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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 173 - Everyone Is Online Fighting
Jen and Noam take a (slight) break from discussing politics to talk about internet drama. We go over the reveal that everyone's favorite topic of discussion…
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Episode 172 - Primary Concerns
Noam and Jen finally record this week's episode! We talk about the big NYC Democratic primary upset of Andrew Cuomo by Zohran Mamdani, what is going on with…
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Episode 171 - Dropping The Midnight Hammer
Jen and Noam discuss the war thing that happened last week, including (well, mostly) the US strike on Iranian uranium enrichment facilities. Was it a good…
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Episode 170 - War Comes To Iran
Noam and Jen spend most of the episode discussing the current escalation of the Israel—Iran conflict and our various thoughts about it. Noam also teaches you…
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Episode 169 - ICE Capades
Jen and Noam discuss…all of the things. We unpack the Trump - Musk breakup (for now), Terry Moran being suspended over a tweet that was correct but not nice…
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Episode 168 - The Post-Consequence Era
Noam and Jen start out by discussing the Glenn Greenwald sex tape, because those are words that go together now. From there we move into discussing the Western…
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Episode 167 - Globalizing The Intifada
Jen and Noam discuss Biden's big cancer announcement, the timing, the susness, how people can be very weird when it comes to cancer, and some of the…
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Episode 166 - Abundantly Dumb
Noam and Jen discuss the mind numbing amount of stupid that took place last week, like people pretending to be very upset about James Comey's dumb 86 47 post…
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Episode 165 - In Plane Sight
Jean and Noam discuss the audacity of Trump accepting a "gift" of a luxury jet from Qatar, how we still have no idea what is going on with the tariffs, the…
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Episode 164 - Politics And Sinners
Noam and Jen discuss a politician with alleged mental impairments that would keep him from being able to do his job. No, not Trump, John Fetterman. Also, the…
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Episode 163 - Crisis Of Uncertainty
Jen and Noam are not certain what is going on. Businesses are not certain what is going on. The president seems certain about what is going on but is he…
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Episode 162 - ...And Process For All
Noam and Jen the ongoing immigration saga involving Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Trump administration's refusal to bring him back to the US despite a unanimous…
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Episode 161 - The Plan Is A Lie
Jen and Noam talk about tariffs some more because we're not off that roller coaster yet, and who knows when we will be. Who has tariffs, who doesn't, how much…
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Episode 160 - Trade Imbalanced
Jen and Noam talk about tariffs. Not just a stream of expletives though, we have a thoughtful discussion about the concepts of tariffs as a policy, their…
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Episode 159 - Sucked Into The Chat
Noam and Jen return from an unplanned break just in time to discuss a titanically bad week in American politics. We have Cabinet members inadvertently sharing…
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Episode 158 - Lasting Consequences
Jen and Noam work their way through another week of news; the tariff rollercoaster, another Ukraine - Russia policy fail, and the case of Mahmoud Khaili. We…
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Episode 157 - Defending The Indefensible
Noam and Jen muster the strength to talk about the week that was, as crappy as it was. We go over the ongoing saga of the Tate brothers and those who feel the…
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Episode 156 - Unsuitable Deals
Jen and Noam spend her birthday breaking down an extremely chaotic week in news. We discuss the new Alex Thompson and Jake Tapper book about Biden, the botched…
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Episode 155 - Elon's Email Emergency
Noam and Jen go over Elon's not so great week and his not so great reactions to his personal dramas. Specifically, his decision to send out an email to every…
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Episode 154 - The Gulf Between
Jen and Noam once again try to shove a week's worth of events into one pod episode, which is getting harder and harder because everyone refuses to just be…
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Episode 153 - Wag The DOGE
Noam and Jen talk too much again this week and still don't cover everything that happened. What didn't happen are the tariffs on Canada and Mexico…
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Episode 152 - There's A New Tariff In Town
Jen and Noam cannot fit all of the events of this past week into one episode so we decide to focus on the upcoming slate of tariffs and the horrible American…
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Episode 151 - Wave Analysis
Noam and Jen try their best to ride the wave of news from Trump's first week back in his old office. We try to decipher what Musk's, er, heartfelt wave to the…
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Episode 150 - TikTok FlipFlop
Jen and Noam kick off the Trump presidency by discussing their first thoughts on his inaugural performance, Melania's choice of head and face covering, if…
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Episode 149 - Zucking Up
Noam and Jen are back for 2025! While it feels like it has been a few months since we last recorded it has only been a few weeks, we can't help that the…
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Episode 148 - Good Days And Bad Days
Jen and Noam sit down one last time in 2024 to talk about how old people are just the worst. This past week gave us a Wall Street Journal piece detailing how…
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Episode 147 - Pardon The Drones
Noam and Jen try very hard to fit the past week into an hour and….we did pretty well! We discuss Luigi Mangione and how he is not qualified to make final…
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Episode 146 - Rawdogging The News
Jen and Noam do their very best to tackle all of the important news stories from last week. We have everyone's favorite segment the Taylor Lorenz Minute where…
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Episode 145 - The Collapsing Axis
Noam and Jen go over the surprisingly successful offense that anti-Assad forces have mounted in Syria over the past few days, including their retaking of…
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Episode 144 - Skeeting Through It
Jen and Noam discuss Matt Gaetz withdrawing from the Attorney General nomination at Trump's request and what does it mean, the Ethics report and what could…
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Episode 143 - Picks Of The Litter
Noam and Jen try to dissect Trump's bizarre Cabinet nominations, from the stupid to the desperate to the dangerous. We speculate on recess appointments, how…
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Episode 142 - Aw Shit, Here We Go Again
Jen and Noam discuss the only thing that happened this week - Donald Trump is officially going back to the White House. We don't try to unpack all of the…
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Episode 141 - Everybody Herds
Noam and Jen spend this last episode before the election discussing the intricacies of the popular anime Neon Genesis: Evangelion, how its themes refer back to…
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Episode 140 - Rules Of Endorsement
Jen and Noam discuss the decision made by…well not the employees of the Washington Post to not endorse a candidate this election cycle and their disagreements…
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Episode 139 - Au Revoir Sinwar
Noam and Jen discuss the dispatching of Yahya Sinwar to the next realm, the deification of him by Western idiots, bricks of cash, Birkin bags, and the…
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Episode 138 - Sugar-Coatesing
Jen and Noam wade into Ta-Nehisi Coates' wading into the Israeli - Palestinian conflict, Noam compares Coates to an etrog (look that up kids), the CBS struggle…
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Episode 137 - One Year Later
Noam and Jen start the pod discussing the one year anniversary of the 10/7 massacre in Israel and where the various wars stand now, the rather hilarious update…
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Episode 136 - RIP Hezbollah
Jen and Noam discuss all things foreign policy - the escalation of Hezbollah leadership to the afterlife, what does it mean for Iran, the US being kept out of…
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Episode 135 - Explosive Texts
Noam and Jen are back with a hot, spicy, and sexy episode of Ambitious Crossover Attempt! The pair explore the scandalous tale of young, sexy star reporter…
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Episode 134 - Cat's Out Of The Bag
Jen and Noam discussed last week's events the way a four-year-old eats; we mashed everything together on the plate and consumed it. From the Trump - Harris…
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Episode 133 - The Americans
Noam and Jen discuss notable conservative podcasters / YouTubers getting busted taking Russian money, the silliness of the "I was deceived!" defense, who is…
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Episode 132 - Joy, Division
Jen and Noam discuss the joyful DNC, the rejection of the progressive keyboard warriors and their dumb demands, the contrast between Team Happy and whatever…
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Episode 131 - Spicy Hot Takes
Noam and Jen enjoy the relative calm of the past week, where the most controversial take was Walz's taco recipe. They (well at least Jen) enjoyed that there…
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Episode 130 - Exhaustion '24
Jen and Noam are exhausted, and it's not even mid-August. We cover the Walz as VP drama, stolen valor, word coping mechanisms, The Vibes Election, when is…
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Episode 129 - Waiting For Kamala
Noam and Jen waited for Kamala, but she (or at least her VP nominee announcement) didn't come. No matter, there was still plenty to talk over; the…
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Episode 128 - Veeps
Jen and Noam do not have to throw a week's worth of notes in the fire! Hooray! The past week has still been quite eventful; Kamala (or Nancy, really) gets the…
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Episode 127 - The Great Unburdening
Noam and Jen ONCE AGAIN have to preempt a whole week's worth of news to discuss breaking news, this time to discuss Biden's announcement that he is dropping…
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Episode 126 - Dodged A Bullet
Jen and Noam once again have to preempt a whole week's news due to the news of an attempted assassination of Trump. We discuss what we don't know (and may…
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Episode 125 - Lit Week On The Hill
Noam and Jen start with the SCOTUS presidential immunity decision (the real news of the week) and Trump already testing the boundaries of the ruling before we…
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Episode 124 - Joe Goes Cold
Jen and Noam discuss The Debate, the Debate Discourse, is it cynical for the press to want to yeet Biden into the sun, does Biden yeet himself from the race…
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Episode 123 - POTUS On PEDs
Noam and Jen kick off the official beginning of Election Season by giving our pre-debate thoughts, Jen shares her doubts on if this debate will happen as…
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Episode 122 - Guns, Germs, And Feels
Jen and Noam discuss SCOTUS deciding that the ATF doesn't have the authority to enforce the bump stock ban, Hunter Biden's potential future as a 2A champion…
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Episode 121 - Hostage Takes
Noam and Jen spend the whole episode discussing K-pop and anime. Just kidding. They spend the entire episode discussing the breaking news that four hostages…