Podcast appearances and mentions of Walter Kirn

The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 3: 5:00pm- Lenore Skenazy—Contributing Editor for Reason, Founder of the Free-Range Kids Movement, and President of Let Grow—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss her latest article, “Mom Arrested, Facing 5 Years in Prison for Leaving 8- and 10-Year-Old Boys at Home.” David DeLugas—Attorney & Executive Director Member of the Board Founder of Parents USA—is representing the Georgia mom and offers a legal update. You can learn more about the story here: https://reason.com/2025/05/29/mom-arrested-facing-5-years-in-prison-for-leaving-8-and-10-year-old-boys-at-home/. And here: https://www.pledge.to/ParentsUSA-Kids-alone-Mom-arrested. 5:25pm- During a conversation on Matt Taibbi's podcast, novelist Walter Kirn revealed that George Orwell's “1984” now comes with a trigger warning! 5:40pm- Jimmy Failla—Host of “Fox News Saturday with Jimmy Failla” & “Fox Across America”—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss their frequent appearances together on Fox News. Failla will be performing at SoulJoel's in Montgomery County, PA on August 9th. You can find information about tickets here: https://radio.foxnews.com/fox-news-talk/fox-across-america-with-jimmy-failla/.

The Rich Zeoli Show- Full Show (06/03/2025): 3:05pm- On Monday, statistician and political analyst Nate Silver shared a survey which indicates 45% of self-identifying “liberals” suffer from “poor” mental health—suggesting there could be a correlation between “excellent” mental health and conservative political views. 3:30pm- In a new article posted to his Substack, statistician and political analyst Nate Silver attempts to answer the question: why do young men dislike Democrats? Silver concludes that young males are largely ambitious, entrepreneurial, and strong believers in individualism. Contrarily, the Democrat Party is viewed as risk averse and overly controlling. Additionally, the Democratic Party's fixation with politically correct speech is perceived as restrictive and hostile towards humor. 3:50pm- During Tuesday's press briefing, Peter Doocy asked White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt about former President Joe Biden's reliance on the auto pen for pardons. Doocy's investigation concluded that Biden's authentic signature only appears on the former president's pardon of his son Hunter Biden. 4:05pm- Anna Kelly—White House Deputy Press Secretary—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. She reacts to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's (D-NY) inaccurate rant against the Republican bill where he baselessly claimed it would end “American energy dominance.” Many on the left continue to meltdown over every Trump-endorsed plan/policy. But during a recent interview, even JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon advocated on behalf of the One Big Beautiful Bill—calling it essential for small business and strong economic growth. 4:30pm- Rich steals Justin's headset, Matt gets yelled at (as per usual), and Rich—with some help from the audience—relives some of his greatest injuries, including the time he was stung in the eye by a jellyfish! 4:45pm- In a series of articles published last week, The New York Times examined the Democrat Party's continued struggles appealing to the American electorate. Shane Goldmacher writes that Democrats “are still searching for the path forward”—noting that the party spent $20 million studying their “erosion” of support with “young men” specifically. In another article, Goldmacher—alongside June Kim and Christine Zhang—evaluate “how Donald Trump has remade America's political landscape.” They document that 435 counties across the country became more “Democratic” from 2012 and 2024—however, 2,678 counties became more “Republican.” Further complicating matters is the 2030 census which is expected to cause comfortably blue states to lose electoral votes as citizens move to red states. You can read the articles here: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/us/politics/democratic-party-voters.html. And here: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/05/25/us/politics/trump-politics-democrats.html. 5:00pm- Lenore Skenazy—Contributing Editor for Reason, Founder of the Free-Range Kids Movement, and President of Let Grow—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss her latest article, “Mom Arrested, Facing 5 Years in Prison for Leaving 8- and 10-Year-Old Boys at Home.” David DeLugas—Attorney & Executive Director Member of the Board Founder of Parents USA—is representing the Georgia mom and offers a legal update. You can learn more about the story here: https://reason.com/2025/05/29/mom-arrested-facing-5-years-in-prison-for-leaving-8-and-10-year-old-boys-at-home/. And here: https://www.pledge.to/ParentsUSA-Kids-alone-Mom-arrested. 5:25pm- During a conversation on Matt Taibbi's podcast, novelist Walter Kirn revealed that George Orwell's “1984” now comes with a trigger warning! 5:40pm- Jimmy Failla—Host of “Fox News Saturday with Jimmy Failla” & “Fox Across America”—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss their frequent appearances together on Fox News. Failla will be performing at SoulJoel's in Montgomery County, PA on August 9th. You can find information about tickets here: https://radio. ...

Megyn Kelly is joined by Walter Kirn, editor-at-large for "County Highway," to discuss Trump's historic executive order challenging Big Pharma and outrageous prescription drug prices, how Trump and Bernie Sanders are on the same page based on Bernie's past comments, why other countries in the world are paying reasonable drug prices but the United States has huge upcharges, Big Pharma whining while making billions in profit, why the rest of the world and other countries need to step up now and pay more, how Big Pharma owns so much of the media and political elite, Trump's new potential Air Force One “gift” from Qatar, how the leftist media is using it as a "chew toy" to stay distracted from bigger stories, the market spiking after the Trump administration announced a major temporary trade deal with China, the details of the deal and what it means in the future, Michelle Obama talking about the joys of divorce, her constant negativity about her husband and marriage generally, Halle Berry's inappropriate videos, and more.More from Walter Kirn - https://countyhighway.com/Everglades Foundation: Learn more about President Trump's Everglades support project at https://www.EvergladesFoundation.orgSimpliSafe: Visit https://simplisafe.com/MEGYN to claim 50% off & your first month free!Hungryroot: https://Hungryroot.com/MK | Get 40% off your first box PLUS a free item in every box for life!Cozy Earth: Visit https://www.CozyEarth.com/MEGYN & Use code MEGYN for up to 40% offFollow The Megyn Kelly Show on all social platforms:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/MegynKellyTwitter: http://Twitter.com/MegynKellyShowInstagram: http://Instagram.com/MegynKellyShowFacebook: http://Facebook.com/MegynKellyShow Find out more information at: https://www.devilmaycaremedia.com/megynkellyshow

Novelist and journalist Walter Kirn discusses his 2006 novel "The Unbinding" and answers questions like:Was Holland Caufield a revolutionary?What is the role of the outsider?Can we escape the Spectacle? Support Us on Patreon for the Second Halfhttps://patreon.com/dietsoap

Megyn Kelly is joined by Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi, hosts of "America This Week," to discuss Lauren Sanchez, Katy Perry, and Gayle King going to space for a few minutes, why it was framed as some big step for feminism, Sanchez' relationship with Jeff Bezos and her bizarre interview when she came back, the ridiculous over-the-top Blue Origin announcers, pretending they actually did "training" for this space visit for two days, the horrifying terror and arson at the Pennsylvania's Governor's mansion, how his family was sleeping inside but escaped, details about the suspect and his extremism, Taylor Lorenz giggling about Luigi Mangione in a shocking CNN segment, her disgusting praise of him and those who support him, Bill Maher revealing what happened at his dinner with Trump at the White House, how he surprisingly described him as gracious and a good listener, what this could mean for his future coverage of Trump and viewership, Taibbi suing a Democratic Congresswoman who smeared him in Congress and also on X, the attacks he's faced over the years from the government, and more. Kirn- https://countyhighway.com/Taibbi- https://www.racket.news/ Birch Gold: Text MK to 989898 and get your free info kit on goldDone with Debt: https://www.DoneWithDebt.com & tell them Megyn sent you!ARMRA: go to https://tryarmra.com/MEGYN to get 15% offByrna: Go to https://Byrna.com/MEGYN to save 10%Follow The Megyn Kelly Show on all social platforms:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/MegynKellyTwitter: http://Twitter.com/MegynKellyShowInstagram: http://Instagram.com/MegynKellyShowFacebook: http://Facebook.com/MegynKellyShow Find out more information at: https://www.devilmaycaremedia.com/megynkellyshow

Megyn Kelly opens the show by announcing the launch of her “MK Media” podcast network, the first three hosts Mark Halperin, Maureen Callahan, and Link Lauren, why it's so important to promote and uplift independent voices of reason and common sense, and more. Then Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi, hosts of "America This Week," join to discuss the strange details about the Signal group chat that The Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg was added to, what national security issues were actually being discussed amongst the Trump administration officials, if this was an accident or something else, Trump's fight with the courts over the “Alien Enemies Act,” the illegal gang members living in America that the left is somehow defending now, corporate media journalist John Harwood making obscene comments comparing Tom Homan to the Jim Crow era, the absurdity of his statement and its harmful effects, New York Times “The Daily” podcast claiming Trump is worse to the media than Nixon, how he actually has been the most transparent and open with the press of any president, the corporate media still playing the victim, Rep. Jasmine Crockett calling Gov. Greg Abbott “Governor Hot Wheels,” her code switching and new accent as she becomes a Congressional influencer, her artificial personality and real background, and more.Taibbi- https://www.racket.news/Kirn- https://countyhighway.com/120/Life: Go to https://120Life.com  and use code MK to save 15%Grand Canyon University: https://GCU.eduAngel Studios: Become an Angel Guild member today and get 2 free tickets to The King of Kings movie when you become a premium member. Visit https://angel.com/MEGYN  Follow The Megyn Kelly Show on all social platforms:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/MegynKellyTwitter: http://Twitter.com/MegynKellyShowInstagram: http://Instagram.com/MegynKellyShowFacebook: http://Facebook.com/MegynKellyShow Find out more information at: https://www.devilmaycaremedia.com/megynkellyshow 

It is always a thrill to have Frank on the show, and once again we get great true crime insights from both Frank and Burl. who give us preview of their new true crime book coming out this year.****Best-selling author Frank C. Girardot has been called the "Demon dog of true crime" by none other than Black Dahlia author James Ellroy. Praise for his writing has come from authors as varied as Walter Kirn and Michael Fleeman.His books have ranged from "Name Dropper", a chronicle on the bizarre antics of a murdering imposter who called himself Clark Rockefeller to "Betrayal in Blue" a look at cocaine dealing cops in 1980s New York City, which was co-authored by Burl Barer and Ken Eurell, one of the actual cops.In all of his writing, Girardot's ability to interview complicated characters like drug kingpin Adam Diaz, German imposter Christian Gerhartsreiter and serial arsonist John Orr, add a depth to his story telling that is often lacking in police procedurals masking as true crime. In each of his books, Girardot has displayed a unique ability to locate long-hidden public records and distill narratives from complex court records that brings his stories to life. Girardot's career in journalism began as a copyboy with the now-defunct Los Angeles Herald Examiner. As a reporter he covered stories as fascinating as the O.J. Simpson murder trial and as complex as the mistaken gang execution of three trick-or-treaters on Halloween 1993 in the Los Angeles area.

Megyn Kelly is joined by Michael Knowles, host of The Daily Wire's "Michael Knowles Show,” to discuss how “60 Minutes" celebrated German censorship of online speech, the lack of pushback by the reporter, the history of "60 Minutes" and how the CBS show has declined in recent years, CBS' Margaret Brennan's outrageous comments about the Holocaust and free speech, how the legacy media members are still embarrassing themselves, conservative influencer Ashley St. Clair claiming Elon Musk is the father of her child, her claiming she wants privacy but appearing in a New York Post profile and photoshoot, why women can be successful in their careers and in their family lives, the need for personal responsibility in our society, and more. Then Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn, hosts of "America This Week," join to discuss the Associated Press throwing a tantrum over losing some White House access, how the AP and other media have torpedoed their own credibility, why independent media doesn't need access to succeed, why the media is outraged about the Trump DOJ dropping charges against Eric Adams, Kamala's latest ridiculous word salad in NYC, how Democrats are struggling to find a way to “resist” Trump, one Dem politician calling Elon a “d*ck,” and more. Then aviation experts Whiz Buckley and Greg Feith join to discuss what likely caused the shocking Delta plane crash in Canada, how weather conditions played a role, the reasons everyone miraculously survived, and more.Knowles- https://www.dailywire.com/Taibbi- https://www.racket.news/Kirn- https://countyhighway.com/DailyLook: https://DailyLook.com to take your style quiz and use code MEGYN for 50% off your first order.Home Title Lock: Go to https://www.hometitlelock.com and use promo code MEGYN25 to get 25% off your subscription AND a free title history report to ensure that you're not already a victim.Herald Group: Learn more at https:/GuardYourCard.comJustThrive: Visit https://JustThriveHealth.com and use code MEGYN and save 20% sitewideFollow The Megyn Kelly Show on all social platforms:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/MegynKellyTwitter: http://Twitter.com/MegynKellyShowInstagram: http://Instagram.com/MegynKellyShowFacebook: http://Facebook.com/MegynKellyShow Find out more information at: https://www.devilmaycaremedia.com/megynkellyshow

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsTulsi Gabbard confirmed. Plus, "Angel Fire," by our own Walter Kirn

Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” talks to CIA Covert Operations Officer, Mike Baker, and the best-selling author of Up In The Air, Walter Kirn about Rick Caruso telling Joe Rogan the shockingly long list of catastrophic failures by California leaders like Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass concerning the LAFD budget cuts, empty reservoirs and more that helped make the recent LA wildfires one of the most damaging California fires in history; Gavin Newsom admitting to CNN's Pamela Brown how the Pacific Palisades will not be allowed to rebuild in the same way and will have to center rebuilding around combatting climate change; JK Rowling reminding the left and Democrats how they helped give Trump a major win on protecting women's sports from trans athletes by passing the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act; White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt explaining to Sage Steele how President Trump plans to make sure that his executive order on protecting women's sports can't simply be reversed by another president; Donald Trump calling out reporters from POLITICO to their faces after the DOGE exposed how much money USAID was funneling to them; Bret Weinstein telling Joe Rogan how he looks at Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren in a much different way now; and much more. WATCH the MEMBER-EXCLUSIVE segment of the show here: https://rubinreport.locals.com/ Check out the NEW RUBIN REPORT MERCH here: https://daverubin.store/ ---------- Today's Sponsors: Lean - A powerful weight loss supplement with remarkable results to help lower blood sugar, burn fat by converting it into energy, and curb your appetite. Rubin Report viewers get 20% off plus free rush shipping Go to: https://TakeLean.com and enter promo code DAVE20 for your discount Wrinkle Filler - Take years, or even decades off your appearance in under 2-minutes. Watch Dr. Layke's step-by-step video free and uninterrupted. Go to: https://BHMD1.com/Rubin 1775 Coffee - 1775 Coffee isn't just coffee—it's brain fuel for patriots. Handpicked Bolivian beans, roasted in the USA, delivering pure, single-origin brilliance without a hint of deceit. The best part? Every dollar you spend enters you to win a blacked-out 2024 Tesla Cybertruck plus $30,000 cash! Rubin Report viewers get 15% off their order. Go to: https://1775coffee.com/RUBIN and use code RUBIN Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Joe Biden said goodbye. He wanted to mirror Eisenhower, who once warned of the Military Industrial Complex, but Biden saw something equally alarming—the Big Tech oligarchy. He sees Zuckerberg and Bezos attending Trump's inaugural. He greatly fears the power of Elon Musk. He realizes that his side lost control of it and now, he wants all of us to be afraid.Well, I'm sorry, Joe. I can't play that game anymore. It's time to say goodbye. Farewell, Joe Biden, farewell, Democrats. Farewell, hysteria. Farewell to mandated preferred pronouns in everyone's bio. Farewell to being forced to lie about whether or not masks work. Farewell to not being allowed to give people the benefit of the doubt. Farewell to being too afraid to ask questions about an experimental vaccine. Farewell to Critical Race and gender theory in elementary schools.Farewell to the ruling oligarchy — yes, Joe. You were the frontman for it. You can't fool me. I was part of it, too. It was like a daisy chain of paper dolls—Hollywood, all major corporate and cultural institutions, Big Pharma, and all of the ads they pumped into the veins of Americans that showcased the American utopia in all of its splendor. Just take this pill, and you, too, can be with us, in the happy place. Farewell to a government censoring speech via social media. Farewell to the absence of masculinity. Farewell to worrying about every word that comes out of our mouths, what we drive, what we wear on Halloween, what we buy, what we eat, what we watch, what we desire.Farewell to being made to hate ourselves and everything we know to be true but can't say out loud. Farewell to being the oppressors or the oppressed defined only by the color of our skin. Farewell to hating our history, hating our country, hating our heroes. Farewell to virtue signaling our goodness. Farewell to always being told that it's better to keep your head down and say nothing about any of it.Farewell to never being able to take a joke. Farewell to seeing problematic content in every movie and farewell to the warning labels now affixed to all of them. Farewell to seeing all men as predators and all women as victims. Farewell to a country ruled by fear because our leaders can't see it any other way. Farewell to a president who called half the country “ultra fascists,” “ultra MAGA,” and “extreme MAGA Republicans.” Farewell to a government that believes its biggest threat comes from the people of the United States.Farewell to life inside the doomsday cult, where every single day is the end of the world. Farewell to every word taken literally and seen as another chapter of Mein Kampf. Farewell to repression and sanctimony. Farewell to the long, dark winter. Farewell to lawn signs. Farewell to pretending Kamala Harris wasn't a terrible candidate installed by the deep state. Farewell to ever having to worry about speaking the truth. Farewell to the unshakable hopelessness, the unending sadness, the mourning of the long-forgotten Old Left. It's never coming back. Everything has to be rebuilt. Welcome to the beginning of the rest of your life. At least now, you can have a life. Bringing it all Back HomeWatching the confirmation hearings was bringing it all back. Adam Schiff was still out of his mind, braying like he's Cotton Mather in the Oyer in Terminer in Salem, demanding Pam Bondi say Joe Biden “won the election.” Why did it matter so much to him? Are there really that many Americans out there who need to hear those words said out loud?The nominees' worth depended on whether or not they would stand up to the tyrant fascist racist rapist dictator that they impeached twice, indicted four times convicted on a bogus felony charge, all of which eventually landed in the fevered dreams of a washed-up surfer hippie from Hawaii who got himself a gun and tried to kill the president to SAVE DEMOCRACY. And they still lost. They lost the Electoral College and they lost the popular vote. I never get tired of saying that. Talk about owning the libs. What can we do except quote Marlon Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire. HA. HA HA HA.That's how much America hates them. After all, how hard could it possibly be to beat Hitler? The problem with utopias is that they can't last. They either must become more authoritarian and thus, less utopian, or they collapse. By the end of our utopia, anyone we knew could be one of those things. A bad person. A sexist. A racist. A homophobe. A bigot. A transphobe. Toxic masculinity. White feminism. Everyone was either an abuser or a victim. The weaker we were, the more we were celebrated. We'd snuffed out all independent thought. We were under constant surveillance by the government, advertisers, AI, algorithms, and each other. We began to wonder what real life even was anymore. It was like Winston and Julia in 1984 trying to carve out some love and lust from the dystopia under Big Brother's ever-watchful gaze, with children spies at the ready to tattle—and cancel—those who broke the rules. So if you say Joe Biden won the 2020 election, like you say 2+2=5, then democracy might have a chance. But if you dare think for yourself and start looking behind closed doors and see things you aren't supposed to see, well, now you threaten democracy.When I pushed open the door of the doomsday bunker and escaped, I knew there was no going back. I also knew I couldn't save anyone, much less the once-great culture I used to love. There is no saving whatever it was we used to call the Left. There is only saving America from what it had become so that all of us at least have a fighting chance.No, it won't be perfect. Yes, it might be chaos — entertaining chaos — but chaos all the same. We'll have to learn how to tolerate each other again, live together somehow, and learn this new way of life suddenly foisted upon us with the internet. Now, we know what it looks like to shut ourselves off from people and ideas we cannot control.If the Democrats on Blue Sky and in the Senate Confirmation hearings are any indication, nothing much has changed on the inside. They're still transfixed by the one guy they couldn't cancel, the one guy they couldn't destroy. 1984 Part TwoAnd maybe now we're about to find out what happens in the sequel. Does Big Brother find a way to regain power by destroying Elon Musk to retake X and make it Twitter again? Do those of us exiled and canceled remain on the outside? Does the New York Times beg Bari Weiss to come back, or The Atlantic to throw themselves at the feet of Walter Kirn, or Rolling Stone magazine, the crap rag it has become, offer Matt Taibbi millions to write for them again?Can those on the inside who have speciated with a whole new language and belief system learn to live with the unwashed masses again? Can they tolerate offensive speech? Can it all be one big, happy, dysfunctional family?On the inside, the news that Carrie Underwood and the Village People were playing at the inaugural birthed a fresh new crop of mass hysteria and rage. So I'm guessing Saturday Night Live won't have Trump back any time soon. The Oscars won't ask him to attend, and those who still believe they control this country will hold onto their collapsing empire until ashes, ashes, it all falls down.I don't know. But it doesn't matter. Because today we say farewell. And oh, how sweet it is. // This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sashastone.substack.com/subscribe

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.comWalter is a novelist, literary critic, and journalist. He's written eight books, most famously Up in the Air, which became a film starring George Clooney. He's now the editor-at-large for County Highway and co-hosts a weekly podcast with Matt Taibbi, “America This Week.” Way back in the day, I edited his work for The New Republic, and he guest-blogged for the Dish.For two clips of our convo — on Tim Walz as a “white minstrel” of a Midwesterner, and Walter watching speeches by Obama and Trump on LSD — pop over to our YouTube page. Other topics: Walter's upbringing in rural Minnesota — “a Huckleberry Finn life”; the colorful characters of his small town; the humanist rear-admiral and feminist librarian who mentored him; learning horses from the Amish; his father the “short-haired hippie”; transferring to Princeton — “the coldest bath of my life”; the snobbery of his rich roommates; wanting to be a poet; his scholarship to Oxford; the anti-Americanism there; Shakespeare; drinking culture in London; working as a private eye; teaching immigrants to read in NYC; working at Vanity Fair with Tina Brown and the “Eurotrash elite”; The Great Gatsby; Gore Vidal on homosexuality; the overblown fear of militias in ‘90s America; the Matthew Shepard myths; the history of progressive populism in the Midwest; Gus Hall and Eugene McCarthy; towns decimated by NAFTA; Trump turning on Iraq War; the Pentagon Papers; Harris' interview on 60 Minutes; her passing on Josh Shapiro; the phoniness of Walz; his fascination with China; disinformation and free speech; the Twitter Files; demonizing rural people during Covid; the “information engineering” in the pandemic; Jay Bhattacharya's dissent; sex changes for minors; Helene and FEMA; immigration in small towns; Mickey Kaus; how the elite loathe Vance; Stop the Steal; and Walter living in Montana.Browse the Dishcast archive for an episode you might enjoy (the first 102 are free in their entirety — subscribe to get everything else). Coming up: Tina Brown on her new substack, Musa al-Gharbi on wokeness, Sam Harris for our quadrennial chat before Election Day, and Damon Linker on the election results. Wait, there's more: Peggy Noonan on America, Anderson Cooper on grief, Christine Rosen on humanness in a digital world, Mary Matalin on anything but politics, and John Gray on, well, everything.Please send any guest recs, dissents, and other comments to dish@andrewsullivan.com.

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.comBill Wasik is the editorial director of The New York Times Magazine. Monica Murphy is a veterinarian and a writer. Their first book, Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus, was a bestseller, and they're back with a new one: Our Kindred Creatures: How Americans Came to Feel the Way They Do About Animals.For two clips of our convo — on the beginnings of dog welfare, and the “Uncle Tom's Cabin” for animal activism — pop over to our YouTube page. Other topics: writing a book as a married couple; the mass extinctions of early America; bison at the brink; how horses increased after the Industrial Revolution and drove the early movement for animal welfare; “the best humanitarian ideas came from England”; bullfighting in Spain; the profound role and colorful character of Henry Bergh; his founding of the ASPCA; the absence of vegetarianism among early activists; PT Barnum's sympathy and exploitation; transporting Beluga whales by train; the public clashes between Barnum and Bergh; journalism's role in animal welfare; George Angell's magazine Our Dumb Animals; the anti-slavery Atlantic Monthly; animal activism growing out of abolitionism; Darwin; Romanticism; George Bird Grinnell and first Audubon Society; fashion and consumerism; wearing hats with whole birds; the emotional lives of dogs; the activism around strays; the brutality of early shelters; rabies and dog catchers; Louis Pasteur and the rabies vaccine; Anna Sewell's Black Beauty; how she was robbed of royalties; the treatment of horses in Central Park; reform movements driven by elites; class resentment; Animal Farm and Watership Down; the cruelty of today's food industry; pig crates; Pope Francis; and Matthew Scully's Dominion.Browse the Dishcast archive for an episode you might enjoy (the first 102 are free in their entirety — subscribe to get everything else). Coming up: Walter Kirn on his political evolution, Musa al-Gharbi on wokeness, Sam Harris for our quadrennial chat before Election Day, and Damon Linker on the election results. Wait, there's more: Peggy Noonan on America, Anderson Cooper on grief, Christine Rosen on humanness in a digital world, Mary Matalin on anything but politics, and John Gray on, well, everything.Please send any guest recs, dissents, and other comments to dish@andrewsullivan.com.

Thanks to the TIN FOIL MULISHA members who support this podcast with their time, talent and treasure! Support UFO...No! with a direct PayPal donation:⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/ufonopodcast/5⁠⁠ Join the UFO...No! Patreon:⁠ ⁠https://www.patreon.com/ufonopodcast⁠⁠  Join the UFO...No! Discord:⁠ ⁠https://discord.gg/QysDepDu9P⁠⁠   Buy UFO...No! Merch:⁠ ⁠https://ufono-podcast.creator-spring.com⁠⁠  Looking for Magic Mushrooms (Psilocybin)? Visit⁠ ⁠https://www.schedule35.co/us/⁠⁠ Use code U1173687US240607 to get a 20% discount on your first purchase!  SHOW NOTES http://www.ufoevidence.org/cases/case641.htm http://www.ufoevidence.org/cases/case638.htm http://www.ufoevidence.org/cases/case645.htm http://www.nicap.org/ar-680204story.htm https://nuforc.org/sighting/?id=45768 http://www.ufoevidence.org/cases/case373.htm http://www.ufoevidence.org/cases/case408.htm http://www.ufoevidence.org/cases/case651.htm http://www.ufoevidence.org/cases/case1074.htm https://www.ufobc.ca/History/2000/blackoval.htm FACTS & FUCKERY NASA's Boeing Starliner returns from space without crew - https://www.axios.com/2024/09/07/boeing-starliner-nasa-returns David Grusch says Dick Cheney is at the top of the ‘classified UFO information pyramid', per Walter Kirn - https://x.com/UAPJames/status/1833525079134949563 George Knapp and Jeremy Corbell rumor mill at it again with “I know a guy who told me that a Russian UFO crash has been used to develop a weapon, that they've just been dying to use.” https://x.com/ObserveByProxy7/status/1833656905207529687 Regarding the term “debunker”...here's an interesting take. From Sarah Gamm, intel analyst and former NGA employee, says she saw images of “non-terrestrial craft” that maneuvered in inexplicable ways, to include disappearing and reappearing. https://x.com/MickWest/status/1834130918304526430 You're never going to believe who's saying “disclosure” is right around the corner…Richard Doty - https://x.com/RTicky166/status/1833909787509059632 https://x.com/cosmic_surplus/status/1833972243442897237 Great news! The two most useless congress women are heading up the new UFO hearing - https://x.com/cosmic_surplus/status/1833539695084769447 https://x.com/UAPJames/status/1833605197106397607 This is all Spirituality - https://x.com/Truthpolex/status/1833474646509047904

Thanks to the TIN FOIL MULISHA members who support this podcast with their time, talent and treasure! Support UFO...No! with a direct PayPal donation:⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/ufonopodcast/5⁠⁠ Join the UFO...No! Patreon:⁠ ⁠https://www.patreon.com/ufonopodcast⁠⁠  Join the UFO...No! Discord:⁠ ⁠https://discord.gg/QysDepDu9P⁠⁠   Buy UFO...No! Merch:⁠ ⁠https://ufono-podcast.creator-spring.com⁠⁠  Looking for Magic Mushrooms (Psilocybin)? Visit⁠ ⁠https://www.schedule35.co/us/⁠⁠ Use code U1173687US240607 to get a 20% discount on your first purchase!  SHOW NOTES http://www.ufoevidence.org/cases/case641.htm http://www.ufoevidence.org/cases/case638.htm http://www.ufoevidence.org/cases/case645.htm http://www.nicap.org/ar-680204story.htm https://nuforc.org/sighting/?id=45768 http://www.ufoevidence.org/cases/case373.htm http://www.ufoevidence.org/cases/case408.htm http://www.ufoevidence.org/cases/case651.htm http://www.ufoevidence.org/cases/case1074.htm https://www.ufobc.ca/History/2000/blackoval.htm FACTS & FUCKERY NASA's Boeing Starliner returns from space without crew - https://www.axios.com/2024/09/07/boeing-starliner-nasa-returns David Grusch says Dick Cheney is at the top of the ‘classified UFO information pyramid', per Walter Kirn - https://x.com/UAPJames/status/1833525079134949563 George Knapp and Jeremy Corbell rumor mill at it again with “I know a guy who told me that a Russian UFO crash has been used to develop a weapon, that they've just been dying to use.” https://x.com/ObserveByProxy7/status/1833656905207529687 Regarding the term “debunker”...here's an interesting take. From Sarah Gamm, intel analyst and former NGA employee, says she saw images of “non-terrestrial craft” that maneuvered in inexplicable ways, to include disappearing and reappearing. https://x.com/MickWest/status/1834130918304526430 You're never going to believe who's saying “disclosure” is right around the corner…Richard Doty - https://x.com/RTicky166/status/1833909787509059632 https://x.com/cosmic_surplus/status/1833972243442897237 Great news! The two most useless congress women are heading up the new UFO hearing - https://x.com/cosmic_surplus/status/1833539695084769447 https://x.com/UAPJames/status/1833605197106397607 This is all Spirituality - https://x.com/Truthpolex/status/1833474646509047904

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.comDavid is an old friend, a long-time writer at The Atlantic, and a contributor to MSNBC. He's the author of 10 books, including Trumpocalypse and Trumpocracy.For two clips of our convo — on the way Biden has empowered Trump, and the outlook that won the Cold War — pop over to our YouTube page. Other topics: Frum writing a memoir on being a Cold War baby; raised in Toronto — a city “filled with exiles and refugees” from both sides of that conflict; torture under Pinochet; how global security made Frum a conservative; the Nazis; the distinction between authoritarians and totalitarians; the Stasi in East Germany; the Netflix docu-series on the Cold War; the hubris of the West; the US condoning the coup against Allende; Khrushchev wanting to “bury” the West; JFK scared by Soviet growth; the Cuban Missile Crisis; the genius of Reagan and Thatcher to let the USSR implode; Gorbachev; the US neutralizing the nuclear stockpile after 1989; luring Russian scientists; the enduring influence of the KGB on Putin; the invasion of Crimea; Russia's historic claims on Ukraine; Putin's drive to revive an empire; today's hot war with a nuclear power; the likely fate of Ukraine; how the EU is economically depressed; the migrant crisis there; Merkel's role; Brexit; China lifting millions from poverty and fueling global trade; today's cold war with China; the Birther slur; Trump's wall; threats of mass deportation; asylum seekers vs. illegal immigrants; Biden's recent executive order; how both Frum and I are immigrants; how the Trump show is boring after a decade; Clinton's “I'm With Her” vs. Harris dulling identity politics; today problems vs. tomorrow problems; Washington leaving the presidency; Trump's deranged psyche; and the death of Frum's daughter Miranda.Browse the Dishcast archive for an episode you might enjoy (the first 102 are free in their entirety — subscribe to get everything else). Coming up: Musa al-Gharbi on wokeness, Walter Kirn on Republican voters, Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy on animal welfare, Anderson Cooper on grief, John Gray on, well, everything, and Sam Harris for our quadrennial chat before Election Day. After the election we have Peggy Noonan on America, Christine Rosen on humanness in a digital world, and Mary Matalin on anything but politics. Please send any guest recs, dissents, and other comments to dish@andrewsullivan.com.

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.comMichelle is an opinion columnist at the New York Times, and before that she was a columnist for Slate. She has written three books: Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism, The Means of Reproduction, and The Goddess Pose. She's also an on-air contributor at MSNBC.For two clips of our convo — debating who the real Kamala is, and how much BLM is responsible for lost black lives — pop over to our YouTube page. Other topics: growing up in Buffalo with conservative parents; her dad a journalist and mom a math teacher; Michelle a teen activist in the “Buffalo abortion wars”; the legality but ugliness of clinic protests; a pro-life man knocking the wind out of her; ACT UP; going to J-school; reporting at mega-churches in Ohio in the 2004 election; Harris' moderate Smart on Crime book in 2009; her “triangulating” in 2019 (e.g. fracking); her busing moment with Biden; supporting a bail fund in summer 2020; Biden's bait-and-switch as a centrist; bipartisan support for Israel; Merrick Garland's effort to appear apolitical; lawfare; from Bush's “f**k yeah” patriotism to Trump's dark view of America; the Iraq War and 2008 bailout causing mistrust toward institutions; crumbling infrastructure; Trump never being a majority candidate; the cultural grievance fueling him; Michelle going to Trump rallies; the 1619 Project; debating the US as a “white supremacy”; the left radicalizing after Trump replaced a two-term black president; Covid mania; the distortion of Twitter; the Electoral College and its roots; the violent crime spike in 2020 and after; how the disadvantaged always bear the brunt of disorder; the greed of BLM Inc; the press distortion of unarmed black men killed by police; Michelle's 2014 piece “What Is a Woman?”; Rachel Levine; puberty blockers; the Dutch protocol; the Cass Review; bathroom bills; and the GLAAD protest against the NYT.Browse the Dishcast archive for an episode you might enjoy (the first 102 are free in their entirety — subscribe to get everything else). Coming up: David Frum on Trump, Musa al-Gharbi on wokeness, Walter Kirn on Republican voters, Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy on animal welfare, Mary Matalin on life, Anderson Cooper on grief, John Gray on, well, everything, and Sam Harris for our quadrennial chat before Election Day. Please send any guest recs, dissents, and other comments to dish@andrewsullivan.com.

In a recent podcast interview reporter Walter Kirn revealed that David Grusch named Dick Cheney as the top man on the totem pole of UFO intel. Yes it appears that Darth Vader himself is the man in the know! What does this mean for Donald Trump and his threats of disclosure? Is there more wet weather on the horizon? Listen in to learn more.

Tonight, President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 race and endorsed Kamala Harris to be the Democratic nominee. After weeks of speculation, criticism of his candidacy, concern about his health, and withdrawal of donors, President Biden finally said: “It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve as your President. And while it has been my intention to seek reelection, I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down and to focus solely on fulfilling my duties as President for the remainder of my term.” What comes next? With the Democratic National Convention less than a month away, Michael Moynihan went live on X with Free Press contributors Walter Kirn, Batya Ungar-Sargon, Eli Lake, and Olivia Reingold, as well Minnesota congressman Dean Phillips (who challenged Joe Biden during the primaries), to discuss this historic turn and how it will impact the election. Follow The FP on X to stay tuned for more livestreams. Note: this episode was originally a livestream on X, and there were a few audio glitches, but we loved this conversation and think you will too. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is a special segment from our show SYSTEM UPDATE, recorded by Reporter Michael Tracey with Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi on July 17 during the 2024 RNC in Milwaukee. Listen to America this week, with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn: https://www.racket.news/s/america-this-week - - -  Watch full episodes on Rumble, streamed LIVE 7pm ET. Become part of our Locals community - - -  Follow Glenn: Twitter Instagram - - -  Follow System Update:  Twitter Instagram TikTok Facebook LinkedIn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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In 2024, the most radical act imaginable is telling the truth. Nellie Bowles has done just that with her new book, Morning After the Revolution. She lays out in painful but funny detail the madness we've all just lived through that almost no one will talk about. Bowles is too nice to humiliate the New York Times outright; she was their “golden girl,” after all, once upon a time. But her book humiliates them all the same, just by doing good reporting and telling the stories they refused to tell. In one riveting, tragic, hilarious passage, Bowles describes what happened at the Wi Spa in Los Angeles:“Wi Spa billed itself as “a convenient and affordable place to de-stress and be pampered,” but one summer week in 2021 it became a site of great stress because of one (allegedly, partially) erect penis that had manifested in the women's room.”She continues: “The spa, in Los Angeles's Koreatown, has separate men's and women's areas where people go naked. The penis went bobbing through the women's space. The penis had been seen soaking in the women's communal soak pools. Women enjoying their spa time were upset. One went to the front desk asking for help, saying there were children present and that there was a man in the bathroom. The front desk could not help. The person with the penis had a California driver's license that listed their gender as “female.” The penis was white, and some of the women who didn't want to see it were black Hispanic, which in the summer of 2021 might have helped draw knee-jerk public sympathy, but apparently did not.”For a movement afraid of harm being done by mere words, they seemed to be perfectly comfortable with real harm being done to young girls, to women in sports, and pre-teens sucked into “gender-affirming care.” Bowles doesn't just describe what happened at the spa; she tracks down the sex offender himself and discovers that, yes, he'd done it deliberately, and, yes, he was erect while doing so. But was there ever any major reckoning in the press? No.I quickly searched the New York Times for “Wi Spa,” and of course, there was nothing about this scandal, even though it was such an interesting story. Why didn't they want to touch it? Because it called into question their absolutism about “trans women” being women. The Times should be as thoroughly humiliated by Morning After the Revolution as NPR should be after Uri Berliner's essay. They no longer care about chasing the story at all costs. They only care about serving the ideology at all costs. It shouldn't be surprising that the Times and other “prestige” outlets would pan Bowles' book and attempt character assassination on her. What else are they going to do? Admit that they gaslighted Americans and allowed themselves to be manipulated by a “Lord of the Flies” contingent of crybaby brats who felt unsafe around reporters like Donald McNeil? Will they come clean and admit they essentially work for the Biden administration as a slightly more sophisticated version of Joe and Mika? Not a chance. The publisher isn't taking their criticisms seriously, nor should they. Instead, they celebrated their takes:The negative reviews read like a chapter in Bowles's book. The Washington Post's Becca Rothfield disguises her resentment and embarrassment by casting Bowles as the condescending elite. The lady doth protest too much, methinks:She writes:The real question is not about whether there are “Narrative Enforcers” at the New York Times, as Bowles alleges, but why there is a market for so many books like this, even though they are all so predictably indistinguishable from one another. Bowles's book appeals for the same reason that other conservative memoirs of political “growth” do: because they reassure their readers that progressivism is not a genuine political philosophy but an almost biological byproduct of youth, like acne. Bowles and her ilk are thereby absolved from contending with the principles of those who oppose them, or from seeing their political nemeses as rational moral agents.Then there is Laura Kipnis at the New York Times, whose CV reads exactly like Rothfield's: academia, awards, universities, citations, more awards, more citations. They could be the same person. She writes, “By fringe, she means trans. She's peeved that some trans women are trying to redefine feminism in ways that seem to her to be anti-woman, resents that lesbians risk being erased by trendy all-purpose queerness and fears that as a married lesbian mother she will have her own rights swept away by anti-trans backlash. Given the Dobbs decision, all precedents are possibly imperiled, but the culprit isn't transgender-rights activists. It's the religious right and the Supreme Court, both of which get a pass from Bowles, as do Donald Trump and every elected Republican.”And there it is, the message loud and clear: those bad people on the Right are the problem, not us, not the crazies who have destroyed nearly every great thing about American culture, and have destroyed feminism. Not will. Have. It's been gutted. It no longer exists. And then we get Mollie Fischer, yet another carbon copy of the same kind of writer/thinker/activist at The New Yorker:What can we expect from someone whose last article was “Why We Choose Not to Eat, Can the decision to forgo food be removed from the gendered realm of weight-loss culture?” This is the sad, silly fact of what the Left has become once it aligned with power, wealth, and politics: boring. Insular. Naval gazing. Michelle Goldberg decided the review in the Times wasn't enough and wrote an entire op-ed about Bowles:“There are aspects of the New Progressivism — its clunky neologisms and disdain for free speech — that I'll be glad to see go. But however overwrought the politics of 2020 were, they also represented a rare moment when there was suddenly enormous societal energy to tackle long-festering inequalities. That energy has largely dissipated, right when we need it most, heading into another election with Trump on the ballot.Trump Trump Trump. The closer anyone gets to Trump, the farther away they get from the MISSION. It's one or the other. You've read 1984. You know the deal. Love Big Brother or you'll be another enemy of the state. You'll be Goldstein. You'll be unpersoned. The reckoning I waited for is never coming. I know that. Just as I know many of my friends will never apologize or ever have any awareness of what they went along with. I knew that back in 2020 when a local news station told the story of Sue and her 100 year-old mattress store. I was screamed at by my friends for even mentioning it.Now, many of them must feel a combination of fear and shame but would not dare risk their place in utopia to talk about it, even if more and more people seem to feel comfortable doing so. So down the memory hole it will go.As Bowles said in her appearance on Bill Maher, there has never been any apology or acknowledgment of what we've just lived through. We're owed at least that much, not just for how they treated their own reporters, editors, or researchers at the hands of fanatics but also for the stories they refused to tell that the American public deserved to know.In their podcast, America This Week, Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi discuss the short story Christmas Not Just Once a Year, by Heinrich Böll. The story is about mass delusion and why almost no one can or will put a stop to it because it's just too hard.When I think about what's happened to this country and I try to find something that is horrifying enough to warrant a comparison to what happened in Germany, I land on “trans kids,” this bizarre new idea that has been normalized in our culture to the point where all schools, all institutions and all politics on the Left are going along with it, even though it sends children down a dangerous path they can't come back from.I'm not saying it's as bad as the Holocaust, but I am saying the madness is on par with what people have gone along with at the worst moments in our history. That's why Sweden, the UK, and other countries have backed way off of “gender-affirming care.” It's almost Pride month. They will fly the flag at elementary schools right next to the US flag. What chance do any of these kids have? With so many parents so afraid to stand up to the activists lest they be called a “bigot,” we're left with few choices when it comes to November 2024. If you want this stopped, you can't vote for Democrats. Yet, Nellie Bowles probably will. She is a lesbian married to Bari Weiss, and pregnant with their second child. But at least she is a voice the New York Times can't ignore. How did a book like this even get published anyway? We all know the rules. Sensitivity readers and activists posing as staffers are constantly breathing down the neck of the editors to ensure full compliance.Enter Thesis, an adjunct of the Penguin Group that launched in 2023, that was “committed to publishing bold ideas that shape tomorrow's discourse.” You might call them the first major “heterodox” publishing house that hovers in that sweet spot outside the clutches of the “woke” Left but still enough inside as not to cross the Trump line.They are ahead of the game, joining a growing group of voices just before the inevitable counterculture revolution hits. Expect to see more like them and more voices like Nellie Bowles.At the end of the book, Bowles mentions how someone she knew ended their friendship because she refused to cancel a colleague. Now that story is in print for all time. That woman will have to live with being one of the bad guys, even if it will be years before she realizes it. // This is a public episode. 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President Biden just signed into law a bill forcing the sale of TikTok by its Chinese parent ByteDance—or else face an outright ban. The measure was included in a bill providing a $95.3 billion foreign aid package for Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan.  Proponents of the bill cite privacy and national security concerns. TikTok, like all social media giants, collects piles of user data—and if requested by the Chinese Communist Party, ByteDance is obligated by law to share that user information. Critics also worry about political influence operations on the platform—a dictatorial foreign adversary turning our kids into little Manchurian candidates. Opponents of the bill argue that forcing a TikTok sale under the threat of a ban is a blow to users' free speech rights and represents an overreach of government authority. They insist that the government should not dictate which apps Americans can use, especially on opaque grounds of national security.  Today, a debate: Is American national security at risk from an Orwellian app ultimately controlled by a totalitarian regime? Or is this just McCarthyism in digital form, a government-created moral panic fueled by dubious threats of misinformation?  Arguing that the TikTok bill is a logical extension of our current laws—and a necessary countermeasure to authoritarian meddling—is Geoffrey Cain. Cain is the author of The Perfect Police State and senior fellow at the National Security Institute of George Mason University.  On the other side, arguing that the bill is a dangerous overreach justified by flimsy evidence of an alleged threat, is Walter Kirn. Kirn is a novelist, Free Press contributor, editor-at-large of County Highway, and co-host of the podcast America This Week.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Walter Kirn is the bestselling author of “Up in the Air,” which became a smash hit movie starring George Clooney. Now Kirn is taking a risk on a longshot business that views America as one giant small town. And that's just the beginning. In addition to his writing, Kirn is a non-partisan political commentator who appears regularly on TV and in podcasts, including one of my personal favorite shows, “America This Week,” which features Walter alongside investigative journalist Matt Taibbi. In a society where algorithms decide what we do and don't see, and which feed us more and more of the same material, Walter is helping people discover new topics and viewpoints. I'm excited that you'll discover a little more about him through this interview. You can also connect with Walter on X: https://twitter.com/walterkirn Photo by Max Savage Levenson/Montana Free Press  

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit smokeempodcast.substack.comThis is a hot one! Nancy and Sarah fundamentally disagree about Emily Gould's viral essay on the lure of divorce. Nancy compares the story to the rot in France before the formation of the Vichy regime. Sarah believes personal essays like this help people feel less alone. Can she change Nancy's mind, as Walter Kirn did on the most recent episode? (Fast-track to 33:08 for that

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit smokeempodcast.substack.comWalter Kirn sees the world with a spooky clarity. He's an acclaimed novelist, podcaster, and the editor-in-chief of the print-only publication County Highway, a reading experience that could also be called, What We Lost in the Clickbait Era. Kirn joins Nancy and Sarah to discuss the absurd pageant of politics and media, domestic censorship and curated …

Jack Henneman hosts the podcast, "The History of the Americans." Why do folks like Michele and author Walter Kirn follow Henneman? Listen and find out. https://thehistoryoftheamericans.com/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Author Walter Kirn traveled America to find the stories that sustain and uplift us. And as he tells Lee Smith, those stories are all in his new book—and in a new magazine, “County Highway.” ⭕️ Watch in-depth videos based on Truth & Tradition at Epoch TV

The Rich Zeoli Show- Full Episode (12/18/2023): 3:05pm- While campaigning in Wilmington, Delaware over the weekend, an SUV in President Joe Biden's motorcade was struck by a sedan. Neither President Biden nor First Lady Jill Biden were traveling in the vehicle. 3:10pm- Annie Linskey of The Wall Street Journal notes that even former President Barack Obama is concerned about President Joe Biden's reelection prospects. Linskey writes, “a round of dismal polls is increasing jitters among Democrats, including some in the West Wing, who are worried that voters' negative views on the president are going unchallenged. Those Democrats are growing impatient for a full-fledged campaign to start. Those with concerns include former President Barack Obama, who knows this is going to be a close race' and ‘feels that Democrats very well could lose' the 2024 election, according to a person familiar with his thinking. Obama worries that ‘the alternative is pretty dangerous for democracy,' the person said.” You can read the full article here: https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/bidens-agenda-hangs-in-balance-as-tough-election-year-approaches-43d24633 3:30pm- Reporting from the U.S. Southern border, Fox News journalist Bill Melugin revealed that authorities in Eagle Pass, Texas are “suspending railway operations…they're shutting down international commerce in order to help speed up processing of migrants.” 3:40pm- While speaking with NBC News, Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) said, “I'm not a progressive…I just think I'm a Democrat that is very committed to choice and other things. But with Israel, I'm going to be on the right side of that. And immigration is something near and dear to me, and I think we do have to effectively address it as well.” You can read a recap of his interview with NBC News here: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/-not-progressive-fetterman-breaks-left-israel-immigration-rcna129747 3:50pm- Adam Sabes of Fox News writes: “An alleged congressional staffer who filmed an explicit sex tape inside a Senate hearing room could face criminal charges, one lawyer argues. The U.S. Capitol Police told Fox News they were aware of an amateur pornographic video published by the Daily Caller on Friday, which shows someone identified as a congressional staffer, engaging in sex with another man in Hart Senate Office Building room 216… Posts on social media claimed the alleged staffer worked for Sen. Ben Cardin's office. Hours after the story broke, Cardin's office announced that a legislative aide had been dismissed but did not address reports linking a member of his staff to the sex tape.” You can read more here: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/senate-sex-tape-congressional-staffer-allegedly-seen-leaked-video-could-face-charges-lawyer-says 4:05pm- Judicial Watch has announced that according to heavily redacted documents it has attained, the Federal Bureau of Investigation's surveilling and targeting of Catholics—baselessly categorizing Catholics as extremists—was more wide-spread than was initially claimed. FBI Director Christopher Wray had indicated that the unlawful targeting was limited to a single field office. You can read more here: https://www.judicialwatch.org/targeting-of-catholics/ 4:30pm- Rich, Matt, and Henry debate the best and worst Christmas songs. Plus, Rich reveals he has never seen Home Alone or Home Alone 2—how is this possible? 4:45pm- In an impossibly outrageous editorial featured by The Atlantic, Caitlan Flanagan argues that you should NEVER watch Rudolph. She claims, “Santa presides over a nonunion shop where underproducing elves are deprived of breaks and humiliated”—and refers to Santa's workshop as a “little forced-labor camp.” You can read the full editorial here: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/12/rankin-bass-rudolph-the-red-nosed-reindeer/616932/ 5:05pm- Republicans and Democrats continue to negotiate over enhanced border security policies designed to crack down on the thousands of migrants crossing the U.S. Southern border unlawfully each day. Speaking from outside of the U.S. Capitol, Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) bizarrely claimed that discouraging illegal migration is similar to “racial quota laws” enacted during the 1920s. 5:10pm- While speaking with NBC News, Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) said, “I'm not a progressive…I just think I'm a Democrat that is very committed to choice and other things. But with Israel, I'm going to be on the right side of that. And immigration is something near and dear to me, and I think we do have to effectively address it as well.” You can read a recap of his interview with NBC News here: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/-not-progressive-fetterman-breaks-left-israel-immigration-rcna129747 5:15pm- New York Times columnist David Brooks suggested Chris Christie should drop out of the Republican presidential race in order to clear a path for Nikki Haley to directly challenge Donald Trump in the New Hampshire presidential primary. 5:20pm- Reporting from the U.S. Southern border, Fox News journalist Bill Melugin revealed that authorities in Eagle Pass, Texas are “suspending railway operations…they're shutting down international commerce in order to help speed up processing of migrants.” 5:25pm- While appearing on Meet the Press with Kristen Welker, Sen. Lindsey Graham said Republicans and Democrats are “not anywhere close to a deal” on legislation that tethers Ukraine aid, Israel aid, and funds for additional security at the U.S. Southern border. 5:30pm- On this weekend's episode of HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, journalist Walter Kirn said that the flood of students going directly from Ivy League universities to become writers at The New York Times is creating a progressive bubble and, consequently, damaging journalism. 5:40pm- Has baseball superstar Shohei Ohtani figured out an ingenious way to avoid California's outlandish state income? Lindsey Adler and Richard Rubin write: “Ohtani will take home just $2 million per season over the 10-year span of his contract, which was made official Monday night. In an unprecedented structure, Ohtani will defer $68 million per season until the end of his contract, meaning the Dodgers will pay him $680 million between 2034 and 2043…But by the time he starts receiving the $68 million payments, he may be able to avoid state income taxes by living someplace like Florida without an income tax, or by moving back to Japan.” You can read the full article here: https://www.wsj.com/sports/baseball/shohei-ohtani-700-million-contract-deferral-067a345f 5:45pm- Adam Sabes of Fox News writes: “An alleged congressional staffer who filmed an explicit sex tape inside a Senate hearing room could face criminal charges, one lawyer argues. The U.S. Capitol Police told Fox News they were aware of an amateur pornographic video published by the Daily Caller on Friday, which shows someone identified as a congressional staffer, engaging in sex with another man in Hart Senate Office Building room 216… Posts on social media claimed the alleged staffer worked for Sen. Ben Cardin's office. Hours after the story broke, Cardin's office announced that a legislative aide had been dismissed but did not address reports linking a member of his staff to the sex tape.” You can read more here: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/senate-sex-tape-congressional-staffer-allegedly-seen-leaked-video-could-face-charges-lawyer-says 6:05pm- Annie Linskey of The Wall Street Journal notes that even former President Barack Obama is concerned about President Joe Biden's reelection prospects. Linskey writes, “a round of dismal polls is increasing jitters among Democrats, including some in the West Wing, who are worried that voters' negative views on the president are going unchallenged. Those Democrats are growing impatient for a full-fledged campaign to start. Those with concerns include former President Barack Obama, who knows this is going to be a close race' and ‘feels that Democrats very well could lose' the 2024 election, according to a person familiar with his thinking. Obama worries that ‘the alternative is pretty dangerous for democracy,' the person said.” You can read the full article here: https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/bidens-agenda-hangs-in-balance-as-tough-election-year-approaches-43d24633 6:10pm- According to new polling data from Morning Consult, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump now leads President Joe Biden in all seven swing states—Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin—in a hypothetical head-to-head matchup in the 2024 presidential election. You can read more here: https://www.nationalreview.com/news/trump-now-leads-biden-in-all-seven-swing-states-poll/ 6:15pm- According to a report from Michael Kranish of The Washington Post, James Biden—the younger brother of President Joe Biden—was secretly recorded by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) after his consulting firm, Lion Hall, received a $100,000 payment from a Mississippi-based attorney, Richard Scruggs, for advice on passing tobacco legislation. Though James Biden was never accused of any wrongdoing or of selling influence, Scruggs conceded: “I probably wouldn't have hired him if he wasn't the senator's brother.”  Scruggs was eventually sent to prison on bribery charges in an unrelated incident. You can read Kranish's article here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/12/17/james-bidens-dealmaking-caught-fbi-tapes-unrelated-bribery-probe/ 6:35pm- While speaking at a campaign rally in Durham, New Hampshire, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said: “If you want to see a bird cemetery, go under a windmill.” 6:45pm- Reporting from the U.S. Southern border, Fox News journalist Bill Melugin revealed that authorities in Eagle Pass, Texas are “suspending railway operations…they're shutting down international commerce in order to help speed up processing of migrants.” 

The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 3: Republicans and Democrats continue to negotiate over enhanced border security policies designed to crack down on the thousands of migrants crossing the U.S. Southern border unlawfully each day. Speaking from outside of the U.S. Capitol, Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) bizarrely claimed that discouraging illegal migration is similar to “racial quota laws” enacted during the 1920s. While speaking with NBC News, Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) said, “I'm not a progressive…I just think I'm a Democrat that is very committed to choice and other things. But with Israel, I'm going to be on the right side of that. And immigration is something near and dear to me, and I think we do have to effectively address it as well.” You can read a recap of his interview with NBC News here: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/-not-progressive-fetterman-breaks-left-israel-immigration-rcna129747 New York Times columnist David Brooks suggested Chris Christie should drop out of the Republican presidential race in order to clear a path for Nikki Haley to directly challenge Donald Trump in the New Hampshire presidential primary. Reporting from the U.S. Southern border, Fox News journalist Bill Melugin revealed that authorities in Eagle Pass, Texas are “suspending railway operations…they're shutting down international commerce in order to help speed up processing of migrants.” While appearing on Meet the Press with Kristen Welker, Sen. Lindsey Graham said Republicans and Democrats are “not anywhere close to a deal” on legislation that tethers Ukraine aid, Israel aid, and funds for additional security at the U.S. Southern border. On this weekend's episode of HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, journalist Walter Kirn said that the flood of students going directly from Ivy League universities to become writers at The New York Times is creating a progressive bubble and, consequently, damaging journalism. Has baseball superstar Shohei Ohtani figured out an ingenious way to avoid California's outlandish state income? Lindsey Adler and Richard Rubin write: “Ohtani will take home just $2 million per season over the 10-year span of his contract, which was made official Monday night. In an unprecedented structure, Ohtani will defer $68 million per season until the end of his contract, meaning the Dodgers will pay him $680 million between 2034 and 2043…But by the time he starts receiving the $68 million payments, he may be able to avoid state income taxes by living someplace like Florida without an income tax, or by moving back to Japan.” You can read the full article here: https://www.wsj.com/sports/baseball/shohei-ohtani-700-million-contract-deferral-067a345f Adam Sabes of Fox News writes: “An alleged congressional staffer who filmed an explicit sex tape inside a Senate hearing room could face criminal charges, one lawyer argues. The U.S. Capitol Police told Fox News they were aware of an amateur pornographic video published by the Daily Caller on Friday, which shows someone identified as a congressional staffer, engaging in sex with another man in Hart Senate Office Building room 216… Posts on social media claimed the alleged staffer worked for Sen. Ben Cardin's office. Hours after the story broke, Cardin's office announced that a legislative aide had been dismissed but did not address reports linking a member of his staff to the sex tape.” You can read more here: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/senate-sex-tape-congressional-staffer-allegedly-seen-leaked-video-could-face-charges-lawyer-says

Bill's guests are Ray Romano, Laura Coates, and Walter Kirn (Originally aired 12/15/23) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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America is still here, but how much longer do we have left? Current events, whether it be COVID, the prospect of World War 3, or whatever the next big thing is, always raise the question: Will America survive? How about the whole world? Are we on the precipice of a global apocalypse? Walter Kirn joins host James Poulos to answer these questions and much more on this episode of "Zero Hour."

A worrying trend is cropping up amongst Americans, particularly within Generation Z—they're spying on each other more.Whether reading someone's DMs, rifling through a partner's text messages, or even rummaging through the bags and belongings of someone else, Americans enjoy keeping tabs on one another, especially when they're in a relationship. According to recent research from Malwarebytes, a shocking 49% of Gen Zers agreed or strongly agreed with the statement: “Being able to track my spouse's/significant other's location when they are away is extremely important to me.”On the Lock and Code podcast with host David Ruiz, we've repeatedly tackled the issue of surveillance, from the NSA's mass communications surveillance program exposed by Edward Snowden, to the targeted use of Pegasus spyware against human rights dissidents and political activists, to the purchase of privately-collected location data by state law enforcement agencies across the country. But the type of surveillance we're talking about today is different. It isn't so much "Big Brother"—a concept introduced in the socio-dystopian novel 1984 by author George Orwell. It's "Little Brother."As far back as 2010, in a piece titled “Little Brother is Watching,” author Walter Kirn wrote for the New York Times: “As the Internet proves every day, it isn't some stern and monolithic Big Brother that we have to reckon with as we go about our daily lives, it's a vast cohort of prankish Little Brothers equipped with devices that Orwell, writing 60 years ago, never dreamed of and who are loyal to no organized authority. The invasion of privacy — of others' privacy but also our own, as we turn our lenses on ourselves in the quest for attention by any means — has been democratized.”Little Brother is us, recording someone else on our phones and then posting it on social media. Little Brother is us, years ago, Facebook stalking someone because they're a college crush. Little Brother is us, watching a Ring webcam of a delivery driver, including when they are mishandling a package but also when they are doing a stupid little dance that we requested so we could post it online and get little dopamine hits from the Likes. Little Brother is our anxieties being soothed by watching the shiny blue GPS dots that represent our husbands and our wives, driving back from work.Little Brother isn't just surveillance. It is increasingly popular, normalized, and accessible surveillance. And it's creeping its way into more and more relationships every day. So, what can stop it? Today, we speak with our guests, Malwarebytes security evangelist Mark Stockley and Malwarebytes Labs editor-in-chief Anna Brading, about the apparent "appeal" of Little Brother surveillance, whether the tenets of privacy can ever fully defeat that surveillance, and what the possible merits of this surveillance could be, including, as Stockley suggested, in revealing government abuses of power. "My question to you is, as with all forms of technology, there are two very different sides for this. So is...

With a struggling economy, interest rates through the roof, a constantly confused President Biden, and an intense GOP battle for the House speaker role, it's hard for many Americans to feel hopeful about our nation. But that's not the case for journalist Walter Kirn. In fact, the author of "Into the Air" tells Glenn he's optimistic about the U.S. thanks to the small towns that fuel it. Kirn, who recently launched a podcast — “America This Week” — with Matt Taibbi, joins this episode of "The Glenn Beck Podcast" to hash out his thoughts on the world today: from the rise of post-COVID totalitarianism and his biggest fear concerning the elite class to the recent Hamas terror attack against Israel, which he says took his breath away. Kirn warns that America may soon witness firsthand the same kind of anti-Semitism that eventually culminated in the Holocaust, and he calls out college campuses for helping to fuel the fire. Plus, Glenn and Kirn examine the growing suppression of free speech, the increased censorship of dissenting voices, and why he's "emotionally ready" for the apocalypse. SPONSORS: If you're one of the millions of Americans who suffer every day from pain, there is hope, and it comes in the form of Relief Factor. If you want a drug-free and natural way to get your life back, go to https://relieffactor.com or call 1-800-4-RELIEF to get the $19.95 3-Week QuickStart. Good Ranchers is the sure way to get 100% American, USDA prime and upper-choice cuts of beef, chicken, and seafood. Head on over to https://GOODRANCHERS.COM/GLENN and use discount code GLENN at checkout for $30 off and free express shipping on your box of America's best meat and seafood today. The Jase Case from Jase Medical is a great way to keep yourself prepared for the worst. It's a pack of five different courses of antibiotics that you can use to treat a long list of bacterial infections. Go to https://JaseMedical.com and use offer code BECK at checkout to get a special discount.  "The Glenn Beck Podcast" has partnered with PreBorn with a goal of saving 70,000 babies in 2023. Every tax-deductible donation, big or small, helps to save the unborn. Get involved today by dialing #250 and saying the keyword BABY or donate securely at https://preborn.com/GLENN Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bridget sits down with the great Walter Kirn, novelist, essayist, and editor-at-large of the new print-only newspaper County Highway. Walter shares why he and David Samuels decided to start a 19th century style paper centering attention on the middle of the country rather than the edges, the feeling that the country has lost touch with itself - especially during Covid, and the importance of reading something in a media that doesn't track you or count your clicks or pander to your opinions. They discuss the disembodiment of our era, their shared desire to get beyond addiction, watching people panic during Covid, and seeing the responses to Covid being orchestrated at the highest levels by people with the most privilege while they waged a devastating war against the middle class and poorest people. They cover the roles people got to play during the pandemic and how important it made them feel, why the toilet paper op was a way to divide the genders, the way that irony is deliberately used to keep people at bay and submissive, turning the internet into a weapon for social control, and how every bit of peasant wisdom in Walter's body told him he was being had when it came to the Covid restrictions.Bridget Phetasy admires grit and authenticity. On Walk-Ins Welcome, she talks about the beautiful failures and frightening successes of her own life and the lives of her guests. She doesn't conduct interviews—she has conversations. Conversations with real people about the real struggle and will remind you that we can laugh in pain and cry in joy but there's no greater mistake than hiding from it all. By embracing it all, and celebrating it with the stories she'll bring listeners, she believes that our lowest moments can be the building blocks for our eventual fulfillment.Beyond Parody with Bridget Phetasy is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.phetasy.com/subscribe

Bridget sits down with the great Walter Kirn, novelist, essayist, and editor-at-large of the new print-only newspaper County Highway. Walter shares why he and David Samuels decided to start a 19th century style paper centering attention on the middle of the country rather than the edges, the feeling that the country has lost touch with itself - especially during Covid, and the importance of reading something in a media that doesn't track you or count your clicks or pander to your opinions. They discuss the disembodiment of our era, their shared desire to get beyond addiction, watching people panic during Covid, and seeing the responses to Covid being orchestrated at the highest levels by people with the most privilege while they waged a devastating war against the middle class and poorest people. They cover the roles people got to play during the pandemic and how important it made them feel, why the toilet paper op was a way to divide the genders, the way that irony is deliberately used to keep people at bay and submissive, turning the internet into a weapon for social control, and how every bit of peasant wisdom in Walter's body told him he was being had when it came to the Covid restrictions. Sponsor Links: Patriot Gold - Call 888-614-9238 The Jordan Harbinger Show - https://spoti.fi/3LhJBTP Progressive Insurance - https://pgrs.in/3Dp5ZIW Bad Bad Think: The Blackstone Sisters Podcast - https://bit.ly/blackstone-wiw

As seen on Gutfeld!, Host of the Kennedy Saves The World podcast, Kennedy, Author, Walter Kirn, Host of The Wise Men podcast, Tyrus, and Editor-and-Chief of Racket News, Matt Taibbi, discuss why former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton won't leave the public eye.   Later, the panel discusses why a certain political leader has offered “no validity to gender stupidity.”   Follow Greg on Twitter: @GregGutfeld Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jake and Phil are joined by Walter Kirn to discuss Kirn's essay "The Bullshit" alongside Mark Twain's "My First Lie and How I Got Out of It" The Manifesto: Walter Kirn, "The Bullshit" https://walterkirn.substack.com/p/the-bullshit The Art: Mark Twain's "My First Lie and How I Got Out of It" https://americanliterature.com/author/mark-twain/short-story/my-first-lie-and-how-i-got-out-of-it

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Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Cormac McCarthy died Tuesday at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Throughout his long career, he wrote novels that could be bleak and violent but that were also hailed for his beautiful prose. Some of his best-known works include, "No Country for Old Men," "All the Pretty Horses" and "The Road." Geoff Bennett discussed McCarthy's legacy with Walter Kirn. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

Matt Taibbi is a journalist and author. He writes and publishes TK News at taibbi.substack.com and hosts the "America This Week podcast with Walter Kirn." He's also been the lead reporter on the Twitter Files, which come out on Twitter at @mtaibbi. www.taibbi.substack.com