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How Candace Owens Left Reality
New Jan 09, 2026 1h 36m

How Candace Owens Left Reality

Candace Owens’s daily livestreams have more viewers than Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC combined. The woman who less than a decade ago was a liberal blogger in New York City is now one of the most powerf...

Why Nicki Minaj Threw It All Away For Fascism
Dec 26, 2025 1h 35m

Why Nicki Minaj Threw It All Away For Fascism

When Nicki Minaj stepped on stage in Phoenix, Arizona, with one hand clasping Erika Kirk and the other waving to a crowd of white supremacists, even I was shocked. We’ve known the Queen of Rap to b...

Samantha Fulnecky Failed the Grift
Dec 15, 2025 1h 43m

Samantha Fulnecky Failed the Grift

When Samantha Fulnecky filed a religious discrimination complaint against her university after failing an essay assignment in which she only referenced the Bible, she was on a path to victory. Sure...

Jeffree Star Has Always Been Like This
Nov 28, 2025 1h 44m

Jeffree Star Has Always Been Like This

On the afternoon Charlie Kirk died, Jeffree Star livestreamed a four-minute-long rant about how nonbinary people aren’t real. Star, with his pink hair, diamond nails, and prior openness to using “a...

The Jewish Fear Industrial Complex
Nov 15, 2025 1h 40m

The Jewish Fear Industrial Complex

There is no bigger danger to Jews, apparently, than New York City’s Mayor-Elect, Zohran Mamdani. The morning after he was elected, the ADL announced the launch of the “Mamdani Monitor” to track ant...

The Liberal Wine Moms are Radicalizing (with Jennifer Welch)
Oct 31, 2025 1h 2m

The Liberal Wine Moms are Radicalizing (with Jennifer Welch)

Jennifer Welch, a 51-year-old Texan turned Oklahoman, is radicalizing America one wine mom at a time. The southern podcaster (who might finally be our “Joe Rogan of the Left”) has become an unlikel...

What Is the Point Of Bill Maher?
Oct 17, 2025 1h 45m

What Is the Point Of Bill Maher?

Bill Maher is, allegedly, the last sane voice on the left. But he doesn’t believe in the rights of transgender people, or of Palestinians. He thinks college campuses are hotbeds of liberal indoctri...

The Unraveling of Debra Messing and “Liberal Zionism”
Oct 03, 2025 1h 40m

The Unraveling of Debra Messing and “Liberal Zionism”

For the last two decades, Debra Messing — the star of early 2000’s hit Will & Grace — has been something of a liberal Hollywood icon, courting an adoring gay audience and getting into public fe...

Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Revisions
Sep 19, 2025 1h 14m

Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Revisions

The day after Charlie Kirk was murdered, Ezra Klein published an essay in the New York Times: “Charlie Kirk Practiced Politics The Right Way.” Klein’s piece was one of countless teary-eyed eulogies...

Dr. Phil: From Nice Guy to Nazi (with Aubrey Gordon)
Sep 05, 2025 1h 43m

Dr. Phil: From Nice Guy to Nazi (with Aubrey Gordon)

Dr. Phil has a new hobby: ICE raids. The daytime television fixture bewildered fans when he began touring with the Trump campaign last year, ending his decades-long streak as a seemingly apolitical...

Sydney Sweeney and the Outrage Machine
Aug 23, 2025 1h 10m

Sydney Sweeney and the Outrage Machine

Sydney Sweeney is Hollywood’s most-discussed starlet, often for confusing reasons. Her existence as a visible woman with a human body made her the target of widespread male adoration, ridicule, and...

The Trans Teen Imprisoned for Refusing to Join the IDF
Aug 06, 2025 56 min

The Trans Teen Imprisoned for Refusing to Join the IDF

Yona Roseman is 19. In two weeks, the Israeli government is imprisoning her for refusing to join Israel's military, for which service is required by all Israeli Jewish teenagers. Because she is tra...

Jojo Siwa: The Internet’s Court Jester
Jul 25, 2025 1h 32m

Jojo Siwa: The Internet’s Court Jester

Jojo Siwa has been a lot of things: an eleven-year-old abused on television for public entertainment, a tween merchandising mogul with a billion dollar brand, Nickelodeon’s first out gay child star...

Why Is Everyone Going Back Into the Closet?
Jun 27, 2025 1h 14m

Why Is Everyone Going Back Into the Closet?

From granola fascism to the manosphere, much gets said of the various right-wing pipelines people have gone down in the years since lockdown. One such pipeline remains more mysterious. When you thi...

Never Apologize to Fascists (with Contrapoints)
Jun 13, 2025 1h 11m

Never Apologize to Fascists (with Contrapoints)

Last week, world-class athlete Simone Biles stood up to failed-athlete-turned-crybully Riley Gaines when Riley antagonized a transgender child to her 1.5 million Twitter followers. A harassment cam...

The Antisemitism Panic (with Matt Lieb)
May 30, 2025 1h 20m

The Antisemitism Panic (with Matt Lieb)

“From the river to the sea” is antisemitic. “Free Palestine” is antisemitic. Children’s YouTuber Ms. Rachel raising money for child amputees is antisemitic. ICE is kidnapping college students for a...

A Morning With Vivian Wilson, Elon’s Estranged Daughter
May 16, 2025 47 min

A Morning With Vivian Wilson, Elon’s Estranged Daughter

In today’s special episode, we’re taking a break from political and cultural analysis to chat with someone who’s been at the center of today’s culture wars but rarely in her own voice: Vivian Jenna...

The Breeders Who Want You to Have More Kids Right Now
May 03, 2025 1h 27m

The Breeders Who Want You to Have More Kids Right Now

Last week, the New York Times reported: “White House Assesses Ways to Persuade Women to Have More Children”. But who exactly is behind this push, and why, and what does it have to do with Elon Musk...

“Alpha Males” Are Making Men Lonelier (with Ryan Broderick)
Apr 18, 2025 1h 16m

“Alpha Males” Are Making Men Lonelier (with Ryan Broderick)

When fitness influencer Ashton Hall’s absurd morning routine went viral a few weeks ago, I was… moved. The hours-long skincare, gym, and journaling ritual felt like an American Psycho-inspired metr...