The Same Drugs

Meghan Murphy speaks with Batya Ungar-Sargon , deputy opinion editor of Newsweek and author of Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America's Working Men and Women , about the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, his decision to choose J.D. Vance as his running mate, Biden’s dropping out of the race, his endorsement of Kamala Harris to become the next Democratic nominee, and more! The Sam...

Meghan Murphy speaks with Andrew Lawton , senior journalist at True North , host of The Andrew Lawton Show, and author of a new book, Pierre Poilievre: A Political Life , about the politician’s history and future in Canadian politics. The Same Drugs is a fully independent, listener-supported podcast. Please consider ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠supporting us with a donation⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...

In this episode, Meghan Murphy speaks with Wilfred Reilly, about the attempted Trump assassination, why American progressives hate America, the bungling of Western history and more. Wilfred Reilly is a professor of political science at Kentucky State University and author of Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me . The Same Drugs is a fully independent, listener-supported podcast. Please consider ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...

What do women lose in rejecting their heart’s desire in exchange for “appropriate” femininity? Is passivity, accommodation, and nurturing really all we have to offer? And if so, why does that make so many women feel resentful or unfulfilled? Lisa Marchiano is a Jungian analyst, writer , and host of This Jungian Life . Her new book is The Vital Spark: Reclaim Your Outlaw Energies and Find Your Femi...

In this episode, Meghan Murphy speaks with fellow Canadian and ex-Vancouver-dweller, Jason James , about not fitting in, why Vancouverites are so depressed, why Canada can’t seem to keep up, what the climate change response is really about, and more. Jason James now lives in Alberta and is the host of the Brave New Normal podcast . The Same Drugs is a fully independent, listener-supported podcast....

Andrew Doyle is a journalist, playwright, comedian, and host of Free Speech Nation  on GB News. He is the author of Free Speech And Why It Matters  and The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World . In this episode, Meghan Murphy speaks with him about free speech, democracy, why authoritarianism remains so appealing to so many, and how to avoid tyrannical regimes...

Meghan Murphy speaks with Carolyn Burjoski, an elementary school teacher with the Waterloo Region District who spoke out about the culling of books from school libraries and the addition of books about “trans kids” and other inappropriate themes. The Same Drugs is a fully independent, listener-supported podcast. Please consider ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠supporting us with a donation⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...

Meghan Murphy speaks with writer and comedian, ⁠Bridget Phetasy⁠ , about moving to Texas, becoming a mom, why divorce is bad for kids, the 90s, and more. The Same Drugs is a fully independent, listener-supported podcast. Please consider ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠supporting us with a donation⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ , beco⁠ming⁠ a ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠patron⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ , or ⁠⁠...

Victoria Sinis went from working in marketing to recruiting for OnlyFans, before coming to a point where she felt like she couldn’t live with herself anymore. She quit and began speaking the truth about OnlyFans — warning young women and girls to stay out of the industry. Meghan Murphy speaks with her about her experience working for the agency, the reality of OnlyFans, and why she decided to spea...

Adam B. Coleman is a writer , the author of Black Victim To Black Victor, host of the Breaking Bread podcast, and the Founder of Wrong Speak Publishing . In this episode, Meghan Murphy speaks with him about escaping the victimhood mentality, how single parenthood can harm kids, dating with intention, the importance of traveling alone, what faith means to him and more. (The shirt referenced early i...

In this episode, Meghan Murphy speaks with Batya Ungar-Sargon , author of Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America's Working Men and Women , about elite disdain for the working class, the way the working class have been undermined in America, and how they lost access to the American Dream. The Same Drugs is a fully independent, listener-supported podcast. Please consider ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...

In this episode, Meghan Murphy speaks with Helen Roy about good marriages, the ways modern liberal feminism has failed women, how to date better, male hypocrisy and more. Helen is a staff writer at The Blaze , the host of Girlboss, Interrupted and publisher of Ladies' Late Rome Journal on Substack. The Same Drugs is a fully independent, listener-supported podcast. Please consider ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...

Katherine Dee is something of an internet archivist. She publishes Default Wisdom , writing about online subcultures you’ve never heard of as well as AI boyfriends, dating advice, and girl boss feminism. In this episode, Meghan Murphy speaks with her about using dating apps in a non-horrible way, whether TikTok is the worst thing in the world (and whether Twitter is better), Andrew Huberman takes,...

Kellie-Lynn Pirie , formerly Kenneth Anderson, is a BC-based detransitioner and the founder of Detrans Alliance Canada . After suffering unimaginable trauma as a child, fighting addiction, and seeking escape from her sexualized female body, she decided she would be happier and better off “as a man.” After getting a double mastectomy, a hysterectomy, and going on testosterone, Kellie-Lynn began t...

The Liberal Party’s Online Harms Act (Bill C-63) was tabled at the end of February, proposing to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act to qualify online “hate speech” as discrimination. If passed, individuals would gain the ability to file anonymous complaints against other Canadians for engaging in speech they consider to be hateful on social media. If found guilty, individuals can be fined up to $...

Last week, leaked files from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), considered the “leading global transgender healthcare body,” revealed that the clinicians who shape how so-called “gender medicine” is regulated and practiced around the world have been blatantly and knowingly ignoring medical ethics and informed consent all along. In this episode, Meghan Murphy speaks...

Do we really have free speech in Canada when we can't protest the government? Why isn't the media doing its job? Is Justin Trudeau going to get away with all he is continuing to do to silence dissent in Canada? Mocha Bezirgan is a journalist from Turkey living in Alberta, who has been among the very few to cover the case of the Coutts Four , apparently imprisoned for participating in the F...

Julie Bindel is a longtime journalist and feminist who was among the first to push back against trans-identified men attempting to access women-only spaces, when she wrote an article called "Gender benders, beware" for The Guardian. Julie has been attacked, harassed, slandered, and no-platformed ever since, but she never left the fight, despite being mostly alone in her push back in the...

We are told Gen Z is plagued with mental health problems — deathly afraid of disagreement, life, Donald Trump, one another… What is going on? Is the younger generation’s mental health crisis real? If so, is there a resolution? You likely all read (or at least heard about) Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt’s game-changing book, “ The Coddling of the American Mind .” Now the book is coming to life i...

Rob Henderson grew up poor, with a drug-addicted mother — abandoned and shuffled around for years through the foster care system. As a result of an unstable upbringing and related trauma, he struggled through school, with substance abuse, and with things like anxiety and depression, but prevailed, joining the Air Force at 17 and eventually making it to Yale University, where he studied psychology,...

Two of the four men who were arrested in February 2022 in Coutts, Alberta, accused of conspiracy to commit murder and mischief, have been released from prison. On Tuesday , the Crown dismissed conspiracy to commit murder of police officers and mischief charges against Chris Lysak and Jerry Morin, reaching a plea deal with both on minor firearms charges. The charges the two men pleaded guilty to we...

In January, a Canadian court ruled in favour of citizens who participated in the 2022 Freedom Convoy in Ottawa, determining that Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government’s invocation of the Emergencies Act was unconstitutional and without legal justification. The Emergencies Act was invoked on February 14, 2022 by the Federal Cabinet in an effort to shut down the peaceful protests happening in oppositi...

How did America, of all places, become the most dangerous place for a woman to give birth? Why have c-sections been on the rise in recent decades? Why do so many women have traumatic birth experiences in the hospital? How can those experiences be improved, in order for the mother to feel empowered? And why is the birthing community adopting “gender neutral” language like “chest feeding” and “birth...

Graham Linehan was a well-known, well-liked, successful TV writer, living his dream in a career he loved and worked hard at. Speaking up in defense of women's rights and spaces changed all that, almost in an instant. The moment Graham was labelled a TERF, he became persona non grata. He lost his career, his friends, his Twitter account, his mental health, and his marriage. In this episode, Meg...

Arden Young went from Hollywood to journalism, and is blowing the lid off of the porn industry’s lies. She went undercover to talk to Pornhub employees about everything from whether they thought porn use was healthy to how they pushed so-called “tranny porn” on men to how easy it is for underage and non-consensual videos to go up on the site. In this episode, Meghan Murphy speaks with Arden about...