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Enthusiastic Armadas, Armenian Bakeries, Ye’s Apology Ad - #542

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TACO Tuesday in Minneapolis and the Fall of the Short King Cop (Members Only #298)

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One Hitter: Another ICE Shooting In Minneapolis with Peter Moskos (Members Only #297)

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Trump Would Do Anything For Greenland (But He Won't Do That) - #541

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Football, Billy Joel, Van Halen, and the Fact-Checkable Life (w/ Chuck Klosterman) - Members Only #296

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The Revolutionaries (w/ Jack Henneman) - #2

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How Much Benevolence Can You Take? - #540

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Why Can't We Be Friends? (w/ Ana Kasparian) - Members Only #295

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The Memory Hole & the Rent Freeze Trap (w/ Josh Barro) - #539

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Kevin Williamson Is The Darkness - Members Only #294

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One Hitter: Maduro Snatch 'n Grab with Thor Halvorssen (Members Only #293)

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The Revolutionaries (w/ Charles C. Mann) - #1

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Year Is Over (If You Want It) - #538

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Sweet Baby Jesus! Are We Really Arguing About Sodomy with John Fugelsang? - Members Only #292

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Black Irish, Ice Queens, and Body Snatchers (w/ Tina Nguyen) - #537

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Not Even Matt Drudge Can Make Today Better - On Rob Reiner, Bondi Beach, and DJT (Members Only #291)

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Nobody Likes a Gossip Cop (w/ Dan Abrams) - #536

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Members Only #291 - Leader of the Asshole Nation (w/ Kevin O'Leary)

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UNLOCKED Members Only #290 - AI George Washington, LSD Margaritas, and Tara Reid

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#535 - America's Top Breshnevist (w Brace Belden)

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UNLOCKED: Atheist in a Foxhole, w/ the Great Sebastian Junger

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UNLOCKED - Members Only #289 - Destroy All Robots…Before They Destroy US (w/ Andy Mills)

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Members Only #288 (LIVE in Los Angeles) - American Canyon Revisited

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Members Only #287 - Hoarding Epstein’s Emails, Band T-Shirts, and Air Jordans (w Jason Leopold)

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#534 - Even the Mayor Says L.A. Isn’t Well Governed (w/ Karen Bass)

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#533 - Moynihan vs. Moynihan (w/ Lydia Moynihan)

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Members Only #286 - Atheist in a Foxhole (w/ Sebastian Junger)

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#532 - Trinnies, Joy Bells, and Race Pride (w/ Abby Phillip)

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Members Only #285 - The Case For American Power (w/ Shadi Hamid)

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#531 - Liberal of Fox News, Unite! (w/ Jessica Tarlov)

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Members Only #284 - Pod Save The Queen (The Fascist Regime) with Jon Lovett

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#530 - They Don't Care About Us

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Members Only #283 - Putin on the Fritz (w/ Ambassador Michael McFaul)

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#529 - I Don’t Want You to Go to Jail for That, Jeffrey Toobin!

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Members Only #282 – There Will Be Spoilers (One Battle After Another, Cartoon Politics, and Car Chases)

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Members Only #281 - When You've Eaten the Poison, You Might as Well Lick the Plate (w/ Jake Adelstein)

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#528: President Comacho Delivers Peace, w/ Mary Katharine Ham

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Members Only #280 - Megyn Kelly Blowback, Principled Sanity, and Nihilistic Dread

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#527 - War is Over (If Hamas Wants It)

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UNLOCKED: Russ Roberts, on the Weight of History & the Elasticity of Memory

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#526 - Megyn Kelly is All Out of Generosity

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Members Only #278 -- Goliath’s Curse Author Luke Kemp on Why (and When) Empires Collapse

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Members Only #277 - Andy Rooney Hangovers, Nazi Beekeepers, and Ex-Canadians

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#525 - John Spencer Views Explosion

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Members Only #276 - The Cancelling of an American Talkshow (w/ Greg Lukianoff)

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#524 - BTW, Venezuela is a Dictatorial Commie Narcostate (w/ Thor Halvorssen)

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Members Only #275 - The Elasticity of Memory & the Weight of History (w/ Russ Roberts)

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#523 - On the Assassination of Charlie Kirk

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Members Only #274 - Jamaicanon and the Racist Storms

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#522 - Video Killed the Podcast Star (ft. Mace, Epstein, Gladwell, Linehan)

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#521 - MAGA Panthers and White FUBU

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On "The Summer of Our Discontent" w/ Thomas Chatterton Williams

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#520 - Wear a Tie, Kids Won't Die / White Hippies / Ancient Chinese Custom, Huh?

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Members Only #272 - Bosom Buddies, Nazi Historians, Late Capitalists

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#519 - Creed, Crimea, Crime...and a City of Baby Newts

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Members Only #271 - America the Antidote (Second Sunday Rebroadcast!)

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#518 - Angry Indians, the Socialist Right, TikTok's Propaganda War

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Members Only #270 - Norwegian Pizzas, Italian Meterologists, Fake Dissidents

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#517 - "Pimp-o-nomics: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Embrace the Male Gaze" w/ Robbie Soave

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#516 - "Treasons, Tiny Packages, and the End of Late Night" w/ Eli Lake

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Members Only #268 - Every Pump is Patriotic

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#515 - Big Trouble in Little MAGA

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#514 - Big Boats! Big Patriotism! Big Pedophile Rings??

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Members Only #267 - Everything's Our Fault: The U.S. and the Iranian Coup (w/ Abbas Milani)

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#513 - Birthright Jamaican Babies and Russian Trashmen (w/ Damon Root)

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#512 - Escape from New York

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Members Only #264 - Domino's, Hand Jobs, and WWIII

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#511 - Iran on the Brink, NYC on the Brink (w/ Harry Siegel)

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#510 - BONUS EPISODE - The View from Israel (w/ Nadav Eyal)

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#509 - The Rise of the Knuckleheads (w/ Sen. Rand Paul)

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#508 - The Breakup Episode

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Members Only #252 - For Our Girls (The Message)

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#507 - Trans Pee Wee and Tariffed Dresses

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Members Only #251 - I Learned It from Watching Nick Gillespie

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#506 - Kill the White People

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#505 - A Saudi Summit. A Delaware Freakoff.

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UNLOCKED: David Zweig, on How Media and Public Health Failed Our Kids

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Members Only #250 - What’s the Frequency, Papist?

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#504 - N-Bombs and Real Bombs

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Members Only #259 - Tariffed into Chastity

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#503 - Mea Minima Culpa

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Members Only #258 - We Don't Talk About Fight Club (Mostly)

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#502 - The Second Battle of Batya (w/ Batya Ungar-Sargon)

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Members Only #257 - I'll Ruin Everything You Are

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Members Only #256 -- How Media and Public Health Failed Our Kids (w/ David Zweig)

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#501 - Due Process in Scare Quotes (w/ Jesse Singal)

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#500 - The Triumph of the Idiots

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Members Only #255 - Val Kilmer Didn't Die for This

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#499 - One of the Dumbest Decisions in American Political History? (w/ Scott Lincicome)

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Members Only #254 - These Days of the Condor

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#498 - The Signal and the Boys

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#496 - Ich bin ein Disappointed Konspiracy Theorist

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Members Only #253 - One-Armed Lithuanians and Mute Latvian Cats

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Members Only #252 - On a Sunday, On the Lash (w/ Thomas Chatterton Williams)

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#495 - Cranks, Conspiracies, Campuses, and Ceasefires

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Members Only #251 – We Got Five Years of Covid Fury

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#494 - State of Delusion

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Members Only #250 - Twitter Is Now Real Life

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#493 - Fifth Extra: John Bolton on Trump 2.0

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#492 - How Deep Is Your State