Best Trish Wood Podcasts (2024)

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Scott Atlas Strikes Back 1:53:07

33m ago1:53:07

1:53:07

Trish discovers some odd entries in Joe Biden’s White House medical files that point to a possible cover-up — especially given his tragic and horrifying performance in last night's debate. Plus Scott Atlas speaks out about being smeared, in light of revelations that prove even more solidly he was right about COVID-19 all along. Follow Trish on X @w…

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Queer Women are Taking Over Pop (with Trish Bendix & Mel Woods) 56:28

22d ago56:28

56:28

To kick off Pride Month, Freelance Music Writer Trish Bendix and Senior Editor at Xtra Magazine Mel Woods join Louie to track the conspicuous rise of sapphic-ness in mainstream pop. From BoyGenius to Chappell Roan to Billie Eilish, girls who like girls and make that a huge feature in the music are crossing over onto the top of the Billboard charts.…

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The Chaos and Calculations of Camila Cabello's C,XOXO (with Omri Rolan) (Patreon Preview) 9:37

23m ago9:37

9:37

In a preview of this week's Pop Pantheon: All Access episode, Is Camila Cabello's fourth studio album, C, XOXO, a cold-hearted Single White Female-ing of other, cooler pop stars? Or is it an earnest— if chaotic— attempt by the former girl group star to find her authentic voice as a grown up pop diva? Louie, Russ and Friend of the Pod Omri Rolan are…

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KATE BUSH (with Mic the Snare) 2:01:39

24h ago2:01:39

2:01:39

Mic The Snare joins Pop Pantheon to unpack the wild, unbridled genius of pop’s ultimate enigma, Kate Bush. Louie & Mic The Snare dig into Kate’s teenage record deal and her debut single, 1978’s “Wuthering Heights.” From there they discuss her debut album The Kick Inside, her legendary first – and only – full live tour and her early, pre-MTV adoptio…

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FREEDOM FLIGHT: JULIAN ASSANGE 1:10:47

2d ago1:10:47

1:10:47

Overnight, news broke that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange was on a flight to freedom on the basis of a plea deal that would end six grim years in Belmarsh Prison. With a stop on a remote American territory to ratify the deal for time served, he’s off again to reunite with his wife and children in Australia. Kit Klarenberg is British journalist, l…

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Vera Sharav: A Holocaust Survivor Uses the “G” Word 1:48:33

6d ago1:48:33

1:48:33

Holocaust survivor and important C-19 dissident Vera Sharav comes out to say that, sadly, she must call out a “genocide” in Gaza, and why she cannot stay silent. She and Trish discuss what lead up to her decision to speak, and the similarities between the messaging around Israel/Gaza and C 19. And Trish unpacks the absurdities of the latest Munk de…

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Ranking the Main Pop Girl Albums of 2024 (So Far) (with Ira Madison III) 1:14:08

8d ago1:14:08

1:14:08

It seems like every single Main Pop Girl has dropped an album this year: Ariana, Kacey, Beyoncé, Taylor, Dua, Billie and Charli. And we're only six months in! It's been a whole lot of new music to process but now that we've had a minute to sit with these records, Keep It's Ira Madison III joins DJ Louie to reflect on all of these records, what they…

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Normani's Album is Good. Now What? (with Rolling Stone's Larisha Paul) (Patreon Preview) 11:01

9d ago11:01

11:01

In a preview of this week's Pop Pantheon: All Access episode, Normani's debut solo album has been over five years in the making. Now that Dopamine is finally here, was it worth the wait? And with the heat having died down on her career, does it matter? Rolling Stone's Larisha Paul joins the show to help break it all down. To hear the rest of the th…

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Investigative Journalist Paul Thacker 1:51:07

13d ago1:51:07

1:51:07

Every bit of Covidian science is collapsing. Investigative journalist Paul Thacker unpacks the takedown of an accurate study that proved masks don’t work against Covid and how it's just another example of the corruption of science by ideology. And Trish has a lovely note from someone inside the Coutts Two trial in Lethbridge. Follow Trish on X @woo…

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FRANK OCEAN (with Tre Johnson) 2:04:51

15d ago2:04:51

2:04:51

Tre Johnson returns to Pop Pantheon for a special Pride episode about one of pop's greatest disruptors, Frank Ocean. Louie and Tre discuss Frank’s first foray into the industry, writing for artists like Brandy and Justin Bieber and his rapturous breakthrough mixtape, 2011’s Nostalgia Ultra, which instantly turned Frank into a critical darling and r…

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Charli XCX Breaks New Ground on Brat (Patreon Preview) 8:51

17d ago8:51

8:51

In a preview of this week's Pop Pantheon: All Access episode, Charli XCX's sixth studio album Brat, which dropped Friday, was posited as a dance album. What we actually got was something quite a bit more complicated. On this week's episode, Louie and Russ break the whole thing down. To hear the rest of the this episode plus receive weekly bonus epi…

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Hate Science 1:56:45

20d ago1:56:45

1:56:45

Tony Fauci’s strange performance before congress this week exposes the lack of credible data underpinning the official response to C-19, but what explains how all that bad “science” happened? Regina Watteel, is a statistician and author of Fisman’s Fraud. She examines one controversial study that protected the mandates, but that she believes should…

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The Trump Takedown, and Jenin Younes and Her Father on Being Palestinian 2:20:51

27d ago2:20:51

2:20:51

Free speech champion Jenin Younes and her Palestinian father have drawn closer over the violence in Gaza and she is now speaking out! Trish learns how hard it is for them to watch the carnage while hoping for peace. And Chris Bray is back to unpack the meaning of the Trump conviction. Follow Trish on X @woodreporting Website: www.trishwoodpodcast.c…

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PINK (with Molly Mary O'Brien) 1:51:55

29d ago1:51:55

1:51:55

Molly Mary O’Brien returns to Pop Pantheon to unpack the unlikely longevity of Pink. Louie and Molly chart Pink’s emergence in Philadelphia clubs as a teenager through to her brief girl group career and her pop debut as a blue-eyed R&B product at the turn of the millennium with 2000’s Can’t Take Me Home. From there they discuss “Lady Marmalade,” Pi…

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SPECIAL PREVIEW Blacklock's Tom Korski: The Case of the Hidden Convoy Documents 4:59

1M ago4:59

4:59

LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE HERE! PREMIUM — A damning and frustrating report shows that 87 percent of federal records on the Freedom Convoy might never be seen by Canadians, at least not for decades. Tom Korski from the Blacklock’s Reporter explains how this is a clear example of how much is being kept from citizens in the wake of a botched convoy r…

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Boeing Whistleblower: Ed Pierson 1:27:55

1M ago1:27:55

1:27:55

Trish interviews a Boeing whistleblower who won’t step foot on the 737 Max, and believes the fleet should be grounded. Together they deep dive into the fall of one of America’s great corporations, its careless approach to safety, and what it all exposes about corporate America’s dangerous obsession with raising share value at any cost. Ed Pierson a…

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Why are Music Biopics so Bad? (with Keith Phipps) 52:53

1M ago52:53

52:53

The most recent in a long lineage of music biopics, Back to Black, which purports to chronicle the life of the late great Amy Winehouse came out in the US last week. The film received mostly negative reviews and underperformed at the box office. So why are these movies, generally speaking, so unsuccessful and why do we keep making then? Movie Criti…

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Love Hits Hard, Soft & Everything in Between on Billie Eilish's New Album (with the LA Times' Mikael Wood) (Patreon Preview) 9:43

1M ago9:43

9:43

In a preview of this week's Pop Pantheon: All Access episode, Billie Eilish released her third album, Hit Me Hard and Soft, last Friday. The LA Times' Mikael Wood joins DJ Louie to chronicle the latest evolution in Billie and Finneas' ongoing collaboration and how it fits into the broader glut of Main Pop Girl releases in 2024. To hear the rest of …

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Rabbi Yaacov Shapiro Roasts Zionism 1:51:26

1M ago1:51:26

1:51:26

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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TINA TURNER (with Yale University's Dr. Daphne Brooks) 1:42:56

1M ago1:42:56

1:42:56

Yale University’s Dr. Daphne Brooks returns to Pop Pantheon to unpack one of the foundational blueprints for pop stardom as we know it, Tina Turner. Dr. Brooks and Louie trace Tina’s roots in Tennessee, her debut as a nightclub act in St. Louis and her early work with Ike Turner, from their hit single “A Fool in Love” to their string of R&B hits, f…

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Anitta's Global Pop Takeover (with Julianne Escobedo Shepherd) (Patreon Preview) 11:14

2M ago11:14

11:14

In a preview of this week's Pop Pantheon: All Access episode, Brazilian pop sensation Anitta's most recent recored, Funk Generation, dropped a few weeks ago. Julianne Escobedo Shepherd joins Louie and Russ to break down her rise to global stardom, this record's celebration of Brazilian Baile Funk and put us all on to a couple more rising Brazilian …

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

2M ago2:30:19

2:30:19

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

2M ago14:39

14:39

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 and without lawyers present. 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 made it to …

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Mariah, Nirvana & The Story of MTV Unplugged (with Rob Tannenbaum & Craig Marks) 55:44

2M ago55:44

55:44

After recent episodes on Mariah and Nirvana, two artists who had massive career-defining moments on MTV's iconic live showcase Unplugged, Louie invited authors of the book I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution, Craig Marks and Rob Tannenbaum to chronicle the history of the series: how it started, why it was important, an…

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Dua Lipa Disappears on Radical Optimism (with Owen Myers) (Patreon Preview) 13:16

2M ago13:16

13:16

In a preview of this week's Pop Pantheon: All Access episode, Dua Lipa returned with her much anticipated third album Radical Optimism on Friday. Music writer Owen Myers joins Louie and Russ to parse out the messy rollout and framing, underperforming singles and, after so much hype, how this music actually sounds and who exactly Dua Lipa is on it. …

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Truth Over Tribe Special 43:55

2M ago43:55

43:55

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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HILARY DUFF (with Legends Only's T. Kyle) 1:40:17

2M ago1:40:17

1:40:17

Legends Only co-host T. Kyle makes his Pop Pantheon debut to discuss Hilary Duff’s brief ascension from Disney starlet to massive pop diva. Louie and T. Kyle discuss Hilary’s origins via the Disney assembly line with the early 2000s juggernaut The Lizzie McGuire Show and how it helped launch her pop career, from her debut album of holiday songs to …

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

2M ago1:44:08

1:44:08

The mighty Viva Frei pops by to talk about the 100 billion dollar legislation 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. Follow Trish on X…

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Is the Music Video Dead? (with Michael Cragg) 56:30

2M ago56:30

56:30

In the past few years, we've seen a serious decline in the centrality of and views for music videos across the board, even for the biggest pop stars. Journalist Michael Cragg recently chronicled this phenomenon in his piece for The Guardian, "'This is an Art Form— and We're Losing it': Is the Music Video Dying?" and today, he joins DJ Louie to disc…

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Pop Pantheon Live! Tortured Poets & the State of Taylor Mania (with Brittany Spanos, Nora Princiotti & Hunter Harris) (Patreon Preview) 14:39

2M ago14:39

14:39

In a preview of this week's Pop Pantheon: All Access episode, last night in front of a live audience at The Bell House in Brooklyn, Pop Pantheon gathered Rolling Stone's Brittany Spanos, Every Single Album's Nora Princiotti and Hung Up's Hunter Harris to discuss Taylor Swift's 11th studio album(s?) The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology. Loui…

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Protest and Prison 1:21:52

2M ago1:21:52

1:21:52

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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NIRVANA (with Bandsplain's Yasi Salek) 1:36:07

2M ago1:36:07

1:36:07

Bandsplain’s Yasi Salek joins DJ Louie to trace Nirvana's brief, iconoclastic trail through pop's mainstream in the early 1990s. Louie and Yasi unpack the group's origins in Aberdeen, Washington, their time on famed indie label Sub Pop, known for popularizing the "grunge" sound, and their bleak, sparse debut in 1989, Bleach, which garnered them a c…

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Listener Mailbag! Taylor, Pop Pet Peeves & a Very Special Guest 1:04:16

3M ago1:04:16

1:04:16

It's listener mailbag time! Louie and Russ are answering all your questions about their expectations for Taylor's The Tortured Poets Department, their personal pop pet peeves, the formula for following up a blockbuster album, why there are no more male pop stars and so much more. Plus, stay tuned until the end of the episode for a very special surp…

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BRANDY (with Naomi Zeichner) 2:01:25

3M ago2:01:25

2:01:25

Critic and writer Naomi Zeichner joins Pop Pantheon to explore the career of the “vocal bible,” Brandy. Louie and Naomi unpacked Brandy’s self-titled 1994 debut, released when she was just 15, her landmark acting roles as Moesha and Cinderella, and 1998’s Darkchild-assisted Never Say Never, which reimagined her at the vanguard of R&B futurism and b…

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Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter is a Genre Explosion (with Danielle Amir Jackson) (Patreon Preview) 10:58

3M ago10:58

10:58

In a preview of this week's Pop Pantheon: All Access episode, Beyoncé eighth studio album, Cowboy Carter, dropped last Friday. Once perceived as a foray into country music, this sprawling 80 (!!) minute epic turned out to be so much more than that and, as with any Bey project, begs for some serious unpacking. DJ Louie, Russ and Oxford American's Da…

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

3M ago2:07:33

2:07:33

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 and his recognition of evil in the world. Stay unti…

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Beyoncé, Black Country & the Long Road to Cowboy Carter (With Dr. Francesca Royster & Taylor Crumpton) 1:07:08

3M ago1:07:08

1:07:08

Tonight, Beyoncé will drop her eighth studio album, Cowboy Carter, her first explicit full-length foray into country music. As with every Bey project, there's a ton of meaning and history to unpack. DePaul University professor and author of Black Country Music: Listening for Revolutions, Dr. Francesca Royster, and writer and editor Taylor Crumpton,…

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

3M ago41:58

41:58

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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Finding Bliss in Existentialism on Kacey Musgraves' Deeper Well (with Jewly Hight) (Patreon Preview) 10:29

3M ago10:29

10:29

In a preview of this week's Pop Pantheon: All Access episode, music critic Jewly Hight joins DJ Louie for a wide-ranging discussion about Kacey Musgraves' fifth studio album, Deeper Well, which dropped last week. Louie and Jewly discuss how this record fits in the broader narrative arc of Kacey's music and career trajectory, her influences from acr…

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Martin Kulldorff Leaves Harvard 2:13:44

3M ago2:13:44

2:13:44

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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CALVIN HARRIS & DAVID GUETTA (with Lina Abascal) 2:12:18

3M ago2:12:18

2:12:18

Culture writer and author Lina Abascal returns to Pop Pantheon to revisit the fleeting early 2010s moment when EDM DJs utterly consumed American popular music via two of the genre’s most emblematic figures, David Guetta and Calvin Harris. Louie and Lina trace David’s roots in the Paris club scene through to his breakthrough in the U.S. with hits li…

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Britney and Janet Aren’t Justin Timberlake’s Only Problem (with Vox's Kyndall Cunningham) (Patreon Preview) 10:25

3M ago10:25

10:25

In a preview of this week's Pop Pantheon: All Access episode, Justin Timberlake put out his sixth studio album, Everything I Thought It Was, last Friday. But is it possible to hear this music— or appreciate Justin's talents— outside of the narrative nosedive his career has taken in the last decade? Vox's Kyndall Cunningham joins Louie and Russ to d…

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

4M ago2:22:53

2:22:53

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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Do You Still Listen to Kanye West and Michael Jackson? (with Tre Johnson & Kemi Olivia Alemoru) 1:27:16

4M ago1:27:16

1:27:16

Host and culture writer for Dazed, Vogue and more, Kemi Olivia Alemoru, and writer on race, culture and politics and author of the upcoming book Black Genius, Tre Johnson, join the show to discuss how we as critics and the public interface with the work of famous pop stars who have done awful things. Kemi, Tre and Louie dig into the complex legacie…

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Midweek Extra: Royal Family Mystery 31:48

4M ago31:48

31:48

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 Novel & Familiar Thrills of Ariana Grande's Eternal Sunshine (with Bustle's Nolan Feeney) (Patreon Preview) 11:23

4M ago11:23

11:23

In a preview of this week's Pop Pantheon: All Access episode and as a capstone to our latest series on Ariana Grande, Bustle's Nolan Feeney joins DJ Louie to discuss Ari's seventh studio album, Eternal Sunshine, which dropped on Friday. Louie and Nolan dig into all the record's themes, aesthetics, how it toys with her public narrative, the impact o…

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

4M ago1:54:59

1:54:59

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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ARIANA GRANDE: PART 2 (with Pitchfork's Anna Gaca) 1:56:07

4M ago1:56:07

1:56:07

For part two of our Ariana Grande series, Pitchfork senior editor Anna Gaca is here to discuss the aesthetic pivot of 2018’s Sweetener, the superstar's first album following the horrific bombing of her Manchester concert and which found her reaching for light amidst unthinkable darkness. From there, Louie and Anna tackle the tabloid frenzy of Ari's…

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Free Speech is Dying in Canada 41:29

4M ago41:29

41:29

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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Iraq War Veteran Garret Reppenhagen 2:15:17

4M ago2:15:17

2:15:17

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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