Truther

Truther

A weekly podcast from The Daily Beast's Erin Gloria Ryan, Ben Collins and Gideon Resnick that tells you how conspiracies get started, as they happen.

Episodes

September 18, 2017 24 mins
Join the Truther team and they convene a special counsel to investigate Ted Cruz's account liking a porn video last week. Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) joins us to discuss her detective work. Edited by Elizabeth Brockway
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On this week’s Truther, hosts Erin Gloria Ryan, Ben Collins and Gideon Resnick turn the conversation away from us and towards people who were on the ground in Houston as Hurricane Harvey made landfall. Stephen Paulsen (@stephentpaulsen), writer for the Houston Press, talks about being trapped by the water. Alex Hannaford (@AlHannaford), contributor for The Daily Beast, gives us a first-hand account from the ground. And St. John B. ...
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If you saw a video of a extremists becoming violent in Charlottesville this weekend that was too difficult to watch, Chris Matthias probably witnessed it firsthand. On this week’s Truther, hosts Erin Gloria Ryan and Ben Collins talk to Huffington Post national reporter Chris Matthias, who has spent the last year covering white nationalists and neo-Nazis as they took over towns like Gettysburg. When they marched on Charlottesville...
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The Truther crew (Gideon Resnick, Ben Collins and Erin Gloria Ryan) discusses the myths around secret sexual innuendo in classic Disney films as well as getting VHS tapes stuck in the VCR. Film writer for Vanity Fair, Richard Lawson (@rilaws) joins in the perverted discussion. Edited by Elizabeth Brockway
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Because America has the memory of a man who wakes up every morning and has a person named Dolph from a World’s Strongest Man competition drop a boulder on his head, Donald Trump Jr. is now saying a meeting with a woman described as a “Russian government lawyer” during the campaign wasn’t that big of a deal! Or it was a setup by the Democrats! Or she didn’t describe herself as a Russian lawyer! Or it was about adoption! Which is ...
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