The internet is getting a kick out of Secretary of State Marco Rubio&#8217;s take on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.&#8217;s sauerkraut-heavy diet and his admission that diets and MAHA just aren&#8217;t for him &#8212; although Pop-Tarts very much are.
Rubio made the admission during a Tuesday appearance with his wife, Jeanette, on &#8220;The Katie Miller Podcast,&#8221; where host Katie Miller asked whether he had adopted RFK&#8217;s diet of red meat and fermented vegetables.
Rubio immediately said no and called the diet &#8220;crazy.&#8221;
&#8220;This is a diet that consists of eating sauerkraut and meat,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Now, you understand, like this is not a sustainable thing.&#8221;
&#8220;Well he sustains it, because he does it,&#8221; Rubio&#8217;s wife Jeanette, who joined him on the podcast, chimed in.
&#8220;But he has to travel with coolers of sauerkraut!&#8221; Rubio said, cracking up Miller. &#8220;I&#8217;m not gonna travel the world with a cooler full of sauerkraut. It&#8217;s ridiculous. I can&#8217;t do it. It&#8217;s not sustainable.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m in favor of MAHA,&#8221; he continued, referring to the Make America Healthy Again movement. &#8220;Like, I think people should be healthy &#8211;&#8221;
&#8220;He is not. He is completely not,&#8221; Jeanette interjected again. She also revealed that her husband eats Pop-Tarts, a shameful admission to anyone in the MAHA world.
&#8220;No, I don&#8217;t eat Pop-Tarts every day, okay?&#8221; Rubio responded. &#8220;You eat sweets!&#8221; Jeanette said.
&#8220;The Pop-Tart is one of the great American innovations in the history of the world,&#8221; Rubio said, embracing his love of Pop-Tarts. &#8220;If you think about it, it comes in this beautiful foil package.&#8221;
&#8220;He eats all the things you should not be eating, every single thing,&#8221; Jeanette added.
Rubio went on to say that diets just aren&#8217;t for him. He said he once tried the ketogenic diet and called it a &#8220;near-psychotic event&#8221; for him.
&#8220;I tried this thing called keto,&#8221; he said. &#8220;You just eat all this protein, and so you go through this massive withdrawal from sugar and carbohydrates for the first 72 hours. It was a near-psychotic event for me.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s true, like if I did this in this job [at that time], I would be saying, &#8216;Mr. President, we must bomb Paraguay,'&#8221; Rubio joked. &#8220;And it&#8217;s like, why? I don&#8217;t know. I&#8217;m just really mad I haven&#8217;t had any sugar.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m not against this diet, I&#8217;m not asking that we ban it,&#8221; the Secretary of State added. &#8220;I encourage people to try it. I&#8217;m just saying it&#8217;s not for everyone. That&#8217;s what I&#8217;m saying.&#8221;
The internet seems to be laughing along with Miller, too. The post has garnered millions of views and tens of thousands of likes in a matter of hours. Many folks commented on Rubio&#8217;s wife playfully calling him out and how Rubio is actually spitting &#8220;facts&#8221; about Pop-Tarts. And, of course, the obligatory Rubio meme has been given a Pop-Tart makeover:
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Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed invited a sex educator on a 2021 podcast and argued that &#8220;capitalism has become the thief of sex,&#8221; saying modern work culture and pornography undermine healthy relationships. 
During the episode of his &#8220;America Dissected&#8221; podcast, titled &#8220;Talkin&#8217; Nerdy About Gettin&#8217; Dirty,&#8221; El-Sayed said that capitalism negatively affects people’s sex lives in two ways. 
&#8220;Subordinating that most natural human act to the tyranny of our ever-so-busy lives, it&#8217;s just one way capitalism steals our sex from us,&#8221; he said. He also argued that pornography keeps people from &#8220;embracing the sex we actually have.&#8221;
“It’s a productized version of the thing, not the real thing you have with a real partner built on a real relationship, warts and all,&#8221; he said, adding that &#8220;capitalism has become the thief of sex.&#8221;
&#8220;Sex positivity isn’t about being exposed to the highlight reel picked and pruned version of sex that is so ubiquitous on our screens,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;It’s about embracing the sex we actually have.”
In another episode, El-Sayed also complained about the prevalence of adult content on Instagram, blaming the platform&#8217;s algorithm for showing him an &#8220;OnlyFans model&#8221; every third video.
At the beginning of the podcast, El-Sayed described what he called the &#8220;duality&#8221; of sex, saying it is viewed as both a &#8220;shameful, dirty act&#8221; and &#8220;the physical act of showing love.&#8221; He also cited research showing that the average adult is having about 13% less sex than in the late 1990s.
“Mostly millennials like me, often in loving, committed, long-term relationships, many with kids,” he said. “Life gets hectic between work commitments, the struggle to keep up with various chores inside and outside the house, and the absolute libido killer that is the existence of children in your home.”
Throughout the episode, El-Sayed asked sex educator and author Emily Nagoski about why millennials are having less sex. Nagoski agreed with El-Sayed&#8217;s argument that capitalism contributes to the decline.
El-Sayed has built much of his political message around criticism of corporate capitalism, particularly in healthcare, arguing corporate interests drive up prescription drug prices and limit access to care.  
His anti-corporate message, combined with a focus on affordability, helped him defeat Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) in Tuesday’s Democratic primary. 
Backed by leftist leaders including Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), El-Sayed will face Republican Mike Rogers in November in one of the nation’s most competitive Senate races.

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Anson Frericks spent 11 years climbing to the top of Anheuser-Busch, eventually becoming the legacy beer brand&#8217;s president of sales and distribution.
And then, he watched in horror as the company he loved traded its relationship with customers for an elitist stakeholder capitalism scorecard. Most Americans can date Bud Light&#8217;s collapse to February 11, 2023 — the day that transgender-identifying social media influencer Dylan Mulvaney posted a video of himself drinking Bud Light in a bathtub, a paid promotion that permanently altered the brand&#8217;s reputation.
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But as Anson recounts in his bestselling book, &#8220;Last Call for Bud Light,&#8221; the Mulvaney campaign was just one of many poor decisions that led to Anheuser-Busch losing $30 billion in market value. The company&#8217;s executives, he wrote, &#8220;had lost touch with Anheuser-Busch’s brand. With its mission. With its consumers.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-worked-at-anheuser-busch-when-bud-light-imploded-heres-what-i-learned?author=Anson+Frericks&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=I+Worked+At+Anheuser-Busch+When+Bud+Light+Imploded.+Here%E2%80%99s+What+I+Learned.">READ AN EXCERPT FROM ANSON FRERICKS&#8217;S BESTSELLER &#8216;LAST CALL FOR BUD LIGHT&#8217;</a>
Frericks had seen the writing on the wall before the Mulvaney fiasco. He left Anheuser-Busch in 2022 and partnered with Vivek Ramaswamy to found <a href="https://strive.com/story">Strive Asset Management</a>, whose &#8220;bold vision&#8221; was &#8220;to depoliticize corporate America and restore the voices of everyday citizens in the American economy by leading companies to focus on excellence.&#8221;
Frericks breaks down all that and more in the premiere episode of The Daily Wire&#8217;s newest show, &#8220;Titans On Tomorrow.&#8221; The series brings Shapiro face to face with the founders, CEOs, and investors building the next decade of business and finance during a transformative time for the global economy.
In this exciting premiere episode, Shapiro and Frericks break down Anheuser-Busch&#8217;s fall from the top of the beer world to the punchline of a national joke. They also discuss why companies like BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard have outsized power over corporate America, and how Strive is fighting back; whether corporate neutrality is enough, or if conservatives need to push harder; why he left the culture wars behind to build an AI company tackling serious mental illness; and what&#8217;s next as AI, biotech, and capital markets reshape the American economy.
Watch Episode One of &#8220;Titans On Tomorrow&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ben-shapiro-show-titans-on-tomorrow-ep-1?contentProgram=The%20Ben%20Shapiro%20Show&amp;contentType=ShowEpisode&amp;elementPosition=2&amp;location=Home%20Tab&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Home%20Featured%20Carousel">exclusively at The Daily Wire.</a>

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As newly released diary entries have thrust Dr. Anthony Fauci back into the spotlight, Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed&#8217;s own pandemic-era podcast offers a glimpse into just how closely he aligned himself with the former White House adviser.  
El-Sayed had hosted a podcast sporadically since 2019, but just seven days into the COVID-19 pandemic, he ramped up production to two episodes a week focused on the virus and public health policy. A review of the episodes by The Daily Wire found that El-Sayed repeatedly praised Fauci, defended his handling of the pandemic, and echoed many of his positions while attacking the former NIH official&#8217;s critics.
In a 2021 <a href="https://www.crooked.com/podcast/a-second-opinion-with-dr-anthony-fauci/">interview</a> with Fauci, El-Sayed described him as the “face of infectious disease science and medicine dating back all the way to the first outbreak of HIV/AIDS in the 80s.” 
“Throughout the pandemic, his honesty, candor, and stubborn insistence on science have been a source of confidence and comfort for many of us,&#8221; El-Sayed said while introducing Fauci. &#8220;Even if it’s meant he’s become a lightning rod for trolls on the right.” 
The “trolls on the right” comment seemed to be describing Fauci critics like Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY).
On Wednesday, Paul and Fauci met again in Congress after Paul released pages from Fauci&#8217;s diary that he says contradict the former COVID adviser&#8217;s public messaging on the virus&#8217;s origins, his views of political figures including President Trump, and his preoccupation with media attention and fame. 
During the 2021 interview, El-Sayed used the podcast episode to accuse Paul of putting politics ahead of science. Fauci agreed.
“Though he should know better, Dr. Senator Paul has chosen feeding red meat to his political base over following the science that he trained on,” said El-Sayed. “We were fortunate that Dr. Anthony Fauci was there to check him every single time.&#8221;
He lamented that &#8220;the country’s top infectious disease expert has to routinely spar with another doctor in the Senate over basic science around getting vaccinated or wearing a mask in the pandemic.”
El-Sayed also argued that Paul and other vaccine skeptics had exploited what he called the evolving nature of scientific guidance.
“People like Rand Paul and the legions of vaccine resisters they inspire have exploited a peculiar aspect of this pandemic,” El-Sayed said. “The fact that all of us are trying to interpret changing science in real time.”
Like Fauci, El-Sayed built much of his public profile during the pandemic by presenting himself as a physician and public health expert while advocating for some of the country&#8217;s most aggressive COVID mitigation measures. In 2021, he pushed for Michigan to go back under another statewide lockdown, suggested fining businesses that attempted to open, and criticized Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis for allowing kids to return to school without mask mandates.
The pandemic also elevated El-Sayed&#8217;s national profile. In addition to his podcast, he made frequent television appearances and later became a CNN contributor.
El-Sayed, who earned a medical degree but has never completed a residency or obtained a medical license to practice medicine, is now seeking Michigan&#8217;s open U.S. Senate seat.
Fauci&#8217;s diary resurfaced this week as he appeared before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. During Wednesday&#8217;s hearing, Fauci invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination 111 times while answering questions about the diary entries and his handling of the COVID pandemic.
Former President Joe Biden issued Fauci a preemptive pardon during the final hours of his presidency.

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Arizona State University, long known as one of America&#8217;s biggest party schools, is now offering a bachelor&#8217;s degree for aspiring influencers. 
The university&#8217;s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication recently unveiled a Bachelor of Arts in Content Creation, a program designed to prepare students to &#8220;become an influencer and strategic storyteller who thrives in the rapidly evolving creator economy.&#8221;
According to the university, the program is aimed at students who &#8220;dream of monetizing&#8221; their social media presence. Courses include How To Become An Influencer, On-Camera Presence, Podcasting, Social Media Foundations, The Digital Audience, and Interpersonal Influence.
ASU says the degree goes beyond creating social media posts.
Students will study multimedia production, audience analytics, personal branding, social media strategy, and integrated communications while participating in internships, brand partnerships, and content creation trips in Phoenix, Los Angeles, and abroad.
Jessica Pucci, senior associate dean at the Cronkite School, <a href="https://www.azfamily.com/2026/07/21/learn-how-be-an-influencer-with-asus-content-creation-major/">said</a> students will analyze performance metrics across multiple platforms, test different content strategies, and use data to grow their audiences.
Their senior capstone project requires students to spend an entire semester creating content on a platform such as TikTok, Instagram, or YouTube while demonstrating measurable audience growth. 
&#8220;They will have a platform of their choice with real content and real followers and a real audience behind them,&#8221; Pucci said. 
University officials say the program reflects the rapid growth of the creator economy, which Goldman Sachs <a href="https://www.goldmansachs.com/insights/articles/the-creator-economy-could-approach-half-a-trillion-dollars-by-2027">projects</a> could reach nearly $480 billion by 2027. 
Supporters say the coursework teaches practical skills that many successful creators eventually have to learn through trial and error.
But the announcement has also drawn plenty of skepticism <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/07/24/lifestyle/arizona-state-university-now-offers-a-content-creation-major/?utm_campaign=nypost&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter">online</a>, with critics questioning whether students need a four-year degree to learn skills many internet personalities developed on their own.
Arizona influencer Anna Elizabeth, who also works as a medical assistant, said she wishes the program had existed when she began building her online audience. 
&#8220;How do I get brands to notice me?&#8221; she said. &#8220;It&#8217;s a little bit difficult to understand that portion if you haven&#8217;t done it for a long time.&#8221;
Even some faculty members questioned whether the degree justifies its cost. ASU philosophy professor Owen Anderson asked on <a href="https://x.com/dr_owenanderson/status/2080107269468066231">X</a> whether the major would satisfy new federal accountability standards requiring degree programs to improve graduates&#8217; earning potential compared to workers without a college education.
Arizona State is not the first university to embrace the influencer economy. Syracuse University recently established a Center for the Creator Economy, while Graceland University and Arizona&#8217;s Grand Canyon University offer degree programs focused on digital content and social media.

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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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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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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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<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.
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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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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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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
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“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;

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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 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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