04:00 Postjournalism and the death of newspapers. The media after Trump: manufacturing anger and polarization (2020), https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=159114
20:00 Christopher Caldwell On Trump And Europe, https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/christopher-caldwell-on-trump-and
24:00 NYP: Disaster in the Oval Office: Dems lead Zelensky, Ukraine off a cliff with pressure to reject mineral deal, https://nypost.com/2025/03/01/opinion/dems-lead-zelensky-ukraine-off-a-cliff-with-pressure-to-reject-mineral-deal/
34:00 John Podhoretz on the Trump v Zelensky blowup, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKb6RW-xra0
37:00 Michael rejoins the show, https://x.com/real_machera
40:00 Michael’s blog and his pro-Russian attitude, https://michaelmacherablog.com/
42:00 Rush Limbaugh, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh
45:00 Howard Stern, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Stern
1:04:00 Zero Day, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_Day_(American_TV_series)
1:18:00 Running Point – Netflix sports comedy, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Running_Point
1:21:00 George Friedman: Trump, Putin and Changing Global Realities, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-knLXnai3Mk
1:28:00 Steve Sailer analyzes Trump’s foreign policy, https://www.stevesailer.net/p/trump-speak-loudly-and-carry-a-smaller
1:44:00 Kip joins to wonder why I never married
1:51:00 How my dad protected me against kiddie fiddlers
1:53:30 When parents become friends with their adult children
2:20:00 People feel righteous
2:23:00 George Friedman on the Ukraine war
2:25:00 How gay were 1970s rock stars, https://www.stevesailer.net/p/how-gay-were-1970s-rock-stars
2:27:00 Kleptogamy, https://dragonflyissuesinevolution13.fandom.com/wiki/Sneaky_F*uckers
2:44:00 FT: How the Oscars went quiet on Trump: Apolitical is the new look in Hollywood as rows mar this year’s Academy Awards and studios shrink from dissent, https://www.ft.com/content/80fcb377-8133-46b7-83ec-f83484944244
2:50:00 Video: Trump and Zelenskyy Heated Oval Office Exchange: Body Language Analysis, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0AIFIK8yKM
3:02:30 Baltimore Bridge Collapse | Full Documentary | NOVA | PBS, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aE7i201jc_A
3:05:00 Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Scott_Key_Bridge_collapse
3:09:00 Victor Davis Hanson on What Trump Thinks of Zelensky and Predicting Geopolitics, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LoQu2x-XZc
3:11:00 News: ‘It’s all been scrapped’: Women in wildland firefighting bootcamps canceled after DEI cuts, https://19thnews.org/2025/02/dei-women-wildland-firefighting-bootcamps-canceled/
3:12:45 Axios: American college chaos, https://www.axios.com/2025/03/02/trump-universities-dei-research-funding
3:16:00 WSJ: BlackRock’s ‘Woke’ Era Is Over: Asset manager has exited climate groups and eliminated diversity targets as it tries to end ESG controversy, https://www.wsj.com/business/blackrocks-woke-era-is-over-ebdbd6e7?mod=hp_lead_pos10
3:25:00 Jeff Bezos Shakes Up The Washington Post, Media Collapse, and Reddit Is Pro-Terrorist,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY6Vzd1mYDM
3:28:00 Why is Kara Swisher sounding insane?
3:39:30 Trump II says DEI is racist against white people
3:46:00 NYT: Trump Threats and Mexico’s Crackdown Hit Mexican Cartel: Several cartel operatives said that for the first time in years, they genuinely feared arrest or death at the hands of the authorities. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/world/americas/mexico-cartel-fentanyl-trump-tariffs.html
3:52:00 Ukraine is the primary cause of its own suffering, https://www.ft.com/content/fcfbfc20-a1c7-4992-a2cd-83b688d349d0
4:07:00 How to Slash the Pentagon Budget | NonZero World feat. Julia Gledhill, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSTnJG_sF54
4:09:30 Believe beautiful young women who tell us how to reduce Pentagon spending
4:26:00 MAGA’s working class base and Trump’s new tech friends
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