John Avlon stops by only to learn he’s also in the Epstein files, why the Daily Beast should’ve sold dick pills, and why we need to rebuild guardrails on what some call “stolen land”
Where John is surprised to learn he’s in the Epstein files and suddenly remembers he has plans not to be here
The Ceaușescu of Long Beach
Moynihan actually voted for this guy!
Georgia, the FBI, and the Trump 2.0 purity test industrial complex
Asking for a friend who keeps wondering, “are US elections legit?”
This is not a libertarian podcast
The original sin is hyperpolarization
Tucker at CPAC, the heretic hunters, and the sound of the crowd turning
Give the left/right base what it wants and watch your incentives rot
We should have sold dick pills at The Daily Beast and funded a small country
The hell with the guardrails, we want our conspiracies god dammit!
Oral culture wins, written culture loses, and the Washington Post dims the lights
How can we do this podcast “on stolen land?”
What happened to Rudy Giuliani?
The Traveling Wilburys of Government
Asymmetric polarization and why the crazies are not equally distributed
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