Let's Give A Damn

❤️ If you love the podcast and benefit from it, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠please consider joining our Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ .  🎉 It’s Misan Harriman week on the podcast! 📷 Misan is am award-winning photographer, social activist, Oscar-Nominated filmmaker, and is one of the most widely-shared visual storytellers of this age. He is also the first black person in the 104 year history of British Vogue to shoot the cover of...

❤️ If you love the podcast and benefit from it, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠please consider joining our Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ .  🎉 It’s Roger Waters & Mona Miari week on the podcast! 🇵🇸 ⁠ On June 12, 2026, the legendary Roger Waters and acclaimed Palestinian musician Mona Miari release a re-imagined version of the iconic song Comfortably Numb, 47 years after the original was released, with new Arabic verses that transfo...

❤️ If you love the show and learn from it, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠please consider joining our Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ .  🎉 It’s Timothy Schraeder Rodriguez week on the podcast!  👉🏽 ⁠ Timothy Schraeder Rodriguez spent almost a decade in gay conversion therapy—all while working behind the scenes at some of the most influential Evangelical Christian megachurches. After embracing his identity as a gay Christian and stepping...

❤️ If you love the show and want to support us, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠please consider joining our Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ .  🎉 It’s Tatiana Maslany week on the podcast!  👉🏽 ⁠ Tatiana is an Emmy® Award-winning actress known for Orphan Black, She-Hulk, and Perry Mason. She will next appear in Sony Pictures Classic's The Only Living Pickpocket in New York, which premiered at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival. Recently, Mas...

❤️ If you love the show and want to support us, ⁠⁠⁠⁠please consider joining our Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠ .  🎉 It’s Pattie Gonia week on the podcast!  👉🏽 ⁠ Pattie is a critically acclaimed drag queen, environmentalist, and advocate for inclusivity and diversity in the outdoors. She is the co-founder of the Outdoorist Oath (a non-profit that gets BIPOC, LGBTQIA+ and femmes into the outdoors through community...

❤️ If you love the show and want to support us, ⁠⁠⁠please consider joining our Patreon⁠⁠⁠ . 🎉 It’s Julian Brave Noisecat week on the podcast! 👉🏽 ⁠ NoiseCat is a writer, filmmaker, champion powwow dancer, and student of Salish art and history. He is the first Indigenous North American filmmaker ever nominated for an Academy Award and the first Indigenous North American author to ever write about...

❤️ If you love the show and want to support us, ⁠⁠please consider joining our Patreon⁠⁠ . 🎉 It’s Dr. Ibram X. Kendi week on the podcast! 👉🏽 ⁠ Dr. Kendi is one of the world’s foremost historians of racism and a leading antiracist scholar. He is the Carter G. Woodson Endowed Chair in History at Howard University, and the inaugural director of Howard’s Institute for Advanced Study. Kendi has publi...

❤️ If you love the show and want to support us, ⁠please consider joining our Patreon⁠ . 🎉 It’s Charithra Chandran week on the podcast! 👉🏽 ⁠ Charithra Chandran has quickly established herself as an internationallyrenowned actor, showcasing her range of disciplines both on-screen and theatrically. Charithra is currently starring in Season 2 of Netflix’s One Piece — a live-action adaptation of the...

It’s Kat Abughazaleh Day on the podcast!  Kat is a 26-year-old, Palestinian American, grassroots congressional candidate running to represent Illinois’ Ninth District. She’s a renter, a formerly uninsured worker, and a union representative running to bring a new generation of leadership to Congress, defend democracy, fight for economic justice, and advance a humane foreign policy. Kat is a badass....

🎉 It’s Shabnam Mogharabi week on the podcast! ❤️ Before I share more about our guest, ⁠ consider supporting us on Patreon ⁠! We need your help to make this podcast happen. Thanks, friends. 👉🏽 Shabnam Mogharabi  is an entertainment executive, producer, and New York Times bestselling author with 20 years of experience in mission-driven media. She currently runs  The Joy Brigade , a boutique film...

🎉 It’s Saja Kilani week on the podcast! ❤️ Before I share more about our guest, ⁠ consider supporting us on Patreon⁠ ! We need your help to make this podcast happen. Thanks, friends. 👉🏽 Saja Kilani is a Jordanian/Palestinian/Canadian actress and spoken word poet. Her first film performance, Simsim, earned her the Best First Time Lead Actress Award at the Amman International Film Festival. She s...

🎉 It’s Noam Shuster-Eliassi & Amber Fares week on the podcast! ❤️ Before I share more about my guest, ⁠ consider supporting us on Patreon⁠ ! We need your help to make this podcast happen. Thanks, friends. 👉🏽 Noam is an Israeli activist and comedian who writes and performs in Arabic, English, and Hebrew, frequently touching upon her experience growing up in “Oasis of Peace” (Neve Shalom / Wa...

🎉 It’s Brian Recker Week on the podcast!  ❤️ Before I share more about my guest, consider supporting us on Patreon ! We need your help to make this podcast happen. Thanks, friends. 👉🏽 Brian Recker is a public theologian, speaker, and writer on Christian spirituality without exclusionary dogma.  In October, Brian released his first book, Hell Bent . In this taboo-shattering book, Brian takes an...

It’s Mohsen Mahdawi Day on the podcast!  Mohsen Mahdawi is a Palestinian organizer, human rights activist, co-founder of the Columbia Palestinian Student Union, and a damn good human. Mahdawi was a leading voice during the 2024 protests and the encampments at Columbia University. His leadership during those months and his support for a Free Palestine and an end to the Israeli occupation led to him...

🎉 It’s ‪Arian Moayed week on the podcast! 👉🏽 Ben Cohen is a philanthropist, an antiwar activist, the co-founder of Ben & Jerry's ice cream, and the founder of Up In Arms — a movement that is taking on war profiteers and weapons manufacturers and is demanding that the Pentagon slash out outrageous defense budget by...a lot. 👉🏽 In this conversation, Arian and I talk about his immigrant...

🎉 It’s ‪Ben Cohen week on the podcast! 👉🏽 Ben Cohen is a philanthropist, an antiwar activist, the co-founder of Ben & Jerry's ice cream, and the founder of Up In Arms — a movement that is taking on war profiteers and weapons manufacturers and is demanding that the Pentagon slash out outrageous defense budget by...a lot. 👉🏽 In this conversation, Ben and I discuss his Zionist upbringing...

🎉 It’s ‪Max La Manna week on the podcast! 👉🏽 Max La Manna is an award-winning author, low-waste chef, and campaigner whose casual approach to cooking has attracted over 2 million followers and more than a billion video views. Drawing from his own life, he shares simple, affordable recipes that make the most of every ingredient and inspire people to waste less. His debut cookbook More Plants Les...

🎉 It’s ‪David Gate Day on the podcast! 👉🏽 It is a joy to have David on the show this week. David is from London and now lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains in Asheville, NC. His work centers around care for the individual (heart, mind, body & soul) and the nurture of community (culture, the earth & environment, the dignity of others and spiritual communities). AND he has a new book of poe...

🎉 It’s ‪Dr. Ibram X. Kendi day on the podcast! 👉🏽 It is a joy to have Dr. Kendi on the show this week. Read his full bio here: https://www.ibramxkendi.com/bio 👉🏽 In this conversation, we talk about his new book (Malcolm Lives!), collective liberation, the genocide in Gaza, the rise of fascism in the United States, and so much more. ❤️ If you love the show and want to support us, please consid...

On May 5, Let's Give A Damn co-sponsored an event in NYC called Palestine: The Moral Issue Of Our Time with Gabor Maté and Chris Hedges . It was a sold-out event with 800 attending in persons and hundreds more attended online via our livestream. Most importantly we raised tens of thousands of dollars for Middle East Children's Alliance ! MECA works to protect the rights and improve the lives of ch...

🎉 It’s Taylor Lorenz Day on the podcast! 👉🏽 It is a joy to have Taylor on the show this week. Read Taylor's full bio here: https://www.taylorlorenz.com 👉🏽 In this conversation, we talk about the current state of independent journalism, why she constantly puts herself in the crosshairs of willfully ignorant idiots, the genocide in Gaza, Long Covid, and so much more. This conversation was a lon...

It’s Maggie Smith Day on the podcast!  Maggie Smith is the New York Times bestselling author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful ; My Thoughts Have Wings, a picture book illustrated by SCBWI Portfolio grand prize winner Leanne Hatch; the national bestsellers Goldenrod and Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change ; as well as Good Bones , named one of the Best Five Poetry Books of 2017...

It’s Ed Begley Jr. Day on the podcast!  Ed Begley, Jr. recently starred in Hallmark film, Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs Love Story , and was a fan favorite on the very popular series Young Sheldon and Better Call Saul and was recently a series regular on Netflix’s Future Man .  On the environmental front, he is one of the foremost environmentalists in Hollywood, supporting and advocating for multipl...

It’s Mara Kronenfeld Day on the podcast!  As the Executive Director of UNRWA USA, Mara Kronenfeld leads the strategic vision, operations, and fundraising efforts of the nonprofit organization that supports the humanitarian and human development work of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in the Middle East. With over 20 years of experience in international dev...

It’s Lauren Paul & Molly Thompson Day on the podcast!  Lauren Paul is the co-founder of Kind Campaign and Director, Writer and Producer of Kind Campaign's award-winning documentary, Finding Kind. Finding a way to start a conversation about bullying has been on Lauren’s heart ever since her own life-altering experience in middle school. After studying film at Pepperdine University, Lauren joine...