UPDATE: The initial version of this episode was missing two audio clips, both of them featuring exceptionally stupid people saying exceptionally stupid things. To be honest, you were be better off not hearing either of them. But the episode has been corrected, the punishing stupidity included, and now you’re worse off…

* Notes from a live event (going live later today)

* Fifdom represents

* Spotify exposes!

* RIP Swampy

* India, Pakistan, and the American retreat

* Ending power, hard and soft

* Marjorie Taylor Chomsky

* Israeli endgame

* Portnoy’s NYT complaint

* Piers Springer and the forbidden word

* Don’t give money to meth head Nazis who yell at babies

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