<ul><li>Pump and Dump</li><li>Matt Bought Crack</li><li>Real Compton City Gs</li><li>Really Only One Bad Word</li><li>The Public Interest</li><li>Irrelevant Context</li><li>MTG vs. AOC: Most Insane? Best Actress?</li><li>"I Can Only Be a Non-White Person"</li><li>Why The Culture War Matters</li><li>Merit: The Racism of Fairness Racist</li><li>Covid Cumo, And the Incurious Media</li></ul> Recorded Feb 3rd, 2021Published Feb 5th, 2021

224 - "MTG v AOC, Merit is so Racist, Determined Incuriosity"

"What you think all the guns is for?" - Christopher Wallace w/ Alex Nowrasteh (Director of Immigration Studies @ The Cato Institute) A supersized dispatch, because fully resolving the various problems in America's immigration and criminal justice system -- takes a little time. Especially when you're forced to contend w/ WHITE SUPREMACY [Insert Ghost Emoji]. It's kinda like a podcast-mixtape. A - SIDE<ul><li>The Curious State of US Immigration</li><li> Reality, Theater, Textbook Political +&nbsp;Bureaucratic&nbsp;Failure&nbsp;</li><li>The Welfare State vs Open Borders&nbsp;</li><li>The (Great?) Replacement</li><li>AOC's Plan</li><li>Kamala's Rope-A-Dope</li></ul> B - SIDE<ul><li>DMX, Shawn Kemp, Bob Marley</li><li>Humble Beginnings</li><li>The Defense Rests</li><li>Where the Hell is Brooklyn Center</li><li>The Word You're Looking For is "Discharge"</li><li>Live Tweeting</li><li>We're Going to South Beach</li></ul> Recorded: 4.14.2021Published: 4.17.2021 1 Bitcoin = $61,041.60

 303 - w/ Alex Nowrasteh "The Time We Fixed Policing and Immigration"

<ul><li>Hunter "Squirtle" Biden</li><li>Matt "Making Arrangements" Gaetz </li><li> Adventures in the Havana Hilton?</li><li>When Everything is Sex Trafficking? (Not Exactly)</li><li>A New Era of Bipartisanship</li><li>Win Ben Stein's Heart</li><li>The American Metaphor Council</li><li>Who's D riving the Democratic Party</li><li>China and Bitcoin</li><li>Self Correcting Journalism</li><li>Tweets Bad. Accessory to the murder of a Judge -- we have to be understanding</li><li>Kmele Loves Guns</li><li>Universal Basic Income for Mom's of Color</li><li>Structural Racism Tamagotchi</li><li>Harrison Bergeron General Hospital</li></ul> Recorded April 8th, 2021Published April 9th, 2021

302 - "Making Arrangements, Ghost Guns, Pullin' Out"

(In No Particular Order) <ul><li>Live From New York</li><li>DRINK</li><li>AOC AMA</li><li>CDC Press Conference&nbsp;</li><li>Mask Etiquette</li><li>DRINK</li><li>Derek Chauvin on Trial (Week 1)</li><li>Eight Fingers Left</li><li>Tar Babies</li><li>A Thing Greater Than Yourself</li><li>Voter Suppression 2.0</li><li>DRINK</li><li>Corporate Welfare</li><li>Five Pinocchios</li><li>Ending Ken Burns</li><li>The Cowardly Doormen</li></ul> Recorded April 1st, 2021Published April 3rd, 2021

301 - "Five Years of Impending Doom, Chauvin on Trial, Blowin Money Fast"

<h4>Summary</h4> <ul><li>Kmele Loses an Entire Dispatch</li><li>Moynihan's Most Racist Voice</li><li>Important Homework </li><li>What We Might Have Talked About</li><li>Mass Shootings</li><li>Hate Crime Hysterics and Lies</li><li>Ending the War in Afghanistan</li><li>Nationa Building</li><li>Whale Watching + 400 Years of Suffering</li><li>Leaving Sesame Street</li></ul> Recorded March 25th, 2021Published March 26th, 2021

300 - "A Do Over Episode (Mostly Uncut)"

Guest: Jeffery Sachs, Lecturer in Politics @ Acadia University <ul><li>Snyder Cut</li><li>Sympathy for Dictators</li><li>Useful Pretense of Justice</li><li>How Did Sachs Get It So Wrong</li><li>State of the New Culture War</li><li>Free Speech Hypocrisy</li><li>The Left Is Worse, Right?</li><li>Power Imbalance</li><li>Coastal Myopia</li><li>What if We're Wrong (Again*)</li></ul> Recorded March 18th, 2021Published March 22th, 2021

229 w/ Jeffrey Sachs - "How to be a Dictator, Anti-Woke Hypocrisy"

Guest: Katie Herzog, HOST @ "Blocked &amp; Reported" <ul><li>Keeping Secrets</li><li>Coming 2 America</li><li>Transphobia is Bad</li><li>A Most Prescient Cancelation</li><li>Say THE WORD, Katie</li><li>They'll Never Give You A Reson</li><li>The Tax Code is Racist</li><li>Plato's Utopia</li><li>Rescue Package in Name Only</li><li>Tucker Carlson, Mean Person</li><li>Tinker Taylor, Toy Soldier</li><li>Virtual Ball Busting</li><li>Pretending Things Ain't Complicated</li><li>The Shape of A Joke</li><li>The Many Trials of George Floyd</li><li>RIP DC</li></ul> Recorded March 10th, 2021Published March 12th, 2021

228 w/ Katie Herzog - "1.9 Trillion Reasons to Block and Report You"

Guest: Ben Smith, Media Columnist @ The New York Times <ul><li>From BuzzFeed to The NYT</li><li>When Your Bosses are Kinda THE Story</li><li>Why We Can't Stop Talking About The Times</li><li>Newsroom Cultural </li><li>White Privilege and Employee Orientation</li><li>Resignations*</li><li>Caliphate vs. 1619</li><li>"My Notebook Remains Open"</li><li>Losing the Newsroom</li><li>You Will Sign This Letter</li><li>Vanilla Mandella</li><li>Biggie Smalls</li><li>When Van Met Ibram X</li><li>Simple, Elegant, Almost Certainly Wrong</li><li>Things Get Worse for Cuomo</li></ul> Recorded March 2nd, 2021Published March 4th, 2021

227 w/ Ben Smith - "Sign O’ The Times, Memo to Kendi"

Guest: Matt Taibbi @ Contributing Editor @ Rolling Stone. Author, "Hate Inc" <ul><li>Niggarati</li><li>Privilege Childhood</li><li>The Art of the Substack Deal</li><li>The Shift</li><li>An Active Conspiracy or An Active Conspiracy</li><li>The Escape, And Uncertain Horizon</li><li>It's Just a Camp, For Kids, So It's Fine</li><li>Trump at CPAC</li><li>A Good Shoot</li><li>Bidenomics</li><li>Listen to Black People</li><li>Didn't Even Say The Word</li></ul> Recorded Feb 24th, 2021Published Feb 25th, 2021

226 w/ Matt Taibbi - "Why Journalism Got Substack'd"

Guest: Martin Gurri @ Author, "The Revolt of the Public" <ul><li>Prophecy, Historical Cycles, and Modest Frameworks</li><li>From Information Monopoly to Information Tsunami</li><li>Public Dissatisfaction</li><li>Elites in Crisis</li><li>Public Nihilism</li><li>Historical Amnesia</li><li>The Yellow Vests, Jan 6th, 2021</li><li>Political Sectarianism</li><li>Truth + Objectivity + Resentment</li><li>Drama at the New York Times</li><li>The Future of Media and Truth</li><li>Plato's Perfect Form of Justice</li><li>Fact Check</li></ul> Recorded Feb 17th, 2021Published Feb 18th, 2021

225 w/ Martin Gurri - "The Revolt of the Public"

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