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-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 …

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Check out Ben Rhodes new book: All We Say: The Battle for American Identity: A History in 15 Speeches
-Ben Rhodes, wounded ’90s Knicks fan
-Are we winning in Iran yet?
-what should the President do with Iran right now?
-Sanctions suck, mostly
-Cuba and the Obama opening
-Libya and the regime-change trap
-Kosovo worked-ish
-Responsibility to protect yourself from over-learning lessons
-Rhodes wants institutions, not impulse wars
-Is Ben Rhodes Tucker-adjacent?
-Soft power, hard questions
-Navalny didn’t want America’s money
-When Reagan said “Evil Empire”
-Reagan also change his mind
-Moynihan accuses Rhodes of America pessimism
-Ben says it’s because he loves America
-Private equity killed the vibes
-Nostalgia-nomics
-The left-populist temptation
-JD Vance talks pretty
-National identity without a monoculture
-Ben Franklin and the virtue of doubt
-Experts are annoying but sometimes useful
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-Trump 2.0 & the frictionless DoJ
-The one thing Jeff Sessions did right
-Even Bill Barr had his limits
-Why do smart lawyers follow stupid instructions?
-You don’t have to win to scare people
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