Firehose #110: Root, Root, Root for the Home Team

Also: One-way, 2Way, red-fish, blue-ray

I wonder how many votes *I* get during Matt Walsh’s office parties….

* Where to even begin this weekend? Did you know I was on a CNN game-show pilot Saturday called Have I Got News For You? Here’s a teaser for the show, which is an American adaptation of a long-running British series:

And here’s a clip:

* Was it really just five days ago when we watched The Great Cat Massacre of 2024? Yes it was.

* Megyn Kelly blew a gasket after Tuesday night, so naturally we were the very next guests on her show. We talked about the debate moderators, Donald Trump’s lousy performance, Kamala Harris’s substance-less, competing abortion claims, and (of course!) Taylor Swift. Whole thing:

* Then we took advantage of Kmele being in town and 2Way being down the street by rocking an ambitious crossover event with breakout 2Way star (and one-man focus-grouper) Mark Halperin:

* Speaking of Kmele, here’s a cool pic of him from his Thursday event with Richard Dawkins:

* Same night, different bat (cat?) channel: Moynihan did one of his Free Press live deals with Batya Ungar-Sargon (veteran of Episode #451), Josh Kraushaar, and Francesca Block about “fallout from the Trump-Harris debate, whether Haitian migrants are actually eating cats, the Laura Loomer vs. Marjorie Taylor Greene MAGA rift & colleges adopting institutional neutrality.”

* Since we privilege video on this weekend newsletter thingie, here are some visuals associated with last week’s aforementioned bread-breaking between Moynihan and Ethan Strauss (#185, #333, #383, Members Only #151, #408):

* Oh wait, even more unearthed video! Remember those heroically named Dissident Dialogues? Well, they recently uploaded their debate about “the value of legacy press and mainstream media,” with our very own Moynihan, plus Thomas Chatterton Williams (#121, #158, #188, #197, #373), Alex Berenson, Daniel Granger, and Andrew Gold:

* On a similar theme, our bud Mike Pesca (#343, #418, #467) went this past week on The Reason Interview with Nick Gillespie to talk about “how NPR lost its way,” plus “his controversial 2021 separation from Slate after he defended a New York Times reporter's use of a racial slur, why once-vaunted newspapers such as The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times are rightly losing readers and money, and whether the old world of three broadcast TV networks and heavily gate-kept media had any value.”

* Neglected to mention it last week, but Radley Balko (#68) issued his latest (last?) fusillade in his long-running battle with Coleman Hughes (#121, #144, #181, #188, #201, #379, #412 & #442) over Coleman’s response to Radley’s 30,000-word critique of Coleman’s contention that Derek Chauvin was made legal scapegoat for the death of George Floyd. (Completists can work backward from Firehose #97.)

* Comment of the Week comes from Kev:

I've finally settled on RFK Jr. and all it took was him dropping out and trying desperately to get his name off the ballot. Voting for him offers a rare opportunity to simultaneously give 3 awful candidates and their 3 awful choices for veep the finger.

Walkoff music is a live performance of a piece of music that has been re-astonishing me this weekend: