Best Flytrap Media Podcasts (2025)

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The Dark History of Canceling Heretics (ft. Eleanor Janega) 1:03:34

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Think cancel culture is new? The Catholic Church invented it in the Middle Ages. Being burned at the stake was the ultimate deplatforming. In the 15th and 16th centuries, figures like Joan of Arc, Giordano Bruno, and Jan Hus faced the stake for the crime of heresy. But was heresy actually just a way to crush dissent? This week, medievalist and hist…

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Is Olivia Nuzzi the Only Villain in Her Scandal? (ft. Marisa Kabas) 44:17

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Olivia Nuzzi is in the headlines again for an alleged inappropriate relationship with a source. Nuzzi’s former partner, Ryan Lizza, is using his newsletter to make the claims about Nuzzi and…former Republican presidential candidate Mark Sanford in 2020. Lizza’s ongoing, multi-part series about Nuzzi amid her book launch is an uncomfortable read for…

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The Death of the Anti-Trans Political Ad: Why Democrats’ 2025 Wins Changed Everything (ft. Laurel Powell) 47:32

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Democrats’ recent, high-profile gubernatorial and mayoral victories across the country proved the value in candidates sticking to their pro-equality values. Whereas former presidential candidate Kamala Harris dodged Republicans’ notorious, bigoted anti-transgender playbook from the 2024 presidential election cycle, Virginia’s governor-elect, Abigai…

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A Cancel Culture Panic Attack (Panic World Collab) 1:17:33

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There’s a lot of overlap between cancel culture and cultural panics in which the anti-hero of the week profits off their notoriety. This week, Kate and Christine co-host a very special crossover episode with Panic World, journalist Ryan Broderick’s podcast about how the internet warps our minds, our culture, and eventually reality. As we like to sa…

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Why CBS News Hired Cancel Culture's Biggest Grifter (ft. Michael Hobbes) 49:49

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The Cancel Culture Grift Economy™ has once again rewarded Bari Weiss. Support CMD on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cancelmedaddy CBS News anointed Weiss—the former New York Times op-ed columnist turned so-called Free Press founder—as the broadcast network’s editor-in-chief. What was once a mainstream media mainstay is poised to transform into a …

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Why Car Propaganda Is Destroying Our Cities (ft. The War on Cars Podcast) 56:01

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Why does America's infrastructure prioritize cars over people? In this episode, we're joined by the hosts of The War on Cars podcast to expose the decades of pro-car propaganda that shaped our cities—and discuss how politicians like Zohran Mamdani are fighting back with bold transit plans. We break down: 🚗 How the auto industry manufactured car dep…

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Can Free Speech Survive the Charlie Kirk Backlash? (ft. Kat Tenbarge) 51:48

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Jimmy Kimmel might be getting his show back after a pause following his comments about Charlie Kirk's death, but dozens of other people have lost their livelihood for commenting on it. Former NBC News Internet and Culture Writer Kat Tenbarge joins co-hosts Katelyn Burns and Christine Grimaldi on this week's episode to discuss the free speech crisis…

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Democrats Were Banned From Saying These Progressive Words?? 38:51

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According to the centrist group Third Way, Democrats should scrub their vocabulary of 45 words and phrases spanning six pejoratively titled categories: therapy-speak, seminar-room language, organizer jargon, gender/orientation correctness, the shifting language of racial constructs, and explaining away crime. “Was it something I said?” Third Way as…

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Inside the Secret Conservative Plan to Censor the Internet (ft Siri Dahl) 56:43

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Age verification laws are the latest front in the religious right's movement to censor your speech and limit your Internet access, including what information you can access. Whitewashed as interventions to "protect children," these conservative laws and their so-called content moderation actually make it more dangerous for kids, especially trans an…

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Excommunicated, Executed, Deposed: Medieval Cancel Culture Was Ruthless (ft Eleanor Janega) 1:04:42

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Excommunicated! Executed! Deposed! What did today’s equivalent of cancellation look like in Medieval Times? For Edward II, it was losing the throne. For Anne Boleyn, it was losing her head. Get your Justice for Anne Boleyn merch: https://www.cancelmedaddy.store This week, Katelyn and Christine time travel through cancel culture history with Dr. Ele…

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The Scandal That Could Actually Break Trump's Base (ft. Ken Klippenstein) 32:42

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Donald Trump is bungling the Jeffrey Epstein scandal in real time. The Trump-Epstein connection is the politics news of the month, with no end in sight to further developments about the extent of the so-called “Epstein files” that may or may not be in the administration’s possession. Trump’s MAGA base is openly angry at him for seemingly the first …

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The Kingmaker Behind Zohran Mamdani's Upset (ft Brad Lander) 42:44

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In this exclusive interview, NYC Comptroller Brad Lander reveals how he became the kingmaker behind Zohran Mamdani's shocking primary victory over Andrew Cuomo. While mainstream media missed the story, we dive deep into the political strategy that helped Mamdani defeat establishment candidates in the race for NYC mayor. Zohran Mamdani's upset victo…

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We Debunked the New York Times Anti-Trans Podcast (ft. Sandy Allen) 1:06:06

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The New York Times’ "The Protocol" podcast was designed to cast doubt on the efficacy of gender-affirming care for youth. The podcast recycled previous NYT’s reporting that platformed dubious sources in the absence of a “smoking gun,” let alone any credible evidence. Yet, the Supreme Court would take the claims seriously, citing the Times in last w…

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Why You Should Never Trust AI (ft. Josh Gondelman) 51:59

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Comedian Josh Gondelman was surprised to learn that he’s married to famous singer-songwriter Fiona Apple. After all, he’d just celebrated his eighth wedding anniversary with his wife, author Maris Kreizman. But Google’s AI summary of Josh’s personal life essentially scraped his professional Internet presence and misinterpreted the “data” from an ol…

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Behind the Scenes of an Influencer’s Congressional Run (ft. Kat Abughazaleh) 43:15

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Progressives on the left and the more mainstream #resistance may disagree over policy. But there’s one practice upon which they agree: Democrats need to stop complying in advance and start fighting back against Trump 2.0. “Fighting back,” however, automatically assumes a reactionary approach, according to congressional hopeful Kat Abughazaleh. The …

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This Guy Wants to Fix the Democratic Party (ft. DNC Vice Chair Malcolm Kenyatta) 53:34

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Internal conflict could oust two of the Democratic National Committee’s newest, youngest leaders with bold yet different visions for the future of the party. A procedural complaint will result in a revote for two vice chair positions currently filled by Pennsylvania State Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta, the first openly LGBTQ elected official of color to se…

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Conclave Me, Daddy 55:30

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Conclave Me, Daddy! Katelyn and Christine’s long-anticipated “cradle Catholic” episode arrives as the church’s cardinals gather at the Vatican to elect a new pope following the death of Pope Francis in April. Come for the “cardinal stacking,” stay for the cosplaying on Cancel Me, Daddy’s YouTube channel, where you can stream the full episode. This …

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What's in a Cover? (ft. Teen Vogue editor Lex McMenamin) 54:50

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Vivian Jenna Wilson first made headlines in 2024 as Elon Musk’s estranged “transgender daughter,” a reductive framework that much of the mainstream media continues to use for clicks. Wilson is newsworthy for all of who she is: an outspoken critic of Musk, an advocate for trans rights, a college student, an aspiring model, a gamer, and a “RuPaul’s D…

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Kicking over the Barstool (ft. Frankie de la Cretaz) 45:13

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Former NFL player and Barstool Sports alum Pat McAfee didn’t have to name the Ole Miss freshman at the center of ongoing online and IRL harassment on the February 26 episode of his popular ESPN show. Following the Barstool playbook, he gave just enough information about the false internet rumor for his millions of viewers and subscribers to further…

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We've Got Some Bad Newsom 42:09

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California governor Gavin Newsom apparently thinks that he can be the Joe Rogan of the left, and he's out with a puzzling new podcast in an attempt to prove it. Except his idea is to apparently do softball interviews with some of the most grotesque voices on the right. In his first episode he ends up agreeing with professional bigot and right wing …

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Private Equity “R” U.S. (ft. Megan Greenwell) 1:01:33

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Why should you care about private equity? It is affecting all of us in the U.S., even if we don’t realize it. Private equity money promises to invest in a growing list of our workplaces, often to sell them off for parts. Journalist Megan Greenwell knows this experience all too well as the former editor-in-chief of Deadspin, the acclaimed sports web…

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What’s the Meta With You? (ft. Tat Bellamy-Walker) 52:47

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From Mark Zuckerberg at the inauguration to Elon Musk in the oval office, the tech broligarchy is upon us, shaping policy to erase trans people, Black people, and “childless cat ladies” from the Internet and ultimately from public life. “Cis” has been a slur on Twitter since 2023. More recently, Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, p…

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Joke’s On Who? (ft. Gianmarco Soresi) 55:07

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Comedian Gianmarco Soresi is a rising comedy star with nearly 950,000 subscribers on YouTube alone. You have likely come across one of Soresi’s sets if you’ve been scrolling through social media as a brief escape from our current reality. *stares directly into camera* But this self-described “matza pizza” skewers rather than ignores our current rea…

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Cancelling the Insurrection (ft. Meredith Shiner) 1:07:58

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January 6, 2025 marked two grim occasions: the four year anniversary of Donald Trump inciting his followers to take over the U.S. Capitol and the present-day Congress certifying Trump’s 2.0’s presidential election victory. This week, Katelyn, Christine, and special guest Meredith Shiner compare and contrast their experiences as congressional report…

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Blake Lively and the Making of a Cancellation 38:34

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“Imagine if a document saying all the things that he wants ends up in the wrong hands,” Melissa Nathan—the crisis public relations expert who preserved alleged domestic abuser Johnny Depp’s public image—texted behind the scenes of her latest smear-campaign-for-hire. The New York Times called Nathan’s bluff. publishing the extent of her actor-direct…

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Delay, Deny, Depose (this is not a threat) 43:07

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The health insurer horror stories haven’t stopped coming in the two weeks since UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot and killed by alleged murderer-turned-folk hero Luigi Mangione. And the ruling class is not having it! Elected officials, corporate CEOs, and the mainstream media with the power to change or buck the system are hell bent on p…

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Alf Hog and the Bluesky X-odus (ft. Faine Greenewood) 57:34

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Last month’s Loser Election prompted an X-odus from Elon Musk’s crumbling app to Bluesky, which grew by 1 million users per day toward the end of November. Despite the grim news cycles, Bluesky is far from all doom and gloom. It is, in fact, putting the social back in social networking. This week, Katelyn and Christine chat with Faine Greenwood, wh…

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The Loser Election (ft Michael Hobbes) 53:33

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The “Daddy Election” did not go as Cancel Me, Daddy planned. Everyone seems to have an opinion about what woulda, coulda, shoulda changed the outcome of the “Loser Election,” in which we’re all losers reading and skeeting our way through the Orange Fallout. This week, Katelyn and Christine make sense of the “multiverse” of election takes with “Canc…

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The Daddy Election (ft. Talia Lavin) 57:01

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Our regularly scheduled episode happens to fall on Halloween! And spooky season is feeling extra—as extra as Tucker Carlson rallying “Daddy Trump” to give America a “vigorous spanking” for being a “bad little girl.” It’d be funny if it wasn’t sickening, and terrifying. We’re just five days from the 2024 presidential election, featuring the return o…

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Crossover: BEEF - Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz vs. The Catholic Church: Mexico's First Feminist 31:02

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Special episode swap with BEED, a podcast by former Cancel Me, Daddy guest Bridget Todd: This week on Beef, the brilliant 17th century nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz dares to defy the Catholic Church with her scholarship and searing wit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy an…

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Chappel Roan and the Trolls of the Ring (ft. Jessie Gender) 58:30

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Chappell Roan’s cancellation by a certain set of voters got us thinking: When do fandoms become toxic? How does “stanning” an artist, a politician, or a (literal) piece of work disproportionately push people who already live at the margins of our culture out of the culture entirely? This week, Katelyn and Christine nerd out on nerd culture’s histor…

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Sexting with Mr. Brainworms (The Nuzzi/RFK Jr scandal) 1:00:57

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New York placed Washington correspondent Olivia Nuzzi “on leave” after the magazine Washington correspondent admitted to an inappropriate relationship with former presidential candidate RFK Jr.—sexting while covering the 2024 campaign. This week, Katelyn and Christine discuss the unfolding media scandal with equal parts humor and smart analysis, dr…

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Canceling Russian Propaganda (ft Nina Jankowicz) 44:51

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This week we are pleased to welcome freelance journalist Christine Grimaldi for her debut as the new permanent co-host of Cancel Me, Daddy! Together, we also welcome the co-founder and CEO of the American Sunlight Project and disinformation expert Nina Jankowicz for an in depth discussion about last week's indictments involving conservative influen…

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Canceling Dr. Disrespect (ft. Mikhail Klimentov) 35:46

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This week Katelyn speaks with Mikhail Klimentov, former head of the Washington Post's gaming vertical and writer of the Substack ReaderGrev, to talk about the streamer Guy Beahm, more commonly known as Dr. Disrespect. Several weeks ago, Beahm's career essentially ended after it was revealed that he had messaged inappropriately with a minor. Link to…

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Canceling "Link in Bio" Bots (ft. Miles Klee) 37:18

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This week, Katelyn talks with Miles Klee of Rolling Stone about the annoyingly pernicious "p*ssy in bio" bots that have taken over Twitter lately before coming a popular meme format on the site. The bots have become the latest evidence that the social media site, and even the internet at large may be becoming worse. We talk all of that and more (al…

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Canceling Trans and Anti-Trans Discourses (ft. Julia Serano) 34:08

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This week, Katelyn talks with legendary trans author and activist Julia Serano, who is coming out with a third edition of her trans feminist book Whipping Girl (March 30). This episode we talk a lot about how the internet has shaped both the trans and anti-trans movements and how trans people can help protect ourselves from the obsessed weirdos tha…

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Canceling Taylor Swift (ft. Frankie de la Cretaz) 38:40

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Hello Cancelers! It feels like Taylor Swift is everywhere this year. She just broke a record at last weekend's Grammy's and this weekend we're likely to see numerous camera shots of her at the Super Bowl as her boyfriend Travis Kelce takes the field. Katelyn spoke with independent journalist Frankie de la Cretaz about everything Taylor, from the re…

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Canceling Hate Speech on Social Media (ft. GLAAD's Leanna Garfield) 39:12

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Hey Cancelers! This week Katelyn sits down for a discussion with Leanna Garfield, Social Media Safety Program Manager at GLAAD, about how social media companies like Meta and Twitter are profiting from encouraging hate speech online. LGBTQ media advocacy organization GLAAD has been at the forefront of lobbying these companies to take steps towards …

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Canceling a new type of wife guy (Bill Ackman) 34:47

2y ago34:47

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Over the last several months a concentrated media campaign to oust the president of Harvard, Claudine Gay, found success. But in the last several weeks, one of its primary figureheads, Bill Ackman, has come into focus on social media. Returning guest Parker Molloy joins us to break it all down and get into some of the underlying power dynamics behi…

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Canceling James Somerton (ft. Michael Hobbes) 42:28

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Last week, an hbomberguy YouTube video about plagiarism swept across social media and Katelyn found herself right in the middle of the discourse. This week we welcome back guest Michael Hobbes (If Books Could Kill, Maintenance Phase, formerly You're Wrong About) to talk about YouTuber and plagiarist James Somerton's plagiarism and the larger system…

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Canceling Oliver 24:33

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Know it's been awhile since you're heard from us! That's because Oliver is leaving the show, and Katelyn's been working hard to figure out what's next. In this episode, we discuss the change decision, what's next, the secret behind the name "Cancel Me, Daddy," and so much more. Spoiler from Oliver: the next era of Cancel Me, Daddy is gonna slap. Yo…

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Should We Cancel Lizzo? 23:25

2+ y ago23:25

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A bunch of cancellers asked us what we thought about the allegations against Lizzo, so Katelyn and Oliver decided to dive into the fraught conversation. The two of us talk about the power of celebrity, marginalized people in the public eye facing more scrutiny than more privileged counterparts, fatphobia and cultures of abuse and exploitation. A ve…

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Cancelling The Young Turks (ft. Bennie) 43:24

2+ y ago43:24

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This week Katelyn and Oliver sit down with the twitch streamer Bennie, who recently quit her show at The Young Turks news network because of growing transphobia. The three of us discuss navigating hostile media environments as a trans person, disinformation, cis fragility and so much more. A very special thanks to our Cancellation List and above Pa…

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Hopelessness is Disinformation (ft. Bridget Todd) 44:13

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Tired of the doom and gloom and despair about the world? Good news is we're bringing you an extra special show today about the onslaught of disinformation and hopeless news and and how to recenter our selves and find hope in this dark time. It's a colorful conversation with a brilliant guest, Bridget Todd, host of There Are No Girls On The Internet…

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Titty-gate 21:29

2+ y ago21:29

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This week Katelyn and Oliver sit down to talk about Titty-gate. The two of us have fairly different perspectives surrounding Rosa Montoya being banned from the White House for posting a video where she was briefly topless at the President's Pride celebration on social media. But at the end of the day, we both agree: how can you be that mad about ti…

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The Panic Over Social Media and Youth 29:12

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TikTok bans and legally prohibiting minors from having social media accounts is being fueled by fears that social contagion is making young people trans. While this fearmongering about social media hurts young people, there are real concerns when it comes to social media, such as addictive algorithms. Katelyn and Oliver have a frank and nuanced con…

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Bluer Skies and Greener Pastures (ft. Morgan Sung) 29:26

2+ y ago29:26

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This week, we're diving in to see what all the fuss around Blue Sky is about. Is it really like Twitter before it got bad and as fun as people are saying? Is the magic temporary or can Blue Sky keep the magic as the platform scales? To talk about that and much more, TechCrunch reporter Morgan Sung joins Katelyn and Oliver for an interesting convers…

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Cancel Doom Posting (ft. Katherine Cross) 43:33

2+ y ago43:33

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This week we have a VERY special episode with a reappearance of one of our favorite guests, Katherine Cross! This week, she's talking about her recent piece in WIRED magazine When Social Media Presents Only an ‘Unlivable Life’ and how all the doom posting about fascism and anti-trans hate is warping our brains and demobilizing us to fight back. It'…

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The Internet Can't Handle A Little Friendly Competition (ft. Lyndsey D'Arcangelo) 33:23

2+ y ago33:23

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This week Katelyn sits down with women's sports writer Lyndsey D'Arcangelo to discuss the recent controversy regarding double standards, sexism and racism in the NCAA Women's Basketball Championship. Plus, Kate cancels freelance taxes, Oliver, and many of our listener's frustrations. A very special thanks to our Cancellation List and above Patreons…

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The Right Cancelled Chocolate?! (ft. Fae Johnstone) 37:02

3y ago37:02

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Right wing extremists are doxxing, engaging in a harassment campaign, and starting an international boycott over chocolate ads. Activist Fae Johnstone joins Katelyn and Oliver to share what it's been like to be at the center of the ridiculous controversy, provide a glimpse into politics in another country and share concerns over inclusive ad campai…