Ambitious Crossover Attempt

Noam and Jen tackle the whispery yet shouty State of the Union address, Alabama senator Katie Britt's bizarre and creepy kitchen SOTU rebuttal, the Congressional effort to make ByteDance divest from TikTok US, and the curious case of Jeff Yass and the flip-flopping Republicans.

And, of course, Dune 2.

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Jen and Noam spend way too much time discussing Aella's birthday…uh…party, Adam Rubenstein's Very Bad Sandwich Answer and how the NYT totally lied about the series of events leading to the infamous Tom Cotton op-ed, and sandwiched in the middle is a serious discussion about SCOTUS's decision to take up the presidential immunity case.

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Noam and Jen give their opinions on the Google Gemini's utterly failed launch and how it happened, how to know when the GPTs really become sentient, Alabama bringing the fight over IVF to the forefront of political discussion, what Jews think of recreational sex, the death throes of CPAC, and how streaming is super hard.

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Jen and Noam talk about Alexei Navalny's sad but all too predictable death at the hands of the Russian government, how said government isn't even trying to come up with believable cover stories anymore, the absurdness of Tucker Carlson's Moscow adventure, and how it is that a financial advice columnist ends up handing over $50k in a shoebox.

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Show Notes:

Here's a story, about a lovely lady, who was convinced to put $50k cash in a shoebox - https://www.thecut.com/article/amazon-scam-call-ftc-arrest-warrants.html

Noam and Jen discuss the burning questions surrounding the Super Bowl that had not yet taken place when they recorded, the growing tension about Biden's and Trump's mental fitness, Jen finally finds her Biden voice and also points out that Democrats are falling into the same deus ex machina trap that Republicans have, Hamas having a server room under UNRWA's headquarters, and Noam talks about The Curse (which he watched without Jen).

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Jen and Noam take a break from the wars abroad to focus on the wars at home. We've got Woke Kids in San Francisco who still can't pass their standardized tests, Terminally Online Conservatives (including Trump) vs Taylor Swift, and a disagreement on the practicality, useability, and desirability of the recently released Apple Vision Pro.

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Noam and Jen discuss how 2024 is an absolute disaster, and it's not even February. From backward hard hats, the very serious and urgent but also not very pressing situation at the Texas border, how the SCOTUS decision is being misrepresented to push a narrative, our initial thoughts on the death of three US servicemen in Jordan, what does the US do next, and Trump's $83M L.

We also get back to our roots a bit and review a movie, Poor Things, which is quite the adventure.

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Jen and Noam discuss waves hands around. We are truly in the 2024 primary muck, with DeSantis dropping out, Trump getting Nikki Haley and Nancy Pelosi confused, figuring out how magnets work, a Black activist wondering why Passover has to be so Jew-centric, progressives wishcasting Trump as a Gaza dove, and the lessons learned from Desert Storm.

BTW, the piece Jen mentioned wasn't in Military Times, it was Task and Purpose - https://taskandpurpose.com/news/desert-storm-lessons/

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Noam and Jen finally make it back into the podcast…well it's a room now, albeit an unfishined one. While we know we missed 231 news cycles during the few weeks we were gone, we're back in time to discuss the kickoff of the 2024 primary season, Trump's big Iowa win, the strange new simping for Houthis and their Red Sea piracy, and how slavery is OK if it's postcolonial.

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Jen and Noam make it to 100…episodes, that is. Not that we don't feel 100 years old here at the end of 2023. Man, we're a long way from Episode 0.

We discuss Briahna Joy Gray showing up out of nowhere to prove she lies about the death toll in Gaza, the Colorado ruling that Trump is ineligible for their ballot, what SCOTUS may or may not do, judicial activism, reading skills, dumb arguments, and if Claudine Gay will be staying or going at Harvard and why.

And as we alluded to at the end of the episode, there may be some schedule disruptions over the first few weeks of January, but we will keep you informed.

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