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The Katie Halper Show

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Episodes

230 - Bugging Bret Stephens with Dave Karpf

Hear the rest of this episode here https://www.patreon.com/posts/29559089 I talk to the man who called Brett Stephens a bedbug about the hypocrisy and entitlement of the NY op-ed writer. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Aug 30, 201923 min

Teaser: 229 - Meritocracy with John Pat Leary

Hear the full bonus chat here! It's really good! https://www.patreon.com/posts/229-elizabeth-is-29396949 Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Aug 23, 20192 min

228 - The New Language of Capitalism with John Patrick Leary

REALLY GOOD BONUS CHAT! https://www.patreon.com/posts/229-elizabeth-is-29396949 Gabe Pacheco and I talk to John Pat Leary about his innovative and disruptive book "Key Words: The New Language of Capitalism." Full of grit, passion, and competence, Leary proves himself to be a curator of content, a creative thought leader and a smart stakeholder in the market place of ideas. Anyone who doesn't want to fail in life but who is interested in empowerment, engagement and human capital has to read this....

Aug 16, 20191 hr 6 min

226 - Tone Down for What? With Doctor and Sanders Surrogate Victoria Dooley

Dr. Victoria Dooley explains why she, as a Black woman, physician and mother, supports Bernie Sanders and became a surrogate for his campaign. She shares a story about a patient who died because she put off going to the doctor and shows the life and death importance of #medicareforall. Plus she pushes back on the Bernie Bro myth, addresses what issues won't be solved by medicare for all, the importance of having more Black doctors, what got her into medicine and tells us about being RT'd by Card...

Aug 09, 20191 hr

224 - Polling at 1%, For the 1% - Debate Night 1 with Rania Khalek and Kevin Gosztola

ep 225 is here https://www.patreon.com/join/thekatiehalpershow/signup?ru=%2Fjoin%2Fthekatiehalpershow%2Fcheckout%3Frid%3D881089%26 Rania Khalek & Kevin Gosztola join us to discuss the first of the July Democratic Debates. Find the rest of our debate commentary at Patreon.com/TheKatieHalperShow Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...

Aug 03, 201949 min

Teaser: Dean Spade, Rania Khalek, and NOlympics LA

Bonus eps are here! Dean Spade https://www.patreon.com/posts/220-political-28476762 Rania Khalek and NolympicsLA https://www.patreon.com/posts/no-sanctions-no-28576729 Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Jul 25, 20198 min

221 - Axios of Evil: with Jim Zogby, Malaika Jabali, Jordan Chariton, and Aaron Mate

Jim Zogby, pollster, founder and president of the Arab-American Institute and Bernie Sanders advisor talks about the way polls are reported and misreported on and why the press acts like pack of crows. Plus Malaika Jabali, Aaron Mate, Jordan Chariton and I talk about the corporate media at the Left Forum. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...

Jul 19, 20191 hr 16 min

219- why gay marriage is conservative with Dean Spade

I speak to Dean Spade, trans activist, writer, teacher, law professor and founder of the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, the Big Door Brigade Mutual Aid project, and the creator of the documentary Pink Washing Exposed. Dean's links: http://www.deanspade.net, https://bigdoorbrigade.com/, https://queertranswarban.wordpress.com/, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfpvrsZ-LtU Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...

Jul 12, 201959 min

218: queers for bell hooks/Jews against ICE with Michael Jackson & Sophie Ellman-Golan

Bonus: Michael Jackson on his (I mean Usher's) Inner White Girl & Inwood Daddy. https://www.patreon.com/posts/28136890 Playwright Michael R Jackson discusses A Strange Loop, his new black queer musical about a black queer playwright writing a musical about a black queer playwright. Sophie Ellman-Golan talks about Jews against ICE and their recent protest (and arrest) outside of a detention center in New Jersey. Plus HIV, AIDS, pogroms, concentration camps and Devil's spawn Liz Cheney. Advert...

Jul 03, 201952 min

teaser: 217- no war against Iran with Ro Khanna

Full interview about North Korea, Iran, Venezuela and hawkish Dems is here https://www.patreon.com/posts/27931206 Rep. Ro Khanna (CA-17) talks to me about a bipartisan amendment he and Republican Matt Gaetz (FL-1), (whom Trump has praised as "a machine," who is "handsome and going places,") introduced on Tuesday to the annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to prevent federal funds from being used for any military force against Iran without congressional authorization. Khanna also talk...

Jun 27, 20193 min

216-Reclaim Pride and Rent Control with Terry Roethlein & Ava Farkas

I talk to Ava farkas, executive director of Met Life on Housing, and Terry Roethlein of Reclaim Pride. Ava talks about how she and her organization and countless tenants helped pass the strongest tenant protections in over a quarter of a century, what the news laws mean for New Yorkers, housing as a human right. Terry talks about queer liberation and the reclaim pride coalition and Sunday's march. Plus Ava and I come out about our struggle with punctuality. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcirc...

Jun 25, 201956 min

215- Third Way's abortion puns with Carl Beijer

My piece on Sydney Ember https://fair.org/home/sidney-embers-secret-sources/ Carl's paper: https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/GlobalGreenNewDeal.pdf I chat with Carl Beijer about his new paper, published by the People's Policy Project, on how to pay for the Global Green New Deal, why Third Way, the radical centrist think tank which says it will support any Dem but Bernie and works to cut social security and medicare, is so bad, the media's anti Bernie Bias and why Be...

Jun 22, 20191 hr 11 min

Teaser: 214- Youtube's left purge with Matt Taibbi

Full ep: https://www.patreon.com/posts/youtubes-left-27583829 Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi talks about the alternative and Left content creators who have been targeted by Youtube, people who identify as liberals but support war & don't care about civil liberties, how the media gets us into war and Jonathan Chait. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...

Jun 14, 20196 min

214: Steven Crowder's virginity with Francesca Fiorentini & Esha Krishnaswamy

Bonus: Matt Taibbi on Youtube & Facebook purges: https://www.patreon.com/posts/27583829 Francesca Fiorentini and Esha Krishnaswamy and I talk Crowder, Youtube, censorship, sex work, George Carlin and the Palins. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Jun 12, 201956 min

213 re-educating Jonathan Chait & Sydney Ember with Greg Grandin

(re)-educating Jonathan Chait & Sydney Ember with Greg Grandin: or how reporters like Chait & Ember regurgitate psyops disinformation & Reagan administration talking points to sanitize death squads & imperialism or in defense of Bernie Sanders' radical opposition to genocide Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...

Jun 04, 20191 hr 1 min

preview: 211 & 212- Matt Taibbi & Alice Speri

Here's a preview of two patreon-only eps: Matt Taibbi, Struggle Session, Jamie Peck & Jake Flores live https://www.patreon.com/posts/neolib-or-neocon-26990464 ; Alice Speri on criminal justice. https://www.patreon.com/posts/212-vanilla-with-27145199 Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

May 27, 20197 min

211 - Reading in Solitary with Kraig Lewis and Alex VItale

patreon only: The Intercept's criminal justice journalist Alice Speri https://www.patreon.com/posts/27145199 Kraig Lewis was living in Connecticut about to get his MBA when police showed up, took him away and indicted him and 119 other young black and latino men from the Bronx neighborhood he grew up in during what was hailed as the biggest gang raid in New York history. The problem was that most of the people arrested weren't even charged with being gang members. Alex VItale is a professor of s...

May 24, 20191 hr 35 min

209- Desanctifying the Defense State with Marcie Smith and Max Blumenthal

Marcie Smith, and adjunct lecturer in economics at Jon Jay (CUNY) questions the sanctification of Gene Sharp, who has been called the "Machiavelli of nonviolence," and portrayed as apolitical. Smith talks to me about her recent piece, published on NonSite called "Change Agent: Gene Sharp's Noeliberal Nonviolence", which looks at Sharp's noeliberal ideology and his role as a defense state intellectual and Cold War champion. This I play the audio of a book talk I attended by Max Blumenthal about h...

May 19, 20191 hr 44 min

preview: 208- Joe Biden is Godzilla with Street Fight Radio

Full ep: https://www.patreon.com/posts/26658137 Live show! https://www.facebook.com/events/355195211781069/ We talk to Street Fight Radio's Brett & Bryan about how fun their live show with me and Leslie Lee and Chapo was and how fun the Katie Halper Show & Struggle Session live show with Matt Taibbi, Jamie Peck and Jake Flores will be. Plus we talk about Joe Biden, Matt McGorry, Brett and Bryan's families, Bryan's father in law and how fatherhood politicized them. Advertising Inquiries: ...

May 07, 20197 min

207- Neoliberalism and Depression with Johann Hari

We talk to Johann Hari about his excellent book "Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions." He discusses the way neoliberalism contributes to depression, the way different cultures and countries deal with it and his own battle with depression. Really important discussion. Trigger Warning: we briefly discuss Ayn Rand's sex life. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...

May 02, 20191 hr 24 min

205 - Tiffany Caban for DA + Struggle Session

I speak to Tiffany Caban, a public defender running for DA in Queens about why she's running, how she wants to decarcerate communities, and why the incarcerated deserve the right to vote. But first, I speak to Leslie Lee III and Jack Allison from Struggle session about how bad Meghan McCain is. Find out more about Tiffany here https://www.cabanforqueens.com Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...

Apr 27, 20191 hr 25 min

203 - Working For Neera Tanden with Ben Armbruster & Zaid Jilani

bonus: Zaid Jilani on being low key censored by Center for American Progress https://www.patreon.com/posts/being-censored-26205426 First I talk to Ben Armbruster & Zaid Jilani, two former employees of Think Progress and Center for American Progress about the editorial independence of the blog from the think tank. They explain the beef between them and Bernie Sanders. Then I speak to Rebecca Vilkomerson of Jewish Voice for Peace and a student organizer named Sarah about BDS. Advertising Inqui...

Apr 18, 201951 min

202 - The Arrest of Assange with Ryan Grim

In this free bonus (because it's such an important story), Intercept reporter Ryan Grim talks about interviewing Julian Assange and what his arrest means for journalism. Plus we go over the worst tweets about Assange and are especially impressed by a certain MSNBC correspondent's hot takes. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...

Apr 15, 201945 min

201 - Making Bernie Better with Daniel Denvir & Karina Moreno

I talk to Karina Moreno, a professor and writer focusing on immigration, and Daniel Denvir, the host of the Jacobin Podcast the Dig, about immigration and Bernie's comments on the border and how he can do better. Also, we try, once again, to get Mother Jones to correct a mistake it made about Sanders' voting record. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...

Apr 11, 201951 min

preview: 200- Biden's Black Pride with Branko Marcetic

You can find the full episode where Biden tries to justify his opposition to school desegregation by citing Black is Beautiful here: www.patreon.com/posts/bidens-busing-25863870 Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Apr 04, 201957 sec

199- Lucy Flores on Biden & #MeToo

bonus interview with Branko Marcetic on Biden's political record. https://www.patreon.com/posts/25863870 Lucy Flores talks to me about why she spoke out about the open secret of Biden's inappropriate interactions with women, the pushback she's been getting and how saying "He's not as bad as Trump," doesn't work. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...

Apr 02, 201943 min

197: Worst RussiaGate Conspiracy Theorists w/ Matt Taibbi & Aaron Mate

Bonus: Matt Taibbi on media bias. https://www.patreon.com/posts/25697135 Russiagate skeptics Aaron Maté and Matt Taibbi talk about where we are in the #Russiagate investigation. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Mar 26, 201951 min
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