“Zero-to-insane in the first three minutes”
The terrible 2024 election
The right’s bizarre infatuation with RFK Jr.
The immigration crisis in NYC
The cruelty isn’t always the point
How the average American thinks about illegal immigration
Eli Lake joins to wish us all a Happy Durham Week
Takeaways from the Durham Report
The “heroes of democracy” are, in fact, the villains of democracy
David Frum’s Atlantic piece
Eli on Robert Kennedy Sr., the cop
Diane Feinstein, John Fetterman, Joe Biden
That insane LA Times piece (that we will talk about more later)
#407 - The Cruelty, the Conspiracist, and the Report (w/ Eli Lake)
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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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#407 - The Cruelty, the Conspiracist, and the Report (w/ Eli Lake)