Liberals: It Actually Is That Deep with Lyz Lenz

Bill O’Reilly book titles. Zionist Instagram accounts. Checking NewsMax every day. Lyz Lenz, author and writer of the newsletter Men Yell At Me, joins the show to talk about making men mad. We discuss divorce, our funny(?) families, and how we’ve become better and worse for consumption of political media. Political discussion starts about 8 minutes in. Tw for Epstein.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Writer Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya joins the show to talk about finding queer community and chosen family in a red state like Florida. Gabe shares his stories of growing up there and learns about the type of solidarity that can beautifully develop in adversity --- both with the weather and, you know, otherwise.Check out Rosetta Stone and use my code TODAY for a great deal: https://www.rosettastone.comAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Gabe’s old BuzzFeed coworker and writer Ash Perez joins the show to talk about his new rom com Speak Now. The duo catch up about transness, autism, and the wild paths their lives have taken. Speak Now is a queer rom-com about a rising-star chef who’s forced to confront her first love when she’s hired to cater her ex–best friend’s wedding, putting her career-defining opportunity at odds with unresolved feelings from her past. Set in the world of fine dining in Big Sur, it’s a funny, emotionally honest story about second chances and self-discovery. Speak Now is Ash's fiction debut! The audiobook features a full cast led by Jena Malone and Arienne Mandi.Speak Now is available for preorder now wherever you get audiobooks, and publishes on March 31 (on International Transgender Day of Visibility). Link is here to preorder: https://bit.ly/3MiDUtm Woooo!Check out Rosetta Stone and use my code TODAY for a great deal: https://www.rosettastone.comAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Jesse, of Theater Workers For A Ceasefire, talks about the importance of theater in the political space, divesting from Israeli state-sponsored, colonialist and imperialist theater, and coming into anti-Zionism as a Jewish artist. Links: https://theaterworkersforaceasefire.com/statementhttps://www.bacbi.be/Check out Rosetta Stone and use my code TODAY for a great deal: https://www.rosettastone.comAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Reporter Madeline Peltz joins the show to talk about her years of covering Turning Point USA, the liberal journalists who suck up to Nazis, and how liberals and leftists focus on elections over building movements. Plus, the right's ability to embrace anyone who wants in, how right-wing women are losing faith in MAGA and why we keep not believing what the right is telling us straight up that they are doing.Check out Rosetta Stone and use my code TODAY for a great deal: https://www.rosettastone.comAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Author of "Cafe Hysteria" Madison Huizinga and Gabe talk about no longer media training celebrities, the sinister origins of trends, and why concerts have become so prohibitively expensive. Plus, every influencer is fake now. Even ones with like, five followers. Check out Rosetta Stone and use my code TODAY for a great deal: https://www.rosettastone.comAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The author of “Demystifying Disability,” Emily Ladau, joins the pod to talk about the societal expectations that make life harder for disabled people, what changes about your life, and the media’s laziness using disability as a shortcut.Check out Rosetta Stone and use my code TODAY for a great deal: https://www.rosettastone.comAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

LA Taco reporter Izzy Ramirez joins the show to talk about the crushing of freedom of the press, tracking all of the ICE raids and all of the people kidnapped in them (about 100 a week in LA), and the cities where Minneapolis levels of federal brutality is happening without comprehensive coverage. Plus, violent retaliation against community watchers.Tw: suicide Check out Rosetta Stone and use my code TODAY for a great deal: https://www.rosettastone.comAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Just kidding! They do! Taylor Smith is back on the show to explain striking. All your questions answered. We’re also having fun!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Gabe recounts his visit to Sacramento to talk to legislators and Gov. Gavin Newsom. This week, a man named Alex Pretti was shot in broad daylight by ICE agents. What do we do now?Check out Rosetta Stone and use my code TODAY for a great deal: https://www.rosettastone.comAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy