-- On the Show: -- Republican Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders has the lowest approval rating of any Arkansas Governor in 20 years -- Police tackle Trump rioter Vitali GossJankowski during an attempted escape from a Washington DC courtroom -- Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is confronted by Patrick Bet-David about allegations that he wears high heels to appear taller -- Failed former President Donald Trump is gagged again by a judge after threatening Mark Meadows -- Donald Trump explodes, ...
Oct 31, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Transcript available on Metacast -- On the Show: -- Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is, by far, the most dangerous and extreme Speaker in modern political history -- 2024 Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis is interviewed by NBC's Kristen Welker and the interview goes horribly wrong for DeSantis -- Failed former President Donald Trump forgets what city he is in during an event in Sioux City, Iowa, yet another apparent cognitive incident -- Failed former President Donald Trump once again rants about "humm...
Oct 30, 2023•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast -- On the Show: -- Donald Trump seemingly violates his gag order again, calling the judge in the New York case "radical left" and one of the witnesses a "sleaze bag" -- Former Trump attorney Sidney Powell claims prosecutors extorted her into taking a plea deal -- Caller talks about the possibility that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu didn't try to stop Hamas's attack -- Caller asks how to get sympathy for Palestinians -- Caller claims people are taking down their Trump flags -- Caller ...
Oct 27, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast -- On the Show: -- 22 are dead and 50 injured in a horrifying mass shooting in Maine -- Fox News propagandist Sean Hannity's plan to not get shot includes martial arts -- Republicans elect MAGA extremist election denier Congressman Mike Johnson to be Speaker of the House and Donald Trump takes credit for it -- Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz correctly points out that MAGA is still in power, as evidenced by the election of MAGA Republican Mike Johnson as Speaker of the House -- Republicans shou...
Oct 26, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast -- On the Show: -- Greg Lukianoff, First Amendment attorney, President and CEO of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, and co-author of "The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution," joins David to discuss speech, cancel culture, and much more. Get the book: https://amzn.to/45LUINm -- Another Republican "frontrunner" for Speaker of the House drops out within hours of "winning" the nomination -- Mark Meadows, for...
Oct 25, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Transcript available on Metacast -- On the Show: -- Neil Howe, acclaimed historian, economist, demographer, and the New York Times bestselling author of "The Fourth Turning is Here" joins David to discuss Strauss-Howe generational theory. Get the book: https://amzn.to/493VbNU -- An updated framework for Israeli-Palestinian peace -- Republicans seem to have forgotten that they were going to impeach President Joe Biden -- Candace Owens appears on Bill Maher's podcast, and both say many things that make absolutely no sense -- Fail...
Oct 24, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Transcript available on Metacast -- On the Show: -- The Republican Party continues in crisis, now seeing nine different candidates for Speaker of the House as they are unable to coalesce behind any one candidate -- President Joe Biden's speech a few days ago was so good, that even Fox News hosts and anchors have no choice but to admit it -- New audio reveals billionaire Anthony Pratt admitting that President Donald Trump revealed secret information to him in private -- Judge Arthur Engoron fines Donald Trump and threatens him w...
Oct 23, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast -- On the Show: -- Former Trump attorney Sidney Powell pleads guilty to six misdemeanor counts of conspiracy to commit election interference in Georgia -- Antisemitic right-winger Elijah Schaffer attempts to use David's content to generate even more antisemitism -- Failed former President Donald Trump's criminal trial -- one or more of them -- might be televised live globally -- Caller compares Donald Trump to Ron DeSantis -- Caller has difficulty dealing with their Trump-supporting family -- Ca...
Oct 20, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Transcript available on Metacast -- On the Show: -- Jonathan Conyers, author of "I Wasn't Supposed to Be Here," entrepreneur, and neonatal pediatric specialist known by many as one of the best speech and debate coaches, joins David to discuss debating and influencing people. Get the book: https://amzn.to/46Ep6L8 -- After initial reports blamed Israel for the bombing of a hospital in Gaza, all evidence now points to Palestinians, and this further fuels the propaganda war -- President Joe Biden has a functional and successful tri...
Oct 19, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast -- On the Show: -- A hospital in Gaza is bombed and blame is traded about who is responsible, Israel, Hamas, or Islamic Jihad -- Republican Congressman Jim Jordan loses the first House Speaker vote, despite Trump's confidence that Jordan will win -- A stunning new poll appears to confirm that Robert F. Kennedy Jr running as an independent is bad for Donald Trump and good for Joe Biden -- Elon Musk will start charging new users of X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, $1 per year to tweet --...
Oct 18, 2023•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast -- 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•Transcript available on Metacast -- 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•Transcript available on Metacast -- 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•Transcript available on Metacast -- 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•Transcript available on Metacast -- 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•Transcript available on Metacast -- 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast -- 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•Transcript available on Metacast -- 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•Transcript available on Metacast -- 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•Transcript available on Metacast -- 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•Transcript available on Metacast -- 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•Transcript available on Metacast -- 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•Transcript available on Metacast -- 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•Transcript available on Metacast -- 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•Transcript available on Metacast -- 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•Transcript available on Metacast -- 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•Transcript available on Metacast -- 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•Transcript available on Metacast -- 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•Transcript available on Metacast -- 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•Transcript available on Metacast