Conspiracy Theories Never Die (w/ James B. Meigs) #573

James B. Meigs joins the lads on 9/11 truthers, Tucker, data centers, rogue AI, Flock cameras, Texas politics, and UFOs

Jim is a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a Wall Street Journal columnist

• The tractor beam of sexuality
• James B. Meigs is here
• Tucker Carlson is just asking questions. He’s less interested in the answers
• It’s 9/11 season. Call in the OG debunker
• Jet fuel didn’t have to melt steel
• Death threats for… Popular Mechanics
• Tucker finds Israel in the JFK files
• Revisiting Loose Change, 20 years later
• Conspiracy theories thrive in the ruins of journalism
• Data centers or, hear us out, server farms
• The mailbag interrogates Mr. Science Man
• Hugging Face and the AI agents chatting amongst themselves
• Midterm Madness goes to Texas
• Talarico vs. Paxton, somehow a toss-up
• Flock cameras solve crimes. They also know where you’ve been
• Nature, Jason Arday, and the death of fact-checking
• UFOs are real. The aliens remain elusive

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Canada Calls Trump’s Bluff (#572)

Our neighbors up north are pissed, the conspiracists are thriving, and somehow Kmele is still missing.

• why you have to watch this podcast
• Sanna Marin…for the policy
• Finding Kmele Foster
• Welch returns from Montreal to report that the French lost
• life in the time of Trade War
• NPR finally solves reparations
• tariffs, hockey sticks, and remedial economics
• JD Vance is still not funny
• Polymarket bets on Canada
• Tucker discovers Christian Russia
• Clip Roulette returns
• Tim Curry, Richard E. Grant, Producer Jason’s inexplicable defense of Hudson Hawk
• Bret Weinstein solves the Charlie Kirk assassination
• Ana Kasparian keeps making new friends
• Mamdani, Muhammad and the death of secularism
• a bit more Clip-O-Rama
• Tuck and the Short King discover 107 million illegal immigrants

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Clip Roulette w/ Dictators, Demons and Democracy (Episode #571)

Kmele is absent. The bottle is doing its best for the Moynihan/Welch duo.

• Greetings…oh, fuck
• Welch has a bone to pick with Ben Dreyfuss
• Clip Roulette
• Tucker and the Demon Bomb
• Jason Arday, martyr?
• The Jonah Lehrer comparison
• The Samantha Power mic disaster
• Fuck you Joaquin
• John Mearsheimer, Stephen F. Cohen and the Russian apologists
• Ukraine didn’t go away
• Trump, Kim Jong-un and the South Korea war games
• Midterm Madness / Polymarket, wha happen?
• Median Strategies and the fake poll
• Adam Bonica, Marc Elias and scamming the elderly
• Is Cuba a dictatorship? Apparently a difficult question
• The Padilla Affair / Slobo Googling
• Theft as a “biological need”
• Chocolate City
• Stay tuned for más Moynihan Report

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The Politics of Pretending (Episode #570)

Hasan Piker, the DSA, AOC, Jason Arday, Francesca Hong, and miscellaneous lunacy

• Kmele is out of Adderall
• Did anybody actually watch this Tucker and Hunter interview?
• “Montrosity” and other difficult words
• The adventures of Proximity Hong
• The curious case of Jason Arday
• Is there any chance Jesse Singal is racist?
• AOC discovers Woke 1.0 was crazy
• Shane Gillis and the conspiracy of enforcing things nobody believed
• Thank you, Thom Tillis. Also, fuck you.
• Funding the other side’s whackos
• Mamdani declares war on Amazon
• A general rent strike. Over one cockroach.
• David Remnick meets the DSA
• Kmele gets swarmed by the Hasan bots
• So, how great was Mao?
• Midterm Madness and the 2028 Democratic sweepstakes
• Clip Roulette
• Kmele tries to explain himself. It does not help.
• Can America get at least a busted Boris Johnson?

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A Man of 1989 (w/ David Frum) #569

We’re joined by The Atlantic’s David Frum for a wide-ranging conversation about Trumpism, the Democratic left, immigration, political memory, and what became of American conservatism.

• a pre-obit for the esteemed David Frum
• involuntarily unionized at The Atlantic
• spy novels, bureaucrats and expense reports
• turning down Bill Buckley’s golden ticket
• prosperity, security and how quickly it can all disappear
• Frum is forever a man of 1989
• God makes you lucky, then convinces you you’re smart
• Tucker Carlson was always capable of many things
• falling flat on your back isn’t progress
• the Michigan Senate choice from hell
• Democrats discover Trump’s permission structure
• Midterm Madness in Michigan
• the polling industry has a phone problem
• politics for people who can afford to lose
• “I saw you coming so I could stop you”
• immigration restriction without the Trumpism
• fascism has the better sales pitch than communism
• what Donald Trump loves besides himself
• the conservative future Frum got very wrong and other reflections

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The Fifth Gets a Substitute Teacher (w/ Jesse Singal) #568

No one has thought any of this through

Jesse Singal of Blocked and Reported and Singal-Minded fills Michael Moynihan’s special diabetic chair to discuss Fauci’s diaries, broken institutions, runaway AI, LeBron and Mamdani Mart.

• Moynihan out, Jesse Singal in
• Barry Weiss hired everyone except Jesse
• The Prince of Science re-enrages everyone (or at least Rand Paul)
• Gell-Mann amnesia and the collapse of institutional trust
• The media needed a COVID daddy
• An OpenAI model escaped the sandbox
• The analogy of the paperclip machine and how it consumed the universe
• Cambridge protected alleged plagiarist Jason Arday
• Midterm Madness, Ohio governor race version
• Kmele feels that LeBron will never love him but he doesn’t want to talk about it
• Three grown men relived their greatest pickup games
• Kmele wanted the gods back in The Odyssey
• Mamdani Mart promised groceries at 30 percent off
• Billy Bob Thornton returns from hell in White Knight (a Kmele Foster joint)
• Nazi dinosaurs stalked Jews through Schindler’s Park
• Jesse discovered second-order effects
• Not every strange obsession with Israel was antisemitism
• Rent stabilization has worked great for millionaires
• No French goodbye for Kmele

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