King of Stuff

The King of Stuff blesses Florida with a visit and hears his first speech from Gov. Ron DeSantis live and in-person. Jon also chats about the protests in Cuba, compares our Afghanistan adventure with our 20-year occupation of Haiti, and discusses the miseries of travel. Subscribe to the King of Stuff Spotify playlist featuring picks from the show. Jon selects “Sinner in the Sea” by Calexico. Sourc...

The King of Stuff welcomes long-time friend and gunblogger Kevin Creighton to discuss gun politics in the Biden era. Kevin blogs for Ammoman.com and, before that, led the marketing for a number of companies in the firearms world and has written for American Hunter, Shooting Illustrated, BearingArms.com, Beretta.com, and Downrange TV. He is an active competitor in USPSA, IDPA, and 3 Gun... Source

It’s been over a year since the King of Stuff held a Q&A session, so it was time for a second Ask Me Anything episode. Politics, Music, Religion, War, Booze — you name it, Jon answers. Subscribe to the King of Stuff Spotify playlist featuring picks from the show. Source

The King of Stuff talks novelist Gigi Levangie, the author of The Starter Wife (which became a TV miniseries), Maneater (which became a TV miniseries), and her latest novel Been There, Married That. She also wrote the screenplay for the movie Stepmom, with Julia Roberts and Susan Sarandon. Jon and Gigi discuss our culture’s conformist impulse, the state of California politics... Source

The King of Stuff rants about the latest news, from immigration fails to filibuster flops, and neo-racist drips to leadership tips. This episode has it all! And instead of adding a tune to the vaunted King of Stuff Spotify playlist, Jon pimps the brilliant BBC comedy “Toast of London” helmed by supergenius Matt Berry. Source

The King of Stuff talks with Lacy Cooper about the ongoing border crisis. Lacy was the border security section chief for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Arizona. She served 15 years as both a county and federal prosecutor targeting violent offenders, gang members, cartels, and terrorists. She is now Of Counsel with the law firm of Schmitt Schneck Even & Williams in Phoenix. Sour...

The King of Stuff talks with Alexandra DeSanctis about the state of the pro-life movement. Alexandra is a staff writer for National Review, a visiting fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and regularly offers great reporting on issues of life and religious liberty. We discuss the continuing trials of whistleblower David Daleiden, state legislation limiting abortion... Source

The King of Stuff talks with professional artist, writer, and icon carver Jonathan Pageau. Jonathan explores the symbolic structures that underlie our experience of the world through his popular YouTube channel and podcast, titled The Symbolic World. We chat about his long friendship with Jordan Peterson, the failure of the angry “New Atheists,” Orthodoxy, and the renewed search for meaning and......

With violence in Israel and provocations by Russia, China, and Iran, the world is getting crazier. The King of Stuff talks with Rebecca Heinrichs about the main global hotspots and a troubling report that Russia’s GRU might be using directed-energy weapons against US government personnel. Rebeccah is a senior fellow at Hudson Institute specializing in US national defense policy with a focus on......

The King of Stuff covers Biden’s failing COVID rhetoric, the left’s love of lockdowns, the good news in Texas, and wonders what on earth Liz Cheney is up to. Subscribe to the King of Stuff Spotify playlist featuring picks from the show. This week, Jon endorses “to some i’m genius” by snow ellet. Source

The King of Stuff talks with John J. Jacobson about his new novel, All the Cowboys Ain’t Gone., about a would-be cowboy who joins the French Legion and fights a death cult, Indiana Jones style. Publishers Weekly calls it a “rollicking debut … and a ride worth taking.” John and Jon talk about the book, the creative process, and conservatism in publishing. Then Jon talks about the Armenian genocide....

The verdict is in and the King of Stuff talks about Derek Chauvin’s conviction and the bizarre reaction by several progressive leaders. Maxine Waters, Joe Biden, and Minneapolis Mayor Joshua Frey tried to pressure the jury into guilty verdicts: did it work and what are the chances for appeal? Subscribe to the King of Stuff Spotify playlist featuring picks from the show. Jon chose “Stare Into the.....

The King of Stuff is flying solo to talk about Biden and Fauci’s fumbling of the Covid messaging, the CDC “pausing” Johnson & Johnson’s vax due to a less than one-in-a-million chance of blood clots, and the riots and looting following another Minnesota police shooting. Subscribe to the King of Stuff Spotify playlist featuring picks from the show. Jon chose “Tom” by Damien Jurado. Also... Sourc...

Remember when they repealed Net Neutrality and everyone died? The King of Stuff welcomes former FCC Chairman Ajit Pai to chat about that 2017 hysteria and how the internet actually improved after he repealed Net Neutrality. His biggest critics warned that his action would silence online voices; today those same people are trying to silence whoever disagrees with them. Ajit served as Chairman of......

The King of Stuff welcomes Karol Markowicz to chat about Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s troubles, Mayor Bill De Blasio’s schadenfreude, and everything New York. Karol is a Columnist at the New York Post, Contributor to Spectator USA, and a Contributing Writer at Washington Examiner Magazine. Subscribe to the King of Stuff Spotify playlist featuring picks from the show. This week, Karol chose “Allentown” by.....

The King of Stuff welcomes Troy Senik, co-founder and vice president for content for Kite & Key Media. Troy has been a White House speechwriter, a think tank executive, a newspaper columnist, a podcaster, and a “Jeopardy!” Champion. He is currently at work on a biography of President Grover Cleveland. Subscribe to the King of Stuff Spotify playlist featuring picks from the show. This week... S...

The King of Stuff welcomes Daniel Foster, Contributing Editor for National Review and writer published in The American Spectator, The American Prospect, the New York Post, and The Onion. Jon and Daniel talk about the mood in DC surrounding Covid and Capitol Hill’s security theater, belated media “corrections,” and Biden’s immigration crisis. Subscribe to the King of Stuff Spotify playlist... Sourc...

The King of Stuff welcomes Mark Hemingway, a Senior Writer at RealClearInvestigations. You’ve read his work in National Review, The Weekly Standard, Reason, the Washington Examiner … and he co-hosted the late, yet still beloved, podcast The Hemingways with his wife Mollie. Mark also has excellent taste in music so we discuss his band days, and the problems facing journalism... Source

The King of Stuff discusses the cancellation of Dr. Seuss, the woke misspelling of “women,” easing lockdowns, and the fate of Andrew Cuomo. Subscribe to the King of Stuff Spotify playlist featuring picks from the show. This week, Jon chooses “Ohio” by Lea Porcelain. Source

The King of Stuff discusses America’s new malaise, Martin Gurri’s prophetic book Revolt of the Public, the new improved version of “kids in cages,” and conservatives’ advantage in cancel culture. Subscribe to the King of Stuff Spotify playlist featuring picks from the show. This week, Jon chooses “Vendetta” by Iceage. Source

The King of Stuff flies solo to talk about the Lincoln Project’s implosion, Joe Biden’s flaky townhall, Gov. Cuomo’s comeuppance, and the loss of radio titan Rush Limbaugh. Here’s the link to a dumb thing I wrote in 2009 which Rush quoted and helped launch my media-dominating career. Subscribe to the King of Stuff Spotify playlist featuring picks from the show. This week Jon offers “Paint... Sourc...

The King of Stuff talks with Kevin James, star of “The King of Queens” and “Kevin Can Wait” about his new Netflix sitcom, “The Crew.” After that brief junket interview, Jon talks with Jonah Goldberg, co-founder of The Dispatch, host of The Remnant podcast, and author of Suicide of the West. We discuss how to strengthen American institutions when the institutions have failed, the “need” for college...

The King of Stuff talks with James Poulos, Ph. D., Executive Editor of the Claremont Institute’s The American Mind, author of The Art of Being Free, and spacegaze mastermind with his band Vast Asteroid. Jon and James discuss Newsom’s California, the end of the televisual age, and the challenge of digital to traditional politics. Subscribe to the King of Stuff Spotify playlist featuring picks from....

The King of Stuff chats with Kyle Smith, critic-at-large for National Review, columnist for the New York Post, and literary critic for The New Criterion. Jon and Kyle talk about the press addiction to everything Trump, the failure of Biden to rein in the teachers’ unions, and the future of movie theaters. Then Jon talks about the end of the Trump era and the beginning of (shudder) the Biden Era. S...

President Coolidge fending off mendicant congressmen. (By Paul Rivoche, courtesy of Coolidge House in Washington DC) The King of Stuff chats with Amity Shlaes, author of The Great Society, Coolidge, The Forgotten Man, and editor of the new Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge. She serves as chair of the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation and talks about his unique inauguration... Source