HeyJaredThe Adult in the Room
Victoria Taft is The Adult in the Room Who Sets You Straight on Life, News, Politics. Talking to the most interesting people in the news. The News Sherpa You Didn't Know You Needed.
- Indexed episodes, last 90 days
- 18
- Latest publication
- Sep 10, 2026
- Audience
- Checking…
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 10, 2026
Latest episodes
Lindsay Clancy's Juror Revolt & Chicago Socialists Want to Abolish the Family (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Victoria Taft delivers an explosive edition of The Adult in the Room , exposing radical cultural agendas, unhinged courtroom fallout, and bizarre mid-air incidents: The Socialism Confab in Chicago: Victoria breaks down undercover footage from the Socialism 2026 conference in Chicago, where 2,600 masked attendees gathered at a luxury hotel to demand the abolition of the nuclear family, declare weight loss drugs "fascist genocide," and compare traditional marriage to prostitution. Charlie Kirk Day
Iran’s Economy in Freefall, Al-Qaeda 9/11 Pen Scandal, & AirTagged Campaign Sign Bust (opens the original)
Read excerpt
On this edition of The Adult in the Room , Victoria Taft delivers an incisive analysis of escalating Middle Eastern maritime conflict, domestic political controversies, and courtroom drama: Iran SITREP & Economic Vise (Edmund Fitton-Brown): Former UN Sanctions Coordinator and FDD Senior Fellow Edmund Fitton-Brown breaks down the economic devastation inside Iran as the rial collapses, fuel queues grow, and citizens openly mock the IRGC on social media. Fitton-Brown addresses Iran’s attempt to est
Don Bentley’s Mitch Rapp Thriller Double Tap, & Lindsay Clancy Trial Madness (opens the original)
Read excerpt
On this high-octane edition of The Adult in the Room , Victoria Taft tackles a packed docket spanning national security fiction, courtroom drama, and breaking political fallout: Hot Book Summer — Don Bentley ( Double Tap ): New York Times bestselling author and former Army Apache helicopter pilot Don Bentley joins the show to discuss his third novel in the Vince Flynn / Mitch Rapp universe, Double Tap . Bentley explains how he placed Rapp in the early 1990s post-Gulf War era, hunting a rogue Pak
Nick Shirley vs The Left, Meta's $17B Shakedown Exposed & State Dept Blacklists Global Antifa Servers (opens the original)
Read excerpt
On this edition of The Adult in the Room, Victoria Taft breaks down the corporate payouts, legislative censorship, and foreign-hosted extremist networks dominating the headlines: The $17 Billion Meta Shakedown (Dr. Sal Giorgiani): Victoria analyzes the multi-state settlement requiring Meta to pay up to $17 billion over ten years. Men's health expert and former APHA chair Dr. Sal Giorgiani joins the show to examine the physiological and neurological damage caused by social media algorithms. Dr. G
Operation Economic Outcast Chokes Iran, Al-Qaeda’s Secret 9/11 Nuclear Plot, & Spencer Pratt’s Viral Rant (opens the original)
Read excerpt
On this edition of The Adult in the Room, Victoria Taft breaks down major geopolitical escalations, unsealed counterterrorism intelligence, and cultural updates: Operation Economic Outcast & Iran SITREP (Edmond Fitton-Brown): Former UN Sanctions Coordinator and FDD Senior Fellow Edmond Fitton-Brown analyzes Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s "Operation Economic Outcast". Fitton-Brown details the secondary sanctions squeeze on China and the UAE, the historic collapse of the Iranian rial past 2 mi
Publishing over time
Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.
Recurring subjects
Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.
Audience
No verified audience measurement yet.
About this data
Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.
Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.