HeyJaredThe Unspeakeasy With Meghan Daum
Author, essayist and journalist Meghan Daum has spent decades giving voice—and bringing nuance, humor and surprising perspectives—to things that lots of people are thinking but are afraid to say out loud. Now, she brings her observations to the realm of conversation.
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Who Has the Right to Sleep on the Sidewalk? feat Emma Pettit (opens the original)
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Meghan's guest is Emma Pettit, a former Chronicle of Higher Education reporter who moved into audio this year at Longview , the new independent media outlet founded by veteran podcast creator Andy Mills. Her new three-part series, Street Fight , looks at a conflict playing out on sidewalks across the country: the rights of people living on the street versus the rights of everyone else. Emma traces the tramps and hobos who followed the Civil War and the Skid Row "bum era" that lasted into the 197
Can a Republican Zionist Butch Lesbian Get Elected to the West Hollywood City Council? Tanya Tsikanovsky (opens the original)
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Another episode about local politics that's really about so much more. Meghan's guest is Tanya Tsikanovsky, a candidate for West Hollywood City Council. (West Hollywood is part of greater Los Angeles but functions as its own municipality.) Tanya came out at 14 and founded her high school's first Gay-Straight Alliance, was a die-hard liberal Democrat, and later worked on Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign in Iowa. But everything changed after the attacks of October 7th, 2023, when she says her Zioni
Why Cities Let Addicts Live On the Streets, with journalist Michael Powell (opens the original)
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Meghan's guest this week is journalist Michael Powell, a staff writer at The Atlantic and longtime former New York Times reporter whom she has admired for years for his willingness to report on thorny, third-rail cultural topics. She talked with him about his recent reporting on chronic street homelessness, drug addiction, and the real-world consequences of progressive governance. Specifically, they discussed how the "harm reduction" model plays out in cities like Burlington and Seattle, and why
Evan Barker on Nothing Left, the Dark Art of Political Fundraising, and the Fracturing Left (opens the original)
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Meghan's guest this week is Evan Barker, a former progressive operative, fundraising strategist, and author of Nothing Left: Confessions of a Democratic Operative. Meghan was eager to sit down with Evan after following her journey from a working-class Midwestern Obama campaign volunteer to a high-powered consultant who ultimately grew disillusioned with the modern Democratic machine. Together, they pull back the curtain on what actually goes on inside campaign "call time," how wealthy donor advi
Anne Frank Examines Her White Privilege: the Musical feat. PJ Adzima (opens the original)
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After a decade of ideological conformity, is American theater ready to laugh at itself again? This week Meghan is joined by Broadway star, comedian, and producer PJ Adzima , founder of Stage Time NYC and producer of Slam Frank —a mind-melting new musical that reimagines The Diary of Anne Frank through "an intersectional, multi-ethnic, genderqueer, Afro-Latin hip-hop lens." (You read that right.) Slam Frank was conceived by composer and lyricist Andrew Fox , who was stunned and inspired by a Twit
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