Redefining The Record

🎧 Intro Good morning. It’s Thursday, September 25th, and this is The Record🗞️.Today’s show is about power, pressure, and the stakes of resistance—inside the White House, across Congress, on social media, and even on international waters. From Congress pushing for the Epstein files, to federal agencies threatened with mass firings, to Trump moving TikTok under U.S. control, and European ships head...

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening. It’s Wednesday, September 24th. My name is Marlena, and this is The Record🗞️.Today’s show is about the fight for speech, truth, and survival. From late-night comedy turned political battlefield, to Congress moving closer to exposing Epstein’s secrets, to anonymous art that shatters White House denials, and the collapse of Gaza’s last hospitals—this is th...

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening. It’s Tuesday, September 23rd, and this is The Record 🗞️. Today’s show is about networks of control and the cracks showing through. From a Secret Service raid on a covert telecom system to Sinclair pulling Jimmy Kimmel for propaganda, Trump spreading medical lies, and Hungary breaking ranks on Russian oil— This isn’t chaos. This is the news. And I’m tired...

🔥 Episode IntroIn this episode of Redefining the Record, Marlena sits down with Sebastian DeWoren — a gubernatorial candidate in California committed to progressive policies, environmentalism, and addressing the state’s affordability crisis. What begins as a conversation about lived experience and activism quickly evolves into a deep dive on homelessness, the prison-industrial system, and the nee...

Good morning. It’s Monday, September 22nd, and this is the record🗞️ .Today’s show is about power, influence, and what happens when institutions—whether government, media, or corporations—bend to pressure or ignore accountability. From celebrity protests to federal policy announcements, international tensions, and corporate maneuvering, the storylines are loud—but rarely filtered for truth. So let’...

🎧 intro (00:00–00:33)Good morning. It’s Sunday, September 21st, and this is the record🗞️. Today’s show is about power and accountability. From California banning masked police, to Trump tightening his grip on prosecutors, to yet another community scarred by gun violence, to the new $100,000 wall around immigration opportunities. It’s all connected. Because when power hides behind masks, legal man...

🎧 intro Good morning. It’s Saturday, September 20th, and this is the record🗞️.Today’s show is about censorship, control, and who decides what freedom really means. From the Pentagon rewriting press rules, to conservatives demanding speech crackdowns after the assassination of a high-profile right-wing figure, to Trump weaponizing visas against tech workers and students—this isn’t chaos. This is t...

Off the Record – Episode 15: x The Record Hybrid Friday September 19 Welcome back to Off the Record . Today is a trial run of a small format change—bear with me, and let me know what you think. This episode is longer, more cultural commentary-focused, and a riff on The Record , our daily news show. Think of it as the seventh day in the weekly cycle, filling the space with deeper reflection. Podcas...

🎧 intro (00:00:00–00:00:30) Good morning. It’s Thursday, September 18th, and this is The Record🗞️. Today’s show is about censorship, control, and who gets to speak. From Jimmy Kimmel being pulled off the air, to Sinclair and Nexstar flexing their power, from Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reshaping vaccine policy, to comments framing Gaza’s destruction as a real estate opportunity—This isn’t free speech....

🎧 intro Good morning. It’s Wednesday, September 17th, and this is the record🗞️.Today’s show is about assassinations, censorship, and resistance. From the White House weaponizing a tragedy to Pam Bondi trying to police speech, an FBI manhunt in Pittsburgh, and Mexico rewriting history on Independence Day—This isn’t chaos. This is the news. And I’m tired of it being filtered through corporate neutr...

🎧 Intro (00:00:00–00:00:27)Good morning. It’s Tuesday, September 16th, and my name is Marlena. This is The Record. Today is all about silence, repression, lawsuits, and war. We’re talking about two men found hanging in Mississippi; J.D. Vance and Elon Musk escalating McCarthy-era tactics; Trump suing the New York Times for $15 billion; and Israel’s ground invasion of Gaza. This isn’t chaos — this...

🎧 intro (00:00:00–00:00:28) Good morning. It’s Monday, September 15th, and this is The Record🗞️.Today’s show is all about power, backlash, and the cracks showing in institutions. From a Trump-world FBI director on the ropes, to an Iowa county refusing to honor Charlie Kirk, to the FBI accidentally poisoning an animal shelter, to Conor McGregor bowing out of politics—This isn’t chaos. This is the...

🎧 introGood morning. It’s Sunday, September 14th, and this is the record🗞️.Today’s show is about contradictions, cover-ups, and cruelty. Just days after saying he doesn’t care about uniting the people, Trump is now calling for “national healing” in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination—while blaming the left. The FBI is in chaos, Fox News hosts are openly suggesting death for the unhoused, and...

🎧 Intro (00:00–01:00)Good morning. It’s Saturday, September 13th, and this is The Record🗞️.Today’s show is about instability, exploitation, and contradictions at the heart of our politics. From inflation whiplash and Democrats’ selective “unity” to the silent migration of healthcare workers and Trump’s latest legal maneuver—This isn’t chaos. This is the news. And I’m tired of it being filtered th...

Good morning. It’s Friday, September 12th. My name’s Marlena, and this is The Record🗞️. Today’s show is all about power, threats, and accountability. From violent hoaxes shaking college campuses, to an assassination that stopped the country, to a lockdown at the U.S. Naval Academy, to Brazil’s democracy on trial. This isn’t chaos. This is the news. And I’m tired of it being filtered through corpor...

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🎧 intro (00:00–01:00) Good morning. It’s Thursday, September 11th, and this is the record🗞️.Before we continue, let’s begin with to honoring the lives that passed and the first responders who saved lives n 9/11 in 2001Second, I want to issue a gun violence conversation warning to make sure you are aware of what the subject matters of today’s show will be. Today’s show is about political violence,...

🎧 Intro (00:00–00:32) Good morning. It’s Wednesday, September 10th. My name is Marlena, and this is The Record🗞️.Today’s show is about lies, power grabs, and escalation. From Trump’s name resurfacing in Jeffrey Epstein’s birthday book, to a federal judge standing up to an unprecedented attack on the Federal Reserve, to a dinner stunt in Washington, and NATO on the edge as Russian drones crossed i...

00:00:00 — Intro Good morning. It's Tuesday, September 9th. My name is Marlena, and this is The Record. Today's show is all about exposure and escalation—from a disturbing Epstein letter with Trump's signature, to ICE raids tearing through Chicago, to a Supreme Court ruling that greenlights racial profiling, and an aid flotilla attacked on its way to Gaza. None of this is random. It's the architec...

🔥 Episode Intro In this episode of Voices 4 Change , Marlena sits down with Kyle — a father, Army veteran, and congressional candidate in Connecticut’s most rural district. What begins as a conversation about leadership and service quickly unfolds into a powerful meditation on parenting, bodily autonomy, and the urgent need for systems that actually serve. Kyle isn’t running to play politics. He’...

Good morning. It’s Monday, September 8th, my name is Marlena and this is The Record🗞️. Today’s show is about denial, deflection, and democracy on the edge. From Trump backtracking on Epstein claims, Florida rejecting science for ideology, and federal raids escalating in sanctuary cities—to protests in Nepal where Gen Z is literally risking their lives to fight censorship. This isn’t chaos. This is...

Good morning. It’s Sunday, September 7th, and this is the record🗞️.Today’s show is about political coverups, global crackdowns, and the lies we’re told to accept. From Epstein survivors demanding transparency, to South Korean workers freed from a U.S. detention raid, to a D.C. think tank warning of a “baby bust” to Ukraine weathering the largest Russian strike since the war began—This isn’t chaos....

🎧 Intro Good morning. It’s Saturday, September 6th, and this is The Record 🗞️.Today is about the state showing its teeth. Factory raids tearing through immigrant lives. An economy spun like a fairy tale while people can’t afford to breathe. Troops threatened for city streets already bleeding. And a war that keeps grinding on, erasing whole communities. This isn’t chaos. It’s deliberate. And I’m n...

Good morning. It’s Friday, September 5th, my name is Marlena and this is The Record🗞️. Today is about bans, rebrands, cages, and dystopian whispers. We're talking RFK Jr. threatening reproductive access, Trump renaming the Pentagon, Alligator Alcatraz roaring back to life in the Everglades, and Xi and Putin daydreaming about immortality—This isn’t chaos. It’s the news. And I’m not here to soften i...

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