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Back to SearchEp 409 - This is the End w/ Justin Rogers-Cooper (PREVIEW)
The recent death of Val Kilmer got Justin and I thinking about Jim Morrison and the curious legacy of The Doors in American pop culture. In this conv…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
News Trap 4.23.25 - Trapdoor (PREVIEW)
I'm reading S.C. Gwynne's incredible book Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian T…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
News Trap 4.16.25 - See You in the Camps
As the Trump administration tests the "Hamilton glitch" in the U.S. Constitution by sending Abrego Garcia and others to a foreign concentration camp …
11 months, 3 weeks ago
News Trap 4.11.25 - Hard Decoupling w/ Justin Rogers-Cooper (PREVIEW)
Trump's tariff carnival is doing real damage to the global economy, and Justin shares his thoughts on how a collapsing financial architecture will im…
11 months, 4 weeks ago
News Trap 4.3.25 - Tariffs? I Just Met Her!
Trump is dismantling the global neoliberal economic order that has served as the left's boogeyman for years, which SHOULD be an opportunity for the l…
1 year ago
News Trap 3.28.25 - FOMO w/ Justin Rogers-Cooper (PREVIEW)
Guitar Center dudes and their insanely rigid opinions lead to a conversation with Justin about the political psychology of FOMO, the rise of the pedo…
1 year ago
Ep 408 - The Final Frontier of Sociopath Presidents? w/ Adam Kotsko
Adam Kotsko is a writer and cultural critic whose work focuses on American pop culture, from "cringe" comedies to our national obsession with sociopa…
1 year ago
News Trap 3.21.25 - Irreconcilable Differences (PREVIEW)
Fascism comes to my local city council meeting, a proud Israel supporter haunts my gym, Elon Musk's transgender daughter drives him off a cliff, Trum…
1 year ago
News Trap 3.19.25 - Against the Wall
Today I fall into paranoid android mode, thinking about what it means to "own the libs" from the left in the new Trump Reich. My message to an increa…
1 year ago
News Trap 3.14.25 - Blowback w/ Justin Rogers-Cooper (PREVIEW)
Trump and Elon Musk are actively working to destroy the global economic order, but to what end? This week Justin and I consider the wacky cartoon rea…
1 year ago