• New Views
• Demographic Considerations
• What Seems to Be The Problem Officer?
• The Honorable Minister
• Vaccine Rollout
• Careful Reporting
• Post Trump News Cycle
• The Flagrancy
• Predicting Apocalypse

Recorded Dec 17th, 2020

Published Dec 19th, 2020

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Look, you asked for it. Fifth fan favorite (ed - we really don't understand you people) and Mother Jones editorial director Ben Dreyfuss (né Gould) is back. And the results are wonderfully shambolic. But seriously: make sure the kids are in bed before press play....

• Ben is "on leave" from Mother Jones
• Why Ben's editor blocked him on Twitter (and you should too)
• No ice in Hawaii, no avocados in Wisconsin
• The worst movie Ben's dad ever made (Or was it the best?)
• Why everyone in DC hates Facebook
• Why people read dumb articles on Facebook
• Ben starts a Substack. Obviously.
• What Ben learned about Donald Trump in the suicide ward
• Manipulating people on the internet
• And so much more...

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"The Toad style is immensely strong, and immune to nearly any weapon. When it's properly used, it's almost invincible." - Five Deadly Venoms

• Way Out Of Line
• The Incredible Asshole Machine
• Related Controversy
• A Stolen*** Election
• Obama

An issue with the mics. An inspired fix. A nearly aborted dispatch manages to slide into your feed just in time for the stranges Thanksgiving in decades.

• A Rolling Start
• When Moynihan Met Oprah
• Coup d'é HAHAHAHAHA
• "I Told You"
• Salvaging the Culture
• Crisis of Authority
• Covid Masks
• Murder Rates
• Generational Divides
• Calling it Quits
• It's A Job, Ain't It?

Recorded Nov 24th, 2020

Published Nov 26th, 2020

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Guest: Glenn Greenwald @ Co-Founder, The Intercept

• The Move to Substack (https://greenwald.substack.com/)
• The Marvelousness of the Fifth Column
• The Job Market
• The Reply to Critics
• The Blow by Blow
• The Culture
• The Hunter Biden Laptop Situation

Recorded Oct 30th, 2020

Published Nov 19th, 2020

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Guest: Jason Stanley @ Author, "How Fascism Works", Professor of Philosophy @ Yale.

• The Answer
• Extremely Online, Prospective Hypocrisy
• Cancel Culture
• No Tellin
• Trump's Blacketst Swan
• But He's a Fascist
• Critical Race Back and Forth
• Pretty Good (for a Black Guy)
• Covid

Recorded Nov 12th, 2020

Published Nov 14th, 2020

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• What Election?
• The Perils of Watching Cable News
• What You Talkin Bout Welch
• The Got'Damn Polls
• Anticipated Unrest
• Black Woman Stabbed, By Black Lives Matters Supporters?
• What Happens to the Media
• What Happens to Republicans
• What Happens to Democrats
• Stereotypes are Fine Now
• You People Aren't Supposed to Vote That Way
• Woke-spiracy
• Fighting Them on The Beach

Recorded Nov 4th, 2020

Published Nov 5th, 2020

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• Bannon's back. The New York Post isn't.  
• Don’t talk about Hunter!
• Are we living in a Techno Fascist Reich?
• Regulate, regulate, regulate
• The unforeseen consequences of deplatforming?
• Qanon inflation 
• To the gulag, go!
• Russia, Russia, Russia
• Which New York Times editor does Matt call "a loathsome toad"?
• FYI: Political journalists cannot cover “politically driven events”
• Debate, debate, debate
• Coherent on Corona! 
• But also full of shit!
• And Corona reporting is still awful 
• Mad Matt on a Mendacious Media 
• Are people still wiping down their groceries?
• WHATS UP TWITTER WORLD, IT’S THE JUICE
• Jeff Toobin, American Hero / OJ, not guilty
• Maybe an election-night Zoom thing?

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• Moynihan's Old, New House
• COVID... is Fake?
• Siri, Do Black Lives Matter?
• Dueling Town Halls
• Everyone is Awful, Even You, (But Not Really)
• The Brief And Highly Overrated Return of Respectability Politics
• Politics of Bullshit
• Foreign Bodies
• The Revolt of the Public
• Darkest Totalitarian Hellscape

Recorded Oct 18, 2020

Published Oct 20, 2020

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• Moynihan's Old, New House
• COVID... is Fake?
• Siri, Do Black Lives Matter?
• Dueling Town Halls
• Everyone is Awful, Even You, (But Not Really)
• The Brief And Highly Overrated Return of Respectability Politics
• Politics of Bullshit
• Foreign Bodies
• The Revolt of the Public
• Darkest Totalitarian Hellscape

Recorded Oct 18, 2020

Published Oct 20, 2020

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