Author, essayist and journalist Meghan Daum has spent decades giving voice—and bringing nuance, humor and surprising perspectives—to things that lots of people are thinking but are afraid to say out loud. Now, she brings her observations to the realm of conversation. In candid, free-ranging interviews, Meghan talks with artists, entertainers, journalists, scientists, scholars, and anyone else who’s willing to do the “unspeakable” and question prevailing cultural and moral assumptions.
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The Truth Podcast is a unique podcast that questions the narratives and topics mainstream media will not touch. Learn the uncomfortable and inconvenient truths about life, culture, politics and more.
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This is A Miner Inconvenience, A podcast that discusses anything and everything. I Joel Kenneth Miner offer my thoughts and opinions as well as anecdotal stories. Answering questions in an open and honest forum. We all have time we don't use, why not spend it with me and my guests. After all it is just a Miner inconvenience.
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People are ready to go deeper, be more truthful, and face challenges that confront us in more meaningful ways. We need to talk about causes and not just symptoms, face some inconvenient truths, and have more than prepackaged conversations among us. One question weaves through The Marianne Williamson Podcast - how did we get to where we are, and how can we change things now?
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Watergate was a serious American political scandal resulting in the only forcible removal of a U.S. President, Richard Nixon. After seemingly exhaustive investigative reporting by the Washington Post and dozens of books and movies on the scandal since, there are many questions left unanswered. Through this podcast series, The Mysteries of Watergate, lawyer, author and historian John O’Connor methodically presents the lingering questions, central truths and inconvenient facts of the scandal s ...
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Tru-ID is a podcast that focuses on Christian apologetics and tackling the issues of our time from a Christian perspective. The host of Tru-ID, Adam Coleman, hopes to honor Jesus Christ by engaging questions about and objections to Christianity, particularly those related to the African American community. Podcast episodes will explore race, the allegation that Christianity is the "white man's religion", history, science, philosophy, current events, and various ways to defend the Christian f ...
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VISIT PATREON.COM/THEHUMANEXPERIENCE TO SUPPORT THIS WORK In these interactive recordings, conversations, interviews, and monologues, we speak to the part within all of us that holds common sense, consciousness, a desire to heal the soul, to grow in awareness, and to empower ourselves, our communities, and our humanity. The intent is to support the process of re-attuning with nature, reconnecting as one universal humanity, navigating challenges and pressures from the world we inhabit, regain ...
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Join a lone teenager aboard the underwater station The Nerites as they witness things they cannot explain and learn more about why they were left alone. A sci fi horror mystery.
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In September 2013 journalist turned blogger Bogonko Bosire DISAPPEARED. Because this was not the first time he went 'missing in action' his friends and family did not think much of it. They assumed he was pursuing a story. However, they were anxious when he didn't turn up for days after the country was engulfed in a shocking terrorist attack, the Westgate Mall terror attack. Anxious because this is the kind of story that he would be breaking. #CaseNumberZero is an investigation of Bogonko Bo ...
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Morally and Medically Appalling: Jamie Reed blows the whistle on youth gender medicine
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This is a premium episode with Jamie Reed.This episode is available to paid listeners. To hear the entire conversation, become a paying subscriber here. Jamie will be in The Unspeakeasy as part of our Unspeakers Series on Aug. 7, 2024. Apply to join The Unspeakeasy now if you want the chance to meet her in a private, off-the-record hangout. “What i…
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Who Was The Hollywood Con Queen? Scott Johnson on the most unbelievable true story ever told
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Between 2013 and 2020, hundreds of people who worked in the entertainment industry—from actors and writers to photographers, makeup artists, and security personnel—were targeted by brilliant and bizarre scammer who came to be known as the Con Queen of Hollywood. The Con Queen impersonated famous female studio executives and convinced many of her ma…
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The Inconvenient Truth About Divorce: Bridget Phetasy on staying together for the kids.
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We hear all the time that children are resilient — and should be even more so! But do divorcing parents overestimate their kids’ resilience to justify their actions? Should “staying together for the children” come back into style? Returning guest Bridget Phetasy talks about her recent article for The Spectator about an aspect of divorce that rarely…
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Building A Post-Woke Brand: Jennifer Sey gets back to business
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Jennifer Sey has been an elite gymnast, a high level marketing executive at Levi’s, and an outspoken critic of protracted school closures during the Covid pandemic. That last role led her to become a prominent figure in the new free speech movement, and she fulfilled that role by writing a book and starting a Substack about her conscription into th…
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Has Gay Pride Shamed Itself? FAIR director Monica Harris on how a mighty movement lost the plot.
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Are you relieved that Gay Pride month is over? Monica Harris, an author, attorney, activist, and the executive director of the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism (FAIR) fought for LGBT civil rights in the 1980s and 1990s. Today, she finds herself dismayed by the current state of that movement. In this conversation, Monica talks about how we …
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Writer and podcaster Sarah Hepola returns to The Unspeakable to talk about love, sex, #MeToo, Harvey Weinstein’s overturned rape conviction, her new job at The Dallas Morning News, her book in progress, and why she thinks local reporting will lead the way out of the media abyss. GUEST BIO Sarah Hepola is a features staff writer at the Dallas Mornin…
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How Victimhood Can Work For You! Andrew Boryga on his novel VICTIM.
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Paid subscribers get full access to my interview with Andrew Boryga. The first portion of this episode is available to all listeners. To hear the entire conversation, become a paying subscriber here. Who says you can’t write a novel skewing social justice excesses? Andrew Boryga has done just that — to critical acclaim. His debut novel VICTIM tells…
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Did Hebrew Israelite "Scholar" Dr. Kelly Richardson PROVE Adam Is CONFUSED About the Trinity?
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In recent social media skirmishes, Adam Coleman, has been getting PRESSED on the subject of the Trinity. One particular argument on Facebook didn't end so kindly. Tune into this podcast episode featuring none other that the BK Apologist, Alfredo Valentin, as we discuss objections to the Trinity from Hebrew Israelite influencer Dr. Kelly Richardson!…
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Is Working At Denny’s Better Than Going To College? William Deresiewicz on the zombie apocalypse of elite education.
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Is college pointless? Is an “elite education” more about networking than learning? Returning guest William Deresiewicz has been pondering these questions for more than a decade. They were the subject of his bestselling 2014 book Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life. That book has just been reissue…
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The Revolution Will Be Tweeted: Nellie Bowles reports from the morning after.
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Paid subscribers get full access to my interview with Nellie Bowles. The first half of this episode is available to all listeners. To hear the entire conversation, become a paying subscriber here. You may know Nellie Bowles from TGIF, her popular news roundup in The Free Press. Before that, she reported on Silicon Valley for The New York Times. Now…
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Many people today are *blindly* accepting the notion that to be a "Black Christian" is an oxymoron. I say "blindly" because I'd argue that a careful consideration of the interplay between African ethnicity/identity/heritage and Christianity affords us rational grounds to affirm Christianity without undermining our "blackness". In a recent video @Ga…
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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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The "Right Kind" of Black Person: Erec Smith on prescriptive racism.
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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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Gender, Data & What the Cass Review *Doesn’t* Say: Journalist Ben Ryan examines the evidence — or lack thereof — for youth gender transition.
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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
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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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From Betty Friedan to Ballerina Farms: Lisa Selin Davis on the conceptual housewife
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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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Grief Is The Thing With Feathers: Sloane Crosley on friendship, loss, mourning, and Flaco the owl.
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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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How Did Comedy Lose Its Humor? Arielle Isaac Norman on taking back the jokes.
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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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Is Therapy Making Us Crazy? Abigail Shrier on what's really driving the "mental health crisis" among young people.
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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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Has Literature Canceled Itself? Sherman Alexie on reading, writing, and book banning.
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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
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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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The Linguistic Confusion Of Gender: Philosopher Alex Byrne on how we got into so much trouble
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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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How Tumblr Memes Became Political Ideas: Katherine Dee decodes the manosphere, Tumblr feminism, anime activism, and more
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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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From Foster Care to the Ivy League: Rob Henderson on luxury beliefs, broken communities, and the path forward
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Paid subscribers get full access to my interview with Rob Henderson. The first half of this episode is available to all listeners. To hear the entire conversation, become a paying subscriber here. If you listen to this podcast and others like it, you may have heard of the concept of luxury beliefs. It was coined by this week’s guest Rob Henderson. …
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Is Dating A Lost Cause? Lori Gottlieb On How to Find Love In The Age of Apps, Ghosting, and Too Much Choice
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Paid subscribers get full access to my interview with Lori Gottlieb. The first half of this episode is available to all listeners. To hear the entire conversation, become a paying subscriber here. Psychotherapist and writer Lori Gottlieb visited The Unspeakable in 2021 to talk about her bestselling book Maybe You Should Talk To Someone. She returns…
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Artificial Intelligence For Dummies (Or At Least Normies): John Vervaeke and Shawn Coyne on Mentoring The Machines.
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Paid subscribers get full access to my interview with John Vervaeke and Shawn Coyne. The first half of this episode is available to all listeners. To hear the entire conversation, become a paying subscriber here. Meghan has been threatening to do an episode on artificial intelligence, and finally she makes good. This week, she welcomes two guests: …
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