The Enjoyer Podcast

Our friend Justin Barclay returns to assess the integrity of Michigan’s voter registration and ballot system, the public humiliation ritual of working in the mainstream media, the moment we collectively decided we were no longer a ‘free country,’ and much more.

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With one week to go in the 2024 election the media is invoking the spectre of fascist dictatorship after the Trump rally in New York City’s famously racist boxing arena, Madison Square Garden. Sure, Democrats have been saying this for the last 60 years, but this time they really mean it.

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Dawud Walid, Executive Director of CAIR-MI, joins us to talk about the changing political dynamics of Michigan's Muslim community, why they're abandoning the Democratic Party and (in some cases) voting for Trump, and the demographic anomaly we know as Dearborn.

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Gretchen Whitmer finds herself at an awkward political dead end, with her presidential ambitions on hold while she struggles to maintain a national profile. She’s having a midlife crisis, and all she can do is be girl boss, shout abortion, eat hot chip and lie.

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Detroit is ready to build again, but Michigan’s lawmakers are selling the farm instead. When Troy Stroud ran for Eagle Township supervisor to protect his neighbors from an industrial megasite, he found backroom deals that could radically transform his rural community without public knowledge. Why is this happening in towns all across our state?

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This week Trump called out Detroit causing Michigan media to seethe and cope, but the city’s deep-rooted challenges are still real despite its ‘comeback’ rebrand. Later, our friend Anna Hoffman joins us to talk about dishonest polling, Whitmer’s bizarre Doritos communion ritual and more.

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Christina (Radix Verum), independent journalist and producer of the documentary Kidnap and Kill: An FBI Terror Plot, joins us for a thorough breakdown of the FBI’s role orchestrating the so-called Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping plot during the final weeks of the 2020 election. Watch the trailer and support the film at kandkfilm.com.

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Deconstructing Build Back Better’s impact, from immigration to disaster response, focusing on Springfield, Maui, and Asheville. James critiques a shift toward one-party rule and the governments contempt when it comes to prioritizing Americans.

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Jackson native and friend of the program Anna Hoffman talks about Jackson mayor and Michigan house candidate Daniel Mahoney, aka B-Face Mahoney, and the double standard for vetting politicians in our current media landscape.

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James breaks down CNN’s new paywall strategy and what it means for the future of media. With dirt cheap prices for Michigan’s biggest papers, we cover how paywalls signal surrender rather than revenue, and why this race to the bottom undermines the value of news.

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