Noam and Jen give their opinions on the Google Gemini’s utterly failed launch and how it happened, how to know when the GPTs really become sentient, Alabama bringing the fight over IVF to the forefront of political discussion, what Jews think of recreational sex, the death throes of CPAC, and how streaming is super hard. Ambitious Crossover Attempt has a Twitch channel! Hooray! More streaming for us (and you)! We are working on creating a streaming schedule but for now make sure to follow us on Twitter for updates. https://www.twitch.tv/ambitiousxover   

Jen and Noam talk about Alexei Navalny’s sad but all too predictable death at the hands of the Russian government, how said government isn’t even trying to come up with believable cover stories anymore, the absurdness of Tucker Carlson’s Moscow adventure, and how it is that a financial advice columnist ends up handing over $50k in a shoebox. Ambitious Crossover Attempt has a Twitch channel! Hooray! More streaming for us (and you)! We are working on creating a streaming schedule but for now make sure to follow us on Twitter for updates. https://www.twitch.tv/ambitiousxover  Show Notes: Here’s a story, about a lovely lady, who was convinced to put $50k cash in a shoebox - https://www.thecut.com/article/amazon-scam-call-ftc-arrest-warrants.html   

Noam and Jen discuss the burning questions surrounding the Super Bowl that had not yet taken place when they recorded, the growing tension about Biden’s and Trump’s mental fitness, Jen finally finds her Biden voice and also points out that Democrats are falling into the same deus ex machina trap that Republicans have, Hamas having a server room under UNRWA’s headquarters, and Noam talks about The Curse (which he watched without Jen). Ambitious Crossover Attempt has a Twitch channel! Hooray! More streaming for us (and you)! We are working on creating a streaming schedule but for now make sure to follow us on Twitter for updates. https://www.twitch.tv/ambitiousxover   

Jen and Noam take a break from the wars abroad to focus on the wars at home. We’ve got Woke Kids in San Francisco who still can’t pass their standardized tests, Terminally Online Conservatives (including Trump) vs Taylor Swift, and a disagreement on the practicality, useability, and desirability of the recently released Apple Vision Pro.  Ambitious Crossover Attempt has a Twitch channel! Hooray! More streaming for us (and you)! We are working on creating a streaming schedule, but for now, make sure to follow us on Twitter for updates. https://www.twitch.tv/ambitiousxover   

Noam and Jen discuss how 2024 is an absolute disaster, and it’s not even February. From backward hard hats, the very serious and urgent but also not very pressing situation at the Texas border, how the SCOTUS decision is being misrepresented to push a narrative, our initial thoughts on the death of three US servicemen in Jordan, what does the US do next, and Trump’s $83M L. We also get back to our roots a bit and review a movie, Poor Things, which is quite the adventure. Ambitious Crossover Attempt has a Twitch channel! Hooray! More streaming for us (and you)! We are working on creating a streaming schedule but for now make sure to follow us on Twitter for updates. https://www.twitch.tv/ambitiousxover   

Jen and Noam discuss waves hands around. We are truly in the 2024 primary muck, with DeSantis dropping out, Trump getting Nikki Haley and Nancy Pelosi confused, figuring out how magnets work, a Black activist wondering why Passover has to be so Jew-centric, progressives wishcasting Trump as a Gaza dove, and the lessons learned from Desert Storm. BTW, the piece Jen mentioned wasn’t in Military Times, it was Task and Purpose - https://taskandpurpose.com/news/desert-storm-lessons/  Ambitious Crossover Attempt has a Twitch channel! Hooray! More streaming for us (and you)! We are working on creating a streaming schedule but for now make sure to follow us on Twitter for updates. https://www.twitch.tv/ambitiousxover   

Noam and Jen finally make it back into the podcast…well it’s a room now, albeit an unfishined one. While we know we missed 231 news cycles during the few weeks we were gone, we’re back in time to discuss the kickoff of the 2024 primary season, Trump’s big Iowa win, the strange new simping for Houthis and their Red Sea piracy, and how slavery is OK if it’s postcolonial.  Ambitious Crossover Attempt has a Twitch channel! Hooray! More streaming for us (and you)! We are working on creating a streaming schedule but for now make sure to follow us on Twitter for updates. https://www.twitch.tv/ambitiousxover   

Jen and Noam make it to 100…episodes, that is. Not that we don’t feel 100 years old here at the end of 2023. Man, we’re a long way from Episode 0. We discuss Briahna Joy Gray showing up out of nowhere to prove she lies about the death toll in Gaza, the Colorado ruling that Trump is ineligible for their ballot, what SCOTUS may or may not do, judicial activism, reading skills, dumb arguments, and if Claudine Gay will be staying or going at Harvard and why. And as we alluded to at the end of the episode, there may be some schedule disruptions over the first few weeks of January, but we will keep you informed. Ambitious Crossover Attempt has a Twitch channel! Hooray! More streaming for us (and you)! We are working on creating a streaming schedule but for now make sure to follow us on Twitter for updates. https://www.twitch.tv/ambitiousxover   

Noam and Jen tackle the issue of inflation and How Much Does It Cost To Make Chicken Soup At Home, a staffer having sex in a Congressional hearing room, the horribly sad friendly fire deaths of three Isralei hostages, and our thoughts on the Apple+ show Silo at the halfway point of the first season.  And as we allude to at the end of the episode, there may be some schedule disruptions over the first few weeks of January (no, it’s not gonna be THAT kind of scheduled interruption) but we will keep you informed. Ambitious Crossover Attempt has a Twitch channel! Hooray! More streaming for us (and you)! We are working on creating a streaming schedule but for now make sure to follow us on Twitter for updates. https://www.twitch.tv/ambitiousxover   

Jen and Noam discuss how Hanukkah is pretty awesome, the Israel - Palestine war bringing the chickens home to roost at elite US universities, idiots not knowing what from the river to the sea means, rape apologists, current Argentinian president and recent Jewish conversion candidate Javier Milei, Jen makes a pitch for Jews to become libertarians, and some other stuff we’re forgetting. And as we alluded to at the end of the episode, there may be some schedule disruptions over the first few weeks of January (no, it’s not gonna be THAT kind of scheduled interruption), but we will keep you informed. Ambitious Crossover Attempt has a Twitch channel! Hooray! More streaming for us (and you)! We are working on creating a streaming schedule, but for now, follow us on Twitter for updates. https://www.twitch.tv/ambitiousxover   

Noam and Jen discuss the silliness of using a DNA test to identify one’s nationality, the Israeli military intelligence failure that led to 10/7, viewing Gaza and the West Bank as two separate entities, the rise of 10/7 truthers, conservatives being weird about gay couples having children, George Santos being kicked out of Congress, Representative Jayapal trying to weasel her way out of condemning Hamas, the death of Henry Kissinger, and the developing situations in Venezuela and the Red Sea. Ambitious Crossover Attempt has a Twitch channel! Hooray! More streaming for us (and you)! We are working on creating a streaming schedule, but for now, follow us on Twitter for updates. https://www.twitch.tv/ambitiousxover   

Jen and Noam pick up where they left off last week with a discussion about the Israeli hostage swap, how Egypt is getting sick of Hamas, how Jen is sick of Hamas sympathizers being gross on the internet, the newest revelations of what lies beneath Al-Shifa hospital, evidence never being enough for the people asking for evidence, pizza not being a traditional Palestinian dish (but is indeed awesome), and the meaning of community in Israel. Ambitious Crossover Attempt has a Twitch channel! Hooray! More streaming for us (and you)! We are working on creating a streaming schedule but for now make sure to follow us on Twitter for updates. https://www.twitch.tv/ambitiousxover   

Noam and Jen… absolutely forget the discuss the bin Laden TikTok trend because the IDF started releasing damning footage from Al-Shifa hospital, including hostages and underground tunnels. They talk about the footage, non-believers, people who are mad that developments do not travel at the speed of social media, the need to ensure nobody will get blown up, and various other things irritating them. And to get back to our roots, we chat a bit about Gen V and how it is both surprisingly good and avoids the spinoff show curse. Ambitious Crossover Attempt has a Twitch channel! Hooray! More streaming for us (and you)! We are working on creating a streaming schedule but for now make sure to follow us on Twitter for updates. https://www.twitch.tv/ambitiousxover   

Jen and Noam discuss…a whole bunch of random stuff. MrBeast makes the internet mad (again) by being a decent human, governments that waste humanitarian money on God knows what, random bits on the Israel - Hamas war, people having to live in the world they created (and losing their jobs because of it), the proper way of wearing a tallit, Hamas’ mastery of packaging propaganda, and a bunch of other stuff. Ambitious Crossover Attempt has a Twitch channel! Hooray! More streaming for us (and you)! We are working on creating a streaming schedule but for now make sure to follow us on Twitter for updates. https://www.twitch.tv/ambitiousxover 

Noam and Jen discuss the push to make “from the river to the sea Palestine will be free” a call for happy fun peacetime instead of the call for genocide that it is, how Israel is not ethnically cleansing Gaza, Hamas being an awful government, nobody really caring about Palestinians, and the potential for engaging people in your DMs.  Ambitious Crossover Attempt has a Twitch channel! Hooray! More streaming for us (and you)! We are working on creating a streaming schedule but for now make sure to follow us on Twitter for updates. https://www.twitch.tv/ambitiousxover 

Jen and Noam spend yet another week discussing the war between Israel and Gaza, mainly because people can’t stop acting like jackasses about it. From idiots rippinng down posters of the kidnapped, telling Jews to stay indoors, and crying for a “ceasefire”, it’s been a long week.  On a brighter note, we do discuss how the embargo on Western media reporting on how horribly Hamas has been treating Gazans seems to be lifting.  Ambitious Crossover Attempt has a Twitch channel! Hooray! More streaming for us (and you)! We are working on creating a streaming schedule but for now make sure to follow us on Twitter for updates. https://www.twitch.tv/ambitiousxover 

Noam and Jen return to discuss more things Israeli - Palestinian war, like Western mainstream media getting caught showing their whole ass by repeating fake news from Hamas, applying critical thinking to implausible stories, journalistic malfeasance, the need to make the IDF and Hamas morally equivalent, the absolutely insane wave of antisemitism from this past week, and the (hopefully) upcoming reckoning over the progressive and “free Palestine” movements.   Ambitious Crossover Attempt has a Twitch channel! Hooray! More streaming for us (and you)! We are working on creating a streaming schedule, but for now, make sure to follow us on Twitter for updates. https://www.twitch.tv/ambitiousxover 

Jen and Noam return after a small Hamas-induced hiatus to discuss the horrifying situation in Israel, history, the stated purpose of Hamas, what the “free Palestine” movement is really about, why the modern state of Israel exists, Jen getting shouty about how pro-Palestine activists don't care about Palestinians, examining pictures of dead babies and murder scenes, and some other things we’re probably forgetting. It’s been a long week and a half.  Ambitious Crossover Attempt has a Twitch channel! Hooray! More streaming for us (and you)! We are working on creating a streaming schedule, but for now, make sure to follow us on Twitter for updates. https://www.twitch.tv/ambitiousxover  Show notes This is the Tablet project that Noam has been working on this past week - collecting stories from survivors, family members, and ordinary people who saved lives during the Hamas massacre: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/testimonies-archive-voices-from-israel   The hadith that Noam mentioned from the Hamas charter: "The Day of Judgment will not come until Muslims fight the Jews, when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say, 'O Muslim, O servant of God, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.' Only the Gharkad tree would not do that, because it is one of the trees of the Jews." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas_Charter#:~:text=It%20quotes%20a%20saying%20of,%2C%20come%20and%20kill%20him.' 

Noam and Jen wrap up The Saga Of Fetterman’s Pajamas, move on to discussing Jamal Bowman’s use of the wrong door at the wrong time, defending the indefensible by stripping away all context, briefly discuss Diane Feinstein’s death, somehow end up talking about abortion, and end on discussing Tears of the Kingdom.  I dare you to find another podcast with this range. Ambitious Crossover Attempt has a Twitch channel! Hooray! More streaming for us (and you)! We are working on creating a streaming schedule but for now make sure to follow us on Twitter for updates. https://www.twitch.tv/ambitiousxover 

Jen and Noam discuss Bob Menendez’s pockets full of money, Noam’s plan for gold bar laundering, the Washington Post trying (and failing) to ruin Dave Portnoy’s pizza party, the Metaverse, Fetterman’s clothing options, and how depression doesn’t work the way everyone seems to think it does. Ambitious Crossover Attempt has a Twitch channel! Hooray! More streaming for us (and you)! We are working on creating a streaming schedule, but for now, make sure to follow us on Twitter for updates. https://www.twitch.tv/ambitiousxover   

Noam and Jen discuss Lauren Boebert’s….date night, Mitt Romney calling it quits and the legacy of his presidential run, people using Twitter to fill the yawning void in their lives, Hasan Minhaj’s embellishments for clapter, Russel Brand’s past coming back to haunt him, and a small review of the anime From The New World. And, true to her word, Jen created an Ambitious Crossover Attempt Twitch channel! Hooray! More streaming for us (and you)! We are working on creating a streaming schedule, but for now make sure to follow us on Twitter for updates. https://www.twitch.tv/ambitiousxover 

Jen and Noam return to discuss perennial Main Character Elon Musk’s bad week, from his threat to sue the ADL over advertisers leaving TwitX to the revelation from his upcoming biography that he might have directly intervened in the Ukranian war via Starlink access.  And, true to her word, Jen created an Ambitious Crossover Attempt Twitch channel! Hooray! More streaming for us (and you)! We will likely stream Thursday night at our usual 7:30pm Eastern, come join us over at our new digs! https://www.twitch.tv/ambitiousxover  Show notes: The Naudet 9/11 documentary that Noam references:  https://youtu.be/9ejHArz_TSA?si=jDCqpLSuzT-SlQug  The Esquire piece on the identity of the Falling Man (which does still show as paywalled for Jen): https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a48031/the-falling-man-tom-junod/   

Noam and Jen (mostly) take a break from politics to discuss pronoun choices in Starfield, genitalia choices in Baldur’s Gate 3, Barbie and Mario being the big hits of this year’s movie season, entering the Golden Age of Geriatric Millenial Retail Entertainment, anime we’re watching and have watched, and other random stuff. And, true to her word, Jen created an Ambitious Crossover Attempt Twitch channel! Hooray! More streaming for us (and you)! We will likely stream Thursday night at our usual 7:30pm Eastern, come join us over at our new digs! https://www.twitch.tv/ambitiousxover 

Jen and Noam talk The Mugshot, roomers, Noam’s trip to a Civil War museum in Virginia, the now officially scheduled DC trial date, a bit of GOP deabte recap, and how we both very much dislike Vivek and wish he’d shut up. And, true to her word, Jen created a Ambitious Crossover Attempt Twitch channel! Hooray! More streaming for us (and you)! We will likely stream Thursday night at our usual 7:30pm Eastern, come join us over at our new digs! https://www.twitch.tv/ambitiousxover   

Noam and Jen do a regular full-length episode talking about Trump’s many indictments and the various reactions to them, the canceled press conference, his Constitutional fitness for office, DeSantis finally turning on Trump supporters, his debate to-do list, and how Trump doesn’t have to show up to debates now cuz reasons. We will make more content this week. Really. Just don’t ask us when that will be exactly - we will try to stream the debate, but we’re not sure of the logistics (and legality) of that just yet. 

Jen and Noam talk how Trump is going to be charged with doing a RICO in Georgia, how he just can’t stop posting (Truthing?), Sam Bankman-Fried being placed in pre-trial detention for witness tampering, the Maui fire, and a bunch of other random stuff. Shorter episode today because August is a bad, boring month.  

Noam and Jen talk over the newest Trump indictment related to his big plan to fix the 2020 election, the fact that neither he nor anyone in his circle can stop talking, Richard Hanania’s “race realist” past coming back to haunt him, the root problem of the modern conservative movement, and how everyone is cooking up floaty rocks and what it means for the future. Show notes: Hanania’s past as Ricahrd Hoste, exposed (truth be told it’s been known for some time now) https://www.huffpost.com/entry/richard-hanania-white-supremacist-pseudonym-richard-hoste_n_64c93928e4b021e2f295e817 Nate Silver’s piece on p-hacking and how it’s used to skew scientific study results https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/science-isnt-broken/#part1  Editor’s note from Jen - if you’re interested in the topic of p-hacking and the replication crisis, Jesse Singal’s book The Quick Fix looks at these phenomena in the social sciences and how bad / unreplicable studies become the basis for conventional wisdom and policy decisions  

Jen and Noam discuss failsons who have made the headlines this week - Hunter Biden, Donald Trump, and Nate Hochman.  Hunter is in an on again off again relationship with his plea deal, Trump once again conscripted the most ill-equipped person to help him in the cover-up of his Mar-a-Lago boxes fiasco, and Hochman torpedoed a prominent position as a speechwriter for DeSantis by creating and seeding a pro-DeSantis video featuring some gnarly Nazi iconography.  Show notes: Yes, the Hochman video is every bit as bad as Jen says, including the Nazi iconography at the end https://twitter.com/ltthompso/status/1683126430534598656?s=20   

Noam and Jen spend a whole hour talking about OPPENHEIMER, everything from the movie itself to the renewed debate over America being The Bad Guy for dropping atomic bombs on imperial Japan because They Were About To Surrender.

Jen and Noam take a look at the RFK Jr video where he floated the idea that COVID is a bioweapon engineered to spare Jews and Chinese, revisit Cokegate now that we know we will never know whose coke it was, and wrap up with our thoughts on Mission Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part 1 We will be back on Callin this week at our normal time Thursday 7:30pm Eastern, barring any unforeseen incidents  https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW  Show notes: The New York Post piece on RFK Jr’s covid comments, complete with video: https://nypost.com/2023/07/15/rfk-jr-says-covid-was-ethnically-targeted-to-spare-jews/   

Noam and Jen discuss Cokegate aka who left their coke in the White House cubby and was it Hunter Biden, their opinions on the US giving Ukraine cluster munitions, and the online reactions to both stories.  We will be skipping Callin this week due to IRL life stuff, we will let you know when we will be resuming our normal schedule  

Jen was sick during our normal recording time, but she soldiered through because there was too much going on to not record. We hit on the latest view-throttling Twitter scheme from Elon, then move on to the SCOTUS decisions on affirmative action in college admissions and compelled speech in the face of hypothetical situations. We will likely skip Callin this week due to this episode coming out later but who knows…  

Noam and Jen discuss the brief military coup launched by Prigozhin and his Wagner crew, with an emphasis on what it all means for Russia (and Putin) going forward. We will be on Callin this Thursday at 7:30 pm Eastern, come join us live! https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW   

Jen and Noam discuss the fight between Peter Hotez and the Debate Me Bro crowd on the merits of a PhD who helped create a patent free COVID vaccination debating noted crank RFK Jr on the topic of vaccines, our excitement over Three Body Problem being made into a Netflix show, and a tiny bit about The Flash (more to come on Callin this week) We will be on Callin this week Thursday at 7:30pm Eastern, come join us live! https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW  Show notes: The Vice article refuting RFK Jr’s claims on Rogan that Hotez cited, which started this whole dumb argument: https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7zz9z/spotify-rogan-rfk-vaccine-misinformation-policy  Three Body Problem is debuting on Netflix in January 2023, the trailer is now live: https://www.netflix.com/title/81024821   

Noam and Jen tackle the case of the crazy ex-president who stole classified documents and refused to give them back, plus how you absolutely do not have to hand it to Ted Kaczynski. We will be on Callin this Thursday at 7:30 pm Eastern, join us live! https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW  Show notes: The details on the newest Donald Trump indictment: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/09/trump-indictment-takeaways-00101376 Ted Kaczynski found dead in his prison cell, reportedly from suicide: https://www.foxnews.com/us/unabomber-ted-kaczynski-cause-death-federal-prison-cell-reportedly-suicide   

Jen and Noam discuss whether the US does indeed have an alien spaceship and if aliens are real, the rumor that DeSantis is on the spectrum, the Twitter ad exodus, and of course the greatness that is Spider-Man: Across The Spiderverse  We will (maybe?) be on Callin this week Thursday at 7:30pm Eastern, come join us live! https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW  Show Notes: Here is the guy Noam was talking about who debunked von Daniken's work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Nickell 

Noam and Jen chat a bit about embarrassing ChatGPT screw ups and how you shouldn’t rely on it for research purposes before getting into the emerging Team Trump vs Team DeSantis online battle, and finish up discussing what life during wartime actually looks like versus what some Americans think it should look like. We will be on Callin this week Thursday at 7:30pm Eastern, come join us live! https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW  Show notes: Please, for the love of God, don’t use ChatGPT as a source for any information that is of vital importance. It’s been known to lie. https://twitter.com/questauthority/status/1662273759259295746?s=20 Seth Dillon fires Gavin Mario Wax via Twitter for cursing at Christine Pushaw, all hell breaks loose https://twitter.com/BadWritingTakes/status/1662556194999762952?s=20  The tread explaining why the video of the Kyiv McDonald’s does indeed show what life is like in a war zone https://twitter.com/Mylovanov/status/1662755635589464065?s=20   

Jen and Noam talk about the very dumb LA bus stop sun shade/night light things, Magneto, Noam’s new X-Men character idea, the fake NYC veteran displacement story, the real NYC Citi Bike story, and other random stuff We will be on Callin this week Thursday at 7:30pm Eastern, come join us live! https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW  Show notes: La Sombrita, which apparently is Spanish for “giant waste of money”   https://spectrumnews1.com/ca/la-west/transportation/2023/05/18/ladot-introduces-new-shaded--lighted--solar-powered-bus-shelters Elon compares Soros to Magneto: https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2023/05/16/george-soros-elon-musk-adl/ A nonprofit fabricates a story about veterans in NYC being displaced in favor of migrants, nobody checks story because why would they do that: https://apnews.com/article/migrants-veterans-evictions-new-york-buses-hoax-be45e60b829c35352ac236d1c2ca15cf Twitter makes a dumb story about two random people fighting over a bike go viral. Nobody checks story because why would they do that: https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/bellevue-worker-seen-in-citi-bike-video-has-receipts-showing-she-rented-bike-lawyer/4346955/   

Noam and Jen (obviously) discuss our initial thoughts on Nintendo’s latest banner release Tears of the Kingdom, Elon stepping down as CEO of Twitter, his replacement, and the reactions to the big announcement  And we only make one 69 joke. You’re welcome.  We will be on Callin this week Thursday at 7:30pm Eastern, come join us live! https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW   

Jen and Noam give their extended thoughts on the death of Jordan Neely and the environment that leads to these situations and also our thoughts on Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.3, two topics which do not at all go together but we make it work  We will be on Callin this week Thursday at 7:30pm Eastern, come join us live! https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW  Show notes: Daniel Penny’s statement, issued through his lawyers: https://twitter.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/1654642549842223105?s=20  RTJ’s video for Walking In The Snow, which has the realest verse ever recorded: https://youtu.be/6-M15L4BTqI We’re not the only ones to note the level or body horror and gore in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3: https://collider.com/guardians-of-the-galaxy-3-body-horror/   

Noam and Jen discuss the scene over at the new cool kid social media platform Bluesky, the Disney Empire striking back at Florida over the Reedy Creek debacle, fairy tale curses, the Crowder divorce mess, Jewish divorce law, and the rise of game developers pushing out crappy broken PC adaptations  We will be on Callin this week Thursday at 7:30pm Eastern, come join us live! https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW  Show notes: Jack Dorsey finally launched his anticipated social media app Bluesky: https://fortune.com/2023/04/28/jack-dorsey-bluesky-biggest-single-day-jump-new-users/ The Reedy Creek situation, explained in text form: https://gizmodo.com/desantis-disney-lawsuit-explained-florida-reedy-creek-1850380883 Stven Crowder publicly announces his divorce in the creepiest way possible: https://twitter.com/LegendaryEnergy/status/1650915889884311552?s=20  He also decided to make fun of Mattel launching a Down syndrome Barbie, which is an odd stance for a pro-life guy to take: https://twitter.com/scrowder/status/1651231603518062592?s=20  How a Jewish get works, if you’re interested in knowing more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_(divorce_document) Star Wars Jedi: Survivor has been a hot buggy mess on PC: https://gamerant.com/star-wars-jedi-survivor-review-bomb/   

Jen and Noam survey the wreckage of the Bluecheck Apocalypse and wonder how long it will take for Elon to reverse the decision (spoiler alert - that’s already happening), the failed attempt to make paying for Twitter seem cool and edgy, the judgment against Mike Lindell including a reveal that Noam owns both a My Pillow AND a MAGA hat, Biden’s alleged imminent 2024 announcement, the continued slapfight between Trump and DeSantis, and what we think Biden was really doing in Ireland We will be on Callin this week Wednesday at 7:30pm Eastern, come join us live! https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW  Show notes: You want a bluecheck? Pay up: https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/twitter-purges-legacy-blue-checkmarks/ …unless you happen to have a follower count over 1M, in which case you can have your bluecheck back gratis: https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musks-backs-off-legacy-checkmark-purge-re-verifies-platforms-biggest-celebs  A judge tells Mike Lindell he has to pay up on his dumb bet: https://apnews.com/article/mypillow-ceo-lindell-elections-voting-machines-e183a7df16837f79841efc91b51d25f6 A Biden 2024 announcement is allegedly happening this week, I’m sure this will be fine: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/20/biden-may-announce-2024-presidential-run-next-week  

Noam and Jen (but especially Jen) have a field day breaking down the dumbest top secret document leak ever, the ridiculous conservative freakout / buycott of Bud Light doing a paid promo with Dylan Mulvaney, Diane Feinstein being too old for Congress, and Ron DeSantis’ chances in a 2024 general election after two very unpopular bills make their way to his desk We will be back on Callin this week Wednesday at 8:30pm Eastern, come join us live! https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW  Show notes: The Bellingcat breakdown of how the leaked Pentagon documents made it from a private Discord server to Telegram: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2023/04/09/from-discord-to-4chan-the-improbable-journey-of-a-us-defence-leak/ Some background info on Jack Teixeria:  https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/document-leak-suspect-jack-teixeira-high-level-top/story?id=98589258 Arlic Toler’s tweet thread explaining that the FBI needed no assistance finding Texixeria: https://twitter.com/AricToler/status/1646888783609049088?s=20 The NAFO fellas figure out that Donbass Devushka is in fact a middle aged woman from Washington: https://twitter.com/jabuttee/status/1646547974858653699?s=20 The 48 second long, clearly paid promo video Mulvaney made for Bud Light, which has caused an absolute meltdown in conservative circles: https://twitter.com/Esqueer_/status/1647273891117826050?s=20 Dianna Feinstein is very old, refuses to retire, much like the rest of her generation in politics: https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/dianne-feinstein-feinsteins-unwillingness-retire-costing-democrats-rcna79811 Florida’s new six week abortion ban, which will surely be an issue in the 2024 general election (if he is the nominee): https://apnews.com/article/florida-abortion-ban-approved-c9c53311a0b2426adc4b8d0b463edad1 And Florida’s new death penalty rules which allow for a 8-4 jury split vs a unanimous vote: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/florida-allow-death-penalty-with-8-4-jury-vote-instead-unanimously-2023-04-14/  

Jen and Noam go over a week of unforced errors - from Elon starting a war with Substack over the upcoming Notes launch, Trump’s very gentle arraignment and the reactions, the Tennessee GOP deciding to expel two House members for protesting for stricter gun laws, to Riley Gaines getting harassed and assaulted at SFSU after her talk on transgender women in women’s sports. We are continuing our Twitch expiriment this week on Thursday (time TBD), come join us on Noam's Twitch channel! Twitch.tv/neontaster  Show notes: Twitter blocks liking or sharing tweets with links to Substack domains, coincidentally right after Substack announced the launch of Notes:  https://mashable.com/article/twitter-substack-blocked-embeds-interactions-on-tweets Donals Trump’s not very interesting arraignment:  https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/05/nyregion/trump-court-arraignment.html  And yes he is selling “mugshot” merch, like this $36 (!) t-shirt: https://secure.winred.com/save-america-joint-fundraising-committee/storefront/mugshot-white-cotton-t-shirt/details The Tennessee GOP makes a mountain out of a molehill, creates national controversy: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/06/us/tennessee-house-democrats-expulsion-shooting-gun-control.html Riley Gains gets mobbed after a talk at SFSU: https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2023/04/08/riley-gaines-protesters-san-francisco-state-university-nr-intl-vpx.cnn  

Noam and Jen chat about Trump’s big indictment (what he’s being charged with is anyone’s guess), the battle over whether TikTok should be allowed to stay in the US, the extremely overbroad RESTRICT Act, how the federal government never lets a good crisis go to waste, and how the current season of Love Is Blind is peak trash. We will be moving Callin this week to Thursday at 8:30pm Eastern, come join us live! https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW  Show notes: Not really anything to put here this week, we will do better next week  

Jen and Noam chat about Noam’s lost week of fever dreams, Wired being very mean to Brandon Sanderson for no reason, Trump’s big arrest that wasn’t, the ineffectivness of Trump rallies like the one that took place in Waco, DeSantis getting sassy, and the Stanford free speech mess currently unfolding We will be on our regular Callin schedule this week of Wednesday night at 8:30 Eastern, come join us live! https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW  Show notes: Brandon Sanderson is a normal guy, Wired is disappointed: https://www.wired.com/story/brandon-sanderson-is-your-god/ Trump’s lawyer goes on Meet The Press, says Trump “assumed” he was going to be arrested: https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1639992843904139266?s=20 Ted Nugent calls Zelenskyy a “homosexual weirdo”, which means we have new definitions of both homosexual and weirdo: https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1639706546492899329?s=20 Ron DeSantis throws shade at Trump’s current hush money troubles by pointing out he knows nothing about paying hush money to porn stars: https://youtu.be/65wj8IE8n6E …and also doesn’t care what he call him, so long as he adds “winner” to that title: https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/3912048-desantis-on-trumps-nickname-for-him-i-kind-of-like-it-its-got-a-lot-of-vowels/ The Stanford Law - Duncan situation, with Dean Jennifer Martinez’s response: https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/03/stanford-law-draws-line-on-disrupting-campus-speech/  

Noam and Jen tell the story about how Noam being a Podcast Bro got him out of jury duty, Trump’s big uncorroborated announcement that he’s getting arrested on Tuesday and the various reactions to his announcement, Ron Desantis’ pudding fingers and his weight loss drugs, and a little Mandalorian talk  We will be on our regular Callin schedule this week of Wednesday night at 8:30 Eastern, come join us live! Will Trump be in jail? Who knows! https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW  Show notes: Donald Trump announces he will be going to jail:  https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/110044039949982181 Donals Trump’s spokesperson says Trump has received no official notification that he would be arrested: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-received-no-notification-than-illegal-leaks-possible-arrest-next-week-spokesperson-says  Ron DeSantis eats pudding with his fingers, which is obviously the most important awful thing that DeSantis has ever done:  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/03/17/ron-desantis-chocolate-pudding-fingers-us-republican-white-house/  Ron DeSantis is also allegedly taking Ozempic, which does not comport with eating pudding with one’s bare hands https://puck.news/newsletter_content/desantiss-new-diet-pences-moment-of-truth/   

Jen and Noam spend a little time discussing the ongoing Silicon Valley Bank / Signature Bank meltdowns, talk Oscar wins and uplifting stories, and the season finale of The Last of Us which required two viewings to fully digest (spoilers at the end of the episode so be careful!) We will be on our regular Callin schedule this week of Wednesday night at 8:30 Eastern, come join us live! https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW  Show notes: Key Huy Quan’s acceptance speech for Best Supporting Actor: https://youtu.be/EvAdahLczGk Jaime Lee Curtis’ acceptance speech for Best Supporting Actress: https://youtu.be/5NDeOvfBuWA Michelle Yeoh’s acceptance speech for Best Actress: https://youtu.be/eQcQrFkBSuQ The Daniels’ acceptance speech for Best Director: https://youtu.be/-YeKsXCXJx8  Acceptance speech from everyone for Best Picture: https://youtu.be/0O2B6ywhqQw  Brendan Fraser’s acceptance speech for Best Actor:  https://youtu.be/NJnWB8UX3rs   

Noam and Jen take on Scott Adams performatively getting himself canceled, social media weirdos trying to performatively get a food YouTuber canceled for making a Hogwarts Legacy video, who didn't perform at CPAC this year, and the performances in The Mandalorian and The Last Of Us.  We will be on our regular Callin schedule this week of Wednesday night at 8:30 Eastern, come join us live! https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW  Show notes: Scott Adams, segregation fan: https://twitter.com/RyLiberty/status/1628601302489128960 Jesse Singal concern trolled by Popular Information: https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1630304863065108480 Dilbert black and white comic (pun intended): https://twitter.com/CritterJams/status/1521171487553724416 Jordan Peterson is mad at paper towels: https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/1628292293173342208 Streamer takes a break due to Hogwarts Legacy ads: https://twitter.com/NikatinePrime/status/1622312576897138688 Hogwarts Legacy made lotsa money, because not everyone lives on the internet: https://twitter.com/SonnyBunch/status/1628859457655476226 Charlie is confused how a guy claiming to be in a relation with a famous streamer is supposed to help him get nudes / dates from her fans: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crlL4kpsBR8 Jen is annoyed at the Babish "controversy" (LEAVE BABISH ALONE!) https://twitter.com/thatjenmonroe/status/1632166792830369792 Fuentes banned from CPAC (again): https://twitter.com/jacobkornbluh/status/1632197813730680832 The allegations that Schlapp sexually assaulted a campaign staffer: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/03/matt-schlapp-cpac-sexual-misconduct-allegation Golden tickets to Trump event (ed. note - Jen was right, they were candy bars): https://twitter.com/dcexaminer/status/1632034940949782529 Monica Crowley being performatively gross about Fetterman’s health: https://twitter.com/MonicaCrowley/status/1631774506971811843  

Jen and Noam commemorate the one year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine by discussing the dumbest Ukraine war takes of the present and the past, and wonder where all the war footage is (jk it’s on Twitter we see it every day).  And in late breaking news - it’s ok to talk about lab leak theory in public now! In fact there seems to be some coalescing of intelligence that it may in fact be the explanation for the COVID pandemic!  We will be on our regular Callin schedule this week of Wednesday night at 8:30 Eastern, come join us live! https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW  Show notes: Thread of the greatest “where is the footage of the war in Ukraine” hits: https://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1629414814886797314 Yes this Brad Paisley / Zelenskyy song is a thing: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/brad-paisley-releases-song-featuring-zelenskyy-wars-anniversary-rcna72189 Reporters Without Borders criticize Ukraine for not wanting to squire reporters around a war zone: https://rsf.org/en/rsf-urges-ukrainian-authorities-lift-arbitrary-restrictions-reporters-field Ukrainian war photographer profile: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-life-and-death-of-a-ukrainian-photographer Seymour Hersh says that the US blew up the Nord 2 pipeline: https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the-nord-stream Seymour Hersh’s nutty interview: https://twitter.com/OAlexanderDK/status/1628894592253804547 Bad takes from the beginning of the war: https://twitter.com/russophileLs/status/1629118997668003842 The Wall Street Journal reports on the emerging lab leak consensus: https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-origin-china-lab-leak-807b7b0a The Plague Year: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/01/04/the-plague-year China was hoarding PPE before we even knew COVID was a thing: https://www.forbes.com/sites/isabeltogoh/2020/05/04/china-covered-up-coronavirus-to-hoard-medical-supplies-dhs-report-finds/?sh=1320c61c1dba https://globalnews.ca/news/6858818/coronavirus-china-united-front-canada-protective-equipment-shortage/ Infohazard, or the things you wish you didn’t know: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_hazard Marjorie wants a divorce…from the nation: https://twitter.com/mtgreenee/status/1627665203398688768  

Noam and Jen take on the “controversy” surrounding what name Nikki Haley chooses to go by, the Roald Dahl sensitivity edits that everyone hates, and the mind numbingly hard to follow Chait / Singal / WPATH manufactured controversy and the common practice of people believing any damn thing they read on Twitter We will be on our regular Callin schedule this week of Wednesday night at 8:30 Eastern, come join us live! https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW  Show notes: The funniest line in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania: https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/1626975820114759681   Nikki, or Nimrata as her haters call her: https://twitter.com/MaryLTrump/status/1625649699813195776 https://twitter.com/JamieOGrady/status/1625496305048092675   The Lincoln Project wants you to know that DeSantis has a weird laugh and will lose to Trump because of it: https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1626287954317524993   A thread of the Roald Dahl edits… https://twitter.com/incunabula/status/1626860237104857089   …that nobody asked for or wants: https://twitter.com/SalmanRushdie/status/1627075835525210113   Keanu is thinking ahead, may be smartest actor in Hollywood: https://www.insider.com/keanu-reeves-contracts-clause-banning-digital-tweaks-2023-2    The movie The Congress, or What Keanu Will Not Be Signing Up For: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1821641/   WPATH Standards of Care 8th edition, if you want to read it for yourself: https://www.wpath.org/soc8   Chait piece’s in NY Intelligencer: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/02/nytimes-letter-trans-gender-youth-accountability.html   That lead to Jesse Singal tweeting in defense of Chait: https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1626363377152061441   Which caused E. Kale Edmiston to enter the chat: https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1626997603341860865   Jeet Heer being a hypocrite and general idiot: https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1627022388901859328   Billy Binion on "Patient Zero": https://twitter.com/billybinion/status/1626704523270971397   Gretchen Felker-Martin has very weird and violent thoughts about Jesse: https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1625331210443722753   NYT staff memo responding to the two letters, for once deciding to stick up for its employees over the Slacktivists: https://twitter.com/maxwelltani/status/1626324277422133253  

Jen and Noam do their one sportsball episode of the year, talk about the UFOs that (probably) aren’t aliens, and the two (!) episodes of The Last Of Us that have aired since our last episode. We will be on our regular Callin schedule this week of Wednesday night at 8:30 Eastern, come join us live! https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW  Show notes: Rhianna’s very pregnant Super Bowl halftime show https://youtu.be/HjBo--1n8lI  Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 trailer https://youtu.be/JqcncLPi9zw  

Noam and Jen tackle the 2023 Great Chinese Spy Balloon Tour 2023 and the various reactions to the news that China has surveillance balloons floating around.  And obviously episode 3 of The Last Of Us. Because how could we not. We will be on our regular Callin schedule this week of Wednesday night at 8:30 Eastern, come join us live! https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW  Show notes: Santos addas “producer of awful Spider-Man Broadway play” to his resume https://ew.com/theater/george-santos-spider-man-turn-off-the-dark-broadway-web-of-lies/ Santos also adds “allegations of sexual harassment” to his resume https://www.axios.com/2023/02/05/george-santos-sexual-harassment-accusation-derek-myers Neal Stephenson has predicted everything that will ever happen https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/1292822668627136513 Remember Balloon Boy and that time he totally ratted out his parents’ scheme to get famous? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxtFXtiUbbw  You don’t need murder podcasts, you need JCS Criminal psychology videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xfg861hO-Ag The live action Mario we deserve, but not the one we’re going to get https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiIRlg4Xr5w

Jen and Noam wade back into the Damar Hamlin conspiracy theory now that he’s being accused of being dead and having a body double and also making a deepfake video, and Jen tees off on people who are still seeking validation for not being vaccinated. After that we take a look at the recently released body cam footage of the Paul Pelosi attack, and Jen tees off on people who are still seeking validation for spreading weird lies about Pelosi on Twitter. Finally we spend some time on the Tyre Nichols video (which Noam has not watched) and our thoughts on the incident writ large. And of course we talk a little about The Last Of Us episode two, including seeing a clicker for the first time in the show and That Kiss. We will be on our regular Callin schedule this week of Wednesday night at 8:30 Eastern, come join us live! https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW  Show notes: Damar Hamlin thanks everyone who helped him on his road to recovery, gets accused of being a deepfake https://twitter.com/HamlinIsland/status/1619481054980767744 Paul Pelosi was indeed attacked by a crazy guy who broke into his house to attack his wife https://twitter.com/AP/status/1619051120084586507 Sam Harris gets canceled for the 50th time, this time for pointing out that covid skeptics would not have been tolerated if the disease killed children instead of adults https://twitter.com/alexandrosM/status/1614292007463313411

Noam and Jen look at the curious case of George Santos, who has lied about damn near everything but has fessed up to doing drag and liking it (but not to stealing money from a dying dog). We also discuss Joe Biden fessing up to having classified documents all over the place from his time as VP and if that makes him better, worse, or the same as Trump. As a palette cleanser we discuss the first episode of the HBO show The Last Of Us, which is a very good show about a zombie pandemic apocalypse.  We will be on our regular Callin schedule this week of Wednesday night at 8:30 Eastern, come join us live! https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW  Show notes: This sounds like a really cool concept for a bike helmet, too bad bike helmets don’t work like that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPuLOZlyrdo Running list of George Santos' lies, try to keep up: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/01/the-everything-guide-to-george-santoss-lies.html Santos admits to dressing up in women’s clothing because it’s fun! https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/1617152639094898689 NY Post has jokes, but I bet that ‘vette has some good security: https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1613872802108522496 Anna Massoglia says there might be a laptop in them there DOJ findings, Jen and Noam cry at the thought: https://twitter.com/annalecta/status/1617002347426906112 Bradley Moss says it ain’t the crime that counts, but how you act when you’re busted: https://twitter.com/BradMossEsq/status/1616951689520762880 James Comey leaving the door open to prosecute others for doing the thing Hilary did: https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/750351789971517441 Hank Johnson really was afraid that Guam would become too heavy and tip over: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cesSRfXqS1Q Hank Johnson really is really afraid someone planted the classified docs in Biden’s office and house and God knows where else: https://twitter.com/ChadPergram/status/1613595354582089751

Jen and Noam (and a unplanned but welcome return of Lady Jennifer) meet up to discuss the viral clip of Prince Harry’s Penis Incident, the ongoing War On Gas Stoves, that very weird MLK tribute statue recently unveiled in Boston, Justin Roiland’s domestic violence charge, and the ethics of content creators having sex with their fans. We will be on our regular Callin schedule this week of Wednesday night at 8:30 Eastern, come join us live! https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW  Show notes: Prince Harry discusses the time he used a cream on his penis that reminded him of his dead mother: https://twitter.com/domwakeford/status/1613099763020488704  Harry reads brainyquotes.com so he can sound more profound: https://twitter.com/jamesdgreig/status/1612944503555457026  Trumka’s comment about gas stoves, which kicked off a new front in the Culture War: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/energy-environment/richard-trumka-jr-regulator-scion-spark-furor-gas-stoves  Stop trying to chop onions too fast, you’re not getting paid to do that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oot0NGxQEm4  Israel’s law mandating safe rooms in apartment buildings: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkhav_Mugan  I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter, a wonderful short story that nobody read because they were busy being mad that the title: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Sexually_Identify_as_an_Attack_Helicopter  Shoe0nhead deletes her Twitter, allegedly because someone actually paid $50k a month for her “I will shut the fuck up” Patreon tier: https://twitter.com/TheRalphRetort/status/1614019625485848588  Amouranth got $70,000 in cash from an anonymous donor proving we’re all doing it wrong: https://kotaku.com/amouranth-cash-gift-stream-twitch-youtube-donor-1849858698  Embrace the inherent creepiness of the newest MLK tribute sculpture: https://www.tmz.com/2023/01/14/mlk-coretta-scott-king-the-embrace-statue-reactions-boston/  Noam’s thread on the upcoming WWI memorial: https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/1264963172773093377  The Korean War wall memorial is a mess, because nobody likes thinking about the Korean War: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/09/us/korean-war-memorial-wall-names.html  Justin Roiland’s domestic assault case: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/justin-roiland-rick-morty-allegations-domestic-violence-charges-rcna65403  And his creepy texts to a fan: https://twitter.com/AllieGoertz/status/1614098722673287168  Andrew Callaghan also gets accused of being an inappropriate creeper: https://deadline.com/2023/01/hbo-this-place-rules-host-andrew-callaghan-responds-sexual-misconduct-allegations-1235220686/  Ethan Klein tries hard to thread the needle on sexual relations between creators and fans, fails: https://twitter.com/nicholasdeorio/status/1613923151192244224 

Noam and Jen are baaaaaack after a holiday hiatus! We discuss Kevin McCarthy’s Speaker or bust bid, Damar Hamlin’s very scary on-field injury and the response to it, our confusion over how the new Avatar movie is doing numbers, and how much we liked The Menu. We will be on our regular Callin schedule this week of Wednesday night at 8:30 Eastern, what we’ll discuss is anyone's guess at this point  https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW  Show notes: Noam’s thread on Ilhan Omar  https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/1579472927682351105 The very good Tablet piece on the implosion of the Women’s March https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/is-the-womens-march-melting-down Noam wants to know; can McCarthy just screw over everyone he just made a deal with? https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/1611716403689578498 Richard Zednik takes a skate to the neck and bleeds everywhere (don't worry, he lives) https://www.bardown.com/richard-zednik-discussing-his-dangerous-neck-injury-is-absolutely-terrifying-1.1594496 Commotio cordis, or how we’re all actually very delicate bags of water https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commotio_cordis Eric Burnett’s thread debunking the claims that athletes are having more freak heart injuries post-vaccine  https://twitter.com/Doctor_Eric_B/status/1611017974072098818 Skip Bayless is inartful at words, the internet gets mad at him for it https://twitter.com/RealSkipBayless/status/1610101204687949827 Shannon Sharpe gets into a fight with Skip over his tweet https://twitter.com/shannonsharpeee/status/1610646654528688128 It’s all big brother William’s fault that Harry wore that Nazi uniform that one time https://twitter.com/GBNEWS/status/1610928520066379776 Harry Potter fandom policing is bad and will only get worse once Hogwart’s Legacy drops https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/1604197283234344960

It’s the end of the year, Jen and Noam are exhausted, but Twitter is relentless and brutal. Trump makes a big NFT announcement, another round of Twitter Files dropped that nobody noticed, and Elon plays Calvinball with the Twitter content moderation rules. And yes we acknowledge that the rules were altered AGAIN after this episode, we pray they are not altered again but know they will be.  This is our last episode of 2022 so to all of you, no matter if you were here from Episode 0 or just joined us, THANK YOU for making the first year of this pod so successful. Trust us, we have no plans on leaving you guys and we have some big plans for 2023 so prepare yourselves… Chag Hanukkah sameach, merry Christmas, Habari Gani, and may you all have a happy and prosperous New Year! We will be on our regular Callin schedule this week of Wednesday night at 8:30 Eastern, what we’ll discuss is anyone's guess at this point  https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW  Show notes: Just….Twitter. There’s too much to link to and it’ll all be out of date by the time you read this 

Noam and Jen start by discussing the ongoing Twitter Files saga, only to go off on a tangent about content moderation, AI, YouTube, your DMs being used to train the content mod bots, how we’re all being used to train the machines, and ways to actually improve Twitter which will be boring to 85% of you. We will be on our regular Callin schedule this week of Wednesday night at 8:30 Eastern, what we’ll discuss is anyone's guess at this point  https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW  Show notes: All of the Twitter Files threads thus far: https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598822959866683394 https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1600243405841666048 https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1601007575633305600 https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1601352083617505281 https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1601720455005511680 The Guano thread aka what Twitter is doing when they’re looking at your DMs: https://twitter.com/sparklingruby/status/1601293042883121152 AI drawing a hand (spoiler alert - it can’t): https://twitter.com/pragmatometer/status/1601295508714450944 Note: Noam said Microsoft went back to advertising on Twitter but it was Amazon: https://www.reuters.com/technology/amazon-restart-advertising-twitter-platfomer-reporter-2022-12-04/ The Rush Limbaugh / Sandra Fluke controversy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh%E2%80%93Sandra_Fluke_controversy

Jen and Noam touch on the ongoing FTX saga and Kanye’s public meltdown before diving into the Twitter Files aka the Taibbi tweet thread about the internal goings on involving the Hunter Biden laptop story (spoiler alert - we don't agree on the significance of the revelations).  We will be on our regular Callin schedule this week of Wednesday night at 8:30 Eastern, what we’ll discuss is anyone's guess at this point  https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW  Show notes: Noam has a new Reply Guy; Elon Musk: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1596925202184564736 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1599123578976604160 lol remember the Krassensteins?: https://variety.com/2019/digital/news/twitter-bans-ed-brian-krassenstein-brothers-fake-accounts-1203225266/ SBF has committed his live to never stop talking: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/01/business/dealbook/sam-bankman-fried-dealbook-interview-transcript.html …and he didn’t dark money donate to Republicans: https://twitter.com/teddyschleifer/status/1598870359939649538 The Alex Jones - Kanye interview. Because what else is there to say here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/12/01/kanye-west-alex-jones-hilter-interview/ Kim K got sued, won: https://www.investopedia.com/kardashian-wins-the-crypto-lawsuit-6826710 When it comes to Kanye, everyone is an armchair psychiatrist now: https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1599423315939950593 The new plan in NYC to place homeless people in hospitals, exaplined: https://twitter.com/NoahCRothman/status/1598312180599988231 THE TWITTER FILES THREAD: https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598822959866683394 Elon said Apple was going to pull Twitter from the app store, but it’s all good now: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1597300125243944961 Elon tweets mild criticism of Vijaya Gadde: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1519073003933515776 NYT is being hyperbolic (again): https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1598686020630872066 Nuzzi doesn't understand her and SBF are not the same:  https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/12/media-after-trump/617503/ Dorsey’s thread on Trump’s booting from Twitter, which hits different now: https://twitter.com/jack/status/1349510769268850690 The usual suspects are mad at Substack Man : https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1599194927333793792 Elon Musk follows no women on Twitter: https://www.vice.com/en/article/bmv5ev/elon-musk-follows-zero-women-on-twitter Popehat has second thoughts about joining the journalo Mastodon: https://twitter.com/Popehat/status/1599132556594925568

Noam and Jen take on the topic of Trump’s uninvited Thanksgiving guest Nick Fuentes, Ben Collins’ weird Twitter meltdown, the new definition of non-binary, the COVID protests in China, the impossibility of Zero Covid, and Taylor Lorenz beclowning herself again. And as always, join us on Callin Wednesday night at 8:30 Eastern where we’ll cover everything else that happened on Thanksgiving week that didn’t fit into the show  https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW  Show notes: Senpai Elon notices Noam: https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/1596862596627730434 Trump tries to explain how Nick Fuentes came to be at his Thanksgiving table: https://twitter.com/ShelbyTalcott/status/1596276030649815041 Trump explains, part two: https://twitter.com/ShelbyTalcott/status/1596663697631457280 Filipkowski claims that Fuentes endorsed DeSantis using an edited video, Fuentes claims that is borderline defamation: https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/1596522190408929286 Here’s a picture of Musk and Maxwell together, which proves absolutely nothing because parasites gonna parasite: https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/1279408842867118080 DeSantis decides to not comment on Fuentesgate, places info in back pocket for later (we think): https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1596690250025562113 Jesse Singal’s Substack piece on Ben Collins’ putting words into the mouths of dead people: https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1595529978816389136 Non-binary means being able to pass as both male and female now I guess: https://twitter.com/KyleWOrton/status/1595583840764022784 Nate Silver is not here for Ben Collins trying to dunk on FiveThirtyEight’s midterm predictions (also Ben doesn’t know how to read a chart) : https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1594758323936841728 Over in China, citizens have had it with the attempt at Zero Covid, especially since it’s not working: https://twitter.com/AP/status/1596858921750351872 Thread from William Hurst, professor of Chinese development for Cambridge, on how these protests are different from past protests in China : https://twitter.com/wjhurst/status/1596722048717709312 Taylor Lorenz wants Zero Covid, doesn’t care that those living under such a regime are literally protesting in the streets: https://twitter.com/dannybarefoot/status/1596878113019162624 HBO will be launching a series based on the mega-blockbuster video game The Last Of Us in January: https://twitter.com/TheLastofUsHBO/status/1595447079416918016

Jen and Noam return after a weirdly offline week to do their best to explain the FTX situation, the journalist exodus to Mastodon (and who has already been kicked off a server) and the two big Trump announcements    We will be on Callin this week Tuesday the 22nd at 8:30pm Eastern to discuss…well who knows at this point but maybe Jen’s big move and our thoughts on Wakanda Forever    Show Notes (normally Jen gussies these up but she is extremely tired after this week’s adventures) : Coffeezilla on FTX https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWfuDeO9thk Foldable human on Crypto/NFTs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g Effective altruism is nonsense, SBF edition  https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23462333/sam-bankman-fried-ftx-cryptocurrency-effective-altruism-crypto-bahamas-philanthropy But the NYT still loves SBF https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/14/technology/ftx-sam-bankman-fried-crypto-bankruptcy.html As does WaPo https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/11/16/sam-bankman-fried-ftx-pandemic-prevention/ Forbes’ Caroline Ellison profile https://twitter.com/forbes/status/1593615727512227840 The whole Ukraine - FTX situation  https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-ftx-ukraine-democrats-laundering-996663874380 Elon is doing a terrorism or something  https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/1593975501445599232 Parker Molloy complains about the mods, the mods kick her off the server https://twitter.com/jbarro/status/1594035527166341120 Journolist (if you’re too young to know what this is) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JournoList Tavistock, or the English gender reassignment clinic that was shut down due to concerns over the efficacy of gender reasignment in minors  https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-62335665 Mike Pesca explains "transphobic content” or as we know it, a NYT article  https://twitter.com/pescami/status/1594009632145494017 NYT article in question:: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/14/health/puberty-blockers-transgender.html Elon did a poll https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1593952814534991873 Wittes WILL NOT GO QUIETLY INTO oh wait he kinda is  https://twitter.com/benjaminwittes/status/1594143594020995074

Noam and Jen continue to discuss As The Tweets Turn aka Elon’s acquisition of Twitter and the moves he’s made. But more importantly, there’s a fight brewing in the GOP - Don vs Ron, the title matchup for who is going to be the face of the party (and the nominee in 2024).  Get ready to pick your fighter, because it’s getting nasty! No Callin this week as Jen will be in the middle of her big transition to DC but maaaaaybe she’ll make her debut appearance on another platform… https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW  Show notes: Eli Lilly gets impersonated on Twitter, and their stock takes a plunge  : https://www.investors.com/news/technology/lly-stock-dives-taking-novo-sanofi-with-it-after-fake-twitter-account-promises-free-insulin/ Remember that time someone hacked a bunch of high profile Twitter accounts to push a crypto scheme and it kinda worked?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Twitter_account_hijacking Twitter Blue has been stopped until we can figure out what the hell is going on: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/11/twitter-blue-subscription-disappears-from-app.html Back in my day, you had to toil in the content mines to get a bluecheck!: https://twitter.com/RayKump/status/1590553793821016064 Yglesias’ thread on the bluecheck, again: https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1588192811664478209 Brigite Gabriel thinks Trump is playing 26D chess to see who his REAL supporters are: https://twitter.com/ACTBrigitte/status/1591155760251404288 Trump tees off on DeSantis because he is a manchild who cannot share the spotlight: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/109322017568994719 Trump also tees off on Youngkin or Young Kin (sounds very Chinese, you know): https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/109325150085362681 Young Kim, a real person and newly elected Republican member of the House, weighs in on Kin-gate: https://twitter.com/EsotericCD/status/1591082935570288640 Trump is still insulting McConnell’s wife, has apparently forgotten he once gave her a Cabinet position: https://www.yahoo.com/now/trump-calls-elaine-chao-coco-183029455.html Rebekah Jones lost her congressional race, is facing a felony charge, but is still grifting nonetheless: https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/rebekah-jones-loses-congressional-race-moves-to-felony-trial/ Stop trying to make Glass Jaw Ron happen: https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/1591069956023922688

Jen and Noam continue to discuss The Biggest News Ever; the changes being made to Twitter in the wake of Elon’s acquisition, the sustained freakout, the true value of a bluecheck, $8 verification, and the pending misinformation apocalypse.  We also sneak in a little Andor talk before taking on Ron DeSanctimonious’ chances of winning the GOP nomination and if he should run in 2024 at all. And as usual we will be on Callin at 8:30pm Eastern Wednesday night where we’ll break down the Stupid Tuesday results (or at least those that will be known at that time) https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW  Show notes: Twitter hilariously bans a Qanoner after taking his Twitter Blue money: https://twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/status/1589025757183242240 Noam wrote a very good piece critiquing Max Fisher’s book on social media and you should read it: https://www.commentary.org/articles/noam-blum/social-media-chaos-machine/ Yoel Roth once again has to make a tweet thread explaining what really happened with the Twitter layoffs as it relates to the content moderation team: https://twitter.com/yoyoel/status/1588657228462317568 For everyone who thinks the new penalty for impersonating a public figure on Twitter is new, let me take you back to 2019 when we were discussing parody accounts getting the banhammer: https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1088088107134668801 Matt Yglesias’ tweet thread (the one we savaged that is): https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1588190763413868553 Some folks over at Twitter bluecheck verification allegedly had quite the side hustle: https://twitter.com/WSBChairman/status/1588973918379200512 Thaddeus Russell’s critique on the critique of conspicuous consumption: https://reason.com/2014/02/01/that-kind-of-luxe-just-aint-for-us-the-p/ That time that the NYT doxed SSC for no good reason other than to start shit with the tech bros: https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-slate-star-codex-doxxing-is-the-latest-squabble-inside-new-york-times Pfffft why didn’t you know that Trump secretly hates DeSantis, the right people have known for months: https://twitter.com/jdawsey1/status/1589097754521137152

Noam and Jen discuss The Biggest News Ever - Elon Musk finally acquires Twitter. Also the awful Fetterman - Oz debate, the belated discovery that James Bennet did nothing wrong, the attack on Paul Pelosi, Taylor Swift’s alleged fatphobia, and how you can’t just be happy on Twitter without everyone hating you   And as usual we will be on Callin at 8:30pm Eastern Wednesday night where there will be much Andor discussion and no HOTD discussion because no more HOTD 🙁 https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW  Show notes: On the upcoming Moderation Council for Twitter: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1586059953311137792 Yoel Roth’s thread on the recent bot stress test: https://twitter.com/yoyoel/status/1586542283469381632 Wemple would like credit for pointing out what the class knew two years ago: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/27/new-york-times-tom-cotton-oped-james-bennet/ Olivia Nuzzi, prophet: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/12/media-after-trump/617503/ Fetterman is disabled now I guess but he’ll be better by January, pinky swear: https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1586466906277560320 Olivia Nuzzi, dogpile victim:  https://twitter.com/Olivianuzzi/status/1585068199200317440 McMullin goes rouge (lol he’ll caucus with Dems) https://twitter.com/benpershing/status/1586553469506392065 David Depape is not sane: https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2022/10/29/david-depape-blog-pelosi-fairies  Here’s the part that Taylor Swift cut from the Anti-Hero video, judge for yourself: https://twitter.com/PopBase/status/1585349954020999168 Don’t ever admit to liking coffee, mornings, you garden, or your husband on Twitter: https://twitter.com/lilplantmami/status/1583495587566977026 Let kids go to school later, they need sleep, they’re developing humans: https://www.newsnationnow.com/solutions/delaying-school-start-times-could-reduce-student-fatigue/

Jen and Noam chat about Ron Desantis’ love of thigh food, culture war grifting, dark money grifting, Xi Jinping throwing his weight around (metaphorically), and a bunch of other things We will be on Callin at 8:30pm Eastern where, barring any Earth-shattering events that need to be discussed on a Wednesday, we’ll be doing an October-long series on horror movies / TV shows  https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW  Show notes: DeSantis, thigh food aficionado: https://www.ft.com/content/3aa3b7a6-8f72-4c37-82dd-d98946198aa7 Time to argue about hummus being colonization (again): https://twitter.com/GileadIni/status/1583909464607928320 CNN makes a list of election deniers: https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/1583819058151297029 Whatever you do, don’t call MTG’s rise to prominence a comeback:  https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/17/briefing/marjorie-taylor-greene.html The Dark Money Grifter Summit: https://twitter.com/MuellerSheWrote/status/1583506004007788558 Xi Jinping is a jerk: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/22/world/asia/china-xi-jinping-congress.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur https://twitter.com/ProfYangZhang/status/1583788208894414849 Sacheen Littlefeather was not a real Native woman: https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/Sacheen-Littlefeather-oscar-Native-pretendian-17520648.php Wikipedia editor banned for saying Sacheen Littlefeather was not a real Native woman before it was cool: https://twitter.com/jbenton/status/1583877263275134979 Warp speed, Pride flag:  https://twitter.com/Microsoft/status/1583143019444068352 Climate change activists being attention whores (again): https://twitter.com/AufstandLastGen/status/1584185689541054464 https://twitter.com/VickieGuerrero/status/1581353771216818176 Alexa, not the Amazon assistant, the Isralei Love Is Blind contestant who…might be a Zionist: https://twitter.com/melissaeweiss/status/1583098510387224577

(Warning - there are Rings of Power season finale spoilers in the first five minutes, so skip that part if you don’t wanna know) Noam and Jen tackle the John Fetterman stroke situation, Herschel Walker paying for an abortion, bad faith deflections, the desire to win at all costs, and hypocrisy  Also the not so good Rings of Power finale with its Big Reveal, the very good She-Hulk season finale that is devoted to roasting the MCU, a little Hot D, and how we’re about to have a lot less TV to consume Join us on Callin this week (8:30 Eastern) where, barring any Earth-shattering events that need to be discussed on a Wednesday, we’ll be doing an October-long series on horror movies / TV shows  https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW  Show notes: Noam's piece for Commentary on Max Fisher's book about the effects of social media https://www.commentary.org/articles/noam-blum/social-media-chaos-machine/  The Fetterman interview that launched a thousand accusations of ableism  https://www.inquirer.com/politics/fetterman-nbc-interview-stroke-pennsylvania-senate-race-20221012.html  And did you know Fetterman had a stroke four days before his primary? It’s ok to say no, it wasn’t talked about much https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-senate-candidate-fetterman-almost-died-stroke-vows-return-trail-2022-06-03/  That one time it was perfectly OK to say having a stroke disqualifies one from holding office https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/10/14/chicago-tribune-offers-an-awfully-blunt-reason-for-not-endorsing-sen-mark-kirk-his-stroke/  Kara Voght’s tweet about Gisele Fetterman becoming the de facto candidate, which I assume someone explained to her wasn’t a good look  https://twitter.com/LoganDobson/status/1581306253606690816  Dianne Feinstein isn’t doing so well https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/dianne-feinstein-senate-17079487.php  Herschel Walker gets caught paying for an abortion  https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/11/herschel-walker-abortion-payment/  Noam quotes The Diamond Age, because of course he does https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/1518212786983157761 

Jen and Noam discuss Kanye’s plan to go death con 3 on JEWISH PEOPLE, Ukraine’s very normal war act of blowing up a strategic military target, and Biden’s big weed announcement  We will be back on Callin this week (8:30 Eastern) where, barring any Earth-shattering events that need to be discussed on a Wednesday, we’ll be doing an October-long series on horror movies / TV shows  https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW  Show notes: Kanye’s weird (bipolar?) tweet https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11296055/Kanye-West-posts-disturbing-tweet-claiming-hes-going-def-3-JEWISH-PEOPLE.html  The GOP thinks Kanye and Elon are based af, like Trump  https://twitter.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1578174670854975491  That time Hajj Amin Al Husseini thought Hilter was a friend to the non-Jewish semites  https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/film/hajj-amin-al-husayni-meets-hitler  Freddie DeBoer discusses Kanye’s current controversy in light of his mental health issues  https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/how-convenient-that-kanye-wests-behavior  World War Z book, Noam really wants you to read it https://www.amazon.com/World-War-Oral-History-Zombie/dp/0307346617  Musk tries to do geopolitics, fails  (side note from Jen - man I hope he tries to float the two state solution on Twitter, it’d cause a meltdown of epic proportions)  https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/after-russia-ukraine-plan-musk-offers-proposal-resolve-china-taiwan-tensions-2022-10-08/  Biden is Armageddoning It  https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/bidens-warning-nuclear-armageddon-reflects-stakes-russia-imminent/story?id=91211670  The bridge that is now under the water   https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/08/world/europe/ukraine-crimea-bridge-explosion.html  Hey look, actual terrorism!   https://twitter.com/ngumenyuk/status/1578959308813135873  The Iran-Iraq War was disturbing, to say the least   https://www.wearethemighty.com/mighty-history/iran-iraq-war-child-soldiers-mines/#:~:text=Many%20were%20sent%20into%20battle,in%20the%20Iran%2DIraq%20War  The stamp commemorating the bridge that is now under the water, which serves as proof that the Ukrainian military planned to blow up the bridge or something  https://twitter.com/Telegraph/status/1578740494234193922  Dark Brandon releases the pardon kraken… https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/10/06/statement-from-president-biden-on-marijuana-reform/  …after having fired WH staff for ingesting cannabis   https://www.thedailybeast.com/biden-white-house-sandbags-staffers-sidelines-dozens-for-pot-use  And a correction - Elon is from South Africa, not South America, the point still stands 

Noam and Jen triumphantly return after a brief hiatus to record a double sized episode on the Russia - Ukraine conflict, the protests in Iran, real American imperialism, mispronounced name microaggressions, She Hulk and the pain of being left on read, the new Disney+ / Star Wars series Andor, what is going on with Rings of Power, and HotD (which is pronounced “hot D”) And yes we will be back on Callin this week where, barring any Earth-shattering events that need to be discussed on a Wednesday, we’ll be doing an October-long series on horror movies / TV shows  https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW 

Jen and Noam have a long discussion about Gov. DeSantis’ questionable flying of Venezuelan immigrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard and a short discussion on the NYT piece blaming the downfall of the Women’s March on Russian trolls that leads into a conversation about social writ large No Callin this week but make sure to check out last week’s episode, which was unexpectedly hilarious https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW 

Noam and Jen break down the racism incident that didn’t happen at BYU, updates on the war in Ukraine, geopolitics, and people giving up on TV shows too soon  Here's a link to our YouTube channel, which will have content soon so please subscribe!  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3bikoWUS7oVkC2SVJRcbng/featured Don’t forget to catch us on Wednesdays at 8:30pm EST on Callin - download the Callin app on both Apple and Android and subscribe to join us in the conversation! https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW 

Jen and Noam talk about Kiwi Farms getting kicked off Cloudflare and the statement the company released explaining why, Biden’s big speech that more resembled a Twitch stream, and of course some House of the Dragon and the Rings of Power premier  Don’t forget to catch us on Wednesdays at 8:30pm EST on Callin - download the Callin app on both Apple and Android and subscribe to join us in the conversation! https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW 

Noam and Jen talk about the student loan debt forgiveness crisis and a bit about the big Rogan / Zuck revelation regarding the Hunter Biden laptop story  Don’t forget to catch us on Wednesdays at 8:30pm EST on Callin - download the Callin app on both Apple and Android and subscribe to join us in the conversation! https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW 

Jen and Noam have a belated chat about Finland’s party girl PM, the controversial She-Hulk premiere episode, and the long awaited Game of Thron…er House of the Dragon premiere Don’t forget to catch us on Wednesdays (but Thursday this week) at 8:30pm EST on Callin - download the Callin app on both Apple and Android and subscribe to join us in the conversation! https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW 

Noam and Jen resume the discussion on the Trump warrant now that it and the receipt of what the FBI took has been unsealed, the difference between a fatwa and madposting, and the incomprehensible absolutely not for kids movie Lightyear  Don’t forget to catch us on Wednesdays at 8:30pm EST on Callin - download the Callin app on both Apple and Android and subscribe to join us in the conversation! https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW

Jen and Noam talk about the failed Hamas rocket attack on Israel, comparisons of the Israeli - Palestinian conflict and the Russian - Ukranian conflict, weird woke racism, and the Hulu Predator movie Prey Don’t forget to catch us on Wednesdays at 8:30pm EST on Callin - download the Callin app on both Apple and Android and subscribe to join us in the conversation! https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW 

Noam and Jen talk about Biden’s COVID relapse and how old men are surviving and thriving after contracting the virus, the new definition of recession, Pelosi’s big trip to Taiwan (the beginning of WWIII?), and Will Smith’s latest apology for slapping Chris Rock Don’t forget to catch us on Wednesdays at 8:30pm EST on Callin - download the Callin app on both Apple and Android and subscribe to join us in the conversation! https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW 

Jen and Noam talk about the CDC’s concerning (and kinda gross) messaging about the monkeypox virus, Netflix’s newest offerings The Gray Man and the Resident Evil series, the ubiquitous “is it woke” question, and what the hell does “woke” even mean now Don’t forget to catch us on Wednesdays at 8:30pm EST on Callin - download the Callin app on both Apple and Android and subscribe to join us in the conversation! https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW 

Noam and Jen discuss…well everything except Uvalde and Ohio. We talk about AOC being heckled, Ivana falling down and dying, Biden’s weird Middle East trip, a side trip into Middle East policy, audience capture, and how Noam needs baby mitts  Don’t forget to catch us on Wednesdays (but Thursday this week!) at 8:30pm EST on Callin - download the Callin app on both Apple and Android and subscribe to join us in the conversation! https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW 

Jen and Noam get into the discussion of age surrounding our current President, the infuriating ineffectiveness of protesting the overturn of Roe by annoying a fancy steakhouse, the season finale of The Boys, and a teaser of our upcoming Thor: Love and Thunder conversation  Don’t forget to catch us on Wednesdays at 8:30pm EST on Callin - download the Callin app on both Apple and Android and subscribe to join us in the conversation! https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW  Show notes: The AOC - Hillary code switch comparison The Pepsi commercial that The Boys ripped off was with Kendall Jenner, not Kylie. Jen blames the confusion on Kris Jenner’s ridiculous naming convention for her children Alas, Hasan Piker paid a mere $2.75M for his West Hollywood mansion - still a pretty hefty price tag. May we all be able to afford mansions from streaming video games and shilling for socialism 

Noam and Jen lean into the three day weekend vibe and casually riff on the Clarence Thomas vaccine non-story, the state of comedy, TikTok Bodega Bro, movies, and The Boys  Don’t forget to catch us on Wednesdays at 9pm EST on Callin - download the Callin app on both Apple and Android and subscribe!  https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW 

Jen and Noam tackle the week that was, from Juul to Bruen to The Decision aka Dobbs.  Warning - there is Nuance in this here discussion  Don’t forget to catch us on Wednesdays at 9pm EST on Callin - download the Callin app on both Apple and Android and subscribe!  https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW 

Noam and Jen discuss Felica Sonmez, Taylor Lorenz, SpaceX, Kraken, the insanity of thinking you can drag your employer publicly, and a *lot* of other random stuff  Don’t forget to catch us on Wednesdays at 9pm EST on Callin - download the Callin app on both Apple and Android and subscribe!  https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW 

Jen and Noam wrap up the Felicia Sonmez trilogy of episodes (for now…), the curious handling of the attempted assasination of Brett Kavanuagh, and some odds and ends about Crimes of the Future, Top Gun: Maverick, The Boys, Stranger Things, and cantina orgies  Don’t forget to catch us on Wednesdays at 9pm EST on Callin - download the Callin app on both Apple and Android and subscribe! Maybe we’ll discuss the 1/6 Committee’s presentations since *someone* hadn’t watched The Video prior to recording this episode  https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW 

Noam and Jen cover the current meltdowns taking place at the Washington Post, with Taylor Lorenz getting caught in some published lies and Felicia Sonmez starting Twitter beefs with her coworkers. Don’t forget to catch us on Wednesdays at 9pm EST on Callin - download the Callin app on both Apple and Android and subscribe! This week we’ll maybe discuss Crimes of the Future, the continuation of the Washington Post meltdown, and who knows what else. https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW 

Jen and Noam talk about the horrific failure of law enforcement’s response to the Uvalde school shooting, and the first two episodes of the new Obi-Wan Kenobi series on Disney+, to lighten the mood. Don’t forget to catch us on Wednesdays at 9pm EST on Callin - download the Callin app on both Apple and Android and subscribe! https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW 

Noam and Jen talk about all of the man-related topics - Johnny Depp, Elon Musk, and of course the movie MEN (there are spoilers in this episode!)  Don’t forget to catch us on Wednesdays at 9pm EST on Callin - download the Callin app on both Apple and Android and subscribe! https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW 

Jen and Noam make it to episode 20 only to have to discuss a mass shooting where the shooter both attempted to livestream his killings and posted his Great Replacement rationale on the internet.  Note - this discussion is taking place less than 24 hours after the shooting and focuses more on the online aspects of this massacre and not on the specifics of what took place. This isn’t meant to diminish the loss of life but to discuss the broader issues pertaining to online culture and the ways it influenced the shooter. Don’t forget to catch us on Wednesdays at 9pm EST on Callin - download the Callin app on both Apple and Android and subscribe! https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW 

Noam and Jen chat about Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, the continuing fallout from the leak of the Alito draft (catch our last Callin episode for our initial thoughts), and the ongoing campaign against Madison Cawthorn for…well we don’t quite understand the point of all of it really Don’t forget to catch us on Wednesdays at 9pm EST on Callin - download the Callin app on both Apple and Android and subscribe! https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW 

Jen and Noam chat about Elon’s epic week on Twitter, the new Disinformation Governance Board and the ridiculous woman heading it, the White House Correspondents' Dinner, mask signaling, and a conversation about mental health treatments.  Don’t forget to catch us on Wednesdays at 9pm EST on Callin - download the Callin app on both Apple and Android and subscribe! https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW 

Noam and Jen discuss the war between DeSantis and Disney over the "don't say gay" law, the reactions to the leaked photos of Madison Cawthorn partying in women’s lingerie, and our thoughts on the gender identity / transgender debate Don’t forget to catch us on Wednesdays at 9pm EST on Callin - download the Callin app on both Apple and Android and subscribe! https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW 

Jen and Noam take on the meltdown over Elon Musk’s attempt to buy Twitter, the Russian warship Moskva being sent to a watery grave, and the ongoing financial scandal that is Black Lives Matter  Don’t forget to catch us on Wednesdays at 9pm EST on Callin - download the Callin app on both Apple and Android and subscribe! https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW 

Noam and Jen create their own ET bagel of doom by putting together Will Smith, China's horrifying new COVID lockdown, what is and is not going on within Russia, the aftermath of Russian occupation of Ukrainian cities, the verdict in the Whitmer case and Everything Everywhere All At Once Don’t forget to catch us on Wednesdays at 9pm EST on Callin - download the Callin app on both Apple and Android and subscribe! https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW 

Jen goes over to Noam's place (!) to do cleanup on the Will Smith - Chris Rock controversy, discuss the latest Ukraine updates, have a conversation about COVID, and finish up by discussing the latest Taylor Lorenz drama As always, join us on Callin every Wednesday night at 9 pm EST for more discussion! https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW  

Noam and Jen discuss Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars over a joke he made about Jada Pinkett Smith.  Also other things that happened at the Oscars, like people winning awards or something. Join us on Wednesday at 9pm EST on Callin, we'll discuss Ginni's texts and Biden's gaffe then https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW

Jen and Noam discuss the oddly controversial NYT free speech editorial, the revelation that Hunter Biden’s emails were legit, and attempt to chart out a third way for social media platforms to operate Don’t forget to join us on Callin on Wednesday night at 9pm EST where we will be discussing…we don’t know yet https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW 

Noam and Jen have an unplanned discussion about military strategy in Ukraine bookmarked by a talk   on the increasingly absurd and unproductive reactions to the war on US internet and social media Don’t forget - on 3/16 at 9pm EST we will be hosting our first episode of our Callin podcast All Crossed Out! Download the Callin app and follow us to get notifications for this and future episodes.  https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW 

Noam and Jen pick back up on the Russia - Ukraine war and the various online reactions, the weirdness of censoring profanity while showing video of dead children, how everything was done already in WWI / WWII, and a brief discussion of The Batman because *drum roll* we will be duscussing that on our first Callin episode! Sign up and subscribe to our Callin show here

Noam and Jen discuss the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the various American-centric reactions to it, how the run-up to the Iraq War jaded a generation of political commentators, Jen’s big theory of why Putin chose now to invade, debunking fun stories, and how the oligarchs could end this whole debacle  Things that were referenced:  The NPR piece / tweet thread - https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1497291026347835394?s=20&t=eYMM96tcsTf7i2_T8c-lqw The Fox News piece / tweet - https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/1497275199598780417?s=20&t=eYMM96tcsTf7i2_T8c-lqw  The Twitter thead of everyone making the Ukraine situation about their own bête noires - https://twitter.com/cjsnowdon/status/1497553538175614978?s=20&t=dKhHjRuHRroevUP8HA6nBA 

Jen and Noam discuss the bizarre Matt Stafford/Kelly Smiley incident, which led to the unearthing of some of Smiley’s old Twitter posts because reasons. What could incidents like this mean for the possible future of social media and the part it plays in the coming generations? Also, the Canadian trucker protest. Because they cannot exist as podcasters without discussing the Canadian trucker protest. It’s a good conversation though, trust me. Link to the Amy Cooper piece mentioned, which is indeed on Bari’s Substack - https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/the-real-story-of-the-central-park 

Sure, Jen and Noam could have discussed the Canadian trucker protest, the never-ending Joe Rogan freakout, disappearing mask mandate or a host of other things. Instead, they decided to discuss the Super Bowl, 90's kid nostalgia, The Book of Boba Fett and the extended Star Wars universe, and how sometimes it's best to not know how a story ends.

Noam and Jen discuss the latest twists in the Joe Rogan controversy and edgy comedy writ large (we live in an unforgiven hell), how Whoopi Goldberg doesn't seem to understand the roots of the Holocaust (Noam finds this somewhat forgivable, Jen does not), and Jeff Zucker's "surprise" resignation from CNN (neither of us forgives him). 

Jen and Noam do not discuss how Biden called Peter Doocy a stupid son of a bitch on mic (nothing personal, per Biden), and instead go into how Bari Weiss made people very mad by saying she's done with COVID and how Stephen Breyer's suprise retirement from SCOTUS has been botched by Biden 

Noam and Jen take Nina Totenberg and NPR to task for their reporting on Maskgate (side note - we need a new controversy suffix), discuss our thoughts on the movie The Last Duel, and have a little fun at Joss Whedon's expense 

Jen and Noam discuss casting non Jewish actors in Jewish roles, the FBI's ridiculous reaction to the hostage situation at Beth Israel, the viral Joe Rogan / Josh Szeps clip, and how some people haven't dealt with COVID being here to stay. 

Noam and Jen discuss the bizarre 1/6 Anniversary - Hamilton crossover, Ted Cruz's sad apology, Patton Oswalt's sad apology, COVID vaccine hesitancy, and awkward intros 

As we limp our way into 2022, Noam and Jen look back as some of the viral Twitter moments from 2021. Everything from Bean Dad to Nicki Minaj's cousin's friend to off topic conversation about conspiracy theories and your grandma's sexual proclivities.

Jen and Noam (Noam and Jen?) introduce their new podcast and then proceed to talk about something totally different and review Spider Man - No Way Home. There will be a spoiler warning so feel free to listen that far if you haven't seen the film yet