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ErrrâŠ.This one gets pretty heated. But weâre all still friends! We think. And Moynihan is now sober and his blood sugar is back to normal, so thereâs that too. Either way, hats off to Batya for braving another episode with three people who disagree with her on pretty much everything. We talk Tariffs, Trump, lawfare, Ukraine, and everything in between.
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* The Hungarian dentist and the prostitute theory
* Your TV wife sees Hitler all the time, no?
* FacilitateâŠ
* Dinners with politicians
* A digression on Big Star (FYI: "Holocaustâ)
* Elder scams
* Apple Watches and proof of life
* Back to Rogan and Murray
* A trip to Libya for a copy of the Green Book
* #9 Fifth Dream
* Doing an impression of a smart person / Paul believes
* A theory âŠ
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Zijn er afleveringen die ontbreken?
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On May 11, 2020, as I was navigating personal collapse (âitâs been a really shitty two months,â I said on an interesting-to-listen-to-now Special Dispatch #20), my two daughters were wrestling unhappily with Zoom school, and all three of us lads were in the process of buying Covid cars, I came across a Wired article that landed like a Cher-style open-haâŠ
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Moynihan is out with a âtooth thingâ (which sounds lame, but is allegedly a âpainful,â âvery seriousâ dental emergency that definitely doesn't involve a tall, attractive blonde woman). Fortunately, our pal Jesse Singal (Blocked and Reported, Singal-Minded) is along for the ride, and outlines the plans for his heroic crusade to save THE REPUBLIC by beefing with JD Vance on X. We dive into Trump 2.0âs extra-constitutional improvisations, fail to steer clear of trade policy, and search desperately for a silver lining in our late-capitalist, national-populist, increasingly surrealist Idiocracy. Also in the mix: a little Elon drama, libertarian coping strategies, various flavors of executive branch lawlessness, and a surprising outbreak of informed optimism about the future.
* Tooth decay, high-end prostitutes, and podcast logistics
* Jesse Singal enters the chat (possibly still midâTwitter beef)
* Deportation by executive vibe
* Due process is for losers
* When JD Met Jesse: A Very Sexy Love Story (by Selena Montgomery)
* The most important internet slap-fight in American history
* Hotel El Salvador: now accepting unwanted Americans
* Bannonâs âflood the zoneâ plan meets sheer incompetence
* Shouting at Bill Hemmer
* Campus protests, free speech, and DHS interns with tasers
* Jesse accidentally agrees with libertarians?
* And can Jesse say one nice thing about JD Vance? (And, âThank youâ!?)
* To the Moon, and Mars, and WHERE ELSE BEYOND
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Is this episode 500?? Well, not really. Likely a bit higher. There have been some numbering convention mixups over the years and weâve also recorded almost 300 paywalled episodes (yes, you should subscribe now, ya skinflints). But letâs just pretend itâs 500 and sayâŠhappy 500th episode, Fifth Column!
* Waymo through skid row
* The dumb right
* Dead cats bounce
* They took brown doublewides from us
* Nixon, but in the open
* Where are the Dems?
* Besides magic
* The DEI trade off?
* The sweet meteor of death episode
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* Val, Tombstone, Top Secret
* Top Gun takes it to 11
* One the best Hollywood memoirs
* RIP Capucine
* African-American Monday
* Johnny Depp, musician
* OK TIME TO TALK ABOUT THE COLLAPSING ECONOMY
* Spartacus moment? Once they start flippingâŠ
* âThey couldnât believe it. Ben Shapiro, of all peopleâŠâ
* A Norwegian. A DaneâŠand a guy who *isnât Finnish, Matt*
* On the best fight of âŠ
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* We bring back the great economist Scott Lincicome to separate MAGA myths from inconvenient facts on trade, trade imbalances, ChatGPT math, and getting âripped offâ by our (former?) allies.
* Note: watch Kmele and Moynihan (and Gerald Posner) on the latest episode of the Moynihan Report
* Eliâs new Liberation Day jam
* These tariffs are dumb
* Really, really dumb
* Ruinously dumb
* Laura Loomer is dumb
* Tom Sowell isnât dumb
* MAGAâs Iraq
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* Tomorrow on The Moynihan Report: Actor and former fat guy Ethan Suplee (American History X, Wolf of Wall Street, Mall Rats, Remember the Titans). You can watch live at 4pm ET here. Archived there too!
* Muslims and parking
* No turkeys in NYC
* Matt to the mothership
* Austin Fifdom
* Kmele and a Complete Unknown
* Our paranoid times
* No MAGA, no paranoia?
* When youâve loâŠ
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* FYI: If you want to join the Zoom for March 27 episode of The Moynihan Report at 4pm ET, use this link
* The Legend of Gavin and Charlie
* Bob in Tulsa
* Moyn in Miami
* The bumbling Signal Boyz
* We hope our kids never lie like this
* Defund NPR
* Another 25% will save American industry
* Remember the minerals deal?
* The jury on whether we should execute the judiciary
* Car swastikas
* And much, much more!
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* Live tweeting history
* The importance of Jack
* The âclimate of hateâ
* Some of these goofballs are normal
* RIP Manny
* The fake ceasefire
* If only were werenât a democracyâŠ
* Back to Gaza
* Civil liberties, due process, and magicians
* And a bunch moreâŠ.
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* The golden age of Oaktownâs 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: âThe casual acceptance of MC Hammerâs Speedo situation is absurdly funny.â
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A rebroadcast of our last subscriber-only Second Sunday episode. Thomas Chatterton Williams stops by. Everyoneâs 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 atâŠtake a guess
* Kmele isnât interested in Ms. Macronâs dong
* Show we draw some distinctions?
* Congrats to the Buchananites
* The weirdness of Gavin Newsomâs 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 Bleharâs 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
* âThe Great COVID Rupture: Three years after â15 days to slow the spread,ââŠ
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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 âdeficitâ you shouldnât 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 lilâ Marco
* Who killed Gene Hackmanâs dog?
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Thereâs 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?â
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* Trumpâs maturity
* Trumpâs deal making
* Trump and NATO
* Trump vs. Europe
* Trump and Taiwan
* A price on Boltonâs head
* Is he a neocon?
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* The traffickers of the Fifth Column
* The genius of Bill Belichick
* Those Boston boys arenât 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 âEpstein filesâ will contain nothing of interest
* A âRomanâ salute that no one noticed
* MSNBC is apparently racist
* A live event in NYC!
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* RIP Roberta
* Whatâs the âwoke right?â No idea.
* MAGA Brooklyn
* Reform Party 2000!
* Nadia didnât pay, soâŠ
* But does it vindicate the collusion narrative?
* Eli Lakeâs âFramed and Guiltyâ
* The Great Negotiator
* The rise of AfDâŠand the end of Europe?
* Kmele and Kanye (âHeâs a NAZI, Kmele, a NAZIâŠâ)
* Moynihanâs 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 donât use Compuserve
* Two minutes of Kayne and the Yahud
* Everything is a lie
* Free speech king goes Russiagate
* Trumpâs Ukraine disgrace
* Allies and Axis 2.0
* Here DOGEy DOGEy DOGEy
* Misunderstanding democracy
* The animals of Hamas
* Inhumanity makes one inarticulate
* đĄđ°đ„
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