HOW AMERICA LOST ITS MIND, AND DO WE EVEN WANT IT BACK?

Episode 2: The Long Con

In 2009, Ashton Kutcher beat CNN to a million Twitter followers. CNN had reporters around the world. Ashton had Punk'd. Somehow, we'd found a way to...

HOW AMERICA LOST ITS MIND, AND DO WE EVEN WANT IT BACK?

Episode 1: It's Not a Horseshoe. It's a Business Model.

The wellness people think your toothpaste is poisoning you. Finance bros think empathy is bad economics. Somebody on the far right thinks Taylor Swift is a Democrat psy-op, while someone on the far left thinks your aunt buying hummus is personally funding colonialism. On ...

Grifty Pod Bonus Episode "Beating a Dead Horse"

We're back because the group chat got out of control.

This week we break down the Eric Swalwell allegations, Azi's firsthand experience as a whistleblower in the Eric Bauman scandal, and the bigger issue of power, patriarchy, and why "believe w...

Episode Summary

Welcome back to Grifty Pod. If you are listening to this episode without a helmet or a seatbelt, you are far braver than we are.

This week felt like the entire nation had a stroke while standing upright. The Epstein documents dropped and inside that cursed file dump we discovered the soul bending phrase Trump and Bubba which was not on any of our bingo cards. Marjorie Tay...

This week on Grifty, we are heading north… way north. where climate change, government chaos, and corporate greed have collided at once.

Alaska is in free fall. A typhoon has slammed the western coast, wiping out villages and food stores that took generations to build. The federal government is shut down, freezing aid and cutting off SNAP benefits for tens of thousands. While people are trying to ke...

This week's episode dives straight into the No Kings protest, where nearly eight million people took to the streets to push back against Trump and the creeping rot of authoritarianism. It was the largest protest in American history, a moment that felt like the country briefly remembered what collective power looks like before the morning hangover set in.

And on the other side, we had the tankies those chronically online, do-nothing...

August 31, 2025

Welcome back to Grifty, the podcast where cult wellness, corporate greed, and authoritarian politics meet at a potluck dinner nobody wanted. Tonight's theme is Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Make America Healthy Again plan, better known as MAHA. The Trump team is branding it as a health revolution. But peel back the organic avocado sticker and it looks more like the same old MAGA project: pretend to fight for wellness whil...