Best Andrew Sharp With Ben Thompson Podcasts (2025)

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Dame goes home, Beal's LA fit + Giannis' Bucks future with Ben Thompson & Andrew Sharp | Kevin O'Connor Show 35:11

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Kevin O'Connor reacts to the stunning news that Damian Lillard chose to return to the Portland Trail Blazers. Why KOC loves the fit, and could see this working out great for Portland. PLUS Kevin says the Los Angeles Clippers are winning the offseason after adding Bradley Beal, who is a clear-cut upgrade over Norm Powell. And then KOC is joined by A…

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Dame goes home, Beal's LA fit + Giannis' Bucks future with Ben Thompson & Andrew Sharp 35:11

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Kevin O'Connor reacts to the stunning news that Damian Lillard chose to return to the Portland Trail Blazers. Why KOC loves the fit, and could see this working out great for Portland. PLUS Kevin says the Los Angeles Clippers are winning the offseason after adding Bradley Beal, who is a clear-cut upgrade over Norm Powell. And then KOC is joined by A…

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Wisdom of Crowds: What is Happiness? 53:45

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What is happiness? Why are so many Americans — by their own admission — unhappy? These are the central questions in this special episode, live from the Aspen Ideas Festival. At the festival, our house philosopher, Dr. Samuel Kimbriel, hosted a discussion with three distinguished thinkers. Adam Sandel is a philosopher and assistant district attorney…

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NPR News Now: NPR News: 07-19-2025 8AM EDT 4:40

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Macro N Cheese: Ep 337 - The Overdose Economy with Charles LeBaron 1:04:42

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Dr. Charles LeBaron is a retired CDC scientist and the author of Greed to Do Good: The Untold Story of CDC's Disastrous War on Opioids. He talks with Steve about the ill-considered response to the opioid crisis and the tragic and preventable consequences of the CDC’s 2016 guidelines. Restricting prescriptions without providing treatment (whether fo…

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NPR News Now: NPR News: 07-19-2025 7AM EDT 4:40

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Interesting Times with Ross Douthat: She Exposed Epstein, and Shares MAGA’s Anger 58:38

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Julie K. Brown thinks Jeffrey Epstein didn’t act alone. On this episode of “Interesting Times,” Ross talks to Brown, the investigative reporter whose work ultimately led to Epstein’s re-arrest, about what the government could release that it hasn’t and how the story is bigger than Epstein. 2:32 - Brown's initial interest in the Epstein case 5:26 - …

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NPR News Now: NPR News: 07-19-2025 6AM EDT 4:40

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The Good Fight: Dan Williams on Misinformation 46:23

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Yascha Mounk and Dan Williams discuss fake news. Daniel Williams is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sussex. He writes the Conspicuous Cognition newsletter, which brings together philosophical insights and scientific research to examine the forces shaping contemporary society and politics. In this week’s conversation, Yasch…

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The Daily: 'The Interview': Sandra Oh Knows What's Great About Middle Age 41:38

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The actress discusses discrimination in Hollywood, what she’s learned about herself in her 50s and her iconic role on "Grey's Anatomy.”Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everythingfrom politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts oron Apple Podcasts and Spotify.…

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Odd Lots: Why the Damage to Fed Independence May Have Already Been Done 27:43

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There’s a long history of US presidents putting pressure on the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates, but the techniques have often been subtle or quiet in some way. Under President Trump, attacks on the Fed have risen to a whole new level. And it’s not just Trump that’s called on Chair Jerome Powell to cut rates. Other members of his administra…

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Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts: How To Build A Police State (With The Supreme Court’s Blessing) 58:53

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Over the last six months, life has been upended for millions of people in America as Stephen Miller's extreme immigration policies have been unleashed. And while the first weeks of the second Trump administration saw some genuine pushback from the Supreme Court, six months in, that feint at checking and balancing has fallen away. On this week's Ami…

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This Week in Virology: TWiV 1236: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin 48:56

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In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin with Vincent Racaniello have a morning chat about the measles epidemic and H5N1 in cows before Dr. Griffin discusses how vaccination associates with reduced dementia risk before deep diving into recent statistics on measles epidemic, RSV, influenza and SARS-CoV-2 infections the Wasterwater Scan dashboard, …

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Left Anchor: Transphobia Is Based on Lies - 360 1:00:22

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Alexi is still on vacation, so this time we are replaying a recent American Prospect Weekly Roundup show, in which Evan Urquhart of Assigned Media helps Ryan dig into the Supreme Court's latest transphobic decision and how The New York Times played a vital role in it.By Ryan Cooper & Alexi the Greek

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Bannon`s War Room: Episode 4643: DOJ Files Motion To Unseal Epstein Grand Jury Testimonies

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Episode 4643: DOJ Files Motion To Unseal Epstein Grand Jury TestimoniesBy WarRoom.org

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Bannon`s War Room: WarRoom Battleground EP 811: Mask Mandate Trial Verdict Stuns Legal Expert

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WarRoom Battleground EP 811: Mask Mandate Trial Verdict Stuns Legal ExpertBy WarRoom.org

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The Gist: Funny You Should Mention: Trae Crowder 1:18:28

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The self-proclaimed “Trash Daddy” riffs on meat-in-a-can cuisine, possum PR, and how his accent disarms blue-state crowds, Plus: white supremacist losers, Fruit Loop vape rights, and how cheap heat works in comedy and pro wrestling. Trae takes us through his upbringing, in Celina Tennessee, and discusses his travails with child support bureaucracy …

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Trending In Ed with Mike Palmer: Trending in Ed Summer Reading List 2025 - 10 Books To Read 32:31

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Join us as Mike Palmer reveals Trending in Ed's Summer Reading List 2025! Mike shares the books that resonate most with the learning zeitgeist based on conversations with folks like Isabelle Hau, Horacio Sanchez, Kathleen DeLaski, and Eddie Watson. Plus get sneak peaks at upcoming book episodes with Elliot Felix, Doug Lemov, and Shalinee Sharma up …

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Damian Lillard returns to Portland, Bradley Beal joins Clippers, LeBron is unhappy and Knicks under pressure | Good Word with Goodwill 45:15

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On this episode of Good Word with Goodwill, Dan Titus and Dan Devine react to Damian Lillard signing a three-year deal with the Portland Trail Blazers. Next, Titus and Dan give their thoughts on Bradley Beal signing with the Los Angeles Clippers after receiving a buyout from the Phoenix Suns. Also, LeBron James is reportedly unhappy with the direct…

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Hillsdale College Podcast Network: The Myth of Artificial Intelligence

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Guests: Richard Samuelson & Erik J. Larson Host Scot Bertram talks with: Richard Samuelson, associate professor of government at Hillsdale College’s Washington, D.C., campus, about his recent essay on James Madison and the importance of republican principles. And Erik J. Larson, author of The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Thi…

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The Majority Report with Sam Seder: 3541 - The Trump-Epstein Enigma w/ Heather 'Digby' Parton & Francesca Fiorentini 2:42:03

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Break out your soft collar, it's Casual Friday and today's whole episode is a freebie. We open with an enigma that never ages, Jeffrey Epstein and his relationship with his proclaimed best friend, Donald Trump. We take a look at the Wall Street Journal's piece on Trump's lewd birthday card drawing for Epstein's 50th. Heather 'Digby' Parton joins us…

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Changelog: Try harder. Ultrathink! 1:31:46

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Nick Nisi joins us to discuss all the Windsurf drama, his new agentic lifestyle, whether or not he’s actually more productive, the new paper that says he maybe isn’t more productive, the reckoning he sees coming, and why we might be the last generation of code monkeys. Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 13 minutes at the end of thi…

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The Bulwark Podcast: Tom Nichols: Secrets and Lies 1:07:14

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If anyone in America was still thinking that Trump's ties to Epstein were a nothingburger, Trump’s own behavior this week has probably disabused them of that notion. His panicking and flailing around sure seem exactly like how a guilty man would act. And the sudden firing of Jim Comey's daughter, Maurene—who worked on the Epstein and Ghislaine Maxw…

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Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar: CREEPY Trump - Epstein Letter REVEALED: MAGA Cries Fake News 1:12:04

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Saagar, Emily, and Griffin break down the WSJ reporting on an alleged letter Trump wrote to Jeffrey Epstein for his 50th birthday, the MAGA reaction and latest polling, and Stephen Colbert's Late Show cancelled for 'financial reasons'. To become a Breaking Points Premium Member and watch/listen to the show AD FREE, uncut and 1 hour early visit: www…

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Big Technology Podcast: Grok's AI Lovebot, Aqui-Hire-Sition Backlash, OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent Debuts 54:30

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Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) Can Zuck and Elon buy their way into the AI race? 2) Will scaling laws turn AI progress over to the biggest tech 3) Grok's new AI avatars - Rudy and Ani 4) Grok's Ani AI bot gets steamy quickly 5) Why AI companies are counting on companion/love bots 6) T…

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Bannon`s War Room: Episode 4642: No Compromise On Amnesty

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Episode 4642: No Compromise On AmnestyBy WarRoom.org

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Bannon`s War Room: Episode 4641: President Trump Goes On Offense And Sues WSJ; China Hackers Stealing Your Data

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Episode 4641: President Trump Goes On Offense And Sues WSJ; China Hackers Stealing Your DataBy WarRoom.org

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The Dishcast with Andrew Sullivan: Thomas Mallon On Literature And AIDS 1:00:06

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Tom is a novelist, essayist, and critic, who once described himself as a “supposed literary intellectual/homosexual/Republican.” He’s the former literary editor of GQ and a professor emeritus of English at GW. He’s the author of 11 books of fiction, including …

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Volts: What's going on with electric boats? 1:02:20

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In this episode, Arc CEO Mitch Lee explains why the jump from gas-powered boats to electric boats is even bigger, in terms of quality and user experience, than the jump from gas-powered cars to EVs. EBs are strikingly quieter, have greater torque, and require much less maintenance. Oh, and despite what Trump says, they are also much safer and less …

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Money Stuff: The Podcast: Horse Barn: HVAC, Windsurf, Vanguard 40:37

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Katie and Matt discuss search funds, post-MBA career paths, Katie’s future in horse barn ownership, search-fund flips, the Windsurf quasi-acqui-hire deal, Vanguard and Strategy, the function of index funds, owning the global financial portfolio and Perching Square Capital Management’s closed-end fund. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informa…

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Give Them An Argument: Season 7 Episode 20: We Have Always Had a Union (ft. Shaun Richman) 2:06:11

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Labor scholar Shaun Richman joins us to talk to Ben Burgis about his book "We Always Had a Union: The New York Hotel Workers’ Union, 1912-1953." Before that, Ben does an Opening Argument on the absurd attacks on Zohran that have been made everywhere from National Review to Reason to...Matt Taibbi's Substack. (Goddamnit, Matt.) In the postgame for p…

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Letters from an American: July 17, 2025 4:57

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Get full access to Letters from an American at heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/subscribeBy Garamond

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Windsurf Madness, Big Tech Wins as the Silicon Valley Ecosystem Erodes, Cloudflare Wants to Fix the Internet Economy 1:32:58

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Subscribe to Stratechery Plus to get all episodes of Sharp Tech, plus Stratechery Updates and Interviews, Sharp China, Greatest of All Talk, Asianometry, and Dithering. To email the show: [email protected] @SharpTechPodcast Channel — YouTube @Stratechery Channel — YouTube Google and Windsurf, Stinky Deals, Chesterton’s Fence and the Silicon Valley…

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Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson: Windsurf Madness, Big Tech Wins as the Silicon Valley Ecosystem Erodes, Cloudflare Wants to Fix the Internet Economy 1:32:58

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A week of news surrounding Windsurf and Google (and now Cognition), why the Silicon Valley ecosystem as we've known it appears to be coming to an end, and why the hiring and acquisiton conventions emerging now are a clear win for big tech. From there: A counterfactual on the founding of OpenAI, and various reactions to Cloudflare's plans to block A…

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The Nation Podcasts: Israel Bombs Damascus, Militant Violence in Haiti, France Withdraws Troops from Senegal | American Prestige 46:00

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Derek is in the shop for maintenance, so Danny presents the news with the Quincy Institute’s Alex Jordan. This week: Israel bombs the Syrian Defense Ministry in Damascus (0:39) as Netanyahu’s corruption trial carries on (7:05), plus US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee condemns settlers killing a US citizen (10:24), and the Hague Group coalition m…

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The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens: What I Learned This Week: Corn Sweat, Coral Bleaching, and the Climate Credit Crunch | Frankly 102 15:07

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In this week’s Frankly, Nate shares a handful of things he’s learned in the past few days that have implications for the Great Simplification. Nate covers a wide range of topics in this edition, from the connections between corn sweat and wet bulb temperatures to a timeline of coral reef bleaching events. Our culture is marked by information overlo…

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Hard Fork: X Hits Grok Bottom + More A.I. Talent Wars + ‘Crypto Week’ 1:08:19

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This week, we tick through the many dramatic headlines surrounding xAI, including the departure of X’s chief executive, Linda Yaccarino; the Grok chatbot spewing antisemitic comments; and the A.I. companion Ani engaging in sexually explicit role-play. Then, we explain why a fight to acquire the start-up Windsurf startled many in Silicon Valley and …

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Know Your Enemy: How Republics End (w/ Mike Duncan) [Unlocked] 1:15:39

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This episode from January 2025 has been un-paywalled for your summer enjoyment... A stock rhetorical trope on the right is to invoke ancient Rome when talking about American decline—often making direct comparisons between the Goth invaders and contemporary immigrants, obsessing over homosexuality and Rome's fall, and more. If their understanding of…

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Bankless: ROLLUP: ETH Breaks New Records While BTC Hits ANOTHER All Time High 56:28

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We’re celebrating "Crypto Week" as declared by Trump amid the introduction of key regulatory bills. But perhaps more importantly, Bitcoin's new all-time high, Ethereum's rising institutional interest, and Tom Lee's goal of acquiring 5% of ETH supply. Highlights include Base's new "everything app," the trend of Bitcoin miners viewing ETH as a treasu…

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Razib Khan's Unsupervised Learning: David Gress: Plato and NATO 25 years later 1:14:27

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Today Razib talks to David  Gress, a Danish historian. The son of an American literary scholar and a Danish writer, he grew up in Denmark, read Classics at Cambridge, and then earned a Ph.D. in medieval history from Bryn Mawr College in the US in 1981. During a fellowship form 1982-1992 at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, he published on C…

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Ones and Tooze: Heterodox Economists: Thorstein Veblen 38:04

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Adam and Cameron continue their occasional series on heterodox economists. This week, they discuss the life and work of the American economist Thorstein Veblen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Foreign Policy

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The Daily: Congress Just Gave Away Its Power to Trump 25:18

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Last night, President Trump achieved a major victory: persuading both chambers of Congress to cancel billions of dollars in spending that they had already approved. In the process, the Republican-led Congress is giving President Trump the power that it, and it alone, is supposed to have. Guest: Catie Edmondson, a congressional correspondent for The…

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Odd Lots: Mayor Eric Adams on the Future of New York City 46:17

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Incumbent NYC Mayor Eric Adams didn't run in the Democratic primary. But he'll be on the ballot in November, running as an independent against Zohran Mamdani and probably a couple of other candidates as well. So what is his vision for addressing affordability? What can the Mayor do about crime, trash, and other quality of life issues. On this episo…

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Bell Curve: Ethereum’s Comeback, PumpFun’s ICO, and Crypto’s Regulatory Shift | Roundup 59:38

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In this episode, Mippo and Vance discuss Ethereum’s resurgence driven by institutional inflows, and stablecoin adoption. They also dive into the PUMP ICO, its market positioning, and consumer platform potential. Finally, they cover regulatory developments, including the CLARITY and GENIUS Acts, and Coinbase’s wallet rebrand. Enjoy! -- Arkham is a c…

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Left, Right & Center: Will Trump lose support from his base over handling of Epstein case? 50:30

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Donald Trump’s newest beef is with the MAGA movement. Could the honeymoon be ending? Plus, is tourism to the United States in trouble?By KCRW

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Left, Right & Center: Is the MAGA crowd losing faith in its leader? 50:30

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Prior to his re-election in 2024, Donald Trump committed to releasing files related to several controversial investigations, including the Jeffrey Epstein case. Epstein was an alleged sex trafficker who died while in prison in 2019. Epstein’s connections to prominent figures and the suspicious circumstances surrounding his death created fodder for …

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Better Offline: Monologue: The Updated Pale Horses of the AIpocalypse 14:27

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In this week’s monologue, Ed Zitron walks you through the pale horses of the AIpocalypse - and how the AI bubble’s deepest weakness is that it’s almost entirely based on vibes. Anthropic’s new data center in Indiana: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/technology/amazon-ai-data-centers.html YOU CAN NOW BUY BETTER OFFLINE MERCH! Go to https://cottonb…