Guest: Ben Smith, Media Columnist @ The New York Times

• From BuzzFeed to The NYT
• When Your Bosses are Kinda THE Story
• Why We Can't Stop Talking About The Times
• Newsroom Cultural
• White Privilege and Employee Orientation
• Resignations*
• Caliphate vs. 1619
• "My Notebook Remains Open"
• Losing the Newsroom
• You Will Sign This Letter
• Vanilla Mandella
• Biggie Smalls
• When Van Met Ibram X
• Simple, Elegant, Almost Certainly Wrong
• Things Get Worse for Cuomo

Recorded March 2nd, 2021

Published March 4th, 2021

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Guest: Matt Taibbi @ Contributing Editor @ Rolling Stone. Author, "Hate Inc"

• Niggarati
• Privilege Childhood
• The Art of the Substack Deal
• The Shift
• An Active Conspiracy or An Active Conspiracy
• The Escape, And Uncertain Horizon
• It's Just a Camp, For Kids, So It's Fine
• Trump at CPAC
• A Good Shoot
• Bidenomics
• Listen to Black People
• Didn't Even Say The Word

Recorded Feb 24th, 2021

Published Feb 25th, 2021

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Guest: Martin Gurri @ Author, "The Revolt of the Public"

• Prophecy, Historical Cycles, and Modest Frameworks
• From Information Monopoly to Information Tsunami
• Public Dissatisfaction
• Elites in Crisis
• Public Nihilism
• Historical Amnesia
• The Yellow Vests, Jan 6th, 2021
• Political Sectarianism
• Truth + Objectivity + Resentment
• Drama at the New York Times
• The Future of Media and Truth
• Plato's Perfect Form of Justice
• Fact Check

Recorded Feb 17th, 2021

Published Feb 18th, 2021

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• Pump and Dump
• Matt Bought Crack
• Real Compton City Gs
• Really Only One Bad Word
• The Public Interest
• Irrelevant Context
• MTG vs. AOC: Most Insane? Best Actress?
• "I Can Only Be a Non-White Person"
• Why The Culture War Matters
• Merit: The Racism of Fairness Racist
• Covid Cumo, And the Incurious Media

Recorded Feb 3rd, 2021

Published Feb 5th, 2021

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Guest: Van Lathan @ "Higher Learning" (Co-Host), Previously @ TMZ

Kmele and Van connect for a wide-ranging conversation about racism, reconciliation, and finding common ground. It's yet another exercise in constructive disagreement. In fact, it's the back half of a three-hour discussion that managed to feature vanishingly few points of agreement -- and zero personal insults.

• Oculus Quest
• THOUGHT Warriors
• Uncle Tom: A Most Dangerous Man
• If Everyone Listened to Kmele...
• Listing + Reconciliation
• Representation
• Racecraft
• Strangefruit
• MLK and the FBI
• Juneteenth
• Candace Owens Brother

Recorded Jan 27th, 2021

Published Feb 3rd, 2021

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• Make a Mint w/ Moynihan
• Who's Behind the Squeeze
• On the War Path
• Strange Bedfellows
• Popularity Contests
• Even Libertarians
• Equity and Private Prisons
• Coming Attractions

Recorded Jan 28th, 2020

Published Jan 29th, 2020

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Rather than our typical bullet-pointed show notes, we'll keep this one short and sweet. Because try as they might to pull the conversation away from Kmele's bravura performance on Real Time with Bill Maher, the lads just couldn't manage it. Although they do respond to a listener email about the Pet Shop Boys...and Kmele does says the word kerfluffle.

That is all. 

Enjoy.

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• Is Melania the greatest first lady since Florence Harding?
• Does MC Hammer hate Kmele?
• Let the sycophancy begin!
• Qanonsense
• Understanding the Trump voter
• We're all weird and wrong
• The new Republican Party is awful. So is the new Democratic Party.
• The dumb 1776 project: "It's like Stephen Miller pooped on a legal pad"
• Hating big tech
• How not to combat bad speed

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Guest: Anna Khachiyan @ "Red Scare" (Co-Host)

• Kinda Canceled
• Holding the Mic
• Outrage Boner
• Dirtbags
• Tight Sweaters, Tighter Shirts
• Mo' Impeachments
• The MAGA Riots
• Culpability
• Cultural Amnesia, Sweetest Taboos
• Canceling Trump
• Canceling the Rest of Yall?

Recorded Jan 13t, 2020

Published Jan 14th, 2020

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Welcome to 2021

• A Coup d'état? An Insurrection?
• A dark beginning? A despicable bookend? A world of shit?
• We'll get to that -- but we're gonna need a lot more booze.

Recorded Jan 6th, 2021

Published Jan 7th, 2021

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