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Forget a little blue trickle—the 2026 midterms just brought a seismic Big Blue Wave that flipped both the House and the Senate, redrawing the political map overnight. In this episode, Royce and Leise break down what actually happened on Election Night: from historic upsets in South Carolina and Texas, to razor-thin margins in Mississippi, and the real reason voters are confused about what the Spea...

I'm not turning the camera on for this one. This is audio only. This is serious. Tomorrow is November 3rd. And before you walk into that polling place — or before you sit down to watch the results come in — I want you to actually know what you're looking at. No guest today. Just me, the data, and the races that matter most. We're going deep on the five Senate toss-ups that could flip t...

Election Day is Tuesday, so we’re starting there. Where the midterms stand one week out: the odds in the House and Senate, the toss-up states, and a Justice Department plan to put about 1,000 personnel at polling places. Listed under Road to the Midterms, sponsored by We Vote Too. Plus the stories everyone’s talking about. Nicki Minaj hits the trail with Trump, and the press secretary job that las...

Leise Winny and Royce kick off with the week’s headlines, then get into clothes, plural marriage, and what people will do for a paycheck. In this episode: Trump on the trail: Tyson, Mayweather and Dez Bryant are in Trump’s corner. Nicki Minaj rode Air Force One to his Michigan rally, and he made comments about her backside and Jon Husted’s. Stephen A. Smith defends his White House dinner. Press se...

Every two years, you hear the word "midterms," and you're either deeply plugged in or quietly wondering what exactly that means and why everyone keeps saying it like you already know. This episode is for both. On November 3rd, the midterms decide who controls Congress for the rest of Trump's second term. And whether you get two more years of unchecked Republican power — or someth...

Big news first: We Vote Too won a Signal Award for Best Driveway Moment, a Silver, and Listener’s Choice. We’re celebrating what the show is all about: breaking down complicated politics so everyday people can understand it and get involved. Then the stories from this week. The latest on the Bend, Oregon school shooting. An intel memo warning that Iranian plots against U.S. officials have reached...

Five stories, five minutes. This week: a school shooting in Bend, Oregon, that left three children and a teacher dead. A fatal fall on a Six Flags coaster in Georgia, and why no federal agency checks these rides. Trump’s new press secretary, Katie Zacharia, reportedly fired after five days on the job. Diddy’s prison transfer and the claims of a cushy life behind bars. And Road to the Midterms, spo...

Leise Winny and Royce are back with a no-filter show and no easy answers. They start with the week’s chaos and then move into the questions most people avoid. In this episode: The opening hot takes: Tyson, Humphrey, and Dez come out supporting Trump. Then there’s Trump’s Russian oil deal and the talk of a live execution. Anti-hero or villain? Jason was supposedly a good guy, but did we paint him a...

Let's be real. People are out here genuinely asking if there's even going to be an election. And the answer is yes — but not because everything is fine. Because people are fighting like hell to make sure it happens. In this episode, we're breaking down exactly how we got here. From the Big Lie that didn't start in 2020 — it started in 2012 — to what they did to Fani Willis in Georg...

The biggest stories of the week, broken down in plain English in about five minutes. This week: 🌀 Hurricane Isaias slams the Florida Panhandle as the latest first hurricane of a season in over 100 years 🚨 Federal agents shoot a man in NYC with a 5-year-old in the car, and who holds them accountable 🗳️ Midterms in 24 days: new documents show DHS collected millions of voter records ⛽ Trump strike...

Leise Winny and Royce are back with everything your group chat has been arguing about this week. In this episode: Jasmine Guy gets picked apart for aging, and why men never get the same treatment Trump says he “feels badly” for the Cornell 7 Should billionaires fly their friends, first class? The Savannah James debate Unemployment is up, and Black workers are feeling it most Can we stop making Chr...

This Week on Raw Signal: Executions, Scandals, and the Road to the Midterms Your 5-minute news snapshot for the week of October 4th. This week: Tennessee's Christa Pike was set to be executed — she never made it to the chamber, and she's now unconscious on a ventilator, according to her lawyers. Cornell University is facing an independent investigation after a former student's lawsuit...

A country singer nobody's heard of just dethroned Mariah Carey. Cornell University let a rapist stay on campus. Trump told America we have "the best poverty." And somebody put a dead man's face on an AI trend and called it content. We got into all of it. Royce asks whether people actually want to be informed anymore — or if we're all just addicted to being right. Leise breaks...

This week, Leise and Royce go there — from military death counts and House races to sacred sounds and secular beats to who really owns the definition of intelligence. In this episode: Service member deaths that didn't make the news Trump blocking outlets, and what that means for press access All 435 House seats up for grabs Why millennials are being told to just... retire already A weekend wit...

Royce and Leise are back on The Sidebar to break down everything from viral absurdities to deep cultural critiques. This week, the crew tackles why we process public figures as symbols rather than individuals, the coded distance-making behind skin-tone labels, rigged institutional games, and generational disconnects. Check-In & Hot Topics: College hair decisions, soaring gas prices, and police...

What defines American culture—and who actually gets written into the laws that govern it? In this episode of We Vote Too , host Leise Winny pulls back the curtain on how media, entertainment, and identity politics dictate policy, power, and the ballot box. Joining the show is comedian, actor, and co-host of SiriusXM’s Urban View Mornings , Lamont King, bringing sharp cultural commentary and unfilt...

Lloyd snatched a fan's wig clean off his blazer. The White House is running Tetris games about deportation on a dot-gov website. A Black woman used Stand Your Ground in Florida, and it worked. Beyoncé is selling an empty box for almost $1,000. And Fat Joe told the world he's the Blackest person alive — Royce has thoughts. We also get into the USPS whistleblower exposing a "rushed and...

Welcome back to the SIDEBAR PODCAST , hosted by Leise Winny and Royce . This week, the crew kicks things off with an insane gauntlet of scammers, unpacks fake NFL players defrauding dozens of women, and calls out the reality TV star caught faking a Duke medical degree. They dive straight into the controversial Yosemite National Park land swap, debunk the administration's Venezuelan oil promise...

Royce and Leise Winny kick off with a jam-packed check-in covering everything from the latest Disney and NFL apparel collaboration, AI engines giving openly biased advice, and Target pulling an offensive clown costume off the shelves, to looming economic anxiety, a week-long power crisis in Gary, Indiana, and an alarming rise in hate crimes across the country. They also unpack the political ripple...

Royce,  alongside co-host  Leise Winny,  opens with a chaotic, unfiltered check-in that swings from bedroom preferences—tackling whether sucking toes is actually nasty or a mutual pleasure—to the deeper cultural debate over who gets to define modern womanhood. They break down the emerging new income classes reshaping society, the fallout and double standards surrounding Caitlin Clark dodging a sus...

On this episode of SIDEBAR PODCAST , hosts Leise Winny and Royce are back talking a lot of -ish (and yes, Leise’s fiber gummy updates are back on the table). We’re running through the wildest headlines of the week—from viral health myths to futuristic economic takes—before diving into deep, unfiltered conversations about relationship double standards, media narratives surrounding Black women, and...

The black squares went up. The statements dropped. The celebrities showed out. And then — what? Episode 8 of We Vote Too is asking the question everybody skipped: when celebrity activism becomes the loudest voice in the room, does it lead people to the polls — or just to the post? We're unpacking the celebrity political era in full — from BLM as a marketing moment to the Joe Rogan effect, from...

From fiber gummies to political receipts, hosts Leise Winny and Royce are talking a whole lot of -ish on this week’s episode of SIDEBAR PODCAST . We’re breaking down the news cycle and taking on some heavy-hitting social topics. 🔥 What We’re Talking About: Leise’s fiber gummy update Trump withholding money from states that didn’t vote for him Are we oversharing online? New Nolan Wells audio LeBro...

Stop explaining -ish! This week on SIDEBAR PODCAST , hosts Leise Winny and Royce are breaking down everything from the week's headlines to therapy culture, main-character energy, and the job market. Opening & News Check-In: Taylor Farms False Positive Trump at the World Cup & Argentina vs. the world Military testosterone mandates under Pete Hegseth The "New Middle Class" anno...

Welcome back to another unfiltered, heavy-hitting installment of T he SIDEBAR PODCAST , steered this week by your lead host, Royce , alongside co-host Leise Winny . The crew kicks things off with an absolute whirlwind of a check-in, tracking the massive national shockwaves following the sudden passing of Senator Lindsey Graham and the ongoing, secretive health mystery fueling rumors that Mitch McC...