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Cancel Me, Daddy
The pearl clutching about “cancel culture” and “censorship” has become louder and more absurd while also getting more and more play in the media. Journalists Katelyn Burns and Christine Grimaldi see this panic for what it is though: a grift. They take a closer look at these temper tantrums, dispelling myths, laughing at the most outrageous takes, and shedding light on which perspectives are actually being suppressed and left out of the conversation.
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We’re Libbing Out Over the 2026 Midterm Elections
The 2026 midterm elections resulted in a blue wave, blowout, or “blue-nami,” whatever you call the sweet taste of victory for Democrats! This week, Katelyn and…
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James Talarico Didn't Go to Ohio: Anatomy of a Fake Scandal (ft. Gwen Howerton)
“Where is James Talarico?” second-rate conservative activists and Nazi enthusiasts asked when the Democratic Texas Senate candidate took a short break from the…
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How the Media Turned a Lesbian Bar Into a Culture War (ft. Kat Tenbarge)
If you have been online in the past few weeks, you’ve consumed at least one “take” about the viral “lesbian bar story.” According to The Boston Globe, “all…
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Why the Right-Wing Press Couldn't Let Jason Arday Be (ft. Dr. Jenn Jackson)
The right-wing outrage machine could not stand Dr. Jason Arday, the University of Cambridge’s youngest ever Black professor. And so, the coalition of…
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How the Media Turned the WNBA Into a Culture War (ft. Kate Riga)
Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham made her initial comments about “protecting young girls” in women’s sports to an ESPN.com writer in July. The rest of the…
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Your Tech CEO Doesn't Want to Fix Democracy. He Wants to End It. (ft. Gil Durán)
Pundits, politicians, and lobbyists have given a pass to Silicon Valley’s tech bros for far too long. We don’t have to understand Peter Thiel or Sam Altman…
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They Printed a Zine. The DOJ Gave Them 450 Years. (ft. Melissa Gira Grant)
On July 4, 2025, a loosely affiliated group of demonstrators gathered outside the Prairieland immigration detention camp in solidarity of incarcerated…
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Pope Fights: Antipopes, Schisms, and Trump's Vatican Problem (ft. Eleanor Janega)
The Catholic Church has spent two thousand years fighting about who actually gets to be Pope — and this year, it's happening twice at once. The Society of St…
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The Leftist Men Who Made Graham Platner a Star (ft. Marisa Kabas)
To podcasters, pundits, and outlets on the left, Maine Senate Democratic candidate Graham Platner could do no wrong. Platner’s rugged oyster farmer persona and…
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CBS News Has a Bari Weiss Problem. Scott Pelley Was the Latest Casualty.
Renowned “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley is the latest casualty at CBS News under the leadership of reactionary editor-in-chief Bari Weiss. At a staff…
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Bari Weiss vs. Anderson Cooper: Both Are Overseers. Here's Why. (ft. Steven Thrasher)
Anderson Cooper recently left CBS News' "60 Minutes" after more than 20 years on the job. Cooper received glowing media coverage for his voluntary departure in…
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Right-Wing Media Is Dying (But Don't Celebrate Yet) (ft. Parker Molloy)
Ben Shapiro, Bari Weiss, and Jeff Bezos have the same problem: audience retention. Shapiro's Daily Wire podcast and the conservative website he co-founded are…
Cancel Me, DaddyIntroducing: No Such Thing
We’re excited to share a preview of a new podcast we think you’d enjoy: No Such Thing No Such Thing is a show where three best friends and journalists settle…
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The Onion Bought InfoWars. Now What? (ft. Ben Collins, CEO of The Onion)
The mainstream media failed to hold Alex Jones accountable for more than 30 years. A satire company is poised to do what journalism wouldn't. Ben Collins knows…
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Sam Altman and the Lie of OpenAI (ft. Kat Tenbarge)
Tech billionaire Sam Altman positions his company’s artificial intelligence, including ChatGPT, as humanity’s savior. But the human race can’t trust the OpenAI…
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We Followed JK Rowling's Harry Potter Money — Here's Where It Actually Goes (ft. Jessie Gender)
“Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling’s trans persecution feeds off her vast fortune. Rowling uses her estimated $1.2 billion net worth to directly fund…
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Trump Started a War Without Selling It. That's New. (ft. Jen Bendery)
U.S. presidential administrations typically "hard launch" a war with congressional testimony, press conferences, and high-profile speeches designed to sell it…
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The Fragile Masculinity of Pete Hegseth (ft. June Sternbach aka junlper)
Pete Hegseth’s résumé maps the trajectory of a man who failed upward from Fox News host to Donald Trump’s Secretary of Defense. As Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme…
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Epstein, Me Too, and the Justice We Never Got (ft. Lyz Lenz)
How deep does the media’s complicity go? In this episode of Cancel Me, Daddy, Katelyn Burns and Christine Grimaldi unpack the disturbing connection between the…
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Cancel Culture: The Lie That’s Making Media Grifters Rich (ft. Former Co-Host Oliver)
It is Cancel Me, Daddy’s fifth anniversary! This week, former co-host Oliver joins Katelyn and Christine to discuss all the panic around cancel culture. Oliver…
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How ICE Turns Protest Into a Battlefield (ft. Jamelle Bouie)
You can’t log onto social media or otherwise tune into the news without witnessing extremely disturbing images of masked federal agents assaulting and…
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They Screamed “Cancel Culture” — Then Went Silent While Trump Gutted Free Speech (ft. Parker Molloy)
Was the Harper’s “free speech” letter really about defending open debate—or about protecting powerful media elites from criticism and consequences? In this…
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The Dark History of Canceling Heretics (ft. Eleanor Janega)
Think cancel culture is new? The Catholic Church invented it in the Middle Ages. Being burned at the stake was the ultimate deplatforming. In the 15th and 16th…
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Is Olivia Nuzzi the Only Villain in Her Scandal? (ft. Marisa Kabas)
Olivia Nuzzi is in the headlines again for an alleged inappropriate relationship with a source. Nuzzi’s former partner, Ryan Lizza, is using his newsletter to…
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The Death of the Anti-Trans Political Ad: Why Democrats’ 2025 Wins Changed Everything (ft. Laurel Powell)
Democrats’ recent, high-profile gubernatorial and mayoral victories across the country proved the value in candidates sticking to their pro-equality values…
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A Cancel Culture Panic Attack (Panic World Collab)
There’s a lot of overlap between cancel culture and cultural panics in which the anti-hero of the week profits off their notoriety. This week, Kate and…
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Why CBS News Hired Cancel Culture's Biggest Grifter (ft. Michael Hobbes)
The Cancel Culture Grift Economy™ has once again rewarded Bari Weiss. Support CMD on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cancelmedaddy CBS News anointed Weiss—the…
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Why Car Propaganda Is Destroying Our Cities (ft. The War on Cars Podcast)
Why does America's infrastructure prioritize cars over people? In this episode, we're joined by the hosts of The War on Cars podcast to expose the decades of…
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Can Free Speech Survive the Charlie Kirk Backlash? (ft. Kat Tenbarge)
Jimmy Kimmel might be getting his show back after a pause following his comments about Charlie Kirk's death, but dozens of other people have lost their…
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Democrats Were Banned From Saying These Progressive Words??
According to the centrist group Third Way, Democrats should scrub their vocabulary of 45 words and phrases spanning six pejoratively titled categories…
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Inside the Secret Conservative Plan to Censor the Internet (ft Siri Dahl)
Age verification laws are the latest front in the religious right's movement to censor your speech and limit your Internet access, including what information…
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Excommunicated, Executed, Deposed: Medieval Cancel Culture Was Ruthless (ft Eleanor Janega)
Excommunicated! Executed! Deposed! What did today’s equivalent of cancellation look like in Medieval Times? For Edward II, it was losing the throne. For Anne…
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The Scandal That Could Actually Break Trump's Base (ft. Ken Klippenstein)
Donald Trump is bungling the Jeffrey Epstein scandal in real time. The Trump-Epstein connection is the politics news of the month, with no end in sight to…
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The Kingmaker Behind Zohran Mamdani's Upset (ft Brad Lander)
In this exclusive interview, NYC Comptroller Brad Lander reveals how he became the kingmaker behind Zohran Mamdani's shocking primary victory over Andrew…
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We Debunked the New York Times Anti-Trans Podcast (ft. Sandy Allen)
The New York Times’ "The Protocol" podcast was designed to cast doubt on the efficacy of gender-affirming care for youth. The podcast recycled previous NYT’s…
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Why You Should Never Trust AI (ft. Josh Gondelman)
Comedian Josh Gondelman was surprised to learn that he’s married to famous singer-songwriter Fiona Apple. After all, he’d just celebrated his eighth wedding…
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Behind the Scenes of an Influencer’s Congressional Run (ft. Kat Abughazaleh)
Progressives on the left and the more mainstream #resistance may disagree over policy. But there’s one practice upon which they agree: Democrats need to stop…
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This Guy Wants to Fix the Democratic Party (ft. DNC Vice Chair Malcolm Kenyatta)
Internal conflict could oust two of the Democratic National Committee’s newest, youngest leaders with bold yet different visions for the future of the party. A…
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Conclave Me, Daddy
Conclave Me, Daddy! Katelyn and Christine’s long-anticipated “cradle Catholic” episode arrives as the church’s cardinals gather at the Vatican to elect a new…
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What's in a Cover? (ft. Teen Vogue editor Lex McMenamin)
Vivian Jenna Wilson first made headlines in 2024 as Elon Musk’s estranged “transgender daughter,” a reductive framework that much of the mainstream media…
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Kicking over the Barstool (ft. Frankie de la Cretaz)
Former NFL player and Barstool Sports alum Pat McAfee didn’t have to name the Ole Miss freshman at the center of ongoing online and IRL harassment on the…
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We've Got Some Bad Newsom
California governor Gavin Newsom apparently thinks that he can be the Joe Rogan of the left, and he's out with a puzzling new podcast in an attempt to prove…
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Private Equity “R” U.S. (ft. Megan Greenwell)
Why should you care about private equity? It is affecting all of us in the U.S., even if we don’t realize it. Private equity money promises to invest in a…
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What’s the Meta With You? (ft. Tat Bellamy-Walker)
From Mark Zuckerberg at the inauguration to Elon Musk in the oval office, the tech broligarchy is upon us, shaping policy to erase trans people, Black people…
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Joke’s On Who? (ft. Gianmarco Soresi)
Comedian Gianmarco Soresi is a rising comedy star with nearly 950,000 subscribers on YouTube alone. You have likely come across one of Soresi’s sets if you’ve…
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Cancelling the Insurrection (ft. Meredith Shiner)
January 6, 2025 marked two grim occasions: the four year anniversary of Donald Trump inciting his followers to take over the U.S. Capitol and the present-day…
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Blake Lively and the Making of a Cancellation
“Imagine if a document saying all the things that he wants ends up in the wrong hands,” Melissa Nathan—the crisis public relations expert who preserved alleged…
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Delay, Deny, Depose (this is not a threat)
The health insurer horror stories haven’t stopped coming in the two weeks since UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot and killed by alleged…
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Alf Hog and the Bluesky X-odus (ft. Faine Greenewood)
Last month’s Loser Election prompted an X-odus from Elon Musk’s crumbling app to Bluesky, which grew by 1 million users per day toward the end of November…
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The Loser Election (ft Michael Hobbes)
The “Daddy Election” did not go as Cancel Me, Daddy planned. Everyone seems to have an opinion about what woulda, coulda, shoulda changed the outcome of the…
Cancel Me, DaddyThe Daddy Election (ft. Talia Lavin)
Our regularly scheduled episode happens to fall on Halloween! And spooky season is feeling extra—as extra as Tucker Carlson rallying “Daddy Trump” to give…
Cancel Me, DaddyCrossover: BEEF - Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz vs. The Catholic Church: Mexico's First Feminist
Special episode swap with BEED, a podcast by former Cancel Me, Daddy guest Bridget Todd: This week on Beef, the brilliant 17th century nun Sor Juana Inés de la…
Cancel Me, DaddyChappel Roan and the Trolls of the Ring (ft. Jessie Gender)
Chappell Roan’s cancellation by a certain set of voters got us thinking: When do fandoms become toxic? How does “stanning” an artist, a politician, or a…
Cancel Me, DaddySexting with Mr. Brainworms (The Nuzzi/RFK Jr scandal)
New York placed Washington correspondent Olivia Nuzzi “on leave” after the magazine Washington correspondent admitted to an inappropriate relationship with…
Cancel Me, DaddyCanceling Russian Propaganda (ft Nina Jankowicz)
This week we are pleased to welcome freelance journalist Christine Grimaldi for her debut as the new permanent co-host of Cancel Me, Daddy! Together, we also…
Cancel Me, DaddyCanceling Dr. Disrespect (ft. Mikhail Klimentov)
This week Katelyn speaks with Mikhail Klimentov, former head of the Washington Post's gaming vertical and writer of the Substack ReaderGrev, to talk about the…
Cancel Me, DaddyCanceling "Link in Bio" Bots (ft. Miles Klee)
This week, Katelyn talks with Miles Klee of Rolling Stone about the annoyingly pernicious "p*ssy in bio" bots that have taken over Twitter lately before coming…
Cancel Me, DaddyCanceling Trans and Anti-Trans Discourses (ft. Julia Serano)
This week, Katelyn talks with legendary trans author and activist Julia Serano, who is coming out with a third edition of her trans feminist book Whipping Girl…
Cancel Me, DaddyCanceling Taylor Swift (ft. Frankie de la Cretaz)
Hello Cancelers! It feels like Taylor Swift is everywhere this year. She just broke a record at last weekend's Grammy's and this weekend we're likely to see…
Cancel Me, DaddyCanceling Hate Speech on Social Media (ft. GLAAD's Leanna Garfield)
Hey Cancelers! This week Katelyn sits down for a discussion with Leanna Garfield, Social Media Safety Program Manager at GLAAD, about how social media…