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1 | Dispatch | Ep. # | Release Date | Guest | Book Count | Book Title | Author | Mentioned by | Comments | Absences | |||||||||||||||||
2 | Ep. 1 | 1 | 4/1/2016 | N/A | 1 | The Cartel | Don Winslow | Kmele | No author given, presumed. Kmele credits Welch with the recommendation - 14:30 | ||||||||||||||||||
3 | 2 | Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent | Harvey A. Silvergate | Matt | How the average American commits 3 felonies a day - 26:15 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
4 | 3 | The Run of His Life: The People vs. O.J. Simpson | Jeffery Toobin | Michael | Criticism of the OJ Simpson trial as related to race - 58:00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
5 | Ep. 2 | 2 | 4/8/2016 | N/A | 4 | Overruled: The Long War for Control of the U.S. Supreme Court | Damon Root | Matt | Author is also a guest on ep. 45 - 26:30 | ||||||||||||||||||
6 | Ep. 3 | 3 | 4/15/2016 | Harry Siegel | 5 | Canarsie: The Jews and Italians of Brooklyn Against Liberalism | Jonathan Rieder | Michael | Jews and Italians in Canarsie, Brooklyn in the 80's and voting - 14:00 | ||||||||||||||||||
7 | Ep. 4 | 4 | 4/20/2016 | N/A | 6 | The News About the News: American Journalism in Peril | Leonard Downie Jr. & Robert G. Kaiser | Matt | Terrible thumb-sucker books that wrestle with each other on the real definiton of journalism - 56:00 | ||||||||||||||||||
8 | 7 | Breaking the News: How the Media Undermine American Democracy | James M. Fallows | Matt | Terrible thumb-sucker books that wrestle with each other on the real definiton of journalism - 56:01 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
9 | 8 | The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and The Public Should Expect | Bill Kovach & Tom Rosenstiel | Matt | Terrible thumb-sucker books that wrestle with each other on the real definiton of journalism - 56:02 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
10 | 9 | High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society | Dr. Carl Hart | Kmele | Challenges of implementing lasting drug reform - 59:30 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
11 | Ep. 5 | 5 | 4/28/2016 | Andy Levy | 10 | Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media | Noam Chomsky & Edward S. Herman | Michael | Hollywood notes that this is one of Chomsky's dumber books - 38:00 | Matt | |||||||||||||||||
12 | 11 | A People's History of the United States | Howard Zinn | Michael | Hollywood alludes to Zinn while talking about Chomsky - ??:?? | ||||||||||||||||||||||
13 | 12 | Political Pilgrims: Western Intellectuals in Search of the Good Society | Paul Hollander | Michael | Hollywood recommends all of Hollander's books - 52:00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
14 | Ep. 6 | 6 | 5/4/2016 | N/A | 13 | The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle Over American History | Jill Lepore | Michael | Michael talking about the hysteria surrounding the Tea Party - 17:00 | ||||||||||||||||||
15 | 14 | Tears of a Clown:Glenn Beck and the Tea Bagging of America | Dana Milbank | Michael | Critique of Glenn Beck, born out of anti-Tea Party hysteria - 17:00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
16 | 15 | The Declaration of Independents | Matt Welch & Nick Gillispie | Matt | When out promoting this book Matt was commonly asked "Who do we vote for, what about third parties?" Welch's response was "Bro, it's not about that. It's about single issues and swarming toward them." - 20:00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
17 | 16 | American Amnesia: Business, Government, and the Forgotten Roots of Our Prosperity | Jacob S. Hacker & Paul Pierson | Matt | Welch's contibution to the 'Some Idiot Wrote This' segment of the show. A quote from the book, "There are no rich countries with small governments" - 53:00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
18 | Ep. 7 | 7 | 5/10/2016 | Charles C.W. Cooke | 17 | The Conservatarian Manifesto: Where Conservative and Libertarian Politics Meet | Charles C.W. Cooke | Matt | Author is guest and editor of National review online - 9:00 | ||||||||||||||||||
19 | 18 | That Which Is Seen and That Which Is Not Seen | Frédéric Bastiat | Michael | Free market economics - 19:00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
20 | 19 | The Cult of the Presidency: America's Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power | Gene Healy | Kmele | Hollywood rudely shouts out author before Kmele. Point Kmele - 24:00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
21 | 20 | Imagine | Johah Lerher | Michael | Hollywood gleefully reflects on how he ruined a career - 32:00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
22 | N/A | Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media | Noam Chomsky & Edward S. Herman | Michael | - 34:00 [1st Repeat] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
23 | 21 | Between the World and Me | Ta-Nehisi Coates | Kmele | Kmele waxed poetic about his favorite author - 47:00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
24 | Ep. 8 | 8 | 5/17/2016 | N/A | N/A | Political Pilgrims: Western Intellectuals in Search of the Good Society | Paul Hollander | Michael | Hollywood repeats himself again, mentions Hollander was Prof - 26:00 [1st Repeat] | ||||||||||||||||||
25 | N/A | A People's History of the United States | Howard Zinn | Michael | Replaced junk history with new junk history - 38:00 [1st Repeat] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
26 | 22 | Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House | Peter Baker | Michael | Bush/Cheney Relationship Following 9/11 - 48:00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
27 | Ep. 9 | 9 | 5/25/2016 | N/A | No books mentioned this episode | ||||||||||||||||||||||
28 | Ep. 10 | 10 | 6/1/2016 | Thaddeus Russell | 23 | A Renegade History of the United States | Thaddeus Russell | Kmele | Author is guest | ||||||||||||||||||
29 | 24 | Vile France: Fear, Duplicity, Cowardice and Cheese | Denis Boyles | Matt | Trump may be right about certain countries not paying their fair share for NATO. Welch/Moynihan theorising that this contributes to countries not taking essential resposibilities, and talking shit about their protector, which in turn gives rise to anti-french neo-con sentiment epressed in these books following 9/11. - 33:00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
30 | 25 | Our Oldest Enemy: A History of America's Disastrous Relationship with France | John J. Miller & Mark Molesky | Matt | - 33:00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
31 | N/A | A People's History of the United States | Howard Zinn | Michael | Hollywood alludes to this for the 3rd time - 45:00 [2nd Repeat] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
32 | 26 | Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History | Robert D. Kaplin | Matt | History of Balkans and relation to Kosovo - 48:00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
33 | 27 | Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence | Bryan Burrough | Michael | An account of the battle between the FBI & revolutionary movements of the '70s - 59:00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
34 | Ep. 11 | 11 | 6/8/2016 | N/A | 28 | Millionaire Republican | Wayne Allyn Root | Matt | A MAGA "Libertarian" wrote this... - 6:00 | ||||||||||||||||||
35 | N/A | The Run of His Life: The People vs. O.J. Simpson | Jeffery Toobin | Michael | Talking about the TV series and how they wanted to get a "downtown jury." - 41:00 [1st Repeat] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
36 | 29 | Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times | Thomas Hauser | Michael | "What's the difference between a Jew and a canoe?... A canoe tips." Muhammad Ali - 1:02:30 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
37 | 30 | Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made | Eugene D. Genovese | Michael | Moynihan giving Ta-Nehisi credit for being knowledgeable and reading much more than others who decide to talk about issues of race and slavery - 1:09:30 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
38 | Ep. 12 | 12 | 6/14/2016 | N/A | 31 | Politics and the English Language | George Orwell | Michael | Matt alludes to Orwell's writings in reference to the constant debate over semantics and language, and Moynihan offers up the specific Orwell title - 35:00 | ||||||||||||||||||
39 | 32 | Minority Report | Phillip K. Dick | Michael | Pre-crime/thought crime - 51:30 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
40 | 33 | How Terrorism Ends: Understanding the Decline and Demise of Terrorist Campaign | Audrey Kurth Cronin | Kmele | |||||||||||||||||||||||
41 | Ep. 13 | 13 | 6/22/2016 | N/A | 34 | Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil | Hannah Arendt | Michael | Trying to figure out what in the time prior to the rise of Nazism that created it - 18:00 | ||||||||||||||||||
42 | 35 | Official Negligence: How Rodney King and the Riots Changed Los Angeles and the LAPD | Lou Cannon | Michael | Talking about the OJ documentary on ESPN, Moynihan brings up this book in which the author makes an arument that the officers in the Rodney King trial may have been rightfully aquitted - 47:00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
43 | 36 | The Fire Next Time | James Balwin | Kmele | Getting to a place where it's hard to discern between real and imagined things, because of real historical disadvantagement - 1:02:00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
44 | Ep. 14 | 14 | 6/29/2016 | Virginia Postrel | 37 | The Power of Glamour: Longing and the Art of Visual Persuasion | Virginia Postrel | Kmele | Introducing the guest - 2:00 | ||||||||||||||||||
45 | 38 | The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise, and Progress | Virginia Postrel | Kmele | " " | ||||||||||||||||||||||
46 | 39 | The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness | Virginia Postrel | Kmele | " " | ||||||||||||||||||||||
47 | 40 | Terror and Liberalism | Paul Berman | Michael | Genesis of the Islamist thought - 56:00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
48 | 41 | The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 | Lawrence Wright | Michael | Moynihan talking about our perception of terror pre-9/11 was that of secular terror and we didn't understand the Islamist turn - 56:00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
49 | Ep. 15 | 15 | 7/7/2016 | N/A | 42 | Churchill, Hitler and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World | Patrick J. Buchanan | Matt | Trump in the 90s basically called Buchanan a Nazi for writing this book, and now leans into the same populist tendencies - 31:00 | Kmele | |||||||||||||||||
50 | 43 | Power and the Idealists: Or, the Passion of Joschka Fischer and Its Aftermath | Paul Berman | Michael | Moynihan talking about the differences among people that supported the Iraq war and how they all, unfairly, get painted with the same brush - 55:00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
51 | 44 | A Book About Love | Jonah Lehrer | Matt | Some idiot wrote this, also Moynihan ruined his career - 1:04:00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
52 | 45 | The Fabulist | Stephen Glass | Michael | Books that tanked/plagiarist authors that made comebacks - 1:06:00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
53 | 46 | Burning Down My Masters' House: My Life at the New York Times | Jayson Blair | Michael | Books that tanked/plagiarist authors that made comebacks - 1:06:00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
54 | 47 | Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs | Johann Hari | Matt | Books that tanked/plagiarist authors that made comebacks - 1:06:00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
55 | 48 | How We Decide | Jonah Lehrer | Michael | - 1:07:00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
56 | Ep. 16 | 16 | 7/13/2016 | N/A | 49 | Serpico | Peter Maas | Michael | NYC police force is now majority minority unlike the 1960s - 23:00 | ||||||||||||||||||
57 | N/A | Between the World and Me | Ta-Nehisi Coates | Michael | - 23:00 [1st Repeat] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
58 | Ep. 17 | 17 | 7/21/2016 | N/A | No Books Mentioned (The Republican Autopsy Report, 100 page report worth reading) | Henry Barbour | Michael | ||||||||||||||||||||
59 | 50 | Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future | Peter Thiel | Matt | Thiel is a next level troll - 23:00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
60 | 51 | The Bush Crime Family: The Inside Story of an American Dynasty | Roger Stone | Michael | In a conversation about what candidate Trump's foreign policy is about, Moynihan makes the case that it's about establishment busting - 36:00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
61 | Ep. 18 | 18 | 7/27/2016 | N/A | No Books Mentioned | ||||||||||||||||||||||
62 | Ep. 19 | 19 | 8/4/2016 | N/A | No Books Mentioned | ||||||||||||||||||||||
63 | Ep. 20 | 20 | 8/11/2016 | N/A | 52 | Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich | Peter Schweizer | Michael | DeSouza book club stamp of approval - 34:00 | ||||||||||||||||||
64 | 53 | The Lexus and the Olive Tree | Thomas L. Friedman | Kmele | Good defense of globalization and the free market according to KF - 38:00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
65 | 54 | The Sleep Revolution: Transforming Your Life, One Night at a Time | Arianna Huffington | Michael | You may fall asleep while trying to read this book about sleep - 42:00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
66 | Ep. 21 | 21 | 8/17/2016 | Michael Malice | 55 | Black Man, White House: An Oral History of the Obama Years | D.L. Hughley & Michael Malice | Kmele | Introducing the guest - 2:00 | Michael | |||||||||||||||||
67 | 56 | Dear Reader: The Unauthorized Autobiography of Kim Jong Il | Michael Malice | Kmele | Introducing the guest - 2:00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
68 | 57 | Ego and Hubris: The Michael Malice Story | Harvey Pekar | Kmele | Introducing the guest - 2:00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
69 | 58 | American Maelstrom: The 1968 Election and the Politics of Division | Michael Cohen | Matt | Analogies being drawn between the election of 1968 and the 2016 election, Hilary Clinton is Richard Nixon - 17:00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
70 | 59 | The Republican Revolution 10 Years Later: Smaller Government or Business as Usual? | Chris Edwards | Matt | An unread Cato Institute book - 27:00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
71 | 60 | The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion | Jonathan Haidt | Guest | You're not going to change certain peoples base presumptions that egalitarianism is more important than having a few people get away - 54:00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
72 | N/A | Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future | Peter Thiel | Matt | Welch thinks Peter Thiel is a dick - 1:00:00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
73 | Ep. 22 | 22 | 8/24/2016 | Buck Sexton | 61 | Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS | Joby Warrick | Michael | ISIS started in a Jordanian prison - 27:00 | ||||||||||||||||||
74 | 62 | Darkness at Noon | Arthur Koestler | Michael | Random book mention just to score points - 27:00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
75 | 63 | Progress - Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future | Johan Norberg | Michael | A book about how awesome the world is - 1:05:00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
76 | Ep. 23 | 23 | 8/31/2016 | Andrew Kirell | 64 | Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative | David Brock | Michael | - 53:00 | ||||||||||||||||||
77 | 65 | In Trump We Trust: E Pluribus Awesome! | Ann Coulter | Michael | A Moynihan tweet is referenced in the very beginning of this book - 57:00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
78 | 66 | Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis | J.D. Vance | Michael | A look at why certain working class parts of the country feel so disaffected from a cultural perspective - 1:05:00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
79 | Ep. 24 | 24 | 9/15/2016 | N/A | 67 | The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York | Robert A. Caro | Michael | "Feable opposition of the Trump campaign." Moynihan wants to make sure he gets credit for this one, and not Matt - 7:00 | ||||||||||||||||||
80 | 68 | McCain: The Myth of a Maverick | Matt Welch | Matt | Shameless self-promotion - 47:00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
81 | 69 | Anti-Intellectualism in American Life | Richard Hofstadter | Michael | Not a very good book according to Moynihan and Welch - 49:00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
82 | 70 | The Naked Communist | W. Cleon Skousen | Michael | Everyone and everything is under Moscow's influence - 50:00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
83 | 71 | The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory | Jesse Walker | Matt | Welch recommendation - 52:00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
84 | 72 | Power to the People: The World of the Black Panthers | Bobby Seale & Stephen Shames | Michael | The BPP did some pretty bad shit, but people seem to want to paint them as a nice community organization that gave out free meals. Read Moynihan's piece in the Daily Beast - 1:09:00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
85 | Ep. 25 | 25 | 9/21/2016 | Josh Szeps | 73 | Overblown: How Politicians and the Terrorism Industry Inflate National Security Threats, and Why We Believe Them | John E. Mueller | Michael | This argument may be correct in the U.S., but can't be applied universally. Situations are different in different countries - 44:00 | ||||||||||||||||||
86 | N/A | Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence | Bryan Burrough | Michael | Lots of bombings in NYC in the 70's - 45:00 [1st Repeat] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
87 | Ep. 26 | 26 | 9/29/2016 | N/A | N/A | The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 | Lawrence Wright | Michael | Hugh Hewitt loves getting into the weeds - 13:00 [1st Repeat] | ||||||||||||||||||
88 | 74 | Sex | Madonna | Michael | 68 year-old French woman that is a marketing genius - 41:00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
89 | 75 | Atlas Shrugged | Ayn Rand | Matt | Welch does not like Rand's writing, and could only get to page 73 - 1:00:00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
90 | 76 | The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism | Ayn Rand | Matt | Welch quoting Rand's writing from an essay that ends up in this book, "Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism...Like every other form of collectivism, racism is a quest for the unearned. It is a quest for automatic knowledge — for an automatic evaluation of men’s characters that bypasses the responsibility of exercising rational or moral judgment — and, above all, a quest for an automatic self-esteem (or pseudo-self-esteem)." - 1:00:00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
91 | 77 | We Need to Talk About Kevin | Lionel Shriver | Michael | Shriver loves cultural appropriation (as she should)(NYT Op-ed) - 1:02:00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
92 | 78 | Dust Tracks on a Road | Zora Neale Hurston | Kmele | Abolish race pride - 1:04:00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
93 | 79 | Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom | Peter Kolchin | Kmele | Kmele blown away at the scale and scope of Russian serfdom at the same time that slavery existed in the conlonial U.S. - 1:06:00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
94 | N/A | The Fire Next Time | James Balwin | Kmele | Kmele reads a long Baldwin quote here, Moynihan calls this one of his top 5 Kmele rants - 1:08:00 [1st Repeat] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
95 | 80 | Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph | T.E. Lawrence | Michael | Some people were mad that there were no women in the film 'Lawrence of Arabia' - 1:17:00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
96 | Ep. 27 | 27 | 10/6/2016 | N/A | 81 | The Merchant of Venice | William Shakespeare | Kmele | Kmele's favorite Shakespeare play - 42:00 | ||||||||||||||||||
97 | N/A | McCain: The Myth of a Maverick | Matt Welch | Michael | Moynihan talking about McCain flaming out in 2008 - 44:00 [1st Repeat] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
98 | 82 | In Defense of Elitism | William A. Henry III | Michael | Author saw the SJW movement coming long before its mainstream adoption, and wrote this book with a provocative title - 52:00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
99 | 83 | My Brilliant Friend | Elena Ferrante | Michael | Moynihan's contribution to the 'Some Idiot Wrote This' segment has something to do with this author - 1:00:00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
100 | Ep. 28 | 28 | 10/13/2016 | N/A | This is the episode in which Michael Moynihan gets dubbed "Hollywood" |