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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…
6 months, 3 weeks 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…
6 months, 4 weeks 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…
7 months 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…
7 months 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…
7 months, 1 week ago
Locker Room Talk and the Pizzagate Reunion Tour (Members Only #304)
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Kash chugs it back with the toothless champions
Trump and his locker r…
7 months, 1 week ago
A Big, Beautiful SCOTUS Decision (with Damon Root) MO #303
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* Damon Root’s book Overruled: The Long War for Control of the U.S. S…
7 months, 1 week ago
Ambiguity in the Age of Outrage (w/ Jon Meacham) - #545
Episode 545
-The dork Star Wars cantina of famous biographers
-Jefferson’s hypocrisy and the impossibility of paragon standards
-Lincoln was not an abolitionist
-Th…
7 months, 1 week ago
Voodoo Socialism and the $3 Million Rainy Day Fund w/ William Neuman (Members Only #302)
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-Please say hello to our new Sunset Park neighbor
-The American Chávez…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
The Revolutionaries (w/ Robert Sullivan) - #4
For Christmas 2024, I was gifted Robert Sullivan’s delightful My American Revolution: A Modern Expedition Through History’s Forgotten Battlegrounds. …
7 months, 2 weeks ago