Brief: The $100M Free Press
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Brief: The $100M Free Press

The Free Press founder, Bari Weiss, recently hosted Peter Thiel on her podcast. While The FP markets itself as as a return to independent and non-partisan real journalism, Julian and Derek point out that's not the case at all—especially when the organization's $15M in funding comes from rightwing and libertarian VCs. Will Weiss factcheck Thiel's misinformation in real-time, as a "non-partisan" outlet should?

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234: Trump’s Conspiracist Cabinet
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234: Trump’s Conspiracist Cabinet

We look at the Trump cabinet picks that intersect with our beat, as pseudoscience conspiracism now completes its journey from the social fringes to deciding White House policies—and all the consequences that entails.

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Relief Project #4: Rob Schenck
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Relief Project #4: Rob Schenck

Rob Schenck joined in Episode 199 to discuss his deradicalization from the Evangelical anti-abortion movement. He joins Matthew to discuss some things he’s learned about hope, faith, resilience and building community in hard times.

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Brief: How to Fire a Billionaire
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Brief: How to Fire a Billionaire

AG1’s founder, Chris Ashenden, recently resigned after a decades-old real estate scam in his native New Zealand came to light. Derek talks to the two journalists who broke this story.

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232: Gaslighting The Election
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232: Gaslighting The Election

We listen in to the supposedly non-partisan The Free Press election night livestream, which giddily praised Trump for being the consummate bullshitter that will take an ax to Democratic institutions.

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Brief: Tucker Carlson's Daddy Issues
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Brief: Tucker Carlson's Daddy Issues

Derek discusses Tucker Carlson advocating for corporal punishment as a way to discipline children in his appearance at the Turning Points USA MAGA rally.

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Brief: No Really, They’re Coming For Your Pets
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Brief: No Really, They’re Coming For Your Pets

During “Pet Vaccines and Holistic Vet Care" “holistic veterinarian” Marcie Fallek spreads the same sort of vaccine misinformation and fear-mongering that RFK Jr's nonprofit, Children’s Health Defense, has become infamous for. All of which made Derek realize that yes, they're actually coming for our pets.

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230: How Did We Get Here?
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230: How Did We Get Here?

With days left before the most consequential US election in our lifetime, we reflect on the last 4.5 years of this podcast while expressing our hopes–and our own reporting goals—for the future.

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Brief: Leonard Leo’s Plan to “Crush” Democracy
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Brief: Leonard Leo’s Plan to “Crush” Democracy

Billionaire legal activist Leonard Leo has had a role in placing all six conservative justices on the SCOTUS, and so therefore is in large part responsible for the overturning of Roe V Wade. But his right-wing activism isn’t even close to over, as he recently stated during a rare interview with The Daily Wire. Derek and Julian discuss Leo’s dark vision for the future.

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229: Stanford Has Fallen
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229: Stanford Has Fallen

“Pandemic Policy: Planning the Future, Assessing the Past” was recently held at Stanford. The anti-vax, anti-lockdown symposium was not all it claimed to be.

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Brief: Trump Temple Playlist
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Brief: Trump Temple Playlist

What October 14 showed us is that in these moments, Trump’s go-to resource is canned music, and, without his own iPad at the ready, a DJ handler who can spin the tracks and support his reverie of relief and control. 

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228: Hurricane Trump
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228: Hurricane Trump

A look at the distortions and disruptions, the fallacies and fables—and not all of them from the right—that keep people locked in climate paralysis.

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227: Rescue Remedy for The Republic
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227: Rescue Remedy for The Republic

On September 29, a predicted one million people were going to show up for the Rescue the Republic event in Washington DC. 1,500 showed up.

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