E37: NYC rejects far-left mayoral candidates, new developments in lab leak theory, Apple's App Store breakup potential & more

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Referenced in the show:

NYT - N.Y.C. Mayoral Race Highlights: Adams Leads in Early Results Over Wiley and Garcia

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/06/22/nyregion/nyc-primary-election

Vanity Fair - Eric Adams interview

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/06/eric-adams-nyc-mayor-interview

NY Daily News - ‘We don’t want fancy candidates’: Eric Adams declares himself ‘face of the new Democratic Party’

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/nyc-elections-2021/ny-eric-adams-democratic-party-nyc-mayoral-race-20210624-oemlj42abzc7jnime4tjfddfhm-story.html

Jesse Bloom COVID origin research paper

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.18.449051v1

Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap? by Graham Allison

https://rb.gy/7vj8ks

Apple says third-party app stores would leave iPhone users vulnerable to scammers

https://fortune.com/2021/06/23/apple-iphone-third-party-app-store-users

The Pull Request - Bad Apple* by Antonio Garcia Martinez

https://www.thepullrequest.com/p/bad-apple

Show Notes:

0:00 Besties hash out a new format & the purpose of the podcast

14:31 NYC rejects far-left candidates in mayoral primary; importance of crime, homelessness & drug abuse in elections

29:29 New developments in the Wuhan lab leak theory, ramifications for our relationship with China

54:07 Congress turns the heat on up big tech, Apple's App Store monopoly in trouble

1:09:25 Antonio Garcia Martinez's first Substack article on Apple