Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe Good Fight Club, or Good Fight Club?
Mike joins Yascha Mounk's Good Fight Club to debate the mid-midterm results: Democrats' surprisingly strong showings in Virginia and New Jersey, Zoran Mamdani's charisma-vs-governance problem in New …
Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Funny You Should Mention: Dusty Slay
Dusty Slay drops by with "Wet Heat" fresh on Netflix to talk Opelika lore (a.k.a. Snopalika), becoming parade Grand Marshal, and how a onetime pesticide salesman turned country-music linguist builds …
Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Sadie Dingfelder on "Hair, Feathers, and the Theater of Disgust."
We test whether a hair in your hummus is truly hazardous, compare bacterial counts on hair shafts vs. feathers, and trace America's hairnet obsession back to Edward Bernays' spin. We play: Is That BS…
Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Colin Woodard: The Federation Is the Fault Line
Woodard maps America's clashing "nations," from American Nations to Nations Apart, arguing that our deepest divides are regional and newly combustible. He makes the case that post–Cold War policy, so…
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The Wars Trump Says He Ended, and the One Cheney Began
The veteran media strategist reflects on Chuck Schumer's once-golden Sunday pressers and how his "price-of-milk politics" model needs updating for 2025. He discusses New York Democrats' strategic sil…
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Matthew Hiltzik on the Craft of Crisis Communications
Hiltzik, founder of Hiltzik Strategies, explains how his background in law, politics, and media shaped his methodical, fact-based approach to strategic communications. He describes the importance of …
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Mike Pesca on "Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em"
Mike joins Nancy Rommelmann and Sarah Hepola for a rowdy, caffeine-fueled dive into the NBA betting scandal—where marked decks, mobsters, and million-dollar contracts collide. They unpack how legaliz…
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Art Cullen on Iowa's Corn Gospel, Cancer, and Capture
Iowa's rivers run brown, its cancer rates climb, and its politics tilt redder. Pulitzer Prize-winning editor Art Cullen joins to discuss his new book Dear Marty: We Crapped in Our Nest — Notes from t…
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Beth Macy: "When the Local Paper Dies, the Community Follows"
Journalist Beth Macy, author of Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America, returns to her Ohio roots to chart what's been lost in the hollowing-out of middle America. Pap…
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Karine Jean-Pierre: "Independent," Evasion, and the Party She Says Left Her
Former Biden Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre joins to promote her memoir Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House Outside the Party Lines—and faces pointed questions about contradictions be…
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago