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Mailbucket #13: Some of Us Need Help (Including Me, With Tech)
Also: How do you forgive friends who call you a Nazi-enabler?
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Matt Welch
Members Only #257 - I'll Ruin Everything You Are
The Hungarian dentist and the prostitute theory
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Members Only #256 -- How Media and Public Health Failed Our Kids (w/ David Zweig)
“They were lying to my fucking face, and they knew it”
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1:13:00
Firehose #141: Paul Revere’s Warning
Also: Tune in to Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO Friday night!
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Matt Welch
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#501 - Due Process in Scare Quotes (w/ Jesse Singal)
Flooding the Zone with Incompetence and Malfeasance
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Kmele
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Jesse Singal
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Michael C. Moynihan
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Matt Welch
, and 
The Fifth Column
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1:25:56
April Second Sunday LET'S DO THIS
Hey man, we gave you 5 minutes notice
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Matt Welch
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Firehose #140: Do You Suffer From Fifth Disease?
Also: Second Sunday 8 p.m. ET, all paying subscribers
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Matt Welch
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#500 - The Triumph of the Idiots
Is this episode 500??
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Members Only #255 - Val Kilmer Didn't Die for This
Val, Tombstone, Top Secret
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Firehose #139: So Say Goodbye, it’s Liberation Day
Also: “the story is even worse/more insane than you think”
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Matt Welch
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#499 - One of the Dumbest Decisions in American Political History? (w/ Scott Lincicome)
We bring back the great economist Scott Lincicome to separate MAGA myths from inconvenient facts on trade, trade imbalances, ChatGPT math, and getting…
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Members Only #254 - These Days of the Condor
Tomorrow on The Moynihan Report: Actor and former fat guy Ethan Suplee (American History X, Wolf of Wall Street, Mall Rats, Remember the Titans).
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