A podcast that ambitiously attempts to crossover various topics from the raw unfiltered feed of the internet. Noam Blum and Jen Monroe break down the past week's madness and explore the intersection points of different areas of online discourse.
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Noam and Jen enjoy the relative calm of the past week, where the most controversial take was Walz’s taco recipe. They (well at least Jen) enjoyed that there was an actual discussion about economic policy despite it being price controls vs tariffs, Vance is still weird not for the stuff he did in high school and college, the upcoming DNC, a Taylor L…
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Jen and Noam are exhausted, and it’s not even mid-August. We cover the Walz as VP drama, stolen valor, word coping mechanisms, The Vibes Election, when is anyone going to interview Kamala, Trump’s wild helicopter rise with a black guy, is Trump mentally slipping, the debates that both will and will not happen, weird goings-on in Trumpland,a nd othe…
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Noam and Jen waited for Kamala, but she (or at least her VP nominee announcement) didn’t come. No matter, there was still plenty to talk over; the assissinations of Hamas head Ismael Haniyeh and Hezbollah senior member Fuad Shukr, what it all means for what comes next in the Middle East, the massive prisoner exchange between the US / Germany and Ru…
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Jen and Noam do not have to throw a week’s worth of notes in the fire! Hooray! The past week has still been quite eventful; Kamala (or Nancy, really) gets the thumbs up from all the major Democratic players, Joe says goodbye to the campaign trail, the Democratic veepstakes begins, J.D. Vance is confronted with his own statements, and the Normies st…
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Episode 127 - The Great Unburdening
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Noam and Jen ONCE AGAIN have to preempt a whole week’s worth of news to discuss breaking news, this time to discuss Biden’s announcement that he is dropping out of the presidential race (but not resigning) and endorsing Kamala Harris to be the nominee. We give our initial thoughts on Biden’s bow out, where this leaves the pundit class, how this cha…
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Jen and Noam once again have to preempt a whole week’s news due to the news of an attempted assassination of Trump. We discuss what we don’t know (and may never know) about the motive for the shooting, The Picture, the weirdness of an assassination attempt being a crime of opportunity, what Trump may or may not have learned from his near-death expe…
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Noam and Jen start with the SCOTUS presidential immunity decision (the real news of the week) and Trump already testing the boundaries of the ruling before we move to basically ripping the press to shreds for being a bunch of unserious clout-chasing hacks (except for Alex Thompson) when it comes to the topic of Biden dropping out of the presidentia…
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Jen and Noam discuss The Debate, the Debate Discourse, is it cynical for the press to want to yeet Biden into the sun, does Biden yeet himself from the race, the other guy that was at the debate, where does Kamala fit into this conversation, the importance of a good VP pick, who is Trump gonna pick as his running mate, and will we be talking about …
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Noam and Jen kick off the official beginning of Election Season by giving our pre-debate thoughts, Jen shares her doubts on if this debate will happen as planned, how Trump is basically the luckiest SOB ever, Jen makes a HotD joke that spirals into a discussion on monarchical succession, how “anti-Zionism” reached new lows, a brief history of Israe…
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Episode 122 - Guns, Germs, And Feels
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Jen and Noam discuss SCOTUS deciding that the ATF doesn’t have the authority to enforce the bump stock ban, Hunter Biden’s potential future as a 2A champion (if his dad doesn’t pardon him), 2020 amnesia, AOC and others realizing they are indeed surrounded by antisemites, the recently renewed COVID debate, and doing time on the hunger strike rotatio…
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Noam and Jen spend the whole episode discussing K-pop and anime. Just kidding. They spend the entire episode discussing the breaking news that four hostages taken from the Nova music festival were found and rescued by the IDF, including Noa Argamani. From the news itself to the operation that resulted in the freeing of the hostages, and of course, …
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Jen and Noam note that it is officially Rainbow Capitalism Season, discuss the Trump guilty verdict, the latest Israel - Gaza ceasefire plan (?), the fate of the floaty pier and its humanitarian aid, and life during wartime before near-instant communication was a thing. Ambitious Crossover Attempt has a Twitch channel! Hooray! More streaming for us…
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Episode 119 - Three Jeers For Trump
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Noam and Jen sit down on a lazy Monday to chat all things Trump. Jen does her very best to explain the Trump debacle at LP National without giving you two years of backstory and internecine drama, they discuss Alito flag situation and does it mean Mrs. Alito is part of the J6 Club, non predictions on the Trump hush money trial and how this will all…
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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 other trials that will not be happening before the election, the depressing specter of a presidential debate s…
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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 civilians in Gaza, how Ambitious Crossover Attempt is always ahead of the curve, and Noam’s lack of cool toys …
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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 like Gazans (lol), and the burgeoning backlash to the pro-Palestinian protests. Ambitious Crossover Attem…
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Episode 115 - Encampments And Gravel Pits
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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, body cam videos, the possibility of Donald Trump having to submit a picture of his junk in his criminal t…
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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 absolutely nothing, the rapidly escalating antisemitic protest situation at Columbia and who is responsible, and o…
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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 in real life. Ambitious Crossover Attempt has a Twitch channel! Hooray! More streaming for us (and you)! …
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Episode 112 - The Unaccountability Gap
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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 rationality, the lack of accountability from literally anyone else anywhere, university students being held account…
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Episode 111 - Riding The Twitter Brainworms
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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 attack in Moscow was done by anyone other than the ISIS group that committed it, and Candace Owens finally ge…
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Episode 110 - MRE Reviews And TikTok Blues
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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 thing when it comes to the words coming out of Trump’s mouth. Ambitious Crossover Attempt has a Twitch cha…
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Episode 109 - Trad Women and Yass Men
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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 and the flip-flopping Republicans. And, of course, Dune 2. Ambitious Crossover Attempt has a Twitch channe…
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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 is a serious discussion about SCOTUS’s decision to take up the presidential immunity case. Ambitious Cros…
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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 of recreational sex, the death throes of CPAC, and how streaming is super hard. Ambitious Crossover Attempt…
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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 adventure, and how it is that a financial advice columnist ends up handing over $50k in a shoebox. Ambiti…
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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 Democrats are falling into the same deus ex machina trap that Republicans have, Hamas having a server room und…
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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 disagreement on the practicality, useability, and desirability of the recently released Apple Vision Pro. Ambitious …
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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 push a narrative, our initial thoughts on the death of three US servicemen in Jordan, what does the US do…
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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 Jew-centric, progressives wishcasting Trump as a Gaza dove, and the lessons learned from Desert Storm. BT…
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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, Trump’s big Iowa win, the strange new simping for Houthis and their Red Sea piracy, and how slavery is OK …
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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 Gaza, the Colorado ruling that Trump is ineligible for their ballot, what SCOTUS may or may not do, judicia…
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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 Apple+ show Silo at the halfway point of the first season. And as we allude to at the end of the episode, th…
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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 president and recent Jewish conversion candidate Javier Milei, Jen makes a pitch for Jews to become libertarians, …
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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 being weird about gay couples having children, George Santos being kicked out of Congress, Representative …
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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 beneath Al-Shifa hospital, evidence never being enough for the people asking for evidence, pizza not being a t…
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Episode 95 - Getting To The Bottom Of Al-Shifa
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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 are mad that developments do not travel at the speed of social media, the need to ensure nobody will get b…
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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 world they created (and losing their jobs because of it), the proper way of wearing a tallit, Hamas’ mast…
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Episode 93 - From The Motte To The Bailey
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Noam and Jen discuss the push to make “from the river to the sea Palestine will be free” a call for happy fun peacetime instead of the call for genocide that it is, how Israel is not ethnically cleansing Gaza, Hamas being an awful government, nobody really caring about Palestinians, and the potential for engaging people in your DMs. Ambitious Cross…
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Jen and Noam spend yet another week discussing the war between Israel and Gaza, mainly because people can’t stop acting like jackasses about it. From idiots rippinng down posters of the kidnapped, telling Jews to stay indoors, and crying for a “ceasefire”, it’s been a long week. On a brighter note, we do discuss how the embargo on Western media rep…
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Episode 91 - The Fog Machine Of War
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Noam and Jen return to discuss more things Israeli - Palestinian war, like Western mainstream media getting caught showing their whole ass by repeating fake news from Hamas, applying critical thinking to implausible stories, journalistic malfeasance, the need to make the IDF and Hamas morally equivalent, the absolutely insane wave of antisemitism f…
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Jen and Noam return after a small Hamas-induced hiatus to discuss the horrifying situation in Israel, history, the stated purpose of Hamas, what the “free Palestine” movement is really about, why the modern state of Israel exists, Jen getting shouty about how pro-Palestine activists don't care about Palestinians, examining pictures of dead babies a…
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Noam and Jen wrap up The Saga Of Fetterman’s Pajamas, move on to discussing Jamal Bowman’s use of the wrong door at the wrong time, defending the indefensible by stripping away all context, briefly discuss Diane Feinstein’s death, somehow end up talking about abortion, and end on discussing Tears of the Kingdom. I dare you to find another podcast w…
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Episode 88 - Pizza, Pajamas, And Payola
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Jen and Noam discuss Bob Menendez’s pockets full of money, Noam’s plan for gold bar laundering, the Washington Post trying (and failing) to ruin Dave Portnoy’s pizza party, the Metaverse, Fetterman’s clothing options, and how depression doesn’t work the way everyone seems to think it does. Ambitious Crossover Attempt has a Twitch channel! Hooray! M…
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Episode 87 - Reaching Across The Aisle
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Noam and Jen discuss Lauren Boebert’s….date night, Mitt Romney calling it quits and the legacy of his presidential run, people using Twitter to fill the yawning void in their lives, Hasan Minhaj’s embellishments for clapter, Russel Brand’s past coming back to haunt him, and a small review of the anime From The New World. And, true to her word, Jen …
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Jen and Noam return to discuss perennial Main Character Elon Musk’s bad week, from his threat to sue the ADL over advertisers leaving TwitX to the revelation from his upcoming biography that he might have directly intervened in the Ukranian war via Starlink access. And, true to her word, Jen created an Ambitious Crossover Attempt Twitch channel! Ho…
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Noam and Jen (mostly) take a break from politics to discuss pronoun choices in Starfield, genitalia choices in Baldur’s Gate 3, Barbie and Mario being the big hits of this year’s movie season, entering the Golden Age of Geriatric Millenial Retail Entertainment, anime we’re watching and have watched, and other random stuff. And, true to her word, Je…
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Episode 84 - Mugging For The Camera
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Jen and Noam talk The Mugshot, roomers, Noam’s trip to a Civil War museum in Virginia, the now officially scheduled DC trial date, a bit of GOP deabte recap, and how we both very much dislike Vivek and wish he’d shut up. And, true to her word, Jen created a Ambitious Crossover Attempt Twitch channel! Hooray! More streaming for us (and you)! We will…
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Noam and Jen do a regular full-length episode talking about Trump’s many indictments and the various reactions to them, the canceled press conference, his Constitutional fitness for office, DeSantis finally turning on Trump supporters, his debate to-do list, and how Trump doesn’t have to show up to debates now cuz reasons. We will make more content…
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Jen and Noam talk how Trump is going to be charged with doing a RICO in Georgia, how he just can’t stop posting (Truthing?), Sam Bankman-Fried being placed in pre-trial detention for witness tampering, the Maui fire, and a bunch of other random stuff. Shorter episode today because August is a bad, boring month.…
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