Podcast Episodes

#523 - On the Assassination of Charlie Kirk

A very bad day for American politics, recorded within an hour of a young father’s death. Political violence, outgroup hatreds, and a side of media malpractice. With a sidebar conversation on 9/11, pl…

Published on 10 hours ago

Members Only #274 - Jamaicanon and the Racist Storms

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* You take the good, you take the bad, you take them both…

* Waiting for Bill and Ted

* A catalogue of bad prophecies

* 7t…

Published on 5 days, 1 hour ago

#522 - Video Killed the Podcast Star (ft. Mace, Epstein, Gladwell, Linehan)

* The video age is upon us

* Sweet Jane

* Crazy Nancy

* I’m a survivor, I'm not gon' give up

* You have a microphone. Just TELL US.

* Congresswoman Melanie Stansbury, pedo hunter

* A revolt at HHS

* The co…

Published on 1 week ago

#521 - MAGA Panthers and White FUBU

* A barrel of crackas

* We’re buying Hooters

* Glamorous hairstyling

* Look it up, people

* The caudillo and the talk show host

* Hega-stan

* MAGA Marx: Nationalize everything!

* The era of state capitalis…

Published on 1 week, 6 days ago

On "The Summer of Our Discontent" w/ Thomas Chatterton Williams

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Kmele connects with Thomas Chatterton Williams to discuss his latest book, “The Summer of Our Discontent”. It’s a wide-…

Published on 2 weeks, 2 days ago

#520 - Wear a Tie, Kids Won't Die / White Hippies / Ancient Chinese Custom, Huh?

* Tahoe plague

* The Swiss lobby

* Hate your kids

* They seem like nice kids

* If you only wore a tie, kids wouldn’t die

* Have some dignity, says the most undignified human alive

* The root of “root cau…

Published on 2 weeks, 6 days ago

Members Only #272 - Bosom Buddies, Nazi Historians, Late Capitalists

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* A Spanish Harlem incident

* The selective regret of Hank Azaria

* Kmele watches Eddington

* Ozzy confesses

* Bonding w…

Published on 3 weeks, 2 days ago

#519 - Creed, Crimea, Crime...and a City of Baby Newts

* Below the Mendoza Line

* Tommy the HIV+ Rocky boxer

* Stallone’s Bergman period

* Does Tom Friedman still have a job? And if so, why?

* The hundreds of forgotten anti-Bush books

* An especially bad Mu…

Published on 3 weeks, 6 days ago

Members Only #271 - America the Antidote (Second Sunday Rebroadcast!)

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A rebroadcast of our latest Second Sunday episode during which the lads discuss Killer Mike, World War III, fascism, Bi…

Published on 4 weeks ago

#518 - Angry Indians, the Socialist Right, TikTok's Propaganda War

* A $750 late fee

* Crazy train

* Tariffapalooza 7.0

* Making Modi mad

* Economic nationalism vs. market capitalism

* The Soviet Senator

* A pen and phone guy

* Should DC be taken over by the feds? Or jus…

Published on 1 month ago