Walter Kirn

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Editor-at-Large @CountyHwy Co-host @AmericaWeek w/@mtaibbi Books: Blood Will Out, Up in the Air, Thumbsucker, Mission to America, etc

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"If Impressionists were Dentists"

4 days ago | racket.news | Matt Taibbi |Walter Kirn

Listen to this episode with a 7-day free trialSubscribe to Racket News to listen to this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives. Welcome to America This Week, with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn, the national news wrap-up so true, we recommend you stow all sharp objects before reading. Welcome to America This Week, with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn, the national news wrap-up so true, we recommend you stow all sharp objects before reading.
Transcript - America This Week, May 9, 2025: "Conclave: Matt and Walter Watch Vatican Smoke"

5 days ago | racket.news | Matt Taibbi |Walter Kirn

Matt Taibbi: All right. Welcome to America This Week. I’m Matt Taibbi. Walter Kirn: And I’m Walter Kirn. Matt Taibbi: So we’re recording on Thursday morning, technically-Walter Kirn: Right. Matt Taibbi: ... Eastern Time, and very recently, last time I checked, I think it was like 28 minutes ago or something like that, this happened. Can we see the black smoke? Rev. Tom Reese: We were not surprised by the black smoke. We expected black smoke tonight, but we expected it a lot earlier.
"Time Enough at Last"

1 week ago | racket.news | Matt Taibbi |Walter Kirn

Listen to this episode with a 7-day free trialSubscribe to Racket News to listen to this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives. Welcome to America This Week, with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn, the national news wrap-up so true, we recommend you stow all sharp objects before reading. Welcome to America This Week, with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn, the national news wrap-up so true, we recommend you stow all sharp objects before reading.
Transcript - America This Week, May 2, 2025: "Are 'AI Friends' the Ultimate Surveillance Tool?"

1 week ago | racket.news | Matt Taibbi |Walter Kirn

Matt Taibbi: All right. Welcome to America This Week. I’m Matt Taibbi. Walter Kirn: And I’m Walter Kirn. Matt Taibbi: Walter, you are back at home base. Walter Kirn: Yeah, I’m back in the land of society and marriage and all the things that moderate one’s latent psychotic tendencies. And my wife has determined that I speak differently than I did when I last saw her a few weeks ago. And my mouth makes different sounds, she said. And I said, it’s because I’ve had no practice speaking for weeks.
America This Week, May 2, 2025: "Are 'AI Friends' the Ultimate Surveillance Tool?"

1 week ago | racket.news | Matt Taibbi |Walter Kirn

Link Here: Listen to subscriber-only audio in your podcast appShare the Free Previews of America This Week:Watch ATW on YouTube below:Listen to this episode with a 7-day free trialSubscribe to Racket News to listen to this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives. Welcome to America This Week, with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn, the national news wrap-up so true, we recommend you stow all sharp objects before reading.
"The Funeral"

2 weeks ago | racket.news | Matt Taibbi |Walter Kirn

Listen to this episode with a 7-day free trialSubscribe to Racket News to listen to this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives. Welcome to America This Week, with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn, the national news wrap-up so true, we recommend you stow all sharp objects before reading. Welcome to America This Week, with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn, the national news wrap-up so true, we recommend you stow all sharp objects before reading.
Transcript - America This Week, Apr 25, 2025: "Globalism Tells The Truth About the Future, For Once"

2 weeks ago | racket.news | Matt Taibbi |Walter Kirn

Matt Taibbi: All right. Welcome to America This Week. I’m Matt Taibbi. Walter Kirn: And I’m Walter Kirn. Matt Taibbi: Walter, how’s it going? Walter Kirn: I’m looking out the window at the 1,700th snowfall of winter here in Montana. They don’t seem to have gotten a memo here that we’re supposed to have flowers and tulips by now. Even the bears are still in hibernation. Matt Taibbi: Really? Walter Kirn: Yeah. There’s no real animal activity. And I basically live inside an open air zoo out here.
"Concerning the BodyGuard"

3 weeks ago | racket.news | Matt Taibbi |Walter Kirn

Listen to this episode with a 7-day free trialSubscribe to Racket News to listen to this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives. Welcome to America This Week, with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn, the national news wrap-up so true, we recommend you stow all sharp objects before reading. Welcome to America This Week, with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn, the national news wrap-up so true, we recommend you stow all sharp objects before reading.
Transcript - America This Week, Apr 18, 2025: "Harvard vs. The Trump-Monster"

3 weeks ago | racket.news | Matt Taibbi |Walter Kirn

Matt Taibbi: Okay, welcome to America This Week. I’m Matt Taibbi. Walter Kirn: And I’m Walter Kirn. Matt Taibbi: First of all, apologies to everybody for Monday. I had an ordeal that lasted about five days that was funny, and someday I’ll tell the story, but it ended on Monday afternoon with my head pounding so severely that I don’t think, doing the show would’ve been a comic exercise. It probably would’ve gone viral for the wrong reasons.
Faith of Our Fathers

1 month ago | racket.news | Matt Taibbi |Walter Kirn

Listen to this episode with a 7-day free trialSubscribe to Racket News to listen to this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives. Welcome to America This Week, with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn, the national news wrap-up so true, we recommend you stow all sharp objects before reading. Welcome to America This Week, with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn, the national news wrap-up so true, we recommend you stow all sharp objects before reading.