Celebrated novelist and essayist Walter Kirn, author of works of fiction like Up in the Air and non-fiction such as Lost in the Meritocracy and veteran of major media outlets ranging from GQ to Esquire to Vanity Fair and beyond, has seen his place in the media landscape evolve in the last few years since he was early to recognize the truth about the hysteria driving the Covid "pandemic". Since then, he's written important essays for Compact (where Adam has a monthly column) and started a podcast with Matt Taibbi called America this Week. 

Most recently, Kirn has teamed up with the celebrated writer and journalist David Samuels to found a new publication called A County Highway, which is in the style of a 19th Century newspaper and will focus on the totality of America, not just its primary cities.

Walter and Adam here discuss that new publication, the middle of America, Cape Cod, San Francisco, Covid, the opioid epidemic, Danny McBride and much more.

SOUNDTRACK:

Thin Lizzy "Boogie Woogie Stance" https://music.apple.com/us/album/boogie-woogie-dance/1444051150?i=342363

Swervedriver "Sci-Flyer" https://music.apple.com/us/album/sci-flyer/1443814794?i=261716720

The Dead C "Sky" https://music.apple.com/us/album/sky/372533040?i=372533139

The Velvets "Heroin (Live at the MatrixI)" https://music.apple.com/us/album/heroin-live-at-the-matrix-san-francisco-11-23-69/1452871555?i=1452871895

Mercyful Fate "The Oath" https://music.apple.com/us/album/a-dangerous-meeting/1296860777?i=1296861092

LINKS:
Walter Kirn at Substack: https://walterkirn.substack.com/
Walter at Twitter: https://twitter.com/walterkirn
County Highway: https://www.countyhighway.com/
Walter and David Samuels introduce County Highway: https://airmail.news/issues/2023-7-29/highway-to-nowhere
America this Week: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/america-this-week/id1640531112
Walter "Paranoia is Our Duty": https://compactmag.com/article/paranoia-is-our-duty

All Along the Lonesome County Highway (W/ Walter Kirn)

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"You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations. There are no peoples. There are no Russians. There are no Arabs. There are no Third Worlds. There is no West. There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multivariate, multinational dominion of dollars. Petrodollars, electro- dollars, multi-dollars, Reichsmarks, rins, rubles, pounds, and shekels. It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today."

This podcast System of Systems, the audio misinformation arm of Safety Propaganda, is hosted by writer/artist Adam Lehrer and artist Matthew Denicola. Conform – it's pervasive. A virus. A pandemic. How can we inoculate against it?

Links:
SOS at Patreon: www.patreon.com/systemofsystems
SOS at Libsyn: directory.libsyn.com/shows/view/id/systemofsystems
SOS at twitter: twitter.com/SystemofSystem3
Adam at twitter: twitter.com/SafetyPropagan1
Adam's personal website: adamlehrer.com
Adam at Instagram: @adamlehreruptown
Safety Propaganda: safetypropaganda.substack.com/

Email: thereisonlyonesystemofsystems@gmail.com

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