-- On the Show: -- Ken Burns, documentary filmmaker whose latest project "The American Buffalo," catalogs the animal's 10,000 history in the United States, and talks with David about his approach and method when producing documentaries -- A random 6-year-old boy has been murdered in Chicago because he is Muslim, and his mom was also injured -- Bloodthirsty Fox News host Jesse Watters gets shut down by a Navy Seal who explains to Jesse that his Palestinian deathwish for revenge is inappropriate -...
Oct 17, 2023•1 hr 3 min
-- On the Show: -- The latest on the Hamas-Israel conflict, including Joe Biden's latest requests of Israel, the almost-cancellation of David, the notice to Gazans to head south, and much more -- Failed former President Donald Trump forgets who is President, is corrected by Brian Kilmeade, and blames Hamas terror on a "stollen" election -- Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, appears on the Lex Fridman podcast and tells endless lies -- Lying Republican Congressman George Santos is reportedl...
Oct 16, 2023•59 min
-- On the Show: -- New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez faces new changes of accepting bribes on behalf of a foreign government -- Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville falls down the stairs exiting an airplane after making fun of President Biden for falling numerous times -- Prosecutors claim they can prove Donald Trump's motive in the classified documents case -- Caller asks about voter turnout in the 2024 election -- Caller reflects on Rudy Giuliani's 2008 presidential run -- Caller argues that Fox New...
Oct 13, 2023•1 hr 1 min
-- On the Show: -- Donald Trump loses again, this time seeing his pick for Speaker of the House, Jim Jordan, lose to Steve Scalise among the Republican conference -- A discussion of Eric Levitz's New York Magazine article, "A Left That Refuses to Condemn Mass Murder Is Doomed" -- Some Republicans turn on lying Republican Congressman George Santos after a superseding indictment is piled onto the charges against him -- Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, announces he is running for President, des...
Oct 12, 2023•1 hr 1 min
-- On the Show: -- Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government at Harvard University and author of the book "Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point," joins David to discuss democracy, his book, and much more. Get the book: https://amzn.to/3RUdFuf -- Hamas has reportedly murdered more than 40 babies, including beheading some, in the attack on Israel -- Hamas is holding American citizens hostage, and President Joe Biden issues a statement -- Fox News propagandist S...
Oct 11, 2023•1 hr 3 min
-- On the Show: -- Both the MAGA right and the far left react disgustingly to the Hamas attack on Israel in which the death toll has or soon will surpass 1000 -- Failed former President Donald Trump's Israel-related information leak is now under scrutiny after the Hamas attack on Israel -- Donald Trump says "hummus" attacked Israel in a bonkers series of speeches in Iowa -- MAGA Trumpists are now panicking over Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s independent presidential run as he may take more votes from T...
Oct 10, 2023•1 hr 3 min
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' DAY / CLASSIC EPISODE FROM AUGUST 8, 2023 -- On the Show: -- Julia Keller, author of the book "Quitting: A Life Strategy: The Myth of Perseverance," joins David to discuss the history of quitting, social connotations, when quitting is the right thing to do, and much more. Get the book: https://amzn.to/44XCTvm -- The 2024 Republican primary remains all Donald Trump, as Ron DeSantis loses support, the Vivek Ramaswamy surge appears to have ended, and other candidates are failing...
Oct 09, 2023•1 hr 2 min
-- On the Show: -- Rudy Giuliani denies his alcoholism at a strange press conference where he also announces that he is suing Joe Biden -- A legal expert believes that it's likely Donald Trump's properties will be auctioned off after his fraud trial -- Callers asks about the future of the Republican Party after Donald Trump -- Caller discusses Joe Biden's reelection chances -- Caller talks about economic difficulties -- Caller points out how right-wingers are hypocrites on fentanyl -- Caller ask...
Oct 06, 2023•1 hr 1 min
-- On the Show: -- Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg joins David to discuss electric vehicles, renewable energy, public transit, his viral moments on Fox News and during Congressional hearings, and much more -- Radical Republican Congressman Jim Jordan, as well as Congressman Steve Scalise, announce that they are running for the newly-vacated position of Speaker of the House -- According to a rule already passed by House Republicans, Donald Trump is ineligible to be Speaker of the House...
Oct 05, 2023•1 hr 2 min
-- On the Show: -- Total chaos hits the House of Representatives as eight Republicans join Democrats in a vote that has removed Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House -- Former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy delivers an outrageous press conference after being ousted as Speaker -- MAGA Republicans are rallying around the idea of failed former President Donald Trump for Speaker of the House -- Former Arizona Republican Gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake has filed paperwork to run for Senator f...
Oct 04, 2023•58 min
-- On the Show: -- Taylor Lorenz, columnist for the Washington Post and author of the new book "Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet," joins David to discuss the world of influencing and modern social media. Get the book: https://amzn.to/45arpny -- Fox News host Charles Payne tells a stunning number of lies about electric vehicles in a very short amount of time -- A slurring, confused failed former President Donald Trump speaks in Iowa, tells one of hi...
Oct 03, 2023•1 hr 4 min
-- On the Show: -- Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein passes away at age 90, and Democratic California Governor Gavin Newsom has named Laphonza Butler as Feinstein's replacement -- Texas Governor Greg Abbott says Texas will pursue a border wall on the border with the US state of New Mexico -- Republican Congresswoman Nancy Mace fails hard when asked by right-wing Fox host Maria Bartiromo for a single piece of evidence of Biden wrongdoing -- 2024 Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis' c...
Oct 02, 2023•59 min
-- On the Show: -- New polling shows that Republicans see Donald Trump as more of a "person of faith" than even Mitt Romney, whose Mormon identity is the most recognizable thing about him -- Ken Blackwell, a Republican with a history of making it harder to vote, says that automatic voter registration actually takes away people's rights in an unintelligible rant -- Caller worries the term "social democracy" sounds too much like socialism -- Caller asks about Briahna Joy Gray's progressive purity ...
Sep 29, 2023•57 min
-- On the Show: -- Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks and author of the new book "Justice Is Coming: How Progressives Are Going to Take Over the Country and America Is Going to Love It" joins David to make the case that Joe Biden cannot possibly win re-election in 2024, and more. Get the book: https://amzn.to/46uUwmK -- Despite not even attending, Donald Trump easily wins the 2nd Republican presidential debate, as the debate itself becomes a farcical reality show not useful to any of the candid...
Sep 28, 2023•1 hr 3 min
-- On the Show: -- President Joe Biden joins striking UAW workers on the picket line and delivers encouraging remarks to them -- California doubles taxes on guns and ammunition to pay for school security -- A judge rules that Donald Trump committed fraud in his business dealings and orders the dissolution of the Trump Organization -- Failed former President Donald Trump absolutely loses his mind over a judge's ruling that his business has to close -- Liberal Fox News host Jessica Tarlov brings u...
Sep 27, 2023•1 hr
-- On the Show: -- Yascha Mounk, Professor of the Practice of International Affairs at Johns Hopkins University, founder of the digital magazine Persuasion, Contributing Editor at The Atlantic, Host of the Good Fight podcast, and author of the new book, The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time," joins David to discuss what Mounk claims is the left's turn towards identitarianism. Get the book: https://amzn.to/3PUQApT -- President Joe Biden will become the first president to join ...
Sep 26, 2023•1 hr 5 min
-- On the Show: -- A new ABC poll panics Democrats as it has Joe Biden losing to Donald Trump by nearly 10, but is this a reliable poll? -- Democratic Senator Bob Menendez and his wife are indicted on very serious bribery charges -- Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz melts down during an appearance on Fox News and attacks fellow right-wing host Maria Bartiromo -- 2024 Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is exposed as having benefited from the very birthright citizenship that he oppo...
Sep 25, 2023•1 hr 2 min
-- On the Show: -- Taylor Swift quickly becomes one of the most powerful forces in voter registration this election cycle -- 2024 Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy puts his surgeon wife, Apoorva Ramaswamy, in an impossible position over the COVID-19 vaccine -- Florida Governor and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis has fallen to a humiliating 5th place in new polling out of New Hampshire -- Caller asks about general immigration policy -- Caller talks about Trump'...
Sep 22, 2023•58 min
-- On the Show: -- Emily Monosson, a trained toxicologist who now writes about our impact on the natural environment and author of several books, joins David to discuss her book "Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic". Get the book: https://amzn.to/45ZVIOO -- Republican Congresswoman Victoria Spartz delivers what is possibly the most unhinged rant in Congressional history during hearings with testimony from Attorney General Merrick Garland -- Republican Congressmen, including Eric Burlison, atte...
Sep 21, 2023•58 min
-- On the Show: -- The nascent impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden is already imploding -- A Texas teacher is fired for assigning her class an illustrated edition of Anne Frank's diary -- Former prosecutor Andrew Weissmann explains on MSNBC that Donald Trump unwittingly admitted to two more crimes during his recent interview with NBC's Kristen Welker -- Donald Trump Jr announces Donald Trump's death on Twitter and also calls President Joe Biden the n-word as his account is apparently ha...
Sep 20, 2023•58 min
-- On the Show: -- Mitchell Green, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut and author of the book "Know Thyself: The Value and Limits of Self-Knowledge," joins David to discuss what it means to "know," free will and our identities as people, how we mislead ourselves, sometimes willingly, and much more. Get the book: https://amzn.to/3Rr6oS8 -- Based on new 2024 House forecasts, Republican Congresswoman Lauren Boebert's public sex act could end up costing Republicans control of th...
Sep 19, 2023•1 hr 2 min
-- On the Show: -- Republican Congresswoman Nancy Mace is again asked for evidence supporting Joe Biden's impeachment inquiry, and is able to provide none, and then Congressman Michael McCaul also faceplants on the same question -- Russell Brand is accused of sexual assault of a minor, in addition to a number of other sex crimes by multiple victims, and his denial is not exactly a profile in courage -- Failed former President Donald Trump is interviewed by Kristen Welker, and it goes so poorly t...
Sep 18, 2023•1 hr 1 min
-- On the Show: -- A Trump-appointed judge rules against Trump by requiring him and his lawyers to only review classified documents in a secure location -- A progressive group sues to kick Donald Trump off the ballot in Minnesota, citing the 14th Amendment's insurrection clause -- 2024 Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie says he plans to find and confront Donald Trump on the campaign trail -- Caller asks if the Biden impeachment inquiry will backfire on Republicans -- Caller wonders...
Sep 15, 2023•57 min
-- On the Show: -- Dr Phil Plait, astronomer, science communicator, and author of several books on space and our place in it, joins David to discuss astrology, and why it is patently bogus pseudoscience -- Another Republican can come up with nothing when asked whether they have any evidence at all to support an impeachment inquiry of President Joe Biden, this time Republican Congressman Mike Waltz -- Democratic Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi struggles to explain why so many Democrats don't want Joe ...
Sep 14, 2023•1 hr 3 min
-- On the Show: -- Clancy Martin, writer and philosophy professor, joins David to discuss his book "How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind," a book about his multiple suicide attempts. Get the book: https://amzn.to/3LiRXfa -- Republican Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy announces an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, despite still having no evidence against him -- Yet another Republican, this time Ken Buck, says he has still not seen any evidence indicating Presid...
Sep 13, 2023•1 hr 3 min
-- On the Show: -- Republican Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy will endorse an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden -- Republican Congresswoman Nancy Mace admits that Republicans have no actual EVIDENCE against Joe Biden in support of impeachment -- President Joe Biden makes a deal with Iran and Republicans predictably attack him and criticize the deal -- Failed former President Donald Trump openly threatens to become a dictator, and Republicans cheer it -- Failed former President Don...
Sep 12, 2023•1 hr
-- On the Show: -- The supposed "surge" of Vivek Ramaswamy appears to be over and is being supplanted by a small Nikki Haley surge, and meanwhile, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has lost 36% of the support he once had -- Arkansas Republican Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders bans vaccine mandates, despite there not being any in Arkansas -- Failed former President Donald Trump tries a rally in South Dakota between arrests and court appearances, and it does not go well -- Trump MAGA cult members are interview...
Sep 11, 2023•1 hr 3 min
-- On the Show: -- Bret and Heather Weinstein of the Dark Horse Podcast go full conspiracy mode about COVID tests and "secret" vaccines for Joe and Jill Biden -- Failed former President Donald Trump launches an outrageous attack on Special Prosecutor Jack Smith after Smith raises concerns of jury tampering -- Caller asks why right-wingers care so much about birth rates -- Caller talks about the "Think Like a Detective" book sales -- Caller discusses Vivek Ramaswamy's campaign and the availabilit...
Sep 08, 2023•1 hr 1 min
-- On the Show: -- A review of how the right wing broke America, including through elections, courts, culture, and more -- A look at Project 2025 and Agenda 47, which if implemented after the potential election of Donald Trump in 2024, would turn the United States into a dictatorship, with Trump as the dictator -- President Joe Biden is entering a polling crisis on the basis of some disastrous new polling and approval numbers, raising new questions about a 2024 Democratic presidential primary --...
Sep 07, 2023•1 hr 1 min
-- On the Show: -- Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio is sentenced to 22 years in prison, the stiffest sentence so far among the defendants related to the 2021 insurrection -- The Supreme Court will soon decide whether to take a case related to Donald Trump's eligibility to hold public office again in the context of possible violations of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution -- Elon Musk, of Twitter/X, Tesla, and Spacex fame, is now blaming the Jewish civil rights group Anti-Defamation League fo...
Sep 06, 2023•1 hr 3 min
