A Thousand Natural Shocks With Gabe S. Dunn

Gabe and Lex Rofeberg, who had very similar childhoods, talk about discarding the Zionism they were taught growing up. What does that mean for their futures and the future of Judaism? https://www.judaismunbound.com/2026-courses/p/jewish-citizenship Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In honor of her new book Like, Follow, Subscribe, Fortesa Latifi joins Gabe to talk about something Gabe hates: child influencers and family vlogging. --- Reporter Fortesa Latifi joins Gabe to discuss the origins of mommy blogging and child influencers, what has come out since these children have grown up, and what these families are actually selling. Plus, the dangers and problems of selling excl...

Bill O’Reilly book titles. Zionist Instagram accounts. Checking NewsMax every day. Lyz Lenz, author and writer of the newsletter Men Yell At Me, joins the show to talk about making men mad. We discuss divorce, our funny(?) families, and how we’ve become better and worse for consumption of political media. Political discussion starts about 8 minutes in. Tw for Epstein. Advertising Inquiries: https:...

Writer Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya joins the show to talk about finding queer community and chosen family in a red state like Florida. Gabe shares his stories of growing up there and learns about the type of solidarity that can beautifully develop in adversity --- both with the weather and, you know, otherwise.  Check out Rosetta Stone and use my code TODAY for a great deal:  https://www.rosettastone....

Gabe’s old BuzzFeed coworker and writer Ash Perez joins the show to talk about his new rom com Speak Now. The duo catch up about transness, autism, and the wild paths their lives have taken.  Speak Now is a queer rom-com about a rising-star chef who’s forced to confront her first love when she’s hired to cater her ex–best friend’s wedding, putting her career-defining opportunity at odds with unres...

Jesse, of Theater Workers For A Ceasefire, talks about the importance of theater in the political space, divesting from Israeli state-sponsored, colonialist and imperialist theater, and coming into anti-Zionism as a Jewish artist.  Links:  https://theaterworkersforaceasefire.com/statement https://www.bacbi.be/  Check out Rosetta Stone and use my code TODAY for a great deal:  https://www.rosettast...

Reporter Madeline Peltz joins the show to talk about her years of covering Turning Point USA, the liberal journalists who suck up to Nazis, and how liberals and leftists focus on elections over building movements. Plus, the right's ability to embrace anyone who wants in, how right-wing women are losing faith in MAGA and why we keep not believing what the right is telling us straight up that th...

Author of "Cafe Hysteria" Madison Huizinga and Gabe talk about no longer media training celebrities, the sinister origins of trends, and why concerts have become so prohibitively expensive. Plus, every influencer is fake now. Even ones with like, five followers.  Check out Rosetta Stone and use my code TODAY for a great deal:  https://www.rosettastone.com Advertising Inquiries: https://red...

The author of “Demystifying Disability,” Emily Ladau, joins the pod to talk about the societal expectations that make life harder for disabled people, what changes about your life, and the media’s laziness using disability as a shortcut.  Check out Rosetta Stone and use my code TODAY for a great deal:  https://www.rosettastone.com Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-...

LA Taco reporter Izzy Ramirez joins the show to talk about the crushing of freedom of the press, tracking all of the ICE raids and all of the people kidnapped in them (about 100 a week in LA), and the cities where Minneapolis levels of federal brutality is happening without comprehensive coverage. Plus, violent retaliation against community watchers. Tw: suicide   Check out Rosetta Stone and use...

Just kidding! They do! Taylor Smith is back on the show to explain striking. All your questions answered. We’re also having fun! Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Gabe recounts his visit to Sacramento to talk to legislators and Gov. Gavin Newsom. This week, a man named Alex Pretti was shot in broad daylight by ICE agents. What do we do now? Check out Rosetta Stone and use my code TODAY for a great deal:  https://www.rosettastone.com Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Gabe and fellow activist/photographer Eric Langberg discuss the uphill battle current photographers face during this moment of no media literacy, the misunderstanding of Vanity Fair's "bad" photos of the Trump administration, and the controversy of photographing protest movements and bystanders. Plus, what he chooses to photograph versus others at the same protests. Then, Eric fights w...

Welcome back! Former CNN reporter, now independent journalist Nick Valencia joins the show to kiki with Gabe about the ups and downs of working for mainstream media and why he's chosen to go independent for his coverage of immigration in this horrid time.  Check out Rosetta Stone and use my code TODAY for a great deal:  https://www.rosettastone.com Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com...

Gabe discusses how ableism and toxic masculinity led to his fear of quitting a job because of his new medical diagnosis. Join Gabe’s Substack at athousandnaturalshocks.substack.com Check out Rosetta Stone and use my code TODAY for a great deal:  https://www.rosettastone.com This has been a Noted Bisexual and Diamond MPrint Productions Produced by Melisa D. Monts Advertising Inquiries: https://redc...

Professor and author Celina Su joins the pod to talk about her new position on NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani’s transition team and about the outrageous misuse of budgets and what we can do about making change. Join Gabe’s Substack at athousandnaturalshocks.substack.com Check out Rosetta Stone and use my code TODAY for a great deal:  https://www.rosettastone.com This has been a Noted Bisexual and Diamon...

Each week, Gabe will sum up some of the work he’s been doing or researching anti-fascist activism on the ground and keep you updated on the latest developments.  This week, Gabe reflects on reactions to our 50501 Movement episode and on his own confusion around what needs to happen. Join Gabe’s Substack at  athousandnaturalshocks.substack.com Check out Rosetta Stone and use my code TODAY for a gre...

To permit protests or not to permit protests? (The answer is obvious.) Hunter Dunn (no relation), of the 50501 Movement's press officers, joins the show to talk about youth in politics, queerness in the Bible and how we use religion to convince across party lines, and bringing liberals and Dems into leftist organizing. Hunter and Gabe reminisce about some of the more bizarre aspects of LA gove...

Each week, Gabe will sum up some of the work he’s been doing or researching anti-fascist activism on the ground and keep you updated on the latest developments. This week, Gabe talks about what happened at a House Oversight Committee meeting he attended and reflects on what his grandmother told him about surviving the Holocaust. https://www.instagram.com/epistemiccrisis? Join Gabe’s Substack at at...

Historian Prit Buttar, author of “Into The Reich joins the show to draw parallels between the specifics of World War II and our lives now. It’s much more complex than even your host could believe. Check this out if you want not only a soothing British voice but also a history lesson between two obsessives. Join Gabe’s Substack at athousandnaturalshocks.substack.com This has been a Noted Bisexual a...

Original Air Date: May 6, 2025  Gabe is thrilled to speak to Kathryn Kellogg, a spokesperson for the zero waste movement, about overconsumption’s impact on the environment and on ourselves. Join Gabe’s Substack at athousandnaturalshocks.substack.com This has been a Noted Bisexual and Diamond MPrint Productions Produced by Melisa D. Monts Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy...

Each week, Gabe will sum up some of the work he’s been doing or researching anti-fascist activism on the ground and keep you updated on the latest developments. This week, he notes that the State Department has changed the sex marker on the passport website about 4 times in the last few weeks. Join Gabe’s Substack at athousandnaturalshocks.substack.com This has been a Noted Bisexual and Diamond MP...

Activist Catie Laffoon joins the show to talk about the largest ICE detention center in California, which has garnered almost no media attention, and the example of California City becoming owned by ICE. Catie and Gabe traveled two hours outside LA to what they believe to be a future "slave city" to find scandals, horrors, insanity, and corruption. They discuss their theories and research...

The world wasn't always organized through capitalism, and viewing that economic system through only a Eurocentric lens won't provide the entire picture. Harvard professor and historian Sven Beckert joins the show to talk about how capitalism started and how we got here. Plus, gender and racial roles in capitalism and why we view the stock market as a mystical god. Join Gabe’s Substack at a...

Ever make a doctor's appointment to trick them into learning about trans people? Uncloak's Kalvin Byrd joins the podcast to talk about his work testing doctors on how they treat trans male reproductive healthcare and connecting them to other safe, vetted doctors and trans patients, using himself as a guinea pig to be the first trans man a doctor has ever seen, and his commitment to healthc...