Moynihan and Welch talk to Nadav Eyal, senior columnist for Yedioth Ahronoth and one of Israel’s most prominent (and best-sourced) journalists. Typically, we would keep a bonus episode like this one behind the paywall. We were feeling generous today. But never rely on our continued generosity. So subscribe, cheapskate!

* Meetings cancelled, meetings kept

* How the attack on Iran unfolded

* James Bond is a Jew

* Taking out the IRGC leadership and partially neutering Iran’s missile capabilities

* Was Iran actually readying a nuclear weapon?

* Was Trump part of an elaborate ruse?

* Western Europe reacts…

* Does Israel actually drive American foreign policy?

* The Mossad stuff is impressive. But…

* Nadav’s Twitter thread

* The first 48 hours are the easy part

* Netanyahu’s political prospects

* And lots, lots more

Senator Rand Paul joins the lads to lament the big, beautiful bill; the big beautiful Soviet military parade; the Twitter halfwits waging war on him; his party’s descent into populist voodoo economics; whether or not he’s an advocate of “open borders”; and what he makes of Marines on the streets of Los Angeles. After the senator leaves, Foster, Moynihan, and Welch stick around to discuss…all those same issues.

* A grim anniversary

* Elon’s brilliant troll

* The big, ugly bill

* Bannon tells the truth. But is still a liar

* How dare they attack their attacker??

* They have cards

* Asymmetric and immoral

* Changing minds…by human sacrifice

* The blackest propaganda

* The New York Times v. Palantir

* And much, much more

* ABBA’s Vietnam

* Barnen i Nicaragua

* Mike Tyson, Ratso, and Cus the Communist

* Burning down the house / sort of scolded by a firefighter

* The rent is too damn free

* Everyone is contemptuous of everyone

* Is Trump the Bernie Goetz of Harvard?

* Rebutting “higher ed is just fine” revisionism

* From YAF to Students for Liberty to Turning Point…

* Dating apps, height discrimina…

* Racist Macca?

* Some bad names

* In praise of (trans?) Pee Wee

* Does Long Duck Dong denounce his past?

* Was that a Reaganite video game?

* Trade war nonsense: the court says…maybe not

* Moynihan’s $700 dress (including a $250 tariff)

* Kmele on CNN

* The end of Elon

* Just like Reagan and Thatcher but not all

* No suspects, no DNA, no fingerprints, no leads

* MI:7 DEI

* We think we *might* have talked about politics in this episode?

* Happy anniversary Christian Cooper!

* Talking to the dude who made those drug PSAs

* The Glug (1981)

* 2020: The year that broke America

* Burning down the house (almost)

* The tax protestor in our midst

* Johnny Rotten, Johnny Ramone, the Plastic People, and the politics of punl

* Nick of Schumpeterian Gatsby…

* The ritual humiliation white genocide slide show!

* That’s not really true. But it doesn’t really matter, does it?

* Trolling with refugees

* That Mandela picture MM mentioned…

* Uncle Paul

* “Well do you DENOUNCE that language? Huh? Huh? Did you even say thank you??”

* The big, not-so-beautiful bill

* The trillion dollar dome

* Gaza and the “14,000”

* Our Original Sin and Korean Robert

* When did he lose it?

* That Christie clip is actually six years old. But here it is.

* Jack London and hobo Oakland

* The lovely government of Qatar

* Trump in Saudi

* A carnival of corruption

* Chasing heroes…

* The end of the “introventionalists”

* But do they *fear* him?

* The new Chomskyites

* Declining freedom…

* Trump’s fat, rich friend who wants price controls

* The triumph of gesture politics

* Black Leo