Podcast appearances and mentions of Ben Shapiro

On this week's #guybensonshow Sunday Replay, we're looking back at Guy's conversation with Ben Shapiro! Shapiro shared details on the upcoming film he served as the Executive Producer for, “Run Hide Fight: Infidels,” discussed the media's efforts to reframe the narrative around the 9/11 attacks, MORE! Listen at GuyBensonShow.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Daily Wire's Run, Hide, Fight: Infidels is finally out, and the Left is losing it. Theaters are canceling screenings, critics are screeching about "Islamophobia," and our posters are being torn downin New York. Ben reacts to the most unhinged responses out there.

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Titans on Tomorrow Ep. 3 with guest Andrew Ross Sorkin Presented by Shopify: https://shopify.com/titans Dario Amodei frantically warned the world we need to "Pace the Frontier" of AI. His biggest competitor Sam Altman immediately agreed. Both are now asking Washington to slow down the very technology making them rich. Is their cry of imminent danger to humanity real, or the most sophisticated moat-building to protect personal profits in corporate history? Ben Shapiro sits down with Andrew Ross Sorkin–DealBook founder, CNBC Squawk Box co-anchor, and author of Too Big to Fail, for a rare, direct read on the people actually running the AI race.  Episode 3 of Titans on Tomorrow covers the real motives behind Amodei's essay, what the Hugging Face/OpenAI hacking incident proves about AI danger in the real world, why regulatory capture might be the biggest untold story of the moment, the China question nobody in Washington can answer, whether the AI boom is 2008 or 1929 all over again for Wall Street investors, and where Sorkin, who has JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon and Citadel's Ken Griffin on speed dial, thinks the smart money is moving. - - - Today's Sponsors: Shopify - Whether you're building your first business or your next one, start your FREE Trial at https://shopify.com/titans Cardiff - If you've been in business for at least a year, and are pulling in $20,000 a month in revenue, apply now for up to $500,000 in same day business funding at https://Cardiff.co/ben Real growth. Fast funding. Cardiff—Borrow better. Helix - Go to https://helixsleep.com/titans for 30% off sitewide during Helix's Labor Day: Best of Web sale. Zip Recruiter - 4 out of 5 employers who post on ZipRecruiter get a quality candidate within the first day. Try it for FREE today at https://ZipRecruiter.com/DAILYWIRE - - - DailyWire: Become a Daily Wire Member and watch all of our content ad-free: https://get.dailywire.com/infidels 40% off annual plans with code FIGHT

It's Casual Friday on The Majority Report On today's program: The Republican brand has become so toxic that even ancient conservative Fox hosts Stuart Varney and Larry Kudlow are being forced to acknowledge the party's lies and incompetence heading into the midterms. David Dayen, executive editor of The American Prospect and co-host of the Organized Money podcast, joins to recap the week's news. Topics discussed include the midterms, AI regulation and more. In the Fun Half: Lina Khan speaks to The Atlantic about how AI companies are already subject to regulation and laws and how that seems to be absent from the conversation around these companies. Alex Karp gives a bizarre interview on CNBC that is too incoherent to be summarized. Mehdi Hasan asks Nancy Mace if she was drunk when she posted an AI image of her and Donald Trump on the same day the president endorsed her opponent. The polling in Kansa, Iowa, Idaho, Texas and more suggests that even the Republicans in the deep-red states are not going to have an easy election this midterm. Ben Shapiro is very defensive over the critic's reaction to his new racist ISIS movie. CNN reports that a military intelligence report derived from false information from ChatGPT almost led to an act of war against a Chinese vessel in the Middle East. all that and more. Please consider helping the Aldaghma family, they are the family behind Gaza Bakery, which provides bread and meals to displaced families, and Future Flowers Kindergarten, which gives children a place to learn, play, and experience moments of normalcy whenever conditions allow. On Sunday, October 4, Emma will be in Los Angeles doing a Bitchuation Room Live with Francesca Fiorentini at the Lodge Room. Get tickets here. To connect and organize with your local ICE rapid response team visit ICERRT.com The Congress switchboard number is (202) 224-3121. You can use this number to connect with either the U.S. Senate or the House of Representatives. Follow us on TikTok here: https://www.tiktok.com/@majorityreportfm Check us out on Twitch here: https://www.twitch.tv/themajorityreport Find our Rumble stream here: https://rumble.com/user/majorityreport Check out our alt YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/majorityreportlive Gift a Majority Report subscription here: https://fans.fm/majority/gift Subscribe to the AM Quickie newsletter here: https://am-quickie.ghost.io/ Join the Majority Report Discord! https://majoritydiscord.com/ Get all your MR merch at our store: https://shop.majorityreportradio.com/ Get the free Majority Report App!: https://majority.fm/app Go to https://JustCoffee.coop and use coupon code majority to get 10% off your purchase Check out today's sponsors: ONESKIN: Get 15% off OneSkin with the code MAJORITY at https://www.oneskin.co/majority SUNSET LAKE CBD: Head to SunsetLakeCBD.com and use coupon code 'Left Is Best' to save 20% your entire order. Follow the crew on X @SamSeder @EmmaVigeland @MattLech On Instagram: @MrBryanVokey Check out Matt's show, Left Reckoning, on YouTube, and subscribe on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/leftreckoning Check out Matt Binder's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/mattbinder Subscribe to Brandon's YouTube channel: https://ww.youtube.com/Th3Discourse Check out Ava Raiza's music here: https:/www.youtube.com/@avaraiza  

Reviewers are apoplectic about Run, Hide, Fight: Infidels... and the movie is a hit! Plus, the Federal Reserve just hiked interest rates, and the Left is very upset about Sydney Sweeney posing nude or something. Ep. 2509

On Wednesday's Mark Levin Show, the central AI debate is between freedom and government, and between knowledge and idiocy. These politicians, bureaucrats, and regulators think they know more than inventors, creators, and innovators, and are trying to make people fearful of technological advancement. We need to remember the politicians who oppose this progress; they're populists, nationalists, Marxists, and socialists who seek greater control while presenting their actions as protecting "the people." Government control of AI would be a power grab and would benefit Democrat political interests and favored groups, while also helping Communist China. Government and politicians need to keep their hands off and allow advancement to move forward. Also, Arkansas Senate candidate Hallie Shoffner says she would trade five Americans for one ‘undocumented immigrant.' Hardworking Americans pay taxes and contribute significantly to the country. Schaffner is ineffective and out of touch. Meanwhile, Texas Senate candidate James Talarico's pastor says that Talarico will return to his previous radical views after being elected. He is changing his message solely to gain political power. Later, gas prices are high but voters should not be discouraged from supporting Republicans in the midterm election. Electing Democrats by staying home on Election day will not lower gas prices. Democrats support policies that would raise costs, increase taxes, expand government power, and advance a radical agenda. Republican victories are necessary to maintain control of the House and Senate and prevent investigations, impeachments, and Democratic control of government. Low voter turnout could lead to the destruction of the economy and our republic. Afterward, Deuteronomy was the most widely read and cited book during the Revolutionary period, appearing more frequently in speeches, writings, and official documents than any other source. Figures such as Madison, Washington, Adams, and Jefferson repeatedly referenced the Hebrew Bible, not to promote Judaism, but because they saw parallels between ancient events and their own circumstances. Ideas from the Hebrew Bible helped shape arguments about natural law, natural rights, and the Creator, while also overlapping with Enlightenment thought, particularly that of John Locke, although Deuteronomy was cited even more frequently. Finally, Ben Shapiro calls in to discuss Daily Wire's new film - Run Hide Fight: Infidels. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Aaron McIntire covers the Federal Reserve's unanimous decision to raise interest rates despite President Trump's public frustration, amid a 31 year low in new home sales. He covers Vice President JD Vance's midterm messaging push, and undercover video obtained by the Daily Wire in which Texas Senate candidate James Talarico's own minister suggests Talarico is softening his positions purely for electoral purposes. Aaron also covers the arrest of Korby Allen Strube, a Kansas man accused of posting antisemitic death threats against Ben Shapiro tied to a Yom Kippur countdown, and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles announcing she is cancer free. He covers NFL star Travis Kelce being named a victim in a $35 million Ponzi scheme run by Indian national Siddharth Jawahar, and pushes back on California Governor Gavin Newsom's breezy CNN fly fishing interview reflecting on COVID era lockdowns.

Joe Concha breaks down the Democrats' shift into the 2026 midterms, moving on from climate change to frame artificial intelligence as an existential threat worse than nuclear weapons. Featuring commentary from Ben Shapiro on government power grabs and Gavin Newsom's threat to tax Trump's proposed $5,000 dividend at 100%, Joe also revisits Kamala Harris's viral attempts to explain machine learning. Beyond politics, Joe celebrates J.C. Penney's 138th birthday with a classic Roadhouse throwback, reacts to Pete Alonso's bittersweet Citi Field curtain call, mocks low Emmy ratings and calls out a Michigan Senate candidate claiming to be a doctor without a medical license..

Our blockbuster new film, Run, Hide, Fight: Infidels is out NOW – and it's both awesome and more important than ever; the Saudis surrender an oil chokepoint to the ragtag terrorist Houthis; and two grifters get together to stop AI. Ep. 2508

A can't-miss LIVE episode of Friendly Fire. Michael Knowles, Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh, and Andrew Klavan react to Hollywood's whiny, sanctimonious reviews of Run Hide Fight: Infidels, debate the role blue-haired college liberals play in helping the rise of radical Islam, and expose the nefarious plots and schemes of Jihadis to take over the West. Ep. 23

Dave Smith brings you the latest in politics! On this episode of Part Of The Problem, Dave and Robbie "the Fire" Bernstein discuss the viral photo of fans at a Texas college football game, Ben Shapiro's video response, and more.Support Our Sponsors:CrowdHealth - https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/promos/potpPrize Picks - Visit https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/POTP and use code POTP and get $150 if you win your first $5 lineup! Prolon - https://prolonlife.com/potpRidge - https://ridge.com/potp10Part Of The Problem is available for early pre-release at https://partoftheproblem.com as well as an exclusive episode on Thursday!PORCH TOUR DATES HERE:https://robbernsteincomedy.com/eventsFind Run Your Mouth here:YouTube - http://youtube.com/@RunYourMouthiTunes - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/run-your-mouth-podcast/id1211469807Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/4ka50RAKTxFTxbtyPP8AHmFollow the show on social media:X:http://x.com/ComicDaveSmithhttp://x.com/RobbieTheFireInstagram:http://instagram.com/theproblemdavesmithhttp://instagram.com/robbiethefire#libertarian See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Ben Shapiro joins us to react to J.D. Vance's political comments on American foreign policy with Israel, the UT fallout within the “heritage immigration” debate, and the new Daily Wire film, “Run Hide Fight: Infidels” being canceled by Alamo Drafthouse. J.D. Vance gives a questionable answer on a podcast saying “we cannot let our Middle Eastern foreign policy be subservient to the state of Israel”. Dana thoroughly debunks the myths with facts and figures. Dana slams Macklemore's continued lie that “Israel is committing genocide”. Plus, more commentaryThank you for supporting our sponsors that make The Dana Show possible…Alliance Defending Freedomhttps://JoinADF.com/danaIf you believe your freedom is worth defending, now is the time to act.  Donate to Alliance Defending Freedom at the link above and have your gift MATCHED. Chapterhttps://Chapter.Org/DanaAsk Chapter today if you could be saving money on your medicare coverage. PreBornhttps://PreBorn.com/Dana Donate to PreBorn today.  For just $28, you can sponsor one ultrasound and help save a baby's life while supporting parents during a critical moment.Relief Factorhttps://ReliefFactor.comBe the next person sharing a Relief Factor success story. Get started today with the 3-Week QuickStart for only $17.76 and tell them you heard about them on The Dana Show. Patriot Mobilehttp://PatriotMobile.com/DANAMake the switch to Patriot Mobile today. Visit online or call 972-PATRIOT and use promo code DANA for a FREE month of service.Webroothttps://Webroot.com/DanaSave 60% off Webroot. Protect your devices. Protect your family. Protect your peace of mind. Live a better digital life with Webroot. Byrnahttps://Byrna.com/DanaTrusted by law enforcement, security professionals, and everyday Americans—defend yourself and your family with Byrna.Ghost Bedhttps://GhostBed.com/DANAIf you're waking up tired before the day even starts, check out GhostBed.  Now get an extra 10% off their lowest prices of the season with promo code DANA. HumanNhttps://Humann.com/DanaGet the limited edition HumanN Watermelon Flavor and find out how to get a FREE 30-day supply before they sell out.Subscribe today and stay in the loop on all things news with The Dana Show. Follow us here for more daily clips, updates, and commentary:YoutubeFacebookInstagramXMore InfoWebsite

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Topics discussed on this episode include remembering 9/11, the possible unmasking of the creator of Bitcoin, a United Methodist Pastor tied to Jeffrey Epstein, the Dancing Cancer Girls of New Mexico, how The Atlantic got fooled into believing the Cartel holds their own secret Olympics, college football, the Kawhi Leonard saga, the NFL, the appearance of AI Jesus at a Catholic church in Switzerland, two little Bigfeet spotted in Pennsylvania, Steven Spielberg's Disclosure Day, and the CIA's search for the Ark of the Covenant.

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The Trump administration moves to shut down welfare use by immigrants... and the Democrats are fighting mad about it; pro-terror Mahmoud Khalil sues Columbia University for allegedly being too mean to him; and Donald Trump Jr. receives a very nice wedding gift from a Russian oligarch. Ep. 2507 - - - Today's Sponsors: Cardiff - If you've been in business for at least a year, and are pulling in $20,000 a month in revenue, apply now for up to $500,000 in same day business funding at https://Cardiff.co/shapiro  Real growth. Fast funding. Cardiff—Borrow better. PreBorn! - Just $28 sponsors one ultrasound. And every ultrasound is another opportunity for a mother to meet her baby for the very first time. To donate, dial #250 and say the keyword "BABY" or give securely at https://PreBorn.com/BEN Golden Crest Metals - Right now GoldenCrest metals will send you a free investor kit, a free portfolio review, and up to $25,000 in free silver on qualifying purchases. Text BEN to METALS—that's 638257—go to https://GoldenCrestMetals.com/Ben, or call (888) 429-3999 - - - DailyWire: Become a Daily Wire Member and watch all of our content ad-free: https://www.dailywire.com/subscribe 40% off annual plans with code FIGHT

Dave Rubin of "The Rubin Report" talks about Ben Shapiro getting CNN's Abby Phillip to go quiet after he shows the proof for why the AI doomers have a lot of self-interest in pushing for more AI regulation from the federal government and a warning about what would happen if China wins the AI race; Palantir CEO Alex Karp explaining to "Squawk Box's" Andrew Ross Sorkin why pausing the development of AI could be disastrous because of the AI race that the United States is in with China; Elon Musk telling the "All-In Podcast" what he meant when he said Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei was "right" about his warnings about frontier models of AI and why we may need to pause or slow down AI development; NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani joining other cities to sue the Trump administration for its new public charge rule that could affect the ability of immigrants to receive government benefits; Gavin Newsom telling Jake Tapper why he wouldn't run for president if Kamala Harris decides to run in the 2028 election; Harry Enten sharing new polling data that should scare the Republican establishment about how the upcoming midterm elections will determine who controls the Senate and why James Talarico is looking more likely to beat Ken Paxton; and much more. Today's Sponsors: Kalshi - Download the Kalshi app and use code RUBINREPORT to get $25 when you trade $25 or go to https://kalshi.com/r/RUBINREPORT DISCLAIMER: 18+ only. Restrictions and eligibility requirements apply. Event contract trading involves risk and may not be suitable for all investors. Prices, values, and available markets may differ from those mentioned. For more information see kalshi.com/regulatory. Sunday for Dogs - Give your dog the quality of a home-cooked meal with the scoop and serve ease of kibble. Make the switch to Sundays. Get 50% off your first order with link below or use code RUBIN at checkout. Go to: https://sundaysfordogs.com/RUBIN Balance of Nature - Make sure you are getting all the positive effects from a wide variety of fruits and vegetables. Get 10% OFF the Whole Health System™ supplements when you use Discount Code: RUBIN. Go to https://BalanceofNature.com

The outrage continues to grow over the post that Texas railroad commission candidate Bo French made about the UT Austin game. Now political commentator Ben Shapiro decided to clutch his pearls about the post in a long-winded statement, with the true point of the issue going completely over his head. They are all crying that we're racist and continue to be ignorant to the real issue: that we are slowly being pushed out of our own country, our homes, and our jobs. That wasn't the only drama from the Longhorns game. ESPN reporter Holly Rowe threw a fit after UT head coach Steve Sarkisian brushed off her weak interview to celebrate the legendary win with his team. AI videos started surfacing after the blow-off, including one that showed Sark slapping the reporter — a harmless, fake AI video that UT QB Arch Manning found funny. Now he's receiving backlash and badgering for it. We can't just all celebrate and have a good time; liberals just have to get so worked up and be so hurt all the time. Lefitsts are so hypocritical that they will be so upset about this but will be OK with fake ghetto hood rat Jasmine Crockett celebrating Chris Brown, a known abuser. Gavin Newsom, Democrat governor of California, makes the shocking remark that if Kamala Harris ran for president, he would back down to let his queen bee win. Newsom has been setting himself up to run for president for years, and now decides to cuck for drunk Aunt Kamala. We might be seeing a ghost, but it seems like Mitch McConnell is back from his medical leave. They wheeled him back to the Capitol, but it seems like the lights are on and nobody is home. He released a statement, stating that he's back and ready to vote … just for him not to show up to vote.   ► Catch up on my H-1B visa investigations:  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkJEwf2wliqrtNlYs9D78nmE_Gnja_PpC    ► Email me at saratips@blazemedia.com if you have uncovered potential fraud in your area.   ► Subscribe to my second YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@SaraGonzalesTX?sub_confirmation=1    ► Home Title Lock  Go to https://hometitlelock.com/sara and use promo code SARA to get a FREE title history report and a FREE TRIAL of Triple Lock Protection! For details visit https://hometitlelock.com/warranty Timestamps:  00:00 - Ben Shapiro Gets It Wrong 25:08 - Arch Manning AI Video Outrage 36:28 - Gavin Newsom Might Not Run 42:37 - Mitch McConnell Is Back ... or Is He? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The heads of Anthropic and OpenAI are warning that AI could kill all of us... are they altruistic or just protecting their wallets? Plus, Bill Maher takes on Islam, and a Texas state railroad commissioner candidate gets himself in hot water for a comment about Indians. Ep. 2506 "Islam, Israel and the West: A Former Muslim's Analysis" by Dan Burmawi is available here: https://a.co/d/0ax5wGA9 Follow Dan Burmawi on X: https://twitter.com/DanBurmawy - - - Today's Sponsors: Helix Sleep - Go to https://helixsleep.com/ben for 27% off sitewide during Helix's Labor Day: Best of Web sale. Golden Crest Metals - Right now GoldenCrest metals will send you a free investor kit, a free portfolio review, and up to $25,000 in free silver on qualifying purchases. Text BEN to METALS—that's 638257—go to https://GoldenCrestMetals.com/Ben, or call (888) 429-3999 Trust & Will - Get 20% off when you go to https://trustandwill.com /SHAPIRO Kalshi - Visit https://kalshi.com/shapiro to see live prediction markets and sign up today to trade on the outcomes that matter most to you. Trade 25 win up to 500. Code is SHAPIRO - - - DailyWire: Become a Daily Wire Member and watch all of our content ad-free: https://www.dailywire.com/subscribe 40% off annual plans with code FIGHT

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Listen to Zooming In at The UnPopulist in your favorite podcast app: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTubeBerny Belvedere: Renée DiResta, thanks for joining us on Zooming In, our flagship podcast here at The UnPopulist. You've been on before a couple of times. You've done podcasts with us, you've spoken at LibCon—in fact, during our first LibCon, LibCon 2024, your book generated intense interest. It seemed to be the book of the summer. You remember that?Renée DiResta: I do, thanks so much.Belvedere: It felt like at every other session, some panelist would say something like, “and to explore this further, I really recommend Renée DiResta's new book, which is just wonderful.” Right? I don't know why I did that in a nerd voice. Your endorsers are wonderful people.But Renée, welcome again. I want to dive right in. You have a new report out. It's put out by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. It was written by you and two co-authors, Rachel Kleinfeld and Margot Treadwell. That's a powerful lineup. We've run Rachel's work in our pages before and it's top notch. The report is fantastic. It did not disappoint. For anyone interested in how the broader world of news and opinion discourse works today, it's immediately one of the most useful resources to pick up. And it's especially useful for practitioners, for people who work in the space, like we do.But to help with some scene setting, can you tell us about the report in broad brushstrokes? We'll then narrow in from there.DiResta: So I think about this as report part two. Last year, in September, almost one year to the day, we put out a provocation saying: “institutions need to change how they communicate in order to compete in the new media environment.” And we wrote a framing on why that was, on how social media was no longer this niche thing that those people over there did. If you wanted to reach the public, this is where people are—and you have to reach them where they are and in a manner that they find appealing. The way that you communicate is just different now.That attracted a lot of attention and it got us a ton of inbound, particularly from philanthropy, because we were also telling philanthropists you have to change how you think about outputs and outcomes that matter. For a lot of academics and others, participation in the public conversation is, if not discouraged, it's not really encouraged. It doesn't move the needle for your tenure committee, that sort of thing. How could philanthropists shift the thinking on why communicating to the public actually was critical? We got a ton of inbound on it and the question we got most often was: “How?”This report is the how. The basic premise is that most Americans now get their information and form their opinions through creators, podcasts, Substacks, group chats. Most traditional institutions have only minimal engagement or presence in those spaces. So that ecosystem runs on a very different model of legitimacy. People are following people, not institutions. They're following people that they find appealing or relatable. Somebody coming to you from their kitchen. Credentials and institutional polish actually can read as almost a sort of distance now.Those are the elites saying that stuff from over there, whereas this person is just talking to me in their kitchen. They're real.We write about how fact-based institutions have often thought about this shift to social as a repackaging job. “All right, how do I take my massive PDF”—and, by the way, this report is a massive PDF—“how do I take that and put out a couple screenshots on social media or generate a reel?” They see it more as engaging when you have something to release, when you have just put something out. So it's very self-serving. They're not using social media as a communicator in an ongoing conversation where they're having a back and forth with their audience. They're using it as a broadcast tool and they're reformulating the thing that they wanted to broadcast into a format that nominally works but is missing that dialogue.So our guide argues that it's a strategy problem—and that CEOs and boards have to own this. They have to think about it, not as the thing that happens after you've done your work, but as an active part of your ongoing relationship to the public. We framed the report as a series of questions to guide that thinking. We did a bunch of case studies, really spanning the communication ecosystem we have. How Jon Haidt turned some of his work into a movement. We have how Turning Point became a juggernaut. We have some of the Mamdani campaign stuff. Not endorsing any position there—but saying, “here's some interesting stuff that you can learn from how this group strategically chose to engage the public through these means.”Belvedere: I thought the guide did a really great job of bringing in real world examples. You also brought up David French and the reception he received. His case is a fascinating one because of what it represents and what it says about the subcommunity that he had that parting of the ways with, and the way they gate-kept him from continued access to it.But I want to pick up on something that you mentioned in passing just now in your broad overview. There's a line in the report that really struck me as I was reading it. As you put it, credentials and institutional polish—the CV virtues—now read as distance and disconnect rather than authority, which is what it used to read as. Do you think that's a permanent rewiring of how trust just works now?DiResta: It's an interesting question. Trust and authoritativeness are distinct. You trust your neighbor without necessarily thinking they're an authority. You just find them a trustworthy person. You would give them your keys. They can feed your dog, that sort of thing. And it doesn't matter what they do or what their professional credentials are. What matters is just that you have a relationship. You feel that this person is somebody who would support you if you need it, that they're going to level with you. They're going to tell you the truth, even if you might not want to hear it.That's the idea of trust as something that is deeper than expertise. Sure, it goes hand in hand with it at times. We would like it to be tightly coupled. We want people to trust experts, but the idea of relatability instead is: “Why would this person who seems just like me lie to me? Why would they deceive me? What do they get out of it?” Whereas people sincerely believe that elite institutions are working to serve their own agenda, and that is often seen as being at odds with the average, everyday person. You see this in politics when people ask, “Why is this politician talking about this thing, performing this action, when I just care about putting food on the table for my family?” You see that gap in what lands and resonates with people versus what people in elite or institutional positions want to talk about.Sometimes this is a disconnect that gets lamented in liberal spaces, particularly as, “well, if only they listened, they would understand that my policy proposal for this thing does help them 10 degrees and five years later.” But in the immediate here and now, it's that question of: Do I trust the person who's speaking to me? Do they seem just like me?I had this experience when I was a new mom. I was one of the first in my friend group to have kids. I didn't know what to do. I was living across the country from my family and didn't have much support. So I turned to the internet, right? Who are the people who are going to help me understand what I'm supposed to do with this baby? How do I make him sleep? How do I make him eat? How do I not screw this up? I think it's a very personal experience that a lot of people have where that sense that reading a PDF on an institutional website is not the same thing as somebody sitting there with you taking the time. There's a phrase that I think it was Jeff Jarvis who once said to me in conversation: “the media talks to the public and the influencers talk with them.”I think that's the best framing I've heard for that. Content creators understand how to talk with their audiences, where even people who may have better information, more expertise, authoritative content, are not necessarily communicating that in a way that feels real and connects to a sense that this person is telling me the truth.Belvedere: I'm wondering what's the right read on this broad question of trust that we're all grappling with. Take, for example, the aftershocks from a specific high profile instance of trust collapse—something like Covid. I think Covid's a really instructive episode in many different ways. There's been a lot of revisionism about it. What was different about Covid compared to other past trying moments in society is that Covid became politicized in a particular way by an extremely potent right-wing discourse-shaping machine. That's not going to stop being in place.“A lot of institutions are taught to stay on message at all times—if you hand your message to somebody else, you lose control of it. But you can't tell them what to say. They're going to say what they want to say. They might get it wrong. But counterintuitively, I think that actually generates more dialogue, more attention, and provides you with a way to accomplish something you might not be good at yourself. Your CEO might not actually be the best face to talk about this thing—the 20 year old you hired, who is much more comfortable with this, is actually the person who should be out there engaging, putting out the message, or working with a creator or creator lab and essentially briefing them.” — Renée DiRestaSo my overriding fear is that Covid is not an outlier. And that anything in society like Covid that requires elite management, whether it's the dissemination of information, policies that help curb some of the worst effects of not abiding by certain standards, all of that is going to run up against an information machine architecturally designed to demagogue that issue, to create a trust collapse, to point out any little mistakes and amplify them as though they're an example of the elites just completely botching everything. Is there any hope that that wanes?DiResta: That's a very interesting question—let me give you a couple of answers.Two things were true about Covid. I was writing about this in The Atlantic during the pandemic: the institutional communicators really dropped the ball—in my opinion, but I think that's been quite backed up at this point. I remember writing that it would be nice to see the CDC's website look more like Wikipedia, where you can see the change log, the public can understand in this fast moving situation—you can go back and read the edit history, you can see who made the change, you can understand how consensus forms in a scientific community. Because there's such a time lag, right? They are waiting until they are absolutely, 100% sure before they say something. In that time, the people are still looking for information, and they're going to get it from whoever is willing to give it to them. On social media, there's an incentive structure: if you're first, you get rewarded; if you're sensational, you get rewarded. If you're right? That doesn't really matter. Maybe you'll get a Community Note, maybe a fact check, but that's not really the point. The point is: Are you first, are you relatable, do you seem authentic, can your stuff go viral? It's a very different communication style and game.So the first thing that was true is that the institutions dropped the ball in comms during Covid communications. And I was writing about it as it happened, because my job was to study social media rumors and narratives around the vaccine. I was like: “Come on, guys! You gotta get in the game here! You're not going to content-moderate this out of existence—that's just not how it works. You're going to turn this into forbidden knowledge.” We did everything we possibly could to try to systematically change that. And the people who did respond were the first-person speakers who began to emerge: physicians. You saw doctors working shifts at Bellevue doing live updates about the morgue trucks—those were the people who managed to break through, because they had the credentials, but they were also able to say very directly to the public: this is the truth, this is what you need to know, Covid is real, even as the institutions weren't doing that.But the second thing that's true is that, as you note, the failures, flaws, and missteps get immediately weaponized. That turns into: “you can't trust those people, they didn't tell you the truth then, never forget what they did to us.” That rhetoric isn't really about finding truth, or understanding a novel pathogen, or whether a vaccine works—remember, this was the first time one had ever been rolled out in an emergency setting. It turns into: “here's why you can never trust those people, and you can only trust me.”That got reinforced through litigation. They lost all their court cases, but they still sued people who tried to deal with the falsehoods and misleading content, and any effort to label it or fact-check it got reframed as censorship. It was really wild to see what that machine juggernaut managed to do to reinforce that only it was going to tell its base the truth, and they couldn't trust anything on the outside. That's the kind of rhetoric you usually see from cults—“you can't trust anybody but me.” It's a very different style of communication, and I found it personally alarming to see it happen in the context of a pandemic, because it has serious downstream consequences.Belvedere: Yeah, and I mean, think about the way you just described that—an informational cult kind of environment, scaled up to half the country, or at least to a large share of people getting their news from less-than-ideal sources. I think it's going to continue to be a problem.DiResta: Let me follow up on that quickly. I spent about [six months] watching the vaccine rollout—February through August of 2021, as Operation Warp Speed rolled out. I watched what Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other long-standing—just to be clear, long-standing—anti-vaccine activists did. These weren't people who simply didn't like the Covid shot; no, these were people who had been telling you vaccines cause autism, dating back to the 1990s. I watched them capitalize on this in the most incredible ways. They were absolutely transparent about it—they were like, “this is our chance to undermine confidence in the entire vaccine enterprise.” And that is exactly what they did. They didn't hide the ball—they were live-streaming taking about it. “This is our chance to tell the public that all of these things are poison.” And now we have kids dying of measles.That's the downstream effect of this: they managed to connect that distrust to other things. They didn't just create distrust around one incident or fact; they created the idea that nobody in the medical establishment has your best interests at heart. That's what they managed to achieve as a result of Covid.Belvedere: I want to stay on this, because I think we're all trying to figure out the right posture here. You bring up Joe Rogan and his effect on psychedelics policy: a lot of people know him through segments where he talks through his drug trips, or a guest's. Or, another example: online creators helping speed up the end of USAID. And there are other cases. But these are cases where influence and factual accuracy are completely decoupled. For organizations whose whole value proposition is getting reality right, being accurate—a lot of people in these spaces ask a question that is one neighborhood down but the same city: “Where's the liberal answer to Joe Rogan?” We've been asking that question since the post-mortem on 2024, and even before. A lot of our institutions feel saddled by the sense that in order to compete on reach, in this new marketplace of ideas, we can't really compete on accuracy's terms.Roger Ailes created Fox News in the '90s. It wasn't [presented] as a dominant player—it was a countervailing force: “the media is captured, so we're going to bring balance back.” “Fair and balanced”—that whole thing; a whole alternative institution positioned against the media itself. So [this side] has had an insurgent mindset from the start—Rush Limbaugh and others. I've brought this up a lot. Even the Ailes project, Fox News, it had institutional trappings, institutional clothing, but it really had this insurgent energy, whatever it said about itself early on. That posture was able to scale beautifully once podcasting, YouTube, and the internet more broadly made these tools available. It was disintermediation. People like Ben Shapiro with The Daily Wire, Charlie Kirk, really ran with the ball a lot better in these spaces, it seemed like. It never felt like liberals had their own Ailes moment, because it felt like they were fine with The New York Times and The Atlantic.Is the real gap here about talent, effort, and ability, or just needing to catch up after playing behind for so long? Or is it more that this is a different language, that [that side] can easily and naturally slot into, and for us it has to be more performative, a little contrived—like a theater kid having to learn how to act?DiResta: It's funny—there's so much in what you're saying there. First, when you can position yourself oppositionally—“we're the underdog, we're David, they're Goliath”—that's an archetype, a story everybody knows, that people immediately understand where you're positioning yourself. “They are all telling you the same thing”; “that is a monolith, that's the state propaganda machine manufacturing consent, we're the plucky little outlet trying to break through.” And then, of course, they maintain that outsider branding and status even as their audience becomes massive—quite a lot larger, in fact, than some of that so-called establishment media.You see this with a phrase that comes out of QAnon: “we are the media now.” What they're saying is: “we can break through, we can make stuff trend, we can make stuff go viral, we can take our (in the context of QAnon, I think it's fair to say) crackpot ideas and put them out there, get them seen, get them part of the discourse, and then people have to pay attention to us.” That's where “we are the media now” comes from. It was popularized by Elon, because he picked up that phrase and it is so much in the ether on X—I don't even know if he understands the provenance. But “we are the media now” becomes the idea that we're the opposition now, and all that legacy stuff—including Fox, mind you, which is legacy too—is old. You actually see the schisms now, especially since they're in power everywhere on the right: influencers going to war with Fox News.“I once had someone screenshot every social media post where I'd used a curse word and send it to my dean. And I was like: “I said all of that. That's 100% real.” This is the internet, after all. Would I use that language in a talk? Probably not. I'm from New York, so sometimes I do. But if you're constantly second-guessing, clarifying, checking yourself … and you do need to be correct, because in some cases your credentials are on the line when you're speaking about the thing you're actually presenting. But your delivery can afford to be a bit more flexible, a bit more relaxed.” — Renée DiRestaVenkatesh Rao wrote about this in “The Internet of Beefs”—one of the most astute assessments of how social media works, in my opinion. If you have conflict, that's fantastic: it benefits both parties, gets both parties attention, and there's no incentive to actually win the conflict, because the conflict itself is like a soap opera—it just keeps going. That's where you start to see right-wing influencers say, “Fox News is establishment, Bush-era media, and we'll tell you the truth—on social, on our platforms, on our streams, on our podcasts.” That's where you start to see that shift.There's also something Rachel and I wrote about in the first report: institutional and academic speakers are media-trained for a very different world, where you get a three- to five-minute segment. If you've never done TV before, they tell you roughly what you'll be asked, you prepare your talking points in advance because you have so little time, you deliver the soundbite, and the segment's over. That's completely different from what I experienced doing Rogan in 2019—a two-and-a-half-hour conversation with no prep. I'm going to be there and you either know your stuff or you don't. His audience either likes me or it doesn't. Half of them hated me!And that's fine—it is what it is. I showed up for a reason. There's a completely different vernacular, style, and approach when you're having a two-hour conversation with somebody, where you're going to listen to what they have to say, and you're responding back much more as a human than as a person who's there to digest for the public, in a three-minute hit, what you said in that report over there or what happened in the world and why you, the expert, with your credentials and your chyron should think about it. It's a completely different experience.So does it go back to the old way? I don't think it does—I haven't thought that for the better part of 10 years now. I started writing about the anti-vaccine movement in 2015, as a mom, saying: “I have got to say something about this.” What became MAHA is now a political movement that sits in power at HHS. What they understood was that empathy and relatability, the feeling that they are talking with you, matters so much more than a PDF or an academic paper that sits behind a paywall that nobody can read without an academic library license. That's not going back to normal. So the question that's motivated me and Rachel is: How do you teach people who do have the knowledge and the skill set to compete differently?Belvedere: On that note, on liberals' broad failure to penetrate a lot of these spaces, these subcommunities, these niche places where people gather … think about all the subcultures we have in the United States—there are plenty that liberals are just really poor at reaching, or at having any presence within at all.DiResta: I'm an independent. My complaint is about how liberals communicate versus how conservatives communicate. I spend a lot of time in both ecosystems, in person, and I try to engage with the media apparatus on the right too, partly because they make up conspiracy theories about me, so I feel like I have to. But there's a difference in how carefully you have to think through what you're about to say—what performance are you putting on in that moment? Conservatives use the word “based”—you're talking in a way that's almost intentionally provocative at times, and sometimes it goes way off the rails; sometimes it's not good at all. But there's a sense that when you're hearing from the liberal establishment, you're hearing qualifiers—everything is qualified.This is something I used to talk about when making content: on Instagram Reels, you've got three seconds to hook your audience. If you start with a qualifier about how what you're saying doesn't necessarily apply to all people, in all places, at all times, you're done—that took three seconds, that's it, we're done. So the question is: How do you get comfortable either owning an opinion unapologetically, or framing it in a way where you're just like, “yeah, whatever, somebody on the internet is always going to yell at me, I don't care, I'm going to say the thing anyway”? That's a limitation I just don't see in conservative spaces.Again, that means things can go way off the rails, and some of it is genuinely not good. But the flip side is that [liberal content] can sound stilted, practiced, polished. And the incentive structure is scary for the participant—for the academic who decides to try being more casual in their presentation. I once had someone screenshot every social media post where I'd used a curse word and send it to my dean. And I was like: “I said all of that. That's 100% real.” This is the internet, after all. Would I use that language in a talk? Probably not. I'm from New York, so sometimes I do. But if you're constantly second-guessing, clarifying, checking yourself … and you do need to be correct, because in some cases your credentials are on the line when you're speaking about the thing you're actually presenting. But your delivery can afford to be a bit more flexible, a bit more relaxed.What I've loved over the last few years since Covid is watching public health experts and epidemiologists start presenting as themselves: “here I am, I've got this expertise, and I'm also going to tell you about my kids, or this dress I bought, or this thing I did.” It makes them more relatable, more human—because they are, in fact, relatable and human. It's not an artifice. But they understand that doing this actually helps establish their credibility, more than just the credential. So if me saying a curse word on Twitter … normal people curse on Twitter.Belvedere: And not to be too cynical about it, but this is something intuitively understood by people on the wrong side of things. Trump will have a word randomly capitalized as a marker of his style, and without it, the message would feel too polished—even though, grammatically, it would be correct.One reaction people sometimes have to a discussion like this is: “all you're talking about is communication, this is social media stuff, it's more fluff than substance.” I think that couldn't be more wrong, because if we care about the issues we're writing about, if we want action taken on them …DiResta: Yes! It is a persuasive process.Belvedere: … if we want people to care about authoritarianism or corruption in government, raising the salience of those issues becomes really important. If we're collectively bad at it, if we don't have the “juice” that the other side does, our issues stay dormant, untouched, unlistened to, uncared about, while the other side's issues will be front and center, driving the conversation. You talk about issue salience needing to travel across networks before it becomes a thing. Could you unpack that? You've got multiple creators, adjacent communities … help us understand how that works.DiResta: So, often times, when you open your social media feed—whatever ranked platform you use, which is almost all of them—you're seeing what the platform has decided is important for you, and that's not the same as what's important to the person sitting next to you on the train. So you innately think a lot of people care about something, or are talking about something, when it turns out—take X as an example: you log in, there's a “trends” feature, and it'll surface a trend when there are maybe 200 posts about something. That's not a trend in any national sense; it's basically the platform tweaking a small number of people who'll respond to it. They see it and think, “there are 2,000 posts about this, I care a lot about that thing, I'm going to add my voice, retweet it, reshare it”—and if a sufficient number of people do that, it gets bigger, and eventually it shows up on something like a mass-movement leaderboard.I spent five years at the Stanford Internet Observatory taking a network-science approach to this. Let me give a specific example—we can stick with the pandemic, because I think it's quite important as a case study. I don't know how many people remember the Plandemic video. It featured Judy Mikovits, a woman with serious credential issues and at least one retracted paper, who'd had a series of dramatic career incidents that led to her being put into the autism-conference crankosphere. She was releasing a book and doing a lot of book promo, but she was never especially polished doing those direct engagements herself. The director, Mikki Willis, made the video—kept her on task, shot it very strategically. It's about 20 minutes long, and it argues that the pandemic is being used to keep people from “healing microbes on the beach,” and that's why they are locking down beaches, and so on—a very conspiratorial film.Now Mikovits had been saying these things on prior podcasts for a while, but it stayed confined; it got almost no reach outside the anti-vaccine networks, where that kind of content is normal and expected. What was different about Plandemic is that because of the polish, the packaging, the formatting, and Willis's own reach and network, it hopped out of the anti-vaccine ecosystem and started landing everywhere. We had a tool called CrowdTangle that let us pull where URLs were winding up and being shared, and the Plandemic link was showing up in the Corgi Club, the Beach Club, local school-board groups—everywhere. We could only see public data, so I'd imagine that's just the tip of the iceberg.The public really found it compelling. Reading the comments as part of that analysis, people were saying things like: “she seems so authoritative, she has this personal beef with Anthony Fauci, who I've also been hearing is untrustworthy; they are keeping us locked down in our houses, why is that happening?” It really landed and resonated. That's an actual moment where normally this speakers and those topics stay confined to a very specific niche part of the internet, with this video, they managed to absolutely blew out of the water. Here is how it works when you take something and you frame somebody in the right way, you make them seem relatable and resonant and you edit the content in a very compelling, exciting, and mysterious way. This is how you create a mass conversation about something. Ordinarily this person would have stayed confined to her niche, but in that particular moment, with that particular piece of content, they nailed it.Belvedere: I asked about that because on our side, we're trying to do some of the same work you're outlining. ISMA puts out LibCon and The UnPopulist—The UnPopulist is our flagship publication, LibCon is the conference series that we put out. The UnPopulist has buy-in from figures across the ideological spectrum; and the whole model of ISMA is to build a coalition—a realignment of liberal versus illiberal—and for us to be on that liberal side, spanning classical liberals, center-left, and center-right: people who are single-issue defectors, who have enough qualms with the authoritarianism we're seeing that they come over to our side. At our last LibCon, we had C-SPAN in the same room as a bunch of streamers broadcasting. It was an interesting mix, and that's the sort of work we're trying to do. As I said earlier, though, it's not necessarily the language that's easy for a lot of liberals to speak—it takes intentional partnerships, looking through different content forms, finding where a good ally or partner can be found.“These weren't people who simply didn't like the Covid shot; no, these were people who had been telling you vaccines cause autism, dating back to the 1990s. I watched them capitalize on this in the most incredible ways. They were absolutely transparent about it—they were like, ‘this is our chance to undermine confidence in the entire vaccine enterprise.' And that is exactly what they did. They didn't hide the ball—they were live-streaming taking about it. ‘This is our chance to tell the public that all of these things are poison.' And now we have kids dying of measles. That's the downstream effect of this: they managed to connect that distrust to other things. They didn't just create distrust around one incident or fact; they created the idea that nobody in the medical establishment has your best interests at heart. That's what they managed to achieve as a result of Covid.” — Renée DiRestaIt used to be that an organization could get away with just publishing a headline, an article image, and letting the feed auto-populate. Now every platform, the whole online space, requires more thoughtfulness, more intentionality, more strategic thinking. At the risk of asking for a One Neat Trick: is there one thing that, if a capacity developed overnight, would be a game changer for us on this path that we want to take—to be better communicators, to help the issues we care about get that amplification and resonance?DiResta: I think it is that co-creation and that incorporation of people who are innately good and talented at this. I was at LibCon this year with Whick and Soypill, two of the streamers who were there, because the first night of the conference happened to be the night Trump gave that speech about the election being rigged by China. As it happens, I have a lot of experience looking at Chinese influence operations around the 2020 election, so I'd been on Whick's stream before, and he asked if I wanted to come on. I said let's do it, and we broke it down live for the audience—here's what Trump's saying, here's a Georgetown professor who can help explain it—but done conversationally. It's funny, because you still carry that credential with you; you're still saying, “here's how I know this stuff.” And, of course, later on I'm going to write about this for Lawfare, I'm going to write about it on my Substack, I'm going to put it out as personal content. But in this moment the most impactful thing I think I can do is discuss it live with people who are watching it in a community, trying to make sense of it together. That's something streamers in particular are very good at—they bring people together to watch jointly.I don't know how many people have watched a Destiny stream, or, on the other side of the spectrum, a Hasan Piker stream, but it's the same appeal: people who are in a community, like-minded, enjoying that back-and-forth, not only listening to the streamer but participating in the community itself. It reminds me of being in New York in my 20s, gathering at someone's house to watch TV together on a Sunday night—that feeling of experiencing something together, reacting to it together. When you watch a news broadcast by yourself, it's not like that. When you're watching a stream, there's as much back-and-forth and community-building happening among the audience as there is between the audience and the influencer or streamer. That creates a feeling of belonging and participation, and when you want to ask people to take political action, there's a feeling that we're all in this together, we all want to see this thing accomplished. You see this when you watch political streamers across the spectrum doing fundraisers and things like that—“how can we galvanize and generate momentum?”This isn't limited to partisan politics—you can do the same with issue-based advocacy as well.One of the reasons institutions [struggle here] is a fear of relinquishing control. A lot of institutions are taught to stay on message at all times—if you hand your message to somebody else, you lose control of it. But you can't tell them what to say. They're going to say what they want to say. They might get it wrong. But counterintuitively, I think that actually generates more dialogue, more attention, and provides you with a way to accomplish something you might not be good at yourself. Your CEO might not actually be the best face to talk about this thing—the 20 year old you hired, who is much more comfortable with this, is actually the person who should be out there engaging, putting out the message, or working with a creator or creator lab and essentially briefing them like you would brief media: “here's your embargoed copy of my report, I'd love it if you talked about it, no pressure, no requirements, this is just me providing you with information about something we've done that I think your audience might care about—and then wherever it goes, goes.”Belvedere: And as you note in the report, this is already the cultural air a lot of these younger staffers breathe—they have to code-switch to seem more “professional,” to be someone who …DiResta: … doesn't curse on Twitter.Belvedere: Exactly. But that also gives them the advantage of understanding the discourse, the environment, the information landscape, far more natively. So they can put a message that the CEO might want in a way that will have more effectiveness.I want to bring up two of the case studies I found fascinating—David French and Zohran Mamdani. David French was trying to bring a [pluralist], depoliticized message into a very hostile, ideologically policed, polarized evangelical base. Zohran Mamdani, now the mayor of New York, built his campaign almost entirely on vibes, aesthetics, joy—messaging, sure, but messaging that met people where they were and responded to what they actually needed. One of those approaches got crushed by the gatekeepers; the other was able to bypass them. It's not that one was effective and the other wasn't—David French ran up against a buzzsaw that no Christian thinker, however winsome or articulate, probably would have fared well against. Mamdani certainly was very skilled in how he approached his campaign and carried it out. In these two profiles, is there a lesson there about why one got crushed and the other persevered?DiResta: It's very interesting, and I've thought about this a lot. So, first, some of it is: How heavy a hold does the establishment party have on the space you're speaking into? Are you entering fresh ground? Mamdani, of course, ran against an egregiously terrible establishment candidate. I mean, it was one of those “is this really the best we've got to offer?”Mamdani's politics weren't mine, but I'm from New York—I lived there for 30 years, still have a house and family in Brooklyn—and I watched that race, and I just thought … every time I saw Mamdani content in my feed, and there was a lot of it, because I'm still plugged into New York, I was like, “this is so inspiring. This is a person where that love of the city comes through.” I remember he did a thing with a bodega cat. I had a bodega cat, and it was amazing! In a way, the politics and the policy was almost secondary to the feeling that you were watching something genuine.The candidate he was running against—well, there were two, of course, including Curtis Sliwa, who really nailed it on the “genuine” front. I mean, my God, that man gave interviews that left my jaw on the floor—where he's like, “here's how they're trying to pay me to drop out of the race, let's talk about that.” It's a very New York political moment.Belvedere: Zero filter.DiResta: Oh, no filter. I mean, Cuomo doesn't lack a filter either. I'm New York Italian too—you know that. Someone should send him to his dean!It was wild watching that race and seeing what landed with the public. There was such a sense of “God, we need something new! We just need something new”—and that landed, I think, in a way, more than anything else, regardless of your opinions on specific policies. It was the way in which he turned people who found him personally appealing into organizers—fans became organizers. That's really the story of the Mamdani campaign. With French, by contrast, top-down control still held much more strongly. I don't think many New Yorkers love the Democratic Party establishment enough to say, “we really need to listen to what they tell us”—if anything, an official endorsement had become a bit of a negative signal by that point. That's at least how I experienced New York politics.Mamdani was also an unknown quantity, French was much more of a known quantity, so he had this experience of gatekeepers who used character assassination to attack, not so much his ideas as his person—finding things he'd said or done previously and using them to attack him personally and make it costly to associate with him and his ideas by extension. Once an establishment is well-networked enough to mount that kind of opposition, it's much harder to win. French was moving into a hostile, contested, polarized space. Mamdani, by contrast, faced an establishment, in his case the more centrist wing of the Democratic Party, that simply didn't have the social media clout or networks to make its attacks land. It was a very different dynamic.That's why we put French in a section of the report about figuring out what kind of space you're actually trying to participate in. Are you putting forward a policy or a vision that's going to be actively and adversarially rebuffed by very entrenched, well-networked forces? Or are you moving into a much fresher space—a new issue, a new take, less contested ground—where you are potentially going to run a very different kind of strategy?Belvedere: I think that's a great point. Trump is a good example in the political space—the GOP establishment was set against him initially. They had money behind other candidates, Jeb Bush chief among them, and had a war chest that was insane backing Jeb Bush. And that was … nothing in the end. It didn't amount to anything. All the work French had done in the past, caring about the Bill of Rights, about a constitutionally constrained vision of limited government—the intellectual energy the Republican Party used to draw on more heavily—had given way to something else. David went a different direction than a lot of evangelicals did, and there are enough of them to effectively block him now.Whereas Mamdani, I think, was able to bypass a lot of that resistance because there was more overlap with what a standard Democratic candidate might have offered—a lot of the same campaign substance, just a different approach on some issues. There were enough people who weren't already set against him. That's unlike the evangelical space, where mentioning French's name is practically like saying “Voldemort.” Which is sad, because on a lot of issues, especially theological tenets, there's still broad alignment between them.This is something that your report presses people to internalize: the idea that who you're speaking to matters, and how you're speaking to them matters. That's a lesson a lot of liberals still need to work out. There's a lot of trial and error right now, a lot of figuring out how to be effective in this new information landscape. But the report is genuinely helpful. I imagine a lot of people will read it and think: “okay, everything I thought I knew about what it takes to project credibility has been turned on its head, and I need to account for that or risk being left behind.” That's what makes it such an important read.DiResta: Thank you. We really tried to make it as tangible as possible—which is why it's long. We went back and forth at the end about whether to release different versions for different audiences: a philanthropist version, a C-suite version, a version for op-ed writers. In the end we put it all out as one document—you can always Control-F to find what's most relevant to you, there's an index, and AI can digest it too.But, in all seriousness, though, there has to be a shift. You mentioned Trump. His energy came from the internet. He was so good at tapping into … because he was almost a meme candidate at first; people didn't quite believe he'd be a serious thing. This was right around the time … I bring up Gamergate not for its specifics, but because it was a moment when people started realizing the internet could actually affect the real world. The Arab Spring was another one of those moments—realizing that people's voices online could genuinely accomplish things.“When you have this sclerotic sense that nothing happens in the United States, that no one is listening to you, that no change happens, that nothing you want to see in the world will ever be realized, that's an intoxicating moment. ‘Damn, we are the media now'—that phrase is literally about empowerment, the sense that someone powerful is listening to you and making something happen. That's the complete opposite of the faceless institution where you leave a comment in a form and never hear back, where nothing ever changes, your taxes don't change, your cost of living doesn't change. That's what Mamdani tapped into as well: ‘we are actually going to change things, we are going to do things, the world is going to be different starting day one, and here's how it's going to happen.' Whatever you think of the man's politics, he nailed that sense of empowerment—'this is a movement, and you're part of it.'” — Renée DiRestaYou mentioned my book. I'll give a shameless plug here—but only because the paperback just came out and it has a new epilogue. If you bought the Kindle version, go refresh it, because the new epilogue gets into exactly this. What was the appeal of DOGE? It was that the government was going to be transformed—that's great, it's a huge incentive for people who cared about that. Even liberals were like, “Maybe it's time to shake some stuff up.” But what DOGE did for the public, particularly Trump's base and Elon's base, was this: they'd tweet out some grant they found ridiculous, often with no real idea what it actually did, and Elon would respond with something like “killed,” “nuked,” “through the wood chipper,” about USAID.Belvedere: And a lot of those actually got Community-Noted on themselves—people pointing out that he was egregiously misreading the grant. They got fact-checked by their own system.DiResta: They did—but it didn't actually matter, because what mattered to the people participating was: “I said a thing, somebody powerful listened to me, and then a change happened.” When you have this sclerotic sense that nothing happens in the United States, that no one is listening to you, that no change happens, that nothing you want to see in the world will ever be realized, that's an intoxicating moment. “Damn, we are the media now”—that phrase is literally about empowerment, the sense that someone powerful is listening to you and making something happen. That's the complete opposite of the faceless institution where you leave a comment in a form and never hear back, where nothing ever changes, your taxes don't change, your cost of living doesn't change.That's what Mamdani tapped into as well: “we are actually going to change things, we are going to do things, the world is going to be different starting day one, and here's how it's going to happen.” Whatever you think of the man's politics, he nailed that sense of empowerment—“this is a movement, and you're part of it.” That's the same thing Trump tapped into online back in 2015: “we're going to change things, this is your movement, and I'm going to accomplish this for you.” Which can go off in some weird ways, when you look at exclusionary populism and authoritarianism, which you guys at ISMA focus so much on.I want to mention one more thing. In San Francisco, we recalled the school board: a very local, niche race that ended up becoming a story of national attention, for the same reason—people saying, “we've got to change something, what can we do?” The groups that grew out of that were advancing a very liberal policy—this was not the far-left, not the far-right doing it: “we'd like eighth-grade algebra back, we'd like schools reopened.” This is late 2021. “It would be nice for my kid not to have three years of no school.”It was an unapologetically liberal politics that was powering that, and it was unapologetic in how it framed itself, how it spoke, how it used social media. And I thought, “Okay, now maybe liberals will see”—again, not Democrats, but liberals, people who believe in the core liberal values—“people will start to see that there's real power in direct, unapologetic appeals.” And it is my sincere hope that we start to see that in a movement that rises to push back against the excesses of MAHA and things like that.[In the new edition of my book], the new epilogue is really about how these dynamics play out once a group is actually in power—because a lot of people think of social media as a tool of insurgency, and once you're in power, that's supposedly the end of it. What's been interesting watching Trump and DOGE is that they've kept that cycle going: people still believe they're having an impact, shaping policy.We saw a version of this with Obama, who was a very digital candidate—he rose to power on a lot of popular digital support, did interviews with content creators, that kind of thing. There were creators in the White House—my friend Destin Sandlin, who runs Smarter Every Day, did an interview with Obama. There was a sense that the administration was beginning to engage with new media, but there was still a divide: the new media was media, engaging with the president on certain terms, at certain times, in certain venues. What you're seeing from this administration is they're literally the press corps, seated front and center. Some of them are even working as special government employees, which is wild—and there are some real ethical issues there. But there's still a sense that the online movement, that source of validation that propelled someone to a win, is actively in there, working with them on governance and policy.Is that a mirage, to some extent? Yes—there's a veneer of them wanting to do something anyway and using online narratives to justify it. And I'd argue that once an influencer becomes a special government employee, they're no longer independent—they're speaking as an agent of the government at that point. But setting that aside, you really do see the way those boundaries are shifting, and that sense of personal participation is what keeps this particular populist movement feeling valuable to its participants.Belvedere: I remember when Madison Cawthorn infamously hired only comms people rather than policy people, and a lot of people in conservative-adjacent spaces saw that as the start of a new era. The model is no longer Paul Ryan-ing your way through, nor is it about governing—Cawthorn was actively, explicitly building a kind of image-only candidacy, seeing how far that element alone could carry him. It didn't carry him very far; a few things tripped him up, like, hilariously, a visit to Hitler's home. But he was building toward being a comms-only operation as the only thing that matters now. When Trump did the whole Alligator Alcatraz stunt, that's the same understanding at work—it's an ongoing comms exercise, you have to keep the performative aspect going, because the campaign never really stops.We're out of time. Thank you so much, Renée.Thanks for checking out The UnPopulist! Subscribe to support our project.© The UnPopulist, 2026Follow us on Bluesky, Threads, YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, and X.We welcome your reactions and replies. Please adhere to our comments policy. Get full access to The UnPopulist at www.theunpopulist.net/subscribe

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25 years after 9/11, we have a pro-jihadist mayor of New York, a Democratic Party that embraces the foreign policy views of Osama Bin Laden's letters, and a horseshoe Right that does the same. Where did the West go wrong? And how can we fix it? Ep. 2505 - - - Today's Sponsor: Balance of Nature - Simple ingredients. Simple routine. Get an additional 10% off any Balance of Nature subscription PLUS a FREE Guiltless Snack when you use promo code SHAPIRO. Visit https://BalanceofNature.com and use code SHAPIRO. - - - DailyWire: Become a Daily Wire Member and watch all of our content ad-free: https://www.dailywire.com/subscribe

On this episode of ID The Future from our archive, we're bringing you the concluding half of a 2019 interview between Daily Wire host Ben Shapiro and philosopher of science Dr. Stephen C. Meyer. The conversation is now seven years old, so it's a good time to dust it off and share it with those who may have missed it or forgotten about it. Dr. Meyer considers this one of the best interviews he's done on the subject of his second solo book Darwin's Doubt. Shapiro was extremely well-prepared and asked great questions, resulting in a thought-provoking and thoroughly engaging hour-long conversation. In the second half, Dr. Meyer and Shapiro discuss the origin of life. Source

The loudest voices keep insisting the U.S. is “winning” against Iran, but winning should be measurable and explainable, not just repeated until it feels true. We sit down with Matt Hoh to test the claims against what's happening in the Persian Gulf, where the Strait of Hormuz remains a pressure point and U.S. forces are still absorbing attacks and burning through tempo. If the public story is victory, why does the conflict look like it's settling into a long grind with no clear off-ramp? We also go straight at the most frightening escalation risk: low-yield nuclear weapons and the Washington idea that some nukes are “usable.” Matthew explains how that doctrine was built over years, why it's designed for exactly this kind of scenario, and what happens when political leaders want a dramatic finale they can sell as success. It's a conversation about incentives, not just personalities, and why a war that can't be honestly defined can still be dangerously expanded. From there we confront civilian casualties and the strike on a wedding, the familiar pattern of official denials, and the deeper question of accountability in modern U.S. air war. We talk about intelligence failures, wasted munitions, and how corporate media narratives can dull outrage even when the facts are grim. Finally, we examine the emerging sanctions-and-blockade strategy, compare it to Iraq in the 1990s and early 2000s, and ask what the economic blowback means for Americans as energy prices climb. Subscribe for more honest foreign policy coverage, share this conversation with someone who follows the Middle East, and leave a review with your take: what would a real end to this war require?

I jumped on for a bonus live stream because this couldn't wait. A clip of JD Vance at the RJC is circulating, he's asked about Tucker Carlson and his answer is that we should be able to remain friends with people we have political disagreements with. I have a problem with that framing. The objections to Tucker are not political disagreements. We're not arguing about tax rates or military policy. We're talking about lying, simping for Putin, calling Hamas a political organization, smearing Ben Shapiro as a dual-loyalty Jew who can't be trusted, Holocaust revisionism, confusing an entire generation about who the good guys are. Those are ethical disagreements. Behavioral disagreements. And framing them as simply political is either deeply confused or a deliberate dodge. I also get into what happens to a movement when it refuses to draw ideological borders, look at what happened to the left and the rise of the DSA. Conservatism means conserving something. You can't do that while giving cover to the people actively working to destroy it. This one had to come out. I'll be back for a full episode soon.Become an honored guest on Patreon for exclusive content and Q&As, link in the description. Grab your mug at KozakStore.com

One year after Charlie Kirk's assassination, we discuss what should have happened... and why it didn't; we're joined by TPUSA's Andrew Kolvet; and Victor Davis Hanson stops by to explain what's likely to happen in the post-Trump GOP. Ep. 2504 - - - Turning Point USA:  Help chase ballots this mid-term election by joining Turning Point Action. Visit: https://www.tpaction.com/commit100 Join a chapter or start a new one at: https://tpusa.com AmericaFest "AmFest" is December 17th-20th in Phoenix, Arizona. Buy tickets today! https://www.amfest.com - - - "The Counter Revolution: The Fall and Rise of Donald Trump and the MAGA Movement" by Victor Davis Hanson is available here: https://a.co/d/0hVmFOKD - - - Today's Sponsors: PureTalk - There's a better wireless choice out there. And at just fifteen bucks a month for your first three months on ANY plan... now's a great time to choose PureTalk. Simply go to https://PureTalk.com/SHAPIRO to claim this offer. Helix Sleep - Go to https://helixsleep.com/ben for 27% off sitewide during Helix's Labor Day sale. - - - DailyWire: Become a Daily Wire Member and watch all of our content ad-free: https://www.dailywire.com/subscribe

Dave Rubin of "The Rubin Report" talks to Frank Turek about the final hours of Charlie Kirk's life and the chilling warning Turek gave Charlie as they approached the Utah Valley University venue where he would be assassinated; what Turek witnessed after Charlie was shot and his desperate attempt to revive him with CPR; Erika Kirk's emotional request to Turek after her husband's death; the private conversations Turek had with Charlie in the days before his assassination about Islam, family, Christianity, and Israel; the meeting Charlie held with Israeli officials the day before his death and why Turek rejects claims that Charlie was abandoning his support for Israel; the $1 million donation Charlie was willing to lose rather than cave to donor pressure; why Charlie got his politics from his theology and refused to hide his Christianity to please donors; the unique role Charlie played in keeping figures like Ben Shapiro and Tucker Carlson united; Turek's new book, The War on Reality: Recovering Truth in a World That Celebrates Lies; why Turek believes Charlie was a once-in-a-generation leader; and much more.

In today's powerful broadcast, Joe opens with a moving montage reflecting on the legacy and tragic loss of Charlie Kirk. Marking one year since his assassination, the show examines the void his death left behind and the quiet fire it ignited in a younger generation now stepping up to carry the mantle. Through iconic retrospective clips—from respectful debates with leftists and feminists on trans ideology to his deeply personal advice to young men raised without fathers—we revisit why Charlie's relentless faith in civil dialogue made him a transformative voice ahead of his time. The segment closes on a sobering look at his final interview with Ben Shapiro on September 9, 2025, leaving viewers with a poignant meditation on what his sacrifice truly means for America's future.Commodity veteran and University of Connecticut finance professor Vince Lanci joins the show for an institutional-grade breakdown of global supply chains, energy markets, and central bank maneuvers. Lanci dives deep into the fragile feedstock-to-food ecosystem, tracing how natural gas price bottlenecks and the squeeze on diesel distillates translate directly into downstream grocery inflation. The conversation then pivots east as Lanci exposes how China is methodically stripping Western exchanges like COMEX and London of pricing power. By building out physical infrastructure through the Shanghai Gold Exchange and using gold as sovereign collateral to back non-dollar trade, China is systematically absorbing physical bullion and reshaping the global financial architecture.To wrap up the show, Joe dives into a high-stakes breakdown of sweeping economic and political developments. The team analyzes proposed economic relief measures, including a $5,000 dividend for adult citizens, a $9,000 yearly tax credit for stay-at-home parents, and newly announced $500 Obamacare rebate checks for nearly one million Americans across 30 states. Finally, Joe addresses the DOJ's aggressive new probe into election integrity—demanding state election records and placing election chiefs under investigation—closing the hour with a hard-hitting defense of accountability and a direct response to those who tried to label election transparency as a crime.

The Lindsay Clancy jurors are speaking out, and it's just as ridiculous as you'd expect; Nick Offerman thinks I'm a mean homophobe because I didn't like his dumb episode of The Last of Us; and we have a giant Daily Wire announcement. Ep. 2503 The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show is available here: https://youtube.com/@clayandbuck The Clay Travis Show is available here: https://youtube.com/@theclaytravis - - - Today's Sponsors: Golden Crest Metals - Right now GoldenCrest metals will send you a free investor kit, a free portfolio review, and up to $25,000 in free silver on qualifying purchases. Text BEN to METALS—that's 638257—go to https://GoldenCrestMetals.com/Ben, or call (888) 429-3999. Policygenius - Head to https://policygenius.com/SHAPIRO to compare life insurance quotes from top companies and see how much you could save. - - - DailyWire: Become a Daily Wire Member and watch all of our content ad-free: https://www.dailywire.com/subscribe

The Trump administration pushes forward a "stay-at-home" subsidy to promote childbearing, and we discuss the REAL reasons people in the West aren't having kids; Zohran Mamdani is commemorating 9/11 along with his Al Qaeda lawyer friend; and Tucker Carlson thinks algebra is a form of Jew magic. Ep. 2502 - - - Today's Sponsors: Golden Crest Metals - Right now GoldenCrest metals will send you a free investor kit, a free portfolio review, and up to $25,000 in free silver on qualifying purchases. Text BEN to METALS—that's 638257—go to https://GoldenCrestMetals.com/Ben, or call (888) 429-3999 Policygenius - Head to https://policygenius.com/SHAPIRO to compare life insurance quotes from top companies and see how much you could save. Kalshi - Visit https://kalshi.com/shapiro to see live prediction markets and sign up today to trade on the outcomes that matter most to you. Trade 25 win up to 500. Code is SHAPIRO - - - DailyWire: Become a Daily Wire Member and watch all of our content ad-free: https://www.dailywire.com/subscribe

It is a packed news day as The Chicks break down Maria Bartiromo's departure from Fox News, the latest fallout from the Lindsay Clancy mistrial, and some eyebrow-raising moments from Ohio gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton's campaign trail. Fox News officially announced that Bartiromo left the network after more than 12 years, while Acton's recent campaign stop also drew national attention following an incident involving an armed man who was arrested after pushing through the crowd.The show also digs into Trump's Middle East messaging, Letitia James, Hunter Biden, Gavin Newsom, the Trump administration's proposed childcare approach, Michael Knowles and Dana Loesch's online spat, and the latest surrounding Marjorie Taylor Greene.Later, the conversation turns to Lindsay Clancy, her defense team, reaction to the mistrial, viral motherhood TikToks and the broader debate over criminal responsibility and mental illness. Plus, Hasan Piker's “stolen land” argument gets a response, Piers Morgan confronts Jennifer Welch over Erika Kirk, social-media users spark outrage over the anniversary of Charlie Kirk's death, Tucker Carlson takes aim at Ben Shapiro, and Candace Owens' most devoted online defenders make another appearance.Stick around through the end for culture stories, viral clips and the TikToks everyone will be talking about.SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS TO SUPPORT OUR SHOW!Don't change your dog's food—just add Ruff Greens. Get your FREE jumpstart trial bag (just cover shipping) with code CHICKS at https://RuffChicks.comFind the Fall pieces you'll reach for most at Quince. Visit https://Quince.com/chicksfree Get free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. Now available in Canada and the UK, tooSave an additional 10% off practical food for your pantry with the ReadyWise 4-Can Protein Bundle at https://ReadyWise.com with code CHICKS10.Be confident in your portfolio with Bulwark! Schedule your free Know Your Risk Portfolio review. Go to https://KnowYourRiskPodcast.comSubscribe and stay tuned for new episodes every weekday!Follow us here for more daily clips, updates, and commentary:YoutubeFacebookInstagramTikTokXLocalsMore InfoWebsite

The uniparty is hell-bent on bankrupting the country in the name of "populism;" we examine the reasons why and lay out the path toward solvency; Vice President Vance defends his friend, Tucker Carlson; and Venice Film Festival cheers for Palestine. Ep. 2501 - - - Today's Sponsors: PreBorn! - Just $28 sponsors one ultrasound. And every ultrasound is another opportunity for a mother to meet her baby for the very first time. To donate, dial #250 and say the keyword "BABY" or give securely at https://PreBorn.com/BEN Boll & Branch - Sleep cooler this summer with Boll & Branch. Get 15% off your first order + free shipping at https://BollAndBranch.com/ben with code ben. ZipRecruiter - 4 out of 5 employers who post on ZipRecruiter get a quality candidate within the first day. Try it for FREE today at https://ZipRecruiter.com/DAILYWIRE - - - DailyWire: Become a Daily Wire Member and watch all of our content ad-free: https://www.dailywire.com/subscribe

In honor of Labor Day, Ben Shapiro reacts to communist TikToks explaining why everything bad in your life is apparently the fault of billionaires, capitalism, and your boss. Celebrate owning your own labor by watching TikTok commies explain why you shouldn't. - - - Today's Sponsor: Ramp - Switch to Ramp and see it all in real time. New customers get $250 off at https://Ramp.com/SHAPIRO - - - DailyWire: Become a Daily Wire Member and watch all of our content ad-free: https://www.dailywire.com/subscribe

In the most recent episode of The Greg Laurie Show, Pastor Greg Laurie is joined by an influential voice in the world of culture, media, and faith—Jeremy Boreing. Jeremy was the CEO and co-founder of The Daily Wire alongside Ben Shapiro. Together, he and Pastor Greg touch on today’s hot cultural moments and how important it is for Christians to get involved in them. Pastor Greg calls this one of his most interesting interviews. Listen to the full episode now: FULL EPISODE. — Become a Harvest Partner today and join us in knowing God and making Him known through media and large-scale evangelism, our mission of over 30 years. Explore more resources from Pastor Greg Laurie, including daily devotionals and blogs, designed to answer your spiritual questions and equip you to walk closely with Christ.Support the show: https://bit.ly/anbsupportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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The Lindsay Clancy murder trial is on the brink of a mistrial. But in a last-ditch "Hail Mary," Clancy's defense attorney was given one hour to seek an emergency stay from an appeals court before the judge officially dismisses the jury. Ep. 2500 - - - Today's Sponsors: PureTalk - There's a better wireless choice out there. And at just fifteen bucks a month for your first three months on ANY plan... now's a great time to choose PureTalk. Simply go to https://PureTalk.com/SHAPIRO to claim this offer. Balance of Nature - Simple ingredients. Simple routine. Get an additional 10% off any Balance of Nature subscription PLUS a FREE Guiltless Snack when you use promo code SHAPIRO. Visit https://BalanceofNature.com and use code SHAPIRO. Golden Crest Metals - Right now GoldenCrest metals will send you a free investor kit, a free portfolio review, and up to $25,000 in free silver on qualifying purchases. Text BEN to METALS—that's 638257—go to https://GoldenCrestMetals.com/Ben, or call (888) 429-3999. - - - DailyWire: Become a Daily Wire Member and watch all of our content ad-free: https://www.dailywire.com/subscribe

Maria Bartiromo is suddenly out at Fox News, and questions are already swirling about what really happened behind the scenes. The Chicks break down the reported dispute involving coverage of China election interference, Donald Trump's reaction to Bartiromo's departure, and JD Vance's response when reporters asked whether she could be headed to the White House.Vance also faces tough questions about Iran, reveals the bizarre RFK Jr. diet behind his recent weight loss, and gets pressed over his continued friendship with Tucker Carlson. The hosts react to Vance's defense of Tucker, his comments about Abdul El-Sayed, and growing criticism from conservatives who want him to clearly address some of Carlson's more controversial statements.Plus, the Lindsay Clancy trial gets even more chaotic as jury issues, courthouse drama, and the massive online movement supporting Clancy continue to raise questions. Ben Shapiro fires back at Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk's PAC starts spending big ahead of the midterms, Enes Kanter Freedom takes legal action against the WNBA, and the hosts react to even more wild stories from the week.Stick around for the lighter side of the show, including '80s nostalgia, a hilarious AI-generated Chicks song, ridiculous police social media posts, listener comments, and more.SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS TO SUPPORT OUR SHOW!Get 25% Off Cowboy Colostrum with code CHICKS at https://cowboycolostrum.com/CHICKSFor a limited time Jones Road Beauty is giving you a FREE full sized Mascara on your first purchase with code CHICKSBEAUTY at https://JonesRoadBeauty.comTreat yourself to the most advanced bras and shapewear on the market from Honeylove. Save 20% off at https://HoneyLove.com/ChicksSubscribe and stay tuned for new episodes every weekday!Follow us here for more daily clips, updates, and commentary:YoutubeFacebookInstagramTikTokXLocalsMore InfoWebsite

Tucker Carlson says that pro-jihadi, America-hating Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is "America First" while ripping into Mike Rogers; Mike Rogers joins us on the line to discuss his race, because at least on this show, we like America and don't like pro-jihadi communists; and we bring you the latest on the Lindsey Clancy trial, and the latest from the Venice Film Festival, where actors are saying silly things. Ep. 2499 Mike Rogers for Michigan Senate: https://rogersforsenate.com - - - Today's Sponsors: PreBorn! - Just $28 sponsors one ultrasound. And every ultrasound is another opportunity for a mother to meet her baby for the very first time. To donate, dial #250 and say the keyword "BABY" or give securely at https://PreBorn.com/BEN Boll & Branch - Sleep cooler this summer with Boll & Branch. Get 15% off your first order + free shipping at https://BollAndBranch.com/ben with code ben. - - - DailyWire: Become a Daily Wire Member and watch all of our content ad-free: https://www.dailywire.com/subscribe

Isabel Brown joins the show to settle, once and for all, the national Lindsay Clancy debate. The hosts react to Hunter Biden's coming out as "a little bit" gay. Steve Hilton lays out his plan to save California from itself. Ben Shapiro and Andrew Klavan relive the deportation of Milo Yiannopoulos and make bold predictions about impeachments, 2028, and Taylor Swift. Steve Hilton for California Governor: https://stevehiltonforgovernor.com X — https://twitter.com/SteveHiltonx - - - Today's Sponsors: Helix Sleep - Visit https://helixsleep.com/DailyWire for 27% OFF sitewide during the Labor Day Sale. PureTalk - Visit https://PureTalk.com/SHAPIRO to make the switch to PureTalk, a wireless company that ACTUALLY values what you value. Live Action - Visit https://liveaction.org/donate/isabel or Text ISABEL to 70723 Balance of Nature - Visit https://BalanceofNature.com and use promo code KLAVAN for an additional 10% off any subscription. Kalshi - Visit https://kalshi.com/friendlyfire to see live prediction markets and sign up today to trade on the outcomes that matter most to you. - - - DailyWire+ Become a Daily Wire Member and watch all of our content ad-free: https://www.dailywire.com/subscribe

New deportee Milo Yiannopoulos takes his sob story to the political Bonnie Blue of the internet, Piers Morgan; Tyler Robinson's murder case heads for trial as Candace Owens spews filth about Erika Kirk; and apparently it's now acceptable again for attractive women to be in underwear ads. Ep. 2498 - - - Today's Sponsors: PureTalk - There's a better wireless choice out there. And at just fifteen bucks a month for your first three months on ANY plan... now's a great time to choose PureTalk. Simply go to https://PureTalk.com/SHAPIRO to claim this offer. Ramp - Stop waiting till next month. Switch to Ramp and see it all in real time. New customers get $250 off at https://Ramp.com/shapiro Kalshi - Visit https://kalshi.com/shapiro to see live prediction markets and sign up today to trade on the outcomes that matter most to you. Trade 25 win up to 500. Code is SHAPIRO - - - DailyWire: Become a Daily Wire Member and watch all of our content ad-free: https://www.dailywire.com/subscribe

Republicans are in trouble in the 2026 polls... and there are some pretty specific reasons why; Democrats continue to promote terror-supporting Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed; and NFL teams are employing male cheerleaders who prance about effeminately in spandex. Ep. 2497 - - - Today's Sponsors: Golden Crest Metals - Right now GoldenCrest metals will send you a free investor kit, a free portfolio review, and up to $25,000 in free silver on qualifying purchases. Text BEN to METALS—that's 638257—go to https://GoldenCrestMetals.com/Ben, or call (888) 429-3999 Helix Sleep - Go to https://helixsleep.com/ben for 27% off sitewide, exclusively for listeners of this show. - - - DailyWire: Become a Daily Wire Member and watch all of our content ad-free: https://www.dailywire.com/subscribe

Twenty-five years after 9/11, New York's governor is donning a hijab and New York City's mayor believes that people spontaneously combusted on 9/11; professional provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos is deported; and we discuss why those who hate America are also in favor of gigantic government redistributionist programs. Ep. 2496 - - - Today's Sponsors: PureTalk - There's a better wireless choice out there. And at just fifteen bucks a month for your first three months on ANY plan... now's a great time to choose PureTalk. Simply go to https://PureTalk.com/SHAPIRO to claim this offer. Policygenius - Head to https://policygenius.com/SHAPIRO to compare life insurance quotes from top companies and see how much you could save. ZipRecruiter - 4 out of 5 employers who post on ZipRecruiter get a quality candidate within the first day. Try it for FREE today at https://ZipRecruiter.com/DAILYWIRE Helix Sleep - Go to https://helixsleep.com/ben for 27% off sitewide, exclusively for listeners of this show. Kalshi - Visit https://kalshi.com/shapiro to see live prediction markets and sign up today to trade on the outcomes that matter most to you. Trade 25 win up to 500. Code is SHAPIRO - - - DailyWire: Become a Daily Wire Member and watch all of our content ad-free: https://www.dailywire.com/subscribe

With everyone giving their nuclear-level hot takes on the Lindsay Clancy prosecution, it's time to give the full view of ALL the facts... and then I'll explain where I stand; President Trump decides to fix America's problems with a new lake; and Democrats in California are ready to paint over some cracks. Ep. 2495 - - - Today's Sponsors: ZipRecruiter - 4 out of 5 employers who post on ZipRecruiter get a quality candidate within the first day. Try it for FREE today at https://ZipRecruiter.com/DAILYWIRE Golden Crest Metals - Right now GoldenCrest metals will send you a free investor kit, a free portfolio review, and up to $25,000 in free silver on qualifying purchases. Text BEN to METALS—that's 638257—go to https://GoldenCrestMetals.com/Ben, or call (888) 429-3999 PureTalk - There's a better wireless choice out there. And at just fifteen bucks a month for your first three months on ANY plan… now's a great time to choose PureTalk. Simply go to https://PureTalk.com/SHAPIRO to claim this offer. - - - DailyWire: Become a Daily Wire Member and watch all of our content ad-free: https://www.dailywire.com/subscribe

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Dolly Parton was perhaps the last unifying figure in American life... and Jelly Roll just proved why; Democrats continue to stan for criminals, illegal immigrants, and terrorists; and President Trump hits a big deportation number. Ep. 2494 - - - Today's Sponsors: Golden Crest Metals - Right now GoldenCrest metals will send you a free investor kit, a free portfolio review, and up to $25,000 in free silver on qualifying purchases. Text BEN to METALS—that's 638257—go to https://GoldenCrestMetals.com/Ben, or call (888) 429-3999. PragerU - PragerU has no paywall. No smirking newscasters, no bias dressed up as "objectivity." Just the facts presented in an age appropriate, wholesome, all-American way. Go to https://PragerU.com/dailywire - - - DailyWire: Become a Daily Wire Member and watch all of our content ad-free: https://www.dailywire.com/subscribe