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David Brooks: belief

20 Aug 2025 Conversations with Tyler David Brooks on Audacity, AI, and the American Psyche (Live at 92NY)

“I’m on 8th Avenue and 33rd Street, which is god-awful ugly. I think, “Oh, my heart rate can go down now.”

— David Brooks

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Speaker
David Brooks
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
20 Aug 2025
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

Transcript context

…Maybe those are, right now, the less important ideas, at least temporarily. We’ve turned political idea-making over to goodness knows what or whom, but we’ve done it. You know who is from Queens, right? Right. [laughter] You can’t shake me off my . . . I’m the only person. I live in DC. I come up here, I get off at Penn Station. I’m on 8th Avenue and 33rd Street, which is god-awful ugly. I think, “Oh, my heart rate can go down now. I’m with my people.” [laughter] I still think New York operates at a pace that no other city operates. “How does a greater adoption of AI influence political party realignment?”…

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