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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…
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WTW94: Sure Kimmel Got Censored, but Whatabout When Whatabout Whatabouted? Yeah, That's What I Thought.
Jimmy Kimmel caused significant outrage a couple of weeks ago that you likely heard about. The "outrage" on the Right was that he dared to say Charlie Kirk's…
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WTW93: Everyone Is a Complete Idiot Except Bill Maher
It's part 2 of our little foray into the disturbing transphobia-addled mind of Bill Maher. This one features a hilarious clip where Bill yells at Neil DeGrasse…
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WTW92: Transphobia Has Melted Bill Maher's Brain
Bill Maher decided to bless us all with his sage advice on our country's fascism problem - why don't we all just stop doing the things that the fascists use as…
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WTW91: From the Anti-Woke Archives – The NYT Donald McNeil Firing
After the release of our PragerU videos (WTW88 & WTW89), we received a comment in the Facebook group from a listener pushing back on the characterization we…
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WTW90: Kaiser Permanente "PAUSED" Their Pediatric Gender-Affirming Surgery Practice For Basically No Reason.
Kaiser issued the most infuriating statement last month announcing that they were "pausing" their gender-affirming surgeries for patients 19 and under. Why in…
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WTW89: PragerU Is Not a Grift and That Is Actually More Concerning.
Part 2 of 2. Now that we're Oklahoma-certified teachers, it's time to learn more about PragerU. Who are they, where does their money come from, and are they…
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WTW88: We Took the PragerU-Designed Ideology Test That Incoming Oklahoma Teachers Have to Pass. It's Nuts...
Part 1 of 2. The Department of Education in the state of Oklahoma recently announced that in their search for teachers to address an ongoing shortage in their…
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WTW87: The New York Times Pride Hate Crime, Part 2
Part 2 of 2. Andrew Sullivan continues his screed and we continue to tear it apart. But Lydia won't let us leave on an angry note, so she shares her experience…
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WTW86: The New York Times Pride Hate Crime
Part 1 of 2. The New York Times unveiled an opinion piece by Andrew Sullivan that basically talked all about how the LGBTQ+ community have gone too far -…
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WTW85: Christopher Rufo v. Harvard University
An unsurprising figure is involved in the current battle between Harvard University and the federal government, and he has come out to EXPOSE Harvard's racist…
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WTW84: RFK's Choice to Head Autism Study? A Total Fraud Who Abused Autistic Kids While Posing as a Doctor
Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr. and his second-in-command, Mr. Brain Worm, have appointed a real piece of work to lead the supposed "autism study"…
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WTW83: Columbia University Cancelled Her Class, but She's Doing It Anyway
Karen Attiah, columnist with The Washington Post, was looking forward to teaching her second iteration of the Race, Media, and International Affairs course she…
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WTW82: The Boston Marathon Trans Panic w/Frankie de la Cretaz
Every year, tens of thousands of people run the Boston Marathon, and this year the Right had a bone to pick with one particular participant; we'll give you one…
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WTW81: They're Gutting the Government and Trying to Call It Savings.
Part 2 of DOGE's scam-extraordinaire! We dig into the last few claims from the article in The Federalist, as well as some bonus propaganda that Lydia picked up…
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WTW80: Elon Musk's DOGE is Desperate for Approval
Lydia watched the DOGE interview on Fox News so the rest of us didn't have to. In it, Musk and his posse make some "shocking" claims about the fraud and waste…
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WTW79: Being Woke Is Good, Actually
Representative Jasmine Crockett made an offensive joke about Governor Abbott's disability. The right pretended to care all of a sudden, and it seems that much…
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WTW78: You'll Never Guess What Megyn Kelly Talked About At CPAC...
For like... 20 minutes... Megyn Kelly told an upside down world version of the Lively/Baldoni feud. There's a reason conservatives are very interested in this…
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WTW77: What Happens to Male Celebrities When They Give Bad Interviews?
We complete our Blake Lively Hatestorm Debunk by looking at some fun comparisons. What happens when celebrities who are men happen to have a bad interview, or…
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WTW76: Debunking the Deranged Blake Lively Hatestorm
Hey folks, big announcement!!! Our podcast, Gavel Gavel, is now available to the public! No longer is it only available on Patreon! This series on GG, we'll be…
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WTW75: Decades of Anti-woke Propaganda Has All Been to Get Us Here
To this administration and this moment. Today we discuss how Harmeet Dhillon plans to not just ruin the Civil Rights Division of the DoJ, but to actively point…
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WTW74: The Woke Are Coming for Your DnD! - With Eli Bosnick
That's right, the woke are coming for YOUR Dungeons and Dragons! Look behind you, they're already here! These new woke rules are ruining the game and are…
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WTW73: Elon Musk Claimed to Be a Top PoE2 Gamer. Turns Out He Was Cheating
This is the best. It's just the best. Elon Musk is so pathetic that he tried to fake being a world class gamer, only to completely humiliate himself when he…
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WTW72: Campus Reform Calls Out "Outrageous" Scientific Studies But Doesn't Understand How Science Works
Emily Sturge of Campus Reform is on the case, folks. Under her watch, the National Institute of Health will never misspend another dollar ever again. Lydia…
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WTW71: UN Report Says Women Have Lost "900 Medals to Trans-Athletes." It's Bullshit.
This episode also could be called "Jerry Coyne is wrong and a liar." The FFRF published Jerry Coyne's anti-trans lies and then had to apologize. I was going to…
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WTW70: San Jose State University's Volleyball Season That Wasn't About Volleyball
The Right Wing media ecosystem is all over Lydia's alma mater, San Jose State University, for a very unserious (surprise) reason: volleyball. Lydia breaks down…
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WTW69: Trump's MSG Rally Was a Preview of What Is to Come
It is very unfortunate that we weren't able to release this 4th and final part of Trump's MSG rally before the election, because a lot of the analysis was…
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WTW68: MSG Trump Rally Part 3 OH MY the Hits Keep Coming
A series of amoral grifters each more grifty than the last. Tulsi Gabbard, Tucker Carlson (who sounds INSANE), Terry Bollea, RFK Jr., and somehow more. If you…
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WTW67: When Nazis Came To NY (Again)
It's part 2 of the Trump Madison Square Garden NYC rally, and this one features the funniest thing to ever happen on any of my shows, as we had a very special…
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WTW66: Dissecting Trump's Madison Square Garden Rally
Part 1! Lydia watched 6 hours of this "not a Nazi" rally to drill down to the highlights (lowlights?) among the speakers, who may very well hold positions in a…
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WTW65: A Coin Flip from Fascism - Are the Polls Rigged?
We interrupt our Yale Law series because this election has us too stressed the f$#% out. It seemed like we'd be ok. It seemed like we were going to win. Now…
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WTW64: Did Students Shut Down Bipartisan Free Speech Event at Yale Law School?
This is -sort of- part 8 of our series, Jon Ronson's Things Fell Apart Falls Apart S2E6 of Things Fell Apart has yet more anti-woke propaganda and credulous…
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The Right's Obsession With Taking Down Tim Walz (feat. Heath Enwright)
Hey folks, please enjoy this free preview of the September bonus! On Debate Night Eve, we share the Tim Walz stories that the Right desperately hope will stick…
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WTW63: This Is Her Story To Tell... But I'm Telling It
Part 7 of our series Jon Ronson's Things Fell Apart Falls Apart The finale on the awful anti-trans chapter of Jon Ronson's pocdcast series. It continues to get…
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WTW62: January Littlejohn, Big Activist
Part 6 of our series Jon Ronson's Things Fell Apart Falls Apart The horrible both sidesing of trans people's lives continues. January Littlejohn sucks a lot…
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WTW61: That Time Jon Ronson Both Sides'ed Trans People's Lives
Part 5 of our series Jon Ronson's Things Fell Apart Falls Apart Alright, this episode of Things Fell Apart is what really did it. S2E5. This is the one that…
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WTW60: The Left Wing Media, in Their Way
The 4th part of our series Jon Ronson's Things Fell Apart Falls Apart It's time to move on to... episode 3 of season 2 of Things Fell Apart. This episode…
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WTW59: Oh Is Stealing Things a Crime Now?
The 4th part of our series Jon Ronson's Things Fell Apart Falls Apart Jon Ronson's grand theory of Judy Mikovitz is that she was a normal, accomplished…
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WTW58: Just Hand Over the Cell Line
Part 3 of of our series on Jon Ronson's Things Fell Apart. On the podcast Knowledge Fight, Jordan asks Jon Ronson a good question: if there were a bunch of…
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WTW57: Judy Mikovits, the Most Unreliable Narrator
Part 2 of our series on Jon Ronson's Things Fell Apart. A chance encounter at a yacht club? Or... a not at all chance encounter at a convention for quackery?…
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WTW56: Jon Ronson's Things Fell Apart Falls Apart
At long last, we're releasing our series on how Jon Ronson both sidesed the truth into oblivion in the 2nd season of Things Fell Apart. The show, just like its…
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WTW55: The Best Trump Verdict Meltdowns
With Matt Cameron! Trump was found guilty by a jury in the Southern District of New York for all 34 charges of falsifying business records in furtherance of a…
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WTW54: Tucker Carlson Interviews Aaron Rodgers
We've finally attained our complete PiaT/CogDis crossover goal with our guest today, Noah Lugeons! We all suffered through more than 2 hours of Tucker Carlson…
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WTW53: The Griftiest Grift To Ever Grift
New College, Part 4: A Business Plan and a Comedy Show In our final episode of the series, Lydia walks us through New College's search for a permanent…
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WTW52: New College's Unqualified, Teacher-Hating President
New College, Part 3: The Florida GOP's Attack on Public Schools is Really, Really Bad We continue investigating the New College takeover by looking into the…
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WTW51: A New New College
New College, Part 2: The Transition, or How New College of Florida Got a Baseball Team DeSantis didn't just take over a college, he fundamentally disrupted the…
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WTW50: New College Was a Progressive University. Then Ron DeSantis Took It Over
New College, Part 1: The Takeover Last year, Governor Meatball DeSantis successfully launched a takeover at the New College of Florida by appointing…
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WTW49: Anti-woke Law Professor Swears DEI Took His Job
Folks, there are anti-woke crybabies, and there are anti-woke crybabies, and then there is Scott Gerber. Scott Gerber may be the new leader in the WTW…
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WTW48: There Once Was a Jordan Peterson MBA Program. What Happened to It?
This wild ride into JBP's dealings wouldn't be the same without a deeper dive into the MBA Fellowship he "founded" and a look into how he conducts the rest of…
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WTW47: Jordan Peterson's Research Lives In Canada, You Wouldn't Know It
Part 6 of Junk Science and So Much Grift: The Jordan Peterson Story It's finally here!!! Our coverage of the long-awaited missing study and fraud-adjacent…
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WTW46: IDK What You Think You're Measuring But It's Not Political Correctness
Part 5 of Junk Science and So Much Grift: The Jordan Peterson Story Just wait until you hear some of these questions in the "PC Battery." They are not…
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WTW45: The Brophy Study Is Wrong In Nearly Every Possible Way
Part 4 of Junk Science and So Much Grift: The Jordan Peterson Story This study was so fucking bad that we needed to call an actual expert just to make sure we…
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WTW44: Junk Science and So Much Grift: The Jordan Peterson Story
Part... 3? It's kinda part 2... but also part 1 in a way... Well however you look at it, this episode begins a series looking at the awful science Jordan…
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WTW43: Jordan Peterson, Christine Brophy, and a Master's Thesis All Walk Into a Lauren Southern...
Part 2 of our JBP odyssey Having gotten all of 2 minutes into the JBP Rap Analysis video, we were stopped in our tracks by an absolutely insane set of claims…
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WTW42: Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro, and Tom MacDonald All Walk Into a Grift...
Part 1! After *Rap Icon* Ben Shapiro made his simultaneous debut and retirement in Tom MacDonald's "Facts" last month, Jordan Peterson realized what the public…
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WTW41: Gina Carano Sues Disney
Using Elon Musk's money, Gina Carano (AKA Cara Dune in seasons 1 and 2 of The Mandalorian series) is suing Disney & Lucasfilm over her "firing" in February…
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WTW40: The Woke Kindergarten Fallout - School Board Members Gone Wild
It's Part 2 of our research into the Woke Kindergarten controversy! Lydia gives us more detail as to the repercussions of the firestorm that we broke down in…
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WTW39: The Woke Kindergarten Is Coming For Your Kids
Lydia breaks down a very recent controversy that had every right wing source losing their absolute minds: a school in the Bay Area paid hundreds of thousands…
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WTW38: Ricky Gervais's Pathetic Anti-Woke "Comedy" Special
Hey all, please enjoy this episode-length preview of our January Bonus! We watched Ricky Gervais's new "comedy" special and didn't laugh once. So we invited…
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WTW37: A LADY Star Wars Director?!
And several other mini stories! There are always so many little stories we don't get to, so this month we decided to try a roundup of sorts. Lydia put together…
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WTW36: Fighting Back Against the Campus Outrage Machine
Dr. Isaac Kamola joins us to discuss the work he's done to expose the partisan mechanics that fuel websites like CampusReform and The College Fix. How exactly…