Second Lady Usha Vance just launched a new podcast aimed at children’s literacy, her office announced Monday.
The project, which is called “Storytime with the Second Lady,” will include Vance and special guests reading “good books out loud” and discussing why they love to read. 
&#8220;We will have someone come in—a &#8216;special reader,&#8217; we&#8217;re calling them—read a fun book, have a very short little conversation, and then invite children to pick up books on their own,” the <a href="https://x.com/SLOTUS/status/2038588810921996517">announcement</a> said. 
“It’s sort of just a little advertisement for reading,” Vance <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/2038595454527484055">said</a> during an appearance on NBC News. When asked why this initiative was so important, the second lady mentioned the decline of literacy rates, calling the trend “worrisome.”
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The first three episodes are already posted, featuring the books “Peter Rabbit” by Beatrix Potter, Disney’s “Cars” featuring Danica Patrick, and “Playground Lessons” written and read by Brent Poppen.
Vance has made children’s literacy a focus of her office. At the beginning of March, she celebrated National Reading Month by reading to young patients at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C., as The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/usha-vance-visits-children-at-hospital-for-national-reading-month">reported</a>.
“Childhood literacy is something that’s very important to me, both as a parent and as someone who grew up reading avidly,” Vance said at the time. “In particular, when children are spending a lot of time in the hospital it’s important that they have access to books, both as entertainment and to ensure they develop the essential literacy skills they will need for the rest of their lives. It’s an honor to spend time with these children and to encourage them to keep reading after they complete their stay here at the hospital.”
Earlier this year, the Vance family announced the happy news that they were expecting their fourth child together. The vice president, 41, and his wife, 40, have been married since 2014. 
With the birth of their new son expected in July, the couple will have joined a small club of presidents and vice presidents to have had a child while in office.
Episodes of “Storytime with the Second Lady” are available on YouTube and Spotify.

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Usha Vance Offers American Parents A Fix As Kids Drift From Books

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Editor’s note: this piece was adopted from remarks delivered to the House GOP Members&#8217; Issues Conference in Doral, Florida. 
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With a Right made up of podcasters, who needs the Left?
At a time when conservative new media figures should be rallying the troops to win in November, the podcasters have proven themselves incapable of getting along, intent on clutching defeat from the jaws of victory, and more interested in pursuing petty grievances than advancing the common good.
One hesitates even to call them “new media” at this point. Twitter has been around for twenty years. Facebook is two years older than that. The first podcast launched in 2003 on RSS technology invented in 2001. So podcasts and social media are “new” in the same way the telephone is new — that is, only relatively new compared with radio and TV or the telegraph.
And just as radio and TV developed certain ticks, opportunities, and pitfalls over time, so too have podcasts. One might liken the development of media to the development of a man as he ages. Those who have taken care of an elderly parent or grandparent know that, as people age, their personality traits don’t change so much as they intensify. Whatever the trait or habit, good or bad, grandma seems to exhibit it more and more year after year. The same principle holds true for the media.
As network television matured into cable news, political debates became sharper. Interviews became tighter. Perspectives became more nakedly partisan or even outright factional. Broadcast personalities became more defined.
As the cable news cycle gave rise to conservative talk radio, those inclinations were magnified. As talk radio gave way to podcasting, those traits intensified even further.
This process, like growing up, has produced both benefits and downsides. When you turn 21 you get to drink, but you also need to get a job. When you’re 61, you get to play with your grandkids, but your back hurts.
As old media have matured into new media, conservatives have had marvelous opportunities unthinkable in the days of newspapers, network TV, and the early days of cable news.
But it’s not all upside. As the new media have developed, they have also cultivated particular vices. The on-demand nature of podcasts has created incentives for broadcasters to become more niche, sensational, radical, and insular.
The local grounding of radio and television incentivized broadcasters to appeal to broad swaths of natural political communities. From dawn to dusk, broadcasts had to cater to relatively normal audiences in order to survive. The wacky shows only aired in the middle of the night.
In the new media, those geographic and linear constraints disappear. Every podcast has a potentially global audience that can listen at any time of the day. A podcast that appeals to a niche interest or ideological hobbyhorse will amass a much larger audience than the radio or TV host who appeals to the plurality or majority of any real political community.
Tune into a right-wing podcast today — including and especially the most popular right-wing podcasts — and you notice that the only thing the podcasters want to talk about is other podcasters.
This is all particularly disappointing because, as I mentioned, the new media are no longer new. Podcasts are now the main source of news in the United States. That’s why the 2024 election came to be known as “the podcast election.”
Two years ago, podcasters propelled President Trump back to the White House with the popular vote. Today, podcasters are stoking a “right-wing civil war” six months before already-challenging midterm elections.
I don’t mean to be too harsh to my fellow podcasters. I’ve done my best to avoid counterproductive infighting and frivolous digressions, but I recognize that these are simply facts and foibles of the medium. It’s no use moving to Mississippi and complaining about the heat. If you’re going to survive and thrive in that environment, you need to accept the facts as they are and learn to adapt.
Still, I can’t help but notice that the supposed “conservative civil war” has almost nothing to do with actual politics. Virtually everyone involved in the conflict supports the Trump administration. Virtually everyone agrees on policy — particularly immigration and crime.
Polls show that Americans still care a lot about those issues, and they generally trust Republicans over Democrats on both fronts. If Republicans can offer voters a coherent policy vision grounded on issues where we have a clear record of success. And if conservative podcasters can help tell that story — or at least get out of the way — the GOP may still have a fighting chance come November.

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KNOWLES: Do Right-Wing Podcasters Want To Lose The Midterms?

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Donald Trump

Michael Knowles

The following is an edited transcript excerpt from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1913-are-aliens-real-the-truth-about-obama-s-interview-explained?elementPosition=1&amp;row=0&amp;rowHeadline=Recent+Episodes&amp;rowType=Horizontal+Show+Episodes+Carousel">The Michael Knowles Show</a>.
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Liberal podcaster Brian Tyler Cohen just interviewed Barack Obama, and the former president decided to make a little news. 
Obama declared that aliens are real.
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I asked <a href="https://twitter.com/BarackObama?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BarackObama</a> if aliens are real. <a href="https://t.co/ZPw5zT9PfD">pic.twitter.com/ZPw5zT9PfD</a>
— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) <a href="https://twitter.com/briantylercohen/status/2022808515082096843?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 14, 2026</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote>Cohen: &#8220;Are aliens real?&#8221;
Obama: “They&#8217;re real, but I haven&#8217;t seen them, and they&#8217;re not being kept in — what is it?&#8221;
Cohen: &#8220;Area 51.&#8221;
Obama: &#8220;&#8230; Area 51. There&#8217;s no underground facility. Unless there&#8217;s this enormous conspiracy and they hid it from the president of the United States.” 
Cohen: “What was the first question you wanted answered when you became president?” 
Obama: “Where are the aliens?” </blockquote>
That’s a funny answer. But Cohen just moves on. 
Brian Tyler Cohen has set the new gold standard for incompetence at interviewing. There&#8217;s no follow-up. 
A president of the United States declares that aliens are real, and Cohen decides to not follow up on it. Oh, how do you know that? How do you know aliens are real?
Obama has now come out <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/barack-obama-clarifies-seen-no-evidence-aliens-saying-real-rcna259232">to clarify</a> his statement, offering a whole lot of liberal nonsense about the distance between solar systems:
<blockquote>I was trying to stick with the spirit of the speed round, but since it’s gotten attention let me clarify. Statistically, the universe is so vast that the odds are good there’s life out there. But the distances between solar systems are so great that the chances we’ve been visited by aliens is low, and I saw no evidence during my presidency that extraterrestrials have made contact with us. Really!</blockquote>
Liberals always say things like this — the solar system is so large, statistically there has to be intelligent life elsewhere in the universe.
But they never explain why that is. Because in order to ascertain the probability of something, you have to know how that thing came about in the first place. You have to know something, anything, about that thing. And at the level of pure nature, we don&#8217;t.
Now from a theological and anthropological level, I think we do know. But from the point of view of nature, we do not know how life came about. We don&#8217;t know, for instance, how one goes from inorganic to organic matter. There have been a zillion theories over the years, and none of them have been proven, but some of them have been disproven. 
So the argument that the universe is really, really big actually does not imply that there is intelligent life — or life of any kind anywhere else.
But the reason that the libs love aliens is because the existence of aliens diminishes the distinction of human beings. It makes us less special. That&#8217;s usually their explicit argument.
They say things like, What, you think you&#8217;re so special? A universe that&#8217;s eight gazillion bajillion miles wide and expanding, with countless worlds — you think you&#8217;re so special?
And my answer — and I believe the Christian answer — is yes, I think we’re pretty special.
The deeper reason the libs always promote aliens is because it diminishes the Incarnation. Because Christ is a man, because God becomes a man. He doesn&#8217;t become E.T., he doesn&#8217;t become a gazelle. He becomes a man, and he raises our very humanity to inestimable dignity.
<h3><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1913-are-aliens-real-the-truth-about-obama-s-interview-explained?elementPosition=1&amp;row=0&amp;rowHeadline=Recent+Episodes&amp;rowType=Horizontal+Show+Episodes+Carousel">WATCH: The Michael Knowles Show on DailyWire+</a></h3>
And the libs (and demons) want to diminish that. Satan falls from heaven because he can&#8217;t bow down to a man. Basically that&#8217;s what&#8217;s at the heart of this. I&#8217;m not saying that all the libs who promote the alien stuff are actively working with demons. I&#8217;m not. I really am not. I don&#8217;t see demons under every rock. But it is curious that so much of liberalism comes down to a prideful attempt to exalt man above his station and ends by degrading man below his station.
It begins by this notion that we&#8217;ll have no kings or priests. Man will only be free when the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. We&#8217;re just humanists now. We&#8217;re going to raise humanity up. We&#8217;re going to maximize individual autonomy.
And then what&#8217;s the end of it? The end of it is we degrade ourselves. We pretend that we&#8217;re just sacks of meat that exist only for pleasure. We promote things like abortion, slaughtering babies, and degrading humanity. We promote things like suicide, slaughtering ourselves, again degrading humanity.
We reduce ourselves below the station to which we&#8217;ve been raised. No surprise there. So when Obama says, look, I&#8217;m clarifying, I don&#8217;t see any evidence of aliens — I think he&#8217;s probably being honest here. I think his knee-jerk reaction of, well, of course aliens exist, the certainty in that just comes from his liberalism: we have to be — humans aren&#8217;t special. You think you&#8217;re so special?
But we are. We are actually.
It&#8217;s actually a harder truth. It is a more realistic view, but it&#8217;s more difficult, and it entails more responsibility to say yes, we are special. It&#8217;s kind of weird, right, that we, among all of the created things, have rational wills. Isn&#8217;t that kind of weird that we can conceive of abstract things? Unlike every animal and plant and all organic matter on Earth? We are finite and mortal, we die — but we have this immortal, eternal aspect to ourselves because we can reason.
Isn&#8217;t that kind of weird that nothing else that we&#8217;ve ever encountered or really even can conceive of has that combination of flesh and reason and will?
That makes us kind of special.
You are special, believe it or not.

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New Mexico

Opinion

After being briefly banned from Instagram, “Sopranos” star Drea de Matteo is back with a vengeance to launch her new podcast, &#8220;Ultrafree,&#8221; on Monday, February 9. The series will feature “unscripted conversations with artists, dissidents, whistleblowers, and independent thinkers.”
The Emmy Award-winning actress teased the project with an <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DUWtnv6kmhh/?igsh=MTljNjUzcHB5MDE1NQ%3D%3D">Instagram post</a> on Friday. “No script. No filter. No leash. Just this ol b!tch barkin up the wrong trees as usual,” de Matteo wrote in the caption.
The Ultrafree podcast grew out of the actress’ popular, non-conformist clothing line by the same name that captures the spirit of rebellion and brutal truth-telling that de Matteo has become known for. Per the podcast description, “Each episode examines power, culture, and the narratives we inherit—questioning who benefits, who is silenced, and what is deliberately left unseen.”
“Drea has created a space for curiosity over conformity, unity over division, and inquiry over performance. The conversations are intimate, deliberate, and unafraid to go where others wouldn&#8217;t dare,” it says.
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The “Sons of Anarchy” alum was once a self-described “hardcore liberal” who, like so many others, started identifying more with conservatives during the wild times of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“I had Trump Derangement Syndrome,” she told The Daily Wire during a 2024 <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sopranos-star-sounds-off-on-celebrity-endorsements-why-do-people-care">interview</a>. “I believed the hype. I listened to the real news! I didn’t do my own research.”
At the time, de Matteo said most celebrities are influenced by peer pressure and groupthink.
“It feels sad to see how misinformed [celebrities] are,” she said. “We’ve been watching them try to dismantle anything from God to country to human sovereignty.”
That’s why she opted to launch a clothing line for true free thinkers like herself. To de Matteo, it was because neither party represented her fully.
This realization led to the creation of Ultrafree, a streetwear line she launched in 2023 to “make freedom cool again.” She said Ultrafree is not another brand geared at conservatives, but rather caters to any American who feels as she does: adrift, frustrated, but still hopeful about what this country can be.
“The pronoun for the whole movement is ‘we, the people,’” she told The Daily Wire. “It’s not red, it’s not blue, no more labels … Ultrafree is really about critical thinking and not allowing your mind to be hijacked.”
The actress said liberals are welcome to embrace this concept of freedom for all.
“This isn’t just a conservative movement,” she said of the clothing brand at the time. “This is a movement by hippies and wild cards and lunatics like us as well. We wanna be free.”
The podcast officially premieres Monday, February 9, 2026, and will be available on all major platforms.

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‘Sopranos’ Star Drea De Matteo Launches Podcast For Independent Thinkers

'Sopranos' Star Drea De Matteo Launches Podcast For Independent Thinkers

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Christian conservative commentator Allie Beth Stuckey speaks truth eloquently and graciously, yet firmly and with conviction. She takes Biblical teachings from thousands of years ago and applies them to the present day. Perhaps that&#8217;s why Stuckey hosts a podcast called &#8220;Relatable.&#8221;
The Daily Wire sat down with Stuckey ahead of her AmericaFest speech, and in less than ten minutes, she covered the major topics in the conservative movement in a way that anyone can understand, no matter how well-versed on a topic.
&#8220;I think clarity is kindness,&#8221; Stuckey said.
Stuckey is in her 30s, has an audience of 25 to 45-year-olds who tune in to her episodes, yet she still connects with Gen Z on college campuses.
“I want to do the best that I can to bring clarity to confusion and bring courage where there is cowardice,&#8221; Stuckey said.  &#8220;I care a whole lot about what the Bible says about what&#8217;s going on in the world, and I want to try to bring that to people as much as I can.&#8221;
Stuckey&#8217;s doing that with the more than 700,000 subscribers who listen to &#8220;Relatable.&#8221; It&#8217;s a decent sample size to get a pulse on how her mostly-female audience feels about the country. She told The Daily Wire that she recently asked her listeners what concerns them most and it was overwhelmingly the growing influence of Islam — a topic Stuckey said is being downplayed in the conservative movement.
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I asked my 840k Instagram followers (mostly Christian women) what their biggest concern is for the country right now, and by FAR the most common answer is the growing influence of Islam. I’d like to see this concern reflected in the GOP asap
— Allie Beth Stuckey (@conservmillen) <a href="https://twitter.com/conservmillen/status/1982518640387019249?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 26, 2025</a></blockquote>
“I think it&#8217;s strange and dishonest. They are the entire reason we have a TSA. None of us like to take our shoes off or take our laptops out … you can thank Islam for that. I don&#8217;t see why we would want to minimize the negative impact on our culture and our country.&#8221;
Stuckey said her audience doesn&#8217;t know what to do when it comes to the infiltration of Islam in their communities.
&#8220;Of course we are all called to love the neighbors around us, but to see your neighborhoods change and the local church that&#8217;s been abandoned changed into a mosque, or a business center turned into an Islamic center, and we are told we are not supposed to care about that? We do care, and it scares us. Islam is incompatible with Western civilization. It&#8217;s about time we start seeing that and saying that.”
Charlie Kirk also thought Islam was a threat to the United States. Stuckey and Kirk had similar views on many topics &#8212; from Islam to family values, to the role politics plays in a Christian culture. She said she misses being able to fight alongside him in the culture war.
&#8220;Charlie was an anomaly,&#8221; Stuckey said. &#8220;He was a political strategist, he was a coalition builder. That&#8217;s not me. It might take 40 of us or four million of us to replace what one man was doing. If I can carry a small torch of what was the legacy of Charlie Kirk, I&#8217;m happy to do that.&#8221;
Stuckey said she carries Kirk&#8217;s legacy by pointing people to the Bible, and reminding them that ultimate victory is through Jesus.
&#8220;We know who wins in the end: it&#8217;s Jesus, he&#8217;s coming back,&#8221; Stuckey said. &#8220;And he&#8217;s not here yet, so we have work to do.&#8221;

The Daily Wire Talks With Allie Beth Stuckey

Allie Beth Stuckey Stays Relatable While Standing Firm In Her Beliefs

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Religion

Earlier this week, The Washington Post launched a customizable artificial intelligence podcast format targeting younger adults, but the episodes are causing headaches for news and standards editors at the paper, Semafor <a href="https://www.semafor.com/article/12/11/2025/washington-posts-ai-generated-podcasts-rife-with-errors-fictional-quotes">reported</a> on Thursday.
The Post&#8217;s new AI format, called “Your Personal Podcast,&#8221; allows users to customize their listening experience by choosing the topic, host, and length of a show, per a <a href="https://digiday.com/media/the-washington-post-debuts-ai-personalized-podcasts-to-hook-younger-listeners/">report</a> from marketing and media website Digiday. But according to Semafor, which viewed internal communications from the Post, the AI podcasts are spitting out fake quotes and adding commentary to stories that are supposed to be simple news reports.
Washington Post staff began flagging issues immediately after the AI podcasts were released to the public. The AI behind &#8220;Your Personal Podcast&#8221; has made significant changes to story content, including inventing quotes and presenting them as the Post&#8217;s editorial position on a particular issue.
The disastrous AI podcast rollout has reportedly infuriated editors who are already trying to push back on the Trump administration after it recently <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/mediabias/">labeled</a> the Post one of the worst &#8220;media offenders.&#8221;
“It is truly astonishing that this was allowed to go forward at all,” one Post editor said, according to Semafor. “Never would I have imagined that the Washington Post would deliberately warp its own journalism and then push these errors out to our audience at scale. And just days after the White House put up a site dedicated to attacking journalists, most notably our own, including for stories with corrections or editors notes attached. If we were serious we would pull this tool immediately.”
Karen Pensiero, the Post&#8217;s head of standards, added that the AI debacle has been &#8220;frustrating for all of us.&#8221;
The Daily Wire reached out to the Post, seeking comment.
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The Washington, D.C., newspaper has been looking for ways to incorporate AI-generated content into its audio platforms and signed a multi-year deal with AI voice-generating software company ElevenLabs in May 2024. Media outlets, including the Post, Time, and The Atlantic, have used ElevenLabs to create audio versions of articles on their websites, but the Post&#8217;s &#8220;Your Personal Podcast&#8221; project took AI generation to a new level in media production.
Bailey Kattleman, the Post’s head of product and design, said that &#8220;Your Personal Podcast&#8221; would give news consumers a &#8220;flexible way&#8221; to access the paper&#8217;s wide array of stories, according to Digiday. Kattleman said that she is excited to learn what the customizable AI-generated content says about listeners&#8217; habits and interests.
“It’s early, and it’s an experimental product in a lot of ways,” she said. “It’s kind of inventing a new category in a way. It’s so different from traditional podcasts. We’ll definitely be looking at habit-based metrics rather than volume in the early going.”
Semafor&#8217;s report on the Post&#8217;s plunge into AI-generated content, however, suggests that the move could come back to bite the newspaper that is attempting to redefine its image. The Post, which was purchased by billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos in 2013, is supposedly in the process of making major changes to its opinion section per orders from Bezos.
Bezos told the Post’s staff in an email in February, “We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets. We’ll cover other topics too of course, but viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others.”
The Post&#8217;s news team has continued to face criticism after publishing a story late last month claiming that War Secretary Pete Hegseth issued an order for a second strike on a suspected drug boat after he saw survivors in the water and gave the command to “kill them all.” The Post&#8217;s reporting, which relied on &#8220;two people with direct knowledge of the operation,&#8221; was refuted by Navy Admiral Mitch Bradley, who told Congress that Hegseth did not give a &#8220;kill them all&#8221; order.

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The Washington Post’s AI Podcast Rollout Has Been A Train Wreck

Artificial Intelligence

Legacy Media

Media

Washington Post

The Golden Globes completely snubbed popular conservative and independent podcasts when nominations were announced on Monday for the newly-created category, Best Podcast.
Instead of including some of the most listened-to podcasts in the nation, the organization nominated mostly actors and comedians for the category. Nominees included “Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard,” Alex Cooper’s “Call Her Daddy,” “Good Hang with Amy Poehler,” “The Mel Robbins Podcast,” NPR’s “Up First,&#8221; and “SmartLess” hosted by actors Jason Bateman, Will Arnett, and Sean Hayes.
Notable snubs include “The Joe Rogan Experience,” widely known to be the most popular podcast in the nation and a chart topper across Apple, Spotify, and YouTube. Other huge conservative podcasts left out include “The Ben Shapiro Show” and “The Megyn Kelly Show.”
Shapiro <a href="https://www.goldderby.com/tv/2025/ben-shapiro-interview-golden-globes-best-podcast/">discussed</a> being one of the 25 eligible podcasts for the nomination during an interview with Gold Derby last month. He said that in order for the country to unify, the other side needs to acknowledge the existence of conservatives.
&#8220;I do think that it is necessary for people to sit at the same table and at least acknowledge that we&#8217;re all Americans together. Because if we can&#8217;t even do that, it&#8217;s going to be very difficult to have a country together,&#8221; he told the outlet.
The Daily Wire host also noted how it was “really, really important” for podcasts to be recognized as a medium.
Per the Golden Globes, the goal of the new award is to celebrate excellence in podcasting by recognizing their &#8220;quality, creativity, audience engagement, and impact.” Besides shutting out every conservative and independent podcast, the organization did not nominate any true crime shows, and kept the far-Left podcast “Pod Save America” off the list as well.
The company said it would use &#8220;proprietary methodology designed to objectively evaluate podcasts,&#8221; based on metrics including audience reach/engagement, financial metrics, and platform visibility/market presence.

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Top Performing Conservative Podcasts Totally Shut Out Of Golden Globes Nominations

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Golden Globes

Hollywood

Walk into any corner of American political discourse today — scroll through social media, watch a committee hearing, or tune into any podcast — and you will see the same thing: grown adults calling each other names like middle schoolers fighting over a cafeteria seat. The foul language, the personal insults, the public meltdowns, the performative rage. This is not strength. It is not leadership. It is insecurity dressed up like courage and cowardice masquerading as conviction.
Somewhere along the way, we replaced statesmanship with screaming. We replaced persuasion with profanity. Ultimately, we have replaced the old fashioned American habit of debating ideas with the cheap and empty thrill of attacking people.
More than a century ago, Teddy Roosevelt, a man defined by both bold action and deep humility, gave us the blueprint for a better way: “Speak softly and carry a big stick.”
Today, however, we have the opposite — loud voices and small sticks.
The big stick Roosevelt spoke of was not brute force. It was strength, moral, intellectual, strategic, and spiritual. It was the confidence to act boldly without needing to shout about it. It was the courage to make hard decisions without cursing out everyone who disagreed. It was the wisdom to understand that real power does not have to announce itself. That&#8217;s the model that built America. The opposite tears it down.
Nowhere is this more obvious than in the rise of profanity and name-calling as the default language of our modern political media. There is nothing courageous about calling your opponent a slur on X. There is nothing tough about dropping f-bombs into every sentence so people will mistake your aggression for authority. And there is nothing admirable about influencers who pretend to be fighters for truth while reducing every debate to schoolyard taunts.
Profanity is not a sign of depth, it is the last resort of someone who has run out of arguments. Name-calling is not a sign of strength, it is emotional immaturity. And using your platform to bully instead of uplift does not make you a leader, it makes you an attention addict.
The people screaming the loudest in politics today, both on the Left and on the Right, have something in common: they are far more committed to growing their audiences than growing their country. Drama pays. Rage sells. Insults go viral in a way that virtues rarely do. But ask yourself: When was the last time vulgarity solved a national problem? When was the last time calling someone a “retard” secured a border, balanced a budget, defended a family, or healed a division? It does not. It cannot. It never will.
History tells us who actually moves nations forward. If the loudest voices were also the most effective, America would be thriving right now. But our most consequential leaders embodied the opposite of today’s political showmanship.
Consider Abraham Lincoln, arguably the greatest persuader in American history. Under unthinkable pressure, he chose calm over chaos, clarity over insults, and moral force over personal attacks. He did not need vulgarity to restore the Union. He relied on conviction, compassion, and clarity of purpose.
Think of Thomas Sowell, one of the most influential thinkers of the last century. A man who never needed to insult anyone to defeat their ideas. He does it with facts, discipline, and rigorous logic. Sowell’s writing has changed more minds in silence than a thousand social media personalities have changed by shouting. He has proved that a sharp intellect always cuts deeper than a sharp tongue.
Consider Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who led a movement that reshaped the moral conscience of the nation. He did not use foul language to rally a crowd. He did not dehumanize his enemies. His power came from his principles, not his profanity.
Look also at Ronald Reagan, whose strength came not from shouting but from optimism, clarity, and humor. He defeated the Soviet Union not with insults but with strategic vision, principled courage, and unshakeable conviction.
Even today, modern examples remain. American heroes across the military, law enforcement, public service, and civic life continue to change this country quietly and honorably, without needing the spotlight or the shock factor. They speak softly. They carry real sticks. They do real things.
Sometimes turning the volume down can amplify the ideas.
This is why the tragedy of our current political culture is so stark. We now confuse volume with vision. The modern algorithm rewards outrage, not outcomes. People chase retweets rather than respect and the result is a nation drowning in noise but starving for leadership.
When every debate becomes a brawl, the serious people leave the arena. When profanity becomes the currency of influence, the wise stop speaking.
The truth is that courage requires restraint. There is a myth that strong men must be loud men. But the opposite is true. The strongest people are those who can keep their composure while others lose theirs. The most persuasive voices are those that remain calm when the room gets heated. The most impactful leaders are not the ones who shout to be heard but ones whose character makes others quiet down to listen.
A man who must curse to be taken seriously has already lost the argument.
A politician who must demean others to feel powerful is already revealing weakness.
And an influencer who has to shock, insult, or degrade his audience to remain relevant is not shaping culture. He is cheapening it.
The good news is that we can reverse this cycle. The American people still hunger for calm over chaos, wisdom over theatrics, and substance over stunts. They want leaders like Roosevelt who can speak softly because they actually carry the biggest sticks: experience, knowledge, values, courage, humility, and truth.
Imagine a generation of leaders who choose persuasion over profanity, character over clout, solutions over screams. Imagine if our public square once again rewarded virtue instead of virality.
Today, too many people are doing the opposite. It is time to reject the cowards hiding behind insults and elevate the adults who carry real sticks. It is time to restore civil discourse to America. And it is time we stop celebrating the yellers and start honoring the builders.
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Gates Garcia is the host of the YouTube show and podcast “We The People.” Follow him on Instagram and X @GatesGarciaFL.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales reportedly stormed out of an interview after being pressed on why he referred to himself as the site’s “founder.”
The incident occurred while Wales was speaking with Tilo Jung for the German political podcast “Jung &amp; Naiv.” When Jung pressed him to clarify if he’s the founder or co-founder, Wales responded, “I don’t care. It’s the dumbest question in the world.”
Jung pressed the topic, asking if there was a “dispute” over the issue. “What are the facts?” Jung asked. “Well, it’s not a fact, it’s an opinion, so you can have whatever opinion you like,” Wales replied. 
Jung tried to nail down that detail again, saying, “For you, you’re the founder?”
“Can I just say again, it doesn&#8217;t matter. I&#8217;ve answered your question four times,” Wales said firmly. He then stood up and said, “You know what? I&#8217;m done. Thank you.”
“What&#8217;s going on?” Jung asked as Wales seemed to head for the exit, prompting Wales to say over his shoulder, “It&#8217;s stupid. Don&#8217;t ask me stupid questions.”
“How is that stupid?” Jung wondered.
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This isn’t the first time this particular issue has caused strife. During a 2023 <a href="https://lexfridman.com/jimmy-wales-transcript/#chapter1_origin_story_of_wikipedia">interview</a> with Lex Fridman, Wales also called the question of who founded the most popular online encyclopedia “unimportant” and “not that interesting.” 
“I actually think Larry Sanger doesn’t get enough credit for his early work in Wikipedia, even though I think co-founder’s not the right title for that,” he said at the time.
Wales is the co-founder of Wikipedia along with Larry Sanger, but Sanger exited the project in 2002 and has been speaking out against it ever since.
“Wikipedia is badly biased. The original policy long since forgotten, it no longer has an effective neutrality policy. It now touts controversial opinions on politics, religion, and science. And examples have become embarrassingly easy to find,” Sanger <a href="https://x.com/lsanger/status/1260975408167759873">shared on X</a> in 2020 alongside a link to a blog post detailing some of the worst offenses. 
Those listed included a “Barack Obama article completely fails to mention many well-known scandals: Benghazi, the IRS scandal, the AP phone records scandal, and Fast and Furious, to say nothing of Solyndra or the Hillary Clinton email server scandal—or, of course, the developing ‘Obamagate’ story in which Obama was personally involved in surveilling Donald Trump.” 
“It is time for Wikipedia to come clean and admit that it has abandoned NPOV (i.e., neutrality as a policy). At the very least they should admit that they have redefined the term in a way that makes it utterly incompatible with its original notion of neutrality, which is the ordinary and common one,” Sanger wrote in the post. “Of course, Wikipedians are unlikely to concede any such thing; they live in a fantasy world of their own making.”
In September, President Donald Trump announced that the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform was investigating Wikipedia over alleged pro-Kremlin, anti-Western, and anti-Israel bias, and that it was raising serious concerns given that AI chatbots heavily rely on the site’s information, as The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-goes-to-war-with-wikipedia-over-political-slant">reported</a>.
Sanger expressed his gratitude for the probe, saying, “I am glad that Congress is investigating the use of foreign and U.S. government funds to pay for biased editing on Wikipedia. … There is clearly massive support for this sort of investigation.”
The co-founder added that Wikipedia “makes broad editorial decisions about what constitutes reliable sources, which must be respected by large numbers of participants. … The Wikipedia Foundation could address the situation, but does not.”  He noted that the Wikipedia Foundation also “refuses to reveal the identity of its most powerful editors or to override decisions by editors.”

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Isabel Brown, Gen Z firebrand and popular content creator, is bringing her unique blend of humor and cultural commentary to The Daily Wire.
This fall, <a href="https://www.theconservateur.com/features/isabel-brown-launches-new-show-with-the-daily-wire">Brown began hosting an original series</a> on DailyWire+. Broadcasting from Washington, D.C., Brown joins a growing Daily Wire team in our nation’s capital. A new mom and Colorado native, Brown rose to fame posting her unfiltered thoughts on Instagram, where she now has over a million followers.
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I am SO excited to finally announce that my podcast, The Isabel Brown Show, has a new home with <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDailyWire</a>!!
I have never been more passionate about fighting as hard as we can on offense to save the West. It’s time for us to not just *react* to the insanity of the upside… <a href="https://t.co/mUKxMHe8FJ">pic.twitter.com/mUKxMHe8FJ</a>
— Isabel Brown (@theisabelb) <a href="https://twitter.com/theisabelb/status/1942222116817862859?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 7, 2025</a></blockquote>
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On her show, Brown tackles the same subjects she addresses on her social media pages — everything from pop culture to the pro-life movement — and bring viewers with her as she takes D.C. by storm with her family.
“Earlier this year, I transitioned into the most important role of my entire life: mom,” Brown said. “Seeing the world through my daughter&#8217;s eyes and a fresh perspective has only given me more passion for our generation to fight on offense as hard as we can for what is good and true and beautiful.”
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“Isabel Brown is sure to win over the hearts and minds of the Daily Wire audience with her common-sense takes, elegant humor, and intellectual prowess,” says Mike Richards, Chief Content Officer and President of Daily Wire Entertainment. “She brings brainpower, pop culture fluency, and the kind of fearless fun that causes liberal tears to flow like NPR tote bags at a Bernie rally.”
Daily Wire viewers will have plenty of time to get to know Isabel as they join her devoted community of “truth seekers” this fall.
Here’s everything you need to know about The Daily Wire’s newest host.
<h3>She’s Fearless</h3>
Whether it’s <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DEpsnWPO5Br/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">free speech </a>in the digital era, women’s <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DDaLn3yyqta/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">biological identity</a>, or humanity’s most basic <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DCR_Iv8yDZu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">right to life</a>, Isabel proudly stands up for her views — even when they’re unpopular. She was among the first to stand up for <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DDXhxcxS6YO/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TikTok’s</a> importance as a free speech platform, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DFOdldUug_4/?img_index=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defends life </a>from the moment of conception, and even appeared <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C9Z5DDKuUEn/?img_index=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">on the cover</a> of Newsweek to champion conservative principles for Gen Z.
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<h3>She’s All About Faith and Family</h3>
Isabel grew up in a chaotic, loud, and very pink home, the oldest of <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C_qJa2fuBKC/?img_index=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">three girls</a> who loved to steal each other’s clothes and fight over who got to play with which American Girl doll. As a wife and new mom, Isabel is cherishing every second of her home life with her <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C-VeLjEuI6J/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">husband</a>, Brock, their beautiful baby girl, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DKLDIgYNh8M/?img_index=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Isla</a>, and, of course, her trusty sidekick, Liberty the Corgi. Guiding Brock as he converted to Catholicism inspired Isabel to take an even deeper interest in her faith, and she’s currently pursuing her master’s degree in theology at the University of Notre Dame. Go Irish!
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<h3>She’s Always On The Move</h3>
Despite all the time she spends online, Isabel’s favorite thing to do is spend time in the great outdoors. Isabel scaled her first 14,000+ foot peak in her home <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CTcjRRaAYQy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mountains of Colorado </a>at 10 years old. She’s on a <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CfejxLUJdXl/?img_index=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">quest</a> to visit all 63<a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CxRmJ3EtHeY/?img_index=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> National Parks</a> and has traveled to 24 countries, scaling peaks in <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C0o__FFSnGA/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New Zealand</a>, road-tripping the <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C-7tJxgu5-6/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Scottish Highlands</a>, and retracing the steps of Jesus in the <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CiatG7FvjL8/?img_index=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Holy Land</a>.
She’s also a trained ram handler, thanks to her time caring for Colorado State University’s live mascot, CAM the Ram. Every weekend, she’d run with CAM on the football field in her boots to celebrate every touchdown, and spent many hours shearing sheep.
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<h3>She’s…Kind Of A Nerd</h3>
A self-described “certified theater kid,” Isabel has starred in “Hairspray” and “Les Misérables” and has seen nearly every Broadway production on stage. While she’s less likely to get dressed up for the theatre with a new baby at home, she loves singing &#8220;Wicked” and “The Sound of Music” at home with Isla.
She also loves sci-fi and fantasy, both books and movies — especially “Harry Potter,” “The Lord of the Rings,” and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C710k6SOXcK/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Star Wars</a>. She maintains to this day that “The Empire Strikes Back” is the greatest standalone film ever made, and actually cried driving through Glencoe, Scotland while listening to the “Harry Potter” film score. Don’t judge.

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The Isabel Brown Show premiered Monday on DailyWire+, and The Daily Wire’s newest host wasted no time getting to the crux of the issues that plague America today.
“I spent forever contemplating exactly what we wanted our first episode of the new &amp; improved Isabel Brown Show to be all about,” Brown said in her debut episode. “I think the best place for us to start is understanding just how insane our culture currently is and how we got here.”
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The Isabel Brown Show — Monday.
It’s been sitting with me heavy for the last year how new media has become spectacularly skilled at reacting to insanity, but virtually no one is creating a clear playbook for how we escape it. We’re great at playing defense against evil, but we… <a href="https://t.co/TJneZeKofk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/TJneZeKofk</a>
— Isabel Brown (@theisabelb) <a href="https://twitter.com/theisabelb/status/1964373249304981749?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">September 6, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Brown then takes her viewers back in time 60 years, to when the Communist Party of the United States “actually read into the Congressional Record their&#8230;goals for how to destroy America as they knew it.”
Reading through the 45 goals — which include taking control of the schools, fomenting student riots, and discrediting the Constitution — Brown says it’s “eerie how much it feels like you’re reading a description of the society we live in today.”
The Communists also pushed to “discredit the family as an institution” and “eliminate prayer” from schools and the public consciousness.
“Tell me all of this is not a direct play by play of everything we’re living through today in our broken society!” Brown says.
“The tough truth that’s an incredibly hard pill to swallow is this: they won,” Brown says. “They resoundingly succeeded in bringing every single one of those goals to fruition, and they were incredibly open about it right in front of our faces while generations that came before us probably giggled and said there&#8217;s no way that will ever happen.”
But Brown sees hope in her generation.
“Newsweek magazine recently reported that 93% of current college students still want to get married, even in a culture screaming at them that marriage is an outdated concept. Over 80% of us plan on starting our own businesses within the next five years instead of slaving away for a woke CEO.”
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“We&#8217;re ditching our hormonal birth control across the political spectrum, we&#8217;re deleting our dating apps and reviving speed dating and blind dates. We&#8217;re cooking with beef tallow instead of seed oils, and maybe most importantly we&#8217;re overwhelmingly embracing God in a godless culture.”
“We&#8217;ll cover every single one of those topics at length on the show,” Brown says. “I promise.”
Brown, a Colorado native who rose to prominence as a social media influencer, says she joined The Daily Wire to help sketch out a new American dream — a plan of action to match the Left’s agenda.
“These days, everyone has a podcast,” she notes. “But we aren’t creating clarity. We’re only feeding into more chaos.
“As The Daily Wire rounds out their first decade trying to change culture and hits the drawing board for what comes next, I am so excited about the meeting of the minds we have and our shared passion to go on offense to save our country and world.”
“Through this show, and all of the content we make together, my prayer is that we can seek the truth to save the West, together, not just for us, but for our children and every generation to come.”
“We’ve got a whole lot of work to do, and the fight is not over. We aren’t even close to having won this culture war. If anything, it’s never been more important for us to fight like hell.”
The first episode of The Isabel Brown Show is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/the-launch-of-the-isabel-brown-show?elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+Show+Episodes+Carousel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">streaming now</a> on DailyWire+, and available everywhere else at 2:00 p.m. Eastern. New episodes will drop daily.

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Josh Holmes remembers the warnings were as clear as day.
The political strategist had just started “Ruthless,” a raucous show covering the latest news, when his Beltway colleagues cried foul.
&#8220;&#8216;Are you out of your minds?'&#8221; Holmes recalls of the steady drumbeat during the show’s 2020 launch. The critiques made sense. Holmes and his co-hosts — Michael Duncan, John Ashbrook, and the pundit known as Comfortably Smug didn’t talk like political consultants.
They called themselves “the Fellas,” and, true to the name, they talked like regular guys cracking wise at the bar. Smart fellas, to be sure. But fellas nonetheless.
And funny. Always funny.
Their colleagues may have been right, but the public disagreed. The variety &#8220;progrum,&#8221; as they call it, caught fire despite their unorthodox style and humble roots.
Now, they’ve sealed a deal with Fox News, bringing the progrum to the next level.
“The conventional wisdom that has governed the industry of politics is bulls***,” Holmes tells The Daily Wire.
Longtime fans, also known as “minions,” may fear the corporate partnership, but Smug says the best is yet to come.
“For listeners, the only thing this means for them is you get more. More episodes. More content. More capabilities,” Smug said.
“Nothing’s changing,” Holmes adds.
The show’s comedy veers from ribald banter to signature games like “Dem or Journo” and “King of the Hill.” The latter pits former Republican pundits squaring off for the most unhinged social media hot takes. The competition is fierce, all the better for show prep.
“Too many people in politics want to prove how smart they are all the time,” Duncan says. “If you’re not laughing, you’re going to be crying. Politics can be frustrating.”
The satire practically writes itself, assuming you’re paying attention, Holmes says.
“Watch the House of Representatives for 10 minutes and not have enough for a full, 30-minute comedy sketch,” Holmes says.
The show’s rise coincides with the country’s shift to the Right, Ashbrook suggests. Comedy mainstays like late-night TV don’t grasp that transition, he adds, consistently avoiding liberal targets in their monologues. “Ruthless” fans crave the comedic parts of the show, a rarity with right-leaning talkers. That’s especially true when digesting some of the heavier news cycles.
The show’s shocking ascent became clear earlier this year. The show joined the White House briefing room as part of President Donald Trump’s efforts to expand the pool beyond legacy outlets. Ashbrook represented the progrum with a <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/video/6368074243112">question for spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt.</a>
There’s a practical side to their high jinks. Pre-election, GOP voters got to know Vance as not just a youthful candidate but a wisecracking dad who could hang with the boys.
Other Beltway guests get to let down their guard, too, swapping jokes with the foursome and showing a fresh side of their personas. You won’t see that on C-SPAN. 
“You can see these folks in an environment that isn’t staid Washington, D.C.,” Holmes says. The Pelosis, Harrises and Buttigieges often visit Jimmy Kimmel or Seth Meyers to show their softer side.
Republicans get “Ruthless.”
The accidental podcasters all have day jobs. Holmes, Ashbrook, and Duncan work at <a href="https://cavalryllc.com/">Cavalry</a>, a Washington, D.C.-based public affairs and communications firm. Smug is a political consultant and hedge fund guru. Together, they’ve joined the podcast revolution at a critical moment.
Both sides of the political aisle acknowledge how vital podcasts were in the 2024 presidential election. President Donald Trump dropped by “The Joe Rogan Experience” and “Flagrant” with Andrew Schulz, while future Vice President JD Vance visited “The Tim Dillon Show” and “This Past Weekend” with Theo Von.
Vice President Kamala Harris infamously balked at a Rogan sitdown, much to her campaign’s eventual dismay.
“Listeners see podcasts as a more realistic source of information,” Smug says, blaming traditional media outlets for that shift. People can’t trust media outlets that told them President Joe Biden was the “sharpest guy around,” he adds.
“People were getting flat-out lied to, adds Holmes.
The 2024 election cycle “opened people’s eyes to the way the electorate consumes information,” Duncan says. The Fellas were ahead of the curve.
“The Legacy Media is entirely captured by the Left, and it is a disease. They’re fundamentally incapable of getting over that disease,” Ashbrook says. Journalists &#8220;care more about what rich people in New York think about them than they do about how the rest of the country views them … will they course correct? I always thought they would, but it’s only gotten worse.”
“They’re living in a society that does not exist in America beyond their X feed,” Holmes adds.
The Left has been begging to find their own Rogan since November 5, forgetting that the ex-“Fear Factor” host leaned to the Left before Democrats forgot their core principles, like free speech.
“There are very funny Democrats in this country. ‘Saturday Night Live’ was the funniest thing on the planet, staffed and written by Democrats,” Ashbrook says. But now, &#8220;they’re not allowed to be funny. They’re handcuffed by the Left.”
Christian Toto is an award-winning journalist, movie critic and editor of <a href="https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">HollywoodInToto.com</a>. He previously served as associate editor with Breitbart News’ Big Hollywood. Follow him at <a href="https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">HollywoodInToto.com</a>.
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