The Dangerous Ones

One of the richest and most powerful people in artificial intelligence has a very human problem. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang has acknowledged an affair, and his company's board is investigating reports that he may have been targeted by a foreign intelligence operation. Jim and Nick break down the extraordinary controversy, the questions surrounding a suspected Chinese intelligence operative, and the p...

Stephen Miller is now Donald Trump's White House chief of staff, and if you think that means things are about to get calmer, Jim, Tiffany and Nick have some bone broth of fascism to sell you. We unpack Trump's extraordinary personnel decision, the administration's reaction to the midterm elections, and why the new chief of staff inspires so many vampire jokes. Then comes Trump's bizarre Dana White...

Help Me Understand with Dr. Rod Berger, solo episode. On 60 Minutes, Ross Douthat asked the president whether he could forgive James Comey and Nancy Pelosi to get through the gate. The president said he couldn't, because he hates some of his enemies and always will. Dr. Rod Berger takes three answers from that one interview, on forgiveness, on World Liberty Financial and on deportations, and holds...

America finally gave the rest of the world something to celebrate, and apparently Canada, Britain, and Norway have been saving up some pretty spectacular insults for Donald Trump. After Democrats swept the 2026 midterm elections, people around the world erupted in celebration. Jim Drastic and Nick Knudsen share the hilarious international reactions, from Canadian comedians diagnosing America's pol...

Courtesy of Really American The election is over, MAGA is licking its wounds, and political comedy has arrived with a flamethrower. Jim, Tiffany and Nick dive into the wonderfully absurd post-election satire aimed at Donald Trump, Mike Johnson and Stephen Miller. We've got Trump threatening to run away to grandma's house, Mike Johnson discovering a promising new career, the MAGA movement examined...

Elon Musk poured a fortune into trying to keep Texas red. Texas responded by voting for a Democrat, and now the political jokes practically write themselves. Jim Drastic, Tiffany Drastic, and Nick Knudsen celebrate the Democrats' huge midterm victory while taking on the billionaires who tried to buy an election and the Republicans trying to explain what went wrong. We talk about what Musk's money...

"I don't believe we're coming to take their money. We're coming to take their power." The week of the midterms, Marshall Herskovitz wants the people who won to understand the difference. Help Me Understand with Dr. Rod Berger. Recorded while both of them are still worn out from election night, Emmy-winning writer, director and producer Marshall Herskovitz calls the result an immune response: milli...

Well, well, well. Look who's suddenly not so loud anymore. After a stunning midterm election that handed Democrats control of Congress, Jim, Tiffany, and Nick are taking one gloriously inappropriate victory lap. Mike Johnson is giving up his leadership ambitions, Ken Paxton lost in Texas, and Elon Musk's political investments have become comedy material. Oh, and the MAGA crowd? Remarkably quiet. W...

Help Me Understand with Dr. Rod Berger, solo episode. In a year Democrats won across the country, Tennessee Republicans kept the governor's office, kept their supermajority in the state House and took a congressional seat that used to be safely blue. Each of those wins came by a margin a red state never used to need. A caller to The People's Hotline admits she used to skip the midterms. Dr. Rod Be...

Help Me Understand with Dr. Rod Berger, solo episode. From election night to January 3 is sixty-one days. For those weeks, the outgoing Congress, including the members voters just removed, still holds every vote it held on November 2. The government runs out of money on December 11. The Senate wants to confirm about two dozen judicial nominees before the majority changes hands. And Thomas Massie,...

Texas turned blue. Democrats took back Congress. And after years of political exhaustion, Jim, Tiffany, and Nick finally get to wake up celebrating instead of wondering what fresh bullshit Donald Trump has unleashed on America. In this special post-election celebration, The Dangerous Ones breaks down the historic Democratic victories of 2026, including James Talarico's Texas Senate win, Gina Hinoj...

Seventy percent of Americans agree on almost everything, Marshall Herskovitz says. So why does the country feel this close to coming apart? Help Me Understand with Dr. Rod Berger, the first conversation. Emmy-winning writer, director and producer Marshall Herskovitz tells the story of the day a group of Hollywood storytellers briefed Democratic senators over lunch in 2017, and what it taught him a...

The midterms have arrived. Our nerves are fried. And Donald Trump is still talking about Jon Husted's ass like it's a closing argument for America. Jim, Tiffany, and Nick turn election-week dread into an increasingly unfiltered political roast, from the GOP's ridiculous pitch to the two Dan Sullivans on Alaska's ballot. Then comes Haley Stevens' political U-turn, a hilarious takedown of evangelica...

Fighting isn't the only way to win, Marshall Herskovitz says. The country was built on persuasion and debate, and persuading people is still a very powerful thing to do. Help Me Understand with Dr. Rod Berger. Emmy-winning writer, director and producer Marshall Herskovitz lays out the three pillars he drew from years of polling: an economy that brings power back to working Americans, a return to c...

Donald Trump's final midterm rallies in Iowa and Kansas delivered one bizarre moment after another. From discussing whether he'd date his own sister to proposing that New Mexico become New America, Trump left Jim, Tiffany, and Nick with plenty to unpack. The Dangerous Ones break down Trump's most outrageous moments, including his plan to rename the Strait of Hormuz, his advice to cattle ranchers,...

Even the cows are sick of Trump, and apparently the rest of America isn't far behind. Jim, Tiffany, and Nick dive into a wild collection of political comedy, Republican absurdity, and the growing frustration of voters heading into Election Day. A time-traveling Republican gets a crash course in modern MAGA, a comedian demonstrates how Democrats could finally stop playing nice, and Anderson Cooper...

Your phone wants a campaign donation. Your mailbox wants your attention. Jim, Tiffany and Nick would like everyone to calm the fuck down. This episode turns election fatigue into a funny, occasionally exasperated conversation about Donald Trump, political fundraising and the daily annoyances competing for our last remaining nerve. The hosts talk Obama nostalgia, Netflix frustration, doomscrolling...

  A 76-year-old American has officially run out of patience with Donald Trump, and he has prepared what might be the most gloriously profane political monologue ever delivered to our phone line. Tiffany Drastic and Nick Knudsen are taking your calls, and the Danger Corps has some things to get off its chest. Kathy from Kansas City explains how Trump has cost her friendships. Lolo has a very simple...

We asked listeners how they really feel about Donald Trump, and apparently nobody needed time to prepare an opinion. Jim, Tiffany and Nick hand the microphone to the People's Hotline for a collection of furious, funny and occasionally impressively organized rants. From an Ohio caller with a lengthy list to a Scottish listener with absolutely no interest in diplomatic language, these messages bring...

Give a Trump supporter a microphone and a follow-up question, and suddenly an interview turns into a hostage negotiation with a talking point. Jim, Tiffany and Nick unpack the excuses, contradictions and furious certainty in a roundup of MAGA interviews about Donald Trump, government aid, Ukraine and the Epstein files. There's an argument over a would-be Trump family dynasty, a political parody th...

Donald Trump's campaign events are inspiring some uncomfortable comparisons, Ken Paxton's latest rally venue is providing comedy material all by itself, and Barack Obama is back on the campaign trail reminding people what an actual presidential speech can sound like. Jim Drastic, Tiffany Drastic and Nick Knudsen dig into the absurdity of Republican campaign messaging, including a gloriously nonsen...

A $90 Medicare payment can land in your account. Peace of mind is apparently sold separately. Dr. Rod Berger starts with a caller who says she's losing insurance despite being on Medicare and Medicaid, then asks what government help means when people still don't feel protected. On Help Me Understand, Rod examines the rebate's eligibility rules, rising health insurance premiums, his own frustrating...

Defending Donald Trump is starting to sound like an endurance sport, and apparently some people refuse to stretch. Jim, Tiffany and Nick unpack the excuses, conspiracy theories and billionaire worship that keep MAGA running, with political satire that sounds uncomfortably close to conversations we've all had. From Facebook-fueled nonsense to the question of why struggling people go to bat for bill...

Donald Trump's approval ratings are providing plenty of material for political comedy, and Tiffany Drastic and Nick Knudsen have absolutely no intention of letting it go to waste. In this episode, Tiffany and Nick roast Stephen Miller, question MAGA's seemingly limitless loyalty to Trump, and find increasingly ridiculous ways to turn Republican politics into a comedy routine. Along the way, they i...

Donald Trump has a lot on his mind, and apparently much of it involves other men's bodies. Nick Knudsen and Tiffany Drastic listen to his unusually detailed descriptions of Senator Jon Husted, handsome military generals and a businessman who supposedly wanted to kiss him. The hosts have questions. So many questions. Then Trump boasts about his cognitive testing, including the animal-identification...