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Being an American right now is a wild ride. Every day brings a new controversy, breathless media narratives, and the same loud voices rushing in to score political points. Then another Truth Social post drops and the circus moves on. But all that noise is drowning out the actual story. On her new podcast Runaway Country, veteran journalist Alex Wagner talks to the voices at the center of the headlines: from the fringes of the resistance, to the marrow of MAGA, to the many people who’ve found ...
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Is the internet slowly breaking our brains, and if so, what can we do about it? Offline with Jon Favreau is a place where you can take a break from doom-scrolling and tune in to smarter, lighter conversations about the impact of technology and the internet on our collective culture. Intimate interviews between Pod Save America host Jon Favreau and notable guests like Stephen Colbert, Hasan Piker, Chimamanda Adichie, ContraPoints, Margaret Atwood, and Rachel Maddow spark curiosity and introsp ...
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Missing America

Crooked Media

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Missing America is the story of how the United States, under Trump, has abdicated its role as an example for the world. Host and former Deputy National Security Advisor to President Obama, Ben Rhodes speaks to inspiring leaders and activists who are fighting to take up the slack in America’s absence, in a world where nationalism, authoritarianism, and disinformation have taken hold like never before. Learning from their examples and advice, we’ll discover what the US must do to confront thes ...
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Strict Scrutiny

Crooked Media

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Strict Scrutiny is a podcast about the United States Supreme Court and the legal culture that surrounds it. Hosted by three badass constitutional law professors-- Leah Litman, Kate Shaw, and Melissa Murray-- Strict Scrutiny provides in-depth, accessible, and irreverent analysis of the Supreme Court and its cases, culture, and personalities. Each week, Leah, Kate, and Melissa break down the latest headlines and biggest legal questions facing our country, emphasizing what it all means for our ...
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“Pod Save America” cohost Tommy Vietor thought foreign policy was boring and complicated until he got the education of a lifetime working for President Obama’s National Security Council. On “Pod Save the World,” he and former deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes break down the latest global developments and bring you behind the scenes with the people who were there. New episodes every Wednesday. Subscribe to Friends of the Pod! Your subscription makes Crooked’s work possible and gives ...
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Hysteria

Crooked Media

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Political commentator and comedy writer Erin Ryan and former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Alyssa Mastromonaco are joined by a bicoastal squad of funny, opinionated women to talk through everything from reproductive rights to romcoms. They break down the political news of the week, plus the topics, trends, and cultural stories that affect women’s lives.
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Abby Lee Miller founded the world-renowned Abby Lee Dance Company at the age of 14. Since then, her competition teams have been highly awarded in the competition circuit; from State, Regional, and National titles year after year. ALDC Alumni perform professionally on major box office blockbuster films, television shows, worldwide theme parks, Radio City Music Hall, and Broadway shows. Some of her most notable students became household names, after appearing on her reality television series " ...
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Who's Driving

Wesley Turner

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Who's Driving with Wesley Turner & Steven Merck is all about the entertaining stories we share and brainstorming topics we discuss as two best friends would on a long road trip. Come along for the ride as we check in with friends & offer a wide range of informative topics centered around running small businesses, social media, and all things Home and Garden.
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The ultimate podcast discovery podcast! We’re feeding your queue with episodes of our favorite shows. Join the team from Tink Media and creators from across the industry to learn about shows you’ll love. Think of it like a char-queue-terie of podcasts, full of delicious sounds and flavors.
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Crooked Media's new series Six Feet Apart with Alex Wagner (journalist and co-host of Showtime's The Circus) will offer a window into the hidden worlds of this pandemic: the chaos and fear, the resilience and innovation — all of which have been necessary parts of survival in this extraordinary moment. Through conversations with individuals on the frontline, from the grocery store to the criminal justice system, this new series will delve into what’s likely to be the defining event of our lif ...
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ICRT News Bites gives junior high school students a tasty serving of English with local and international news from around the world! Brought to you by ICRT and the K-12 Education Administration of the Ministry of Education, News Bites stories are written and recorded by the ICRT News Team, and uploaded on weekdays during Taiwan’s school semesters.
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In September 1992, 14-year-old Misty Copsey goes to the Washington State Fair with her best friend. Misty doesn’t make it home that night, and she is never seen again. Police initially deem her a runaway. Misty’s mom, Diana, insists they are wrong. Five months later, a search party finds a potential clue: a pair of jeans, socks and underwear crumpled along the side of a highway. Diana recognizes the jeans immediately, but the police are skeptical. More than 30 years later, through multiple i ...
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Welcome to Learn English With News, the podcast that helps you learn English through real-world news! Each episode, I’ll break down the latest stories, explain key vocabulary and grammar points, and help you develop your speaking skills with discussion questions.
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Dinky-Doo Media Presents: The Scottie McClue Archives The UK’s most outrageous late-night phone-in returns — straight from the 90s archives. Every week, dive into a freshly remastered episode of the legendary Scottie McClue Talk Show, packed with real voices, real debates and hundreds of unforgettable callers. From Christmas chaos to runaway tractors, from heartfelt confessions to fiery political rows — nothing was off limits when McClue opened the lines. Expect sharp wit, raw community spir ...
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2 Minute Movies

Heff Corp.

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2 Minute Movies is your ultimate cinema companion, reviewing all the newest and biggest films in two minutes or less. From new in the cinemas to the latest flicks on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney Plus, Apple TV and more, 2 Minute Movies tells you everything you need to know with none of the fluff. What's it about? Who's in it? Should you watch it? Simple. Catch new episodes of 2 Minute Movies every week, hosted by Van Connor - a film critic, writer, presenter, and all-round movie fanat ...
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Crime Cruise: Love Boat Exposed

Rob Springer, Charlotte Jones, Caleb Chilcutt

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Crime Cruise: Love Boat Exposed - the podcast that hunts down and tears apart shenanigans on the classic 1970s TV show, The Love Boat. When laws, morals, and behavior go rogue - We Are There! With a new episode each week, we're a TV review podcast that comments on, analyzes, and reviews the worst of these high-seas offenses with edgy commentary and modern-day criticism. Come aboard. We're expecting you! Join Rob Springer, Charlotte Jones, and Producer Caleb and get to know The Love Boat's al ...
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Warning! This podcast contains strong, offensive and misogynistic language that some listeners may find offensive. Gumshoe The Name's Vert. Percival Reginald Vert and I run the PR-Vert detective agency. The year is 2055 and the police have been defunded. So if you need a police investigation, the police will charge you 1000 big ones a day. Because of this, the government introduced the "P.I Act" where the private investigators can undercut the police so justice can become affordable. These a ...
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Practise your English listening and grammar with this episode of Learn English With News. Today's story is an update on the Austrian nuns who escaped from a care home to return to their convent. We'll also be looking at synonyms of the word 'if'. This episode is ideal for intermediate English learners (B1–B2+) who want to improve vocabulary, gramma…
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Alex digs into the destruction of due process and rule of law under the Trump administration. First, she hears from Judge Anam Petit, a recently fired immigration judge who explains how the legal system is being quietly dismantled to prioritize deportations. Then, Alex speaks to Andrew Weissmann, former lead prosecutor in Robert Mueller’s Special C…
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In today's news, a cat returns after 5 years! We'll also practise the past perfect tense. This episode is ideal for intermediate English learners (B1–B2+) who want to improve vocabulary, grammar, and listening comprehension with real news in English. Get the full transcript, vocabulary glossary, and a comprehension quiz at patreon.com/learnenglishw…
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In this new series from Lovett or Leave It, Rachel Lindsay joins Jon Lovett to talk about what it’s like to go from being a lawyer, to Bachelor contestant, to the first Black woman to be the Bachelorette. Can you actually find love on these shows? Can you ever trust that it’s real? And what role to do fireball shots play in the process? Plus Rachel…
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Merry Christmas! We trust everyone in Taiwan is tuned-in to this all-new, very important episode of News Bites. I'm Jacob Ingram. And I'm Kelly Kimura. So tell me, Jacob. Why is this episode so important? Because it's finally time to say goodbye to noisy vehicles. Also in today's episode: Something has gone wrong for NASA. And our News Flash word i…
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In today's news, we find out about a woman who married her AI... This episode is ideal for intermediate English learners (B1–B2+) who want to improve vocabulary, grammar, and listening comprehension with real news in English. Get the full transcript, vocabulary glossary, and a comprehension quiz at patreon.com/learnenglishwithben Other links: – Buy…
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It’s that time of year when Leah, Melissa, and Kate put on their influencer hats and recommend the things that made their days a little brighter in 2025. This year, they’re joined by two special guests: rockstar Strict Scrutiny intern Jordan Thomas to share some of his picks, and former Chair of the Federal Election Commission Ellen Weintraub to di…
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Grab a beer and join us tonight as we wrap up our series on Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints! In part five we'll go through Warren's arrest, as well as his trials in Utah and Texas. We'll also dig into the other co-conspirators of Warren's, and where things stand today. https://www.necronomipod.com https://www.patreon.com/…
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This week Erin and Alyssa update us on what some of the worst f*cking guys have been up to in 2025. From Elon Musk, JD Vance, Stephen Miller, Marjorie Taylor Greene and more, find out who they think reigns as the worst f*cking guy of 2025. For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email tra…
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What does 21st century authoritarianism look like in the United States? Author and Atlantic staff writer George Packer joins Offline to talk about America’s zombie democracy, who could be the most dangerous MAGA heir, and how Democrats should be fighting for the country. For our last episode of 2025, George and Jon connect the dots between Trump, p…
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Grab a beer and join us tonight for another installment of Necro Overtime! This time we'll cover a Florida case where a man accused of stealing and crashing a BMW told deputies, “I don’t know, I teleported or something,” and later said, “You saved me from the aliens.” Then we get into the skeptic's take on The Age of Disclosure. Poutine Stuff! Cher…
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Are President Trump’s tariffs illegal? Will the independence of federal agencies be a thing of the past? Is birthright citizenship about to be taken away? These are just a few of the consequential questions before a Supreme Court that's hell-bent on destroying obstacles to President Trump's executive power. Alex talks to two plaintiffs at the cente…
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Erin and Alyssa dish on the Vanity Fair profile on Trump’s inner circle, America’s embarrassing response to yet another wave of gun violence, and Erika Kirk’s media blitz. Then they break down all the ways Project 2025 has rolled back the rights of women and lgbtq people this year. They wrap up Solicited Advice, I Feel Petty, and a live reaction to…
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In today's news, we talk about how a traditional Swiss art form is being protected. This episode is ideal for intermediate English learners (B1–B2+) who want to improve vocabulary, grammar, and listening comprehension with real news in English. Get the full transcript, vocabulary glossary, and a comprehension quiz at patreon.com/learnenglishwithben…
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Hi and welcome to a new episode of News Bites! Today we talk about the lanterns of Pingxi. And… we'll tell you what people did to King Charles' old curtains. Plus we'll tell you how to change the meaning of a word… by adding just three letters. And we hear some listener stories about a park, and strawberries! All that and more… coming up next. Clic…
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This week, Abby is joined by Kim Chessler, former Vice President of Unscripted Programming at THE NETWORK, for a behind-the-scenes conversation you won’t hear anywhere else. Kim and Abby reconnect over the early days of Dance Moms — from how the show was originally sold, to the moment it exploded into a viral pop-culture phenomenon. Kim shares what…
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Tommy and Ben discuss the horrific Bondi Beach terror attack, the rise of antisemitism in Australia, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s bad-faith attempt to connect Australia’s recognition of a Palestinian state to this violence, and the perpetrators potentially training in the Philippines. They also talk about the US seizure of a Venezuel…
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It's our final episode of 2025! Jump in the sleigh and let's go. We will be back for Season 4 the last week of January 2026. Don't forget to join our online community at WhosDrivingPodcast.com Join the conversation by calling their hotline at 864-982-5029 with your own stories or topic suggestions, and experience the authentic charm of two best fri…
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Leah, Kate, and Melissa recap the oral argument in Trump v. Slaughter, a case that could nuke the administrative state as we know it by giving Trump broad leeway to fire heads of independent agencies. They also cover the other arguments in cases involving campaign finance and the death penalty, and various and sundry bits of legal news including th…
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In today's news, we find out about Australia's new social media ban for under 16s. In the grammar section, we look at how we use 'wish + would'. This episode is ideal for intermediate English learners (B1–B2+) who want to improve vocabulary, grammar, and listening comprehension with real news in English. Get the full transcript, vocabulary glossary…
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Hi there, it's time for an all-new episode of News Bites. In this episode, we'll be talking about the life and times of a Taiwanese actress who's been around for a very long time … … and Korean students who have to deal with an additional challenge to getting into university: they're blind. And in this episode's News Flash, disadvantage. Click HERE…
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Grab a beer and join us tonight as we continue our series on the FLDS! We'll follow Warren Jeffs as he tightens his grip on Short Creek, kicks kids out of public school, tears down community landmarks, and starts excommunicating longtime leaders while dumping so-called “lost boys” on the side of the highway. We’ll talk about his push to build new “…
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Julie Scelfo, founder of Mothers Against Media Addiction, sits down with Jon to talk about the impacts AI and social media are having on our kids…and what we can do to stop it. Julie breaks down what change parents can effect vs. policy makers, the horrors kids are normalizing on social media, and the corruption at the highest echelons of governmen…
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Grab a beer and join us tonight for another installment of Necro Overtime! We’re marking the 45th anniversary of John Lennon’s murder by talking less about Mark David Chapman and more about his wife Gloria. How she was just photographed up in Buffalo still wearing her wedding ring, why she moved from Hawaii to New York to be closer to his prison, a…
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Under the leadership of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, the Pentagon is in disarray. From a lack of transparency on extrajudicial strikes in the Caribbean, to the Signalgate scandal, to kicking out the Pentagon press corp – this administration has put a leader at the helm who is both embarrassing and a threat to national security. This week, Alex h…
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Erin and Alyssa break down Marjorie Taylor Greene’s bullsh*t on 60 Minutes, Trump’s takeover of the Kennedy Center Honors, and Melania’s embarrassing attempt at a children’s storytime. Then comedian Kara Klenk joins for a petty discussion about Angel Trees and performative charity. They also dish some Solicited Advice on celebrating the holidays on…
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In today's news, we take a look at Germany's new plan to get more young people to sign up for military service. This episode is ideal for intermediate English learners (B1–B2+) who want to improve vocabulary, grammar, and listening comprehension with real news in English. Get the full transcript, vocabulary glossary, and a comprehension quiz at pat…
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