True Thirty, with Joey Dumont is a podcast that discusses and debates our society's most politically compelling topics through the lens of slow journalism. Each show is investigated with a focus on narrative as well as discovery. We believe that the complexity of culture cannot be crammed into six-minute television segments, or snippets and memes on social media, where ideology and entertainment is now the priority. On the program, you’ll hear the opinions of subject matter experts who'll ex ...
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Why Special Police Units like SCORPION are a Bad Idea
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As part of True Thirty’s continued reporting on policing in America, I’m joined today by two former leaders in law enforcement, Nicholas Sensley and Eric Litchfield. Chief (Ret.) Nicholas Sensley’s diverse experiences include military service, 24 years as a peace officer, and volunteer development in transitioning and developing nations worldwide. …
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“Academia is a Mess, but There is Still Hope,” with professor Chris Ferguson
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Chris Ferguson is an American psychologist who serves as a professor and co-chair of psychology at Stetson University in Florida. He previously served as an associate professor of psychology and criminal justice at Texas A&M International University. Ferguson holds a PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Central Florida. He has clinical…
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“What is harm reduction, and why does it matter?” with Meaghan Thumath
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Meaghan Thumath is a practicing nurse, clinical assistant professor at the University of British Columbia (UBC), and the regional director of communicable disease control at Vancouver Coastal Health. She holds a Masters of Science in public health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and a Ph.D. from the University of Oxford as …
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Drag Queen Story Hour and Cultural Appropriation, with Robert Jensen
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Robert Jensen (AKA Bob) is Emeritus Professor in the School of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin. He is also the author of numerous books, including, An Inconvenient Apocalypse: Environmental Collapse, Climate Crisis, and the Fate of Humanity; The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism and White Privilege; and The End of Patriar…
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The Myth of Left and Right, with Hyrum Lewis
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Hyrum Lewis is a professor of history at BYU-Idaho, and a former Visiting Scholar at Stanford University. He received a PhD in history and philosophy from USC. And before coming to BYU-Idaho, he taught at Skidmore College in Saratoga, New York. Hyrum was born in Arizona, raised in Oregon, and now resides with his wife, Sundee, and their three kids …
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“How the democrats can win back the working class” with Justin Dangel
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Justin Dangel is a serial entrepreneur who has founded and led successful companies like Firefly, Ready, and Goji, due to his genuine hope of helping people in need. Justin is also a political wonk who founded Voter.com in 2001, an early adopter in online news media. Under his leadership the company generated over 3.5 million monthly active users a…
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"Why is campus rape still so common?" with Julie Smolyansky
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Julie Smolyansky was born in Kyiv, Ukraine to Jewish parents. Her family immigrated to the United States in 1976 where her father founded the Kefir company, Lifeway Foods in 1986. Smolyansky joined the company in 1997 after graduating from University of Chicago with a degree in psychology. After her father died of a heart attack in 2002, Smolyansky…
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A Case for Reformative Justice with Cristine Soto Deberry
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Cristine Soto Deberry is the Founder and Executive Director of the Prosecutors Alliance, an organization that supports and amplifies the voices of California prosecutors committed to reforming our criminal justice system through smart, sage, modern solutions that advance not just public safety but community well-being. Cristine spent 9 years with t…
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The Power of Independent Journalism with Isaac Saul
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I recently attended a symposium on democracy and journalism that featured a former White House Correspondent for CNN named Jessica Yellen, and a young man named Isaac Saul of Tangle News. To be brief, this panel discussion was about the future of independent journalism and its importance in a representative democracy. And after it was all said and …
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The Puxxy Papers by Jacqueline Buckingham
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Jacqueline has been described as having “never played by anyone else’s rules” by W Magazine and has “embodied the season’s audacious mood” by The New York Times. Harper’s Bazaar wrote, “...As an actress with a taste for high drama, she figured understatement was beside the point.” Nominated for the TED main stage to talk about the connection betwee…
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Can Feminism and Gender Ideology Co-Exist?
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Over the past year, I’ve spent countless hours studying the intersection of historical feminism and modern day gender ideology. I’ve interviewed numerous feminists, journalists, and academics who believe that the word Woman is defined by biology, not an identity… and that any change to this canonical definition is harmful to the categorization and …
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“Should we medicalize children?” with Dr. Julia Mason
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Dr. Julia Mason is a board-certified pediatrician and fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics. She’s a graduate of the University of Illinois with both her masters in nutritional science and her medical degree, and she completed residency training in pediatrics at Children's Hospital, Los Angeles. She currently runs a busy practice in Oregon w…
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Levi's Unbuttoned with Jennifer Sey
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Jennifer Sey is an American author, filmmaker, business executive and retired artistic gymnast. She was the 1986 USA Gymnastics National Champion, and a 7-time member of the U.S. Women’s National Team. Her first memoir, "Chalked Up," was published in 2008, and detailed the systemic abuse of children in the sport of gymnastics. She also produced the…
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Finding Common Ground on Guns, with Anthony Colandro and Kevin Ryan
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“We don’t need weapons of war on our streets.” “We need to ban assault rifles.” “We need universal background checks.” “America’s gun culture is killing our children.” As part of my reporting on the subject of guns in America, I’ve interviewed folks who voiced these above narratives – people who believe that more gun regulations are necessary to co…
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"Trans Kids: It’s Time to Talk," with Stella O’Malley
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As most of you have gathered by now, I’ve spent hundreds of hours researching the topic of gender ideology. And I’ve done so because I believe it’s the most divisive topic of our time, as well as the most misunderstood. My guest today is going to help us all better understand the complexity of this topic, both from the perspective of a subject matt…
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“I’m a Trans Woman” with Dr. Kris Rizzotto
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Over the past eight months, I’ve interviewed over twenty clinicians, researchers, journalists, and therapists on the topic of gender dysphoria. I’ve done this to better understand the width and breadth of a global phenomenon that has only begun to capture our collective attention as a society. Not only is the topic of gender dysphoria controversial…
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Why the Modern Left Loathes the Working Class, with Paul Embery
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Today, my guest is Paul Embery, a British author, political commentator, firefighter, and trade union activist for the London Fire Brigade. Embery is a columnist for publications like Unherd, HuffPo, the BBC, and serves as a guest host for The Political Correction segment of GB News. In 2020, Embery published his best selling book, Despised: Why th…
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The Frontiers of Free Speech, with Dan Rottenberg
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Dan Rottenberg is an author, editor, and journalist who served his profession for over seven decades. There aren’t many folks who could subtitle a memoir My Seventy Years on the Frontiers of Free Speech as Rottenberg did earlier this year when he published his 12th book, The Education of a Journalist. Dan is my new hero. During his storied tenure, …
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"Chaos beckons if the MAGA GOP wins" with Juan Williams
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Juan Williams is a journalist and political analyst for Fox News. He also writes for several newspapers, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Hill. Williams has also worked as an editorial writer, op-ed columnist, and White House correspondent. Prior to joining Fox, Williams spent more than 10 years as a senior national co…
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"Are Trans Women, Women?" with Lucy Masoud
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Lucy Masoud was a former firefighter in London, longtime trade unionist, member of the Labour Party, and an LGBT advocate for the past two decades. Lucy is now a barrister in the area of children’s law, both public and private – involving cases concerning domestic abuse. She was called to the bar in 2017 and joined Staple Inn Chambers shortly there…
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The Politics Industry with Katherine Gehl
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My guest today is Ms. Katherine Gehl, business leader, author, speaker, and political innovator who has taken on the ambitious undertaking of trying to reform how American politics works. In 2020, with Harvard Business School Professor Michael Porter, Gehl published her book, The Politics Industry, How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlo…
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Feminism for Women with Julie Bindel
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Today’s interview is with Julie Bindel, a feminist campaigner, writer, and investigative journalist in Britain. Her recent book, Feminism for Women: The Real Route to Liberation, was published in 2021 and has caused quite the stir with younger feminists, both in Britain, as well as here in America. Julie writes for the Observer, Unherd, Sunday Time…
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The Reality of Trans with Helen Joyce (Part 2)
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In part 2 of my interview with Helen Joyce, we talk about the long term deleterious effects of puberty blockers and the FDA’s original usage and indication. We compare and contrast why America now has 300 “gender affirming” clinics (and counting), and why Britain only has ONE called Tavistock. We discuss the very controversial topic of causal suici…
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The Reality of Trans with Helen Joyce (Part 1)
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On today’s show, I interviewed Helen Joyce, Irish journalist, feminist, editor at the Economist in Britain, and best selling author of the book, Trans, When Ideology Meets Reality. To be concise, Joyce is no fan of what she perceives as a hysteria about gender identity. We talked at length about “safe spaces” for women, e.g. rape clinics, domestic …
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Over the past six months, I’ve spent hundreds of hours researching trans ideology and the historical roles of gender in today’s changing world. In today’s episode, my guest is a friend and former colleague, Bee Davis. We worked together over 17 years ago in the world of advertising, and had not talked to each other since 2006. And one day on Facebo…
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Good Cop, Better Cop with John Cregan
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Over the past year, I’ve spent hundreds of hours researching the origins and developments of the defund the police movement. I pored over public records and surveys, attended symposiums, and conducted interviews with beat cops and local politicians. I even talked with folks at the DNC who wanted to abolish the police entirely due to its origin of o…
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"Can Nonprofit News Save Our Democracy?" with Marsha Parker
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Over the past several months, I've spent a ton of time attempting to understand the left-leaning bias of our news media. For those of you who do follow the news, this isn't news at all. But as a liberal, I really wanted to understand what was going on in our culture. I wanted to separate the straw from the hay, if you will. In that effort, I interv…
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Is Ben Shapiro the Most Powerful Man in News Media?
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This week, my guests include Jim Meskauskas and Kevin Hicks, two old media buddies from New York City. During the show, we analyze the media metrics of Ben Shapiro’s growing media empire, the far left’s fascination with antiracism, and how the confluence of these two movements will hand the House and the Senate to the GOP in the November midterms. …
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Dr. Jordan Peterson, Dave Chappelle, Our Transgender Community, and the Wisdom of Youth
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In my attempt to understand our transgender community a bit better, I sat down with a young man named Brit Abney to hear what he had to say. My invitation stemmed from our friendship on Facebook, and his prolific and compassionate defense of our transgender community within his own friends and followers. We talked specifically about Dr. Jordan Pete…
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Critical Race Theory Part 2: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Robin DiAngelo's book, White Fragility
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This week's episode is with Acacia Croft, a long-time close friend and a highly educated person who kept me on my toes in this episode as we continued discussing around the Critical Race Theory, what’s working and what’s not working in our societal approach in education, the plight of black people, the white man narrative, and downside effects of R…
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This week's episode is with Tom Morris, my friend and favorite philosopher. During our chat, we explored the origin of ideologies, their importance, their dangers, and how we as a culture need to better understand what they are doing to us. We talked about Gilgamesh, Tolstoy, Aristotle, and Kung Fu on a New York City subway. Oh, and we came up with…
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Abolishing the Police, Patriarchies, and Capitalism
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When a Liberal and a Leftist Walk Into a Bar...What happens when two well informed people pull up the proverbial barstool and start a friendly debate over our world’s current issues? One hell of a conversation, that’s what. Join me this week with guest Zachary Kihm as we have a lively discussion about critical race theory, the patriarchy, and equal…
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In my attempt to figure out the “Defund The Police” movement, I sat down with my buddy John Snetsinger, a recently retired Lieutenant of the Santa Rosa Police Department. We talked a bit about his personal story, his time as a detective, and the many ideas and proposals he has to help the lives of both police officers and the cities they serve. In …
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In an attempt to understand the complexity and controversy of something called Critical Race Theory (CRT), I sat down with my buddy Dax-Devlon Ross to hear what he had to say. We talked a bit about his personal story as a black man, his time in law school, the reasons he wrote his remarkable book (Letters To My White Male Friends), and why he chose…
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Are Safe Spaces Safe? (Part 2 of a 2 part series)
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Brad Berens and Joey sit down and continue the controversial topic of Safe Spaces on college campuses as Part 2 of the series, Are Safe Spaces Safe? The titled book The Coddling of the American Mind, How Good Intentions And Bad Ideas Are Setting Up A Generation for Failure, by Greg Lukianoff & Jonathan Haidt continues as the topic of debate between…
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Are Safe Spaces Safe? (Part 1 of a 2 part series)
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Professor John Durham and Joey sit down and chat about the controversial topic of Safe Spaces on college campuses. This issue was explored at length in the book, The Coddling of the American Mind, How Good Intentions And Bad Ideas Are Setting Up A Generation for Failure, by Greg Lukianoff & Jonathan Haidt. The banter and debate that follows is wort…
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Dr Adam Dorsay and Joey disassemble the traditional idea of what it means to be masculine in this world and how crucial it is to, even now, recognize individuality and embrace the paradigm of living in your emotions today. In This Episode: Men and emotions Beginning a new relationship with emotions Masculine archetypes in history Evolution of mascu…
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Daniel Gutierrez enlightens Joey Dumont about what it took to walk away from a life built on societal success and leadership, travel to a monastery in Nepal and ultimately move to Peru to open a retreat and redefine what it means to be fulfilled. In This Episode: Societal constructs around success Being a political advisor Walking away from it all …
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Aja Raden takes a deep dive with Joey Dumont to unravel how the mind processes information and how easily it can be manipulated into thinking what we want it to think. They go on to talk about some of the longest (and most famous) cons you’d be surprised today to know still exist! In This Episode: Lies that we believe Art of neurons and how our min…
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Allowing Ourselves to Acknowledge Experiences
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Hannah shares an open conversation with Joey about the value of sharing personal experiences with others to support a deeper discussion about the anxiety and emotions we all face. She also talks about being intentional and not being afraid to ask questions. Plus, they bond over a mutual love for Ironman. In This Episode: Difference between mental h…
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Becoming the Catalyst in Our Story with Mark Henick
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Mark Henick dives in with Joey Dumont sharing his personal journey seeking mental health treatment as a young boy and overcoming the breakdowns in a still-broken healthcare system for youth in Canada. He discusses the shift we actively take in our lives that change our course as shared in his personal memoir, So Called Normal. In This Episode: Shif…
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Being Smarter with Your Mental Health with Guest Lucas Wolfe
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Even though this episode covers the heavy topic of depression, you’ll smile, feel less alone, be entertained, learn about yourself and enjoy the entire time. Lucas Wolfe, the author of My Perfect Life, has an open conversation with Joey Dumont about having depression despite his "perfect life." Other topics: How he’d rather be punched in the face t…
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Tackling the Public Health Crisis of Suicide with Guest Ryan Casey Waller
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Ryan Casey Waller, author of Depression, Anxiety, and Other Things We Don't Want to Talk About, sits down to talk with Joey Dumont about the many tough conversations he had to have with others and himself, and how he's come out on the other side as a stronger and more fulfilled person. Also In This Episode: Finding Comradery in Anxiety Taking Unhea…
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Emmy-Nominated Bryan Behar Joins Joey Dumont on Laugh Your Cry Out
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Bryan Behar has a candid conversation about his father's suicide, dealing with extreme anxiety, and more, all while not making the conversation too heavy. He and Joey Dumont find ways to laugh their cries out. In This Episode: Being a showrunner for the 1st time (Fuller House) Being a hero at anticipatory anxiety Starting life after his father’s su…
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