Kmele loves Apple products…maybe a little too much. But what a perfect guest to talk all things related to this monster company and how it’s shaped American culture and the globe as a whole.

-The Newton saved Apple

-What Kmele does with Apple products in the shower

-The underdog with taste

-Why Matt Welch hates Macs

-On getting access to Apple

-Project Titan and the $10 billion heartbreak

-Apple as a medical device company

-Still a Steve Jobs disciple of focus

-Apple made China and China made Apple

-Where there is no will, there’s a way

-New locations for Apple manufacturing

-On the fantasy of bringing it back to the US

-Apple Intelligence, deepfakes, and doing AI the “right” way

-All it takes is a Congressperson having sex with a sheep

-Anthropic, cheating, and the possible jobs apocalypse

-The long runway

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-Celine Dion, slightly less stiff

-Every headline out of Hungary is insane

-The Orbán character arc

-The Polish miracle

-Conservative 2Pac in the Borat republic

-Cuba is falling apart, Hasan Piker is thriving

-Cuba’s healthcare miracle, minus aspirin

-Why pseudo-intellectuals love communist field trips

-The pig whose vocal cords had to go

-Trump’s zigzagging is …

-Joe Kent’s weird texts and the “Israel did Iraq” brainworm

-The Jews are so fucking clever

-Iraq 2003, back from the dead yet again

-There’s always a new monster to destroy

-Iran, nukes, and the problem with crazy people holding civilization hostage

-A Ron Paul guy with a war boner

-Don’t you realize you’re losing America?

-Norman Finkelstein has no phone

-Mearsheimering, Robert Pape, and the incentives to go full crank

-Megyn Kelly, the anti-Israel turn, and the warm bath of total nuttiness

-Mark Levin’s penis size enters the chat

-Louis CK and a Michael Barbaro hit job

-the origin of Tough Crowd

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