Noam and Jen spend the whole episode discussing K-pop and anime. Just kidding. They spend the entire episode discussing the breaking news that four hostages taken from the Nova music festival were found and rescued by the IDF, including Noa Argamani. From the news itself to the operation that resulted in the freeing of the hostages, and of course, …

Jen and Noam note that it is officially Rainbow Capitalism Season, discuss the Trump guilty verdict, the latest Israel - Gaza ceasefire plan (?), the fate of the floaty pier and its humanitarian aid, and life during wartime before near-instant communication was a thing. Ambitious Crossover Attempt has a Twitch channel! Hooray! More streaming for us…

Noam and Jen sit down on a lazy Monday to chat all things Trump. Jen does her very best to explain the Trump debacle at LP National without giving you two years of backstory and internecine drama, they discuss Alito flag situation and does it mean Mrs. Alito is part of the J6 Club, non predictions on the Trump hush money trial and how this will all…

Jen and Noam discuss the breaking news that the president and foreign minister of Iran are…dead. Maybe? Missing, at the very least, after their helicopter crashed. We also finally discuss the Trump trial currently underway in New York, the other trials that will not be happening before the election, the depressing specter of a presidential debate s…

Noam and Jen talk all things Israel - Eurovision, 90s Jew Goths, Hamas agreeing to its own ceasefire deal, Biden’s big military aid announcement, the walkback of Biden’s big military aid announcement, the UN walking back the number of dead civilians in Gaza, how Ambitious Crossover Attempt is always ahead of the curve, and Noam’s lack of cool toys …

Jen and Noam get a bit philosophical on the topic of the campus protests, the obsession with masks, the difference between Columbia and USC, what happens when cops and civilians don’t hold up their end of the bargain, how the encampers are just like Gazans (lol), and the burgeoning backlash to the pro-Palestinian protests. Ambitious Crossover Attem…

Noam and Jen chat about Kristi Noem’s insane story about how she shot a puppy instead of doing literally anything else, lore from election years past, the escalation of campus encampment protest, when calling the police is and is not warranted, body cam videos, the possibility of Donald Trump having to submit a picture of his junk in his criminal t…

Jen and Noam revisit the Iran - Israel conflict now that Israel retaliated by coming thisclose to hitting a nuclear facility in Iran, Ukraine finally getting funding from the US, how stupid the Chaos Caucus looks now that they achieved absolutely nothing, the rapidly escalating antisemitic protest situation at Columbia and who is responsible, and o…

Noam and Jen try to make sense of Iran’s drone/missile strike on Israel, Hamas walking back their own death toll count in Gaza, what happens when you’re filmed tearing down hostage posters, and what happens when you threaten an elected official in real life. Ambitious Crossover Attempt has a Twitch channel! Hooray! More streaming for us (and you)! …

Jen and Noam make it back in front of their mics to talk about the IDF holding itself accountable for its WCK screwup, Jen messing up the WCK’s name a few times, absolutely illogical statements and theories that fall apart under basic rationality, the lack of accountability from literally anyone else anywhere, university students being held account…

Noam and Jen discuss brainworms. All the brainworms. From the insane DoorDash Discourse and how it has pitted the “food delivery is exploitative” crowd against the “how dare you discriminate against disabled people” crowd, how the terrorist attack in Moscow was done by anyone other than the ISIS group that committed it, and Candace Owens finally ge…

Jen and Noam discuss Westerners not being impressed with the MREs that the US has airdropped into Gaza, a continuation and deeper dive into our thoughts on the TikTok divestment bill, and everyone - once again - getting worried about the wrong thing when it comes to the words coming out of Trump’s mouth. Ambitious Crossover Attempt has a Twitch cha…

Noam and Jen tackle the whispery yet shouty State of the Union address, Alabama senator Katie Britt’s bizarre and creepy kitchen SOTU rebuttal, the Congressional effort to make ByteDance divest from TikTok US, and the curious case of Jeff Yass and the flip-flopping Republicans. And, of course, Dune 2. Ambitious Crossover Attempt has a Twitch channe…

Jen and Noam spend way too much time discussing Aella’s birthday…uh…party, Adam Rubenstein’s Very Bad Sandwich Answer and how the NYT totally lied about the series of events leading to the infamous Tom Cotton op-ed, and sandwiched in the middle is a serious discussion about SCOTUS’s decision to take up the presidential immunity case. Ambitious Cros…

Noam and Jen give their opinions on the Google Gemini’s utterly failed launch and how it happened, how to know when the GPTs really become sentient, Alabama bringing the fight over IVF to the forefront of political discussion, what Jews think of recreational sex, the death throes of CPAC, and how streaming is super hard. Ambitious Crossover Attempt…

Jen and Noam talk about Alexei Navalny’s sad but all too predictable death at the hands of the Russian government, how said government isn’t even trying to come up with believable cover stories anymore, the absurdness of Tucker Carlson’s Moscow adventure, and how it is that a financial advice columnist ends up handing over $50k in a shoebox. Ambiti…

Noam and Jen discuss the burning questions surrounding the Super Bowl that had not yet taken place when they recorded, the growing tension about Biden’s and Trump’s mental fitness, Jen finally finds her Biden voice and also points out that Democrats are falling into the same deus ex machina trap that Republicans have, Hamas having a server room und…

Jen and Noam take a break from the wars abroad to focus on the wars at home. We’ve got Woke Kids in San Francisco who still can’t pass their standardized tests, Terminally Online Conservatives (including Trump) vs Taylor Swift, and a disagreement on the practicality, useability, and desirability of the recently released Apple Vision Pro. Ambitious …

Noam and Jen discuss how 2024 is an absolute disaster, and it’s not even February. From backward hard hats, the very serious and urgent but also not very pressing situation at the Texas border, how the SCOTUS decision is being misrepresented to push a narrative, our initial thoughts on the death of three US servicemen in Jordan, what does the US do…

Jen and Noam discuss waves hands around. We are truly in the 2024 primary muck, with DeSantis dropping out, Trump getting Nikki Haley and Nancy Pelosi confused, figuring out how magnets work, a Black activist wondering why Passover has to be so Jew-centric, progressives wishcasting Trump as a Gaza dove, and the lessons learned from Desert Storm. BT…

Noam and Jen finally make it back into the podcast…well it’s a room now, albeit an unfishined one. While we know we missed 231 news cycles during the few weeks we were gone, we’re back in time to discuss the kickoff of the 2024 primary season, Trump’s big Iowa win, the strange new simping for Houthis and their Red Sea piracy, and how slavery is OK …

Jen and Noam make it to 100…episodes, that is. Not that we don’t feel 100 years old here at the end of 2023. Man, we’re a long way from Episode 0. We discuss Briahna Joy Gray showing up out of nowhere to prove she lies about the death toll in Gaza, the Colorado ruling that Trump is ineligible for their ballot, what SCOTUS may or may not do, judicia…

Noam and Jen tackle the issue of inflation and How Much Does It Cost To Make Chicken Soup At Home, a staffer having sex in a Congressional hearing room, the horribly sad friendly fire deaths of three Isralei hostages, and our thoughts on the Apple+ show Silo at the halfway point of the first season. And as we allude to at the end of the episode, th…

Jen and Noam discuss how Hanukkah is pretty awesome, the Israel - Palestine war bringing the chickens home to roost at elite US universities, idiots not knowing what from the river to the sea means, rape apologists, current Argentinian president and recent Jewish conversion candidate Javier Milei, Jen makes a pitch for Jews to become libertarians, …

Noam and Jen discuss the silliness of using a DNA test to identify one’s nationality, the Israeli military intelligence failure that led to 10/7, viewing Gaza and the West Bank as two separate entities, the rise of 10/7 truthers, conservatives being weird about gay couples having children, George Santos being kicked out of Congress, Representative …

Jen and Noam pick up where they left off last week with a discussion about the Israeli hostage swap, how Egypt is getting sick of Hamas, how Jen is sick of Hamas sympathizers being gross on the internet, the newest revelations of what lies beneath Al-Shifa hospital, evidence never being enough for the people asking for evidence, pizza not being a t…

Noam and Jen… absolutely forget the discuss the bin Laden TikTok trend because the IDF started releasing damning footage from Al-Shifa hospital, including hostages and underground tunnels. They talk about the footage, non-believers, people who are mad that developments do not travel at the speed of social media, the need to ensure nobody will get b…

Jen and Noam discuss…a whole bunch of random stuff. MrBeast makes the internet mad (again) by being a decent human, governments that waste humanitarian money on God knows what, random bits on the Israel - Hamas war, people having to live in the world they created (and losing their jobs because of it), the proper way of wearing a tallit, Hamas’ mast…

Noam and Jen discuss the push to make “from the river to the sea Palestine will be free” a call for happy fun peacetime instead of the call for genocide that it is, how Israel is not ethnically cleansing Gaza, Hamas being an awful government, nobody really caring about Palestinians, and the potential for engaging people in your DMs. Ambitious Cross…

Jen and Noam spend yet another week discussing the war between Israel and Gaza, mainly because people can’t stop acting like jackasses about it. From idiots rippinng down posters of the kidnapped, telling Jews to stay indoors, and crying for a “ceasefire”, it’s been a long week. On a brighter note, we do discuss how the embargo on Western media rep…

Noam and Jen return to discuss more things Israeli - Palestinian war, like Western mainstream media getting caught showing their whole ass by repeating fake news from Hamas, applying critical thinking to implausible stories, journalistic malfeasance, the need to make the IDF and Hamas morally equivalent, the absolutely insane wave of antisemitism f…

Jen and Noam return after a small Hamas-induced hiatus to discuss the horrifying situation in Israel, history, the stated purpose of Hamas, what the “free Palestine” movement is really about, why the modern state of Israel exists, Jen getting shouty about how pro-Palestine activists don't care about Palestinians, examining pictures of dead babies a…

Noam and Jen wrap up The Saga Of Fetterman’s Pajamas, move on to discussing Jamal Bowman’s use of the wrong door at the wrong time, defending the indefensible by stripping away all context, briefly discuss Diane Feinstein’s death, somehow end up talking about abortion, and end on discussing Tears of the Kingdom. I dare you to find another podcast w…

Jen and Noam discuss Bob Menendez’s pockets full of money, Noam’s plan for gold bar laundering, the Washington Post trying (and failing) to ruin Dave Portnoy’s pizza party, the Metaverse, Fetterman’s clothing options, and how depression doesn’t work the way everyone seems to think it does. Ambitious Crossover Attempt has a Twitch channel! Hooray! M…

Noam and Jen discuss Lauren Boebert’s….date night, Mitt Romney calling it quits and the legacy of his presidential run, people using Twitter to fill the yawning void in their lives, Hasan Minhaj’s embellishments for clapter, Russel Brand’s past coming back to haunt him, and a small review of the anime From The New World. And, true to her word, Jen …

Jen and Noam return to discuss perennial Main Character Elon Musk’s bad week, from his threat to sue the ADL over advertisers leaving TwitX to the revelation from his upcoming biography that he might have directly intervened in the Ukranian war via Starlink access. And, true to her word, Jen created an Ambitious Crossover Attempt Twitch channel! Ho…

Noam and Jen (mostly) take a break from politics to discuss pronoun choices in Starfield, genitalia choices in Baldur’s Gate 3, Barbie and Mario being the big hits of this year’s movie season, entering the Golden Age of Geriatric Millenial Retail Entertainment, anime we’re watching and have watched, and other random stuff. And, true to her word, Je…

Jen and Noam talk The Mugshot, roomers, Noam’s trip to a Civil War museum in Virginia, the now officially scheduled DC trial date, a bit of GOP deabte recap, and how we both very much dislike Vivek and wish he’d shut up. And, true to her word, Jen created a Ambitious Crossover Attempt Twitch channel! Hooray! More streaming for us (and you)! We will…

Noam and Jen do a regular full-length episode talking about Trump’s many indictments and the various reactions to them, the canceled press conference, his Constitutional fitness for office, DeSantis finally turning on Trump supporters, his debate to-do list, and how Trump doesn’t have to show up to debates now cuz reasons. We will make more content…

Jen and Noam talk how Trump is going to be charged with doing a RICO in Georgia, how he just can’t stop posting (Truthing?), Sam Bankman-Fried being placed in pre-trial detention for witness tampering, the Maui fire, and a bunch of other random stuff. Shorter episode today because August is a bad, boring month.…

Noam and Jen talk over the newest Trump indictment related to his big plan to fix the 2020 election, the fact that neither he nor anyone in his circle can stop talking, Richard Hanania’s “race realist” past coming back to haunt him, the root problem of the modern conservative movement, and how everyone is cooking up floaty rocks and what it means f…

Jen and Noam discuss failsons who have made the headlines this week - Hunter Biden, Donald Trump, and Nate Hochman. Hunter is in an on again off again relationship with his plea deal, Trump once again conscripted the most ill-equipped person to help him in the cover-up of his Mar-a-Lago boxes fiasco, and Hochman torpedoed a prominent position as a …

Noam and Jen spend a whole hour talking about OPPENHEIMER, everything from the movie itself to the renewed debate over America being The Bad Guy for dropping atomic bombs on imperial Japan because They Were About To Surrender.

Jen and Noam take a look at the RFK Jr video where he floated the idea that COVID is a bioweapon engineered to spare Jews and Chinese, revisit Cokegate now that we know we will never know whose coke it was, and wrap up with our thoughts on Mission Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part 1 We will be back on Callin this week at our normal time Thursday 7:3…

Noam and Jen discuss Cokegate aka who left their coke in the White House cubby and was it Hunter Biden, their opinions on the US giving Ukraine cluster munitions, and the online reactions to both stories. We will be skipping Callin this week due to IRL life stuff, we will let you know when we will be resuming our normal schedule…

Jen was sick during our normal recording time, but she soldiered through because there was too much going on to not record. We hit on the latest view-throttling Twitter scheme from Elon, then move on to the SCOTUS decisions on affirmative action in college admissions and compelled speech in the face of hypothetical situations. We will likely skip C…

Noam and Jen discuss the brief military coup launched by Prigozhin and his Wagner crew, with an emphasis on what it all means for Russia (and Putin) going forward. We will be on Callin this Thursday at 7:30 pm Eastern, come join us live! https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW

Jen and Noam discuss the fight between Peter Hotez and the Debate Me Bro crowd on the merits of a PhD who helped create a patent free COVID vaccination debating noted crank RFK Jr on the topic of vaccines, our excitement over Three Body Problem being made into a Netflix show, and a tiny bit about The Flash (more to come on Callin this week) We will…

Noam and Jen tackle the case of the crazy ex-president who stole classified documents and refused to give them back, plus how you absolutely do not have to hand it to Ted Kaczynski. We will be on Callin this Thursday at 7:30 pm Eastern, join us live! https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW Show notes: The details on the newest Donald…

Jen and Noam discuss whether the US does indeed have an alien spaceship and if aliens are real, the rumor that DeSantis is on the spectrum, the Twitter ad exodus, and of course the greatness that is Spider-Man: Across The Spiderverse We will (maybe?) be on Callin this week Thursday at 7:30pm Eastern, come join us live! https://www.callin.com/show/a…