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Where There's Woke
Every single time the right, or even center-left, goes ballistic over a "woke" controversy, the slightest bit of investigation shows the scandal is almost entirely bogus. This is not a new phenomenon; it dates back decades. It's an intentional tool used to protect the powerful and preserve the status quo, while further scapegoating and otherizing those who push for political progress. This podcast digs into not just today's fake scandals, but those of yesterday and yesteryear. The terminology…
Episodes
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WTW154: Ken Paxton, Dan Patrick and Vivek All Lost on the Same Night
It's election night recap time, and Thomas and Lydia fly state to state checking in on the anti-woke villains WTW has covered in the past: Ken Paxton and Dan…
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WTW153: Texas School Board Cancels Little Shop of Horrors Over a Girl Playing Seymour
A Texas school board got so spooked by a girl playing the male lead in Little Shop of Horrors that they canceled the whole show and tried to swap it for…
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WTW152: Joe Rogan Has Spent Two Years Raging About a Made-Up California Voter ID Law
Elon Musk told Joe Rogan that California made it illegal to show ID to vote. Rogan ran with it, Rand Paul repeated it, and now it's a ballot fight. Lydia walks…
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WTW151: Remember the Anti-Woke Amazon? Yeah, Us Neither.
Remember Public Square, the self-declared "anti-woke Amazon" that promised conservatives shopping without funding a rainbow flag? Yeah that didn't work. But…
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WTW150: Bari Weiss's Renegade Academy Can't Even Set Up a Chessboard
WTW150 and we're celebrating with Bari Weiss's baby, the University of Austin (UATX), which wants you to know it's a "Renegade Academy" with FREEDOM, rigor…
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WTW149: Dan Patrick Wants to Fail Texas Schools Over Books Rated by Random Volunteers
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick is a legit nut job. But don't worry, he's platforming EVEN NUTTIER jobs. Like this random church lady who can't stop banning books…
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WTW148: Meet Erin Scavino, the Nepo Hire Purging Woke Art From US Embassies
Dan Scavino's wife who has absolutely no experience in art whatsoever definitely got her job as "person in charge of all art worldwide at every US Embassy" for…
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WTW147: No, the Woke Aren't Protecting Shooters By Calling Them "Trigger Pullers"
A grab bag of woke panics this week, and Lydia has receipts for all of them. Seattle's interim police chief said "trigger pullers" at a press conference, and…
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WTW146: Jordan Peterson Has One (1) Study Proving Activists Are Psychopaths
Jordan Peterson wrote a very long article for The Telegraph about climate change. He has a study. Well, sort of. He has a reference to a study that he didn't…
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WTW145: Jordan Peterson Rises, Lazarus-like, to Do Climate Change Denial
Jordan Peterson is back, sort of. He hasn't been on camera or a microphone, but he has been writing, and his big return piece for The Telegraph is... a lot. He…
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WTW144: The Reactions to AOC's Comment Show Why We Should Just Not
We still need to talk about the AOC "woke 1 was crazy" comment. While well-meaning wokies might want to engage in some self-flagellating, the reaction pieces…
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WTW143: No, Woke 1 Was Not Crazy
AOC told ABC News something that set off a thousand hot takes: was "Woke One" actually crazy? Meanwhile a Wisconsin governor's primary decided by a few…
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WTW142: James Lindsay Unveils Woke 2.0
Which is great because it's in plenty of time before the holiday season so now you know what to get your loved one! This extremely weird person has a whole…
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WTW141: The Anti-Woke Crusade Against Knowing Things Continues
Congress hauled the Smithsonian's top history museum director in for a grilling this week, and it got dumb fast. Republicans wanted to know if Mickey Mouse is…
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WTW140: $3 Million Anti-Woke Program, 1 Enrolled Student
Netflix rebooted Little House on the Prairie and Megyn Kelly declared war on it a year before anyone saw a single frame. Meanwhile West Virginia funded a…
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WTW139: They're Literally Destroying American Science Because Woke
The Trump administration quietly filed 400 pages of regulations that could gut science, housing, arts and victim services funding across the entire country…
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WTW138: Graham Platner Is a R*pist
Politico just published new allegations against Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner, and they are about as bad as it gets. It is not a close call: Platner is…
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WTW137: America $2.50
However bad you think the Freedom250 nonsense is, it's worse. It's actually straight up crazy how much grift and ineptitude there is. And Vanilla Ice. If you…
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WTW136: Debunking Junior Varsity Anti-Wokist Gad Saad's PragerU Propaganda
Gad Saad, a marketing professor who calls himself an evolutionary behavioral scientist, made a PragerU video called Suicidal Empathy, based on Paul Bloom's…
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WTW135: The Straights, Near Extinction, Watch in Horror as Pride Month Erases Them Yet Again
It's Pride Month, so conservatives are DYING. The MLB team in SAN FRANCISCO has anti-gay bigots who can't STFU. Fox News airs a segment fear mongering over the…
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WTW134: Graham Platner's Me Too Moment?
A second wave of coverage has hit Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner, and this time it's a New York Times deep-dive into his past relationships. Thomas…
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WTW133: The Trump Playbook Comes for LA - Spencer Pratt for Mayor
If you have lived in blissful peace not knowing who Spencer Pratt is, Lydia is so sorry, but it's time. The former The Hills reality TV villain is a serious…
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WTW132: But Who Influences the Influencers? with Kat Tenbarge!
We're SO excited to welcome journalist Kat Tenbarge to Where There's Woke! Over the years Kat's beat has been focused on internet culture and influencers, and…
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WTW131: Anti-Woke School Board Bans Song Mere Days Before Recital
A Wisconsin school board was so appalled by a song selection for a high school wind symphony concert that they held a board meeting to determine if the…
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WTW130: Florida Got So Mad About Woke They Made Their Own AP Course
Ron DeSantis was so bothered by the mere IDEA of AP African American Studies in 2023 that Florida created a "competitor" to College Board's Advanced Placement…
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WTW129: Woke In the Sheets, Criminals Out on the Streets
The woke in New York are getting ready to release allllll of the criminals! Murderers! Rapists! Sex offenders! The worst of the worst!!!!! At least according…
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WTW128: Crowdfunding Hate, with Naomi Bethune
How is it that every racist "Karen" or right-wing completely cancellable person seems to crawl out of their negative viral moment and sometimes land jobs, book…
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WTW127: Debunking More of Buttfeld's "Comedy"
We conclude our visit to Greg Gutfeld's terrible corner of the world for now. What was that professor that so terribly triggered Buttfeld actually talking…
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WTW126: Greg Gutfeld Is a Cruel, Miserable F***Ing Loser
It's been a while since we've stopped by Gutfeld's corner on Fox News - and boy, was that a rude awakening. He's the biggest ass, and strips ALL context from…
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WTW125: We Conclude Our Trafficking Series With... The Funniest Local News Segment Ever
You have to hear how badly local news fell for this completely made up trafficking story... it's so good. But before that, Lydia's got our vegetables with some…
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WTW124: It Gets So Much Worse. Our Grifters Go to Gaza.
We reach the end of our journey into the human trafficking grift, and it's not a good ending. The very same lying idiots we've been tracking are now being paid…
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WTW123: Remember That Time the Sound of Freedom Guy Was Himself Accused of Trafficking?
The deep dive into the right wing trafficking panic industrial complex gets even more interesting, as our web of characters expands to include Tim Tebow, Sound…
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WTW122: Fox News Declares Project Hail Mary Anti-Woke Because Sure Why Not
Fox News declared that WOKE HOLLYWOOD is dead with the great success of anti-woke film, Project Hail Mary. Lydia takes us through the world of right-wing film…
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WTW121: Trafficking in Fear
We finish off the discussion on bogus child trafficking/missing children statistics. Also, what should we ACTUALLY be worried about when it comes to our…
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WTW120: People Simply Cannot Stop Believing Bogus Child Trafficking Stats
It's 2026, do you know where your Ashton Kutcher's 2011 anti human trafficking campaign is?
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WTW119: USA Hockey Shows That the Bar for Men Continues to Reside in Hell
We've got so much to say on this one that it's a WT-DOUBLE episode! (tm). After the USA men's hockey team won the gold, not only was Kash Patel in the locker…
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WTW118: The Trump Administration Is Being Really Weird About Milk...
The New York Post went off on a bioethicist after he published his concerns surrounding the marketing after Trump signed legislation bringing whole milk back…
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WTW117: Deeper Into Matt Murphy's Child Trafficking Cinematic Universe
Hoooooo boy. You thought we were having fun before? Just wait until you hear some of the claims in this one.
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WTW116: Did You Know That 7 out of 4 Kids Will Be Trafficked Right Now Yesterday?
We get to delve deeper into the right wing fear porn, moral panic that is human trafficking and child trafficking. If you're worried about this being too…
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WTW115: The SitRep on Sentinel Foundation
We go deeper into the bizarre (possible) grift that is rightwing anti-trafficking organizations. This episode delves into Matt Murphy's past. Sentinel is…
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WTW114: Back to AmericaFest, Where the Grift Oerfloweth
AmeriKKKaFest is the gift that keeps giving. We venture into day 2, which turns into a QVC channel of right wing crap. Jason Aldean introduces us to the crazy…
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WTW113: Harvard Professor Announces His Exit Because History Dept. Needs More White Classes
Professor James Hankins wrote a literal essay, published in Compact Magazine, about his decision to leave Harvard's History Department for greener pastures…
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WTW112: How the Right Convinced Everyone There Was a Free Speech Crisis: A Case Study
We watched No Safe Spaces with our friends over at God Awful Movies this month and there was SO MUCH from the anti-woke archive featured in that "documentary"…
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WTW111: Antifa Is Good and Effective, Actually
After nearly 10 years of covering the far right after Charlottesville, Chris Mathias has written an important book called "To Catch a Fascist, The Fight to…
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WTW110: America Fest 3 - Tucker Carlson Hits Back at Ben Shapiro
Time to dig into the keynote speaker from Day 1 of AmFest 2025. That's right, folks! We FINALLY get to (have to) listen to Tucker Carlson! Tune in to hear how…
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WTW109: Russell Brand Is Reallllllly Into Jesus. Oh and Michael Knowles Is Realllly Into White Nationalism.
Part 2. We continue working through the lineup of AmericaFest 2025, and this one's jam-packed! Kicking it off with Ben Shapiro and the SHADE he lays down…
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WTW108: AmericaFest Showed Turning Point's Massive Influence (and Bottomless Budget)
Part 1. Thomas watched the entirety of Turning Point USA's AmericaFest 2025 so the rest of us didn't have to! In this episode, in addition to talking about…
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WTW107: Hello Mr. President I Got a Bad Grade Can You Fix It Pwease
It's part 2 of this idiot Christian didn't do her homework and started a culture war over it. She and her terrible mom are bigots and since we live in the…
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WTW106: Oklahoma Christian Idiot Gets a 0, Then Uses Christian Privilege to Get Teacher Fired
Featuring special guest Eli Bosnick!!! An Oklahoma moron wrote some Christian diarrhea for her Psych homework. She got a 0 (which was generous) and then sent…
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WTW105: A 2019 DSA Convention Was a Little Weird and Now Bill Maher Can't Possibly Support Mamdani
Part 3 (and final!) of this terrible New Rules segment from Bill Maher last month. Maher attempts to go after socialism in America and the Democratic…
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WTW104: Bill Maher Tries Comedy. It Doesn't Go Well.
Part 2 of the latest Bill Maher debunk. Well, we couldn't help ourselves and this part mainly focuses on how unbelievably terrible Maher's "comedy" is. We also…
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WTW103: You'll Never Guess What Bill Maher and the NYT Think Democrats Should Do
Sorry, wokies. Guess we have to close up shop. Bill Maher and The New York Times have said that the Left needs to moderate. Thomas guides us through the…
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WTW102: What It's Like Being the Center of a Culture War
Logan was an out trans man serving children of servicemembers overseas as their pediatrician until the Trump Administration targeted trans folks in the…
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WTW101: Prof. Josh Fernandez Started an Anti-Fascist Club. Then He Was Investigated for Over a Year.
Professor Josh Fernandez was accused of soliciting students for violent activities because of an antiracist club he helped start on his community college…
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WTW100: The TP USA Event That Was More Important Than Your Freedom of Speech
We return for an update to our ACTUAL-THREATS-TO-FREE-SPEECH series for our 100th episode! Lydia shares what's been happening with the various cases we…
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WTW99: The Biggest Attack on Free Speech in Our Lifetime and Hardly Anyone Cares
Part 2 in our Kirk's Free Speech series. The cases of teachers being suspended, investigated, and/or terminated based on their comments about Charlie Kirk…
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WTW98: Your Free Speech "Rights" as a Teacher in the Wake of Charlie Kirk's Murder
Part 1. We dive headfirst into stories in which a teacher's First Amendment rights appear to have been violated. It seems clear to us how wrong this all is…
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WTW97: A Tale of Two Free Speech Controversies
A few weeks ago, Lydia and Thomas did an episode on the steps of the California Capitol for California Freethought Day, highlighting the differences between a…
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WTW96: The Sudden Fall of Ryan Walters
FOLKS. Oklahoma Superintendent Ryan Walters is GONE. Lydia breaks down the final few things he pushed before he abruptly resigned with 15 months still left in…
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WTW95: Where Was Gondor When I Got Cancelled for Orc-Face?!
Lydia continues sharing the very-good-examples from The Federalist of times when the Left abandoned Free Speech principles because the impacted person was a…