Jen and Noam discuss the breaking news that the president and foreign minister of Iran are…dead. Maybe? Missing, at the very least, after their helicopter crashed. We also finally discuss the Trump trial currently underway in New York, the oth

Episode 117 - Lack Of Eurovision

11 days ago 1h 9m

Noam and Jen talk all things Israel - Eurovision, 90s Jew Goths, Hamas agreeing to its own ceasefire deal, Biden’s big military aid announcement, the walkback of Biden’s big military aid announcement, the UN walking back the number of dead civi

Episode 116 - Mask On, Mask Off

18 days ago 1h 15m

Jen and Noam get a bit philosophical on the topic of the campus protests, the obsession with masks, the difference between Columbia and USC, what happens when cops and civilians don’t hold up their end of the bargain, how the encampers are just

Episode 115 - Encampments And Gravel Pits

25 days ago 1h 13m

Noam and Jen chat about Kristi Noem’s insane story about how she shot a puppy instead of doing literally anything else, lore from election years past, the escalation of campus encampment protest, when calling the police is and is not warranted,

Episode 114 - Exodus 20:24

Apr 22nd, 2024 1h 13m

Jen and Noam revisit the Iran - Israel conflict now that Israel retaliated by coming thisclose to hitting a nuclear facility in Iran, Ukraine finally getting funding from the US, how stupid the Chaos Caucus looks now that they achieved absolute

Episode 113 - Iran Joins The Chat

Apr 15th, 2024 1h 16m

Noam and Jen try to make sense of Iran’s drone/missile strike on Israel, Hamas walking back their own death toll count in Gaza, what happens when you’re filmed tearing down hostage posters, and what happens when you threaten an elected official

Episode 112 - The Unaccountability Gap

Apr 8th, 2024 1h 3m

Jen and Noam make it back in front of their mics to talk about the IDF holding itself accountable for its WCK screwup, Jen messing up the WCK’s name a few times, absolutely illogical statements and theories that fall apart under basic rationali

Episode 111 - Riding The Twitter Brainworms

Mar 25th, 2024 1h 9m

Noam and Jen discuss brainworms. All the brainworms. From the insane DoorDash Discourse and how it has pitted the “food delivery is exploitative” crowd against the “how dare you discriminate against disabled people” crowd, how the terrorist att

Episode 110 - MRE Reviews And TikTok Blues

Mar 18th, 2024 1h 3m

Jen and Noam discuss Westerners not being impressed with the MREs that the US has airdropped into Gaza, a continuation and deeper dive into our thoughts on the TikTok divestment bill, and everyone - once again - getting worried about the wrong

Episode 109 - Trad Women and Yass Men

Mar 11th, 2024 1h 17m

Noam and Jen tackle the whispery yet shouty State of the Union address, Alabama senator Katie Britt’s bizarre and creepy kitchen SOTU rebuttal, the Congressional effort to make ByteDance divest from TikTok US, and the curious case of Jeff Yass

Episode 108 - Getting Sandwiched

Mar 4th, 2024 1h 12m

Jen and Noam spend way too much time discussing Aella’s birthday…uh…party, Adam Rubenstein’s Very Bad Sandwich Answer and how the NYT totally lied about the series of events leading to the infamous Tom Cotton op-ed, and sandwiched in the middle

Episode 107 - DE-AI

Feb 26th, 2024 1h 9m

Noam and Jen give their opinions on the Google Gemini’s utterly failed launch and how it happened, how to know when the GPTs really become sentient, Alabama bringing the fight over IVF to the forefront of political discussion, what Jews think o

Episode 106 - To Scam A Journalist

Feb 20th, 2024 1h 13m

Jen and Noam talk about Alexei Navalny’s sad but all too predictable death at the hands of the Russian government, how said government isn’t even trying to come up with believable cover stories anymore, the absurdness of Tucker Carlson’s Moscow

Episode 105 - Angry Old Men

Feb 12th, 2024 1h 14m

Noam and Jen discuss the burning questions surrounding the Super Bowl that had not yet taken place when they recorded, the growing tension about Biden’s and Trump’s mental fitness, Jen finally finds her Biden voice and also points out that Demo

Episode 104 - School Of Woke

Feb 5th, 2024 1h 8m

Jen and Noam take a break from the wars abroad to focus on the wars at home. We’ve got Woke Kids in San Francisco who still can’t pass their standardized tests, Terminally Online Conservatives (including Trump) vs Taylor Swift, and a disagreeme

Episode 103 - Getting It Backwards

Jan 29th, 2024 1h 4m

Noam and Jen discuss how 2024 is an absolute disaster, and it’s not even February. From backward hard hats, the very serious and urgent but also not very pressing situation at the Texas border, how the SCOTUS decision is being misrepresented to

Episode 102 - Down Goes DeSantis

Jan 22nd, 2024 1h 6m

Jen and Noam discuss waves hands around. We are truly in the 2024 primary muck, with DeSantis dropping out, Trump getting Nikki Haley and Nancy Pelosi confused, figuring out how magnets work, a Black activist wondering why Passover has to be so

Episode 101 - Welcome To 2024

Jan 17th, 2024 1h 6m

Noam and Jen finally make it back into the podcast…well it’s a room now, albeit an unfishined one. While we know we missed 231 news cycles during the few weeks we were gone, we’re back in time to discuss the kickoff of the 2024 primary season,

Episode 100 - Off His Ballot

Dec 26th, 2023 1h 3m

Jen and Noam make it to 100…episodes, that is. Not that we don’t feel 100 years old here at the end of 2023. Man, we’re a long way from Episode 0. We discuss Briahna Joy Gray showing up out of nowhere to prove she lies about the death toll in G

Episode 99 - Soup Nazis

Dec 18th, 2023 1h 2m

Noam and Jen tackle the issue of inflation and How Much Does It Cost To Make Chicken Soup At Home, a staffer having sex in a Congressional hearing room, the horribly sad friendly fire deaths of three Isralei hostages, and our thoughts on the Ap

Episode 98 - The Context Trap

Dec 12th, 2023 1h 5m

Jen and Noam discuss how Hanukkah is pretty awesome, the Israel - Palestine war bringing the chickens home to roost at elite US universities, idiots not knowing what from the river to the sea means, rape apologists, current Argentinian presiden

Episode 97 - Failing The DNA Test

Dec 4th, 2023 1h 11m

Noam and Jen discuss the silliness of using a DNA test to identify one’s nationality, the Israeli military intelligence failure that led to 10/7, viewing Gaza and the West Bank as two separate entities, the rise of 10/7 truthers, conservatives

Episode 96 - Dealing With Hamas

Nov 27th, 2023 1h 10m

Jen and Noam pick up where they left off last week with a discussion about the Israeli hostage swap, how Egypt is getting sick of Hamas, how Jen is sick of Hamas sympathizers being gross on the internet, the newest revelations of what lies bene

Episode 95 - Getting To The Bottom Of Al-Shifa

Nov 20th, 2023 1h 4m

Noam and Jen… absolutely forget the discuss the bin Laden TikTok trend because the IDF started releasing damning footage from Al-Shifa hospital, including hostages and underground tunnels. They talk about the footage, non-believers, people who

Episode 94 - The Behavior Gap

Nov 15th, 2023 1h 14m

Jen and Noam discuss…a whole bunch of random stuff. MrBeast makes the internet mad (again) by being a decent human, governments that waste humanitarian money on God knows what, random bits on the Israel - Hamas war, people having to live in the