We’re picking winners and losers, but are we qualified? Plus I’ve got a rule about amusement park behavior that really should be my lasting legacy.

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I challenge the notion that I’m willing to ignore the evidence that J6 was a setup and nothing really happened of any concern. I also dive into why I’m happy to call myself a Zionist and recount a chaotic event at the grocery store.

Here are the two videos I mention in the podcast that convince some that nothing we’ve been told about January 6th is true.

This is worth watching!!! pic.twitter.com/NwUSES5TkW

THIS IS HUGE!!!! pic.twitter.com/r2sh2aSEwO

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Almost 20 years ago I was a guest on a major Los Angeles morning show to rant about a new policy the TSA was enacting in every airport in the country. Today, I have been vindicated. Listen in on my thoughts on the Coldplay Kiss Cam and Donald Trump’s insistence that the Epstein Client List has always been a hoax perpetuated by the Democrats.

Click to read a follow up to a previous podcast with Karen Swallow Prior (might require free registration).

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Should we cancel an artist and all of his work when we discover that he’s a scoundrel? What if he’s something worse and the best word we have for him is “evil”? Author and Literature Professor, ⁠Karen Swallow Prior⁠ joins me to discuss the difficult task of separating art from the artist. Plus I talk about an inventive break-up prank by a truly immature man, and I explore the unwritten rules at my local 4th of July Parade.

You can pre-order Karen’s next book on ⁠finding your calling here⁠. I also mentioned her book “⁠The Evangelical Imagination.⁠” Sign up for her ⁠substack here⁠.

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<img width="1462" height="1024" data-tf-not-load src="https://i0.wp.com/thewrongpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/FLORA-Foul-Ball-View-6b079034-1.png?fit=1462%2C1024&ssl=1" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="an illustration of a foul ball falling into the stands at a baseball game" decoding="async" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/thewrongpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/FLORA-Foul-Ball-View-6b079034-1.png?w=1462&ssl=1 1462w, https://i0.wp.com/thewrongpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/FLORA-Foul-Ball-View-6b079034-1.png?resize=300%2C210&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/thewrongpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/FLORA-Foul-Ball-View-6b079034-1.png?resize=1024%2C717&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/thewrongpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/FLORA-Foul-Ball-View-6b079034-1.png?resize=150%2C105&ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/thewrongpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/FLORA-Foul-Ball-View-6b079034-1.png?resize=768%2C538&ssl=1 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1462px) 100vw, 1462px" data-attachment-id="2235" data-permalink="https://thewrongpodcast.com/2025/06/crying-foul/flora-foul-ball-view-6b079034-2/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/thewrongpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/FLORA-Foul-Ball-View-6b079034-1.png?fit=1462%2C1024&ssl=1" data-orig-size="1462,1024" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="FLORA-Foul Ball View-6b079034" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/thewrongpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/FLORA-Foul-Ball-View-6b079034-1.png?fit=300%2C210&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/thewrongpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/FLORA-Foul-Ball-View-6b079034-1.png?fit=1024%2C717&ssl=1" />

The harrowing tale of an errant fly ball has The Lovely Wendy ready to fire off a rant. Plus I talk about a pair or demon haunted teenage girls that changed the world and the people who welcome the apocalypse for all the wrong reasons. Special attention to the Israeli and American attacks on Iran.

I highly recommend this interview with Ken Pollack on The Remnant and this episode of Battlelines. Both on the potential negative consequences of attack Iran.

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<img width="1280" height="896" data-tf-not-load src="https://i0.wp.com/thewrongpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/139-cover.jpg?fit=1280%2C896&ssl=1" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="Elon Musk floating through space and getting caught in a spider's web. Special guest portrait of Matt Mikalatos" decoding="async" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/thewrongpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/139-cover.jpg?w=1280&ssl=1 1280w, https://i0.wp.com/thewrongpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/139-cover.jpg?resize=300%2C210&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/thewrongpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/139-cover.jpg?resize=1024%2C717&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/thewrongpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/139-cover.jpg?resize=150%2C105&ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/thewrongpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/139-cover.jpg?resize=768%2C538&ssl=1 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px" data-attachment-id="2165" data-permalink="https://thewrongpodcast.com/2025/06/sinning-with-empathy/139-cover/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/thewrongpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/139-cover.jpg?fit=1280%2C896&ssl=1" data-orig-size="1280,896" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="Elon Musk floating through space and getting caught in a spider’s web. Special guest portrait of Matt Mikalatos" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/thewrongpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/139-cover.jpg?fit=300%2C210&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/thewrongpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/139-cover.jpg?fit=1024%2C717&ssl=1" />

Matt Mikalatos joins me to talk about whether or not empathy is a sin and why people are so down on empathy lately. I also talk through the implications of Ukraine’s operation to destroy Russian bombers and the fallout of the breakup between Elon Musk and Donald Trump.

You can find Matt’s graphic novel, “God with Us” here. His podcast, The Fascinating Podcast is here.

And here’s how you TOO can get that Joan Osborne song stuck in your head.

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<img width="1260" height="944" data-tf-not-load src="https://i0.wp.com/thewrongpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/openart-77e9dd16-b81e-49a2-8135-817dc19f1010.jpeg?fit=1260%2C944&ssl=1" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="A happy man holding a small paper plate with a piece of birthday cake on it. He's eating the cake with a fork and there is a bounce house in the background" decoding="async" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/thewrongpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/openart-77e9dd16-b81e-49a2-8135-817dc19f1010.jpeg?w=1260&ssl=1 1260w, https://i0.wp.com/thewrongpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/openart-77e9dd16-b81e-49a2-8135-817dc19f1010.jpeg?resize=300%2C225&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/thewrongpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/openart-77e9dd16-b81e-49a2-8135-817dc19f1010.jpeg?resize=1024%2C767&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/thewrongpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/openart-77e9dd16-b81e-49a2-8135-817dc19f1010.jpeg?resize=150%2C112&ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/thewrongpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/openart-77e9dd16-b81e-49a2-8135-817dc19f1010.jpeg?resize=768%2C575&ssl=1 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1260px) 100vw, 1260px" data-attachment-id="2152" data-permalink="https://thewrongpodcast.com/2025/05/field-of-schemes/openart-77e9dd16-b81e-49a2-8135-817dc19f1010/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/thewrongpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/openart-77e9dd16-b81e-49a2-8135-817dc19f1010.jpeg?fit=1260%2C944&ssl=1" data-orig-size="1260,944" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="openart-77e9dd16-b81e-49a2-8135-817dc19f1010" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/thewrongpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/openart-77e9dd16-b81e-49a2-8135-817dc19f1010.jpeg?fit=300%2C225&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/thewrongpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/openart-77e9dd16-b81e-49a2-8135-817dc19f1010.jpeg?fit=1024%2C767&ssl=1" />

Why do we love baseball so much and why are we so quick to forgive even when someone isn’t asking for forgiveness? The two things are tied together and the movie “Field of Dreams” gives us a clue as to why. Plus I introduce you to the worst person in the world, and explore whether or not the Confederacy was really fighting for states rights. If you’re looking for a piece of birthday cake (who isn’t!), I’ve got a fool proof plan.

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<img width="1024" height="792" data-tf-not-load src="https://i0.wp.com/thewrongpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/openart-image_5-ExKOuE_1746914818823_raw.jpg?fit=1024%2C792&ssl=1" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="a scientist making a pizza in a lab" decoding="async" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/thewrongpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/openart-image_5-ExKOuE_1746914818823_raw.jpg?w=1024&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/thewrongpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/openart-image_5-ExKOuE_1746914818823_raw.jpg?resize=300%2C232&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/thewrongpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/openart-image_5-ExKOuE_1746914818823_raw.jpg?resize=150%2C116&ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/thewrongpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/openart-image_5-ExKOuE_1746914818823_raw.jpg?resize=768%2C594&ssl=1 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" data-attachment-id="2145" data-permalink="https://thewrongpodcast.com/2025/05/its-official/openart-image_5-exkoue_1746914818823_raw/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/thewrongpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/openart-image_5-ExKOuE_1746914818823_raw.jpg?fit=1024%2C792&ssl=1" data-orig-size="1024,792" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="a scientist making a pizza in a lab" data-image-description="<p>a scientist making a pizza in a lab</p>

A spat over a controversial baseball player ended in a wild accusation over the Covid vaccine. It all comes down to the question “What counts as official knowledge?” How do we find it and who do we trust to deliver it? It’s become my belief that this is the largest area of political and cultural polarization in Western culture. I also tell the story of a true hero on the freeways of Los Angeles.

Links:
Ezra Klein interviews Ross Douthat

Malcolm Gladwell reviews RFK Jr.’s vaccine skepticism

Malcolm Gladwell explores RFK’s appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience

The Guerrilla Artist who Fixed LA’s Freeways

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<img width="1024" height="768" data-tf-not-load src="https://i0.wp.com/thewrongpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/openart-image_EfQOfIGA_1745797432527_raw.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&ssl=1" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="high angle view of a giant African gray parrot stomping through a highly structured french garden." decoding="async" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/thewrongpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/openart-image_EfQOfIGA_1745797432527_raw.jpg?w=1024&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/thewrongpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/openart-image_EfQOfIGA_1745797432527_raw.jpg?resize=300%2C225&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/thewrongpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/openart-image_EfQOfIGA_1745797432527_raw.jpg?resize=150%2C113&ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/thewrongpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/openart-image_EfQOfIGA_1745797432527_raw.jpg?resize=768%2C576&ssl=1 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" data-attachment-id="2136" data-permalink="https://thewrongpodcast.com/2025/04/garden-of-despite/openart-image_efqofiga_1745797432527_raw/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/thewrongpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/openart-image_EfQOfIGA_1745797432527_raw.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&ssl=1" data-orig-size="1024,768" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="openart-image_EfQOfIGA_1745797432527_raw" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/thewrongpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/openart-image_EfQOfIGA_1745797432527_raw.jpg?fit=300%2C225&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/thewrongpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/openart-image_EfQOfIGA_1745797432527_raw.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&ssl=1" />

A listener asks why California’s minimum wage is higher for fast food workers than for other type of work and that allows me to give a lesson on the problems of French gardening. It turns out, once again, the English were right and the French were wrong. I also tell the story of a misbehaving Swedish parrot and dive into the dark beliefs of a vegan, transgender cult.

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<img width="1024" height="768" data-tf-not-load src="https://i0.wp.com/thewrongpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/deepcovertourist.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&ssl=1" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="a tourist under deep cover at a crowded amusement park" decoding="async" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/thewrongpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/deepcovertourist.jpg?w=1024&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/thewrongpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/deepcovertourist.jpg?resize=300%2C225&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/thewrongpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/deepcovertourist.jpg?resize=150%2C113&ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/thewrongpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/deepcovertourist.jpg?resize=768%2C576&ssl=1 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" data-attachment-id="2131" data-permalink="https://thewrongpodcast.com/deepcovertourist/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/thewrongpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/deepcovertourist.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&ssl=1" data-orig-size="1024,768" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="deepcovertourist" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/thewrongpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/deepcovertourist.jpg?fit=300%2C225&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/thewrongpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/deepcovertourist.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&ssl=1" />

I dive deep into some cutting edge research on the origins of the Book of Mormon. If you’re interested to hear more about the contributions the Adam Clarke Commentary had to the Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible I would recommend this interview. If you’d like to hear more about the contributions the Adam Clarke Commentary had in the Book of Mormon I would recommend this interview. Please keep an eye out for Australian women selling toes and don’t forget to accuse people of “Deep Cover Tourism”.

A person who visits a city or town where they have friends, family or connections, but deliberately doesn’t tell anyone they know that they’re in town.

“Jake pulled a deep cover tourist last weekend. Came to Chicago for a concert but didn’t tell any of his college buddies who live there. Just wanted to enjoy the show without having to coordinate a whole reunion.”

“I saw Melissa’s Instagram story at that coffee shop downtown, but she never texted me she was visiting! Total deep cover tourist move.”

“Sometimes you gotta go deep cover tourist in your hometown – book a hotel, eat at the touristy spots, and enjoy the place without your mom knowing you’re only 15 minutes away.”

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