ANALYSIS.
COMMENTARY.
SEDITION.
Picking apart the news cycle, interrogating their guests, and always imbibing responsibly.

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Kmele Foster, Matt Welch & Michael Moynihan
What happens when the Editor at large of Reason, a national correspondent from Vice News and a partner at Freethink Media made a podcast.
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OUR PATREONEpisodes
* The sartorial excellence of the Pennsylvania Senate delegation
* “Pooping on their shoes”
* Kilmeade v. Rosendale (that’s his name)
* Kendi and the disappearing millions
* Want to demonitize one of your enemies? We have an idea!
* A threatening letter from Lady Orwell DBE
* The ACLUization of everything
* Trump on the Meet the Press
* Broadcast needs to “lend democracy a hand?”
* Biden is just getting worse
* Ron slides further…and new New Hampshire numbers
* Defeatism and elitism, mixed
* The “moral clarity” darling of 2023: Christiane Amanpour
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* Bob Geldof is the hero of this story
* She isn’t the pantless one
* Catholics, Kmele and your “best religious experience”
* Nick and the Burn
* Jamaican names / Wes Anderson movies
* Revisiting Less Than Zero
* The Hollywood Party v. Walt Disney
* A listener has an Amy Cooper question…
* The Kendi Center kind of shuts down
* NOI in our imagination
* Whitedurans wonder what to do ne…
#421 - Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice
* 36 year-old grandmother vapes, feels up Democrat
* Shanah Tova!
* Russell Brand, who Moynihan wrote about in 2014, is accused of rape
* They are coming after the truth tellers, maaaaaannnnnn
* Revisiting Hunter’s indictment
* Breaking: Biden is confused and sleepy
* Trump v. Kelly
* I’m the president, so it’s legal…
* Ron’s compounding troubles, plummeting poll numbers
* Preemptive skepticism
* Hasan Minaj is an unfunny fraud
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As Moynihan explains in the intro, this is the Zoom recording from this month’s Second Sunday broadcast. Basically, it’s the difference between a soundboard and audience bootleg. But so it goes. So no bullet points this week—enough time has already been spent on this episode—other than to say that Ben Dreyfuss shows up and we talk about Danny Masterson,…
#420 - Texas Ends New York! Protesters End Climate Change! DOJ Prosecutors End Proud Boys!
* Every city is a nightmare
* Airbnb banned—but hotel rooms are now free!
* Pedro glues his feet to the floor, Moynihan discovers climate change
* It’s the end of New York as we know it (and Mayor Adams feels not so fine)
* None of this is sustainable, btw
* “BIPOC” residents in Chicago are angry
* Nikki rising, Vivek shrinking
* Enrique Tarrio, black white supremacist, gets more time than Mr. American Taliban
* The DOJ understands why an activist guy murdered a non-activist guy
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* RIP to The Big Dick
* Lawyer, capitalist, wiseass, politician … publisher?
* Remember those moderate-Republican big-city mayors from the ‘90s?
* The bottomless treachery of Singapore Gray
* Two hobos get invited to Brentwood
* Don’t. Take. The. Money.
* The master and the LSD margaritas
* Pleading guilty to hating dull newspapers
* The New York Sun opening
* When you refuse to de…
Let’s abandon the usual bullet points and instead provide a few relevant links. The lads sit down with Swedish writer and historian Johan Norberg to discuss his forthcoming book The Capitalist Manifesto; his report on Sweden’s Covid response; his almost-a-book The Mirage of Swedish Socialism: The Economic History of a Welfare State; and that time, twenty years ago, when he first came across Moynihan wandering around Stockholm, clutching a book about filthy commies.
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* Elvis Costello’s dad is the best dancer
* Orthodox Shyne
* Jamaicans vs….ummm…non-island people
* Close enough
* The race blob
* The Australia craze / Jacko
* Gross Steven Segal songs
* “The molester Rolf Harris?”
* Revisiting the dumb debate
* Ron, Vivek, et al
* In praise of Gary Becker (and his family)
* OJ Simpson: Slashing government spending
* Moynihan’s baggage has shifted on this…
#418 - The State of Debate (w/ Mike Pesca)
* Best mugshots of all time (Winner: 70s Larry King)
* Who won the dumb debate
* No, the agenda is a hoax
* Nikki…pretty, pretty, pretty good, actually
* “Let’s not look backwards”
* One of the most deranged policy suggestions…
* The debate over Trump prosecutions
* Did Trump sound sane compared to Tucker?
* What happened to Pesca’s podcast “Not Even Mad” podcast?
* It’s really hard to make a podcast where everyone disagrees
* Is the New York Times getting a bit more sensible?
* Blurring the lines between activism and journalism
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