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The Incel to ICE Pipeline (with F.D Signifier and Caroline Kwan) (01:17:32)
ICE is many things — chief among them, an outgrowth of a seemingly neverending masculinity crisis. The U.S. government has devised a billion dollar strategy to recruit aggrieved young men into ICE wit...
She Had Elon’s Baby. Then, the Leopards Ate Her Face. (01:15:30)
Ashley St. Clair dropped out of college to become a full-time conservative influencer. Five years later, she was pregnant with Elon Musk’s child. Within months, the weight of the politics Ashley built...
How Candace Owens Left Reality (01:36:09)
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 powerful ...
Why Nicki Minaj Threw It All Away For Fascism (01:35:49)
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 be m...
Samantha Fulnecky Failed the Grift (01:43:24)
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, t...
Jeffree Star Has Always Been Like This (01:44:33)
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 “any ...
The Jewish Fear Industrial Complex (01:40:19)
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 antise...
The Liberal Wine Moms are Radicalizing (with Jennifer Welch) (01:02:17)
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 unlikely, ...
What Is the Point Of Bill Maher? (01:45:04)
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 indoctrinar...
The Unraveling of Debra Messing and “Liberal Zionism” (01:40:19)
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 feuds wit...
Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Revisions (01:14:48)
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 fr...
Dr. Phil: From Nice Guy to Nazi (with Aubrey Gordon) (01:43:53)
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 ce...
Sydney Sweeney and the Outrage Machine (01:10:50)
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 po...
The Trans Teen Imprisoned for Refusing to Join the IDF (00:56:02)
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 transg...
Jojo Siwa: The Internet’s Court Jester (01:32:06)
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, a...
The New York Times Thinks Gays Have Gone Too Far (with Chase Strangio) (02:01:11)
On the twilight of Pride Month, the New York Times published (and sent out a push notification for) a guest essay titled “How the Gay Rights Movement Radicalized and Lost Its Way” by a gay journalist ...
Why Is Everyone Going Back Into the Closet? (01:14:24)
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 think ...
Never Apologize to Fascists (with Contrapoints) (01:11:18)
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 campai...
The Antisemitism Panic (with Matt Lieb) (01:20:07)
“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 anti...
A Morning With Vivian Wilson, Elon’s Estranged Daughter (00:47:36)
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 Wi...
The Breeders Who Want You to Have More Kids Right Now (01:27:03)
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’s ...
“Alpha Males” Are Making Men Lonelier (with Ryan Broderick) (01:16:54)
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 metrose...
Maia Poet: The Final Boss of Detrans Grifters (with Kat Blaque) (01:25:33)
What does “gender ideology” have in common with ISIS? Well, they are both… things, arguably. As more people become aware of opportunities to commodify their trauma into anti-trans right-wing media bai...
Gwen Stefani: From Feminist to Fascist (01:22:30)
When Gwen Stefani made a tacit endorsement of Tucker Carlson earlier this month, I felt like somebody had knocked the wind out of me. Had the iconic 90’s ain’t-no-hollaback girl made a not-so-sweet es...
The Complex Tragedy of Grimes (01:17:50)
To the mainstream news, she’s the mother of three of Elon Musk’s children. To a certain type of extremely online Tumblr user in the year 2012, she once approximated God. Today, we take a challenging l...
