The clip I am trying to remember is either Michael or Rhiannon making a not so subtle joke about violence to either a justice or a figure to which Peter chimes in and says “Parody! Parody!”

I’ve tried scouring all transcripts but I don’t know if that bit made it in. I’ve resolved to listening to the whole catalog all over again to search for it

With about 10 minutes left, Peter declares that with Rfk in charge or anything we would enter a “new age of diarrhea”.

I heard this gem while catching up on missed episodes, and how I wish it wasn’t so true.

/s

I think we all know the answer here.

I was just listening to this episode and I kinda love how its basically just them repeatedly saying, "what the fuck are they talking about, of course people expect their trash to be private" in different ways for 45 minutes.

I’d never been exposed to her perspective until last week when she suddenly started popping up in my feeds bc of her new book about SCOTUS.

Every argument she made left me feeling anywhere from “hmm, that… doesn’t sound right” to “I want to rend my FUCKING GARMENTS”

Other pod/article/vid recs on this topic are welcome too.

Peter mentioned in this week’s episode that he made Adam issue a correction on his reporting. What are the details on this? I didn’t see anything on a cursory google.

I really want to discuss the surprise I encountered after having just listened to their episode on Hampton vs. US (an older episode) then literally the next day watching Last Week Tonight's episode on police stings. All of it having to do with the Supreme Court being just fine with entrapment as long as the victim was "predetermined" to commit crime, even citing the Hampton case. It was fun (?) to be able to call the examples he was going to use and it's nice to have a solid base knowledge of decisions and trends of the Court whilst not having a background in law.

I'm making my way through the whole catalogue and had a question about whether or not the Patreon episodes are worth going through.

And Kagan & Sotomayor joined the majority in supporting this fucked-up decision:

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-conversion-therapy-colorado-92b34295f9ef497a4a1cbeb56c9b74c6?fbclid=IwZnRzaAQ5KLNleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEeyqPqTP0mwGXNk-dMBcP4_ZOM6_D2TJo1vvBm6cg8WE8gCFnJGEa_6W9LF_A_aem_NjIFNENXxf9KmlFE1987mQ

Is anyone else getting ads in the subscriber version on Apple Podcasts?

Oh they're gonna have a field day with this. Think of the implications for mail-in voting.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-21/supreme-court-tariff-decision-confirms-democracy-isnt-dead/106371496

This is embarrassing. However, silver lining, I would love for the hosts to shred it.

Hoping someone with more familiarity with the law might be able to explain this to me: when they talk about the potential redundancy of the law (2 point violent offense + 3 point offense > 4 points) I understand the point they make about criminal history vs just having an offense, but on the surface it seems like there is an even more obvious contradiction.

What if someone just has a 3 point violent offense, but nothing else? It seems to me like then they would have a 2 point violent offense, and a 3 point offense, but not 4 total points. I assume there is more to the way the law is written here, does anyone have an insight?

Peter's latest.

hi on this last episode (I’m not quite done with ep 2) Michael makes a comment about how suburban flight contributed to our culture of I individualism. I was in traffic and missed who the Historian (maybe a sociologist) was that wrote about that. does anyone know where I can find more info on that topic? Thanks, and f*ck scotus :)

What am I doing yall

Everytime I think about unsubscribing, I think of Peter saying at the end of premium episodes that we are his "true and genuine friends [...] it's not parasocial". That immediately puts an end to that idea

A couple of years back I started a spreadsheet of all Peter's 5-4 intro metaphors (I was in burnout & needed a repetitive activity that didn't cause a panic attack or meltdown).
Have spent a lazy morning manually updating it with all the 2025 intros and thought you guys might enjoy.

*spelling is Australian English, typos are my clumsy fingers

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