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Jeb Lund (American political journalist) and Tim Batt (New Zealand comedian) discuss American politics and quote Simpsons references as the creep of corporatism closes in around them. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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This episode is releasing a little late unfortunately but that's ok because Jeb and Tim are largely talking about the timeless topic of how the 24 hour news cycle is turning our brains to mush. We explore a delayed conversation on Trump's Senate impeachment trial and Tim talks about the one book he read in the last 12 months.
Book: Humankind by Rutger Bregman
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There's one big news story this week and it's Reddit's troll war against Wall Street. Jeb and Tim chew over the finer points of a politically utopian vision of what this may mean (Occupy 2.0, anyone?) before moving onto discussing the Democrats' potentially reforming the filibuster rules in the Senate.
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We're back. American Political journalist/writer Jeb Lund and New Zealand comedian Tim Batt have returned after taking an entire Presidential term off to assess the damage and share what they've been up to in the intervening period. In this episode - Jeb can't bring himself to even bet on the planet being here in another four years but has been following the Church of High Sorkin that is the Biden/Harris inauguration with a glisten...
While Tim's work takes him far afield, Jeb calls in air support from Megan Carpentier, former op-ed editor for The Guardian's US bureau and Jeb's former boss. Together they look over how Trump sabotaged his First 100 Days, how people (and not think tanks) understand taxes, feel relieved that they don't have to cover the Trumpless White House Correspondents' Dinner, and then Megan takes the wheel to guide us through a recent DOJ req...
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Recorded on Feb 16 2017
Jeb Lund grabs the wheel without a co-pilot this week to discuss the sh!t sandwich that is the current situation with recently booted National Secruity Advisor Michael Lynn. Trump meanwhile tries to take the failing White House communication situation in his own hands and achieves an impossible level of stupidity and outrageous disregard for truth and reality. Again.
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