-- On the Show: -- Doctor Shira Doron, Chief Infection Control Officer for Tufts Medicine Health System and the hospital epidemiologist at Tufts Medical Center in Boston joins David to discuss the latest data on the question of whether masks work to control the spread of COVID-19 -- Students stage a massive walkout, protest, and march in support of gun safety legislation in Nashville, Tennessee after the recent mass school shooting that took place there -- Donald Trump will be charged with 34 fe...
Apr 04, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast -- On the Show: -- Failed former President Donald Trump will be arrested, booked, and arraigned in court in New York City tomorrow, with an expected 34 criminal counts against him -- Donald Trump's press conference, which he plans to hold at Mar-a-Lago after his arraignment tomorrow, could get him re-arrested if indeed the judge issues a gag order -- It is imperative for democracy that there be cameras in the courtroom during Donald Trump's arraignment tomorrow -- Donald Trump Jr's downward spir...
Apr 03, 2023•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast -- On the Show: -- Donald Trump is indicted on 34 counts by a Manhattan grand jury in connection with his alleged hush money payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels -- Fox News reacts to the Donald Trump indictment -- Republican Senator Lindsey Graham melts down over news that Donald Trump has been indicted -- Eric Trump rants about how you can't buy Tylenol at CVS in response to news of his dad getting indicted -- Caller talks about David's appearance on the Patrick Bet David podcast -- Ca...
Mar 31, 2023•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast -- On the Show: -- A new series of leaked emails from Fox News expose executives arguing that telling the truth is bad for their ratings -- The anti-trans right wing is immediately using the recent shooting in Nashville, Tennessee to declare war against transgender people -- Fox News propagandist Sean Hannity is the latest to send the right-wing mob against David for his recent tweet about the Nashville, Tennessee shooting -- The Daily Wire's Michael Knowles irresponsibly and disgustingly claims...
Mar 30, 2023•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast -- On the Show: -- Donald Trump Jr, Candace Owens, Infowars, and many others unleash a hate mob against David for an obviously tongue-in-cheek tweet -- The right wing hate mob, which regularly claims to be against cancel culture, is contacting all of our advertisers in an effort to get David canceled -- Thoughts and prayers don't prevent mass shootings, but we look at 10 policy proposals that would reduce their frequency and severity -- Republican Senator Ted Cruz is desperate to get on Fox News...
Mar 29, 2023•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast -- On the Show: -- Tess Wilkinson-Ryan, Professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law and author of the book "Fool Proof: How Fear of Playing the Sucker Shapes Our Selves and the Social Order―and What We Can Do About It," joins David to discuss the sucker narrative, societal norms around parenthood, and much more. Get the book: https://amzn.to/42NZZny -- Right-wingers immediately blame demons, transgender people, and gender-affirming care for the shooting at the Christian Covenant Sc...
Mar 28, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast -- On the Show: -- There is no open US-Mexico border, despite the insistence of many in the modern American right wing -- Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis' major would-be donors are increasingly worried that he can't possibly take on Donald Trump in a protracted national primary election -- Donald Trump holds his first official 2024 campaign rally in Waco, Texas, and it's an absolute disaster and global humiliation -- David Pakman Show correspondent Luke Beasley is on the ground at the D...
Mar 27, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast -- On the Show: -- Democratic Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey reminds pharmacies that they must stock abortion pills -- Attorney Alan Dershowitz complains that arresting Donald Trump would "violate the Bible" -- Kari Lake's latest story is that God actually told her she would lose the election, but still have "the victory" -- Caller asks if Trump's handling of COVID-19 could be considered a genocide -- Caller asks about Democrats focusing on crime during campaigns -- Caller talks about artif...
Mar 24, 2023•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast -- On the Show: -- We discuss how to actually tax the ultra-rich tax dodgers as Democratic Senators urge President Joe Biden to take action -- Arkansas, under the leaderships of Republican Governor Sarah Huckabee-Sanders, restricts school bathroom use by transgender people -- Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is already falling in 2024 polling, potentially jeopardizing his not-yet-started 2024 campaign -- Many Republicans are now calling for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to block Donald T...
Mar 23, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast -- On the Show: -- Matt Gertz, Senior Fellow at Media Matters, joins David to discuss the potential fallout from the Fox News Dominion lawsuit, the recent Trump vs DeSantis dynamics that have developed on Fox, and much more -- Republican Senator Lindsey Graham says that a Trump indictment would "blow up our country," except protesters aren't seeming too motivated at this time -- The few protesters that show up outside of Trump Tower are protesting in favor of a Trump arrest rather than against i...
Mar 22, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Transcript available on Metacast -- On the Show: -- President Joe Biden quietly accomplishes many things as Donald Trump's arrest looms -- Donald Trump may be charged with racketeering and conspiracy in Georgia, as the New York arrest looms -- A desperate and panicked Donald Trump releases a bizarre video at midnight -- Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis tries to straddle Donald Trump and Stormy Daniels with a bizarre smear -- Donald Trump goes homophobic, suggesting Ron Desantis might be gay in his latest attack -- MAGA ...
Mar 21, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast -- On the Show: -- Failed former President Donald Trump says he will be arrested on Tuesday, March 21, 2023, and absolutely loses it in a string of unhinged ALL-CAPS posts on Truth Social -- How will MAGA Trumpists react to Donald Trump's arrest, if indeed it happens -- Why do modern Republicans, including in particular MAGA Trumpists, love authoritarianism? -- George Soros becomes the perennial perpetrator once again, being simultaneously blamed for Donald Trump's potentially upcoming arrest, a...
Mar 20, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast -- On the Show: -- Donald Trump is winning some, but losing other 2024 Republican primary polls, and we look at whether polling is accurate in March of the year before an election -- Republicans are endorsing Ron DeSantis, who is not actually a declared 2024 candidate at this time -- Donald Trump supporter, while speaking to Walter Masterson, says she is against critical race theory, instead preferring the teaching of black history in schools, a very confused claim to be making -- On the Bonus S...
Mar 17, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Transcript available on Metacast -- On the Show: -- David Sirota, journalist, columnist, and founder of The Lever, joins David to discuss the media landscape, ethical funding of journalism, and much more -- Attacks on free speech are rising dramatically, but their origins are the American right wing, despite claims that it is the left that is attacking free speech -- Radical and repugnant Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene blurts out classified information during a public Congressional hearing -- MyPillow CEO and F...
Mar 16, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast -- On the Show: -- Alastair Smith, Professor of Politics at New York University and co-author of the book "The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics," joins David to discuss dictators, authoritarians, democracy, and much more. Get the book: https://amzn.to/3Z4i11T -- Republican author Bethany Mandel's brain short-circuits when asked to define "woke" during an interview -- Fox News host Brian Kilmeade brings up Donald Trump's lunch with white supremacists during a r...
Mar 15, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast -- On the Show: -- Republicans are blaming "wokeness" for the collapse of SVB bank -- Our newest correspondent MalikSnaps interviews CPAC attendees, and it's absolutely horrifying -- Donald Trump opens his campaign with a speech supposedly about education in Davenport, Iowa which quickly goes completely off the rails -- Attendees of Donald Trump's 2024 campaign kickoff speech are interviewed, and it's very disturbing -- Fox News hots Brian Kilmeade plays catch with Ron DeSantis, continuing the g...
Mar 14, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast -- On the Show: -- Dr. Anthony Fauci is asked during an interview about the calls to prosecute him, and he has no idea what he would be prosecuted for -- Gun-toting neo-Nazis protest drag queens at a public park in Ohio -- Virginia Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin holds a town hall event on CNN that goes really poorly -- Florida Governors are required to resign to run for President, a law that may be changed to allow Ron DeSantis to run for President while being Governor -- Fox News is helping...
Mar 13, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast -- On the Show: -- President Joe Biden will propose a new 25% tax on billionaires, raising the top tax bracket from 37% to 39.6%, and raising the Medicare tax from 3.8% to 5% on income exceeding $400,000 -- Former Republican Senate candidate Lauren Witzke appears on Fox News and says that being near a person vaccinated against COVID-19 made her sick, which is impossible -- Fox News guest Stacy Washington says that the lack of bibles in hotel rooms is responsible for increased "lawlessness" -- Ca...
Mar 10, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast -- On the Show: -- Alana Newhouse, Editor-in-Chief of Tablet Magazine, joins David to discuss her writing on "brokenism," the idea that parts of American society are breaking down -- A Senate hearing explodes as Teamsters President Sean O'Brien is bullied by Republican Senator Markwayne Mullin, and responds by calling Mullin a "greedy CEO" -- Republicans, now in control of the House of Representatives, launch an investigation into the January 6 investigation carried out by House Democrats during...
Mar 09, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast -- On the Show: -- Florida Republicans have now proposed a 6-week abortion ban which is almost an impossible standard -- Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis' absolutely unhinged "State of the State" address -- Fox News propagandist Tucker Carlson's texts are leaked as part of the Dominion lawsuit, and he admits to "passionately" hating Donald Trump -- Even more Tucker Carlson lies are brutally exposed by the recently leaked text messages -- Leaked Fox News texts reveal that Fox Host Maria B...
Mar 08, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast -- On the Show: -- Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff joins David to discuss his 2024 Senate candidacy, his reaction to Donald Trump calling him watermelon head, the future of college education, and much more -- Exploring the possibility that CNN become the new Fox News in 2024 -- Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis wants bloggers to have to "register" with the state, a horrifying and dystopian proposal -- After the blowback over his call to "eradicate" transgenderism, right wing extremist ...
Mar 07, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast -- On the Show: -- Failed former President Donald Trump closes out CPAC 2023 with what was possibly the most dangerous and deranged speech he has ever given -- Failed Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake delivers an absolutely horrifying and delusional CPAC speech -- The CPAC crowd is silent as 2024 Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley demands cognitive tests for politicians age 75 and older -- CPAC tries to get Ben Carson to end his speech by playing music, but Carson s...
Mar 06, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast -- On the Show: -- Democratic Congressman Jamaal Bowman and Republican Congressman Byron Donalds get into a heated debate on the steps of the Capitol -- Kyle Rittenhouse appears on Fox News' Tucker Carlson show to pathetically beg for money for the civil suit against him from the family of one of the people that he killed -- Some recent lowlights from the first day of CPAC speeches -- Caller wonders if it will be beneficial to the left for George Santos to stay in Congress -- Caller asks about c...
Mar 03, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast -- On the Show: -- Will Sommer, politics reporter for The Daily Beast, co-host of the Fever Dreams podcast on conservative media, and author of the new book "Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Unhinged America," joins David to discuss the book. Get the book here: https://amzn.to/3SFhQZc -- Republican hearings on the "weaponization" of the FBI go horribly wrong, backfiring spectacularly -- Florida Sheriff Mike Chitwood goes absolutely nuclear on the neo-Nazis who have been ...
Mar 02, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast -- On the Show: -- Disgusting Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz is caught spreading literal Chinese propaganda during a Congressional hearing -- Right-wing propaganda host Michael Knowles now wants to "ban" transgenderism -- Fascism expert Ruth Ben-Ghiat sounds the alarm about Ron DeSantis, warning that he will destroy American democracy -- Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis responds to Donald Trump's attacks again him during a recent appearance with Fox News' Jesser Watters -- Supporters ...
Mar 01, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast -- On the Show: -- Doctor Robert Waldinger, Direct of the Harvard Study of Adult Development and co-author of the new book The Good Life: Lessons From the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness joins David to discuss this comprehensive happiness study. Get the book: https://amzn.to/3IC1zzE -- Fox News' Rupert Murdoch admits under oath that Fox News hosts were knowingly spreading lies about the 2020 election that Donald Trump lost to Joe Biden -- The Republican civil war continues to heat ...
Feb 28, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast -- On the Show: -- This week's CPAC is in shambles as Fox News is completely ignoring it, while former Vice President Mike Pence has declined an invitation to speak -- Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis delivers a totally deranged interview to Fox News conducted by Mark Levin -- Former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard equates Joe Biden to Nazis and Hitler -- Fox News host Howard Schultz admits that he is not allowed to talk about the Dominion lawsuit against Fox News -- It is revealed that, whi...
Feb 27, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast -- On the Show: -- 2024 Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley says she is waiting for Donald Trump to attack her before attacking him, yet Trump has already attacked her multiple times -- Republican Senator Tim Scott, another potential 2024 contender, tells Fox News host Sean Hannity that he has no policy differences with Donald Trump -- Caller asks about the future of artificial intelligence -- Caller talks about Republicans not being affected by hypocrisy -- Caller wonders if it makes ...
Feb 24, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Transcript available on Metacast -- On the Show: -- Kelly Weill, reporter at The Daily Beast and author of "Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything," joins David for another discussion about the last year in conspiracy theories and more. Get the book: https://amzn.to/3SmpwiN -- After weeks of Republicans denying they would ever consider cutting Social Security and Medicare, Mike Pence appears on CNBC and says they should consider cutting Social Security and Medicare -- Illinois Demo...
Feb 23, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast -- On the Show: -- President Joe Biden absolutely crushes autocrats and authoritarians during a speech in Warsaw, Poland after his visit to Ukraine --President Joe Biden's visit to Ukraine appears to have broken the brains of right-wingers -- Radical Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene suggests separating the US into two countries, and Fox News propagandist Sean Hannity is taking it seriously -- Failed former and wannabe future President Donald Trump releases a deranged video in whic...
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