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Ambitious Crossover Attempt
A podcast that ambitiously attempts to crossover various topics from the raw unfiltered feed of the internet. Noam Blum and Jen Monroe break down the past week's madness and explore the intersection points of different areas of online discourse.
Episodes
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Episode 233 - MAGA Blues
Jen and Noam discuss elections. US elections, Israeli elections, how somehow the US elections are Israel's fault. But really, we spend most of the time talking…
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Episode 232 - October Demise
Noam and Jen gear up for the midterms by talking about what an absolute disaster the GOP has become. Specifically, that bonkers ad that Vivek Ramaswamy's…
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Episode 231 - Seeing All The Things
Jen and Noam take some time to talk about important issues like the here one day gone the next WH press secretary Katie Zacharia, the mystery of who gave the…
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Episode 230 - Dog Singularity
Noam and Jen would have liked to spend the whole episode talking about dogs, specifically Yoko. Alas, the new cycles will not allow us that luxury. So we…
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Episode 229 - K Drama
Jen and Noam have a nice long chat about the FlyDubai airplane hijacking, Jacob Geller's weird Title IX admission, the whole mess at Cornell, and Eric…
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Episode 228 - Artificial Intransigence
Noam and Jen get to have the conversation about the upcoming AI apocalypse that they were going to have last week until Nikole Hannah-Jones ruined everything…
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Episode 227 - Failing Grade
Jen and Noam are finally back! Just in time to discuss Nikole Hannah-Jones' big piece on how she was an inattentive parent who left her kid in a bad school…
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Episode 226 - Harp Attack
Noam and Jen are back to discuss navigating DC during Freedom 250 events, Trump's continuing ballroom saga, if we will see a constitutional amendment in our…
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Episode 225 - Arday of Reckoning
Jen and Noam discuss a little Francesca Hong and the general woes of the DSA crowd before getting into the end of the Jason Arday saga. On that topic there is…
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Episode 224 - Gaming The System
Noam and Jen know that 2026 is hard and scary and that everyone wants to return to 2020. But alas, we do have to discuss the things happening in 2026, like…
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Episode 223 - The Web Of AI
Jen and Noam take a (slight) break from discussing the depressing political news to talk about important things, like the controversies surrounding data…
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Episode 222 - Beware Geeks Bearing Grifts
Noam and Jen spend a little time talking about things like Iran and what's going on now before getting into the most important topic of the year: Christopher…
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Episode 221 - The Mainechurian Candidate
Jen and Noam record a day late because they were busy mourning the loss of Lindsey Graham. OK not really, but we did have to push back recording to make sure…
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Episode 220 - Real Americans
Noam and Jen finish up their America250 celebrations in time to record an episode this week, because woo boy last week was a doozy. SCOTUS handed down their…
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Episode 219 - Wiener Dogged
Jen and Noam check in to discuss Scott Wiener's bad week of being hounded in public over his very tepid support of Israel, the primary win of Darializa…
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Episode 218 - Reflecting Poorly
Noam and Jen reflect (heh) on the past week, starting with the reflecting pool and moving on to what exactly is going on with the US and Iran and the MOU. It's…
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Episode 217 - Happy Birthday To Me
Jen and Noam are celebrating the president's birthday! No, we aren't actually! But we are talking about Trump and his on-again, off-again affair with Iran…
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Episode 216 - The Platner Files
Noam and Jen are on time this week, because there's a lot to talk about. As we somewhat alluded to last week, the NYT dropped a story detailing Graham…
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Episode 215 - Trump 250
Jen and Noam are late again, but that's Noam's fault because he's a Euphoria fan (?) now. But we don't just discuss the season (series?) finale of Euphoria, we…
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Episode 214 - Slush Fund Babies
Noam and Jen make it back a day late. It's ok, that's what a three day weekend means. We did have plenty to talk about though, seeing as Trump settled his…
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Episode 213 - Little Trouble in Big China
Surprise! Jen is visiting Boston, so we are podding in person, and we even watched a movie together to discuss (more on that later). We cover Trump's trip to…
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Episode 212 - Hounding Israel
Jen and Noam make it back after Noam's illness (not hantavirus, just regular virus) to discuss Nick Kristof's stupid gullible toxic empathy, how it's not…
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Episode 211 - Artificial Intelligentsia
Noam and Jen make fun of Richard Dawkins finding God in the machine. Ok, not God, but Claude(ia). This kicks off a rambling discussion of AI, consciousness…
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Episode 210 - Shooting And Looting
Jen and Noam return a day late, because one of us has emergency podcast duties now. Of course we have to start with the WHCD and the attempted assasination…
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Episode 209 - Block Aid?
Noam and Jen are not sure what is going on. We…think the war with Iran is still on? Does Trump know? Does anyone? It's all very up in the air, which is not…
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Episode 208 - Islamabad Trip
Jen and Noam are happy that Iran has not been ended. We are not happy about, well, much of anything else that has happened since Tuesday. Between Iran's…
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Episode 207 - Lifelines and Deadlines
Noam and Jen return, a day late but things do happen. Or maybe they don't, which is a running theme of our coverage of the Iran war. This time, maybe Trump is…
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Episode 206 - Holiday In Havana
Jen and Noam are finally back! Not that much has changed - we still don't know what the game plan in Iran is, nor when the Strait of Hormutz will be open…
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Episode 205 - Dire Strait
Noam and Jen return to the war in Iran, after a detour into discussing if Tucker is lying or telling the truth about the CIA getting ready to bring a case…
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Episode 204 - Hit The BRICS
Jen and Noam return to the war (it's a war now, the president said so) in Iran, including the additional strikes completed by Israel on the Assembly of…
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Episode 203 - Bye-atollah
Noam and Jen discuss a little attack on Iran you might have heard about over the weekend, now that Noam is not on Emergency Pod duty for Commentary. Much like…
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Episode 202 - An Idiot Abroad
Jen and Noam return to discuss the Supreme Court shooting down Trump's "national emergency" tariffs, Jen's hope for a restructuring of executive power, Tucker…
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Episode 201 - White Culture War
Noam and Jen record a special Presidents' Day episode where we discuss important things, like Olympic controversies around fingering and penile enhancements…
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Episode 200 - Superbol
Jen and Noam made it to episode 200! Hooray! We have another Super Bowl to talk about, one in which people are angry at the halftime show. Again. Certain…
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Episode 199 - Everyone Emailed Epstein
Jen and Noam discuss a little bit of everything, since we recorded later than usual last week. We got another Epstein files drop, unqualified people in the…
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Episode 198 - ICE Storm
Noam and Jen discuss another shooting death in Minneapolis at the hands of ICE / Border Patrol (we can't tell the difference anymore), the intense fallout from…
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Episode 197 - Give Me Greenland
Jen and Noam return to some of the topics from last week, since things keep going from bad to worse. The situation in Iran has gotten worse, Trump seems really…
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Episode 196 - ICE And Fire
Noam and Jen…well they try to keep this pod from going on for hours, so they had to be a little selective with there was a baker's dozen topics to discuss from…
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Episode 195 - Maduro's Last Dance
Jen and Noam were going to discuss the Somali Medicaid fraud story coming out of Minnesota and CBS News spiking a story about the US sending people to CECOT…
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Episode 194 - Heritage Unamerican
Noam and Jen unfortunately had to cancel their special podcast plans due to the death of Noam's grandfather, but we still recorded an episode nonetheless. We…
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Episode 193 - Intifada Down Under
Jen and Noam discuss the depressing news out of Australia - a Hanukkah celebration on Bondi Beach was targeted by shooters, leaving (as of this writing) 16…
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Episode 192 - Corpse-Wringing
Noam and Jen are back to discuss the never ending use of Charlie Kirk's death by his "friends" to gain clicks and downloads, the FBI announcing they have found…
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Episode 191 - Making The Call
Jen and Noam return after a holiday week where the news did not take a holiday. We've got Hegseth calling to leave no survivors behind during these "kinetic…
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Episode 190 - The Geocide
Noam and Jen discuss the thing we've been asking for TwitX to do for ages - publicly display the country of residence for accounts and if the account is…
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Episode 189 - Dead Man Talking
Jen and Noam discuss the new(ish) information about the seedy world of Jeffrey Epstein, his qualifications for judging evil, the MAGA breakup nobody saw…
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Episode 188 - Shabbat Dinner Theater
Noam and Jen discuss attending Shabbat dinner at the Mandels, who declined to attend, the ongoing situation at both the Heritage Foundation and the…
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Episode 187 - No Enemies To Your Right
Jen and Noam discuss the Great Reckoning taking place in conservative circles due to the Carlson-Fuentes interview, the fallout from that, Heritage Foundation…
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Episode 186 - Ballroom Blitz
Noam and Jen discuss the practice of eating food with your hands, if a ballroom is a good idea, if this ballroom in particular is a good idea, Nazi tattoos…
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Episode 185 - Your Mom
Jen and Noam have a nice chat about how your mom jokes only work when deployed correctly, why young conservatives can't act normal in group chats, are young…
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Episode 184 - Coming Home
Noam and Jen discuss the most obvious thing for them to discuss this week; the return of the living hostages from Gaza and the possible end to the Israel-Gaza…
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Episode 183 - Riyadh-politik
Jen and Noam discuss the comedians who attended the Riyadh Comedy Festival for the money that they didn't need, what happened to the food on the Global Sumud…
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Episode 182 - The Agony Of Now
Noam and Jen discuss…well how everything sucks right now. From the shooting at a Dallas ICE facility, nihilism, how political affiliation doesn't explain much…
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Episode 181 - Kimmel Culture
Jen and Noam manage to get past their (technical) issues and record an episode on the Jimmy Kimmel Saga now that it's over (?), the memorial service for…
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Episode 180 - Turning Point?
Noam and Jen finally return from their hiatus (it's all Noam's fault; he moved) just in time to discuss the murder of Charlie Kirk. While there is still a lot…
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Episode 179 - Policing Gone A-Rye
Jen and Noam discuss the ongoing situation in DC and the agents from…well we can't tell which agency they're from since they don't have ID and their faces are…
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Episode 178 - Piece Talks
Noam and Jen return to discuss the back half of last week, which had more going on than most full weeks. We talk about the Gaza occupation that may or may not…
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Episode 177 - Jean Therapy
Jen and Noam record a late episode this week discussing the American Eagle nontroversy and the end of the culture war, Trump firing the commissioner of the…
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Episode 176 - Spilling The Tea
Noam and Jen did an extra long episode, because it was an extra long week. We start by discussing the tea on Tea, the vibe-coded app that was long on 2018…
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Episode 175 - It's A Wonderful Secret
Jen and Noam kick off this week with a tradlife PSA - don't cheat on your spouse, and don't have meaningless sex. Also, don't let a handler ruin your big…
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Episode 174 - The Eps Files
Noam and Jen tackle one of the more insane weeks in internet discourse. First, we have Grok going a little off the rails and becoming MechaHitler for 16 hours…