Paloma Media Podcast
162 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsMedia, current events, politics and various blah-blah with Matt Welch, Nancy Rommelmann and whoever wanders into the Paloma Media compound in Chinatown for cocktails and talk-talk. Come on in!
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Episodes
Persephone in New York
February 09, 2023 19:50 - 5 minutes - 5.07 MBA reading of "Persephone in New York," originally published on the Make More Pie Substack, Feb. 6, 2023
The Collateralists
January 21, 2023 14:25 - 11 minutes - 10.2 MBA reading of "The Collateralists," by Nancy Rommelmann, published on Make More Pie Substack on January 18, 2023. Related: "A Murder in Portland," by Nancy Rommelmann, published in Washington Examiner Magazine on December 29, 2023. "A Pox Upon Portland: Progressivism is Killing the City," by Jonah Goldberg, published in The Dispatch on January 20, 2023
How Do We Solve a Problem Like George Santos?
January 18, 2023 19:32 - 14 minutes - 13.1 MBA reading of “How Do We Solve a Problem Like George Santos?” By Matt Welch, published at Reason Jan. 12, 2023.
The Reality Portland Does Not Want to See
January 13, 2023 15:41 - 16 minutes - 15.1 MBA reading of "The Reality Portland Does Not Want to See," by Nancy Rommelmann, published on her Substack, Make More Pie, on December 30, 2022. Related: "A Murder in Portland," by Nancy Rommelmann (Washington Examiner Magazine) "Good Luck, Portland," by Nancy Rommelmann (Tablet) Ask a Jew podcast The Fifth Column podcast
A Murder in Portland
January 11, 2023 11:59 - 34 minutes - 31.6 MBA reading of "A Murder in Portland," by Nancy Rommelmann, published January 3, 2023 in Washington Examiner Magazine Related: "The Reality Portland Does Not Want to See," by Nancy Rommelmann
In 2023, People May Finally Be Breaking Their Obsession with Politics
December 28, 2022 22:21 - 7 minutes - 6.99 MBA reading of “In 2023, People May Finally Be Breaking Their Obsession with Politics,” by Matt Welch, published at Reason Dec. 28, 2022.
Meet the Neighbors
December 19, 2022 16:44 - 21 minutes - 20.1 MBFind this and all chapters on Nancy Rommelmann's Substack, Make More Pie
Biden and Journalists Agree: Republicans Would Deliberately 'Crash' the Economy
October 26, 2022 21:33 - 15 minutes - 14.5 MBA reading of, “Biden and Journalists Agree: Republicans Would Deliberately 'Crash' the Economy,” by Matt Welch, published at Reason Oct. 26, 2022 Bonus: Remy "Raise the Debt Ceiling Rap"
"The Police Van Abductions": A Response
October 25, 2022 17:18 - 9 minutes - 8.35 MBA reading of "'The Police Van Abductions': A Response," by Nancy Rommelmann, published on Substack on Oct. 20, 2022.
BTS's Military Conscription Is a Reminder That Mandatory 'Service' Is Servitude
October 19, 2022 19:48 - 5 minutes - 5.16 MBA reading of “BTS's Military Conscription Is a Reminder That Mandatory 'Service' Is Servitude,” by Matt Welch, published at Reason Oct. 19.
'Pro-Democracy' Journalism's Problem With the Facts
October 18, 2022 11:11 - 16 minutes - 15.5 MBA reading of “'Pro-Democracy' Journalism's Problem With the Facts,” by Matt Welch, a review of Margaret Sullivan’s Newsroom Confidential, published at Reason Oct. 18.
We Told You Why and How California's High-Speed Rail Wouldn't Work.
October 13, 2022 18:56 - 11 minutes - 10.7 MBA reading of “We Told You Why and How California's High-Speed Rail Wouldn't Work. You Chose Not To Listen,” by Matt Welch, published at Reason Oct. 13, 2022 Bonus video: Meet the People Getting Screwed Over By Jerry Brown's High Speed Rail
Men Without Work
October 12, 2022 17:00 - 5 minutes - 5.23 MBA reading of, "Men Without Work," by Nancy Rommelmann, published October 12, 2022 on Rommelmann's Substack, Make More Pie. Related: Men Without Work, by Nicholas Eberstadt "All the (Unemployed) Young Dudes" (The Fifth Column) "Men Are Very Necessary" (Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em) "Americans Are Losing Their Work Ethic," by Matt Welch (Reason) "Americans Are Losing Their Work Ethic" (audio) (Paloma Media podcast) "The Code of the Cop Bar," by Nancy Rommelmann (Make More Pie)
Americans Are Losing Their Work Ethic
October 11, 2022 19:56 - 7 minutes - 7.31 MBA reading of “Americans Are Losing Their Work Ethic,” by Matt Welch, published at Reason Oct. 7, 2022 Listen also to: “All the (Unemployed) Young Dudes,” over at The Fifth Column "Men Are Very Necessary" on Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em
Punch Drunk
October 04, 2022 21:36 - 10 minutes - 9.45 MBA reading of "Punch Drunk" by Nancy Rommelmann, which first appeared on my Substack, Make More Pie. I am serializing "Forty Bucks and A Dream: Stories of Los Angeles" on Substack. New chapters drop Mondays. Below is the Table of Contents, with links to what’s posted before. Please subscribe! PROLOGUE Hungry Town STARLETS 1: Forty Bucks and a Dream: The lives of a Hollywood motel 2: The Camera and the Audience 3: Jena at 15: A childhood in Hollywood 4: The Waxer 5: The Biggest Dick i...
Public Schools Experiencing 'White Flight'
September 30, 2022 20:54 - 12 minutes - 11.5 MBA reading of “Public Schools Experiencing 'White Flight,'” by Matt Welch, published at Reason Sept. 29, 2022 Related video: Matt Welch talks about school choice
Hollywood's Immortal Sucking Machines: On the eternal rot in the movie "Blonde"
September 29, 2022 20:25 - 5 minutes - 5.49 MBA reading of "Hollywood's Immortal Sucking Machines: On the eternal rot in the movie Blonde," published Sept. 29, 2022 on Nancy Rommelmann's Substack, Make More Pie. See You Next Tuesday vlog, with Nancy Rommelmann and Matt Welch, (almost) every Tuesday at noon EST on the Paloma Media YouTube. Tune in live to heckle and bring your questions!
Urban Blinders
September 28, 2022 17:44 - 38 minutes - 35 MB"Urban Blinders," recorded 9/27/22. From the weekly See You Next Tuesday vlog, with Nancy Rommelmann and Matt Welch, (almost) every Tuesday at noon EST on the Paloma Media YouTube. Tune in live to heckle and bring yer questions!
The Crying Game
September 28, 2022 17:36 - 39 minutes - 35.8 MBThe Crying Game, recorded 9/20/22. From the weekly See You Next Tuesday vlog, with Nancy Rommelmann and Matt Welch, (almost) every Tuesday at noon EST on the Paloma Media YouTube. Tune in live to heckle and bring yer questions!
Why the Political Grift Won't Stop
September 24, 2022 23:33 - 13 minutes - 12.2 MBA reading of, "Why the Political Grift Won't Stop" by Matt Welch, published at Reason on Sept. 24, 2022
A Ukrainian Leaves the War for New York
September 17, 2022 02:10 - 37 minutes - 34.5 MBEpisode links: "Dispatch from Ukraine: the Hutnyks of Lviv," by Nancy Rommelmann (Reason) "Dispatch From Ukraine: Living as a Russian in Ukraine," by Nancy Rommelmann (Reason) "Dispatch From Ukraine: 'Let's Go. Let's Not Go.'" by Nancy Rommelmann (Reason) "Are those bombs or sirens?"
My Lunch with Gorbachev
September 02, 2022 21:47 - 11 minutes - 10.1 MB“My Lunch with Gorbachev,” originally published by the L.A. Times on April 17, 2007; cleaned up pretty for Paloma Media on Aug. 30, 2022. Related: “It Wasn't What He Wanted, But Gorbachev Allowed an Evil Empire To Collapse,” published at Reason Aug. 30. Watch Matt on The First TV's The Dana Show for 15 minutes on all things Gorby.
Field of Welfare: How COVID Funds Might Build a Money-Losing Ballpark in a Cornfield
August 10, 2022 23:39 - 11 minutes - 10.6 MBA reading of “Field of Welfare: How COVID Funds Might Build a Money-Losing Ballpark in a Cornfield,” by Matt Welch, published Aug. 10 at Reason.
"U.S. Conservatives Set To Applaud Viktor Orbán's Paranoid Anti-Americanism" and
August 08, 2022 22:47 - 24 minutes - 22.3 MBA reading of "U.S. Conservatives Set To Applaud Viktor Orbán's Paranoid Anti-Americanism" and "Viktor Orbán Flatters Republicans With the Lie That Progressive Liberals and Communists Are 'the Same'", by Matt Welch, published at Reason on August 3 and August 5, respectively. Related listening: Related listening: "Hungarian Nationalism Is a Dead End," and "No Self-Respecting American Should Aspire to Hungarian-Style Nationalism
Down That Dark Passage: Kathyrn Miles, author of "TRAILED: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders"
August 01, 2022 12:49 - 1 hour - 56.1 MB"What Man Can Do to Man: 13 True Crime Books That Get It Right," by Nancy Rommelmann Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders, by Kathryn Miles. More about Miles at kathrynmiles.net Shot in the Heart, by Mikal Gilmore Lost Girls, by Robert Kolker Blood Will Out, by Walter Kirn The Adversary, by Emmanuel Carrere Columbine, by Dave Cullen Down City, by Leah Carroll I’ll Be Gone in the Dark, by Michelle McNamara Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in North...
The Time Has Come for a Transpartisan 'Repeal' Caucus
July 27, 2022 16:47 - 9 minutes - 8.83 MBA reading of "The Time Has Come for a Transpartisan 'Repeal' Caucus," by Matt Welch, published at Reason on July 26, 2022
Big-City Public Schools, Facing a 'Massive Hemorhagging of Students,' Are Reimposing Mask Mandates
July 20, 2022 18:56 - 9 minutes - 8.74 MBA reading of "Big-City Public Schools, Facing a 'Massive Hemorhagging of Students,' Are Reimposing Mask Mandates," by Matt Welch, published at Reason on July 19, 2022
Self-Defense is Sexy
July 13, 2022 16:26 - 6 minutes - 6.29 MBA reading of, “Self-Defense Is Sexy,” by Matt Welch, published in the July issue of Reason magazine
The Doom Crusades
June 21, 2022 13:27 - 7 minutes - 9.8 MBA reading of "The Doom Crusades," by Nancy Rommelmann, published on Substack on June 20, 2022.
Another Step Backward: The Chesa Boudin Recall
June 13, 2022 14:52 - 15 minutes - 20.8 MBA reading of, "Another Step Backward: The Chesa Boudin Recall," published on Substack on June 7, 2022 Related content: "Time's Arrow: The Chesa Boudin Recall"
Time's Arrow: The Chesa Boudin Recall
June 12, 2022 20:56 - 13 minutes - 19 MBA reading of "Time's Arrow: The Chesa Boudin Recall," published on Substack on June 4, 2022. Click through for various links and images, including the message a BORTAC member sent Nancy several days after BORTAC broke down the schoolroom in Uvalde, Texas and killed the murdered of 19 children and 2 adults.
Can a Post-'Takeover' Libertarian Party Improve on Its Historical Run of 2012–20?
June 04, 2022 18:30 - 17 minutes - 15.7 MBA reading of, “Can a Post-'Takeover' Libertarian Party Improve on Its Historical Run of 2012–20?” by Matt Welch, published at Reason June 3. Related reading: “Libertarian Party Rebuffs Mises Uprising,” and “Ron Paul's Mistake.”
How a Baseball Non-Fight Illustrates Our Weird Journalistic Discourse on Racism
May 27, 2022 17:34 - 14 minutes - 12.9 MBA reading of, “How a Baseball Non-Fight Illustrates Our Weird Journalistic Discourse on Racism,” by Matt Welch, published at Reason May 27, 2022
Biden Is Right: We Shouldn't Restrict Americans in the Name of Liberating Cuba
May 18, 2022 23:50 - 6 minutes - 6.11 MBA reading of “Biden Is Right: We Shouldn't Restrict Americans in the Name of Liberating Cuba,” by Matt Welch, published at Reason May 18.
Race and Gender Checks Coming to a Boardroom Near You
May 13, 2022 21:54 - 8 minutes - 7.67 MBA reading of,“Race and Gender Checks Coming to a Boardroom Near You,” by Matt Welch, published at Reason May 13, 2022
Facing Education Crisis, Biden Admin Seeks to Restrict Charter Schools
May 13, 2022 21:41 - 7 minutes - 6.84 MBA reading of, “Facing Education Crisis, Biden Admin Seeks to Restrict Charter Schools,” by Matt Welch, published at Reason May 12, 2022
1. See You Next Tuesday: The Kids Are Not Alright
May 10, 2022 23:49 - 38 minutes - 53.3 MBWant to watch this first episode of See You Next Tuesday on YouTube? That's here. And join us each Tuesday at noon EST for the live broadcast and chat, at www.youtube.com/c/PalomaMediaNYC The Fifth Column podcast on Substack Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em on Substack
What Man Can Do To Man: 13 True Crime Books That Get It Right
May 10, 2022 11:31 - 18 minutes - 16.6 MBA reading of, "What Man Can Do To Man: 13 True Crime Books That Get It Right," by Nancy Rommelmann, which ran May 8, 2022, on Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em on Substack. Head over there for all the deets! But quick crib/links for the books: Shot in the Heart, by Mikal Gilmore Lost Girls, by Robert Kolker Blood Will Out, by Walter Kirn The Adversary, by Emmanuel Carrere Columbine, by Dave Cullen Down City, by Leah Carroll I’ll Be Gone in the Dark, by Michelle McNamara Say Nothing: A True S...
ASK A JEW: THE 1/5TH THAT MOVED TO SUBSTACK
May 03, 2022 12:14 - 1 hour - 63.9 MBThe girls welcome Liel Leibovitz, editor-at-large of Tablet magazine. Read Liel’s essay that made people yell at him. This may have been the Jewiest episode we ever recorded, but goys fear not - we’ll be back with the usual nonsense next week. Also: Please join us on Substack! Comment! Email! Give money! Or just sign up and say hey. https://askajew.substack.com/
After the War
May 02, 2022 19:09 - 30 minutes - 28.3 MBA reading of "After the War," by Matt Welch, published in the June issue of Reason, posted online May 2.
COVID-19 Policies Wrecked Public School Enrollment and Student Outcomes
April 28, 2022 16:14 - 6 minutes - 5.69 MBA reading of, “COVID-19 Policies Wrecked Public School Enrollment and Student Outcomes,” by Matt Welch, posted at Reason April 27.
Regime Change at the NY Times
April 27, 2022 12:13 - 40 minutes - 37.2 MBYouTube link to episode "American Journalism's Most Successful Politician To Step Down From Running The New York Times," by Matt Welch for Reason (audio version) Donald McNeil Jr.'s four-part series on Medium on his dismissal from The New York Times McNeil on Baquet's departure from the NYT and on whether or not incoming executive editor Joe Kahn realizes the paper is engaging in struggle sessions The Inside Man, New York magazine profile on Joe Kahn Donald McNeil Jr. and the State of P...
American Journalism's Most Successful Politician To Step Down From Running The New York Times
April 25, 2022 18:46 - 18 minutes - 16.6 MBA reading of “American Journalism's Most Successful Politician To Step Down From Running The New York Times,” posted at Reason April 22.
The World is Not Full of Monsters! Rommelmann and Hepola Discuss
April 18, 2022 10:57 - 1 hour - 84.3 MB"9th and Hennepin," by Tom Waits Museum of Jurassic Technology Joe Frank official website "The World is Not Filled with Monsters," by Ben Dreyfuss Ben Dreyfuss Substack Elon Musk TED Talk 2022 Benjamin Franklin by Ted Burns (PBS) The Witches, by Stacey Schiff "The Things I'm Afraid to Write About," by Sarah Hepola Normal People, by Sally Rooney "The 'Pity Me!' Personal Essay" in Gawker "The 8 Conservative Men Are Making No Apologies" in NYT
Gatekeepers Very Afraid That Elon Musk Will Remove the Gates From Twitter
April 14, 2022 18:41 - 8 minutes - 7.36 MBA reading of "Gatekeepers Very Afraid That Elon Musk Will Remove the Gates From Twitter," by Matt Welch, published at Reason on April 14, 2022
The Big Labor President
April 14, 2022 18:34 - 8 minutes - 8.08 MBA reading of "The Big Labor President," by Matt Welch, from the May 2022 issue of Reason magazine, posted online April 12
Entanglements! Nancy Rommelmann and Sarah Hepola Take On Hollywood
April 13, 2022 22:13 - 1 hour - 78.4 MB"You can't just use me for social media." Jada Pinkett-Smith/Will Smith video "Dread Carpet," Bill Maher on 2020's Depressing Oscar Best Pics "I spoke up against sexual violence—and faced our culture's wrath. That has to change." Amber Heard Opinion piece (WaPo) "Julia Louis-Dreyfuss's Last Fuckable Day" "The Things I'm Afraid to Write About," by Sarah Hepola (Atlantic) "Jena at 15: A Childhood in Hollywood," by Nancy Rommelmann (LA Weekly)
A Standard Worth Keeping: Don't Steal Other People's Stuff
April 13, 2022 18:54 - 11 minutes - 10.1 MBNancy Rommelmann Portland coverage for Reason "America's Shoplifting Epidemic" (WSJ) NR tweet about petty theft and consequences How Q-Tips are made video! Bucha's Month of Terror (NYT) Walgreen's cites theft as a reason for closing San Francisco locations (SFGate) "How SF's Black Market Thrives on Retail Theft" (SF Standard) Gibson's Bakery v. Oberlin College (wikipedia)
Cheerleaders and Buzzer Beaters: Sarah Hepola Redux!
April 09, 2022 03:39 - 1 hour - 72.9 MBFan-cam dancing to "Since You Been Gone" at Spurs game "America's Girls," podcast about the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders that Sarah Hepola co-created and narrates Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget, by Sarah Hepola To the Bridge: A True Story of Motherhood and Murder, by Nancy Rommelmann "I Always Dated Tom Waits," by Sarah Hepola (Salon) "Blackouts and Sexpots" podcast with Nancy Rommelmann and Sarah Hepola
Blackouts and Sexpots: Sarah Hepola
March 31, 2022 22:53 - 1 hour - 78.6 MB"The Things I'm Afraid to Write About", by Sarah Hepola, published in The Atlantic on March 12, 2022 Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget, by Sarah Hepola