#404 - The Fall of the House of Tucker and Traffic w/ Ben Smith
We\u2019re back with one long episode in two cracking segments. First up, Welch and Moynihan (Ed. note: Kmele is currently peering through a telescope on the South Side of Chicago or something) catch up on all the stupid news of the last week, including\u2026
* The news of certain\u2026errrr\u2026\u2026media layoffs
* Defenestrations at Fox News and CNN
* The \u201cthey-ificaton\u201d of Tucker Carlson
* The bizarro world of Robert F. Kennedy Jr
* Lil\u2019 Bobby: Prosecute people I disagree with
And then it\u2019s an hour with return guest Ben Smith (his third appearance, we think?), editor-in-chief of Semafor, former editor-in-chief of Buzzfeed News, and author of the new book Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral. No explanation needed. It\u2019s good. You\u2019ll like it.
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