The Dangerous Ones

The Democrats won the midterms, and apparently MAGA needs a remedial course in basic arithmetic. Jim and Nick are having the time of their lives listening to furious Trump supporters explain why the election results make absolutely no sense. We start with a Texas woman who is taking the blue wave VERY personally. Then it's on to an Illinois conservative who can't understand why all that red land o...

"Capitalism needs guardrails in order to function." A week after the midterms, Marshall Herskovitz explains what he means, and why he thinks the guardrails came off 45 years ago. Help Me Understand with Dr. Rod Berger, with Marshall Herskovitz. Emmy-winning writer, director and producer Marshall Herskovitz says Democrats won this year on a populist economic message and a step back from the culture...

Apparently, we're supposed to respond to MAGA's midterm losses with grace and restraint. Unfortunately, Hillary Clinton has other plans, Walter Masterson has already visited a Senate office, and we have a Top 5 list. We're talking post-election pettiness, Richard Ojeda's blunt message to Pete Hegseth, and whether welcoming people who admit they were wrong means doing emotional customer service for...

Democrats won the House and Senate, and apparently MAGA needs an entire public relations department just to explain what happened. Jim, Tiffany and Nick react to a hilarious fictional GOP strategy meeting where every excuse is more ridiculous than the last. Then two MAGA superfans explain how losing Congress was actually Trump's brilliant master plan. It's five-dimensional chess, people. You just...

Help Me Understand with Dr. Rod Berger, solo episode. Two days after the election, The People's Hotline had the busiest day in its history. The jokes fell off, the tears went up, and on paper the room looked more worried the week its side won. Dr. Rod Berger reads the calls behind the tags and finds relief, not worry. He follows it through Gina Hinojosa's win in Texas, a caller who said please fou...

We asked the Danger Corps how they felt after the 2026 midterms. Apparently, some of you felt things that should NEVER be repeated at Thanksgiving dinner. Jim and Nick open with an absolutely outrageous reaction to James Talarico's victory in Texas, and things only get more entertaining from there. We hear from a Texas woman who spent years fighting for a political breakthrough, a Tennessee caller...

MAGA lost the election, and apparently somebody handed America a microphone. Jim Drastic and Nick Knudsen dive into the wonderfully filthy world of political parody songs, where Lauren Boebert gets an unforgettable musical roast and JD Vance auditions for the world's most disgusting loyalty test. Texas has gone blue, Elon Musk's Cybertruck is getting a musical farewell, and Pete Hegseth has an imp...

Help Me Understand with Dr. Rod Berger, solo episode. Two days after the election, a caller to The People's Hotline told the new Democratic leaders she doesn't want Kumbaya, she wants revenge. The morning after the election, Hakeem Jeffries said the American people don't want Democrats to get even. Same side, same week, opposite standards. Dr. Rod Berger takes the new majority's first week, a "law...

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...