Episode 151 - Wave Analysis
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Noam and Jen try their best to ride the wave of news from Trump’s first week back in his old office. We try to decipher what Musk’s, er, heartfelt wave to the crowd / possible Nazi salute means and why he can’t just apologize for being weird in public. We then move into discussing the J6 pardon bonanza and our theories about whether the Trump camp was lying when it said each case would be evaluated individually or if Trump just noped out of doing the work. After that, we discuss the confirmation proceedings of Trump’s various Cabinet nominees, including the one whose...
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Episode 150 - TikTok FlipFlop
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Jen and Noam kick off the Trump presidency by discussing their first thoughts on his inaugural performance, Melania’s choice of head and face covering, if either of them was happy to be there, and the missed opportunity for a beautiful inauguration picture. We also spend a little time on Biden’s pardon frenzy and why it does (or does not) matter. From there we spend a little time not discussing the Gaza ceasefire / hostage release deal and why we both have mixed feelings on the subject. We will discuss it at some point, just not today. Finally we get to the really important story from this...
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Episode 149 - Zucking Up
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Noam and Jen are back for 2025! While it feels like it has been a few months since we last recorded it has only been a few weeks, we can’t help that the internet had no chill over the holidays. We get back into the groove by discussing the current SCOTUS case that will decide if TikTok US will be allowed to continue after 1/19, the legal arguments on both sides of the case, the viability of China owning a social media platform that operates in the US, how far can 1st Amendment and national security arguments be stretched, ByteDance sacrificing TikTok US before they will sell, and what...
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Episode 148 - Good Days And Bad Days
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Jen and Noam sit down one last time in 2024 to talk about how old people are just the worst. This past week gave us a Wall Street Journal piece detailing how Biden’s term has been marked by good days and bad days, the disappearance of Congresswoman Kay Granger and how it was discovered that she has been in an assisted care facility since July, if Trump really cares that Elon stepped into Congressional doodoo, the apparent allure of living in the bad part of DC, the attack on a Christmas market in Magdeburg and how the motive doesn’t make much sense to normies, and the rise of Terminally...
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Episode 147 - Pardon The Drones
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Noam and Jen try very hard to fit the past week into an hour and….we did pretty well! We discuss Luigi Mangione and how he is not qualified to make final decisions on anyone in the healthcare industry, Biden’s mass pardon / commutation of prisoners on house arrest since COVID and how some non violent offender really do belong in prison, the silliness of prison abolitionists being mad that a guy who sent minors to prison for money is out free, what the actual is going on over at Bluesky, Assad officially being ousted in Syria and what comes next for the country, and the hysteria over...
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Episode 146 - Rawdogging The News
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Jen and Noam do their very best to tackle all of the important news stories from last week. We have everyone’s favorite segment the Taylor Lorenz Minute where she has given us the concept of rawdogging air and a charming meme celebrating the murder of UHC’s CEO Brian Thompson. From there we talk about the aforementioned murder of Thompson, the vile cheering on of his death due to his job title, how we don’t even know why he was murdered, and how none of this is going to help fix the US healthcare system. We also take a look at coups around the world, starting with the attempted...
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Episode 145 - The Collapsing Axis
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Noam and Jen go over the surprisingly successful offense that anti-Assad forces have mounted in Syria over the past few days, including their retaking of Aleppo (that’s a city in Syria) and their unimpeded march toward Damascus. We discuss what this means as far as downstream effects of actions that Ukraine and Israel have taken, how Iran and Russia are in no position to help Assad, where is China going to land on all of this, the silliness of isolationism, and how the Axis of Upheaval is being rapidly upheaved. We also spend some time discussing the Harris campaign post mortems (or...
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Episode 144 - Skeeting Through It
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Jen and Noam discuss Matt Gaetz withdrawing from the Attorney General nomination at Trump’s request and what does it mean, the Ethics report and what could possibly be in it that is so bad that Gaetz gave up his political career to keep it from coming out, the exodus to Bluesky, how skeeting is working out for everyone, how to terraform Mars, and if Noam should DM Elon about radiation poisoning. Check us out Thursday nights at 7:30pm EST on Twitch (not this Thusday though, it’s Thanksgiving)
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Episode 143 - Picks Of The Litter
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Noam and Jen try to dissect Trump’s bizarre Cabinet nominations, from the stupid to the desperate to the dangerous. We speculate on recess appointments, how everyone hates Matt Gaetz, who will actually make it through confirmation, if any Republican will actually go against Trump on his picks, and the weird hazing of RFK Jr. At the end, we give a brief rundown of what we’re watching, and Jen makes the most ambitious crossover joke ever. Check us out Thursday nights at 7:30pm EST on Twitch.
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Episode 142 - Aw Shit, Here We Go Again
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Jen and Noam discuss the only thing that happened this week - Donald Trump is officially going back to the White House. We don’t try to unpack all of the things because nobody needs to get in all of their takes in the first week but we give initial thoughts on what the election does and does not mean, how we don’t really have enough hard data to know the answer to that, jumping to conclusions based on confirmation bias, discussing policy vs vibes and emotions, what libertarian hell is, and the value of data driven arguments. We also touch on the pogram in Amsterdam that took place over the...
info_outlineJen and Noam once again have to preempt a whole week’s news due to the news of an attempted assassination of Trump. We discuss what we don’t know (and may never know) about the motive for the shooting, The Picture, the weirdness of an assassination attempt being a crime of opportunity, what Trump may or may not have learned from his near-death experience, the perils of assigning iconography too soon, how Noam thought the Pentagon had Iron Dome, the randomness of reality, and briefly on Vance being officially named as Trump’s VP pick.
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