So This Just Happened

Thanks for listening and please support the show by giving us a good review on Apple Podcasts ! Timecodes 01:48 Kevin McCarthy is ousted as Republicans are in disarray 08:00 Most mainstream media reporters still won't tell the truth about Republican extremism 11:04 Elon Musk's ideological goals for Twitter further revealed 14:46 Pre-Musk Twitter wasn't perfect, but he had to destroy it because it...

Episode Summary For months, Fox and other right-wing media outlets told their audiences how great Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the deranged anti-vaccine activist was. Now, some of them are starting to fear that Kennedy might take Trump votes away as a Libertarian Party candidate. Join Matt and Kali as they discuss. Thanks for listening and please support the show by giving us a good review on Apple Podc...

Summary Country music star Maren Morris announced that she's going to leave the industry after realizing that genre fans were too reactionary for her, in part by many people playing and purchasing songs meant to be perceived as threats to Black Lives Matter protesters and anti-fascist activists. Because it originated as a musical form from the former confederacy, country music has many vestiges of...

Summary A new poll from Change Research for Teen Vogue of young adults finds that being MAGA is absolutely loathed by a majority of people between the ages of 18 and 34. According to the survey, 76 percent of women in the age group say that discovering their date is a MAGA Republican is a “red flag” for them; 59 percent of men in the age group agreed. The survey, which is definitely worth checking...

Summary Over the past month, you couldn't go anywhere as a political junkie without being force-fed takes from right-wing media figures on the music of Oliver Anthony, who turns out to be someone who isn't particularly a fan of Republicans. In this episode, Kali and Matt talk about why Republicans are so desperate to be cool and how it's also related to their demeaning and often racist attitudes t...

So much of the political and religious extremism that is currently plaguing the United States and many other countries likely derives from personal psychological trauma.  Matt and Kali kick off a multi-faceted discussion of this topic talking about Lady MAGA , a pro-Trump drag queen who had to abandon her profession after Republicans decided to create a nationwide trans panic. Timecodes 01:51 -- O...

Welcome to a new Flux podcast called “So This Just Happened,” a show about culture and politics, with a particular emphasis on gender, race, sex, and religion. We’ll be covering the news, but also what it means to us as individuals in weekly conversations that seek to explore and promote intersectional understanding. Each episode is part of a larger conversation, so you’ll notice that there will n...