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IMPORTANT NOTE: This episode was recorded before Tuesday’s primaries in Wisconsin, so if it sounds like we don’t know the outcome, it’s because we don’t! More Perfect Union’s Paul Blest and Rolling Stone’s Jack Crosbie return in this star-studded episode to discuss: AOC’s egg-freezing journey and surprise revelation that she broke up with her fiancé two years ago Paul gives us the best rundown you can get on last week’s primaries, including Abdul El-Sayed’s narrow victory over Haley Stevens...

The Intercept’s Katherine Krueger and Slate’s Caitlin Schneider return for this subscribers-only Special Edition episode to talk Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey.

IMPORTANT NOTE: This episode was recorded Tuesday, before the polls closed for the primary elections, so if you don’t hear us discussing who won the Michigan Senate primary, it’s because we didn’t know yet! Producer Sam is back in the third chair to discuss: The eve of the very important primary between corny dad Abdul El-Sayed and Israel-lover Haley Stevens in Michigan, including the legendary video of Stevens claiming “Israel comes to me in my dreams” The role Michigan plays in the...

Producer Sam Grasso is on the keys AND the mic this week to discuss: The Other Mommy trailer playing before The Odyssey (movie pod forthcoming!!!) Trump being himself at Lindsey Graham’s funeral Sean Hannity talking about a “heavenly” version of Mar-A-Lago Kentucky Gov.

The Week’s Rafi Schwartz returns to the third chair in an episode Producer Sam hailed as a testament to our ability to “talk about anything” to discuss: Getting to the TRUTH about the cyclospora outbreak and whether Taylor Farms’ donation to a pro-Trump Super PAC had anything to do with the funny business involving the FDA The World Cup’s very first halftime show, starring Madonna, a bunch of pitchy kids, BTS, Justin Bieber, Muppets, an orchestra, and Chris Martin Trump was there, and when...

Slate’s Caitlin Schneider returns to the third chair to discuss: Senator Lindsey Graham dying and the vast conspiracies and revelations therein; also, this incredible ABC News story from 2016 that auto-plays a video from The View where Whoopi Goldberg is wearing a Rudolph nose: Jack’s blog on the slobbery remembrance of Graham on Meet the Press Senator Mitch McConnell’s alleged “proof of life” pic, which, hmmmmm The Cyclospora outbreak rocking the nation, and what role it did (or did not)...

The death of Senator Lindsey Graham this weekend was a surprise. The outpouring of nauseating memorializing that greeted his death was mostly not a surprise. By now, we all know how this stuff goes. First, a bad person dies. Lindsey Graham definitely checks that box. He was an awful human being whose most pleasurable experience in life was watching people getting bombed to smithereens overseas.

Producer Sam is in the third chair this week to discuss: Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner cancelling a bunch of events this week The new, explosive exposé from Politico in which a former girlfriend of Platner accuses him of sexual assault Platner’s video statement almost, but not quite, suspending his campaign The pundits heralding Platner’s campaign as a straight bro savior of the left (surprise! it’s not) Trump meddling in the World Cup to get a U.S. player reinstated and it...

Man, What the Hell? is back and this month’s nightmare cavalcade of news stories involves AI presidents, sad turnout at America’s 250th, something called Phorn Energy, and a yearbook gone wrong. This is a Subscriber-Only Special Edition. Join us at discourseblog.com. Want to listen on your preferred podcast app? Follow these instructions: Spotify: Tap the “Play” button and select “Link Account” to sync your Substack subscription and unlock it instantly.