Mixed Signal
Ink Stained Wretches
Nebulous Media
4.7 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2025
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
In case you haven’t gotten enough of Signalgate, we’re here to help. We’re also diving into Columbia University, vibe shifts, and family outings at Hooters. Wretch on!
If you have a story you want to discuss with us, email us at wretches@nebulouspodcasts dot com.
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Reader Mail - 1:09:49
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Show Notes:
The Atlantic: Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal
The Hill: Vance rips ‘hit piece’ in Jewish Insider
Jewish Insider: Vance’s reluctance to support Houthi strikes concerns some leading GOP senators
The Washington Post: Pentagon spokesman sidelined after uproar over Jackie Robinson article
The Wall Street Journal: Disabilities Act Becomes a License to Cheat
National Review: NPR CEO Admits Outlet Was ‘Mistaken’ in Refusing to Cover Hunter Biden Laptop Story
CNN: KFile: Gavin Newsom spent years fighting for progressive positions he now bashes on his new podcast
NBC News: Supreme Court turns down Trump donor Steve Wynn's bid to overturn libel precedent
The New York Times: We Were Badly Misled About the Event That Changed Our Lives
The New York Times: I Was Diagnosed With Autism at 53. I Know Why Rates Are Rising.
The New York Times: Why Dads Take Their Gay Sons to Hooters
The Wall Street Journal: Are Americans really snacking less?
The Atlantic: Sex Without Women
The Free Press: Columbia President Says One Thing to Trump Admin—and Another in Private
The Washington Free Beacon: What Columbia University President Katrina Armstrong Really Told Faculty Members About Changes the School Is Making
The Wall Street Journal: Columbia’s President Faces Angry Faculty in Closed-Door Meetings
Politico: AN ALT. WHCD?
The New York Times: Graydon Carter’s Memoir Evokes the Golden Age of New York City Media
The Wall Street Journal: The Last Decision by the World’s Leading Thinker on Decisions
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| 0:00.0 | Is there anything you would have done differently? |
| 0:02.0 | We've reported a true story. |
| 0:04.0 | Our colleague Brian Williams is back in Kuwait City tonight after a close call on the skies over Iraq. |
| 0:10.0 | Controversal Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and questions about Kavanaugh's drinking in the past. |
| 0:16.0 | Sean Hannity, come on up, Sean Hatton. |
| 0:18.0 | Today, Andrew Cuomo is having a moment. Hello again. I am Chris |
| 0:25.7 | Stierwald. And I'm Eliana Johnson. Welcome to the ink-stained wretches. I don't know why I said |
| 0:30.0 | thee, like the Batman, where we break down what's going wrong and what's going right with |
| 0:34.6 | the American news media. And I couldn't even say the name of our podcast, |
| 0:38.7 | Eliana Johnson, because we've been on spring break hiatus. I'm rusty, and it's showing in my |
| 0:45.0 | performance. I hope you'll excuse me. You're excused. I missed you. It's good to. You're excused. |
| 0:51.0 | It's good to see you, at least on a little camera. |
| 0:54.8 | And I'm happy we're back together. |
| 0:56.7 | And it was, I want to say to everybody who complained to me that we didn't have |
| 1:00.2 | a wretches last week that life is full of suffering and disappointment and get used to it. |
| 1:05.4 | Yes. |
| 1:06.0 | That's how we serve our audience. |
| 1:08.1 | We're all about fan service. |
| 1:10.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:10.3 | We're all about fan service. We're all about fan service. |
| 1:12.8 | But I had a great spring break with my youngest man child, and it was really cool. |
| 1:18.8 | And one of the great things about when your kids, I'm excited for you to get to experience this, as they get to be older, they are into stuff and |
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