Kmele MC’s the FIRE Gala
Killer Mike blows the roof off the joint
This is a hangover episode
A celebration of FIRE, the great Harvey Silverglate, and various other heroes of free speech
What cable news network has created this climate of hate….in Japan
If only we could prevent shitty speech, we would be on a forward march to utopia. Right?
The temptation, on both the right and left, to not “do the work”
The EU will control ChatGPT and all will be great
The forever instinct to “disappear” bad ideas
That very expensive Fox-Dominion settlement
The never-ending madness in Chicago
Root causes: A Pantone chart and a CPA
#403 - FIRE in a Crowded Theater
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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.
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.Listen on
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