Red State Reboot

Literally if you’re listening to this without listening to #40…don’t even go there with us. We’ve been through enough. Closing details and analysis on Pizzagate, Alex Jones and the language of conspiracy theories in general, Ben’s new proposed term for rabbit holes, and quick thoughts on Trump’s expanded National Guard deployment. — New episodes of Red State Reboot drop every Monday. — IG: @redsta...

Get out your red string and notebook paper. Abby turned 28 over the weekend, and Ben has gifted her (and y’all!) a wild ride of a podcast/game show/full term paper on Q-Anon/performance art spectacular. This episode veers from our standard format, and honestly, tgod! Behold, an hour (plus ;)) distillation of THE conspiracy theory spider web to end them all: you’ll come for Pizzagate (feel old yet?...

EMERGENCY EPISODE (LIVE & UNEDITED) Well, here’s the RSR take on the assassination of Charlie Kirk, and the resulting national discourse. Recorded in the morning on 9/11/25. — Thanks for tuning in to this emergency ep. New episodes of Red State Reboot drop every Monday. — IG: @redstaterebootpod Website: www.redstatereboot.com Contact: rsr@friedgreentomatomedia.com

There simply wasn’t any way Trump was going to announce the “America Prays” initiative and we weren’t going to cover it on Red State Reboot. In this mid-week bonus ep, we dive into this new passion project of the Administration and its implications for everyday people, and in classic RSR fashion, also draw comparisons between America Prays with MLMs and YoungLife. Still want more? You got it. Ben...

What do Owen Shroyer, the Epstein files, Trump’s health rumors, Kamala’s secret service detail, the Smithsonians(sp?) and Evangelical cafes all have in common? They’re all traps that we fall in this week before getting to our actual topic: the Panama Playlists! It’s a chaotic and wild episode….but hey, that’s showbiz baby ;) Ben's Panama Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/46L233t4ljSDrUXz...

Wondering what James Dobson and the fruit fly drowning in Abby’s iced latte have in common? They’re the newest inductees to our HALL OF SHAME! Y’all, there’s a LOT going on. In this ep, we are circling back on a range of updates that we’d promised re: the militarization of DC, the newly proposed California district maps, and … American Eagle. Because it’s Labor Day (power to the people!!!!!!!), we...

Listen, our brains are tired, so we have a full episode about pop music. But in RSR style, we begin with a complex question and distill it to a simple answer throughout our discussion: Who *is* the Clown?? The answer? We are. And if you make it to the end of this ep? You are too. But trust you WILL be rewarded for doing so… Also Rest in Hell to evangelist James Dobson :) And one more Q&A for y...

It’s really a claaaassic RSR ep this week. Ben and Abby cover the federal government’s attempted takeover of DC - including a deployment of the National Guard (DC statehood NOW btw). This one simultaneously features top billed characters alongside debut performances: Pam Bondi, Big Balls™, Judge Ana Reyes and of course, Subway sandwich guy. We also react to an X video created by Subway sandwich gu...

We’ve taken a page out of the books of the manchildren running our country, and present to you 45 minutes of gaffes, grifts, and gifts! This bonus episode, dearest rebooties, features a technological mechanism revived only by popular demand: THE WHEEL OF DOOM. Listen as we rapid(ish)-fire our takes on topics ranging from the Oklahoma Superintendent of Education and his computer ‘hack’ to Roy Coope...

WELCOME TO SEASON 2 baddies and rebooties!!! Brat summer is out and exposing pedoph*le rings summer is in. But a summer such as this wouldn’t be complete without Trump rolling out his red carpet for a REBOOT of his favorite non-truths and ad hominems. In this season premiere ep, we deep-dive on the 2 things that we physically couldn’t let another moment pass by without discussing on the mics: the...

It's big; it's beautiful; it's bonus; and it's an ep. We'll be back in a flash!!! — IG: @redstaterebootpod Website: www.redstatereboot.com Contact: rsr@friedgreentomatomedia.com — FGTM Call for Creators still open!! https://www.friedgreentomatomedia.com/join-us

HOLY FREAK! We actually made it to the season one finale with y’all!!!! CALL FOR CREATORS: CONTACT@FRIEDGREENTOMATOMEDIA.COM — Text or Call our Hotline: 336-422-6267 IG: @redstaterebootpod Website: www.redstatereboot.com Contact: rsr@friedgreentomatomedia.com

TLDR: SCOTUS isn’t interested in protecting trans kids. But we are! In this ep, we give an update on something we covered back on ep #3 of RSR: the U.S. vs Skrmetti case involving the access of gender-affirming care for minors that made its way all the way from Tennessee to the Supreme Court. On Wednesday, June 18, the Supreme Court upheld the ban on young people accessing this form of healthcare,...

Unlike Judge Judy’s ‘Judy Justice,’ this REBOOT is one y’all should care about! This week, listen to us (two liberal leftists in need of a lobotomy) cover the one and only (derogatory) Judge Jeanine Pirro. We recorded this one a few weeks back, but the intro is fresh and NEW for ya’ll! BTW: we’re still wondering if we’re the very first or very last people to make a connection between ‘reptilian’ c...

Update alert! We are giving y’all the latest on Kilmar Abrego Garcia today - he is back in the U.S., but things are still rough AF, to say the very least. The U.S. government brought Abrego Garcia back from CECOT (El Salvador’s mega-prison) to charge him federally of a crime, and he is facing trial in Nashville as we speak. In case you weren’t following this sitch already, we pull from a VERY reli...

Well, slap our asses and call us journalists, because we’re here on a TUESDAY to deliver primo bonus content to y’all as we approach the finale of Season 1 of Red State Reboot! The thesis of this episode is simple… wouldn’t you rather be a part of the good parade than the bad parade? We know we sure would! Enjoy our brief (for us this is SO BRIEF!!) ep on Trump’s rainy pity parade in contrast to t...

Y’all know by now that any time we say we have “a quick footnote,” the episode topics are about to jump the hell around. Today, we have MANY quick footnotes. Highlights include: Greta Thunberg continues to inspire us both with her advocacy and with her Internet beef, we reallyyyyyyy have the ick about JD Vance and his socials, Elon & Trump get back together, it’s jailbreak season, the U.S. is...

Trump & Elon sure did break up, but don’t you even worry for a second that there’s any sort of bestie breakup here on RSR! Listen, y’all. We know things are really rough right now. They are going to continue to be bad. All there really is to do at the end of the day is to stick together, advocate for the preservation of democracy and human rights, and maybe even make our days a lil brighter wi...

Number 1: We missed y’all last week, say it back!! Number 1.5: Buy the stickers on our website :) Number 2: That smell coming from the kitchen is 100% Trump reheating nasty white supremacy nachos - yuck! In this episode, we’re ‘getting into it’ and talking about the white genocide myth (conspiracy theory) in South Africa, Trump’s meeting with President Ramaphosa, and your aunt’s Facebook posts tha...

Our Statement on Another Matter.

We have two things to say up top: 1) RSR STICKERS ARE FOR SALE!!!! & 2) hang in there, J’Biden! (https://www.friedgreentomatomedia.com/store) Now that we’re all set on those fronts… we need to get into it regarding *that* book by Jake “straw man” Tapper (& Alex Thompson). And no, we’re not talking about some of the former’s shit historical fiction that Abby did fall victim to in the throes...

We were stumped on a topic this week, so we took to our hotline inbox and OOOOOOO did y’all cook! Because alliteration scratches our brain, we figured we should combine 2 great listener questions - one on Linda WWE’s ongoing email beef with Harvard, and one on the Hollywood tariffs that Trump imposed (but then moonwalked RIGHT back). Alas, “Harvard & Hollywood” was born and… damn, we had more...

There’s really something special about podcasting <3 Like the fact this ep caught the live moment when we realized what we had been yapping about for 40 minutes was basically just the Streisand Effect. Nothing (just kidding, literally so much) gets past us! Anyhow, we hope y’all liked our REBOOT last week, but we have a fresh NEW ep for you today! This one starts with our chaotic as f*ck respon...

If y’all feel like things are absolutely f*cking crazy these days… same. We’re taking a break this week! Today’s episode is a REBOOT of ‘The Comstock Act & Airport Pulled Pork’ from March 10. In the ep, we cover Anthony Comstock, the freaks (yes, HWF is ~resurrected~ in this one lol) who are trying to revive nineteenth century morality/obscenity laws, and the ethics and dangers of meat from La...

Right now, Kilmar Abrego Garcia is behind bars in CECOT: the notorious mega-prison in El Salvador. One month ago he was pulled over by ICE and told that his protected immigration status no longer applied. Minutes later he was in handcuffs, and three days later - without any new charges, and without a court hearing - he was secretly deported to El Salvador to be imprisoned at CECOT. His family sued...