w/ Wesley Lowery Correspondent @ CBS - "60 Minutes in 6"
Lowery Wrote A Thing: "A Reckoning Over Objectivity, Led by Black Journalists" (NYT) - June 23, 2020 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/23/opinion/objectivity-black-journalists-coronavirus.html
Welch Raised Some Objections: "Journalists Abandoning 'Objectivity' for 'Moral Clarity' Really Just Want To Call People Immoral" (Reason) - June 24, 2020 https://reason.com/2020/06/24/journalists-abandoning-objectivity-for-moral-clarity-really-just-want-to-call-people-immoral/
Some Twitter Drama Ensues. The Parties Agree to Settle Things Directly.
...And now, here you are. All caught up, ready for the fireworks (literally + figuratively).
Recorded: July 2, 2020 Published: July 6, 2020
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194 w/ Wesley Lowery "Moral Clarity, Objectivity, and ALL THE SMOKE"

Your weekly rhetorical assault on the on the news cycle, the people who make it, and occasionally ourselves. Kmele Foster (Freethink), Michael Moynihan (Vice), and Matt Welch (Reason) talk and laugh and drink their way to at least quasi-sanity in a world gone mad, often with the aid of clean and articulate guests. Weekly Members Only subscription edition often comes with listener mail and professional-quality (if inappropriate) singing. Analysis. Commentary. Sedition. 

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* Ozempic Joe * The Juice has expired  * Revisiting the “Trial of the Century” * The double murderer who “abandoned his race” * In defense of Marcia Clark * Dementia dads * Matt Lauer emerges  * Nutty MTG, drunky Boebert * Arizona abortions * Operation Bubble Wrap * Poor guy in a ski mask shoots at cops * Group condemnations and the “IDW”  

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#450 - Republican Wine Moms and a Dead Double Murderer

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* Kid rapping  * Saturday Night Fever is dark, dark movie  * Girl dadding * Anti-communist manifestos * On Andrew and Israel  * Big bombs in Iraq: not so fast, Andrew! * The normalization of extremism  * Don’t be Paul Robeson  * What it means to be “anti-war’ * Dehamasification * A bachelor party in NY  * And much more!

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Third time’s even more charming! Andrew “Cheech” Sullivan is back, puffing away and ruminating on Israel, Iraq, conservatives, the trans movement, loud music from bluetooth speakers, the awfulness of Trump (who won’t be a dictator, btw), the resilience of American democracy, the resounding victories of the gay rights movement, and the general boringness of identity.  

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#449 - The Prince of Tide Pools (w/ Andrew Sullivan)

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Last month’s “Second Sunday” broadcast was fun, boozy, and…almost lost. We won’t point any fingers—though they might be jabbed in the direction of a certain someone during the recording—but through a Peter Jackson-like audio excavation, it was saved. Was that a good thing? Errr…who knows. And so, with a few nips and tucks, here she is! And we’ll be back…

Members Only #205 - Almost Lost, Unfortunately Found

The title says it all. The three lads were together, in the same studio, for the second time in as many months. And it’s possible that the start of this particular episode was, for whatever reason, a bit chaotic. But as we settle in with our friend novelist and journalist Kat Rosenfield, we ultimately managed to discuss a few things like… * Kat’s cancellation story * Her great New York mag piece from 2017 * Wait, what is sex trafficking? * Did Kat steal a sled from a kid? Or is that kid a filthy liar? * Revisiting Christine Blasey Ford * Firing or cancelling? * The sacking of Rona Romney McDaniel…Romney * The Trump bible * Kat is meh on Cormac McCarthy * And much, much more 

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194 w/ Wesley Lowery "Moral Clarity, Objectivity, and ALL THE SMOKE"

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