From Greg Proops’ New Podcast, “The Smartest Man In the World”.
Proops: Do you have a favorite author?
Audience Member: Uhh.. In college it was Rand.
Proops: Ayn (Anne) Rand? And you’ve come to this? I love it. This is a meeting of the minds! In college it was Ayn Rand, and then what? You woke up and realized that you wasted fucking hours of your life reading her bullshit diatribes?
AM: It’s pronounced Ayn (aɪn), and—
Proops: Whatever.
AM: I’ve evolved a little, I don’t love her.
Proops: Yeah.
AM: She has some good points.
Proops: What were her good points?
AM: [Awkward Laughter]
Proops: You brought it up.
AM: Uhhm…
Proops: You said she had good points.
AM: Efficiency.
Proops: My goodness. That’s a marvelous point. You’re right about that.
This sounds like one of my break-ups. If you could even call it a relationship in the first place. But either way I called Atlas Shrugged “an unrealistic, delusionary, free market capitalist wet dream that gave me more brain damage than the one time I accidentally read an issue of the National Enquirer at the doctor’s office.” He told me to “get the fuck out of the house.” I think I won than argument, thank you very much.
