Episodes

  • How to Inform People in a News Desert

    How to Inform People in a News Desert
    Mar 10 2025
    Brian speaks with former media reporter with The Washington Post - Paul Farhi about his latest article entitled "In News Deserts, Trump Won in a Landslide". Donald Trump won the 2024 election with one of the smallest popular-vote margins in U.S. history, but in news deserts – counties lacking a professional source of local news – it was an avalanche. Trump won 91% percent of these counties over his Democratic rival, Kamala Harris, according to an analysis of voting data by Medill Journalism School’s State of Local News project.
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    43 mins
  • Exposing the White Supremacists Among Us

    Exposing the White Supremacists Among Us
    Feb 28 2025
    Brian interviews Steven Monacelli - a local freelance reporter in Texas who broke the story of a white supremacist working as an ICE prosecutor. Steven is a special investigative correspondent at the Texas Observer, a columnist at the Barbed Wire, and a publisher @proteanmag.
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    21 mins
  • Press Corps Challenge: Who Can Ask the Stupidest Question?

    Press Corps Challenge: Who Can Ask the Stupidest Question?
    Feb 21 2025
    Brian talks about the stupid questions from journalists at Donald Trump's latest press conference.
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    8 mins
  • How Do You Deal with a Tyrant?

    How Do You Deal with a Tyrant?
    Feb 17 2025
    Brian discusses Donald Trump banning the Associated Press from the Oval Office over the Gulf of Mexico dispute.
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    8 mins
  • Trump's First 2nd Term White House Press Briefing

    Trump's First 2nd Term White House Press Briefing
    Feb 3 2025
    Brian plays clips from the President Trump's new Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt at her first White House Press briefing.
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    13 mins
  • Anatomy of a Mid-Air Collision

    Anatomy of a Mid-Air Collision
    Feb 1 2025
    Being a licensed pilot - Brian explains how a difficult it is to be an air traffic controller and how hard it is to land a plane in one of the busiest airports in America. He also discusses some of the media calling out Donald Trump's lies about the crash during his press conference.
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    8 mins
  • The Cost of Truth to Power

    The Cost of Truth to Power
    Dec 23 2024
    Olivia Troye speaks out about her battles with Kash Patel and the new Trump regime. And we examine the art of taking things out of context.
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    32 mins
  • The Democrats Cave and the Press Miss the Big Stories of the Week.

    The Democrats Cave and the Press Miss the Big Stories of the Week.
    Dec 16 2024
    We interview key Democratic strategist - Julie Roginsky about the problems
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    31 mins
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