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Increasingly disappointed by how pro-Chaya Leah this podcast has become

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You gotta Shabbat more! It's a competition!

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What’s with “previously” at the Free Press @Moynihan? Did you sexually harass Suzy Weiss?

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Honestly kinda bummed about this. His segments were the best ones

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Agree.

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I think he could either remain on friendly terms with Batya or listen to her pontificate on policy for an hour every week, but not both.

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TFP's loss.

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He's no Robby Soave

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Lol nailed it.

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I always looked forward to Moynihan hosting Honestly, which leant it a serious air. Nobody else could have got as much out of the interview he did with Haviv Rettig Gur, which is so good, I clipped a 22-minute portion of it which I have referenced several times.

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MM is a really good interviewer. You get so used to him bantering with the Boys on the 5th that you forget he can also play the role as a professional interviewer.

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This also raised an eyebrow for me. If true, one less reason to check their stuff out.

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Matt! I’m a Tulsa local, if you need some suggestions (or want someone to buy drinks for you) hit me up!

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That's what I'm talkin' bout!

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We all love Chaya Leah 😁🧡

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Awwwwww

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Yet again regretting I wasn’t subscribing to Reason magazine 10 years ago … also, everyone of these fire hoses should include a baby pic 💜

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Keep making babies and posting pics! Preferably with sneks!

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I will always stay for the Husker Du. Back when Minneapolis was more fun and less scary.

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Keep the snek baby hat requests coming!

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Scott Horton is such a hack

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Is that a man bun on top of Matt W?

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Samurai ponytail, care of (pictured) daughters.

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Sure sign of a Girl Dad

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Legit shocked Chaya has her hand on someone’s shoulder. Muksa!

Did you hear her and Yael had on Richard Hanananania ?

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Baruch SHOOK my hand! He was a true gentleman with all the gentiles present. It was 100% worth the four hour drive.

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I’m a special kind of goy. I get a pass. 😁

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I miss W

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My only regret was voting for him twice

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Ladies and gentlemen--WTF is going on over at the Fifth Column?! Did I just read my name beneath Matt Taibbi's? Did Matt Welch just mention my stupid Bob Dylan essay? Is the AI that writes Firehose hallucinating, or am I ?!

Eternally grateful, I'm floored.

Enjoy Tulsa! I know you'll hit the Dylan and Guthrie Centers--but don't miss Church Studio. Tell Teresa Knox the Third Ear says hello.

And grab a ribeye at Hemingway's.

I was in town a couple years ago with a buncha "Aspergian superfans" (Greil Marcus, Art Spiegelman, Stan Lee's biographer, a Daily Show writer, et al). (Missed Nancy Rommelmann by one week.) Wrote about Tulsa--Dylan and Church Studio and American Humor--here: (https://treystockard.substack.com/p/american-humor). It's long, but it's Freewheelin' and funny (no thanks to me).

Love you guys, I quote your musical commentary all the time--and that includes Kmele's.

You made my year.

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WTF is wrong with Reason dot com commenters? Left that place years ago and it's only gotten worse.

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I've been listening to "To Overthrow the World." It's very depressing.

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I know I'm in the minority in the "not the biggest Eli Lake fan" club, but Scott Horton makes the guy a wisened comfort listen on par with 'ol Welch.

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Scott Horton ( the bearded lunatic) is unfucking bearable. How a self-described libertarian can write off a nation/people's desire to be free from a neighbor who has a history of imperialism is beyond me.

His “anti-war” takes are a one-way street.

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Some people who claim to be anti-war only care about wars the US starts.

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Even then those types are playing with half a deck.

Hilarious that underneath every YouTube video with Scott Horton's name on it, the comments are flooded with broken English replies a la, "you are so right comrade Horton, crush the American imperialists!"

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