Best Luke Ganz Podcasts (2025)

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Trump's Big, Beautiful Ballroom (w/ Kate Wagner) [Teaser] 4:27

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Listen to the rest of this premium episode by subscribing at patreon.com/knowyourenemy. If there's a Trump-era topic that manages to fascinate without being entirely depressing, it's probably the ongoing arguments about architecture that his ascension has occasioned. Proponents of a RETVRN to the architectural ideals of ancient Greece and Rome are …

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ADULT CARTOONS TIER LIST!!! - Loggin' On: The Podcast Ep. 185 2:07:06

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Send us a text On the 185th podcast of Loggin' On, Frank and Matt chop it up with everything movie and TV show related, then move onto their Adult Cartoons Tier List, where they have to agree on each show's placement on the list. Subscribe to us on YouTube at Loggin' On Follow us on Instagram @loggin_on Follow us on Twitter @loggin_on Like us on Fa…

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Zohran, the Jews, and Reckoning with Gaza (w/ Peter Beinart) 1:14:27

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This episode isn't focused on a single topic or text, but rather just wanting to have a wide-ranging conversation with our guest, Peter Beinart, editor-at-large of Jewish Currents and author of the recent book, Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning. We start by discussing the appalling wave of Islamophobic attacks against Zohran M…

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Break Glass in Case of Emergency 1:31:51

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This is a different kind of episode than is typical; there's no book, no central text, not even a single, central event that guides the conversation. Instead, we begin with a few recent news items—speculation about Trump 2028, Speaker Mike Johnson's refusal to swear in a Democratic congresswoman, the stunning abdication of Congress as the shutdown …

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FILMMAKER JOE TOBON INTERVIEW!!! - Loggin' On: The Podcast Ep. 184 1:31:23

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Send us a text On the 184th podcast of Loggin' On, Frank conducts his final SPOTLIGHT INTERVIEW featuring filmmaker Joe Tobon where we discuss his work as an editor, director, and everything else involved in the field of video production. We also discuss the world of movies and the state that it's currently in. Subscribe to us on YouTube at Loggin'…

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Command + F + Hitler [Teaser] 3:53

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Listen to the rest of this premium episode by subscribing at patreon.com/knowyourenemy. The theme of this rank punditry episode is Getting in Trouble on the Internet, and we begin with the frankly unsurprising story of the Young Republican Hitler group chats, then move on to a longer discussion about Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate in Main…

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TOP 5 GOOD GUYS TURNED BAD!!! - Loggin' On: The Podcast Ep. 183 54:13

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Send us a text On the 183rd podcast of Loggin' On, Frank and Luke discuss their Top 5 Favorite Good Guys Turned Bad from TV, movies, books and more. Subscribe to us on YouTube at Loggin' On Follow us on Instagram @loggin_on Follow us on Twitter @loggin_on Like us on Facebook at Farank Videos Follow us on TikTok @loggin_on…

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How Charles Murray (Almost) Predicted the Trump Era 1:32:56

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This episode is the second in our occasional series on important, controversial, or unusually relevant conservative texts from the recent past. Here we take up Charles Murray's 2012 book, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010. With its focus on the ascendence of a new "cognitive elite," cultural divides, and the pathologies afflicting…

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How To Give A Damn [Teaser] 3:56

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Listen to the rest of this premium episode by subscribing at patreon.com/knowyourenemy. Before embarking on a spirited bout of rank punditry, we take a step back and talk about the Staple Singers, Hannah Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism, Tocqueville's Democracy in America, Zohran, and giving a damn about both your "fellow man" and democracy. The…

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THE BOXED WINE TASTE-TESTING FINALE!!! - Loggin' On: The Podcast Ep. 182 1:05:32

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Send us a text Here it is. After several wine taste-testing episodes in the books, we make to the 182nd episode of the podcast, which is our grand wine taste-testing finale. We get some familiar faces from previous wine pods joining us, along with some new faces as well to taste-test, rate and guess each boxed wine brought to the table. Chaotic, lo…

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Death, Power, and the Charlie Kirk Memorial (w/ Pat Blanchfield) 1:26:21

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To try to understand both the power and strangeness of the Charlie Kirk memorial—one part evangelical worship service, one part MAGA rally—we turned, of course, to our friend Pat Blanchfield. All three of us stewed in the event's footage, which runs to over four and a half hours, then convened to discuss it. After laying out for listeners what happ…

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THE DC MOVIES SNAKE DRAFT!!! - Loggin' On: The Podcast Ep. 181 1:13:38

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Send us a text On the 181st podcast of Loggin' On, Frank, Luke and Todd gather every theatrical DC movie out there and once again compete against each other in who can make up the best Top 10 list through a snake draft. Subscribe to us on YouTube at Loggin' On Follow us on Instagram @loggin_on Follow us on Twitter @loggin_on Like us on Facebook at …

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The Assassination of Charlie Kirk [Teaser] 3:37

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Listen to the rest of this premium episode by subscribing at patreon.com/knowyourenemy. The assassination of Turning Points USA founder Charlie Kirk on September 10, 2025, seemed to change the landscape of American politics in an instant, inspiring a startlingly unanimous battlecry of vengeance from the conservative movement, the GOP, and the Trump…

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The Case for Democracy (w/ Osita Nwanevu) 1:20:27

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Since the start of the Trump Era over a decade ago, few words have been deployed as often as "democracy": how it's become imperiled, who threatens it, and what to do to defend it. In The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding, Osita Nwanevu sets out to understand the true meaning of democracy and defend it from its …

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THE MARVEL MOVIES SNAKE DRAFT!!! - Loggin' On: The Podcast Ep. 180 1:27:45

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Send us a text On the 180th podcast of Loggin' On, Frank, Luke and Will try something new once again. This time, including every Marvel movie to ever exist, we throw them all on a list and take turns drafting them in our own personal top 10's, snake draft style. Subscribe to us on YouTube at Loggin' On Follow us on Instagram @loggin_on Follow us on…

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An Officer and a Spy (w/ John Ganz) [Teaser] 3:48

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Listen to the rest of this premium episode by subscribing at patreon.com/knowyourenemy. Roman Polanski's 2019 film about the Dreyfus affair, An Officer and a Spy, only recently made it's U.S. "premier," running for a few weeks in August at Film Forum in New York City. When it originally was released, it couldn't find an American distributor (and li…

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Frank Meyer, Inventor of Conservatism (w/ Daniel J. Flynn) 1:45:13

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Devoted Know Your Enemy listeners will recall that, in November 2021, we released a fairly dense, theory-driven episode on Frank Meyer, the Communist from New Jersey whose exploits on behalf of the Party in the UK got him kicked out of the country and back to the United States, where he eventually turned right and became a key figure in the post-wa…

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The Christian Right's "Wild Faith" (w/ Talia Lavin) [Unlocked] 1:00:48

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This episode was first published in October 2024, and has been un-paywalled following the death this week, on August 21, of Focus on the Family founder and influential figure on the religious right, James Dobson, at age 89. Subscribe to Know Your Enemy on Patreon to hear more episodes just for subscribers. In this episode, Matt is joined by journal…

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The Minority Voters Moving Right (w/ Daniel Martinez HoSang) 1:27:05

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A major topic following Donald Trump's victory in the 2024 presidential election has been his gains with racial and ethnic minorities, a trend that's scrambled many people's assumptions about American politics, not least those of anti-racist liberals. Why have minority voters drifted toward Trump, despite his many comments and campaign pledges that…

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GUESSING OUR TOP 5 FAVORITE THEME SONGS!!! - Loggin' On: The Podcast Ep. 179 1:01:43

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Send us a text On the 179th podcast of Loggin' On, Frank and Luke reveal their Top 5 Favorite Theme Songs from movies, tv shows and video games by playing samples of the song, for the other person to guess. Subscribe to us on YouTube at Loggin' On Follow us on Instagram @loggin_on Follow us on Twitter @loggin_on Like us on Facebook at Farank Videos…

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From Armageddon to Zionism — More Listener Questions [Teaser] 4:59

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Listen to the rest of this premium episode by subscribing at patreon.com/knowyourenemy. Our mailbag runneth over! Unsurprisingly, we received so many excellent questions from subscribers for our most recent episode that we decided to answer even more of them. Once again religion seemed to be on the minds of listeners, and we take up charismatic Chr…

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Has Trump 2.0 Been a Success So Far? — And Other Questions 1:10:29

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It's been nearly a year since we asked our subscribers to send us questions for a mailbag episode—which they did, with remarkable thoughtfulness and intelligence, for our 100th episode back in September 2024. A lot has happened since then (to say the least), so we wanted to once again open up the mailbag and find out what was on the minds of Know Y…

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MCKNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE!!! - Loggin' On: The Podcast Ep. 178 53:26

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Send us a text On the 178th podcast of Loggin' On, Frank brings in his fellow McKnight siblings and cousins to a round table in order to discuss burning questions, scenarios, etc...while pregamming to go to Bar A for the night after. Subscribe to us on YouTube at Loggin' On Follow us on Instagram @loggin_on Follow us on Twitter @loggin_on Like us o…

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Trump's Epstein Problem [Teaser] 4:27

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Listen to the rest of this premium episode by subscribing at patreon.com/knowyourenemy. Over July 4th weekend, the Department of Justice and FBI put out a memo essentially declaring "case closed" on the matter of Jeffrey Epstein, the well-connected sex criminal and pedophile who died (apparently) by suicide in federal custody in 2019. No more files…

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MERLOT WINE TASTE-TESTING!!! - Loggin' On: The Podcast Ep. 177 1:48:36

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Send us a text On the 177th podcast of Loggin' On, Frank, Laurie and Grandma Cathy taste-test merlot wines along with playing some games like 2 Truth's And A Lie and Word Chain. Subscribe to us on YouTube at Loggin' On Follow us on Instagram @loggin_on Follow us on Twitter @loggin_on Like us on Facebook at Farank Videos Follow us on TikTok @loggin_…

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How Republics End (w/ Mike Duncan) [Unlocked] 1:15:39

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This episode from January 2025 has been un-paywalled for your summer enjoyment... A stock rhetorical trope on the right is to invoke ancient Rome when talking about American decline—often making direct comparisons between the Goth invaders and contemporary immigrants, obsessing over homosexuality and Rome's fall, and more. If their understanding of…

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Zohran! (w/ Waleed Shahid) [Teaser] 3:48

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Listen to the rest of this premium episode by subscribing at patreon.com/knowyourenemy. We don't do too many New York City-focused episodes on Know Your Enemy, but Zohran Mamdani's decisive win in the Democratic mayoral primary last month certainly warrants this one. The thirty-three year old democratic socialist, state assemblyman, and Muslim of I…

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4TH ANNUAL SOLO EPISODE!!! - Loggin' On: The Podcast Ep. 176 43:48

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Send us a text On the 176th podcast of Loggin' On, we have Frank doing his 4th annual solo episode, talking about how 2025 is the year of shows and 2026 is the year of movies. But after that, we follow with important YouTube channel updates, and the channel's fate in 2026. Subscribe to us on YouTube at Loggin' On Follow us on Instagram @loggin_on F…

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A Complicated Man: William F. Buckley, Jr. (w/ Sam Tanenhaus) 1:52:33

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This episode is one that Matt and Sam have been anticipating for years: after two-and-a-half decades of research and writing, Sam Tanehaus's authoritative biography of William F. Buckley, Jr.—youthful booster of America First, enfant terrible at Yale, CIA agent, founder of National Review, best-selling author, brilliant television host, and more—ha…

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MAGA's War Over the War with Iran (w/ Curt Mills) [Teaser] 3:30

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Listen to the rest of this premium episode by subscribing at patreon.com/knowyourenemy. Donald Trump's rise in U.S. politics over the past decade has been inextricable from his "America First" foreign policy and withering criticisms of the Iraq War, nation building, and both the neoconservatism that led the Republican Party to disaster during Georg…

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Immigration Showdown in LA (w/ E. Tammy Kim) [TEASER] 5:37

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Listen to the rest of this premium episode by subscribing at patreon.com/knowyourenemy. Journalist Tammy Kim joins the pod to talk about the anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles — and the raids that precipitated them. Further Reading: E Tammy Kim, "Immigration Protests Threaten to Boil Over in Los Angeles," The New Yorker, June 9, 2025. — "Inside the A…

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NITHIN'S SPORTS RUSH INTERVIEW!!! - Loggin' On: The Podcast Ep. 175 54:47

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Send us a text On the 175th podcast of Loggin' On, Frank brings in college friend Nithin for a SPOTLIGHT INTERVIEW, as he has his own sports podcast called Nithin's Sports Rush, along with hosting sporting events for charities and conventions. Subscribe to us on YouTube at Loggin' On Follow us on Instagram @loggin_on Follow us on Twitter @loggin_on…

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Reagan, the Movie (w/ Jesse Brenneman) [UNLOCKED] 1:22:18

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As the world falls apart — and we prep for our Buckley mega-episode with Sam Tanenhaus — we're unlocking this fun episode from late last year. Subscribe at Patreon.com/knowyourenemy to never miss an episode like this one. And please listen to Jesse's insane, hilarious, freakishly prescient (and fake) podcast Tech Talk. A palette cleanser for subscr…

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BLINDED ICED COFFEE TASTE-TESTING!!! - Loggin' On: The Podcast Ep. 174 1:26:33

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Send us a text On the 174th podcast of Loggin' On, Frank and Luke put their iced coffee expertise to the test, by being blinded and taste-testing different branded iced coffee's along with rating them. Subscribe to us on YouTube at Loggin' On Follow us on Instagram @loggin_on Follow us on Twitter @loggin_on Like us on Facebook at Farank Videos Foll…

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Joe Biden's Betrayal [TEASER] 3:23

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Listen to the rest of this premium episode by subscribing at patreon.com/knowyourenemy. If you pay any attention at all to political news, it's been hard to avoid Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson's recent bombshell of a book, Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again, which offers behind-the-scenes r…

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Christopher Caldwell's Case Against Civil Rights 1:28:24

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Attentive listeners will notice that this episode is about a book but isn't an author interview. That's because it's the first in a new occasional series of episodes that will be dedicated to books by conservative writers that we think are important — whether because a book articulates the right's approach to an issue or problem in an especially re…

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Trump as Messianic Prophet (w/ Manvir Singh) [TEASER] 2:10

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Listen to the rest of this premium episode by subscribing at patreon.com/knowyourenemy. In a recent New Yorker essay, our guest, UC Davis anthropologist Manvir Singh, argues, "The Trumpian mystique echoes a dynamic that has occurred for centuries and across cultures. Its core ingredients—an alleged league of pedophiles, a godlike miracle worker, pr…

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MOSCATO WINE TASTE-TESTING!!! - Loggin' On: The Podcast Ep. 173 1:22:06

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Send us a text On the 173rd podcast of Loggin' On, Frank, Jess and Grandma Cathy taste-test moscato wines, 3 whites and 3 pinks. Although it's not Frank and Gram's favorite type of wine, they were still pleasantly surprised with what they were tasting. Subscribe to us on YouTube at Loggin' On Follow us on Instagram @loggin_on Follow us on Twitter @…

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Did Podcasters Make Trump President? (w/ Andrew Marantz) 1:22:19

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Among the many factors credited for Donald Trump's victory over Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential race was one that, naturally, the hosts of Know Your Enemy took an interest in: podcasts. More specifically, "bro" podcasts—think Joe Rogan or Theo Von—seemed to be one reason why Trump continued, as he did in 2016 and 2020, to perform so well wit…

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Conclave (2024) (w/ Brandon Taylor) [TEASER] 3:10

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Listen to the rest of this premium episode by subscribing at patreon.com/knowyourenemy. With the papal conclave convening in Rome to pick Pope Francis's successor, Matt and Sam are joined by novelist Brandon Taylor to discuss the 2024 film Conclave, directed by Edward Berger and starring Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow, and Isabella Ross…

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MOST TOXIC FANDOMS TIER LIST!!! - Loggin' On: The Podcast Ep. 172 1:33:19

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Send us a text On the 172nd podcast of Loggin' On, we decide to change it up once again with our topic, being the most toxic fandoms. Instead of a Top 5, we decided to formulate a full blown tier list. Let's see how this turns out. Subscribe to us on YouTube at Loggin' On Follow us on Instagram @loggin_on Follow us on Twitter @loggin_on Like us on …

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The Life & Crimes of Roy Cohn (w/ In Bed with the Right) 53:17

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Recently Matt joined Moira Donegan and Adrian Daub of the excellent In Bed with the Right podcast to record what turned out to be two episodes about Roy Cohn—the "lawyer, closet case and ratfucker extraordinaire," as they describe him. These days Cohn is perhaps most infamous for being Donald Trump's lawyer and mentor, but this first episode focuse…

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A CONVERSATION WITH SONNY PREWITT!!! - Loggin' On: The Podcast Ep. 171 1:02:08

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Send us a text On the 171st podcast of Loggin' On, Frank brings in his former guitar teacher, Sonny Prewitt, to talk about his experiences performing for audiences and opening for very famous bands. We also catch up and talk about the decrease of interest in learning to play an instrument. Subscribe to us on YouTube at Loggin' On Follow us on Insta…

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The Meaning of Pope Francis 1:24:24

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The passing of Pope Francis on April 21, 2025 marked not just the end of a papacy but the end of an era in global politics. The moment in which Francis spoke before Congress a decade ago and identified Thomas Merton, Dorothy Day, and Martin Luther King as models of Christian moral witness feels like another universe — far from the cruel, cramped, s…

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The Madness of Trump’s Tariffs (w/ John Ganz) [TEASER] 4:50

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Listen to the rest of this premium episode by subscribing at patreon.com/knowyourenemy Speaking in the Rose Garden on April 2, or as he called it, "Liberation Day," President Trump unveiled his plans to impose a new minimum tariff on nearly every country in the world, along with country-specific "reciprocal" tariffs for those nations Trump deemed t…

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UNLOCKED: How the Pandemic Changed Everything (w/ David Wallace-Wells) 1:49:58

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In response to several requests from our (wonderful) Patreon subscribers, we're unlocking this episode from behind the paywall. Consider subscribing at Patreon.com/KnowYourEnemy to never miss an episode. March 2025 marked five years since the formal start of the pandemic in the United States, when the federal government declared the arrival and spr…

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TOP 5 MEME BANDS / ARTISTS!!! - Loggin' On: The Podcast Ep. 170 1:16:57

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Send us a text On the 170th podcast of Loggin' On, Frank brings in Pat and Drew to talk about their Top 5 Favorite Memeable Bands & Artists, to make a combined group top 5 list. Yup, that's right, it seems we're sticking with this new top 5 format. Subscribe to us on YouTube at Loggin' On Follow us on Instagram @loggin_on Follow us on Twitter @logg…

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How the Pandemic Changed Everything (w/ David Wallace-Wells) [TEASER] 4:55

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Listen to the rest of this premium episode by subscribing at patreon.com/knowyourenemy This month marked five years since the formal start of the pandemic in the United States in March 2020, when the federal government declared the arrival and spread of the novel coronavirus to be a national emergency. The official Covid death toll in the United St…

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Becoming Elon Musk, Part Two 2:01:16

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If there's ever been a Know Your Enemy subject worthy of two episodes, it is Elon Musk—currently the world's richest man, CEO and leader of several pathbreaking companies, ringleader of the Department of Government Efficiency, and (for now) Donald Trump's co-president. In other words, to understand what's happening in the United States during the s…

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Becoming Elon Musk, Part One 1:22:30

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If there's ever been a Know Your Enemy subject worthy of two episodes, it is Elon Musk—currently the world's richest man, CEO and leader of several pathbreaking companies, ringleader of the Department of Government Efficiency, and (for now) Donald Trump's co-president. In other words, to understand what's happening in the United States during the s…