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Taking Ship

Taking Ship

Taking Ship is a voyage through the morass of dumbest timeline America. It's the kind of podcast that believes you can take politics and culture seriously while laughing at both. It's hosted...

Episodes

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Macedonia is at it again: A conversation with Kris Goldsmith

Today's crew of Frank and Maggie are joined by Kris Goldsmith (@KrisGoldsmith85), Chief Investigator and Associate Director for Policy & Gov...

00:42:30Oct 4, 2019

This Age of Dumbest Timeline Globe is exhausting

Short one member of the crew, Frank and Elie cover Israeli politics, British politics, impeachment politics and Democratic primary politics...

00:39:02Sep 29, 2019

The One With Saul Austerlitz

Fear not, the crew of Salty Jason's Revenge has not been vanquished by the sea. Our War with the Sea continues...but not this week. For over...

00:59:32Sep 19, 2019

Fictional Trump voters, Mueller, Muppet Prime Ministers and More

The whole damn crew reunites to talk about how the UK elected a failed muppet as prime minister and what that means for_____ (you decide). W...

00:39:40Jul 24, 2019

Suing Nazis with Amy Spitalnick

Do you hate Nazis? Of course you do. But what can you do about it? Do you want to sue them? Then you should listen to this episode and then...

00:58:27Jul 11, 2019

We're running an armadillo for senate, the clown car pile up and saving stemware

Short one member of the crew, Frank and Elie go way too deep into the democratic debates (aka clown car pile up) and because this primary se...

00:41:51Jun 30, 2019

Frank returns and we prepare for the oncoming clown car pile up

At long last, our Master of Sea War, Frank Spring returns to join Maggie Moore and Elie Jacobs aboard a fully staffed Salty Jason's Revenge....

00:29:25Jun 23, 2019

F*ck sliced bread & the internet; air conditioning is humanity's greatest invention

Maggie (@MaggieM012) and Elie crew Salty Jason's Revenge alone this week, as Frank (@frankspring) continues to prepare his new offspring to...

00:31:21Jun 2, 2019

The incomparable Rose Jackson joins the crew of Salty Jason's Revenge to save the country and planet

Elie Jacobs and Maggie Moore (Frank Spring is holding down the New Mexico office with a new addition) are joined by the irreverent Rose Jack...

00:51:11May 21, 2019

Taking Ship & The Drive with Steve Jaxon CROSS OVER Part Deux

Two thirds* of the crew of Salty Jason's Revenge (Maggie Moore and Elie Jacobs) joined Steve Jaxon of KRSO to talk Biden, Trade Wars and mor...

00:17:23May 17, 2019

David Roth dunks on De Blasio and then leads us into a very in the weeds NBA basketball conversation

Frank Spring and Elie Jacobs take on the challenge of containing the wit and wisdom of Deadspin's David Roth to one podcast and fail miserab...

00:53:47May 7, 2019

SOS Episode: Whither Impeachment and has Seth Moulton scared Joe Biden from running for president?

We're retooling our format a bit and introducing these mini "emergency" episodes, which you can expect to see relatively - for us - frequent...

00:18:47Apr 23, 2019

RERUN: Our calendars hate us, so we offer you Chris Frates in our stead

Between schedules and Mayor Pete's launch announcement (and we guess Eric Swalwell's announcement too?) the mighty crew of Salty Jason's Rev...

01:01:40Apr 15, 2019

Dumpster fires all around: Brexit, Beto, Biden and other things that start with B

The entire crew is back aboard Salty Jason's Revenge. Maggie, Frank and Elie talk Brexit, and an update on the 2020 Democratic field of drea...

00:47:34Apr 7, 2019

Unpopular pop culture opinions and no politics

Sans Frank, who's positioning himself to be the next PM of the UK and finally straighten out Brexit, Maggie and Elie do the impossible and g...

00:32:25Mar 31, 2019

Show Me The Money

Frank Spring and Maggie Moore are joined by the incredible Julie Zebrak, who served in the U.S. Department of Justice from 1997-2015, includ...

00:57:27Mar 17, 2019

The Parable of the Three White Men

Maggie and Frank discuss the latest in 2020 candidates coming and going, as well as digging into the reality TV level drama happening in UK...

00:28:00Mar 9, 2019

RERUN: Schedules are a mess so we're reposting our episode with David Roth of Deadspin

Colin Kaepernick settled, Bob Kraft got in deep doodoo and this week may set the record for most dumb things in DumbestTimelineAmerica, so f...

00:45:39Feb 27, 2019

Chris Lu climbs aboard Salty Jason's Revenge to talk DNC, 2020, and Trump's "Nat'l Emergency"

For Presidents (or President's or Presidents' or Washington's Birth)Day, former Deputy Secretary of Labor, Cabinet Secretary and assistant t...

00:50:10Feb 19, 2019

CROSS OVER! Steve Jaxon takes the helm of Salty Jason’s Revenge

Much like an "unprecedented economic boom" is really just "a boom that has rarely been seen before", in an unprecedented move, the crew of S...

00:30:05Feb 7, 2019