We’re Not Kidding is a show where funny people talk about serious things, hosted by Zeteo founder and CEO Mehdi Hasan and regularly featuring internationally acclaimed comedian Bassem Youssef. Each episode, Mehdi is joined by a renowned guest host for a sometimes lighthearted, sometimes vulnerable conversation about topics they can't discuss anywhere else. zeteo.com
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The Mehdi Hasan Show features insightful reporting and probing interviews that provide deeper context for politics in our interconnected society.
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With the thrust and parry of rigorous debate, Mehdi Hasan cuts through the headlines to challenge conventional wisdom, highlight contradictions and uncover double standards.
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Interviews with attitude, tackling the big issues of our time with Mehdi Hasan.
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The Munk Debates podcast is an extension of the main stage events - in subject, speaker selection, tone and format. It will introduce the iconic brand - and its engaging debates about significant issues of our time. Audiences will hear strong and passionate arguments from both sides of an issue so they will have enough information to make up their own minds about where they stand.
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We The 66 is the official podcast of the 66% of Americans who don’t trust the news. We explore topics, people, and ideas that Big News ignores.
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Pod Save America is a no-bullshit conversation about politics hosted by former Obama aides Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, Dan Pfeiffer, and Tommy Vietor. It cuts through the noise to break down the week’s news and helps people figure out what matters and how they can help. They’re regularly joined by journalists, activists, politicians, entertainers, and world leaders. You can watch on YouTube or listen to new episodes every Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday. Ad-Free Pod Save America episodes availabl ...
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Mediaite presents Press Club, a podcast featuring conversations with the top figures in media and politics. Each week, Mediaite editor-in-chief Aidan McLaughlin sits down with the broadcasters, reporters, editors, and executives making the headlines. Guests will take listeners inside the news industry, reveal its secrets, and break down the forces shaping its trajectory. New episodes drop every Thursday.
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Audacious with Chion Wolf will highlight the uncommon experiences of everyday people – asking the hardest, most uncomfortable questions. With curiosity and compassion, Connecticut Public producer and host Chion Wolf digs deeper, encouraging listeners to ask hard questions in their own lives. Find out more at https://www.ctpublic.org/audacious
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Welcome to Hub Podcasts, the audio version of the big ideas and in-depth conversations found at The Hub.ca, Canada’s fastest growing digital news outlet with over 200,000 weekly users. Hub Dialogues features The Hub's editor at large Sean Speer engaged in longform conversations with leading thinkers on the big issues and ideas shaping the public conversation. In Conversation with David Frum features the insight and analysis of leading author, journalist, and thinker David Frum, who weighs in ...
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This podcast investigates episodes in history that highlight the worst and best of the human condition. History can tell us about past ideas and events, and in doing so it tells us something about the universal. When we hear voices from the past, that say what they experienced and how they understood what was happening, we also often get a sense of their character and personality. In the last three thousand years or so human beings haven’t evolved one bit. This means that as true as the old ...
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Hub Dialogues: Douglas Murray, Natasha Hausdorff, Mehdi Hasan and Gideon Levy on whether anti-Zionism is antisemitism
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On this special edition of Hub Dialogues, publisher Rudyard Grffiths interviews author and journalist Douglas Murray, barrister and expert commentator Natasha Hausdorff, editor-in-chief and founder of Zeteo Mehdi Hasan, and Israeli journalist author and journalist Gideon Levy ahead of the Munk Debate on Anti-Zionism. These four big thinkers will de…
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Behind the mic: Gayle King, Ziwe, and Mehdi Hasan on the art of the interview
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Back in the day — with your Walter Cronkites and David Brinkleys — it felt kind of inappropriate for an interviewer to bring their full selves to the conversation. It was all about the guest, after all, so why bother bringing their own distinctive flairs? But now, people tune in as much for the interviewer as the one being interviewed. And because …
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Munk Dialogue with Douglas Murray, Natasha Hausdorff, Mehdi Hasan and Gideon Levy: Looking ahead to the Munk Debate on Anti-Zionism
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On June 17th four debaters will take to the stage at Toronto’s Roy Thomson Hall for a sold out debate on Anti-Zionism. The motion up for debate: Be it Resolved, anti-Zionism is antisemitism On this special Munk Dialogue, we speak with each of the debaters to get a sense of their arguments heading into the debate, and what it is about this particula…
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Ep. 15: Mehdi Hasan on Islam in the West, the Future of Gaza, and the Muslim Vote in 2024
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Mehdi Hasan is one of the most polarizing media figures today. When we polled the Roca audience to ask who we should invite onto our show, Mehdi Hasan was one of the more requested names. He has achieved a loyal following among progressive and pro-Palestinian circles and has sparred frequently on Twitter with previous We The 66 guest, John Spencer.…
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Hub Dialogues: Bernard Lord on the government's pharmacare legislation and Canada's mixed-drug insurance model
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Bernard Lord, former premier of New Brunswick and current CEO of Medavie Blue Cross, discusses the Trudeau government's pharmacare legislation, the benefits of Canada's current mixed model of drug insurance, the difference between single-payer and universality and how to build on the strengths of the current system to provide drug coverage to those…
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Hub Headlines: Why our kids need a social media detox
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Hub Headlines features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjoy listening to original and provocative takes on the issues that matter while you are on the go. 0:19 - Our kids need a social media detox—what Canada can learn from France’s school cellphone ban, by Paul W. Bennett 10:07 - The economic case …
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Mediaite editor Aidan McLaughlin speaks with Alyssa Farah Griffin, former communications director in the Trump White House turned co-host of The View and CNN contributor. In a wide-ranging and at times personal conversation, they discuss her career, what she saw in the White House, why the GOP can't move on from Trump, and how a second Trump term w…
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Hub Roundtable: Is a big tax cut coming with a Pierre Poilievre-led government?
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Publisher Rudyard Griffiths and Editor-at-Large Sean Speer discuss the significance of Conservative Party’s latest video release which sets out its opposition to the Trudeau government’s capital gains tax hike and a commitment to undertake broader tax reform. They also discuss an explosive Hub article by media critic Marc Edge in which he investiga…
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Hub Headlines: The NSICOP report on foreign interference won’t name Canadian media outlets, I will
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Hub Headlines features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjoy listening to original and provocative takes on the issues that matter while you are on the go. 0:20 - If the NSICOP report on foreign interference won’t name Canadian media outlets, I will, by Marc Edge 13:30 - Note to the EU—the Right winn…
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Trump returns to the Capitol for the first time since January 6th and receives a hero’s welcome from House and Senate Republicans—where he calls Milwaukee a “horrible city,” refers to the Justice Department as “dirty bastards,” and complains about Taylor Swift not endorsing him. Meanwhile, the same Republicans attempting to overturn Trump’s convict…
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Hub Headlines: It's time for a new (new) deal for provinces
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Hub Headlines features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjoy listening to original and provocative takes on the issues that matter while you are on the go. 0:18 - It’s time for a (new) New Deal for provinces, by Trevor Tombe 9:37 - Decolonization is colonial, by Karen Restoule If you enjoy The Hub’s …
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The GOP Meltdown Over Hunter's Conviction
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Dan and The Bulwark’s Sarah Longwell break down the chaotic Republican response to the Hunter Biden news and what the conviction might mean for the Biden campaign, which of Donald Trump’s rumored VP picks scare them the most, and the latest from Tuesday’s primaries. For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of thi…
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Ep. 17 Breaking Down Canada's Mass Graves Story: Real or Fake?
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This is a message to our readers regarding the criticisms we received after last episode. But first some context. Almost exactly one year after the murder of George Floyd, Canada had its own reckoning. But this time, there was no video or autopsy that sparked the unrest. There was a claim, and that claim may have turned out to be baseless. On May 2…
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Hub Dialogues: Jennifer Burns on Milton Friedman being the last conservative
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Jennifer Burns, professor of history at Stanford University and research fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution, discusses her must-read book, Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative. The Hub Dialogues features The Hub's editor-at-large, Sean Speer, in conversation with leading entrepreneurs, policymakers, scholars, and thinkers on the issues and c…
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Hub Headlines: The Liberals are not a 'Charter party'
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Hub Headlines features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjoy listening to original and provocative takes on the issues that matter while you are on the go. 0:20 - The Liberals claim to be the ‘Charter party.’ Nothing could be further from the truth, by Joanna Baron 9:30 - Whether Biden or Trump wins,…
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Hub Headlines: Google shunning media moguls will harm Canadians
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Hub Headlines features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjoy listening to original and provocative takes on the issues that matter while you are on the go. 0:22 - Google shuns the big media moguls in decision over news fund—but it’s Canadian consumers who will pay the heaviest price, by Peter Menzies…
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Donald Trump meets with a probation officer for his pre-sentencing interview just a day after holding an unhinged rally in Nevada where Marjorie Taylor Greene compared him to notable defendant Jesus Christ. Trump's crew of hard-right advisors plots a new round of tax cuts for the rich while the Biden campaign sharpens its lines of attack. Then: Jon…
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Hub Dialogues: David Ignatius on geopolitics, espionage and the intersection between fact and fiction
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David Ignatius, best-selling author and Pulitzer prize-winning columnist for the Washington Post, discusses his must-read novel, Phantom Orbit: A Thriller. He also explores issues surrounding geopolitics, espionage, the intersection between fact and fiction and how the novel's insights may be translated into the real-world. The Hub Dialogues featur…
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Hub Headlines: Canada's corporate culture problem
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Hub Headlines features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjoy listening to original and provocative takes on the issues that matter while you are on the go. 0:17 - Canada has a corporate culture problem, by Stephen Staley 13:07 - Federal public servants need to get back to the office—and out of Ottawa…
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Mediaite editor Aidan McLaughlin speaks with George Stephanopoulos about covering Trump and Biden, the upcoming debates, the media industry, and his new book "The Situation Room". Stephanopoulos is the host of Good Morning America and This Week on ABC News.Mediaite's Press Club has expanded into a show on SiriusXM's POTUS Channel 124. The new show …
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Could Trump-Curious Black Voters Swing the Election? (Ep. 3)
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Jon is joined by pollster Terrance Woodbury and Lavora Barnes, Chair of the Michigan Democratic Party, to talk about the black voters who may cast their ballots for Trump this November. Who are they? Why are they leaving the Democratic Party? And how can we bring them back into the fold? Jon, Terrance, and Lavora dive into focus group tape, the Tru…
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Ep. 16 Canada's "Mass Grave" Hoax: Professor Debunks a Claim that Set Canada Ablaze
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On May 27, 2021, a shocking story out of British Columbia swept through Canada and eventually the entire world. The Kamloops Indian Band announced they had discovered 215 unmarked graves of schoolchildren under the ground of a former residential school. Everyone from the BBC to The New York Times speedily published a version of the headline: "Mass …
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Publisher Rudyard Griffiths and Editor-at-Large Sean Speer are joined by Globe and Mail columnist Andrew Coyne to discuss the parliamentary report revealing some MPs, senators and others collaborating with foreign governments, why the term "treason" may be warranted and how this represents a massive failure of Canadian governance and the protection…
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Jayson Greene reflects on grief and parenthood nine years after his daughter's death
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Jayson Greene’s daughter, Greta, died in 2015 when she was two years old. She was sitting on a bench with her grandma on the Upper West Side of Manhattan when a brick fell from a building and struck her in the head. Now, nine years later, how would Jayson describe Greta’s presence in his life? Hear his reflections on life after unimaginable tragedy…
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Hub Headlines: Downplaying the treason of MPs betrays our democracy
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Hub Headlines features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjoy listening to original and provocative takes on the issues that matter while you are on the go. 0:20 - Downplaying the Treason of MPs and senators is a betrayal of Canadian democracy, by Michael Kempa 11:50 - The U.K. Tories are going to los…
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Republican voters are starting to second-guess their support for convicted felon Donald Trump, who’s now threatening to lock up President Biden and other Democrats if he wins. Meanwhile, one of Trump’s most loyal henchmen, Steve Bannon, is finally going to jail. In Normandy, Biden makes the case for democracy with a fist bump at the D-Day anniversa…
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In Conversation with David Frum: Trump's conviction, Claudia Sheinbaum and 80th anniversary of D-Day
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Leading author, journalist and thinker David Frum and The Hub's Editor-at-Large Sean Speer discuss the ramifications of Donald Trump's conviction, the election of Mexico's new president Claudia Sheinbaum and the 80th anniversary of D-Day. The Hub Dialogues features The Hub's editor-at-large, Sean Speer, in conversation with leading entrepreneurs, p…
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Hub Headlines: Poilievre moves beyond Trump and Trudeau
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Hub Headlines features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjoy listening to original and provocative takes on the issues that matter while you are on the go. 0:20 - Neither Trump nor Trudeau—Poilievre’s free market realism brings modern savvy to tried-and-true economic principles, by Ginny Roth 7:50 - …
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Gaza, Police Brutality and Batman with Mehdi and W. Kamau Bell
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Stand-up comedian, best-selling author and acclaimed TV host W. Kamau Bell joins Mehdi as co-host of 'We're Not Kidding' this week. They discuss the student protestors, who join a long line of American anti-war demonstrators, as well as the police’s use of brute force against them. Mehdi and Kamau also examine the censorship of pro-Palestinian voic…
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President Biden issues an executive order temporarily closing the US-Mexico border to migrants. Tommy and Addisu Demissie discuss Democratic backlash to the action and why Republicans, despite having killed a bipartisan border bill, are claiming it’s too little, too late. Donald Trump joins TikTok, attends a UFC fight, and exploits MAGA backlash to…
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Hub Dialogues: Trevor Tombe on inflation, high food and housing costs, and affordability challenges
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University of Calgary economist and regular Hub contributor Trevor Tombe discusses his latest article on the difference between inflation growth and price levels and how certain goods such as food and housing have faced far faster price inflation than the rest of the economy. The Hub Dialogues features The Hub's editor-at-large, Sean Speer, in conv…
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Hub Headlines: Why the Conservatives need a strong climate agenda
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Hub Headlines features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjoy listening to original and provocative takes on the issues that matter while you are on the go. 0:21 - Conservatives need a strong climate agenda. Conservation is a key issue they can lead on, by Monte Solberg 6:26 - Say goodbye to Netflix, …
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