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We talk about what the media still gets wrong about Trump, what losing CNN did to him, and why he believes more political violence is coming.
-Kmele sizes Chris up andā¦ is this podcast 10% gay?
-From Fox, to ABC, to CNN
-Did the media make Trump president?
-Celebrity, discontent and everything the media missed
-Being right about whatās wrong
-The duopoly is killing us. DSA isnāt helping.
-Cuomo, Cuomo and Cuomo Crime Time
-Scott Jennings, JD Vance and the rewards of picking a side
-The media discovers capital-T Truth and loses its curiosity
-Trumpās corruption and the limits of whataboutism
-Mario Cuomo should have worn a toga
-Voters donāt want the flaws. They want the disruption.
-There will be more political violence
-Matt Lauer crosses the street to express his condolences
-Broadcasting from the basement and losing an identity
-Illegal immigration and its convenient distortions
-Tucker, Fredo and Mike Tyson
-Kmele can take Joe Rogan. Chris has notes.
-AOC gets savvier; Kmele would prefer an accounting
-I donāt make mistakes anymore. Theyāre just lies
-COVID couldnāt transcend the culture war
-Midterm Madness
-the first presidential candidates that Matt Welch, Chris Cuomo, and Kmele voted for
-Andrew Cuomo and the outsider problem
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Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump, co-written with Jonathan Swan, is out now.
-yes, he superglues the gold fixtures in the Oval Office
-Maggie Haberman and her very irritating competitor Jonathan Swan
-Project 2025 and Stephen Millerās search for lawyers who would get to āyesā
-what needs to be in the paper as soon as possibleā¦ aā¦
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-Bret Stephens, Mexican?
-Bretās naked grandmother and the Trotsky/Diego Rivera/Frida Kahlo connection
-The family saga of Stalinists, refugees and Reagan Republicans
-Learning to love America through tap water and cops you donāt have to bribe
-Belgium, a sick little, horrible place
-America, land of late bloomers
-The socialist Sweden Bernie remembers no lonā¦
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-The many sins of fattie John J. Cafaro
-The Moynihan Report will return
-Hand jobs and the intellectual life of West Hollywood
-Release the Welch canceled-songs playlist
-The Iran deal is dead. The war is back.
-Why did Iran blow it up? Why does a dog lick his balls?
-Air power has never toppled a regime
-The anti-globalists discover the Strait of Hormuz
-Israelās secret Ahmadinejad project
-In partial defense of the late Lindsey Graham
-Politics is gross. Stop loving politicians.
-Fellating is best done behind closed doors
-āThere is no they. There is only we. And we usually donāt know what the fuck weāre doing.ā
-Midterm Madness comes to Michigan
-Haley Stevens brings a little bit of stick-it-to-āem
-Is this DSA thing real?
-Colorado nominates a man who first killed at seven (he thinks)
-Two fatal ICE shootings in two weeks
-Ann Widdecombe is murdered. Britain shrugs.
-Kmele attempts the Caitlin Clark/data center crossover. It does not land.
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Robert Wrightās new book The God Test: Artificial Intelligence and Our Coming Cosmic Reckoning, is out now (Bookshop | Amazon)
ā¢āConferenceā = group sex
ā¢21 years of successfully avoiding podcast wealth
ā¢Interviewing the godfather of AI
ā¢A tiger and a rattlesnake
ā¢Matt gets quizzed on LLMs
ā¢The God Test
ā¢The shock of vibe coding
ā¢China and the superintelligence arms race
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The great Kat Rosenfield joins us to discuss the ongoing fallout from rape allegations against Maine U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner published Monday by Politico.
When youāre a star, they let you mispronounce their name.
ā¢The Fifth Column (whiskey) sells out!
ā¢Americaās birthday month
ā¢Loathing Graham Platner before it was cool
ā¢The least weird thing about Platner
ā¢The Times is on it
ā¢A working class hero is something to be
Aā¢bout that beard
ā¢The flaws are a feature, not a bug
ā¢We all know a guy like this
ā¢Christine Blasey Ford enters the chatā¢Michael Tracey exists
ā¢Kmele expresses skepticismā¢Itās not consensual, itās DiGiornoā¢On second thought, letās not play the Fuentes clip
ā¢Michell Goldbergās mea culpa
ā¢Fruit baskets
ā¢Midterm Madnessā¦ the Graham Platner edition
ā¢Stephen King for senate? ā¢Missing Moynihan
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-The Fifth Column whiskey racket begins
-Matt moves during a heat waveā¦ Peter Meijer reports for duty
-Meijer, class traitor, explains the pied-Ć -terre tax
-Mayor Mamdani balances the budget, if you ignore the bailout
-Kmele gets Hayekād
-Machine politics was bad, but graduate student politics is worse.
-Bannonās old Leninist fantasy, now available in DSA packaging
-Kamala Harris genuflects toward Mamdani-world
-MAGA wants the factories back. The robots have other ideas.
-Ro Khannaās children: landed gentry
-Midterm Madness, Rocky Mountain High
-Melat Kiros justifies 9/11
-Scott Wiener gets yelled at for insufficient revolutionary fervor
-Stalinism, but make it customer-facing
-The revolution will be staffed by PhD candidates
-Speaking of revolution: happy birthday, America
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Also: a serious discussion of the cinematic category known as āmovies where they clearly came up with the title first.ā
-The N-word trap at the Hudson Yards gym
-Joe Jackson dressed for the evil dad part
-Phil Spector and the Wall of Sound defense
-Richard Simmons slaps a cage fighter
-How to respond to an asshole
-Con Air, Face/Off, and insane ā90s movies
-Prā¦
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We are lucky to be joined once again by Executive Editor of SCOTUSblog, Sarah Isgur, and on a day when the Supreme Court gave everyone a lot to argue about.
-Trump loses, birth tourism maybe does not
-Anchor babies and Americaās soccer future
-The 14th Amendment gets weird
-A color-blind Constitution, except when it isnāt
-Immigration is the culture war now
-Executive pā¦
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-Welch enters his Charles Nelson Reilly era
-Laura Branigan, Happy Mondays, and songs you didnāt know were covers
-Puerto Ricoās revenge
-The cadres are closing in
-Reihan Salam and Larry Flynt
-DAC hits the media circuit and refuses to answer the easiest question in politics
-Aber Kawas explains 9/11, in a Miss South Carolina sort of way
-Vaporware word clouds masquerading as policy
-No borders, no prisons, no TSA PreCheckā¦ no joke
-Nationalizing airlines, abolishing comfort, and calling it justice
-Mamdaniās machine, the DSA bench, and the Democratic Partyās growing nervous breakdown
-Polymarket vs. the polls
-The internet is not a socialist invention, no matter how hard socialists try
-Senate Republicans discover Trump skepticism several years too late
-The SAVE Act tantrum and the incredible courage of people who already lost
-Tucker, Trump, Iran, inflation, and the limits of MAGA obedience
-Peter Thielās terrifying secret network of people talking at conferences
-Moynihan goes to Dialog and accidentally joins the Illuminati
-Kmele reports back from the alleged cabal
-Bohemian Grove was cooler because at least you had to break in
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Michael A. Cohen is a columnist for MSNOW, a senior fellow at Tufts Universityās Fletcher School, and co-director of its Afghanistan Assumptions Project. He also writes the Truth and Consequences newsletter. He is not the former fixer of Donald Trump.
-The correct Michael Cohen stops by
-Mamdani flexes in the primaries and three congress critters cometh
-DAC gets worse the moreā¦
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-Ethnicity as performance
-Manhattan politics with the president of the Manhattan Institute
-Dan Goldman orders coffee, receives moral instruction
-The many political personalities of Brad Lander
-Taxpayer-funded activism and the Office of Mass Engagement
-Mamdani and the borg beneath the campaign
-AOC, cadres, and disciplined political parties
-Gaza as the omā¦
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-Kmele debuts his Sebastian Bach beach jeans
-The Iran deal is like the JCPOA, but a lot worse
-Lebanon sneaks into a U.S.-Iran deal
-Strait of Hormuz, 60-day promises, and negotiating with hostage-takers
-Why canāt the hawks ever learn?
-Ukraine brings the war home to Russia
-Drones, oil refineries, and the new cost of war
-Europe wakes upā¦ sort of
-Meloni jabs her digits at Trump
-Polymarket checks the damage in Israeli politics
-as well as NY-13 and the rise of the DSA
-Hamilton Heights is Gaza now
-Mamdaniās little machine comes for Dan Goldman
-Gaza replaces BLM as the Democratic purity test
-The long-term problem with Mamdani economics
-Gavin Newsom vs. Trumpās DOJ
-The New York Times makes the Epstein suicide case
-Tucker, Trump, Loomer, and the inevitable reunion
-Baseball is gay in June
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Batya Ungar-Sargon, host of Batya! on NewsNation, returns!!! And with a new book, The Jews and the Left, about antisemitism, anti-Zionism, and why so much of the modern left has made Jews the enemy.
-JD Vance, Tucker, and the anti-Israel right
-The Iran deal, Rubioās silence, and Trumpās trial balloon
-What Batya got wrong about the war
-Could Trump have sold the war better?
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-The Knicks give New York its greatest night in years and OG makes his MVP case
-Valid destruction or peaceful rioting?
-A brief detour through Americaās dumbest college mascots
-Dave Chappelle and Shane Gillis give Moynihan a perfect Comedy Cellar night
-Kmele roots for the Spurs, but only to punish Knicks fans
-Spike Lee has been on the court long enough
-Which celebrity row courtsider gets booed?
-Mamdani gets into the affordable soccer jersey business
-The World Cup comes to New Jersey by boat
-Introducing Midterm Madness
-LAās mayoral race and the Spencer Pratt stolen-election fantasy
-Californiaās governorās race and the strange usefulness of market signals
-The race to watch
-Platnerās character problem is not going away
-Jodi Kantor explains when MeToo does and does not count
-Bill Pulte gets pulled, Jay Clayton gets nominated
-A fully fledged disgusting party on a federal level
-UFC 250 comes to the White House because this is who we are now
-Bullshit, postmodern Trumpism, and the infinite lies
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Throughout this entire interview, Ana remains furious that our office was stocked with whiskey, but only half a bottle of white wine and absolutely no pizza.
-The White House press corps just takes it
-Kristen Welker gets the Trump treatment (and would Trump have tried that with Tim Russert?)
-Ana Navarro is here, from one of them Mexican countries
-Charlesā¦
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Noahās new book is Blood and Progressā¦ not to be confused with āBlood and Soil,ā a phrase Moynihan has been muttering to himself around the office.
-A book squarely in the TFC wheelhouse
-The teens, the twenties, the sixties, the seventies, and now
-The forgotten history of left-wing violence
-Italian anarchists and āpropaganda of the deedā
-Is Noah handwaviā¦
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-a dog is on set and Kmele should be wearing a helmet
-Bernie Sanders wants to collectivize AI
-The boys bask in the warmth of collectivism
-Never trust a politician giving something back to āthe peopleā
-The centrist Democrat goes missing
-Itās still a Nazi tattoo, goddammit
-Character is out. Winning is in
-Andy the Ogre Ogles has thoughts on the gays and Ted Cruz answers the question and keeps walking
-A few more problems for the Oyster Man from Maine
-Welch was the victim of a French flag hate crime
-Speaking of Nazis, letās talk about Bari Weiss
-Scott Pelley defends democracy from the new guy and privileged peacocking at CBS
-Ali Velshi feels weird about Americaās birthday
-Defending America through the Bob Crane story
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Chris Murphyās book, Crisis of the Common Good, is out now
-Murphy opens his book by dunking on his sonās NHL prospects
-Pitching the common good
-Trump is not the disease. Heās the symptom
-Buy more stuff, feel worse, repeat until democracy collapses
-Kids, phones and the algorithmic hell machine
-Congress wants to regulate tech. Congress may want to log on first
-Can Inā¦
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Be sure to check out Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps, Australiaās greatest podcaster and interviewer, which apparently counts.
-90 minutes of Kmele cleaning his glasses
-Josh is on drugs now
-RIP Jack Karlson, hero of democracy manifest
-we will be referring to limp penis throughout this show
-Erect until the end
-Kmele doesnāt really know the Beach Boys
-Who is the best Australian to ever ā¦
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