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Throughout this entire interview, Ana remains furious that our office was stocked with whiskey, but only half a bottle of white wine and absolutely no pizza.
-The White House press corps just takes it
-Kristen Welker gets the Trump treatment (and would Trump have tried that with Tim Russert?)
-Ana Navarro is here, from one of them Mexican countries
-Charles…

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Noah’s new book is Blood and Progress… not to be confused with “Blood and Soil,” a phrase Moynihan has been muttering to himself around the office.
-A book squarely in the TFC wheelhouse
-The teens, the twenties, the sixties, the seventies, and now
-The forgotten history of left-wing violence
-Italian anarchists and “propaganda of the deed”
-Is Noah handwavi…

-a dog is on set and Kmele should be wearing a helmet
-Bernie Sanders wants to collectivize AI
-The boys bask in the warmth of collectivism
-Never trust a politician giving something back to “the people”
-The centrist Democrat goes missing
-It’s still a Nazi tattoo, goddammit
-Character is out. Winning is in
-Andy the Ogre Ogles has thoughts on the gays and Ted Cruz answers the question and keeps walking
-A few more problems for the Oyster Man from Maine
-Welch was the victim of a French flag hate crime
-Speaking of Nazis, let’s talk about Bari Weiss
-Scott Pelley defends democracy from the new guy and privileged peacocking at CBS
-Ali Velshi feels weird about America’s birthday
-Defending America through the Bob Crane story

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Chris Murphy’s book, Crisis of the Common Good, is out now
-Murphy opens his book by dunking on his son’s NHL prospects
-Pitching the common good
-Trump is not the disease. He’s the symptom
-Buy more stuff, feel worse, repeat until democracy collapses
-Kids, phones and the algorithmic hell machine
-Congress wants to regulate tech. Congress may want to log on first
-Can In…

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Be sure to check out Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps, Australia’s greatest podcaster and interviewer, which apparently counts.
-90 minutes of Kmele cleaning his glasses
-Josh is on drugs now
-RIP Jack Karlson, hero of democracy manifest
-we will be referring to limp penis throughout this show
-Erect until the end
-Kmele doesn’t really know the Beach Boys
-Who is the best Australian to ever …