I doubt anyone care, but I'm the resident Matt Taibbi observer, so AMA.
tldr; Walter Kirn is a big lolbertarian anti-Covid lockdown and suck-up of Jay Bhattacharya, the current director of NIH and anti-lockdown "doctor" (he's an economist and does not practice medicine). Matt Taibbi's substack "Racket News" hired a Emily Kopp - a reporter that's too crazy for even the current MAHA movement. She's digging into the ongoing gain-on-function research at NIH even under the current administration. Being a MAGA suck-up Walter disagree with Matt Taibbi's substack challenging the current administration and their grift podcast is no more.

Ames the radio war nerd guy?
Yeah back then The eXile was Matt Taibi, Mark Ames, and Yasha Levine; John Dolan (a.k.a. Gary Brecher) was a contributer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_eXile