Jen and Noam discuss the Great Reckoning taking place in conservative circles due to the Carlson-Fuentes interview, the fallout from that, Heritage Foundation president (for now) Kevin Roberts' defense of Carlson, and the fallout from that.

Also, is acknowledging antisemitism the new land acknowledgement? Are all opinions equally valid and worthy of debate? Is MAGA speedrunning its own version of wokeness?

Noam and Jen discuss the practice of eating food with your hands, if a ballroom is a good idea, if this ballroom in particular is a good idea, Nazi tattoos, extrajudicial executions on the high seas, the rule of law, and if we are doing a regime change in Venezuela.

Jen and Noam have a nice chat about how your mom jokes only work when deployed correctly, why young conservatives can't act normal in group chats, are young conservatives even normal anymore, the very normie No Kings protest where nothing bad happened, the situation in Gaza and how nobody really knows what is happening, Hasan's continued crashout and how young people are not equipped to deal with the internet.

Noam and Jen discuss the most obvious thing for them to discuss this week; the return of the living hostages from Gaza and the possible end to the Israel-Gaza war. We discuss the reactions to the news, and our own personal feelings about seeing the hostages come home.

To lighten the mood, we wrap up with a little talk about Hasan Piker using a shock collar on his dog and how it may be his ultimate downfall.

Jen and Noam discuss the comedians who attended the Riyadh Comedy Festival for the money that they didn't need, what happened to the food on the Global Sumud Flotilla, the chances of Trump's ambitious plan to end the war in Gaza gaining legs, the people who don't seem to want to end the war in Gaza, and the increasingly awful deployments of ICE / National Guard in US cities.

We wrap up the episode with some recommendations. Noam's favorite guilty pleasure, Love Is Blind, is starting its Denver season, and Jen recommends Perfect Blue for the 167th time in this podcast's history.

Noam and Jen discuss…well how everything sucks right now. From the shooting at a Dallas ICE facility, nihilism, how political affiliation doesn't explain much anymore, online brainrot, Tylenol, and the Comey indictment, things aren't looking so great.

But in an effort to cheer ourselves up, we talk about two things that don't suck: the long-awaited Silksong drop and the manga / Netflix anime The Summer Hikaru Died.

Jen and Noam manage to get past their (technical) issues and record an episode on the Jimmy Kimmel Saga now that it's over (?), the memorial service for Charlie Kirk, and news of a shooting at an ICE facility in Dallas that we don't have any details on yet so it's best to just wait for details instead of speculating.

Noam and Jen finally return from their hiatus (it's all Noam's fault; he moved) just in time to discuss the murder of Charlie Kirk. While there is still a lot to unpack, we give our thoughts on the immediate aftermath of the shooting, focusing on the online reactions to the news. We spend some time discussing how internet culture is starting to seep into the real world and the consequences that have brought, from political violence to people who view internet famous people as characters in a show, to the inability to tell when someone is being serious.

Jen and Noam discuss the ongoing situation in DC and the agents from…well we can't tell which agency they're from since they don't have ID and their faces are completely covered. Of course, we can't not talk about the infamous DC Subway attack and the staged re-arrest of sandwich thrower Sean Dunn.

From there, we move to GQ's ill-advised profile of Hasan Piker and the quest to make him the left wing Joe Rogan. Unfortunately for Piker, this doesn't go well.

We wrap up by talking a bit about the new horror movie Weapons (warning - there are spoilers!) and the tendency modern audiences have to read into a movie more than what is actually there.

Noam and Jen return to discuss the back half of last week, which had more going on than most full weeks. We talk about the Gaza occupation that may or may not happen, the upcoming peace summit with Putin and Trump but not Zelensky, how Noam is not a Mossad agent sent to infiltrate American social media, and the ick of online sports betting.