Anand Giridharadas

Okay, so who or what is a game changer who inspires you and why?

My husband, Anand Giridhar Das, is a game changer.

He's a journalist.

He's a narrative nonfiction writer.

[laughs] And I just, I put it up on my TikTok, and I just kinda, like, shrugged to it, and it got, like, 100,000 views.

But it was all men basically defending this other guy, saying, "Actually, you're a two.

Actually, you're a one." But it's, it's ironic, 'cause that was the first time I made, I made, like, 7,000 that month.

That video of everybody calling me ugly and, you know, sending me threats, that's, all those same people or whoever saw the video subscribed to my OnlyFans, and I made-

Uh-huh.

And that got me hooked.

And then, uh, I was listening to his podcast a lot, and he had this guy, Anand Giridharadas, on.

Mm-hmm.

And I do think that the left has purity tests which many groups on the left are starting to really question and unwind.

Anand Giridharadas' book, The Persuaders, talked a lot about the unwinding these purity tests.

He gave this example.

He's also my husband.

[laughs] I mean, you know, I had a really beautiful experience.

I actually haven't shared this outlou- I haven't shared this, uh, publicly or really with anyone but my husband, but, you know, when I finish writing The Art of Fighting, one of the things they tell you to do is read your book out loud.

Mm.

Like, before you submit it, read your book out loud.

It just really gets to the heart of everything.

Thank you.

I'm just so grateful for you, and your husband.

I mean, your whole family m- really has a very important part of our podcast.

So part of what I'm trying to suggest in that, in that, in that, what I was trying to suggest in that series of tweets is that Reaganism, how can I...

Let me put it this way, Mike, and I got this from Anand Giridharadas.

Reagan took the football off of the field of FDR.

So for a long period of time, we were playing on the field and by the rules of, of, of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.