Members Only #156 - Second Sunday Live! (Rebroadcast)

Guest: Molly Jong-Fast is a contributor to The Bulwark and the author of three books. (@MollyJongFast)

Recorded: July 11th 2019

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Guest: Patrick Radden Keefe, staff writer at the New Yorker, author of 'Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland'

Description:

In this special dispatch, Michael Moynihan talks with Patrick Radden Keefe about the 1972 murder of Jean McConville, a mother of 10 in Belfast, at the hands of the IRA. Her disappearance remained a mystery for decades, but in his new book, Keefe names the names of the alleged perpetrators, and talks about the greater political implications of the Catholic-Protestant violence that continues to plague Northern Ireland to this day. Also, Moynihan reveals the moment when he realized Gerry Adams isn't the folk hero that many Americans believed he was.

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- Moynihan Goes to Court

- Welch gets a Stress Sty

- RIP, Steve Dunleavy

- NBA O-W-N-E-R-S

- Democratic Debate Preview

- No Plan B for Iran

- Concentration Camp Kerfuffle

- San Fran Bans E-cigs (Till They Can Figure Out What the Hell is Going On'

Recorded: 6/25/2019

Published: 6/27/2019

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w/ Coleman Hughes

- Everyone Told Coleman Not To Testify

- Age, Experience, Credentials

- Lethal Weapons, Imaginary Friends

- “Shame Shame”

- Full Puerto Rican

- Moral Alchemy

- Coleman Reads His Mentions

- We, They, Us

- Candace Owens, Lil Pump, And The Decline of Western Civilization

Recorded: 6/21/2019

Published: 6/24/2019

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- Kmele’s New Spot in Brooklyn

- Moynihan Gets Arrested

- Fisher is a jealous 'lefty hack'

- Dave Rubin is totally NOT in his Feelings

- Assange, Journalistic Freedom

- Trump vs His Advisors

- European Elections

- MLK: Hero, Philanderer (and possibly worse), But Definitely a Hero

- Bill de Blasio Needs to Raise Some Money, Fast

Recorded: 5/28/2019

Published: 5/30/2019

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- 'Alex Jones is not a civil rights leader!'

- Howard Kurtz was once serious

- Trump's attempted outing

- Phony classical liberals

- Free speech at the margins

- Every election is stolen

- Finding Loose Change

- Conspiracy theorists, right and left

- An Infinitely stupid Congress

- Donald Trump as Mr. Bean

Recorded: 5/8/2019

Published: 5/12/2019

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w/ Eli Lake (Columnist @ Bloomberg Voice)

- We Like Bari Weiss

- Moynihan is a Drunk, Also a Great Neighbor

- Muller Report

- Grifting, the Grifters, of Grif

- Eli Lake's Hood Pass

- Tom Arnold Was Great in True Lies

- All The Missing Tapes

- Seth Abramson's Beautiful Mind

- Election Interference / Hacking / Exaggerations

- Impeachments + Inquiries

- Assange: Journalist or Naw?

- Naughty Journalist in the Movies

- Dogs = White Supremacy

- That's Why Darkies Were Born

Recorded: 4/24/2019

Published: 4/25/2019

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w/ Ben Dreyfuss - Editorial Director @ Mother Jones

- Waiting for Godot

- Ben Dreyfuss is, Young Bernie Madoff

- Jill Abramson's 'Write' Privilege

- 'Strange Justice' = 'Strange Fruit'?

- Political turncoats

- Paleo-Neoconservative

- Private School Kids Buying Drugs

- Daddy issues

- Bret Easton Ellis' bad writing

- Death threats

- Race Realists

Recorded: 4/17/2019

Published: 4/19/2019

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w/ Andrew Sullivan - Writer at Large for New York Magazine,

- Hating New York

- What Would Hitch Say?

- On Being a Reluctant, Problematic Civil Rights Pioneer

- Surviving a Death Sentence

- Immigration Backlash

- Obama Hated Identity Politics?

- Assange Arrested

- Pope Benedict blames the 60s

- Too Many Popes

- The Comfort of Religious Ritual

Recorded: 4/11/2019

Published: 4/12/2019

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w/ Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate)

- Our Mathematical Universe

- 'Leaving Neverland' Revisionism

- Russiagate: Right, Wrong, Whatever

- Jonathan Chait is “Completely* Correct*”

- When in Venezuela + Nobody Likes Sanctions

- Venezuela: Humanitarian Crisis, Economic Crisis'

- Making Friends + Enemies on Twitter

- 'The Realm of Hungry Ghosts' (a book by Aaron's Dad)

- Stop Snitchin (On Your Sources)

- Joe Biden Feminism

- Kmele Talked w/ Thad

- Marvin Gaye: You're the (black) Man

Recorded: 4/3/2019

Published: 4/4/2019

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- Trump: Death by gloating

- Margaret Sullivan: the Captain Beefheart of journalism

- Glenn Greenwald spikes the football with a vengeance

- MSNBC doubles down

- Seth Abramson: Poet laureate, Resistance Hero

- Trump's enemies list and love of authoritarians

- Roger Stone and the D-list of DC conservatism

- Jussie Smollet's privilege

- Some Idiot Wrote This, Jane Mayer edition

Recorded: 3/26/2019

Published: 3/28/2019

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w/ Tina Nguyen (Vanity Fair)

- Tina's Theranos voice

- Elizabeth Warren Holmes

- Revisiting the Universal Basic Income (Kmele hasn't endorse UBI or Andrew Yang)

- Technophobia, 'McDonald’s employees will murder you'

- The Three-Fifths Column

- Matt does Betomania

- Getting it wrong on Iraq

- The cycles of massacre reaction/coverage

- Islamists v. White nationalists

- Stuyvesant High School and Asian Privilege

- 'Fuck off Tiger parents'

Recorded: 3/21/2019

Published: 3/24/2019

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- Kmele's in 'Frisco', Moynihan's hungover, Matt got lit up on Twitter

- Desperate wealthy college parents headed to prison?

- The injustice of legacy admissions

- Elite colleges are overrated

- Biden v. Beto

- Venezuela's blackout and the three initials who shall not be named

- Platforming vs de-platforming

- Tucker Carlson's shock-jock period

- National Review swinging (and missing) at Trump

- If you’re going to “Cancel,” cancel everything

- Matt's Pat Caddell tribute/roast thing

Recorded: 3/12/2019

Published: 3/18/2019

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A discussion w/ entrepreneur and 2020 Democratic Presidential hopeful, Andrew Yang. We explore The Freedom Dividend, Yang's proposal to pay $1,000 per month to every American over the age of 18.

Recorded: 3/6/2019

Published: 3/11/2019

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- Smooth Criminals, 'Leaving Neverland' Skepticism

- Canceling Michael Jackson, R Kelly, and The Entire 1970s

- All Hate Matters

- Dual Loyalties

- Bernie Sanders Marched for Civil Rights, He's Still 'Too White'

- Democratic Socialism**

- Revisiting Moynihan v. Weisbrot

- Some Idiot Wrote This

- Salman Rushdie

Recorded: 3/5/2019

Published: 3/7/2019

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w/ Mark Weisbrot 

Co-Director @ Center for Economic and Policy Research

Author, 'Failed: What the 'experts' got wrong about the global economy'

- Visiting w/ Hugo Chavez + Sean Penn

- Is 'dictatorship' a hate word?

- Venezuela's elections

- Political prisoners

- State violence or police violence

- Coming coup?

- Embargoes, sanctions, and the collapse of the economy

- Who's to blame for hunger?

- The opposition

- What's a good faith negotiation entry point?

Recorded: 3/1/2019

Published: 3/3/2019

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- Jussie Smollett, Indicted (Kmele Totally Called That Shit)

- But Then Again, The Whole Gang Totally Called That Shit Too

- Coast Guard Neo-Nazi would-be terrorist arrested

- Kmele and Liz Plank on 'Reliable Sources'

- Unreliable hate crime statistics

- Social Justice Judo

- CNN Hires Sarah Isgur Flores

- Bill Moyers, Problematic Icon

- Bernie Sanders, Front-runner

- Some Idiot Wrote This

- Download 'Headspace' Today

Recorded: PM 2/20/2019

Published: 2/21/2019

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(Plagiarism, Green Room Encounters, and All The Receipts)

- We Need to Talk About Jill Abramson

- Too Important to be a Plagiarist?

- Rep Omar: You Might Be An Antisemitism, But Maybe Not

- Blackface: The Highest Form of Flattery?

- Klobuchar, FTW

- Team AOC's Green New Deal Fiasco

ALSO:

- Moynihan Steps Out of Line

- The Huxtable Compound

- Indentured Servitude

- 22 Savage

- The Red Shoe Diaries

- Emergency Podcasting

Recorded: PM 2/11/2019

Published: 2/13/2019

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w/ Brendan O'Neill (Editor in Chief, 'Spiked')

- Jussie Smollett

- Stories For Every Narrative

- Ralph Northam

- Fancy Dress Parties

- The Weird Man’s Burden

- Anti Semitism, Hate Speech

- Stormy or STORMZY

- Yellow Vests Revolution

Recorded: PM 2/2/2019

Published: 2/4/2019

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- Jerry Brown

- BuzzFeed's Bombshell?

- Jason Leopold, Oliver Darcy

- The Temple of Journalism

- Anonymous Sourcing

- Punching Catholic Kids

- Stolen Valor, Callin' Bullshit

ALSO:

- Jill Abramson (Part 2)

- 'GUILTY' - By M.C. Moynihan

- On Venezuela

Recorded: 1/22/2019 PM

Published: 1/24/2019

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'They're like a train -- a train that's always runnin' right on time.' - Anonymous

w/ Brian Stelter (Chief Media Corespondent, CNN) (Host, 'Reliable Sources')

- Moynihan Meets Ann Coulter (Again)

- A Boy and His Blog

- Authoritarian Storm Clouds

- The Temple of Journalism

- Is CNN in Resistance Mode?

- Grading Trump on a Curve

- Excommunicating Steve King

ALSO:

- Media Literacy

- 'Page One', and The Business of News

- Kasich to CNN, Rep. Omar's Really Bad Day

- NPR + MAGA

- Russia-gate, and The Biggest Story of Our Time

Recorded: PM 1/17/2019

Published: 1/18/2019

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'Smarter, harder, about the same length as usual.' - Anonymous

- The Border Fence Shutdown

- Reasons to Dislike AOC

- Tea Party Retrospective

- Ellen Met Kevin

- Jazmine Barnes, Shaun King, and Overconcen

- Destroying The Weatherman

- Race Price, New York City Public Schools, and Historical Fictions

- Human Rights + Angela Davis

Recorded: PM 1/9/2019

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w/ Ben Smith (Editor in Chief @ BuzzFeed News)

- BuzzFeed's Day in Court

- About That Dossier

- Insider Political Journalism vs Crisis Political Journalism

- Sports Metaphors, Panglossian History

- Newsroom Diversity

- Indisputably Racist

ALSO:

- Syria, Afghanistan, and Impulse Control

- The Best Laid Plans

- Another Shutdown

- GoFundMe Governance

- Trust Issues

Recorded: PM 12/22/2018

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w/ Yascha Mounk (Author, 'The People vs Democracy') (Host, 'The Good Fight')

- Liberal Democracy (and Liberal Democratic Values)- Democratic Deficits, Excesses, and Limits- Authoritarian Populism (on the Left and Right)- Political Norms- Domesticating Nationalism- Injustice and Identity- Inequality and Globalization- Free Speech

AND- Cohen Gets Sentenced- Kmele Crashes an *Unusual* PTA Meeting- Fukuyama was wrong, but none of you assholes read “the end of history” - Matt Says 'Yemen' on MSNBC- Norms

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Our first live recording; taped at the legendary Comedy Cellar in New York City.

With Guests: Michael Barbaro, 'The Daily' (The New York Times)Jody Avirgan, '30 for 30' and 'The Five-Thirty-Eight Politics Podcast' (Five-Thirty-Eight, ESPN)

'On Speech Controversies and The State of Journalism After Two Years of Trump.'

Recorded: 12/4/2018 (@ The Comedy Cellar in New York City)Published: 12/6/2018

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w/ Kevin Roose (Columnist, The New York Times)

- *Black* Intellectuals- Live @ The Comedy Cellar- All the Presidents Rogues- Nature, Severity, and Consequence- Facebook's Peril- Google's Dragonfly- China's Citizenship Scores

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Kmele facilitates a wide-ranging conversation on race, racism, and anti-racism. With: Glenn Loury - Professor of the social sciences and economics at Brown University - Host, The Glenn Show @ bloggingheads.tv Thomas Chatterton Williams- Author, 'Losing My Cool'- Contributing writer @ New York Times Magazine. - National Fellow at New America, where he’s completing a new book project about ‘being the black father of white-looking children in Paris’. John McWhorter - Professor of Linguistics, Philosophy, and Music at Columbia- Host, Slate’s 'Lexicon Valley' Podcast- Writes for the Atlantic

Coleman Hughes- Undergraduate Philosophy major at Columbia University, and a columnist at Quillette

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- Phallic Humor- 'We'll Do It Live' (In NYC, Next Month)- The Midterms (For People Who Kind of Hate Midterms)- The 'Fuck You' Vote- Beto, Gillum, Abrams- Voter Fraud/Disenfranchisement- Trump vs. Acosta Part 5: 'Why can't they both lose?'- Trump: 'That's A Racist Question!'- Sessions, Out. Mueller, Next?- Cocaine Mitch Warns the Dems- Dog Whistles, Guilt by Association, David Duke- What Indiana Really Means- SIWT (Ezra Klein, Vox)- Surprisingly Serious Journalism Talk Recorded: PM 11/7/2018Published: 11/8/2018

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w/ Noah Rothman

(Associate Editor, Commentary -- Contributor, MSNBC/NBC News)

Author of the forthcoming book: “Unjust: Social Justice and the Unmaking of America” (Jan 2019)

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A conversation with Sarah Haider

- Origin Stories- Identity, Tribal Affiliation- Islam, Muslims, Apostasy, and Atheism- Difficult Conversations- The Intellectual Dark Web- Courage

Recorded: July 22nd, 2018

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w/ Josh Szeps, (formerly Zepps, frequently misspelled as Zeeps) host of '#WeThePeople LIVE' and “The People Versus”

(Recorded - 10/16/2018)

- Australia's Sweetheart, but his father *was* even more famous- Kmele saw 'First Man,' Norman Mailer stabbed his wife- Kanye at the White House- This disappearing of Jamal Khashoggi- The end of American moral exceptionalism?- Doing business with the House of Saud- Proud Boys v. Antifa- 'Choose a side'- Kmele v. Josh

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w/Harry Siegel, Senior Editor at The Daily Beast

(Recorded - 10/10/2018)

-Three Very Fine Bottles of Wine-Soros: boogeyman on a global scale-Anti-semitic dog whistles or nah?-Harry (literally) co-wrote the book on Rudy Giuliani-The era of conspiracy theory-Fact checkers suck-Trump's USA Today op-ed-Everyone hates P.C.—but what is P.C.?-Are the politically disengaged really the 'center'?-Dying online from the outrage mobs-'Chinese finger trap'-The Mohammad cartoons and Charlie Hebdo-Kavanaugh and Blasey Ford's lives from here-What is your reputation worth?

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-Kanye West's very MAGA SNL Appearance-Getting Totally Kavanaugh Faced-Moynihan at the Mississippi Trump Rally-Believe All Women-Bari Would Have Hated Kavanaugh in High School-Kavanaugh's Kamikaze-Apocalypse Skeptic-Bari's New Book, 'The New Seven Dirty Words'

(Recorded October 2nd, 2018)

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'We're back, You're Welcome' - The Fifth

(Recorded: September 19th, 2018)

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Pusha T's new album and Whitney Huston's bathroom countertop. Bobby Brown's prerogative. Was it Maurice Starr (or) Lou Pearlman? Remembering a 'Mavric'*. Jack Shafer wrote a bad piece. You can’t criticize McCain, except when you totally can. Matt vs Antiwar libertarians. Immigration policy, racism, Trump and Europe. Hasidics in Williamsburg. Louis CK returns to the Comedy Cellar. The Patriarchy = White supremacy. Everyone's Guilty. The Kids are alright.

(Recorded August 29th, 2018)

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Karl Malone, Post Malone. Manafort, Cohen. John Brennan's Clearance. 'The Verge of Civil War' or Just 'The Usual Bullshit.' Rutgers, White Privilege, and Gentrification. Asia Argento. A FIRE for All Seasons. Problematic Becky. Razor Blades in Your Favorite Breakfast Cereal.

(Recorded August 22nd, 2018)

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