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Man, I was experiencing withdrawal symptoms...

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Apparently, when there's not been a new TFC episode in a while, I drink *more*, which I would not have guessed.

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I almost went and subscribed to Blocked and Reported.

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Moynihan's transition from the intro "Welch the sub-Luddite" to "I need newsprint to see the article, not broken Tweet threads" is amusing (both of these are valid complaints, btw)

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Thanks for salvaging the episode, Michael. It has kind of a lo-fi quality with the ice clinks here and there. This sounds like a joke, but can we keep the ice sound effects? I'm into it.

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I always get happy when I hear a fresh drink being poured. It's helps me feel like I'm not drinking alone.

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🔥🔥🔥🙌❤️ agree

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Somehow there is nothing that screams "Fifth Column" more than ice clinking in a highball glass.Except maybe the great sucking sound of a glass pipe.

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the audio on this episode is stochastic terrorism

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I'm into it. It's like ASMR + speakeasy bar ambient loop.

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Get. In. My. Veins.

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Never fly coach. Never trust Matt with podcast recordings.

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How many times must this lesson be learned?

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Hooow many times must Matt Welch lose the audio, befooore he can call himself an old man?

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At the very least don't trust the person with the new laptop.

Busty, check my memory, but haven't Moynihan and Kmele both lost TFC things due to new tech?

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Kmele has for sure. I think Moynihan may be innocent!

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Hey Moynihan- check the scoreboard

Maddow appearances:

Welch: 1

Moynihan: 0

Mattie over here pitching a shutout.

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Dec 14, 2022Liked by Matt Welch

Just found the Easter Egg after many days because Substack knows what I like and thoughtfully saves it for me.

Fucking great episode.

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There's *another* Michael Jackson show on in London. My friend was dragged to see it by his wife and sent me a text during the interval that just said "I'm watching a musical about a paedophile."

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Did you guys realize that you didn't actually alert people to the start of this on the substack? I guess Kmele posted it on his personal substack instead?

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MM for the win!

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What else does MM have to do, really? It's good of his co-hosts go give him something to keep him busy.

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When I heard the Palestinian Christian Bear line I immediately laughed and nodded along, bc I am one hairy SOB. Then I realized it was a joke in context of the Bearstein bears convo.

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Excluding the very harsh individual throttling of various people.

To anyone with half a brain, isn’t it obvious that the twitter algorithm changing is a key aspect of social media? In the YouTube world this is something YouTubers talk about non-stop, all the time. Of course some of the algorithm change is intentionally done, but sometimes isn’t it just changing bc that’s what it is designed to do?

Or am i just the half brained idiot.

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They doubtlessly have twiddled the algorithm (and also the analytics) many times. You can see it starkly in the numbers.

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On the topic of things taken off or being left on streaming, I’m not sure if you guys saw or know about this, but I was wondering what you thought of a specific song (Rock n Roll Ni***r) from Patti Smith’s album Easter (1978) was removed from all major streaming services a month or so ago.

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Crap, I woulda put that on my Short People Spotify playlist!

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I know there is a joke in there I am supposed to get and admitting I don’t get it is tres embarrassmente but Patti isn’t short but I am short but you wouldn’t know that so maybe you think Patti is short...but that would be odd so yeah I think it’s all over my head...

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I'm so sorry to hear about your dog, MM. That really sucks. Condolences.

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Yes, I’m hoping the little guy pulls through.

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