Krystal Kyle & Friends

Krystal Ball and Kyle Kulinski dive into politics, philosophy and random BS with people they like. krystalkyleandfriends.substack.com

Krystal Kyle & Friends is a news podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 284 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Unknown Host hosts Krystal Kyle & Friends, a news show with 284 episodes published.

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  Episode 280 Audio: Ruth Ben-Ghiat

  May 30, 20261h 6mS0

  <p>Historical parallels between our autocrat-in-chief and the despots of the past abound. It’s hardly comfort to think that others have struggled under the many tyrants of history as we struggle now, but it is humbling and inspiring, of course, to see where mass anti-authoritarian and anti-fascist movements have prevailed and transformed their political circumstances. That’s why this week, our featured guest is NYU’s Professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat, and our topic is the psychology of fascist dictators we can connect directly to one of its newest representatives, Donald Trump. </p><p>Part of telling the psychological story of an err...

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  Episode 279 Audio: Young Don

  May 23, 20261h 18mS0

  <p>Young Don is joining us for a special episode unpacking the midterms and analyzing the Roganverse’s shift away from Trump-world. The center of attention is the Trump campaign’s shameless struggle to run political opponents out of office. Bill Cassidy and Thomas Massie are Republicans who have largely voted along with Trump. But they’ve both recently been targeted by the President for insufficient loyalty. Cassidy earned Trump’s ire by voting for impeachment. Massie committed the unforgivable MAGA sin of shining light on Trump’s repulsive behavior by fighting for the release of the Epstein Files. As of this we...

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  Episode 278 Audio: Ashley St. Clair

  May 16, 202649 minS0

  <p>Episode 278 finds us in a frankly unprecedentedly juicy convo with someone who’s been in the inner circle of the MAGA influencer ecosystem and has all the tea on their shady coordination systems: Ashley St. Clair. Through her ascendance to national attention as a major MAGA influencer, Ashley saw firsthand how comprehensively the top brass of Trump’s Republican Party controls every aspect, aesthetic and ideological, of MAGA’s public image. Trump’s Republican Party is obsessed with show, not substance, when it comes to its degraded idea of leadership, and an essential element of that show is an image of...

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  Episode 277 Audio: Ryan Grim

  May 9, 20261h 8mS0

  <p>With the help of our special guest Ryan Grim, in our latest conversation about the ongoing mess of a war Trump is waging on Iran, we take a close look at the media narratives shielding Trump from ultimate responsibility for that conflict. In one of those narratives, Saudi Arabia becomes a main architect of the war in pursuit of its own economic and political interests. This line we’ve been fed on Saudi Arabia’s position in the conflict might have made sense at the most basic level — it has been a close ally for the U.S. in the Mi...

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  Episode 276 Audio: Adam Johnson

  May 2, 20261 hourS0

  <p>Through its coverage of Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, the American media basically wrote the playbook for how to sell a genocide. Adam Johnson, our guest for this week, has just published an in-depth, scathing analysis of that playbook — his book is appropriately named How To Sell A Genocide. Our conversation with Adam goes into detail on the media strategies that gave us mass complicity and acceptance among the American public in the face of a despicable crime against humanity that depended upon support from Biden as it later would from Trump.</p><p>While Fox News and...

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