# unspeakable (podcasts) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover unspeakable. Page: Feed: --- ## [California Is Failing the Homeless | Guest: Mary Theroux | Ep 401](https://freethepeoplefoundation.substack.com/p/california-is-failing-the-homeless) _2026-08-26 · Free the People · Free the People_ For decades, California has been pouring government money into the homelessness problem, insisting that the issue can be solved by simply giving people free housing. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/212765827/114edf7ba8eaeec30e3af1f1316a2e70.mp3) ## [Flashback | Zombie Politicians | Kibbe on Liberty (2018)](https://freethepeoplefoundation.substack.com/p/flashback-zombie-politicians-kibbe) _2026-08-25 · Free the People · Free the People_ Politicians are relentless, mindless, and difficult to remove from power. ## [The Coverup: Behind the Scenes, B-Roll](https://freethepeoplefoundation.substack.com/p/the-coverup-behind-the-scenes-b-roll-3fc) _2026-08-24 · Free the People · Free the People_ Part 5 ## [Why Cities Let Addicts Live On the Streets, with journalist Michael Powell](https://theunspeakablepodcast.libsyn.com/michael-powell-on-harm-reduction-street-homelessness-and-the-third-rails-of-modern-journalism) _2026-08-24 · The Unspeakeasy With Meghan Daum_ Meghan's guest this week is journalist Michael Powell, a staff writer at The Atlantic and longtime former New York Times reporter whom she has admired for years for his willingness to report on thorny, third-rail cultural topics. She talked with him about his recent reporting on chronic street homelessness, drug addiction, and the real-world consequences of progressive governance. Specifically,… [Listen](https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/theunspeakablepodcast/MD_-_Michael_Powell.mp3?dest-id=3170096) ## [Chapter Six: Fear of Otherness](https://freethepeoplefoundation.substack.com/p/chapter-six-fear-of-otherness) _2026-08-21 · Free the People · Free the People_ Humans are naturally tribal animals. ## [Why the Burritocourse Will Never Wrap Up](https://freethepeoplefoundation.substack.com/p/why-the-burritocourse-will-never) _2026-08-21 · Taylor Lewis · Free the People_ Since you didn’t ask, dear reader, I’ll oblige you anyway. ## [The Death of Data | Words & Numbers | Ep 520](https://freethepeoplefoundation.substack.com/p/the-death-of-data-words-and-numbers) _2026-08-20 · Antony Davies · Free the People_ When government statistics are under question, it gets pretty hard to know what the hell is actually going on. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/211907374/63d096040d56c390fd8d720bac11bb7d.mp3) ## [The Unspeakable | Episode 13](https://freethepeoplefoundation.substack.com/p/the-unspeakable-episode-13) _2026-08-20 · Free the People · Free the People_ Flashback… ## [Socialism Still Kills | Guest: Matt Kibbe | Ep 400](https://freethepeoplefoundation.substack.com/p/socialism-still-kills-guest-matt) _2026-08-19 · Free the People · Free the People_ For the 400th episode of “Kibbe on Liberty,” Matt Kibbe takes a look back at the history of the show, which had its humble beginnings a decade ago. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/211887103/a0abb5828b6f851a2bebd86d213a66c1.mp3) ## [Flashback | The Dark History of China | Kibbe on Liberty (2018)](https://freethepeoplefoundation.substack.com/p/flashback-the-dark-history-of-china) _2026-08-19 · Free the People · Free the People_ We’re opening the vaults of Kibbe on Liberty. ## [CLI-first decentralized compute (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/BeH6Wo6iwam4) _2026-08-19 · **Sponsored**_ Run and pay spare GPUs from the CLI — transcode, coinpay (DID+escrow), infernet (AI). ## [The Price of Revolution in ‘Squid Game’: Altruism & the Savior Complex from the Perspective of Scapegoats](https://freethepeoplefoundation.substack.com/p/the-price-of-revolution-in-squid) _2026-08-19 · Hein Htet Kyaw · Free the People_ It's not by accident that people see anti-capitalist themes inside "Squid Game". ## [Holy Cow: Why Are Steers Lactating? | Mollie Engelhart | Ep 20](https://freethepeoplefoundation.substack.com/p/holy-cow-why-are-steers-lactating) _2026-08-17 · Free the People · Free the People_ Mollie Engelhart—regenerative farmer, chef, author, mother of five, and founder of Sovereignty Ranch—joins Sienna Mae Heath on Real Unity for a conversation about food, farming, nature, and the assumptions we often take for granted. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/211620357/25f9d88296ce9cdf11734c235ed70b78.mp3) ## [Lift Campaign Donation Caps, But Ban Them From Special Interests](https://freethepeoplefoundation.substack.com/p/lift-campaign-donation-caps-but-ban) _2026-08-16 · Christopher E. Baecker · Free the People_ Understatement alert: money in politics is not popular. ## [Pied-à-tricked](https://freethepeoplefoundation.substack.com/p/pied-a-tricked) _2026-08-14 · Taylor Lewis · Free the People_ Is there anything more cosmically just than a voter pulling the lever in full belief that a plebiscite’s ill effects will dog someone else? ## [Of Course Clark is Right | Words & Numbers | Ep 519](https://freethepeoplefoundation.substack.com/p/of-course-clark-is-right-words-and) _2026-08-13 · Free the People · Free the People_ Clark Neily joins us once again, this time to discuss the thorny matter of constitutional interpretation. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/210948360/40c3e4b6a470c748e47bb4dc38f5a20d.mp3) ## [The Unspeakable | Episode 12](https://freethepeoplefoundation.substack.com/p/the-unspeakable-episode-12) _2026-08-13 · Matt Battaglia · Free the People_ Just as one can commit injustice by doing nothing, one can also commit injustice by accident - through falsehoods, incorrect information, incorrect analysis, or otherwise. ## [Australia Embraced Tyranny During Lockdowns | Guest: Topher Field | Ep 399](https://freethepeoplefoundation.substack.com/p/australia-embraced-tyranny-during) _2026-08-12 · Free the People · Free the People_ In the first few years of the 2020s, the United States engaged in unprecedented breaches of American civil liberties under the pretense of protecting public health and safety. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/210789325/28438ceca184f0b0ff4fedf38d36ce68.mp3) ## [Evan Barker on Nothing Left, the Dark Art of Political Fundraising, and the Fracturing Left](https://theunspeakablepodcast.libsyn.com/evan-barker-on-nothing-left-the-dark-art-of-political-fundraising-and-the-fracturing-left) _2026-08-10 · The Unspeakeasy With Meghan Daum_ Meghan's guest this week is Evan Barker, a former progressive operative, fundraising strategist, and author of Nothing Left: Confessions of a Democratic Operative. Meghan was eager to sit down with Evan after following her journey from a working-class Midwestern Obama campaign volunteer to a high-powered consultant who ultimately grew disillusioned with the modern Democratic machine. Together,… [Listen](https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/theunspeakablepodcast/MD_-_Evan_Barker.mp3?dest-id=3170096) ## [Chapter Five: Fear of Ideology](https://freethepeoplefoundation.substack.com/p/chapter-five-fear-of-ideology) _2026-08-07 · Free the People · Free the People_ Ideas are powerful things. ## [Potluck | Words & Numbers | Ep 518](https://freethepeoplefoundation.substack.com/p/potluck-words-and-numbers-ep-518) _2026-08-06 · James R. Harrigan · Free the People_ This week Ant and James seem not to have much of a point, but that's never stopped them before, and it sure didn't stop them this week. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/210093166/aae94f4eee6246d4f83e4a8607403134.mp3) ## [Ask the crowd: AI or not (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/LNVKTzWuAnzs) _2026-08-06 · **Sponsored**_ Get a transparent verdict from verified humans via web, RSS, or API. ## [Anne Frank Examines Her White Privilege: the Musical feat. PJ Adzima](https://theunspeakablepodcast.libsyn.com/anne-frank-examines-her-white-privilege-the-musical-feat-pj-adzima) _2026-07-29 · The Unspeakeasy With Meghan Daum_ After a decade of ideological conformity, is American theater ready to laugh at itself again? This week Meghan is joined by Broadway star, comedian, and producer PJ Adzima , founder of Stage Time NYC and producer of Slam Frank —a mind-melting new musical that reimagines The Diary of Anne Frank through "an intersectional, multi-ethnic, genderqueer, Afro-Latin hip-hop lens." (You read that right.)… [Listen](https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/theunspeakablepodcast/MD_-_PJ_Adzima_V2.mp3?dest-id=3170096) ## [Jenny Holland's Crusade To Save Culture, One Landmine At a Time](https://theunspeakablepodcast.libsyn.com/gen-x-social-hour-deconstructing-lena-dunham-and-defending-the-indefensible-with-jenny-holland) _2026-07-13 · The Unspeakeasy With Meghan Daum_ This (almost) Fourth of July conversation originally appeared on Jenny Holland's channel, Saving Culture From Itself , but it's really a "collab," as they say in the pod-biz. Meghan has talked with Jenny before on YouTube livestreams, but this is the first time they've done an official podcast together. This conversation kept circling back to the kinds of tripwires and trigger points that cause… [Listen](https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/theunspeakablepodcast/MD_-_Jenny_Holland.mp3?dest-id=3170096) ## [Making Jungian Sense of the World, with Lisa Marchiano](https://theunspeakablepodcast.libsyn.com/making-jungian-sense-of-the-world-with-lisa-marchiano) _2026-06-30 · The Unspeakeasy With Meghan Daum_ Meghan's guest this week is Lisa Marchiano —Jungian analyst, author, and co-host of the popular podcast This Jungian Life . She's long been intrigued by Carl Jung's ideas but also found them somewhat elusive. So she asked Lisa to help me understand why Jung resonates so deeply with so many people and why his work feels especially relevant today. They discuss archetypes, the shadow, synchronicity,… [Listen](https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/theunspeakablepodcast/MD_-_Lisa_Marchiano_2026-06.mp3?dest-id=3170096) ## [Judy Blume Got It Right: Mark Oppenheimer on his new biography of the legendary author](https://theunspeakablepodcast.libsyn.com/judy-blume-got-it-right-mark-oppenheimer-on-his-new-biography-of-the-legendary-author) _2026-06-17 · The Unspeakeasy With Meghan Daum_ Mark Oppenheimer spent decades thinking about Judy Blume before finally writing her biography — and the result is a book that is a serious inquiry into Blume's books, her personal story, and social and cultural dynamics of the 80-plus years in which she has lived. In this conversation, we talk about what it meant to be a boy who loved Judy Blume, why realist fiction for young people has largely… [Listen](https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/theunspeakablepodcast/FREE_-_MD_-_Mark_Oppenheimer.mp3?dest-id=3170096) ## [Los Angeles Mayor's Race: Is Adam Miller the Grownup That Got Away?](https://theunspeakablepodcast.libsyn.com/los-angeles-mayors-race-is-adam-miller-the-grownup-that-got-away) _2026-05-27 · The Unspeakeasy With Meghan Daum_ Adam Miller is one of more than a dozen candidates running for mayor of Los Angeles, but unlike some of his rivals, he comes from the worlds of tech and nonprofit management rather than politics. Miller founded the e-learning company Cornerstone and the homelessness prevention nonprofit Better Angels, and says he entered the race because he believes the city's failures — especially around… [Listen](https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/theunspeakablepodcast/MD_-_Adam_Miller.mp3?dest-id=3170096) ## [How Straight Women Became Uncool](https://theunspeakablepodcast.libsyn.com/how-straight-women-became-uncool) _2026-05-21 · The Unspeakeasy With Meghan Daum_ Writer and cultural critic Phoebe Maltz Bovy joins Meghan to discuss her new book, The Last Straight Woman, an exploration of how heterosexual women became suspect — if not pitifully uncool — in progressive culture. They talk about everything from Tumblr-era feminism and the post-#MeToo recalibration of gender politics to the television series Sex and the City and Girls, "photogenic feminism,"… [Listen](https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/theunspeakablepodcast/FREE_V2_-_MD_-_Phoebe_Maltz-Bovy.mp3?dest-id=3170096) ## [Can Spencer Pratt Save Los Angeles?](https://theunspeakablepodcast.libsyn.com/can-spencer-pratt-save-los-angeles) _2026-05-05 · The Unspeakeasy With Meghan Daum_ Meghan's guest is Spencer Pratt, candidate for Los Angeles mayor. Yes, that Spencer Pratt — the producer-crafted villain from The Hills who later blew a fortune on moldavite crystals and Birkin bags before settling into a quieter life raising a family in Pacific Palisades. That house burned down in the Palisades Fire in January 2025, and what followed was a political awakening that has put him in… [Listen](https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/theunspeakablepodcast/LIBSYN_V2_-_MD_-_Spencer_Pratt.mp3?dest-id=3170096) ## [When Wokeness Stops Working: Brendan O'Neill's VIBE SHIFT signals a new era](https://theunspeakablepodcast.libsyn.com/when-wokeness-stops-working-brendan-oneills-vibe-shift-signals-a-new-era) _2026-04-27 · The Unspeakeasy With Meghan Daum_ Meghan's guest this week is British journalist and author Brendan O'Neill, chief political writer at Spiked and author of Vibe Shift: The Revolt Against Wokeness, Greenism and Technocracy. Brendan talks about what he sees as a growing "vibe shift" away from elite consensus and toward something like common sense—though not without its own distortions. He and Meghan discuss the UK's role in pushing… [Listen](https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/theunspeakablepodcast/MD_-_Brendan_ONeill.mp3?dest-id=3170096) ## [The Emaciated Elephant in the Room: Are GLP-1s causing us to lose our minds as well as weight?](https://theunspeakablepodcast.libsyn.com/the-emaciated-elephant-in-the-room-are-glp-1s-causing-us-to-lose-our-minds-as-well-as-weight) _2026-04-14 · The Unspeakeasy With Meghan Daum_ Hadley Freeman is a U.K.-based journalist, Sunday Times columnist, and the author of Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia . She joins the podcast this week to discuss what she calls the "thinness arms race" in the era of GLP-1 weight-loss drugs. She and Meghan talk about why extreme thinness is once again being rewarded—if not demanded—of female celebrities, how the current aesthetic differs… [Listen](https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/theunspeakablepodcast/MD_-_Hadley_Freeman_V2.mp3?dest-id=3170096)