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The Find Out Podcast

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Find Out is an honest, irreverent, and often hilarious discussion about America during Trump’s second term. We’re a team of left-wing content creators (who MAGAs would call radical left lunatics)—but we’re here to prove that we’re just normal dudes you can shoot the shit with. Each week we’ll laugh about the latest MAGA absurdities, while helping listeners separate the signal from the noise. Whether you’re pissed off, ready to fight, or feel like you’re about to completely disassociate, Find Out has something for you. No echo chambers. No bullshit. Just real talk.

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Thursday · 58 min
Make Trump Veto Everything
Democrats are probably taking back the House, and their announced plan is to undo what Trump did and then stop. Rich and Luke argue they should send him single-payer, a $20 minimum wage, and universal pre-K instead, force him to veto all of it, and run on that. Plus the $45,000 cash Christmas gifts Trump handed three young staffers, the 9/11 story he keeps rewriting, and a year without Charlie Kirk. Tickets for FAFO 2026 are on sale now: wearefindout.com/tour Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
#137
Tuesday · 1 hr
David Pakman: The Algorithm Is Built for the Right
David Pakman's new book, Pay Attention, argues that nuance loses, and he brings the receipts: the platforms reward fear, anger, and messages short enough for a bumper sticker, which happens to be the right's native language. Say "the vaccines are killing millions" and it travels. Explain what vaccines actually do and you've already lost the room. We get into why the left's infighting is a feature of the algorithm rather than a real split in the party, how conservatives often aren't disagreeing with our facts so much as never being served them, and why debate-bro marathons measure preparation instead of truth. Then it gets personal: David landed on the White House's media offenders list alongside Brian Tyler Cohen, and having grown up in the shadow of Argentina's dictatorship, he's not laughing it off. We close on 2028 and whether JD Vance is a real threat or a wet futon in a suit. Pay Attention is out now, with signed copies at DavidPakman.com/attention. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
#126
September 3 · 52 min
They Want the 19th Amendment Gone
This week is a real potpourri. The Lindsay Clancy case somehow convincing MAGA that women shouldn’t be allowed to vote. Sean Duffy going on television to explain that Sydney Sweeney will save the American birth rate. Why data centers are the only infrastructure this country can build quickly. Whether AI companies are chasing revenue or just power. And last up, a USPS whistleblower who says Trump loyalists kept building a mail-in ballot system after a federal judge told them to stop. It’s been a busy week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
#135
September 1 · 58 min
The Ironworker Coming for Max Miller's Seat
Tim, Luke, and Rich talk with Brian Poindexter about what nineteen years in the iron workers taught him: why right-to-work states stay poor, why the no-tax-on-tips promise turned into a rounding error come tax season, and how blanket tariffs are driving up input costs for farmers while private equity waits in the wings to buy the land. He also explains why the allegations against Miller shook his district to its core, and what it says about a justice system where the wealthy and well connected get one set of rules and everybody else gets another. Poindexter says he didn't get into this race because of Miller's personal life. He got in because Washington hasn't heard from anybody who works for a living in a very long time. More at PoindexterForCongress.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
#134
August 27 · 56 min
How to Win an Argument With MAGA (featuring Isaiah Martin)
Isaiah Martin didn't get good at debating MAGA by accident. Before Jubilee's 1v20, he studied nine to nine every day like he was sitting for the LSAT, and before that he spent months on MAGA TikTok lives learning to keep his face still while ten people screamed at him. He joins Tim, Rich, and Luke to break down the method: why he aims his insults at Trump and Republican electeds instead of the people who voted for them, and why "how many minds did you change in the room" is the wrong question. With 200 million views a month, the people in the room were never the audience. The point is arming everyone watching with something they can use on their own MAGA uncle. Live Better Longer with BUBS Naturals. For A limited time get 20% Off your entire order with code FINDOUT at ⁠https://Bubsnaturals.com⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
August 25 · 55 min
The Left Doesn’t Know How to Talk to Men
The Democratic Party has never built a space for men, and it shows in the numbers. Ross Morales Rocketto, the founder of White Dudes for Harris, joins the full Find Out crew to talk about what actually worked in 2024, why it didn't hold, and what has to change before 2028. Ross makes the case that you can't message your way out of people's pain — you have to make their lives better first, then talk about it. Plus: the crew splits hard over Hakeem Jeffries taking a meeting with Jared Kushner, who on the right actually has charisma besides Trump, whether Democrats should zero out ICE funding if they win Congress, and why the first "Epstein candidate" in the 2028 primary is going to go a lot further than people expect. Ross's new organization, Man Made, is at wearemanmade.org. Live Better Longer with BUBS Naturals. For A limited time get 20% Off your entire order with code FINDOUT at https://Bubsnaturals.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
#132
August 20 · 55 min
Troy Jackson on Beating Susan Collins, Medicare for All, and Abolishing ICE
Fifth-generation logger turned Senate nominee Troy Jackson joins the show to talk about the movement that's taken over Maine — and why Susan Collins' "moderate" act has finally run out of road. Troy doesn't hedge: Medicare for All, abolish ICE, and no more letting the Appropriations chair vote no on bills she could've stopped cold. Then after Troy heads out, the crew breaks down why he might be a stronger general election candidate than Graham was, what actually happened in Collins' 2020 blowout, and the GOP's full coordinated meltdown over John Ossoff's Natalie Harp joke — which, as Rich points out, is not the reaction of people with nothing to hide. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
#131
August 18 · 1 hr
Thrown Overboard: How Trump Treats the People Who Serve Him
Full crew, no guests this week. We break down the crisis aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln — the longest carrier deployment in American history, sailors jumping overboard, and Trump's response that they "haven't been gone long enough." Then it's the rest of the flailing: floating the annexation of the Strait of Hormuz, threatening to bomb Oman, and demanding aircraft carriers be redesigned to look like they did in WWII. Plus the Turkey decoy plane fiasco that may have pushed Karoline Leavitt out the door, MAGA voters still finding out at the deportation office, and Mamdani's New York quietly racking up wins. We close on some actual good news: the DNC's new primary calendar puts South Carolina first — and we game out what that means for Newsom, Harris, and a certain Georgia senator who swears he's not running. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
#130
August 14 · 1 hr 7 min
Did Wisconsin Just Expose a Democratic Socialism Problem?
The guys break down David Crowley's narrow primary win over Francesca Hong in Wisconsin — and dig into what it actually says about democratic socialism's popularity. Zak argues DSA politics play worse with regular voters than the online conversation suggests, Rich makes the case that "democratic socialist" policies are really just traditional FDR-era working class economics rebranded, and the crew clashes over whether Kamala Harris's more cautious, private-sector-plus-regulation approach was a smarter pitch or just a losing one. They also get into why voters don't trust the government to run anything well in the first place — and how six decades of Nixon, Iraq, and 2008 got us here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
#129
August 11 · 1 hr 3 min
The AI Bubble Is A Money Furnace
Cory Doctorow — author, journalist, activist, and the man who put "enshittification" in the Oxford English Dictionary — joins Tim, Rich, and Luke to explain why every platform you use got worse, and why the AI bubble might be the most expensive mistake in human history. Cory breaks down the three-stage playbook platforms use to squeeze users and creators, what TikTok's secret "heating tool" reveals about who really controls your feed, and how a 1998 law made it a felony to fix the apps that screw you. Then we get into AI: the circular accounting propping up a trillion-dollar spend on a $50 billion industry, why the "magnificent seven" are 35% of the S&P 500 while six of them lose money, and what happens to the rest of us when the bubble bursts. Plus: centaurs vs. reverse centaurs, the right-to-repair fight, and why Cory thinks the crash — handled right — could actually leave us better off. Cory's new book, The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI, is out now, and Enshittification hits paperback September 1. Find his daily newsletter at Pluralistic.net. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
#128
August 7 · 55 min
El-Sayed Wins Michigan (Barely) — What It Means for Progressives
Abdul El-Sayed just won the most expensive Democratic Senate primary in U.S. history — and it wasn't the blowout progressives expected. Tim, Zak, Luke, and Rich break down the county-by-county map, why El-Sayed dominated college towns and the Upper Peninsula but didn’t do enough with black voters in Detroit, and what it all says about the divide between democratic socialism and old-school "show up and deliver" politics (with a detour into Ossoff, Mamdani, and why capitalism isn't the enemy — it's the engine). Then: RFK Jr. gets torched by Dana Bash, the crew rips into anti-vax logic using the "everyone dying wore a seatbelt" argument, and a disgraced North Carolina congressman's texts about a staffer's outfits get read out loud (guns as gifts — yes, really). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
#127
August 4 · 1 hr 3 min
Gina Hinojosa: Texas Is One Governor's Race Away From Flipping
Texas State Representative and gubernatorial candidate Gina Hinojosa joins the show to make her case for why 2026 is the year Texas finally turns blue. She breaks down the brutal state of play under Greg Abbott — schools cutting to four-day weeks, families losing power they can't afford, Corpus Christi on the brink of running out of water — and explains why a one-point Fox News poll has her campaign feeling the momentum. Gina digs into the Latino vote swing, the data center land grab devastating rural Texas communities, why Ken Paxton's primary win exposes the GOP's civil war, and her simple two-part pitch to voters: save Texas schools, put money in your pocket. If you've ever wondered whether Texas Democrats' hopes are real this time, this is the conversation to hear. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
#126
July 31 · 58 min
Comedian Henry Sir Breaks Down Alberta's Separatist Movement and America's MAGA Meltdown
Canadian comedian Henry Sir joins the crew to break down why America's chaos has become his favorite subject — and why Canadians are suddenly discovering a patriotism they never knew they had. Henry talks growing up between rural Iowa and Canada, why his "current events chirped by a Canadian" content took off, and the wildly thin-skinned reactions he gets from MAGA crowds at his shows just for saying things like "fascism is bad." The conversation turns to Alberta's real, unnerving separatist movement — the doxxed voter data, the Trump-adjacent money and bots, the October 19th referendum, and the "just trust me" economics behind the fantasy of going it alone (or joining the U.S.). Plus: Canada's boycott of American goods, sky-high tariffs, and whether Alberta really is the Texas of Canada. Go to ⁠https://www.quince.com/findout⁠ for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
#125
July 28 · 40 min
Obama’s Interior Secretary Goes Off on Trump & Talks His New Book
Former U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar joins the show for a wide-ranging conversation that quickly turns to life under Trump — the crew and Salazar touch on immigration crackdowns, tariffs on wildfire-stricken countries, and how the sheer volume of Trump-era news drowns out everything else that matters, public lands and conservation included. From there it gets personal: Salazar talks about his debut book and swaps old stories with Tim about pickup basketball games at the Department of the Interior — including the time he tried to recruit Reggie Love and had to be talked into building Interior's first digital program back when he could barely turn on an iPad. Go to https://www.quince.com/findout for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
#124
July 24 · 1 hr 3 min
Meet the 19-Year-Old Trying to Save Young Voters From the Far Right
William He started Dream For America at 16 because he noticed something obvious: the right spent decades building youth media and organizing infrastructure, and the left just... didn't. Three years later he's got 70 active chapters, 700 more signed up, and a billion views — and he joins the guys from a sweltering, un-air-conditioned room in Oxford to talk about why young voters feel politically homeless, what actually moves Gen Z (hint: it's not nostalgia for Obama), and why "the system is broken" isn't a conspiracy theory, it's just Tuesday. Plus: the Ossoff hearing clip that broke the internet, why bombing Mali might be the dumbest use of a Tomahawk missile in recent memory, and a preview of Tuesday's episode with former Senator Ken Salazar. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
#123
July 21 · 56 min
Andrew Tate Gets Arrested and Trump Panics
Tim, Rich, and Luke manage to cover everything this week — starting with the unhinged backlash to The Odyssey casting (turns out the people mad about "historical accuracy" haven't read the poem or seen the movie). Then Andrew Tate and his brother get arrested by U.S. Marshals in Florida on a UK extradition warrant — including his outfit, which the guys workshop for a solid ten minutes — and they get into why Trump can't touch this one without reopening his own Epstein wound. From there it's the ICE shooting of a legal immigrant in Biddeford, Maine, in front of his three-year-old, and what it says about who gets protected and who doesn't. They close out on Fetterman, his approval-rating math, and why one senator refusing to fund Israel while Netanyahu's in charge could actually change something — if he weren't too busy cosplaying as a guy who doesn't have to do anything. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
#122
July 17 · 39 min
Rep. Chellie Pingree Breaks Down the Maine ICE Killing
Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-ME) joins Find Out to break down the ICE shooting in Biddeford — a botched raid that left the wrong man dead in front of his family, despite him working here legally. She lays out what her office knows about the investigation, the administration's stonewalling on basic details like body cameras, and how expanded ICE quotas are terrorizing Maine's immigrant communities and costing local economies. The conversation also covers hospital closures tied to GOP Medicaid cuts, the chaotic process to replace Graham Platner as Maine's Senate nominee against Susan Collins, and why even lifelong Republicans in her district are fed up. If you've been wondering how a "boring" state like Maine became a flashpoint this year, this episode lays it all out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
#121
July 14 · 42 min
ICE Just Killed Another Innocent Person in Maine — Senate Hopeful Dan Kleban Reacts
Hours before this recording, another person shot and killed by ICE in Biddeford, Maine. Maine Beer Company founder and U.S. Senate candidate Dan Kleban was already booked to join Find Out today — so the conversation starts there instead. No ICE presence was requested by Maine officials, and Kleban isn't holding back on what he calls a "reign of terror." The crew breaks down the pattern of ICE shootings (bullets through side windows, "weaponized vehicle" excuses that don't add up), then Kleban lays out his pitch to unseat Susan Collins: a small-business record built on paying workers right, and a Democratic Party that needs more than anti-Trump anger to win. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
#120
July 10 · 1 hr 1 min
Brian Tyler Cohen on How Democrats Can Actually Win
Brian Tyler Cohen returns to Find Out for a conversation built around his new book, How to Wield Power in a Post-Trump World, out July 14th. The crew breaks down why Democrats keep defaulting to process and "strongly worded letters" instead of delivering outcomes, and why Cohen thinks the party's era of conferring goodwill to bad-faith negotiators has to end. They dig into generational change in Democratic leadership, the case for Supreme Court expansion (including a revealing anecdote about Gavin Newsom coming around on the idea), and why accountability for Trump-era corruption — from insider trading to crypto grifts — can't take a backseat to a policy agenda. Cohen also talks about building the independent media ecosystem through his organization Chorus, why the left needs more voices rather than fewer, and what actually moved the needle in 2024. Grab Brian's book at BrianTylerCohen.com/book, and catch him live in DC, New York, or LA this month. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
#119
July 7 · 1 hr 12 min
Why Graham Platner Needs to Drop Out
After the sexual assault allegations made against Graham Platner, Tim & Luke discuss why he needs to drop out right away. After that, Tim Whitaker, co-founder of The New Evangelicals, joins the show to unpack a Fourth of July weekend Trump turned into a celebration of himself. We break down his speech, the right's meltdown over birthright citizenship (including Liz Wheeler's "communist children" claim), and Tim's own exit from Christian fundamentalism — why the loudest "biblical" voices in politics rarely quote Jesus. We also get into Trump's meme coin grift, which made him $636 million while everyday buyers lost nearly $4 billion, and close on why the left still can't fund a media ecosystem to match the right's. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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