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For 30 years, New York's legendary Comedy Cellar has served as the launching pad for the greatest stand-up comedians in the world. Colin Quinn, Dave Chappelle, Ray Romano, Dave Attell, Chris Rock, Jon Stewart, Dane Cook, Robert Kelly and Greg Giraldo are just a few of the comedians who began as Cellar regulars. But classic stage performances have never been the only show going on at the Cellar. The biggest comedians in the world come to sit at the table upstairs, where comedians come to argue and discuss the events of the day and their lives, sharpening their comedy knives on each other. This kibitzing (an inspiration for Comedy Central's Tough Crowd), has always been a private affair... until now. Join us for a weekly peek into the happenings at the Comedy Cellar's comedian table, where the funniest people in the world debate and discuss.
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- 2 days ago1h 7m
Is the American Age Over (or is it just Trump)?
Phillips O’Brien is Professor of Strategic Studies at St Andrews. He is the author of The Strategists, How the War Was Won and The Second Most Powerful Man in the World. He has written for The Atlantic, The Spectator and Foreign Affairs. Substack: https://substack.com/@UCpFYfImma_1URlxsC0t9CPQ X: https://x.com/PhillipsPOBrien?lang=en Professor O’Brien joins Noam Dworman, Dan Naturman and Periel Aschenbrand for a conversation about the end of American global dominance and what it means for the future of the United States.They discuss America's military capabilities, the war with Iran, nuclear proliferation, Ukraine, China and Taiwan, and whether American alliances can be restored. 01:15 Is the American Age Over? 03:49 America's Military Strength and the Iran War 10:29 The Bipartisan Roots of American Decline 16:31 Ukraine, Russia and Nuclear Escalation 19:10 America's Economic Strengths and Weaknesses 25:09 Iran's Nuclear Program and the Limits of American Power 45:04 China, Taiwan and the Future of American Alliances 55:12 Iran, Nuclear Deterrence and America's Future
- 1 weeks ago1h 14m
Dan Naturman Comes Back!!! (And an ASUS Zenbook demo!)
"I just don't feel like the podcast is a vehicle for me to shine, or even lightly glow." Dan Naturman's resignation email, read on air in the episode where he comes back - which only happened because Periel booked two different Daniels for the same day and neither one showed up. 0:00 Dan does the intro, and Noam's two-screen Asus laptop demo. 5:18 The calendar debacle: Daniel Mendelsohn, Daniel Levy, then nobody 13:06 Dan quit by email: "a vehicle for me to shine, or even lightly glow" 21:30 Periel's Abraham Accords: cruises, MSC and Dan Tries Things 28:48 Comics Unleashed, the Letterman theory and why Dan's jokes aren't "real" 41:00 The new club's 2 a.m. litter summonses, and Noam concedes on congestion pricing 47:30 Raise the minimum wage, lose the fifth day; $25 covers vs. $50 58:59 Movie-ticket pricing, five rooms, "give good, get good" and Yohay at the Beacon Why did Dan quit, and what would make him stay? Did congestion pricing fail, or is an 11% drop in traffic just invisible from the driver's seat? What actually happened at the Comedy Cellar when wages went up 25%? And why does the Cellar charge $25 when the clubs around it charge $50? Noam and Dan agree on one thing: the Cellar is the cheapest game in town, and Noam isn't going to fix it. Also: Daniel Mendelsohn's Odyssey, the Asus Zenbook Duo, Comics Unleashed and Byron Allen, the Norm Macdonald documentary, Marc Maron, Gary Gulman, Chris Turner, Philip Roth and The Sopranos' Big Pussy, the new club's 2 a.m. litter summonses, the two-item minimum, Arizona iced tea's 99 cents, and Yohay Sponder at the Beacon. Dan Naturman performs at the Comedy Cellar whenever he's not on a cruise ship. Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen airs weeknights on CBS.
- 1 weeks ago1h 27m
Ukraine - Two Supporters ╎Debate Matthew Mežinskis
With Twitter's @1basemoney, Matthew Mežinskis. Is there room for pro-Ukrainian people to disagree??? 0:00 Matthew Mezinskis: Latvia, Bitcoin and Darryl Cooper's "accident" 10:16 "Are these evil people?" Diagnosing Carlson, Cooper, Horton and Dave Smith 23:12 Scott Horton in 2020, and "not one inch" 34:36 Can Ukraine roll Russia back? The map, the no-fly zone and the nuke question 45:33 Trump's diesel deal with Putin: disgraceful or triage? 51:22 Witkoff, "Dim Philby," the four oblasts and the fortress belt 58:30 The Axios report, Kuwait's drones and whether Trump is compromised 01:14:48 Larisa Horton, the Oxford Union, Macklemore vs. Kraft and Russia's outhouses "What we're seeing now is that sunlight grows bacteria much quicker than the lack of sunlight did." Noam Dworman, lifelong free-speech absolutist, admits the Darryl Cooper era has shaken his faith in what free speech produces - prompted by a Latvian-American Bitcoin analyst who thinks Tucker Carlson, Dave Smith and Scott Horton are the exact people Eastern Europe learned to fear. Was Trump's diesel deal with Putin a betrayal of Ukraine, or triage in the Iran war? If nobody in the know predicted Putin's invasion, why does everyone now call it inevitable? Would Putin ever have used a nuke over a no-fly zone? Is Trump compromised, or just a man who likes dictators? Noam and Matthew Mezinskis disagree on most of it, but agree on this: there is no kompromat on Trump, and we'd know by now if there were. Also: Tucker Carlson's Poland remarks, Steve Witkoff and "Dim Philby," the four oblasts and the fortress belt, the Axios report on Zelensky, the Kuwait drone attack, Scott Horton at the Oxford Union, Larisa Horton, Macklemore and Robert Kraft, Jeffrey Sachs to David Sacks, Russia's one-picket rule, Pussy Riot, Tulsi Gabbard's biolabs, Operation Spiderweb, and the WHO sanitation chart that ends the show. Matthew Mezinskis is the creator of Porkopolis Economics, tracking Bitcoin against the world's fiat money supplies since 2018. Find him at porkopolis.io and @1basemoney.
- 2 weeks ago1h 36m
Has Trump Sold Out Ukraine? ╎Russia Historian Sergey Radchenko
"To say that Boris Johnson went there and forced the Ukrainians to fight on - that is complete bullshit." Why did Zelensky ignore six requests from Trump to stop hitting Russian refineries, and does the Russian diesel deal that followed make sense while the Iran war has fuel at crisis prices? What was Steve Witkoff doing calling Putin a "great humanitarian" this week? Did NATO expansion provoke the invasion, or is Putin just a man who can't stand being slighted? Is Russia Hitler's Germany, or is Munich an overused analogy. Is Trump is saving Zelensky from himself? Also: Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Volodymyr Zelensky, Steve Witkoff, Henry Kissinger, Boris Johnson, Victoria Nuland, Paul Krugman, Samuel Charap, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Dave Smith, Candace Owens, Theo Von, Iran war, Strait of Hormuz, diesel prices, Donbas, Crimea, NATO. Sergey Radchenko is the Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and the author of "To Run the World: The Kremlin's Cold War Bid for Global Power." He is writing a history of the Russia-Ukraine war, to be published when the war ends. Follow him on X: @DrRadchenko. 0:00 Dan's still out; Noam's 2017 Crimea clips: "sanctions till the end of time" 13:40 Sergey Radchenko on Trump's Russian diesel deal and the six requests Zelensky ignored 28:46 Witkoff calls Putin a "great humanitarian": what's the strategy? 36:20 Will Russia roll over Europe? Munich, Kissinger's last word, NATO's empty promise 44:15 Should a victim compromise? Donbas, security guarantees, did the West provoke Crimea 57:40 Why Putin invaded: humiliation, hubris, Obama's Atlantic interview, Afghanistan 1:08:36 The Istanbul talks, the Boris Johnson myth, and the verdict on Trump 1:24:49 Post-game: Dave Smith, the Absolut Pussy ad, Candace Owens, Theo Von
- 3 weeks ago1h 26m
"They Hated Each Other”: Inside Netanyahu’s War Cabinet | WSJ's Elliot Kaufman
"They hated each other." That's Elliot Kaufman describing Israel's war cabinet, not its enemies. Kaufman joins Noam Dworman on the rivalries, leaks and gambles behind Israel's war since October 7. Why did Netanyahu wait 20 days to invade Gaza? When was Biden saving Israel from itself, and when was he holding it back? And why did killing Nasrallah trigger a furious phone call from Washington? They also confront what both consider Israel's biggest mistake in Gaza: taking ground, leaving, and having to fight for it all over again. Also: Gallant and Gantz, Jake Sullivan and Lloyd Austin, the Philadelphi Corridor, Rafah, the Qatar strike, Trump's "all I heard was yes," Mamdani's October 7 statement, and Iran under blockade. Get the full story in Kaufman's new book, In the War Room: The Inside Story of Israel's Fight Against Hamas and the Iranian Axis, coauthored with Yonah Jeremy Bob. 0:00 Elliot Kaufman and the case for airing Israel's dirty laundry 6:44 Churchill's war room vs. Israel's: "they hated each other" 18:25 Mers-el-Kébir, Netanyahu's history test, and the 20-day wait to invade Gaza 30:06 Hostages, the Philadelphi Corridor, and the Saudi deal that wasn't 38:34 Rafah in days, not months, and was Biden really in decline? 48:46 The morning of October 7: Halevi's note and one aircraft 55:12 Killing Nasrallah without telling Washington, and how the Iran war began 65:29 Endgame: Petraeus, raid-and-leave, "all I heard was yes," and the story that leaves Hamas out
- 4 weeks ago1h 32m
Did Israel Win the War But Lose the World╎Hen Mazzig
Hen Mazzig, co-founder of the Tel Aviv Institute and author of The Wrong Kind of Jew, says Israel won on the battlefield and lost the world, and that explaining Israel "is not a replacement for policy." He spent five years in COGAT, the IDF unit that issues Palestinian permits and prison visits, and was attacked by settlers while in uniform. We play his Piers Morgan fight with Norman Finkelstein ("Am I a child killer?") and go through what Amit Soussana actually said. Noam asks whether Israel would hold the West Bank if it had no holy sites, why the occupation is the Palestinians' best weapon, and why "sunlight grows mushrooms." Also: Mamdani's October 7 statement, Mearsheimer on the Hannibal Directive, Eurovision, and why Noam thinks everyone should have a baby. 0:00 Hen Mazzig, three years and a day after October 7 4:19 "We won on the battlefield and lost the world" 18:36 Food, famine and the arguments that don't work 28:52 What if the West Bank had no holy sites? 37:56 Smallpox, arrogance and "have a baby" 52:13 Five years in COGAT: what the IDF's humanitarian unit does 61:40 "Am I a child killer?" Finkelstein and the rape deniers 76:00 Mearsheimer, the Hannibal Directive and "sunlight grows mushrooms"
- Oct 8, 20261h 44m
3 Years after 10/7 - What's Next for Israel and the Jewish People ╏Eli Lake, Coleman Hughes & Salo Aizenberg
Three years after October 7: What's Next for Israel and the Jewish People. Noam sits down with Coleman Hughes, Eli Lake and Salo Aizenberg to ask whether the war was worth it. Coleman says Israel traded prestige for power and Hamas did the opposite. Salo brings the Gaza Health Ministry's own 2025 report: 50,000 births, 25,000 deaths, and 108 hospital workers who appear in Hamas's own martyr notices as commanders. Eli says Israel's strategic position has never been better. Noam is the pessimist in the room: "The optimists died in the gas chambers. The pessimists have pools in Beverly Hills." Also: why Hamas never gave up the hostages, John Mearsheimer on tape claiming the IDF killed its own, Coleman's Joe Rogan clip, Noam's 2019 emails that predicted all of it, and a fight over whether Israel should leave the West Bank. 0:00 Three years after October 7: Coleman Hughes, Eli Lake, Salo Aizenberg 2:22 Opening statements: what Israel and Hamas each traded 11:14 Noam: "The optimists died in the gas chambers" 18:41 Why Hamas never released the hostages 33:33 Conspiracy theories and the Mearsheimer tape 47:35 Salo's slides: Gaza's 2025 numbers and the nurses who were Hamas commanders 1:07:09 Should Israel leave the West Bank? 1:21:50 Noam's 2019 emails, Coleman on Rogan, and the diaspora
- Oct 1, 20262h 27m
Is "Race Realism" Simply Racism? ╏Nathan Cofnas Under Fire
Is Nathan Cofnas's "Guide for the Hereditarian Revolution." a plan to heal or America, or is it simply a racist manifesto dressed up as science. We ask him to his face. Cofnas is the philosopher at the center of the Jason Arday plagiarism affair. He says that, all else equal, smarter people have more human worth. He says freedom of association is worth it even if some diner bans blacks and Jews. And he says race realism is about to break into the mainstream whether we like it or not. Noam takes him through A Guide for the Hereditarian Revolution line by line: the Charles Murray debate, Jared Taylor, a speech by Michael Levin (whose book Cofnas calls important), white kids "brainwashed to despise themselves," Nikole Hannah-Jones's daughter and the lifeboat question. Periel arrives late, just in time to call it insane (as usual). 0:00 Intro: "I feel like you're a white nationalist" 9:26 Is a smarter person worth more? 23:33 "Some barriers set up between the races" 32:16 Jared Taylor, AmRen and Michael Levin 53:03 "White children are brainwashed to despise themselves" 1:29:54 Nikole Hannah-Jones and her daughter 1:41:53 Lower human worth? The lifeboat question 1:47:38 Closing argument: yarmulkes on the basketball court Nathan Cofnas, A Guide for the Hereditarian Revolution (Feb 5, 2024) https://ncofnas.com/p/a-guide-for-the-hereditarian-revolution Nathan Cofnas, Are Smart People Superior? A Reply to Noah Carl and Charles Murray (Apr 26, 2024) https://ncofnas.com/p/are-smart-people-superior-a-reply Debate with Charles Murray: IQ and Human Worth (Sept 16, 2026) https://ncofnas.com/p/debate-with-charles-murray-iq-and Nathan Cofnas, Why We Need to Talk about the Right's Stupidity Problem (Jan 2, 2024) https://ncofnas.com/p/why-we-need-to-talk-about-the-rights Nathan Cofnas, Beating Woke with Facts and Logic (Oct 9, 2025) https://ncofnas.com/p/beating-woke-with-facts-and-logic Nathan Cofnas on X, "Jews tried to be white nationalists" (Apr 28, 2018) https://x.com/nathancofnas/status/990243373180219397 David Reich, How Genetics Is Changing Our Understanding of 'Race,' New York Times (Mar 23, 2018) https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/23/opinion/sunday/genetics-race.html David M. Quinn, How to Reduce Racial Bias in Grading, Education Next (Nov 2, 2020) https://www.educationnext.org/how-to-reduce-racial-bias-in-grading-research/ Nikole Hannah-Jones on her daughter's schooling, New York Times Magazine (Sept 20, 2026) https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/magazine/ny-public-schools-black-students-segregation.html This American Life, Ep. 898, An Argument (Nikole Hannah-Jones and her daughter) https://www.thisamericanlife.org/898/an-argument
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For 30 years, New York's legendary Comedy Cellar has served as the launching pad for the greatest stand-up comedians in the world. Colin Quinn, Dave Chappelle, Ray Romano, Dave Attell, Chris Rock, Jon Stewart, Dane Cook, Robert Kelly and Greg Giraldo are just a few of the comedians who began as Cellar regulars. But classic stage performances have never been the only show going on at the Cellar. The biggest comedians in the world come to sit at the table upstairs, where comedians come to argue and discuss the events of the day and their lives, sharpening their comedy knives on each other. This kibitzing (an inspiration for Comedy Central's Tough Crowd), has always been a private affair... until now. Join us for a weekly peek into the happenings at the Comedy Cellar's comedian table, where the funniest people in the world debate and discuss.
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