Noah Colwyn joins All Things Considered hosts Brace and Liz for a chaotic, off-the-cuff episode after a pre-recorded intro tangents on Radiohead’s Kid A, CDC pandemic warnings, and a satirical "racism cure." The trio laughs through technical mishaps—like Liz’s 2012 mantra "no plan survives contact with the enemy"—before Colwyn, co-host of Blowback and former Jewish Currents editor, downplays his role as a recurring guest, joking it’s just "three Pete" that brings him back. The unscripted start sets the tone for their usual irreverent, conversational style. [Automatically generated summary]
This is all things considered, and I'm Noah Colwyn.
20 years ago this week, the rock band Radiohead released what many consider their magnum opus kid A. Ex-girlfriends whined to our correspondent about why it sucked.
On Capitol Hill, leading physicians testified that the coronavirus pandemic is far from over.
Leaders at the CDC stress that the American people must not be, quote, bitch made, and that it's our duty to try and tough it out.
And finally, some good news from a research clinic in California.
Scientists are saying that they've made a world historical breakthrough.
That's right.
They've found a cure for racism.
This is Noah Colwyn, and you're listening to All Things Considered on NPR.
Brace, that's the first intro we haven't done together.
I know, it feels a little...
I just feel a little funky.
I think to rectify this crazy feeling that I have, I think we should do like a 35-minute UCB style like improv routine about bananas.
Yes.
And I don't know.
Man, I was going to do like a UCB joke and I couldn't remember what the phrase they say.
That's what they say.
Yes.
And I have, do you have an, I have, I have zero interest in improv.
Yeah, I'm good.
I'm like, I lived with two improv people.
No.
And I'll tell you what.
Yes, they got really mad at me for stealing all their silver spoons and using them to shoot junk with.
But they were awful.
They were always in the living room.
Yeah, I don't like that.
Listen, if you live with other people, you got a rash in your living room.
You can't be a guy that's just always in the living room.
I think that's very true.
You know, because then it kind of becomes your space.
No, like, no, man, I want to get caught jerking off there too.
Oh, my God.
Anyway, hello.
Welcome.
This is Truanon.
Hi, my name is Brace.
I'm Liz.
We are joined by Young Chomsky, who's our producer.
I did that weird.
Keep going, Liz.
So we have a kind of wild episode.
I don't know what to say.
We had a plan for this episode.
We had a plan.
We had our notes.
We were ready to go.
And it kind of went off the rails.
Yeah.
A phrase I came up with in 2012 to describe an unfortunate encounter I had with several men on the street is no plan survives contact with the enemy.
Not that Noah is the enemy, but Palantir, in fact, podcasting is my enemy.
And so our plan went off the rails, but I liked it.
Yeah, it was fun.
So we've got a wide, wide-ranging conversation for you guys with our old friend Noah Colwyn.
Who, yeah, this is Third Time's The Charm on his appearance on Truan.
And we're talking freaky deeky shit, you guys.
Let's do it.
Well, we got fucking Noah here again.
That's good.
I didn't ask to be here, man.
Hey, I'm not my problem.
Listen, baby, every few days I show up to the Google meet and somebody else is here.
Maybe it's just Liz.
I don't know.
I just go with it.
You think I read the notes of this kind of shit?
I don't know.
Well, we got Noah.
What the fuck are we talking about today?
No, we should say welcome.
Fray escape the game away.
We have Noah Colwyn here today.
Noah, how should we introduce you?
Why don't you introduce yourself?
We usually do this before we record.
Wait, let me try this.
Let me try this.
Noah is some position.
I can't remember if it's editor or not at Jewish Currents, or he's not anymore.
Okay, he's nodding.
And he's also the co-host of the very famous and rival podcast, Blowback Podcast, about the Iraq War, the second.