Ambitious Crossover Attempt

Noam and Jen wrap up The Saga Of Fetterman's Pajamas, move on to discussing Jamal Bowman's use of the wrong door at the wrong time, defending the indefensible by stripping away all context, briefly discuss Diane Feinstein's death, somehow end up talking about abortion, and end on discussing Tears of the Kingdom.

I dare you to find another podcast with this range.

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Jen and Noam discuss Bob Menendez's pockets full of money, Noam's plan for gold bar laundering, the Washington Post trying (and failing) to ruin Dave Portnoy's pizza party, the Metaverse, Fetterman's clothing options, and how depression doesn't work the way everyone seems to think it does.

Ambitious Crossover Attempt has a Twitch channel! Hooray! More streaming for us (and you)! We are working on creating a streaming schedule, but for now, make sure to follow us on Twitter for updates.

https://www.twitch.tv/ambitiousxover

Noam and Jen discuss Lauren Boebert's….date night, Mitt Romney calling it quits and the legacy of his presidential run, people using Twitter to fill the yawning void in their lives, Hasan Minhaj's embellishments for clapter, Russel Brand's past coming back to haunt him, and a small review of the anime From The New World.

And, true to her word, Jen created an Ambitious Crossover Attempt Twitch channel! Hooray! More streaming for us (and you)! We are working on creating a streaming schedule, but for now make sure to follow us on Twitter for updates.

https://www.twitch.tv/ambitiousxover

Jen and Noam return to discuss perennial Main Character Elon Musk’s bad week, from his threat to sue the ADL over advertisers leaving TwitX to the revelation from his upcoming biography that he might have directly intervened in the Ukranian war via Starlink access. 

And, true to her word, Jen created an Ambitious Crossover Attempt Twitch channel! Hooray! More streaming for us (and you)! We will likely stream Thursday night at our usual 7:30pm Eastern, come join us over at our new digs!

https://www.twitch.tv/ambitiousxover 

Show notes:

The Naudet 9/11 documentary that Noam references: 

https://youtu.be/9ejHArz_TSA?si=jDCqpLSuzT-SlQug 

The Esquire piece on the identity of the Falling Man (which does still show as paywalled for Jen):

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a48031/the-falling-man-tom-junod/ 

Noam and Jen (mostly) take a break from politics to discuss pronoun choices in Starfield, genitalia choices in Baldur’s Gate 3, Barbie and Mario being the big hits of this year’s movie season, entering the Golden Age of Geriatric Millenial Retail Entertainment, anime we’re watching and have watched, and other random stuff.

And, true to her word, Jen created an Ambitious Crossover Attempt Twitch channel! Hooray! More streaming for us (and you)! We will likely stream Thursday night at our usual 7:30pm Eastern, come join us over at our new digs!

https://www.twitch.tv/ambitiousxover 

Jen and Noam talk The Mugshot, roomers, Noam’s trip to a Civil War museum in Virginia, the now officially scheduled DC trial date, a bit of GOP deabte recap, and how we both very much dislike Vivek and wish he’d shut up.

And, true to her word, Jen created a Ambitious Crossover Attempt Twitch channel! Hooray! More streaming for us (and you)! We will likely stream Thursday night at our usual 7:30pm Eastern, come join us over at our new digs!

https://www.twitch.tv/ambitiousxover 

Noam and Jen do a regular full-length episode talking about Trump’s many indictments and the various reactions to them, the canceled press conference, his Constitutional fitness for office, DeSantis finally turning on Trump supporters, his debate to-do list, and how Trump doesn’t have to show up to debates now cuz reasons.

We will make more content this week. Really. Just don’t ask us when that will be exactly - we will try to stream the debate, but we’re not sure of the logistics (and legality) of that just yet. 

Jen and Noam talk how Trump is going to be charged with doing a RICO in Georgia, how he just can’t stop posting (Truthing?), Sam Bankman-Fried being placed in pre-trial detention for witness tampering, the Maui fire, and a bunch of other random stuff.

Shorter episode today because August is a bad, boring month.

Noam and Jen talk over the newest Trump indictment related to his big plan to fix the 2020 election, the fact that neither he nor anyone in his circle can stop talking, Richard Hanania’s “race realist” past coming back to haunt him, the root problem of the modern conservative movement, and how everyone is cooking up floaty rocks and what it means for the future.

Show notes:

Hanania’s past as Ricahrd Hoste, exposed (truth be told it’s been known for some time now)

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/richard-hanania-white-supremacist-pseudonym-richard-hoste_n_64c93928e4b021e2f295e817

Nate Silver’s piece on p-hacking and how it’s used to skew scientific study results

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/science-isnt-broken/#part1 

Editor’s note from Jen - if you’re interested in the topic of p-hacking and the replication crisis, Jesse Singal’s book The Quick Fix looks at these phenomena in the social sciences and how bad / unreplicable studies become the basis for conventional wisdom and policy decisions

Jen and Noam discuss failsons who have made the headlines this week - Hunter Biden, Donald Trump, and Nate Hochman. 

Hunter is in an on again off again relationship with his plea deal, Trump once again conscripted the most ill-equipped person to help him in the cover-up of his Mar-a-Lago boxes fiasco, and Hochman torpedoed a prominent position as a speechwriter for DeSantis by creating and seeding a pro-DeSantis video featuring some gnarly Nazi iconography. 

Show notes:

Yes, the Hochman video is every bit as bad as Jen says, including the Nazi iconography at the end

https://twitter.com/ltthompso/status/1683126430534598656?s=20