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#533 - Moynihan vs. Moynihan (w/ Lydia M...

Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, and Matt Welch
About this episode

* The Doppelgänger

* Where do these Moynihans come from?

* The journalism disease

* You do not want to get a call from the New York Post

* From schadenfreude to envious cruelty

* Covering the powerful

* What is “social proof?”

* The Epstein obsession

* Incompetence defeats the deep state

* Epstein and language inflation

* Representing the Trump voter

* MTG’s difficulty with economics

* Everyone’s difficulty with economics

* Let’s get a Juul and watch Beetlejuice

* She’s young. He’s not. But they both hate the young.

* Lydia loves deportations

* Her billion dollar idea is…sausage?

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