Podcast Episodes

There’s Always a New Monster to Destroy (w/ Noam Dworman) #549

-Joe Kent’s weird texts and the “Israel did Iraq” brainworm

-The Jews are so fucking clever

-Iraq 2003, back from the dead yet again

-There’s always a n…

3 months, 3 weeks ago

Cuba in the Dark (Members Only #309)

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-Gov. Chris Christie debrief

-Kmele nearly dies after seeing the new h…

3 months, 3 weeks ago

Gov. Chris Christie Tells on Everyone #548

-Gov. Chris Christie says Kmele has no excuse

-Getting drunk with Colbert

-No drugs, ever

-RFK Jr.’s drug use

-The only things Trump believes in

-somethin…

3 months, 4 weeks ago

A Brief Defense of the Vampires w/ Lloyd Blankfein (Members Only #308)

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He also weighs in on populism, inequality, private credit, and why a …

3 months, 4 weeks ago

Many Worlds, Bad Science, and the Strangeness of Being w/Sean Carroll (Members Only #307)

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From the multiverse to time travel to bad studies and internet “exper…

4 months ago

Iran and the Fog of Regime Change (w/Hooman Majd) - #547

Hooman Majd comes from a family that reads like a parable about modern Iran: a grandfather who was an ayatollah, an uncle who worked for the Shah, an…

4 months ago

Iran and the Dee Snider Doctrine (Members Only #306)

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-Matt takes off his glasses, Kmele panics

-Moynihan is furious we star…

4 months, 1 week ago

One Hitter: War With Iran and Jewish Space Lasers w/ Nadav Eyal (Members Only #305)

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Journalist Nadav Eyal joins Welch and Moyniahn to game out the Iran s…

4 months, 1 week ago

The Revolutionaries (w/ Ken Layne) -- #5

I first met Ken Layne sometime in 1991, back when Vanilla Ice ruled the pop charts, the Soviet Union was still a thing, and Canadians still had a rea…

4 months, 1 week ago

State of the Union Post-Mortem with Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) - #546

-Matt Welch’s Caribbean identity crisis at Da Pig Beach

-The State of the Union aka a two-hour hostage note

-A greatest hits, lowest lights compilation…

4 months, 2 weeks ago