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Mar 08 2025 26 ep. 68 mins 5

ex-VICE News reporter, ex-UCLA professor calling my friends to find out what cool and weird stuff is happening in the world.

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Why Trump's 'crypto reserve' is kinda un-American

Mar 08 2025 39 mins

David Z Morris has been covering cryptocurrency for over a decade. And now that Trump has announced a ‘crypto reserve’, you’d think he’d be excited. But a lot of crypto experts think it’s all a pretty bad idea, and David has a hunch it probably won’t happen anyway. We also talk a bit about the ‘crypto czar’, David Sacks, and what role he may play in all of this.(rec

'My daughter doesn't work for DEI' and why DOGE is still here

Feb 27 2025 33 mins

NOTE: at 31:30 we're talking about an AI-generated video of Trump sucking Elon's toes. Someone was playing it on TVs at HUD.Greg Walters, News Editor at Crooked Media, joined the stream to talk about DOGE, and why despite the outrage, it's probably sticking around.You can check out the newsletter we reference here:https://crooked.com/newsletters/what-a-day-fork-in-the-doge/And here

are we just bullying Canada over (pretend) drug problems?

Feb 11 2025 43 mins

three quick facts: 1. Canada *does* have a fentanyl problem. 2. But less than 1% of the fent coming into the U.S. is from there. 3. And Mexican migrants aren't bringing it in, either. I talked with Manisha Krishnan, who's been covering drugs and drug policy for nearly a decade, about what kind of weird political games are happening, and who is losing those games.A bonus fact: Trump

Canada to 4.9 million people: 'go home'?

Jan 08 2025 16 mins

Angad Singh interviewed one of the 4.9 million people who Canada might now be asking to 'go home', now that Trudeau is out. His piece is on YouTube, and you can watch it here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5vRl23p0Zw

Arshad Nadeem: Pakistan will never be the same (with Mustafa Mirza)

Sep 30 2024 29 mins

This one was recorded just after the Olympics. I was talking about having b-boys and b-girls in the Olympics and how that was kiinida complicated now and then our guest, documentary filmmaker Mustafa Mirza comes in with potentially the most important thing that’s happened in Pakistan sportswise in a long time, and what happens now that javelin is on the map for the 5th largest po

$250M from Google ain’t gonna cut it: can journalists get paid? w/ Matt Pearce

Sep 21 2024 37 mins

warning: you’re about to listen to two journalists talk about the news. But the news sucks! you say — so why should we care? Well, this $250 million deal might have just made it worse. Counterintuitive, but Matt Pearce (ex LA Times) has a pretty compelling argument. We talk about this, and AI, and a bunch of other stuff.Keep in mind that this is a pretty complicated topic, and

About Portland's '$4 MILLION graffiti war' (Chaos Town interview)

May 24 2024 59 mins

Chaos Town has been documenting the wildest parts of Portland for a year now. From stripper yoga to the 'penis bush lady' to sideshows – and now, the best look at what is truly happening in Portland's $4m graffiti war. if you haven't already watched their documentary, do that first: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7npnxP_6poAIn the doc, Chaos Town embedded with an up-and-coming w

buying Android tablets in prison w/ Gaby Caplan

May 20 2024 40 mins

Prisons are constantly going on lockdown because of staff shortages, which means that prisoners can't use the phones. This makes tablet computers sold to incarcerated people are all the more crucial to let their loved ones on the outside know they are safe – but Gaby Caplan has discovered in her reporting for WIRED that federal prisons nationwide seem to have enacted a policy of

Whatsapp calls from Gaza + Kendrick v Drake + a documentary w/ Seb Walker

May 09 2024 64 mins

How do you make a documentary about Gaza … when they won't let you into Gaza? A mix of OSINT, protests, and Whatsapp calls with a journalist trapped in Rafah.Seb Walker (former DC Bureau Chief of VICE News) hosted a documentary called A Hidden War, from Scripps News and Bellingcat. And yes, we talk about Kendrick v Lamar (a tiny bit), but mostly Macklemore.We get into what it was

the chemical attack(?) at Columbia University ft Anna Kook and Mustafa Mirza

May 03 2024 49 mins

The campus protests are a recent news obsession in the US. But did you hear when a couple students (and former Israel Defense Force members) allegedly sprayed a chemical that sent a number of protesters to the hospital?This was back in January, but it took AJ+ over two months to finally put out a report. There's a reason for that, which we get into in the podcast. This is the defin