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De: Kmele Foster Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch
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Your weekly rhetorical assault on the on the news cycle, the people who make it, and occasionally ourselves. Kmele Foster (Freethink), Michael Moynihan (Vice), and Matt Welch (Reason) talk and laugh and drink their way to at least quasi-sanity in a world gone mad, often with the aid of clean and articulate guests. Weekly Members Only subscription edition often comes with listener mail and professional-quality (if inappropriate) singing. Analysis. Commentary. Sedition.

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  • Gov. Chris Christie Tells on Everyone #548

    Gov. Chris Christie Tells on Everyone #548
    Mar 12 2026

    -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

    -something is a little off about John Kasich

    -Olivia Nuzzi is a Freak, Crumb Cake edition

    -Michael Barbaro tried to take the Gov down with food

    -Bon Jovi, Bruce, and New Jersey loyalty tests

    -The Little Marco Florsheim Fib

    -The ultimate Kushner lore, aka The Prostitute, the Motel, and the Alarm Clock

    -Profiles in cowardice, Republican edition

    -The biggest threat to Democracy according to Chris Christie

    -The case for letting Republicans lose badly

    -Why Democrats keep blowing it

    -Debate prep with Trump and being with him when the Access Hollywood tape dropped

    -This is what Hillary should have said

    -Chris Christie insists Bruce Springsteen likes him now

    -That Obama Sandy cold embrace

    -Bill Clinton will hold your hand, stroke your wife’s elbow, and you’ll fucking like it

    -W, Barbara, and elite family-level savagery

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

    A Brief Defense of the Vampires w/ Lloyd Blankfein (Members Only #308)
    Mar 11 2026
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    He also weighs in on populism, inequality, private credit, and why a country can be prosperous on paper while still feeling bleak to the people living in it.

    -“Blankfein hates minorities”

    -the economy is strong, unless you don’t own anything

    -get a grip, it’s not 1968

    -semi-charmed kind of life

    -from Russia to China, the cycles come fast

    -where are the Hayeki…
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    17 m
  • Many Worlds, Bad Science, and the Strangeness of Being w/Sean Carroll (Members Only #307)

    Many Worlds, Bad Science, and the Strangeness of Being w/Sean Carroll (Members Only #307)
    Mar 9 2026
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    From the multiverse to time travel to bad studies and internet “experts,” and then all the way to metaphysics and belief, Sean Carroll explains why modern life makes everyone sound so sure about things they barely understand.

    -Moynihan is genuinely unnerved by space

    -a theoretical physicist’s favorite music is prog rock, which seems about right

    -what a physicist reads…
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