The Leaderboard with Matt Towery and John Hall
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October 22, 2026 • 51 mins
Matt Towery is out promoting his new book, so John Hall has The Leaderboard to himself. He starts with Matt's book, The Honoring of Ignorance: The 7 Mirages Destroying America, and Orwell's 1984: "Who controls the past controls the future." Then he walks through where people get their news now, why the founders built a republic and not a popular-vote presidency, a national debt that passed $6 trillion in 2002 and now tops $40 trill...
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October 15, 2026 • 39 mins
Matt Towery's new book is out: The Honoring of Ignorance: The 7 Mirages Destroying America. Matt tells John Hall he first wrote it as a student at Cambridge 40 years ago, when publishers said he was too young to offer the opinion, and walks through what's inside: the "Mirage Machine" of legacy media, pollsters and fact-checkers, the Trump labels it took apart one by one, why the country was never meant to be a democracy, and why th...
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October 8, 2026 • 41 mins
Matt Towery and John Hall go inside "the polling wars" — the tricks that make the 2026 midterm polls look worse for Republicans than they are. Matt runs the battlegrounds: Texas now a one-point race, Michigan within two, Michele Tafoya one point back in Minnesota, Ohio tightening. John calls a Rick Jackson wave in Georgia that carries Mike Collins to a win. Matt explains the "recall number" weighting trick, why CBS's approve/...
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October 1, 2026 • 24 mins
Matt Towery and John Hall run the 2026 midterm map state by state — Georgia's Senate race slipping, Kansas suddenly on the map, Ohio coming back into play — and why the polls look a lot like 2018 at this point. Matt reads the generic-ballot numbers that "sounded like a Democrat wipeout" before revealing the year, and makes the case that Republicans never fight back.
They also get into the "mirage machine" behind the ...
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September 17, 2026 • 25 mins
Matt Towery and John Hall break down what current polling says about the 2026 midterms — including the gender gap, Georgia, Florida, Hispanic voter outreach, and the messaging challenge facing Republicans.
They also discuss AI guardrails and data centers, election administration, women’s sports, the Macklemore/MetLife controversy, and new books from both hosts: Matt’s The Honoring of Ignorance and John’s ...
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August 8, 2026 • 37 mins
Matt Towery and John Hall are back with a new episode of The Leaderboard Podcast — U.S. strikes on Iran's nuclear sites, the fight to secure the Strait of Hormuz, and a fresh look at the midterm map with the latest Real Clear Politics polling.
On the board tonight: Michigan's Democratic primary (El-Sayed vs. Stevens, pre-primary average), the Georgia Senate race (Ossoff vs. Collins), North Carolina, and the Senate battlegr...
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August 1, 2026 • 31 mins
Matt Towery and John Hall put the midterms on the board — and the GOP is not where the money says it should be.
Matt has a poll in the field he hasn't released, and what's in it drives the whole hour: the war is the midterm issue nobody is polling, the party is sitting on a war chest with nothing on the air, and the Senate map still comes down to three states. John makes the case that the socialists care no longer a fringe, ...
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July 23, 2026 • 51 mins
Why Hollywood Is Fleeing California for Georgia — Randy Davidson
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July 21, 2026 • 42 mins
Inside Fort Knox with U.S. Treasurer Brandon Beach, the penny and the new Trump dollar coin
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June 25, 2026 • 40 mins
The prediction markets have spoken — but do the odds actually hold up? Veteran pollster and strategist Matt Towery takes apart Polymarket's 2026 forecasts and explains why the smart money may be badly misreading where the country is headed. Drawing on decades of polling and campaign experience, Matt breaks down what the betting odds get wrong, where conventional wisdom falls apart, and what the data actually says about 2026.
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Election fraud expert Eric Eggers joins The Leaderboard to break down the California ballot debacle — plus Matt Towery drops EXCLUSIVE Insider Advantage Georgia runoff polls you won't see anywhere else.
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May 28, 2026 • 30 mins
Frank Siller's brother Stephen was an FDNY firefighter who ran through the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel with 60 pounds of gear on his back on September 11, 2001 — into the South Tower to save lives. He never came home. What Frank built in his brother's name is one of the most remarkable stories in American charity.
The Tunnel to Towers Foundation has paid off mortgages for hundreds of fallen first responder families, built smar...
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Raffensperger hides in a bunker to count votes. Cassidy finishes third. Eric Church delivers a commencement speech for the ages. Pollster Robert Cahaly joins us to decode the generic ballot and expose what the big polls are getting wrong.
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May 14, 2026 • 41 mins
Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett joins Matt Towery and John Hall to break down the Trump investigations, Comey's indictment, and the intersection of law and politics — then it's Leaders & Laggards time.
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May 9, 2026 • 39 mins
Former Marriott SVP and US Travel Association President Roger Dow joins Matt Towery and John Hall for one of the most entertaining — and eye-opening — episodes yet.
Roger helped build the Marriott points system (yes, that one), steered the entire American travel industry through the pandemic, and briefed multiple presidents on the economic power of travel. He also has a story about a lion loose in a hotel theater with ...
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May 5, 2026 • 53 mins
4 Rings, No Filter — Terry Bradshaw Live on The Leaderboard Podcast
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