-- On the Show: -- Congressman Ritchie Torres, a Democrat from New York, joins David to discuss the 2024 election, the state of political discourse in the US, mental health policy, and much more -- The Bidens release their 2023 tax returns, and despite there being no controversy over their content and the Bidens' joint income of $620,000, some are reacting as if it's some kind of smoking gun -- Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is unexpectedly missing from court without an explanation -- Fai...
Apr 16, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast -- On the Show: -- Tesla is laying off more than 10% of its global workforce -- Something very serious appears to have gone wrong with Jimmy Dore, formerly considered a left wing host, who has now bought in to every major conspiracy theory -- Former President Donald Trump's first criminal trial starts today with jury selection in New York in the election interference and hush money case -- Just minutes before the start of his criminal trial, failed former President Donald Trump explodes in an ou...
Apr 15, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast -- On the Show: -- Axios reveals Donald Trump's plan to criminally prosecute Joe Biden if he wins in 2024 -- Donald Trump says Jews who vote for Democrats are mentally ill -- Caller asks about how the right-wing will react if Trump loses again -- Caller points out that Trump supporters don't care that he tried to steal the election -- Caller asks whether the polls can be trusted -- Caller wonders if Robert F. Kennedy Jr is an actor serving as a spoiler candidate -- Caller is dating a Marxist -- ...
Apr 12, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast -- On the Show: -- Katherine Stewart, author of "The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism," joins David to discuss the origins and recent rise in Christian nationalism in the United States among the religious right and Republicans, and much more. Get the book: https://amzn.to/49AfqBT -- President Joe Biden is suddenly leading Donald Trump in recent polls and has also taken a lead in the financial betting markets -- Failed former President Donald Trump's third des...
Apr 11, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast -- On the Show: -- Elie Honig, CNN Senior Legal Analyst, New York Magazine Columnist, and author of the new book "Untouchable: How Powerful People Get Away with It," joins David to discuss the real two-tiered justice system, accountability, and much more. Get the book: https://amzn.to/3PV7vrT -- Just days after Donald Trump puts out a video about abortion essentially saying "let states do whatever they want," the Arizona Supreme Court upholds an 1864 abortion law that is a near-total ban on abor...
Apr 10, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast -- On the Show: -- The solar eclipse of April 8, 2024 appears to have broken the brains of many Fox News hosts, with them linking the eclipse to the US-Mexico border and generally making no sense -- Sunny Hostin, co-host of The View, wrongly links the April 8, 2024 solar eclipse to climate change -- CNN brutally fact checks Donald Trump's recent statement about abortion, but missed at least one critical aspect of it -- An element of the right wing is revolting against Donald Trump over his recen...
Apr 09, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast -- On the Show: -- Elements of MAGA, including Marjorie Taylor Greene's boyfriend Brian Glenn, and Trump's former lawyer Rudy Giuliani, have some interesting ideas about the meaning of the eclipse and recent earthquake, as well as so-called "locusts," by which they mean cicadas -- In a stunning new Franklin and Marshall poll of Pennsylvania voters, President Joe Biden leads Donald Trump by 10 in a head-to-head race -- Fox News, including Maria Bartiromo, are simply devastated by the latest stron...
Apr 08, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Transcript available on Metacast -- On the Show: -- Producer Pat Ford fills in for David -- Donald Trump suffers three straight legal defeats, as judges strike down his attempts to get two of his criminal trials dismissed and one of them delayed -- Joe Biden is leading in an increasing number of national polls and leading in the prediction markets -- Donald Trump's Truth Social stock "DJT" has been on a precipitous decline since its NASDAQ debut, costing Trump billions in net worth -- Republicans claim to be against DEI and aff...
Apr 05, 2024•53 min•Transcript available on Metacast -- On the Show: -- Failed former President Donald Trump is destroying the Republican Party financially and there seem to be no Republicans willing to stop him -- Osama bin Laden's niece, Noor bin Ladin, is a Trump-supporting Q-Anon believer, in a case of strange political bedfellows -- Caller talks about Senator Katie Britt's bizarre State of the Union response -- Caller predicts Trump will pick a woman as his running mate -- Caller discusses the prospect of Kamala Harris replacing Joe Biden -- ...
Apr 04, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Transcript available on Metacast -- On the Show: -- Rachel Bitecofer, political strategist and author of the new book "Hit 'Em Where It Hurts: How to Save Democracy by Beating Republicans at Their Own Game," joins David to discuss the state of Trump vs Biden 2024, the claims of a racial realignment, whether we should be panicking about polling, and more. Get her book: https://amzn.to/3TXX4Gp -- Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s absurd path to the presidency includes winning California, a state on which he is not even on the ballot -- Rep...
Apr 03, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast -- On the Show: -- Adrienne Shropshire, Executive Director of BlackPAC, a left-leaning political action committee focused on mobilizing and engaging with African American voters, joins David to discuss the false narrative that there is a massive racial realignment happening such that non-white voters are flocking to Donald Trump in 2024 -- A deeper dive at the authoritarian nightmare that is Project 2025 -- Donald Trump is scamming his followers with faux economic populist rhetoric once again, a...
Apr 02, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast -- On the Show: -- Harry Segal, clinical psychologist and Senior Lecturer in the Psychology Department at Cornell University and the Department of Psychiatry at Cornell Weill Medical School, joins David to compare and contrast what is being labeled "cognitive decline" with regard to both Donald Trump and President Joe Biden -- Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson admits that he will be pushing the dangerous authoritarian Project 2025 if Donald Trump does become president again and retake...
Apr 01, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast -- On the Show: -- Georgia Republican Party Vice Chairman Brian K. Pritchard is determined to have voted illegally nine times -- Charlie Kirk goes fully antisemitic in his attack on Larry David -- David's newest children's book, Think Like a Voter, hits the top Amazon slot for children's government book. Get the book at http://www.davidpakman.com/book -- Caller doesn't believe people would vote Trump over Biden because of Israel/Gaza -- Caller compares Trump's gaffes to Biden's -- Caller discuss...
Mar 29, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast -- On the Show: -- In the wake of the absurd Alabama IVF ruling, Democrat Marilyn Lands wins a House special election in Alabama, making her the first net-gain Democratic pick-up in the Alabama legislature since 2002 -- Republicans are increasingly panicking over the possible impact in 2024 of their continued assault on reproductive rights, most recently the Alabama IVF ruling -- Fox hosts are demanding apologies from NBC and are generally furious over the quick firing of former RNC Chairwoman R...
Mar 28, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast -- On the Show: -- The collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge across the Patapsco River in Baltimore has brought out endless conspiracy theorists ranging from Alex Jones and Andrew Tate to Maria Bartiromo and Jesse Watters -- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. selects his 2024 Vice Presidential running mate, choosing Silicon Valley lawyer and investor Nicole Shanahan -- NBC fires former RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel after blowback from NBC and MSNBC staff -- Republican Congressman James Comer appears to a...
Mar 27, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast -- On the Show: -- Bill Scher, Politics Editor for the Washington Monthly and co-host of the online show "The DMZ with Matt Lewis," joins David to discuss Trump vs Biden polling, the future of this presidential race, and much more -- Fox News hosts are stunned that other networks have journalists with standards when discussing the blowback to NBC's hiring of Ronna McDaniel -- An appeals court saves Donald Trump, reducing his bond more than 60% and gives him 10 more days to come up with the money...
Mar 26, 2024•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast -- On the Show: -- Violent crime rates continue to fall, but the right wing media and elected officials continue to claim that crime is up -- Republican Congressman Mike Gallagher announces his resignation, which will leave the Republican majority in the House at just one vote -- NBC and MSNBC hosts, including Chuck Todd, Mika Brzezinski, and Joe Scarborough revolt against the recent hiring of former RNC chairwoman Ronna McDaniel -- Failed former President Donald Trump implies right wing intervi...
Mar 25, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast -- On the Show: -- Fox News anchor John Roberts admits the truth about the Biden impeachment inquiry, which is that no matter what they do or don't find, it won't end before the election -- Michele Morrow, the Republican nominee for North Carolina public school superintendent, runs away when asked by CNN reported about her posts saying Presidents Obama and Biden should be executed -- Stormy Daniels says in a new documentary that she worried Donald Trump would have her killed if she did not sign ...
Mar 22, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast -- On the Show: -- Austin Frerick, antitrust and agriculture experts at Yale University and author of the book "Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food," joins David to discuss monopoly power in the food industry, the truth about food regulation, and much more. Get the book: https://amzn.to/3Psi85a -- Tony Bobulinski, the supposed bombshell "Biden crimes" witness, collapses under basic questioning from Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez -- Republicans have final...
Mar 21, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast -- On the Show: -- Former Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley receives more than 150,000 in the Florida Republican primary, which signals a problem for Donald Trump -- Bernie Moreno, an extremist Trump-endorsed Republican, wins the Ohio Senate primary -- Failed former President Donald Trump gives a strange series of answers to questions outside his Florida polling place -- Elon Musk's biggest mistake in the Don Lemon interview is discussed -- A desperate Donald Trump melts down over hi...
Mar 20, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast -- On the Show: -- Ken Block, Owner of Simpatico Software Systems and author of the book "Disproven: My Unbiased Search for Voter Fraud for the Trump Campaign, the Data That Shows Why He Lost, and How We Can Improve Our Elections," joins David to discuss his work attempting to find the non-existent voter fraud in 2020. Get the book: https://amzn.to/3IJJDDB -- President Joe Biden is suddenly leading Donald Trump in multiple new polls and we discuss what is causing this -- Peter Navarro, Donald Tr...
Mar 19, 2024•1 hr 11 min•Transcript available on Metacast -- On the Show: -- Don Lemon joins David to discuss his recent interview with Elon Musk, after which Musk terminated Lemon's contract to host a show on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter -- Republican Congressman James Comer struggles with the difference between evidence and proof in yet another Fox News interview about Joe Biden's supposed "crimes" -- The list of prominent and well-known Republican figures who are not voting for Donald Trump in 2024 is getting quite long -- Failed former...
Mar 18, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast -- On the Show: -- Republican Senator Rand Paul stuns Fox News host Brian Kilmeade during an interview about TikTok, with Paul accusing Kilmeade of "defaming" TikTok -- A pathetic former Democratic Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard is borderline begging to be Donald Trump's 2024 Vice Presidential running mate during an interview with Donald Trump Jr -- Caller compares filing taxes in America versus other countries -- Caller isn't voting for Joe Biden over Israel/Gaza -- Caller has three questions for ...
Mar 15, 2024•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast -- On the Show: -- As the case against Hunter Biden crumbles, Republicans liken him to Richard Nixon, and his testimony to the infamous Nixon tapes -- A desperate Republican Congresswoman Lauren Boebert has an absurd new conspiracy theory about Republican Congressman Ken Buck's resignation -- A wildly triggered Elon Musk cancels Don Lemon's forthcoming show on X because Lemon conducted a real interview with Musk -- Republican Senator Katie Britt is blaming the left wing media for her own patheti...
Mar 14, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast -- On the Show: -- President Joe Biden wins the number of delegates needed to secure the 2024 Democratic presidential nomination -- Failed former President Donald Trump clinches the Republican presidential nomination for 2024 -- Donald Trump is shocked by how unpopular he truly is -- Republicans hold "Biden crimes" hearings with special prosecutor Robert Hur, which backfire completely -- Democrats play multiple brutal "Trump cognitive glitch" compilations at the Biden crimes hearings with specia...
Mar 13, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast -- On the Show: -- Cal Newport, Associate Professor of Computer Science at Georgetown University, New York Times bestselling author, host of the Deep Questions with Cal Newport podcast, and author of his new book "Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout," joins David to discuss the book, which you can get here: https://amzn.to/43ewdsE -- On the one hand, Biden is old, and on the other hand, in the last 24 hours, Trump claimed presidential immunity in a porn star hush mo...
Mar 12, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast -- On the Show: -- Republican Senator Katie Britt, almost in tears during a Fox News interview, admits the story she told during her SOTU response has nothing to do with President Joe Biden -- President Joe Biden's perfect reactions to the outrageous reaction by Senator Katie Britt to Biden's State of the Union address -- President Joe Biden raises an insane amount of money in the immediate 24 hours after the State of the Union address -- Failed former President Donald Trump hits a new low durin...
Mar 11, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast -- On the Show: -- President Joe Biden delivers a State of the Union address that stuns Republicans and seemingly points towards a major second term agenda -- President Joe Biden's State of the Union speech was so good, Fox News suggests he was on drugs -- Marjorie Taylor Greene humiliates herself at the State of the Union address -- An "uncommitted" caller calls in -- Caller wonders when David's next book is coming out -- A full-blown antivaxxer calls in to confront David -- Caller asks David h...
Mar 08, 2024•1 hr 8 min•Transcript available on Metacast -- On the Show: -- Brittany Page fills in for David! Subscribe to Brittany's YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@brittanyepage -- Mitch McConnell endorses Donald Trump, after everything he's done and said, including about Mitch's wife -- What will Nikki Haley voters choose to do now that she suspended her campaign? -- The Republican National Committee's plan to pay Trump's mounting legal bills -- Peter Doocy challenges WH Press Secretary on Whether Biden will Debate Trump -- Mike Johnson announces...
Mar 07, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast -- On the Show: -- Daniel Dennett, philosopher, cognitive scientist known for his work on consciousness, evolution, and the philosophy of the mind, and author of numerous books, most recently I've Been Thinking, joins David to discuss artificial intelligence, New Atheism, the decline of religion in the United States, and more. Get the book: https://amzn.to/3P8gmGg -- Failed former President Donald Trump sweeps all Super Tuesday Republican primaries other than Vermont, which Nikki Haley wins, but...
Mar 06, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Transcript available on Metacast 
