Best Meghan Daum Podcasts (2024)

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Rabbi Yaacov Shapiro Roasts Zionism 1:51:26

2h ago1:51:26

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With the world’s eyes still focused on the carnage in Gaza and bans on criticism of Israel growing, Trish interviews a highly regarded Rabbi who believes Zionism itself is a serious threat to Jewish people. Rabbi Yaacov Shapiro is a revered anti-Zionist scholar, and he goes deeply into explaining why Zionist ideology is dangerous. Also, more lab le…

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A LARP on Campus 1:28:49

2h ago1:28:49

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In this LIVE-STREAMED episode, the girlx/womxn weigh in on the Man vs. Bear discourse. If you're going to experience a #MeToo event in forest, who would you rather be able to sic a Title IX officer on later? A bear or a human man? The answer may (not) surprise you. Then, Meghan dishes about her time at Dissident Dialogues, a convention of heretics …

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The Many Lives of Glenn Loury 1:17:19

1d ago1:17:19

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This week’s guest is economist and public intellectual Glenn Loury. Glenn is almost certainly no stranger to Unspeakable listeners, many of whom know him from his long-running podcast The Glenn Show. In addition to opining there about political and social issues, Glenn is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and the Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the…

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Julie Ponesse: How the Covid Regime Stole Our Innocence 2:30:19

2h ago2:30:19

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We were right all along! So what do we do now as the Covid narrative believers start trickling out the unavoidable evidence of their malfeasance? The Astra Zeneca vaccine has been pulled worldwide, and Chris Cuomo - a spreader of fear and dangerous propaganda, is trying to take it all back. Julie Ponesse, one of the most eloquent C-19 dissenters, j…

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Tamara Lich and Chris Barber — Together Again 14:39

3h ago14:39

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For the first time since their arrests more than two years ago, Tamara and Chris have been cleared by a judge to see each other outside of a courtroom or in the presence of their lawyers. In their first interview since that ruling, we thought we’d sit down in the spirit of our old ‘Coffee with the Convoy’ Livestreams that began before they even mad…

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The "Right Kind" of Black Person: Erec Smith on prescriptive racism. 59:05

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This episode is with one of our guest speakers at The Unspeakeasy retreat in Chicago. If you’re interested in going, learn more here. This week Meghan welcomes returning guest Erec Smith. He is an academic whose area of scholarship is Rhetoric, but he also writes and speaks frequently about the state of race politics in America, particularly the pe…

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Harvey Weinstein Gets His Day 1:12:07

18h ago1:12:07

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Do all dogs go to heaven? Or just those euthanized by Strong Republican Women? Like Kristi Noem (with a dash of Glennon Doyle?), the girlx/womxn prove they Can Do Hard Things when it feels right. Listeners will be dismayed to discover that what feels right today is agreeing with the overturning of Harvey Weinstein case in New York and poking holes …

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Truth over Tribe Special 43:55

2d ago43:55

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The freedom movement is being torn apart over issues of free speech and the right of citizens to protest. Trish does a deep dive into what is driving the conflict. In a heartfelt episode, she unpacks the negative response to her latest Substack, which encourages people to support the rights of others — even if they don’t agree with the cause. It is…

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Gender, Data & What the Cass Review Doesn’t Say: Journalist Ben Ryan examines the evidence — or lack thereof — for youth gender transition. 9:09

12d ago9:09

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This interview with Benjamin Ryan is a BONUS episode for paying subscribers only. The first few minutes of this episode is available to all listeners. To hear the entire conversation, become a paying subscriber here. On April 10th, a big story broke in the gender world: The long-awaited report commissioned by the UK's National Health Service, known…

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Defending Pornography, Hate Speech and the ACLU: Nadine Strossen on The Unspeakable 1:21:37

18d ago1:21:37

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This week, Meghan talks with legal scholar, former law professor, and legendary free speech advocate Nadine Strossen. Nadine was president of the American Civil Liberties Union from 1991 to 2008 and she’s the author of many books, including Defending Pornography, which has just been reissued nearly 30 years after its original publication. In this w…

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Viva Frei on Tik Tok Censorship, and Trump 1:44:08

9d ago1:44:08

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The mighty Viva Frei pops by to talk about the 100 billion bill that rescues Ukraine and Israel - and enables more censorship moves in the wake of the uniparty’s Tik Tok victory. Viva shares the podcasting load with Trish, still recovering. Also, they recite the serenity prayer — a helper through these difficult times. Support the new Tamara Lich D…

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Homeless, Zip-Tied, and Hungry 5:48

12d ago5:48

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit aspecialplace.substack.com How is a cruise like BDSM? How is BDSM like this podcast? The girlx/womenx begin by clearing their throats about the last episode (TLDR: we are sorry you are mad), and Sarah recounts her tragic, abusive childhood (and in so doing provides living proof that hurt…

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From Betty Friedan to Ballerina Farms: Lisa Selin Davis on the conceptual housewife 29:02

18d ago29:02

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This week, author and journalist Lisa Selin Davis returns for her third visit to The Unspeakable. Lisa is best known to listeners for her thorough and rigorous reporting on the new gender movement and her probing insights into how ideas around gender nonconformity have shifted over time. But she has a new book out about something completely (or at …

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Protest and Prison 1:21:52

15d ago1:21:52

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Canada slides into a dark epoch as a jury verdict in three of the Coutts blockade cases portends jail time and an uncertain future for civil disobedience. Marco Van Huigenbos, who protested harmful C-19 policies, was convicted this week and tells Trish that he is prepared to do his time. Please forgive any minor technical issues you might notice. W…

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Leisure for Deplorables, Therapy for Kids 1:29:40

17d ago1:29:40

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In the wake of the solar eclipse, the girls/women contemplate the state of American leisure, particularly, the Supposedly Fun™ pastime of cruise vacations. After taking an intermission to defend the TERF Queen from the usual suspects, they (aka Sarah) chastise second generation immigrants for being ingrates. Finally, another argument about psychoth…

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Grief Is The Thing With Feathers: Sloane Crosley on friendship, loss, mourning, and Flaco the owl. 43:32

21d ago43:32

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This week, I’m talking with author Sloane Crosley. Best known for her humorous and existentially probing essays, Sloane’s latest book is a departure of sorts. Grief Is For People, a memoir, covers the year in her life following the death of Russell Perreault, a veteran of book publishing who’d been her boss before becoming her closest friend. A mon…

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Punching Down Variety Hour 1:23:59

22d ago1:23:59

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Our fearless heroines return once again to defend the indefensible. First, they throw their hat in with the chaotic billionaire of Twitter/X, no not Elon Musk (although him too), but terf-queen J.K. Rowling. Why is Scotland so fascist? Should America invade that country, if for no other reason than to water down those unintelligible accents? Then t…

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How Did Comedy Lose Its Humor? Arielle Isaac Norman on taking back the jokes. 47:28

1M ago47:28

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This week, Meghan welcomes Arielle Isaac Norman, an Austin-based comedian who has opened for Louie C.K., Bobcat Goldthwait, Tim Dillon, Joe DeRosa, Eddie Pepitone and Maria Bamford, among others. Arielle, who describes herself as a “politically non-binary lesbian,” has a new YouTube special, Ellen DeGenderless, in which she discusses gender identit…

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PREVIEW: Trans Messiah 9:46

1M ago9:46

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit aspecialplace.substack.com On this live-streamed (and members-only) episode, the girls/women ponder the merits of yet another titillating essay by Pulitzer Prize winner and aspiring female Andrea Long Chu, who argues that transition should be understood and accepted as a matter of choice…

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Is Therapy Making Us Crazy? Abigail Shrier on what's really driving the "mental health crisis" among young people. 33:30

2M ago33:30

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This week’s guest is journalist Abigail Shrier. In her new book, Bad Therapy: Why The Kids Aren’t Growing Up, she delves into why so many children, teens, and young adults have received mental health diagnoses over the last few decades. Is it because society is finally recognizing emotional suffering? Or is it because society has become irrationall…

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Andrew Huberman: Optimizer of Love 1:42:26

1M ago1:42:26

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On this very long episode, the girls/women discuss the recent New York Magazine piece on Andrew Huberman’s allegedly womanizing ways. Meghan defends the magazine fact-checking process, but Sarah finds the whole thing disgusting. They both agree that attempting to optimize your poops is psychotic, unless of course it is done in the name of Science. …

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Dr. Francis Christian — Is God Our Best Weapon Right Now 2:07:33

2M ago2:07:33

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The heartbreak of the Covidian era is leading to a spiritual renewal - and even Joe Rogan is praising Jesus. On this Good Friday — Trish speaks to Dr. Francis Christian — dissident surgeon who paid a high price for warning about about the Covid vaccine for children. He tells us about his devout faith, his recognition of evil in the world and how to…

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A Guide For the Traumatized 1:25:48

1M ago1:25:48

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This week, the girls/women are joined by writer Larissa Phillips, and the three discuss her recent essay in which she recounts her violent rape in the early 90s. Larissa shares her thoughts on the helpfulness of “trauma” discourse on recovery, the #metoo era, and the tension between personal responsibility and public trust. They also touch on Laris…

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Critical Extra: Bridge Collapse Details with a Navy SEAL and the Huberman Smear 41:58

1M ago41:58

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The world woke up to a terrifying video of a bridge collapsing and people and cars falling into the dark, freezing water, near Baltimore. A former Navy skipper and trained SEAL answers our questions about how it happened and the likely fate of the people on the bridge. What will happen to the captain.?And what went wrong? And then Trish on the Andr…

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Apocalypse Soon: Birthrate Doomerism For Dummies 1:13:39

1M ago1:13:39

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On this episode, the girls/women bicker about the value of human life. Maybe fewer humans is better for humanity? Or maybe population collapse will send us spiraling into extinction, which would be terrible for our subscription growth. Is there anything we can do to stop the ongoing panda-fication of our youth? Or will the kids just happily lay aro…

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Martin Kulldorff Leaves Harvard 2:13:44

1M ago2:13:44

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Our guest Martin Kulldorff on the end of his Harvard career, the price of truth, and how he is moving forward in his new life. And just as Trish was celebrating Candace Owens' courage on Gaza, Owens is fired from The Daily Wire by Ben Shapiro. Plus a new film further debunks dangerous atrocity propaganda, and we brace for the blowback. Support the …

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Has Literature Canceled Itself? Sherman Alexie on reading, writing, and book banning. 1:09:27

2M ago1:09:27

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If you were in middle school or high school in the last couple of decades, there’s a good chance you were assigned Sherman’s classic young adult novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, an epistolary novel with cartoon illustrations about a native teenage boy growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation who decides to attend a nearly …

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How 'The Coddling' Became A Movie: Ted Balaker and Courtney Moorehead Balaker turn a foundational book into a film 36:25

2M ago36:25

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On podcasts devoted to free speech and so-called heterodox discourse, the 2018 book The Coddling of the American Mind is probably mentioned more frequently than any other. Written by social psychologist Jonathan Haidt and legal scholar and Greg Lukianoff, who now heads the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), it is effectively th…

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Prime Minister Trudeau’s Brother — Kyle Kemper 2:22:53

2M ago2:22:53

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Trish has an intimate conversation with the brother of one of the most unpopular prime ministers in history. Kyle Kemper is the younger sibling of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and he couldn’t be more different. He thinks Trudeau was wrong about just about everything from vaccine mandates to his crushing of the trucker convoy. Kemper's ta…

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Ana Kasparian Visits Hell 57:49

2M ago57:49

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Inexplicably, the girls/women are graced by the Edward R. Murrow of YouTube punditry, the lovely Ana Kasparian, executive producer and co-host of the long-running political commentary show The Young Turks. Ana guides us through the old and new media landscapes and shares the alarming experience at the root of her heterodox awakening. The girls/wome…

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Midweek Extra: Royal Family Mystery 31:48

2M ago31:48

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Trish and her friend, journalist Jacquie Bynon unpack the Princess of Wales mystery. They think they’ve uncovered the truth and have determined the proof of life photo is a pastiche — a fake pulled together with old photos. What the hell is going on? Support the new Tamara Lich Documentary HERE: https://www.givesendgo.com/GB14C Follow Trish on X (T…

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The Linguistic Confusion Of Gender: Philosopher Alex Byrne on how we got into so much trouble 41:51

2M ago41:51

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Paid subscribers get full access to my interview with Alex Byrne. The first half of this episode is available to all listeners. To hear the entire conversation, become a paying subscriber here. Philosopher Alex Byrne spent most of his career innocently studying subjects like epistemology and metaphysics. But a few years ago, he became interested in…

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Activists in Charge: Major Disregard for Ethics at Transgender Health Authority Revealed 1:22:16

2M ago1:22:16

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Become a member if you want full access to all episodes. On this episode, the girls/women are joined by Mia Hughes, author of the groundbreaking report based on files released from the internal messaging forum of the leading authority of transgender healthcare (“WPATH”). The report confirms some of the worst fears of critics of the gender movement—…

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Mia Hughes on her Explosive Reporting on Trans Medicine 1:54:59

2M ago1:54:59

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The body that advises world governments and clinics on trans medicine has been accused of malpractice in a blistering report by Canadian journalist Mia Hughes. With internal documents and shocking text messages — the inner workings of W-PATH have been revealed. It's a report that could change the trans debate forever. Trish speaks to Mia about the …

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Free Speech is Dying in Canada 41:29

2M ago41:29

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John Carpay of the Justice Centre of Constitutional Freedoms calls the Online Harms Act the worst assault on free speech in modern Canadian history. And Trish agrees. In this Trish Wood is Critical extra — the two of them take the bill apart. Support the new Tamara Lich Documentary HERE: https://www.givesendgo.com/GB14C Follow Trish on X (Twitter) …

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Our Bodies, Ourselves, Our Problem? 7:47

2M ago7:47

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit aspecialplace.substack.com The girlx/womxn discuss an essay on Women’s Bodies. Is there no end to the misery of being female? Or are men more oppressed, first and foremost by their boners? They then move on to moralizing about Kids These Days™. Have smart phones made an entire generation…

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Iraq War Veteran Garret Reppenhagen 2:15:17

2M ago2:15:17

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Trying to be heard above the torrent of propaganda and outright lies - a young active duty airman douses himself in gasoline, and while he burns to death in front the Israeli embassy in Washington DC - shouts "free Palestine" until he is overcome. Aaron Bushnell was committing an act of conscience widely hailed as noble in past conflicts — but he i…

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How Tumblr Memes Became Political Ideas: Katherine Dee decodes the manosphere, Tumblr feminism, anime activism, and more 49:23

2M ago49:23

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Paid subscribers get full access to my interview with Katherine Dee. The first half of this episode is available to all listeners. To hear the entire conversation, become a paying subscriber here. Katherine Dee is a writer, cultural commentator, and a phenomenally astute observer of online culture. If you want to understand the rise of the “tradcel…

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