title tells me everything I could ever need to know about him lmao.
And the other interviewer (podcast called “Skullduggery” (lmao)) was Daniel Klaidman.
I don’t see a Wikipedia for him nor have I ever heard of him outside this interview context, unlike Isikoff who is somewhat famous or at least like “a guy” in that world. Looks like he’s also a journalist though having worked for CBS and a bunch of other MSM outlets based one literally one google search.
So, not sure why/how the fuck Matt and Virgil ended up at the interview, but it is one of the more entertaining crossovers of normie, libshit like Isikoff and whatever one would label what Matt does. Someone deeply invested in US imperialism and someone very much so critical of it I guess