This week’s episode of the Aaron Rupar Show features one of my favorite guests yet — Oliver Willis, the OG progressive blogger and author of the highly recommended Oliver Willis Explains Substack.

We chop it up about how pro wrestling helps explain modern American politics, “old and busted Donald Trump” and his need for a fresh gimmick, why CNN’s Trump town hall is a desperation move that will likely backfire, Dark Brandon’s incredible babyface heat, and much more.

Oliver is not only very insightful, but he nearly made me spit out my coffee at a couple different points. Listen to the audio of our conversation above, or watch the footage below via my YouTube page.

Next week’s show will feature political scientist and authoritarianism scholar Brian Klaas. If you’ve missed any of the previous nine episodes, you can check out the full archive here.

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This week’s episode of the Aaron Rupar Show features J. Patrick Coolican, editor in chief of the Minnesota Reformer, sharing his insights about Minnesota politics and the blizzard of progressive legislation the state’s new Democratic trifecta is currently shepherding into law. We also discuss the pitiful condition of the Minnesota GOP, which hasn’t won a statewide election in nearly 20 years, and why the party has such a hard time recruiting electable candidates.

Did you know I began my career in journalism covering Minnesota politics a decade ago, back when Republicans controlled the legislature and Democrats were seemingly in disarray? We get into that too.

It was a fun conversation, so I hope you’ll check it out. Listen to the audio at the top of the post (and also on whatever platform you get your podcasts), or watch us below via my YouTube page.

Next week’s episode will feature legendary progressive blogger Oliver Willis. And if you’ve missed any of the previous eight editions, you can check out the full archive here.

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The April 19 episode of the Aaron Rupar Show features Dan Froomkin, founder of Press Watch. We discussed Trump’s weaponized lying and how media outlets struggle to handle it, the shortcomings of fact checking as a genre of political journalism, why the press should focus more on “why” and less on "what,” reflexively negative Biden coverage, and much more.

Audio of the conversation is available at the top of this post, or you can watch the footage below via my YouTube Page. (And please subscribe while you’re there!)

Next week’s episode will feature Minnesota political journalist J. Patrick Coolican. If you missed last week’s featuring Kat Abu, check it out here. The full archives are available here. All eight episodes remain timely, so I encourage you to check them out.

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Episode 7 of the Aaron Rupar Show features Katherine Abughazaleh of Media Matters discussing her viral TikTok videos, Tucker Carlson’s new interview with Donald Trump, Fox News brain poison and what progressives can do to fight back, and much more. Kat is super insightful about all things Fox News, so I hope you enjoy!

Check out the audio of our conversation at the top of the post, or watch the footage below.

Next week's episode will feature Dan Froomkin of Press Watch. If you haven’t already, please subscribe to the Aaron Rupar Show wherever you get your podcasts, leave positive reviews where you can, and spread the good word about the show.

Episode 6 of the Aaron Rupar Show features independent journalist and Public Notice contributor Thor Benson. Aaron and Thor talk about Thor’s personal interactions with Stormy Daniels and Elon Musk, work Thor has done about artificial intelligence and creeping authoritarianism, and a timely piece you’ll be able to read soon in this newsletter about how other countries have handled the prosecution of former political leaders.

Listen to the audio at the top of this post, or watch the footage below.

Next week’s podcast will feature Kat Abu of Media Matters on how she became a TikTok sensation, Tucker Carlson, and much more.

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Episode 5 of the Aaron Rupar Show features Juliet Jeske, author of the Decoding Fox News newsletter, on what she’s learned during more than a year of immersion in Fox News, the network’s increasingly open embrace of anti-LGBT bigotry, why she thinks stupidity is the secret to The Five’s success, Trump’s Waco rally, and much more.

Listen to the audio above, or watch our conversation below via my YouTube page.

Please subscribe to the Aaron Rupar Show wherever you get your podcasts, share the show with friends, and leave glowing reviews where you can! Episode 6 featuring Thor Benson will drop next Wednesday, April 5.

Ep. 4 of the Aaron Rupar Show features lawyer David Lurie breaking down Trump's escalating legal problems, including an apparently looming indictment in for the Stormy Daniels hush payment, as well as why the legal and political defenses of Trump's conduct are a mess.

Listen to the audio above, or watch the footage via my YouTube page below.

If you haven’t already read my Monday Q&A with David about the Daniels case, be sure to check it out here. And today’s newsletter features a piece from Noah Berlatsky on the broader significance of the Trump hush payments and the role they played in subverting democracy.

New episodes of the Aaron Rupar Show drop each week. Be sure to subscribe wherever you get your podcasts and to my YouTube Page.

Aaron chats with Brian Tyler Cohen, host of "No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen," about the early stages of the Trump-DeSantis battle, the sorry state of the GOP, his big takeaways from Fox News’s texts and emails, what it was like to interview President Biden, and more. Listen above, or watch the footage via my YouTube page below.

Check out all three episodes of the Aaron Rupar Show on the show's YouTube page or wherever you get your podcasts, and please leave a positive review on iTunes. New episodes drop each week!

Episode 2 of the Aaron Rupar show is live! I talked with MSNBC columnist and “The Daily Santos” author Marisa Kabas about the seemingly infinite Santos scandals, how the changing environment of New York politics transformed him from unknown 2020 loser to a winner two years later, why Santos's constituents aren't necessarily placing all the blame for him on the GOP, and much more!

Listen to the audio of our conversation above, and if you’d like to see the video, check it out below.

Episode three will feature an interview with Brian Tyler Cohen. The first one featured a fun conversation with Ron Filipkowski about Republican politics and Trumpism that you can listen to here. Please subscribe to the Aaron Rupar Show wherever you get your podcasts, and leave a positive review!

I launched a podcast and the first episode is live! The Aaron Rupar Show kicks off with a conversation with Ron Filipkowski about his work, the Republican primary, why he thinks DeSantis might be a tougher matchup for Biden than Trump, and much, much more.

Listen to the audio of our conversation above, and if you’d like to see the video, check it out below.

New episodes of my podcast will drop each week going forward. I hope you enjoy!