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The three-hour bull session allowed the Republican nominee to launch fact-light tirades, including a riff about children undergoing sex change operations at school, along with boasts about his own toughness with adversaries such as China.

Their musings are as substantial as a late-night bull session in a college dorm room.

The King who emerges from these pages begins as serious-minded but playful, a ladies man who likes a good party and an all-night bull session.

But Mandel has the stylistic elegance and emotional sympathy to make this more than merely an undergraduate bull session.

Its mix of Twitter-centric water cooler talk, free-form bull session, and a deluge of takes “sprayed” by its hosts has pushed the podcast to outgrow its origin story.