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Mar 2024

1h 15m

#446 - Tik Tok Flip Flop, Porn-Free Texa...

Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, and Matt Welch

About this episode

* Too much toilet paper

* A subway shooting in Brooklyn

* BTW, dude isn’t dead

* Mike Tyson might kill that YouTube guy with the dumb earrings

* On banning Tik Tok

* Texans have no porn

* Who will win the Russian elections????

* Anti-Italian cable descramblers and freaky phones

* Malaysian monitors Russian election from basement apartment in Malaysia

* That’s not what democracy looks like

* A Fani update

* Repent for not disliking it enough

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