Social Studies – Détails, épisodes et analyse

This episode actually just started off as an interview for the purposes of my reporting on drugs and homelessness. In fact, I wasn't really planning on doing more episodes of this podcast at all. But the conversation I had with recovering addict Jared Klickstein was so fascinating, and I learned so much, that with his permission, I decided to share it. I hope you find it as intriguing and eye-opening as I did.

You can follow Jared, by the way, on Twitter at https://twitter.com/MetaGrift.

Thanks to Thad Russell for making this connection possible by having me on his podcast. You can find that episode, which Jared mentions, here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/unregistered-226-leighton-woodhouse/id1227060738?i=1000580151989

Suzy Weiss has fast become one of my favorite reporters. Her latest story, on her sister Bari’s Substack, about a baseless #MeToo accusation that got totally out of control, is a doozy. So is her recent reporting on trans swimmer Lea Thomas and on youth gender transition.

I had a fun chat with Suzy about each of those stories on my podcast. Hope you’ll give it a listen.

Last week I interviewed Alex Gutentag, a former Oakland public school teacher and, in my opinion, one of the best writers on Covid-19 around. Like me, Alex comes from a leftist background rooted in the labor movement, and, like me, she’s become highly skeptical of much of what has become conventional wisdom on the left. In her case, the source of her skepticism is what she believes to be a massive overreaction to Covid, which has come at the cost of our civil liberties and from which some of the wealthiest individuals and corporations on the planet have richly profited.

—Leighton

This week on the podcast, I had Kmele Foster from The Fifth Column, Anna Khachiyan from Red Scare, and The Intercept’s Lee Fang on to talk about vaccine mandates and what they may or may not suggest about the future of our civilization.

If you’re enjoying the pod, please consider leaving a rating and review on Apple Podcasts! I’m told it actually makes a difference.

—LW

Justin Goodman, my guest on this episode of the Kerfuffle podcast, is Vice President of the White Coat Waste Project, a group that opposes taxpayer-funded scientific experimentation on animals.

I’ve been a huge admirer of Justin and White Coat Waste for a long time, for reasons we get into in this episode. Our discussion is about animal rights, an issue I care about more deeply than just about any other. But we get into other subjects as well, which recent circumstances have made relevant to literally everyone on earth, such as Anthony Fauci’s history as the head of the NIH’s NIAID, where he continues to fund the torture of thousands of animals, and how that exploitation may have led to a lab accident in Wuhan that turned the world upside down.

Some of the descriptions in this episode will be hard to listen to, but it’s a moral imperative that we know what’s going on behind these laboratory doors, paid for by our hard-earned tax dollars. It’s literally madness.

—LW

My podcast guest this week is a lung doctor and a medical research scientist whom I’ve known since we were both little kids. Katie Hisert, MD, PhD, has an even wider scope than most experts on how microbes like SARS-CoV-2 virus operate, having observed them both from the hospital bedside and in the laboratory.

Media reports on Covid-19 have become so politicized that I’ve found it nearly impossible to find reliable answers to basic questions about transmissibility, what’s known and unknown about the vaccines, and other critical questions. You can’t get any more reliable than someone like Katie, so I took this opportunity to get into some of the dicier stuff: Ivermectin, vaccine risks, etc. I learned an enormous amount from this discussion and sincerely hope that others will, too. I highly recommend giving this episode a listen.

—LW

P.S. I’m releasing this episode publicly at once rather than giving it to paid subscribers in advance as I normally do, because of the urgency of the subject matter.

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On the podcast this week I have Matt Taibbi, legendary reporter and author of the outstanding book (among many) Hate, Inc., which is about a lot of the media-related issues I touch on in this Substack.

This episode was exclusive to paid subscribers for about a week, and is now unlocked for everyone.

—LW

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Here’s Episode 3 of my new podcast, with guest Katie Herzog, co-host of the podcast Blocked and Reported. If you haven’t already, I highly recommend reading Katie’s reporting on how wokeness is impacting the medical field, over at Bari Weiss’ Substack. Here are some links:

For a week, this episode will be for paid subscribers only. Then I’ll release it to the rest of the world. Hope you enjoy it, and if you have any feedback for me or guest suggestions or whatever, feel free to reply to this email and let me know.

—Leighton

Here’s the second episode of my new podcast. My guest is journalist Zaid Jilani. Zaid is a good friend of mine. He’s also my former podcasting co-host. We have a lot of interests in common, but perhaps chief among them is the issue of crime and policing. As you’ll learn from this conversation, we both share a deep skepticism of the Defund the Police agenda. We talk about why here.

Each episode of this show is available only to paying subscribers to my Substack for about a week before it goes public. If you want to get the show early, please subscribe!

—Leighton

Welcome to the debut episode of my new podcast. I decided to start this show because I have the privilege of knowing a lot of brilliant people, and I figure anyone who’s interested in my thoughts will be interested in theirs, too. This is a way to share their perspectives with you. I’m incredibly excited to see where this project goes, and I hope you’ll share some of that excitement, too.

My first guest is my friend and collaborator Glenn Greenwald. We talk about the media industry, its shifting business model, and how it’s dividing us against each other.

I’m releasing this first episode publicly all at once. Going forward, I’ll release each episode to my paid subscribers first, and then to the rest of the world a week later. If you’re interested in hearing the show on a timely basis, please become a subscriber!