Episodes

  • 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
  • RIP Free Speech

    RIP Free Speech
    May 1 2025
    For years, right wingers have loudly decried supposed attacks on free speech. Yet now those free speech warriors are strangely silent as Trump punishes universities and ICE arrests students for expressing dissent. Maya and Rebecca explain how this turnabout is not simple hypocrisy, uncovering how right wing discourse about free speech paved the way for …

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    1 hr and 9 mins
  • Dems in Disarray

    Dems in Disarray
    Feb 25 2025
    With Trump and Musk trampling American democracy, why aren’t elected Democrats doing more to stop the carnage? Maya and Rebecca piece together why the opposition party can’t seem to get its shit together and draw unexpected insight from the Drake and Kendrick Lamar feud to figure out what Democrats should be doing differently,
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    1 hr and 8 mins
  • Ruining Huck Finn, with VERY SPECIAL GUESTS David F. Walker and Marcus Kwame Anderson

    Ruining Huck Finn, with VERY SPECIAL GUESTS David F. Walker and Marcus Kwame Anderson
    Feb 13 2025
    Let’s ruin the Great American Novel. Maya and Rebecca are joined by Artist (and longtime Sauce listener!) Marcus Kwame Anderson and writer David F. Walker to discuss their new book– Big Jim and the White Boy, an audacious (and inspired) retelling of Huck Finn. Listeners may remember Marcus and David from the last time we …

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    1 hr and 16 mins
  • Bread and Circuses: Michael Jackson ONE and Cirque du Soleil

    Bread and Circuses: Michael Jackson ONE and Cirque du Soleil
    Feb 6 2025
    How are we going to survive the fascist takeover of our government? Through a delicate balance of activism and avoidance. Maya and Rebecca introduce a new ongoing feature, BREAD AND CIRCUSES with Cirque du Soleil’s insane Michael Jackson show, and unpack what it teaches us about how to make a spectacle out of a very …

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    1 hr and 19 mins
  • TRANS PANIC! (Election 2024 Edition) with Special Guests Guy Branum and Grace Freud

    TRANS PANIC! (Election 2024 Edition) with Special Guests Guy Branum and Grace Freud
    Dec 17 2024
    After a nice long stretch of denial, Maya and Rebecca dip our toes back into political waters with Very Special Guests Guy Branum and Grace Freud, who bring queer and trans perspectives to the transphobic messaging the Trump campaign relied on so heavily this past election season. Why was it so effective? How did it …

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    56 mins
  • WTF Happened?

    WTF Happened?
    Nov 21 2024
    Welp, America has chosen fascism. But the rejection of liberal democracy didn’t start with Donald Trump; it’s been taking shape for decades. Maya and Rebecca sort out how things went so horribly wrong, both this election cycle and over the last 40 years of American politics. Is our political system broken? And what do we …

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    1 hr and 37 mins