Episodes

  • Sauce Classics Trump’s Dementia

    Sauce Classics Trump’s Dementia
    Oct 28 2025
    Huh, people are talking about Trump and dementia? Funny, WE TALKED ABOUT THIS A YEAR AGO! Rebecca and Maya revisit our episode where we investigate Trump’s lapses in memory, behavior and language and ask how well they match up with the medically defined symptoms of frontotemporal dementia.
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    49 mins
  • VetBros and Pete Hegseth (with Guest John Armenta!)

    VetBros and Pete Hegseth (with Guest John Armenta!)
    Oct 22 2025
    Who is Pete Hegseth, how in hell did he end up Secretary of Defense, why is he renaming it the Department of War, and what were he and Trump doing calling 600 top generals into a room for a Big Boy Pep Talk? Very Special Guest John Armenta–an army vet and communications professor who studies …

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    1 hr and 25 mins
  • Charlie Kirk, Jimmy Kimmel, and Free Speech Part A Million

    Charlie Kirk, Jimmy Kimmel, and Free Speech Part A Million
    Oct 10 2025
    Why were flags at half mast for a grifting podcaster? In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder, Rebecca and Maya break down his life and the aftermath of his death–along the way noting flagrant political opportunism, right wing abuses of “free speech”, and key differences between various terminally online young male subcultures.
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    1 hr and 11 mins
  • Problematic Fave: BOB DYLAN (with very special guests Elizabeth Nelson and Jeff Jackson)

    Problematic Fave: BOB DYLAN (with very special guests Elizabeth Nelson and Jeff Jackson)
    Sep 15 2025
    Bob Dylan is many things. A basic bitch isn’t one of them. We welcome brilliant lifelong Dylan-ologists Elizabeth Nelson and Jeff Jackson to pull apart what Dylan means, why music biopics suck, and everything James Mangold missed in the most recent filmic attempt to contain Dylan’s legacy, the nostalgia-fest A Complete Unknown.
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    1 hr and 13 mins
  • The Biggest Loser

    The Biggest Loser
    Sep 2 2025
    Rebecca and Maya watched Fit For TV, the recent streaming Netflix docu-series on The Biggest Loser, and talk fat-shaming, abuse as motivation, fake therapeutic breakthroughs after which nothing changes, and why it takes a decade and a documentary for us to publicly acknowledge that the thing that seemed so fucked up back then was, indeed, …

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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • The Epstein Files!

    The Epstein Files!
    Aug 25 2025
    Will the Epstein Files put the final dagger into the rise of fascism? Rebecca and Maya are here to ruin any hopes you have. We’ve known for DECADES that Donald Trump was a creepy-buddy with mysterious financier-pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Is this going to trigger a MAGA-Trump breakup? Might the administration be hoist on its own …

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    36 mins
  • Severance

    Severance
    Jun 25 2025
    Maya and Rebecca ride the down elevator into Apple TV’s hit Severance. Identity. Work-life balance. Bullshit jobs. Setting good boundaries. The toxic rot and unremitting evil at the very heart of Capitalism. Is this show hitting the BIG GESTALT BUTTON of THIS MOMENT?
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    1 hr and 11 mins
  • Martial Law (with Very Special Guest Dr. Carrie Ann Lee!)

    Martial Law (with Very Special Guest Dr. Carrie Ann Lee!)
    Jun 16 2025
    As Trump deploys National Guard and Marines to LA in the face of widespread civilian protests against ICE raids, we talk Martial Law and autocratic use of force (and drink!) with Dr. Carrie Lee, an expert in civil-military relations who concisely breaks down the specifics of what we should be looking for in this Administrations’s …

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    49 mins