AS: Okay, the thing that this reminded me the most of was this recent essay by David perell on Peter Thiel. What happens after that? I’ve got those right, correct? AD: This is a nice coincidence which hooks up with the last episode which we recorded- as we already know from the original wodehouse books of Jeeves and Wooster- there is a character called Roderick Spode who is a fascist- a British fascist. And the rest, as they say, is history. Okay, there was a point that I was intrigued about- coming back to the blog post on the Bryan Capling take down referring to the human capital having measurable effects. I think we covered all of what we did with Wodehouse- I must and you must keep ourselves from speaking of Wodehouse. AS: [laughs] with pleasure! AS: Let’s go. You can leave your comments. There are books written in the 1920s which are set in the 1920s, there are books written in the 1950s which are set in the 1950s, there are books written in the 60s and 70s which are set at that time. Bertie Wooster’s aunt Dahlia has not aged at all and she is still as active as she was, whereas if she had been aging at the same time as the time around them she would have been in some sort of old age home and barely able to leave the bed. Not necessarily because they are evil, not necessarily because they are wicked but just because they have the ability to do so. I got recommended this book last year, only got down to it once lockdown started and I decided that I want to spend as much time reading as light fiction as possible. AD: It is certainly the only Jeeves and Wooster novel that he has written. AS: Truly fascinating! AS: You mentioned in the blogpost that while listening to this podcast you were wondering if Les Miserables was set in the siege of Paris and that apparently you got wrong. This episode has mild spoilers for A Murder on Malabar Hill and serious spoilers for Milk Teeth. So, if we’re talking about that I suppose there are a large number of churches- both protestant and catholic where the followers are encouraged to work primarily on faith. Aadisht we spoke in the earlier blogpost about clubs and how segueing over to this will be worth our while because we are speaking about the emergence of coffee houses, the emergence of newspapers and the link to the british fascination with clubs. See more. Fascinating for two reasons- 1 that you just spoke about and the 2nd in a very weird way allows me to segway into the 2nd blog post that we are going to be speaking about today- the conversation that Tyler Cowens and Russ Roberts had on a book that Tyler Cowen wrote recently called “big business”. AS: True, and the other thing that I wanted to ask you was that coffee is an urban drink explains why Starbucks is more prevalent in democratic states than in Republican states. But I get the sense that the kind of Paris that has been described over here is very different to the kind of Paris I got to see 2 years ago. And it’s really worked out well for me. AD: Day 12 according to me, but as you said- who’s keeping count. Highly recommend her work! He took it into his head to go into hog raising. You also mentioned over here about who in Hinduism has that sort of approach and you say in parentheses certainly not the Bhagavad Gita. There is one thing that I wanted to- and this is a reference from the Wodehousian universe once again- we are skipping between our collective memory of Wodehouse and your notes. Ashish’s blog is https://econforeverybody.com/ and Aadisht’s blog is http://www.aadisht.net/blog/ . AD: the story you brought up does have little girls and is the story of how Jeeves manages to discourage Bertie Wooster from adopting girls. This is the set up the person within formal military intelligence who is interfacing with the Junior Ganymede club is a scottish gentleman called Lord McCusland and his daughter is also involved in espionage activities (as we find out over the course of the book). TV & Film.