Best Words
154 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsFormal content with an informal tone. Take a deep dive into current events with Ben Gaines, Gabe Turzo, and Erica Vladimer. Between us we have worked in Politics, Finance, Law, Comedy, Academia, and Retail. All proud progressives, but we find ways to disagree.
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Episodes
How Do You Cleanse A Taint?
July 02, 2019 14:15 - 22 minutes - 15.6 MBGabe and Ben discuss the end of the Supreme Court's term, including whether the decision in Department of Commerce v. New York should be read as promising or ominous. We're on iTunes: http://apple.co/2tCd0Dn Google Play: http://bit.ly/2tEpOJb Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=139322 TuneIn: http://bit.ly/2svIk6F ... and now Spotify! https://spoti.fi/2NpeIT3 Please subscribe, share us with your friends and write a review! Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/NobodyKnewPod and...
Idiot or Supervillian?
June 18, 2019 19:56 - 14 minutes - 7.09 MBGabe and Ben speculate on tanker attacks in the Straits of Hormuz and fears over the march toward a reckless, expensive, and deadly war with Iran. We're on iTunes: http://apple.co/2tCd0Dn Google Play: http://bit.ly/2tEpOJb Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=139322 and TuneIn: http://bit.ly/2svIk6F Please subscribe, share us with your friends and write a review! Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/NobodyKnewPod and like us on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/NobodyKnewPod/
Their Last Stand
June 11, 2019 14:42 - 21 minutes - 10.5 MBNew York performance artist Tanner Willis stops by to talk with Ben and Gabe about the shameless culture of graft and corruption in the White House, and the need for #ImpeachmentInquiryNow. We're on iTunes: http://apple.co/2tCd0Dn Google Play: http://bit.ly/2tEpOJb Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=139322 and TuneIn: http://bit.ly/2svIk6F Please subscribe, share us with your friends and write a review! Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/NobodyKnewPod and like us on facebook...
What Happened to Non Stop Winning?
June 04, 2019 14:21 - 17 minutes - 8.67 MB#NoPlant19 is gripping the Midwest, with corn fields flooded and harvests in danger, and now China is stepping up agricultural tariffs. Gabe and Ben talk about farms and food. We're on iTunes: http://apple.co/2tCd0Dn Google Play: http://bit.ly/2tEpOJb Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=139322 and TuneIn: http://bit.ly/2svIk6F Please subscribe, share us with your friends and write a review! Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/NobodyKnewPod and like us on facebook at https://ww...
Peach Flavored Snowflakes
May 22, 2019 14:06 - 18 minutes - 8.71 MBA new round of harsh anti-choice measures are sweeping the country. Gabe and Ben talk about these threats to women's bodily autonomy and the fight over our courts. We're on iTunes: http://apple.co/2tCd0Dn Google Play: http://bit.ly/2tEpOJb Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=139322 and TuneIn: http://bit.ly/2svIk6F Please subscribe, share us with your friends and write a review! Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/NobodyKnewPod and like us on facebook at https://www.facebook.c...
Pretty Brazen
May 09, 2019 20:39 - 19 minutes - 9.28 MBGabe and Ben sharing a few thoughts and observations on the current state of the economy. We're on iTunes: http://apple.co/2tCd0Dn Google Play: http://bit.ly/2tEpOJb Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=139322 and TuneIn: http://bit.ly/2svIk6F Please subscribe, share us with your friends and write a review! Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/NobodyKnewPod and like us on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/NobodyKnewPod/
Do they give a Nobel Prize for attempted chemistry?
April 25, 2019 18:45 - 21 minutes - 10.4 MBThe Mueller Report is out, and Gabe and Ben have thoughts to share. We're on iTunes: http://apple.co/2tCd0Dn Google Play: http://bit.ly/2tEpOJb Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=139322 and TuneIn: http://bit.ly/2svIk6F Please subscribe, share us with your friends and write a review! Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/NobodyKnewPod and like us on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/NobodyKnewPod/
You Know What's Bad For Markets?
April 19, 2019 15:46 - 16 minutes - 7.85 MBImmigration is good for economies. Combating climate change is good for economies. Gabe and Ben talk about the cynical plan to punish political opponents with surprise immigrants and the use of indefinite vs. definite articles. We're on iTunes: http://apple.co/2tCd0Dn Google Play: http://bit.ly/2tEpOJb Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=139322 and TuneIn: http://bit.ly/2svIk6F Please subscribe, share us with your friends and write a review! Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com...
Pre-Existing Conditions [of the Mueller Report]
April 10, 2019 21:02 - 21 minutes - 10.1 MBBen and Gabe talk Mueller, Barr, taxes, security clearances, investigations, impeachment, and graft. We're on iTunes: http://apple.co/2tCd0Dn Google Play: http://bit.ly/2tEpOJb Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=139322 and TuneIn: http://bit.ly/2svIk6F Please subscribe, share us with your friends and write a review! Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/NobodyKnewPod and like us on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/NobodyKnewPod/
Denying that they have an ideology
April 03, 2019 18:40 - 46 minutes - 21.9 MBBen and Gabe interview Lucas Mendes, a Brazilian graduate researcher studying International Relations, Law and Human Rights, on the rise of Bolsonaro and the right wing government in Brazil. We're on iTunes: http://apple.co/2tCd0Dn Google Play: http://bit.ly/2tEpOJb Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=139322 and TuneIn: http://bit.ly/2svIk6F Please subscribe, share us with your friends and write a review! Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/NobodyKnewPod and like us on fac...
Immoral Bullshit
March 27, 2019 16:00 - 37 minutes - 17.7 MBBen and Gabe interview Jason Brennan, Professor of Strategy, Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy at Georgetown University about broken incentive structures in American higher ed, how those led to the admissions scam, and the broader problems created for higher ed as a whole. We're on iTunes: http://apple.co/2tCd0Dn Google Play: http://bit.ly/2tEpOJb Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=139322 and TuneIn: http://bit.ly/2svIk6F Please subscribe, share us with your friends and write ...
Gaming the System
March 20, 2019 16:14 - 39 minutes - 18.5 MBBen and Gabe interview Debbie Warnock, Professor of Sociology at Bennington College about the admissions scam indictments and the systematic challenges faced by low income and first generation college students. We're on iTunes: http://apple.co/2tCd0Dn Google Play: http://bit.ly/2tEpOJb Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=139322 and TuneIn: http://bit.ly/2svIk6F Please subscribe, share us with your friends and write a review! Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/NobodyKnewPo...
A Silly, Silly Man
March 10, 2019 17:12 - 15 minutes - 7.67 MBHey guys! Guess who's in trouble again? Jared Kushner. Ben and Gabe are going to talk about it. We're on iTunes: http://apple.co/2tCd0Dn Google Play: http://bit.ly/2tEpOJb Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=139322 and TuneIn: http://bit.ly/2svIk6F Please subscribe, share us with your friends and write a review! Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/NobodyKnewPod and like us on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/NobodyKnewPod/
Gabe Endorses Ron Kim
February 24, 2019 18:26 - 7 minutes - 3.91 MBRon Kim's leadership on the Amazon deal demonstrated that he has the right skills and priorities to be New York City's Public Advocate. We're on iTunes: http://apple.co/2tCd0Dn Google Play: http://bit.ly/2tEpOJb Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=139322 and TuneIn: http://bit.ly/2svIk6F Please subscribe, share us with your friends and write a review! Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/NobodyKnewPod and like us on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/NobodyKnewPod/
No Takesie Backsies
February 23, 2019 17:29 - 20 minutes - 9.63 MBBen and Gabe discuss the emergency that wasn't. Ben thinks the emergency declaration might be legal, or at least nonjusticiable. Gabe knows that it's bullshit anyway. We're on iTunes: http://apple.co/2tCd0Dn Google Play: http://bit.ly/2tEpOJb Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=139322 and TuneIn: http://bit.ly/2svIk6F Please subscribe, share us with your friends and write a review! Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/NobodyKnewPod and like us on facebook at https://www.faceboo...
Tsuris
February 15, 2019 19:59 - 38 minutes - 18.1 MBBen and Gabe are joined by Evan Stern, a fundraiser working in the Twin Cities Jewish community, to talk about the dustup over Ilhan Omar's tweet, the Israel lobby, and the suffering of the Palestinian people. We're on iTunes: http://apple.co/2tCd0Dn Google Play: http://bit.ly/2tEpOJb Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=139322 and TuneIn: http://bit.ly/2svIk6F Please subscribe, share us with your friends and write a review! Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/NobodyKnewPod and...
You Did Not, In Fact, Build That
February 09, 2019 14:35 - 22 minutes - 10.6 MBFind out why higher taxes on the rich is good for the economy. The case for a 70 percent top marginal rate goes beyond mere fairness. Ben and Gabe discuss this after giving you the latest layer of crazy in the Virginia Governor's Mansion. We're on iTunes: http://apple.co/2tCd0Dn Google Play: http://bit.ly/2tEpOJb Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=139322 and TuneIn: http://bit.ly/2svIk6F Please subscribe, share us with your friends and write a review! Follow us on Twitter http:...
How Many Right Wing Heads Would Explode?
January 27, 2019 20:18 - 15 minutes - 7.43 MBNew Episode! The shutdown is over, long live the shutdown! Ben and Gabe talk about the wall, right wing cognitive dissonance, Nancy Pelosi's masterstroke, and what comes next for the negotiations. We're on iTunes: http://apple.co/2tCd0Dn Google Play: http://bit.ly/2tEpOJb Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=139322 and TuneIn: http://bit.ly/2svIk6F Please subscribe, share us with your friends and write a review! Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/NobodyKnewPod and like u...
Ayn-Ranity
January 23, 2019 12:30 - 8 minutes - 4.53 MBHow did Nixon lose the support of the GOP? Gradually, then suddenly. Will Trump suffer the same fate? Also, can the shutdown convince people once and for all that a well-functioning society requires a well-functioning government? We're on iTunes: http://apple.co/2tCd0Dn Google Play: http://bit.ly/2tEpOJb Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=139322 and TuneIn: http://bit.ly/2svIk6F Please subscribe, share us with your friends and write a review! Follow us on Twitter http://twi...
A Hopeless Pessimist
November 02, 2018 15:46 - 21 minutes - 10.2 MBNew Election Day preview episode! Ben and Gabe speak with Ryan Mulcahy, Campaign Manager for Tom O'Halleran, who is locked in a tight re-election battle in Arizona's 1st Congressional District. How does the race look on the ground a few days before the election? Will Arizona's GOP hold onto Jeff Flake's Senate seat? How does the Navajo Nation impact early voting patterns in the state? And what does the election in Arizona tell us about the rest of the country? We're on iTunes: http://apple...
You Have to Have Some Hope
October 12, 2018 13:03 - 36 minutes - 17.2 MBNew episode! Ben and Gabe speak with Erica Vladimer, cofounder of New York's Sexual Harassment Working Group, about the group's goals,#HarassmentFreeAlbany, the Kavanaugh hearings, and the #MeToo movement's impact on the culture at large. Please visit HarassmentFreeAlbany.com to learn more. We're on iTunes: http://apple.co/2tCd0Dn Google Play: http://bit.ly/2tEpOJb Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=139322 and TuneIn: http://bit.ly/2svIk6F Please subscribe, share us with your...
The Brett Kavanaugh Saga
September 17, 2018 11:49 - 24 minutes - 11.2 MBNew episode! Ben (and Gabe) update Mainers for Accountable Leadership's last month of activism to persuade U.S. Senator Susan Collins to stop Brett Kavanaugh's appointment to the Supreme Court. Pledge to support Susan Collins' opponent in 2020 if she votes to confirm at bit.ly/collinsbeahero Read E.J. Dionne's Washington Post from September 13th here: https://wapo.st/2CNHkA4 Learn more about MFAL at www.MFAL.me, and support Maine activists fighting to defeat Brett Kavanaugh at bit.ly/M...
All Eyes Are On Her
August 20, 2018 12:06 - 32 minutes - 14.9 MBNew episode! Social Justice Advocate Marie Follayttar of Mainers for Accountable Leadership joins us to talk about Maine's fight to persuade Susan Collins to reject Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Marie's work was profiled in the New York Times: https://t.co/A9YtOCy0Ku Learn more about MFAL at www.MFAL.me, and support Maine activists fighting to defeat Brett Kavanaugh at http://www.mfal.me/donate2kavano.html Mainers can sign our petition opposing the nomination at www.KavaNO...
The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man
July 30, 2018 12:58 - 35 minutes - 16.5 MBNew episode! Mattathias Schwartz joins us to talk about John Brennan, Helsinki, and journalism in an increasingly Trump-obsessed world. Matt's Brennan Profile from the NY Times Magazine: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/27/magazine/john-brennan-president-trump-national-security-state.html We're on iTunes: http://apple.co/2tCd0Dn Google Play: http://bit.ly/2tEpOJb Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=139322 and TuneIn: http://bit.ly/2svIk6F Please subscribe, share us with your frien...
Mainers Calling Collins
July 29, 2018 22:07 - 58 seconds - 452 KBMembers of Indivisible MDI and Mainers for Accountable Leadership call Senator Collins to tell her to vote NO on Kavanaugh. If you live in Maine, you should too! 202-224-2523 It only takes a minute.
Our Grand Leader
July 25, 2018 18:35 - 11 minutes - 5.36 MBNew (mini) episode: Gabe and Ben debrief after a disastrous summit in Helsinki, speculate about scary times ahead. We're on iTunes: http://apple.co/2tCd0Dn Google Play: http://bit.ly/2tEpOJb Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=139322 and TuneIn: http://bit.ly/2svIk6F Please subscribe, share us with your friends and write a review! Like us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/NobodyKnewPod/ and follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/NobodyKnewPod.
Melt the ICE
July 06, 2018 19:17 - 29 minutes - 13.6 MBNew episode! Sounds of Shenna Bellows and Mufalo Chitam from the June 30 #familiesbelongtogether rally in Portland, ME, plus a conversation on "Abolish ICE." We're on iTunes: http://apple.co/2tCd0Dn Google Play: http://bit.ly/2tEpOJb Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=139322 and TuneIn: http://bit.ly/2svIk6F Please subscribe, share us with your friends and write a review! Like us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/NobodyKnewPod/ and follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/Nobo...
Our Upside Down Universe
June 18, 2018 11:57 - 37 minutes - 17.4 MBLeo Cuello from the National Health Law Program is here to talk about his organization's pending lawsuit against HHS waivers for Medicaid in Kentucky, and another lawsuit from Texas threatening what's left of the ACA. We're on iTunes: http://apple.co/2tCd0Dn Google Play: http://bit.ly/2tEpOJb Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=139322 and TuneIn: http://bit.ly/2svIk6F Please subscribe, share us with your friends and write a review! Like us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Nobo...
A Bronx Tale
June 13, 2018 17:08 - 12 minutes - 5.52 MBGabe spoke with Saikat Chakrabarti, communications director for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ( @Ocasio2018 ), who is running a primary challenge against @repjoecrowley to represent NY-14 in Congress. We're on iTunes: http://apple.co/2tCd0Dn Google Play: http://bit.ly/2tEpOJb Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=139322 and TuneIn: http://bit.ly/2svIk6F Please subscribe, share us with your friends and write a review! Like us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/NobodyKnewPod/, follow...
A Feature, Not a Bug
June 02, 2018 02:31 - 25 minutes - 11.4 MBNew Episode! Carrie Gleason from the Center for Popular Democracy's Fair Workweek Initiative is here to talk about Toys R Us workers rising up, Epic Systems, and the battle to establish a fair workweek in the retail and service industries. Join Rise Up Retail's actions supporting the Toys R Us workers on June 3rd, in Union, NJ, and June 4th, on Manhattan's upper East side. We're on iTunes: http://apple.co/2tCd0Dn Google Play: http://bit.ly/2tEpOJb Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/s?f...
Lots of Mistresses
May 15, 2018 12:09 - 36 minutes - 16.6 MBNew Episode! James Myall from the Maine Center for Economic Policy joins us to discuss changes to food stamps coming in the House Farm Bill. Find James Myall's work on the subject of SNAP and work requirements here: https://bit.ly/2vtBSPl, https://bit.ly/2jns28K, and https://bit.ly/2IFEcrX. Please subscribe, share us with your friends and write a review! Like us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/NobodyKnewPod/, follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/NobodyKnewPod, support us at h...
Interview with Suraj Patel
May 12, 2018 12:30 - 6 minutes - 3.07 MBCheck out our interview with @SurajPatelNYC who is challenging @RepMaloney in the Dem Primary for New York's 12th Congressional District! #medicareforall #DACA We're on iTunes: http://apple.co/2tCd0Dn Google Play: http://bit.ly/2tEpOJb Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=139322 and TuneIn: http://bit.ly/2svIk6F Please subscribe, share us with your friends and write a review! Like us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/NobodyKnewPod/, follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/Nob...
The Apprentice: White House Edition
May 05, 2018 16:34 - 39 minutes - 17.9 MBNew Season! New Episode! Dr. Raechel Lutz, environmental historian joins us to discuss ecological disaster, land and water conservation, and the EPA under Scott Pruitt. We're on iTunes: http://apple.co/2tCd0Dn Google Play: http://bit.ly/2tEpOJb Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=139322 and TuneIn: http://bit.ly/2svIk6F Please subscribe, share us with your friends and write a review! Like us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/NobodyKnewPod/, follow us on Twitter http://twit...
Time to Educate Some Adults
March 21, 2018 19:05 - 33 minutes - 15.2 MBWe are joined by two educators: Lindsay Kaplan, co-founder of Maine Educators United Against Gun Violence is working to end gun violence in our schools, and Anissa Angier is working with her fellow Oklahoma teachers to receive a badly needed pay raise. We're on iTunes: http://apple.co/2tCd0Dn Google Play: http://bit.ly/2tEpOJb Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=139322 and TuneIn: http://bit.ly/2svIk6F Please subscribe, share us with your friends and write a review! Like us on...
Very Messy
March 06, 2018 02:41 - 23 minutes - 10.6 MBNew Episode! After a conversation with Lulu Garcia-Navarro on NPR, our friend Kate Burke joins us to discuss her perspective on #MeToo and the movement it's inspired. We're on iTunes: http://apple.co/2tCd0Dn Google Play: http://bit.ly/2tEpOJb Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=139322 and TuneIn: http://bit.ly/2svIk6F Please subscribe, share us with your friends and write a review! Like us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/NobodyKnewPod/, follow us on Twitter http://twitter.c...
Rotten from the Top
February 21, 2018 02:19 - 34 minutes - 15.7 MBNew Episode! After terrible week full of sadness and disappointment, from failure on DACA protection to another tragic school shooting, Gabe and Ben find some hope in an interview with Beth Kloser of Battleground Texas. We're on iTunes: http://apple.co/2tCd0Dn Google Play: http://bit.ly/2tEpOJb Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=139322 and TuneIn: http://bit.ly/2svIk6F Please subscribe, share us with your friends and write a review! Like us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/N...
Future Sociopaths of America
February 08, 2018 15:28 - 31 minutes - 21.3 MBDevin Nunes commits political Seppuku while law-and-order Republicans turn against the FBI. We wonder if the Democrats will snatch Shutdown defeat from the jaws of victory, and whether the House Freedom Caucus will finally realize their dream of nuking our economy over the Debt Ceiling. We're on iTunes: http://apple.co/2tCd0Dn Google Play: http://bit.ly/2tEpOJb Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=139322 and TuneIn: http://bit.ly/2svIk6F Please subscribe, share us with your frie...
Another Brick in the Wall
January 19, 2018 12:30 - 30 minutes - 21 MBNew Episode! Ben and Gabe discuss what drives voters to favor strict immigration policy while still seeing the US as a beacon of hope to the world. They look at the ultimate futility of immigration enforcement, wonder whether Trump can unilaterally withdraw from NAFTA, and whether he is actually a Chinese secret agent. We're on iTunes: http://apple.co/2tCd0Dn Google Play: http://bit.ly/2tEpOJb Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=139322 and TuneIn: http://bit.ly/2svIk6F Please sub...
Pitchforks, or no pitchforks?
January 13, 2018 14:55 - 26 minutes - 12.2 MBBonus Episode! Friend of the pod John Williamson III joins us to share his perspective on Fire and Fury and the tax bill. We're on iTunes: http://apple.co/2tCd0Dn Google Play: http://bit.ly/2tEpOJb Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=139322 and TuneIn: http://bit.ly/2svIk6F Please subscribe, share us with your friends and write a review! Like us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/NobodyKnewPod/, follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/NobodyKnewPod, support us at https://w...
La Junta
December 28, 2017 03:45 - 24 minutes - 11.1 MBNew episode! Three months after Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico, the disenfranchised citizens still face a heartbreaking humanitarian crisis. We're on iTunes: http://apple.co/2tCd0Dn Google Play: http://bit.ly/2tEpOJb Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=139322 and TuneIn: http://bit.ly/2svIk6F Please subscribe, share us with your friends and write a review! Like us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/NobodyKnewPod/, follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/NobodyKnewPod, su...
The Market's Animal Spirit
December 12, 2017 01:49 - 32 minutes - 14.8 MBNew Episode! On the eve of a special election we've been talking about since May, Gabe and Ben discuss Alabama and its consequences for the tax bill. We're on iTunes: http://apple.co/2tCd0Dn Google Play: http://bit.ly/2tEpOJb Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=139322 and TuneIn: http://bit.ly/2svIk6F Please subscribe, share us with your friends and write a review! Like us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/NobodyKnewPod/, follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/NobodyKnewPo...
The Chickenshit Club
November 17, 2017 04:26 - 46 minutes - 31.6 MBNew Episode: Book Club!!! Gabe and Ben talk VA elections and AL Senate race before discussing Jesse Eisinger's The Chickenshit Club. We're on iTunes: http://apple.co/2tCd0Dn Google Play: http://bit.ly/2tEpOJb Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=139322 and TuneIn: http://bit.ly/2svIk6F Please subscribe, share us with your friends and write a review! Like us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/NobodyKnewPod/, follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/NobodyKnewPod, support us a...
Rich Guy Fragility
October 26, 2017 06:00 - 58 minutes - 26.8 MBTrump disrespects gold star families, and the Republicans in Congress declare class war on the rest of us. We're on iTunes: http://apple.co/2tCd0Dn Google Play: http://bit.ly/2tEpOJb Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=139322 and TuneIn: http://bit.ly/2svIk6F Please subscribe, share us with your friends and write a review! Like us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/NobodyKnewPod/, follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/NobodyKnewPod, support us at https://www.patreon.com...
Morons, Guns and Money
October 15, 2017 18:56 - 48 minutes - 11.1 MBGabe and Ben talk Tillerson getting mad, Trump attacking Puerto Rico, and the NRA acting as the leading mouthpiece for nativism and corporate greed in America. We're on iTunes: http://apple.co/2tCd0Dn Google Play: http://bit.ly/2tEpOJb Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=139322 and TuneIn: http://bit.ly/2svIk6F Please subscribe, share us with your friends and write a review! Like us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/NobodyKnewPod/, follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/No...
Robert F. Bork
September 28, 2017 11:56 - 57 minutes - 39.4 MBAntitrust law and corporate consolidation. Robert Bork: the conservative Forrest Gump? And Ben shares his favorite Roy Moore story. We're also on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and TuneIn. Please subscribe, share us with your friends and write a review! Like us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/NobodyKnewPod/, follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/NobodyKnewPod, support us at https://www.patreon.com/NobodyKnewPod and email us at [email protected].
An Ayn Rand Fetishist's Superstate on Mars
September 24, 2017 17:39 - 54 minutes - 24.9 MBBen and Gabe discuss debts, dreamers, and hurricanes. How the GOP's anti-regulatory fetish harmed Houston and what little a 6 month reprieve to Dreamers will accomplish. They also wonder why exactly we need a debt ceiling. We're also on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and TuneIn. Please subscribe, share us with your friends and write a review! Like us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/NobodyKnewPod/, follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/NobodyKnewPod, support us at https://www.patre...
Reagan Reintroduced the Bible Into the Schools
July 25, 2017 02:52 - 43 minutes - 30 MBGabe and Ben talk about police shootings, rape, childhood lead exposure, and class warfare. Recorded June 17th. We're also on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and TuneIn. Please subscribe, share us with your friends and write a review! Like us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/NobodyKnewPod/, follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/NobodyKnewPod, support us at https://www.patreon.com/NobodyKnewPod and email us at [email protected].
Ad Hominem Attacks
July 12, 2017 01:42 - 49 minutes - 33.9 MBGabe and Ben solve all the Democratic Party's problems! No, but seriously, an honest discussion of campaign finance and Democratic performance in 2017 special elections. We're also on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and TuneIn. Please subscribe, share us with your friends and write a review! Like us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/NobodyKnewPod/, follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/NobodyKnewPod, support us at https://www.patreon.com/NobodyKnewPod and email us at nobodyknewpod@gm...
President Fatboy Run-Your-Mouth
July 01, 2017 18:24 - 45 minutes - 31.5 MBWe're back! After a month hiatus, Gabe and Ben are back! Clearing out some old recording first with an episode recorded June 6, discussing the decision to pull out of the Paris agreement, Trump's response to London terrorism, and the 25th amendment. We're also on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and TuneIn. Please subscribe, share us with your friends and write a review! Like us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/NobodyKnewPod/, follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/NobodyKnewPod, su...