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* Live tweeting history
* The importance of Jack
* The “climate of hate”
* Some of these goofballs are normal
* RIP Manny
* The fake ceasefire
* If only were weren’t a democracy…
* Back to Gaza
* Civil liberties, due process, and magicians
* And a bunch more….
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* The golden age of Oaktown’s 357 ("I just put Juicy, Got Him Crazy into Chat GPT to determine what it's about and it is definitely a song about...."
* Yes, we briefly talk about forgotten about rappers and their dumb lyrics
* Pumps and the Bump
* Grok has this to say about our Hammer convo: “The casual acceptance of MC Hammer’s Speedo situation is absurdly funny.”
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A rebroadcast of our last subscriber-only Second Sunday episode. Thomas Chatterton Williams stops by. Everyone’s in the same room. Many bottles are emptied. Many offensive jokes told. Many careers destroyed. Enjoy.
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* The one Jew she likes
* The amateur crank historian
* The cranks always end at…take a guess
* Kmele isn’t interested in Ms. Macron’s dong
* Show we draw some distinctions?
* Congrats to the Buchananites
* The weirdness of Gavin Newsom’s podcast
* On Bannon
* On Columbia, the first amendment, masks, and dangerous idiots
* The Ukraine non-deal
* And much, much more
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I was very moved by friend & past guest Jeff Blehar’s Covid anniversary piece, so … I just read it out loud. And added related commentary for paying subscribers. Some links alluded to therein, in rough order of reference:
* Reason Roundtable Covid look-back
* Related Twitter thread
* “The Great COVID Rupture: Three years after ‘15 days to slow the spread,’…
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* A very long SOTU
* Al Green meets Buju Banton, Tripadvisor objects
* The most beautiful, terrifying word in the English language
* The “deficit” you shouldn’t care about
* The forgotten Foxconn boondoggle
* The hopeless Democrats
* Maybe look at, say, Dean Phillips and ignore the Squad
* Asian finger cuffs
* Two cheers for parliamentary democracy
* Poor lil’ Marco
* Who killed Gene Hackman’s dog?
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There’s some discussion of parenting. A tiny bit about the Oscars. And a bunch about the triumph of conspiracy culture. But this is mostly a subscriber-only episode about the Zelensky debacle and the ongoing U.S. foreign policy realignment. So why bother with bullet points?’
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* Trump’s maturity
* Trump’s deal making
* Trump and NATO
* Trump vs. Europe
* Trump and Taiwan
* A price on Bolton’s head
* Is he a neocon?
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* The traffickers of the Fifth Column
* The genius of Bill Belichick
* Those Boston boys aren’t so terrible after all
* Nick v. Stewart
* Democracy died in the light!
* The WaPo freakout
* The press pool freakout
* No one believes in anything, part 387
* The “Epstein files” will contain nothing of interest
* A “Roman” salute that no one noticed
* MSNBC is apparently racist
* A live event in NYC!
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* RIP Roberta
* What’s the “woke right?” No idea.
* MAGA Brooklyn
* Reform Party 2000!
* Nadia didn’t pay, so…
* But does it vindicate the collusion narrative?
* Eli Lake’s “Framed and Guilty”
* The Great Negotiator
* The rise of AfD…and the end of Europe?
* Kmele and Kanye (“He’s a NAZI, Kmele, a NAZI…”)
* Moynihan’s memory
* Drinking with Team Uterus
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* Matt vs. the Gremlins
* He lasts about 20 minutes
* Subscribe to the pod so he can stay at normal hotels that don’t use Compuserve
* Two minutes of Kayne and the Yahud
* Everything is a lie
* Free speech king goes Russiagate
* Trump’s Ukraine disgrace
* Allies and Axis 2.0
* Here DOGEy DOGEy DOGEy
* Misunderstanding democracy
* The animals of Hamas
* Inhumanity makes one inarticulate
* 😡🐰🥚
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* If this plane crashes, it’ll just be ‘Steve Wozniak, Allen Iverson, and some other people’
* Murder motel in Huntington Beach
* Marvin Gaye's confession
* A shot, a beer, and Paddington 3
* Brexit, bananas, and robber outfits
* Not their best. But sort of.
* The New York Times’s dumb report from Europe
* Does Vance have a point?
* Ukraine negotiations without Ukraine
* A bunch m…
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So we took a few days off. We deserved it. Sort of. And after all, there were pilots to filmed, kids to be cared for, conferences to attend. Indeed, on Friday we gave a talk at a wonderful University of Florida conference on America’s love of bullshit. But we begged off from the proceedings for an hour to record an episode. Because we love you guys. And because we needed to discuss Pete Hegseth, beer bongs and Goldschlager luges, Elon’s weird kids, the future of DOGE, the future of Ukraine, Islamism, and Serena Williams. And a few other things besides…
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* The hockey plumber
* A very brief return to tariffs
* Let’s fight the drug war again! Yay!
* Neocon Don wants to make Gaza great…for the first time
* This is a very, very bad idea
* Like…an extraordinarily bad idea
* The 80-20 issue
* Lia’s standup special
* 60 Minutes in the docket
* “Restoring freedom of speech”
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We asked ChatGPT to give us some titles for this episode. Turned out to be a pretty decent précis of the discussion…and the last one is particularly good:
"Tariffs, TikTok, and Toe-Kneading Terror"
"Mary Poppins: Feminist Propaganda & Economic Illiteracy"
"Avocados vs. American Fish: The Dumbest Trade Debate Ever"
"Trump’s Tariff Tantrum: The Art of the Du…
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* First class mud hobbit
* At the 80th in Poland
* An executive flurry
* The interrogation of RFK
* In defense of pharma
* The interrogation of Kash Patel
* Give us Greenland, Part 32
* Overreach on DEI?
* Frozen budgets
* Getting the win
* Is *this* the art of the deal?
* Why were the JFK/RFK/MLK files held back?
* And what will we find therein…
* The most annoying Kennedy
* Trusting Deepseek
* Has the press learned its lesson?
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* Moynihan in Poland (Katya stole his mic)
* Ronalda Reagana
* Know a Nowa Huta
* Onward to Auschwitz
* Maybe don’t speak to the far-right German party?
* Axis of anti-Woke
* Unimpressed with nation-states
* The Best Black History Month Report, EVER
* Lia vs. MLK Part II
* Rufo’s Sore "Winning"
* Activism vs. Truth
* Our “Blind spot”
* Yellow/Blue Dress Explained
* YOUR Outrage (Not Mine)
* Ove…
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* The Zombies reunion
* Edibles and expressionism
* A ghost on the knee
* Who needs a desk when democracy’s dead?
* Outage equality
* Don’t ever integrate?
* Segregation redux
* Why Steve hates Elon
* Those terrible oligarchs
* Who needs the Constitution when we have executive orders?
* The Jan 6 pardons: a disagreement
* The art of the overcharge
* Ross Ulbricht goes home
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* The sycophants are back!
* Are we suckers for paying?
* Gauleiter Musk
* Day one executive orders
* The newest, greatest Amazon Prime perk
* New national bird: Jim Eagle
* Pardon me?
* Guess what? Leonard Peltier is not a good guy!
* That Outside magazine article
* Inauguration babes
* Kmele’s letter to his daughter’s school
* Not our oligarchs!
* Ari Shaffir vs. Howie Mandel
* Governme…
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* Melanie: the eternal First Lady
* A bad deal but…the only deal
* The same situation, over and over
* Joey B’s final babble
* Ike, Elon, and the unacceptable “oligarchy”
* The Ralph Lifshitz Award for Cultural Betrayal
* F**k You, Surgeon General, says Matt Welch
* The shittiest NYT story in recent memory
* A shitty celebration of murder on Jimmy Kimmel
* Pete H on the Hill
* Women in combat is not a weird debate
* RIP David Lynch
* RIP Bob Uecker
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