So we took a few days off. We deserved it. Sort of. And after all, there were pilots to filmed, kids to be cared for, conferences to attend. Indeed, on Friday we gave a talk at a wonderful University of Florida conference on America’s love of bullshit. But we begged off from the proceedings for an hour to record an episode. Because we love you guys. And because we needed to discuss Pete Hegseth, beer bongs and Goldschlager luges, Elon’s weird kids, the future of DOGE, the future of Ukraine, Islamism, and Serena Williams. And a few other things besides…

* The hockey plumber

* A very brief return to tariffs

* Let’s fight the drug war again! Yay!

* Neocon Don wants to make Gaza great…for the first time

* This is a very, very bad idea

* Like…an extraordinarily bad idea

* The 80-20 issue

* Lia’s standup special

* 60 Minutes in the docket

* “Restoring freedom of speech”

We asked ChatGPT to give us some titles for this episode. Turned out to be a pretty decent précis of the discussion…and the last one is particularly good:

"Tariffs, TikTok, and Toe-Kneading Terror"

"Mary Poppins: Feminist Propaganda & Economic Illiteracy"

"Avocados vs. American Fish: The Dumbest Trade Debate Ever"

"Trump’s Tariff Tantrum: The Art of the Du…

* First class mud hobbit

* At the 80th in Poland

* An executive flurry

* The interrogation of RFK

* In defense of pharma

* The interrogation of Kash Patel

* Give us Greenland, Part 32

* Overreach on DEI?

* Frozen budgets

* Getting the win

* Is *this* the art of the deal?

* Why were the JFK/RFK/MLK files held back?

* And what will we find therein…

* The most annoying Kennedy

* Trusting Deepseek

* Has the press learned its lesson?

* Moynihan in Poland (Katya stole his mic)

* Ronalda Reagana

* Know a Nowa Huta

* Onward to Auschwitz

* Maybe don’t speak to the far-right German party?

* Axis of anti-Woke

* Unimpressed with nation-states

* The Best Black History Month Report, EVER

* Lia vs. MLK Part II

* Rufo’s Sore "Winning"

* Activism vs. Truth

* Our “Blind spot”

* Yellow/Blue Dress Explained

* YOUR Outrage (Not Mine)

* Ove…

* The Zombies reunion

* Edibles and expressionism

* A ghost on the knee

* Who needs a desk when democracy’s dead?

* Outage equality

* Don’t ever integrate?

* Segregation redux

* Why Steve hates Elon

* Those terrible oligarchs

* Who needs the Constitution when we have executive orders?

* The Jan 6 pardons: a disagreement

* The art of the overcharge

* Ross Ulbricht goes home

* The sycophants are back!

* Are we suckers for paying?

* Gauleiter Musk

* Day one executive orders

* The newest, greatest Amazon Prime perk

* New national bird: Jim Eagle

* Pardon me?

* Guess what? Leonard Peltier is not a good guy!

* That Outside magazine article

* Inauguration babes

* Kmele’s letter to his daughter’s school

* Not our oligarchs!

* Ari Shaffir vs. Howie Mandel

* Governme…

* Melanie: the eternal First Lady

* A bad deal but…the only deal

* The same situation, over and over

* Joey B’s final babble

* Ike, Elon, and the unacceptable “oligarchy”

* The Ralph Lifshitz Award for Cultural Betrayal

* F**k You, Surgeon General, says Matt Welch

* The shittiest NYT story in recent memory

* A shitty celebration of murder on Jimmy Kimmel

* Pete H on the Hill

* Women in combat is not a weird debate

* RIP David Lynch

* RIP Bob Uecker

A rebroadcast of our most recent “Second Sunday” episode, during which paying subscribers can hop on a Zoom call, ask us questions, berate us, tell meandering stories, and be generically clever/hilarious/insane. On this episode, we talk to a number of people in Los Angeles about the ongoing conflagrations and the city government’s predictably feckless r…

* Black Bill Kristol

* Nobody beats the Rizz

* Stealing Greenland

* Yet another horrible big city mayor

* When you love Castro, you are obviously an incompetent moron

* Forget it, Matt. It's Chinatown

* More on the 🔥

* Is big city governance killing progressivism?

* Your lying eyes

* Elon’s Nazis

* Mark Zuckerberg and “winning” on free speech

* The end of corporate walkout culture

* January 6 pardons and pizzagate crazy person gunned down

* Hobo stabs thug