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Cover Me, Daddy (ft. Teen Vogue editor Lex McMenamin) Apr 24, 2025

Vivian Jenna Wilson first made headlines in 2024 as Elon Musk’s estranged “transgender daughter,” a reductive framework that much of the mainstream media continues to use for clicks. Wilson is newsworthy for all of who she is: an outspoken critic of Musk, an advocate for trans rights, a college student, an aspiring model, a gamer, and a “RuPaul’s Drag Race” superfan. Don’t come for her on Bluesky if you can’t handle a clap back. This is the Vivian Jenna Wilson that Teen Vogue introduced to the world in the magazine’s March 2024 cover story.

This week, Katelyn and Christine chat with Teen Vogue editor Lex McMenamin about the making of the cover story. Teen Vogue often sets the bar for political coverage that doesn’t play both sides when one side is full of—you know. *side-eye emoji* Katelyn, Christine, and Lex demystify and define journalism standards amid a larger discussion of how to improve trans media coverage under Trump 2.0.

Links:

Ella Yurman for Teen Vogue: Vivian Jenna Wilson on Being Elon Musk’s Estranged Daughter, Protecting Trans Youth and Taking on the Right Online
Follow Lex McMenamin (they/them) on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/leximcmenamin.com
Follow Ella Yurman on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/ellayurman.bsky.social
Follow Vivian Jenna Wilson on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thevivllainous.bsky.social
David Ingram for NBC News: Elon Musk's transgender daughter, in first interview, says he berated her for being queer as a child

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Kicking over the Barstool (ft. Frankie de la Cretaz) Apr 10, 2025

Former NFL player and Barstool Sports alum Pat McAfee didn’t have to name the Ole Miss freshman at the center of ongoing online and IRL harassment on the February 26 episode of his popular ESPN show. Following the Barstool playbook, he gave just enough information about the false internet rumor for his millions of viewers and subscribers to further slut-shame the teen, turning her life into a living hell. She already wasn’t safe on campus, and her mother’s house was swatted the morning after McAfee’s remarks, which he made on an episode that was supposed to be discussing the NFL’s annual college scouting showcase.

This week, Katelyn and Christine chat with award-winning independent journalist Frankie de la Cretaz about the disturbing story—a cautionary tale that could put any one of us in danger. We also encourage you to listen to our recent episode about online harassment that can quickly move offline, and learn how we can protect ourselves and each other.

Links:

- Subscribe to Frankie de la Cretaz’s newsletter, Out of Your League

- Follow Frankie on Bluesky and Instagram

- Listen to our recent episode about online harassment with Tat Bellamy-Walker, PEN America’s digital safety officer

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We've Got Some Bad Newsome Mar 20, 2025

California governor Gavin Newsome apparently thinks that he can be the Joe Rogan of the left, and he's out with a puzzling new podcast in an attempt to prove it. Except his idea is to apparently do softball interviews with some of the most grotesque voices on the right. In his first episode he ends up agreeing with professional bigot and right wing activist Charlie Kirk's extreme views on trans issues.

Katelyn and Christine question who this podcast is supposed to be for, and why the Dems are feeling so inept lately (and an extended riff about Chuck Schumer).

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Private Equity “R” U.S. (ft. Megan Greenwell) Mar 06, 2025

Why should you care about private equity? It is affecting all of us in the U.S., even if we don’t realize it. Private equity money promises to invest in a growing list of our workplaces, often to sell them off for parts. Journalist Megan Greenwell knows this experience all too well as the former editor-in-chief of Deadspin, the acclaimed sports website that experienced private equity’s familiar slash-and-burn cycle. And the cycle doesn’t stop with our livelihoods, Greenwell writes in her forthcoming book, Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream. Our lives—our hospitals, our housing, our food, and our water—are increasingly under the control of private equity.

This week, Greenwell joins Katelyn and Christine to define the problem that spans presidencies and propose solutions that will outlast the ever-tightening broligarchy.

Citations:

Follow Megan on Bluesky @greenwell.bsky.social
Preorder Megan’s book, Bad Company, via The Flytrap’s Bookshop.org affiliate link or your local independent bookstore
Megan Greenwell for Deadspin (RIP), “The Adults in the Room”
Anna Merlan for Mother Jones, “How Elon Musk and His DOGE Goons Are Following the Private Equity Playbook,” Q&A with Megan

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What’s the Meta With You? (ft. Tat Bellamy-Walker) Feb 21, 2025

From Mark Zuckerberg at the inauguration to Elon Musk in the oval office, the tech broligarchy is upon us, shaping policy to erase trans people, Black people, and “childless cat ladies” from the Internet and ultimately from public life. “Cis” has been a slur on Twitter since 2023. More recently, Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, put an end to third party fact-checking, reduced automated content moderation, and loosened hateful conduct standards.

Guest Tat Bellamy-Walker joins Katelyn and Christine on this week’s episode to identify and clarify Meta’s three-pronged attack. Bellamy-Walker, a longtime journalist turned program manager of digital safety training and resources (media) at PEN America, provides us—and listeners—with tangible steps to protect ourselves and each other online. Listen and learn about digital hygiene, counter speech, resources, and more. 2FA all the way!

Citations:

Follow Tat Bellamy-Walker on Twitter: @bell_tati
PEN America’s Online Harassment Field Manual
Extensive safety resources geared toward women and nonbinary journalists at the International Women’s Media Foundation
Donate to the Black Journalists Therapy Relief Fund
Delete Me and other subscription services to scrub your personal data from the Internet
Donate to the Trans Journalists Association

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Joke’s On Who? (ft. Gianmarco Soresi) Feb 06, 2025

Comedian Gianmarco Soresi is a rising comedy star with nearly 950,000 subscribers on YouTube alone. You have likely come across one of Soresi’s sets if you’ve been scrolling through social media as a brief escape from our current reality. *stares directly into camera* But this self-described “matza pizza” skewers rather than ignores our current reality, bringing his full self—Jewish, Italian, leftist—into his routines and crowd work that address the war in Gaza, transgender rights, and other quote-unquote issues that leave other comedians crying “cancel culture.”

This week, Katelyn and Christine conduct a wide-ranging interview with Soresi about politics, comedy, art, media, and, of course, cancel culture. When comedians like Dave Chappelle say they can’t try out new material or blame marginalized groups for hemming them in, the joke’s on them. Trust us—listening to this episode is a must. And Soresi’s a comedian to watch.

Citations:

Follow Gianmarco Soresi on Instagram: @gianmarcosoresi and YouTube: @GianmarcoSoresi
Listen and subscribe to The Downside with Gianmarco Soresi via Apple Podcasts and Patreon

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Cancelling the Insurrection (ft. Meredith Shiner) Jan 16, 2025

January 6, 2025 marked two grim occasions: the four year anniversary of Donald Trump inciting his followers to take over the U.S. Capitol and the present-day Congress certifying Trump’s 2.0’s presidential election victory.

This week, Katelyn, Christine, and special guest Meredith Shiner compare and contrast their experiences as congressional reporters on Capitol Hill. Meredith, a communications consultant and journalist, is the preeminent critic of the insurrection that aired live and what she calls the “polite coup”—the 147 Republicans who voted to overturn Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential victory. Biden and the Democrats abdication of their responsibility to any timely or enduring accountability and the mainstream media’s passivity, exacerbated by consolidation under their billionaire owners, are recurring topics. But the discussion does not get mired in cynicism. This episode’s energy is what we all must hold on to heading into next week’s second Trump inauguration, and whatever comes after.

Links:

Follow Meredith Shiner on Bluesky
Meredith Shiner for The New Republic: The Capitol Riot Killed “Both Sides” Journalism
Katelyn Burns for Rewire News Group: Lawmakers Who Survived Sexual Assault Demand Halt to Kavanaugh Hearings
Follow HuffPost’s Jennifer Bendery—a great Washingtion reporter—on Bluesky
Alexander Mallin for ABC News: Where the Jan. 6 Capitol attack investigation stands, by the numbers: DOJ
Chris Canipe and Jason Lange for Reuters: The Republicans who voted to overturn the election
Ben Jacobs for The Guardian: 'This needs to stop': Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs' statement to court
Claire Wang for NBC News: Behind the viral photo of Rep. Andy Kim cleaning up at midnight after riots
Hyunsu Yim and Ju-min Park for Reuters: South Korean investigators question arrested President Yoon in insurrection probe

Greg Owen for LGBTQ Nation: Trans & wildly popular “Oprah of China” suddenly blackballed by Chinese government

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Blake Lively and the Making of a Cancellation Jan 02, 2025

“Imagine if a document saying all the things that he wants ends up in the wrong hands,” Melissa Nathan—the crisis public relations expert who preserved alleged domestic abuser Johnny Depp’s public image—texted behind the scenes of her latest smear-campaign-for-hire. The New York Times called Nathan’s bluff. publishing the extent of her actor-director client Justin Baldoni’s alleged retaliatory social media operation to turn public sentiment against actress Blake Lively, the target of his alleged workplace sexual harassment on their film “It Ends with Us.”

This week, Katelyn and Christine discuss the coordinated campaign against Lively, perpetrated by our old enemies behind the Amber Heard defamation allegation. We highly recommend you check out the links in the show notes for the context that Cancel Me, Daddy has been providing since its beginnings with Oliver and Katelyn! Revisit the 2022 “Depp-ception” episode with guest and “Cancel Gunkle” Michael Hobbes, who returned in 2023 to cancel The New York Times over spurious and harmful reporting about trans kids. We’re still side-eyeing the paper and the byline.

Links:

Megan Twohey, Mike McIntire, and Julie Tate for The New York Times: ‘We Can Bury Anyone’: Inside a Hollywood Smear Machine
Cancel Me, Daddy, 05/26/2022: Deep Depp-ception (ft. Michael Hobbes)
Cancel Me, Daddy, 06/09/2022: Fallout Of A Verdict (ft. Moira Donegan)
Transgender Map by Andrea James: Megan Twohey vs. transgender people
Cancel Me, Daddy, 01/26/2023: We're Back to Cancel the New York Times (ft. Michael Hobbes)
Independent journalist Ken Klippenstein: Slain Healthcare CEO’s Life Airbrushed by Media
Andrew Beaujon for Washingtonian: Felicia Sonmez’s Dismissal by the Washington Post Will Go Before the NLRB
Porpentine for The New Inquiry: Hot Allostatic Load
Emily St. James for Vox: How Twitter can ruin a life
It’s Been a Minute, 06/16/2023: Are children a marginalized group?

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Delay, Deny, Depose (this is not a threat) Dec 19, 2024

The health insurer horror stories haven’t stopped coming in the two weeks since UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot and killed by alleged murderer-turned-folk hero Luigi Mangione. And the ruling class is not having it! Elected officials, corporate CEOs, and the mainstream media with the power to change or buck the system are hell bent on protecting it, at the expense of many more lives.

This week, Katelyn and Christine discuss the sudden, ongoing suppression of free speech, sharing each of their experiences with health insurance, censorship be damned. Their conversation spans UHC’s denials and demands for Christine’s mental health records in 2024 to Kate’s gender-affirming surgeries, which she crammed into one year to meet her deductible under one of the various insurance plans that Americans will have in their lifetime. Thirsty Internet assassin boyfriend memes, of course, rise to the top. And Kate asks Christine to name the greater Italian American—Christopher Columbus, or Luigi Mangione? Tune in for her answer!

Links:

Katelyn Burns: “Among Us” skeet via Bluesky
Annie Waldman for ProPublica: How UnitedHealth’s Playbook for Limiting Mental Health Coverage Puts Countless Americans’ Treatment at Risk
Jeanne Pinder for Clear Health Costs: UnitedHealthcare delays mental health payments, causing outrage
Independent journalist Marisa Kabas’ Mangione family Bluesky skeet censored
Independent journalist Ken Klippenstein: New Crisis Hotline for CEOs?
Taylor Ardrey for USA Today: 'Delay, Deny, Depose': Florida woman arrested, accused of threatening insurance company
Reductress: Luigi Mangione meme
Samantha Irby: Luigi Mangione meme via Instagram
r/WhitePeopleTwitter (and Bluesky): Luigi Mangione versus Kyle Rittenhouse meme

Your Ombudsmon's Corner: Marisa Kabas skeet critiquing Semafor Editor in Chief Ben Smith defending Bluesky’s apparent welcome to transphobes and trolls

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Alf Hog and the Bluesky X-odus (ft. Faine Greenewood) Dec 05, 2024

Last month’s Loser Election prompted an X-odus from Elon Musk’s crumbling app to Bluesky, which grew by 1 million users per day toward the end of November. Despite the grim news cycles, Bluesky is far from all doom and gloom. It is, in fact, putting the social back in social networking.

This week, Katelyn and Christine chat with Faine Greenwood, who created the “Alf hog” meme that caught the attention of everyone from AOC to Jeri Ryan to Jake Tapper in the early days of Bluesky. Katelyn, Christine, and Faine have fun with verbal shitposting and Internet shitposting and give credit to the nascent trans accounts that helped shape Bluesky, which they hope will remain a safe and fun space amid an influx of anti-trans and anti-abortion trolls.

In Flytrap news: Subscribe to read Christine’s first essay about her colonoscopy for Christ, “The Red Mass Went Up My Ass,” edited by the inimitable Katelyn herself!

Links:

Faine Greenwood on Bluesky: @faineg.bsky.social
Follow Katelyn at @katelynburns.com and Christine at @yourombudsmom.bsky.social on Bluesky! ‬
Gael Cooper for CNET: Bluesky Climbs to 22 Million Users, and Luke Skywalker Is One: Should You Join?
Faine Greenwood: The Great Bluesky Migration: I Answer (Some) Of Your Questions
Memes, Memes Everywhere: Tom Bombadil with boobs, and https://lychgate.tumblr.com/post/699130356376403968/i-have-painted-the-fellowship-of-the-big-naturals and https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/gandalf-big-naturals
Gita Jackson for The Aftermath: For The Love of God, Make Your Own Website
Elon Green for The Awl: Topless Geraldo
Furry art by Biohazard
Bluesky’s trans origins—some trans people are now leaving due to harassment
Simon’s Rock closing

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The Loser Election (ft Michael Hobbes) Nov 14, 2024

The “Daddy Election” did not go as Cancel Me, Daddy planned. Everyone seems to have an opinion about what woulda, coulda, shoulda changed the outcome of the “Loser Election,” in which we’re all losers reading and skeeting our way through the Orange Fallout.

This week, Katelyn and Christine make sense of the “multiverse” of election takes with “Cancel Gunkle” Michael Hobbes, journalist and co-host of Maintenance Phase and If Books Could Kill. Kate, Christine, and Mike discuss checking our priors and checking each other, turning what could have been a hot mess into a thoughtful discussion and mutual thirst for Paul Newman (RIP), both of which we encourage you to contribute to via Bluesky. Everyone has an opinion, and we want to hear yours. Keep up the infighting! And take care of each other. That act is more important than any opinion poised to change over the days and weeks to come.

Links:

Michael Hobbes: Bluesky edition
Follow Katelyn at @transscribe and Christine at @yourombudsmom on Bluesky!
Blueprint poll asking voters whether “Kamala Harris is focused more on cultural issues like transgender issues rather than helping the middle class”:
Katelyn Burns via Bluesky: The rent is too damn high
Katelyn Burns for Xtra: Trans issues didn’t doom the Democrats

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The Daddy Election (ft. Talia Lavin) Oct 31, 2024

Our regularly scheduled episode happens to fall on Halloween! And spooky season is feeling extra—as extra as Tucker Carlson rallying “Daddy Trump” to give America a “vigorous spanking” for being a “bad little girl.” It’d be funny if it wasn’t sickening, and terrifying. We’re just five days from the 2024 presidential election, featuring the return of the Orange Fascist—and white evangelical power could strong-arm the strongman back into the White House.

This week, author and friend of the pod Talia Lavin unravels the intricacies of the movement, the subject of her new book, “Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America,” with Katelyn and Christine. To well-funded white evangelical nationalists, only Trump can deliver us from the literal demons behind every abortion and pronoun. We need to take this group seriously, or the joke is on us come Election Day.

Content Warning: This episode includes extensive discussion of child abuse and corporal punishment, which Wild Faith explores as central to the Christian right’s political project: creating the conditions for future generations of obedient soldiers for God and country. Please listen with care, and take good care.

Links:

Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America by Talia Lavin
Talia Lavin for MSNBC: Tucker Carlson’s “daddy” comments speak volumes about the far right
Martha Ross for The Mercury News: Tucker Carlson: How early rejection by hippie San Francisco mom made him shameless
William Grimes for The New York Times: Alice Miller, Psychoanalyst, Dies at 87; Laid Human Problems to Parental Acts

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Crossover: BEEF - Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz vs. The Catholic Church: Mexico's First Feminist Oct 21, 2024

Special episode swap with BEED, a podcast by former Cancel Me, Daddy guest Bridget Todd:

This week on Beef, the brilliant 17th century nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz dares to defy the Catholic Church with her scholarship and searing wit.

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Chappel Roan and the Trolls of the Ring (ft. Jessie Gender) Oct 17, 2024

Chappell Roan’s cancellation by a certain set of voters got us thinking: When do fandoms become toxic? How does “stanning” an artist, a politician, or a (literal) piece of work disproportionately push people who already live at the margins of our culture out of the culture entirely?

This week, Katelyn and Christine nerd out on nerd culture’s historically toxic fandoms with Jessie Earl, aka Jessie Gender, the YouTube essayist who hosts two popular channels. Together, they try to find the “nuance in the nerdy,” from the “Lord of the Rings” to the 2024 presidential election. And “Your Ombudsmom,” Christine’s media critic alter ego, returns with her new regular segment. Stay tuned for out of context cancellations from Katelyn and Christine!

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Transcript here: https://theflytrap.beehiiv.com/p/chappell-roan-and-the-trolls-of-the-ring-transcript

Links:

Jessie Gender YouTube channel
Jessie Gender After Dark channel
Katelyn Burns: “Concerning “The Rings of Power,” season one
*spoilers ahead* Jessie Gender reviews “The Rings of Power,” season two, starting with episodes 1–3 and continuing through the finale
Nicole Chung for GQ: Star Wars: The Last Jedi's Kelly Marie Tran Has a Story to Tell
Rebecca Sun for The Hollywood Reporter: The Resurrection of Kelly Marie Tran: On Surviving “Star Wars” Bullying, the Pressures of Representation, and “Raya and the Last Dragon’”
Madison Malone Kircher for The New York Times: What is the KHive?
Jon Blistein for Rolling Stone: Chappell Roan on Why She Turned Down White House Invite: “I Won’t Be a Monkey for Pride”
Jessie Gender After Dark: The Treatment of Chappell Roan
Scott Detrow for NPR: Bernie Sanders Defends Campaigning For Anti-Abortion Rights Democrat
Meredith Shiner for The New Republic: The Appalling Attack on Ta-Nehisi Coates Is a Massive Media Failing

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Sexting with Mr. Brainworms (The Nuzzi/RFK Jr scandal) Oct 03, 2024

New York placed Washington correspondent Olivia Nuzzi “on leave” after the magazine Washington correspondent admitted to an inappropriate relationship with former presidential candidate RFK Jr.—sexting while covering the 2024 campaign.

This week, Katelyn and Christine discuss the unfolding media scandal with equal parts humor and smart analysis, drawing from each of their experiences as Washington reporters themselves. They turn their criticism to the media gatekeepers—WTF is wrong with all of the prominent journalists caping for Nuzzi with the enthusiasm she’s poured into tradfascs in her coverage and on the website formerly known as Twitter?

After recording, Nuzzi asserted in a court filing that her ex-fiancé, Ryan Lizza, former alleged New Yorker sex pest turned Politico bigwig, engaged in a blackmail campaign against her, allegedly exposing her online affair to New York leadership. Lizza has since been suspended by Politico, pending an investigation.

In non-sexting news: We announce our new partnership with the brand-new feminist publication The Flytrap, of which Katelyn, Christine, and eight other talented writers and artists are co-founders! Please support The Flytrap’s Kickstarter here.

Links:

Vanity Fair: "The Reported RFK Jr.–Olivia Nuzzi “Relationship” Casts New Scrutiny on All Journalists"
New York Post: "‘Obsessed’ Olivia Nuzzi pursued RFK Jr. ‘aggressively,’ pol had to block her repeatedly: source"
New York Post: "RFK Jr. and star journalist Olivia Nuzzi had ‘incredible’ FaceTime sex, said they loved each other: sources"
New York Times: "Ryan Lizza Fired by The New Yorker Over Sexual Misconduct Allegation"
SEMAFOR: Ben Smith newsletter, September 23, 2024
Christie Smythe: Tweet (we’ll never call it an X post)
Marin Cogan for The New Republic: House of Cads: The psycho-sexual ordeal of reporting in Washington
Tumblr: Said to LadyJournos, a mid-2010s Tumblr that compiled journalists’ anonymous submissions about their experiences with sexual harassment on the job
Moira Donegan (former Cancel Me, Daddy guest!) for The Guardian: "The real victims of Olivia Nuzzi’s affair with RFK Jr are other female journalists"
Christine Grimaldi: Tweets here and here about NPR Supreme Court correspondentNina Totenberg’s conflict of interest-ridden friendship with Ruth Bader Ginsberg
Washingtonian: “My First: That Time Olivia Nuzzi Wrote About Anthony Weiner and Got Called a ‘Slutbag’”
The -30- newsletter: “A Q&A with Olivia Nuzzi of New York magazine on her career, covering Trump and access journalism”

Disclaimer: Katelyn once worked as a part-time political writer for Vox Media, the parent company of New York.

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Canceling Russian Propaganda (ft Nina Jankowicz) Sep 19, 2024

This week we are pleased to welcome freelance journalist Christine Grimaldi for her debut as the new permanent co-host of Cancel Me, Daddy! Together, we also welcome the co-founder and CEO of the American Sunlight Project and disinformation expert Nina Jankowicz for an in depth discussion about last week's indictments involving conservative influencer group Tenet Media.

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Canceling Dr. Disrespect (ft. Mikhail Klimentov) Jul 18, 2024

This week Katelyn speaks with Mikhail Klimentov, former head of the Washington Post's gaming vertical and writer of the Substack ReaderGrev, to talk about the streamer Guy Beahm, more commonly known as Dr. Disrespect. Several weeks ago, Beahm's career essentially ended after it was revealed that he had messaged inappropriately with a minor.

Link to Klimentov's blog post mentioned in the episode: https://www.readergrev.com/p/dr-disrespect-is-allegedly-not-like-us

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Canceling "Link in Bio" Bots (ft. Miles Klee) Mar 07, 2024

This week, Katelyn talks with Miles Klee of Rolling Stone about the annoyingly pernicious "p*ssy in bio" bots that have taken over Twitter lately before coming a popular meme format on the site. The bots have become the latest evidence that the social media site, and even the internet at large may be becoming worse. We talk all of that and more (along with the best out of context cancellations segment since Oliver left).
Links:
Why Porn Bots Have Taken Over Your Twitter Feed - Rolling Stone
Miles Klee Twitter
Miles Klee BlueSky

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Canceling Trans and Anti-Trans Discourses (ft. Julia Serano) Feb 22, 2024

This week, Katelyn talks with legendary trans author and activist Julia Serano, who is coming out with a third edition of her trans feminist book Whipping Girl (March 30). This episode we talk a lot about how the internet has shaped both the trans and anti-trans movements and how trans people can help protect ourselves from the obsessed weirdos that have been radicalized by our existences.

Citations:
Julia's website: juliaserano.com

Julia's book pre-order link: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/julia-serano/whipping-girl/9781541604520/

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Canceling Taylor Swift (ft. Frankie de la Cretaz) Feb 08, 2024

Hello Cancelers!
It feels like Taylor Swift is everywhere this year. She just broke a record at last weekend's Grammy's and this weekend we're likely to see numerous camera shots of her at the Super Bowl as her boyfriend Travis Kelce takes the field. Katelyn spoke with independent journalist Frankie de la Cretaz about everything Taylor, from the relationship, to Gaylors, and the roots of the weird right wing conspiracy theories that have popped up around her.
Show links:
Cosmo: https://www.cosmopolitan.com/lifestyle/a44903791/taylor-swift-queer-theories-camp-gaylore/

NYT Gaylor piece: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/04/opinion/taylor-swift-queer.html

NYT article how Travis Kelce got famous https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/02/style/travis-kelce-managers-agent.html

Beckham documentary https://www.netflix.com/title/81223488

WaPo concussion report https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/post-reports/the-broken-promises-of-the-nfls-concussion-settlement/

Cosmo bachelorette party piece https://www.cosmopolitan.com/lifestyle/a57490/almost-no-one-came-to-my-bridal-shower/

Frankie substack https://thefrankiedlc.substack.com/

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Canceling Hate Speech on Social Media (ft. GLAAD's Leanna Garfield) Jan 25, 2024

Hey Cancelers!
This week Katelyn sits down for a discussion with Leanna Garfield, Social Media Safety Program Manager at GLAAD, about how social media companies like Meta and Twitter are profiting from encouraging hate speech online. LGBTQ media advocacy organization GLAAD has been at the forefront of lobbying these companies to take steps towards cracking down on those who spread hate against queer and trans people online.
Links:
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Canceling a new type of wife guy (Bill Ackman) Jan 11, 2024

Over the last several months a concentrated media campaign to oust the president of Harvard, Claudine Gay, found success. But in the last several weeks, one of its primary figureheads, Bill Ackman, has come into focus on social media.
Returning guest Parker Molloy joins us to break it all down and get into some of the underlying power dynamics behind the controversy.

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Bill Ackman's celebrity academic wife Neri Oxman's dissertation is marred by plagiarism - Business Insider
Ackman Escalates Attack On Business Insider—And Musk Eggs Him On - Forbes

Google search of New York Times Harvard President articles - Google
Bill Ackman addresses wife Neri Oxman’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein, Brad Pitt - New York Post (sorry for Murdoch-posting)
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Canceling James Somerton (ft. Michael Hobbes) Dec 14, 2023

Last week, an hbomberguy YouTube video about plagiarism swept across social media and Katelyn found herself right in the middle of the discourse. This week we welcome back guest Michael Hobbes (If Books Could Kill, Maintenance Phase, formerly You're Wrong About) to talk about YouTuber and plagiarist James Somerton's plagiarism and the larger systemic issues that enabled it all.

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Citations:Plagiarism and You(Tube) - hbomberguy video

I Fact-Checked The Worst Video Essayist On YouTube - Todd in the Shadows video

J.K. Rowling’s transphobia is a product of British culture - Katelyn's article that was plagiarized by Somerton

(All James Somerton videos have been taken down from his channel)

Reddit post documenting the plagiarism of the Vox article

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If Books Could Kill podcast, Maintenance Phase podcast

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Canceling Oliver Nov 30, 2023

Know it's been awhile since you're heard from us! That's because Oliver is leaving the show, and Katelyn's been working hard to figure out what's next. In this episode, we discuss the change decision, what's next, the secret behind the name "Cancel Me, Daddy," and so much more.

Spoiler from Oliver: the next era of Cancel Me, Daddy is gonna slap.

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Should We Cancel Lizzo? Aug 24, 2023

A bunch of cancellers asked us what we thought about the allegations against Lizzo, so Katelyn and Oliver decided to dive into the fraught conversation. The two of us talk about the power of celebrity, marginalized people in the public eye facing more scrutiny than more privileged counterparts, fatphobia and cultures of abuse and exploitation.

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Cancelling The Young Turks (ft. Bennie) Aug 03, 2023

This week Katelyn and Oliver sit down with the twitch streamer Bennie, who recently quit her show at The Young Turks news network because of growing transphobia. The three of us discuss navigating hostile media environments as a trans person, disinformation, cis fragility and so much more.

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Hopelessness is Disinformation (ft. Bridget Todd) Jul 20, 2023

Tired of the doom and gloom and despair about the world? Good news is we're bringing you an extra special show today about the onslaught of disinformation and hopeless news and and how to recenter our selves and find hope in this dark time. It's a colorful conversation with a brilliant guest, Bridget Todd, host of There Are No Girls On The Internet.

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Titty-gate Jun 22, 2023

This week Katelyn and Oliver sit down to talk about Titty-gate. The two of us have fairly different perspectives surrounding Rosa Montoya being banned from the White House for posting a video where she was briefly topless at the President's Pride celebration on social media. But at the end of the day, we both agree: how can you be that mad about titties?

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The Panic Over Social Media and Youth Jun 08, 2023

TikTok bans and legally prohibiting minors from having social media accounts is being fueled by fears that social contagion is making young people trans. While this fearmongering about social media hurts young people, there are real concerns when it comes to social media, such as addictive algorithms. Katelyn and Oliver have a frank and nuanced conversation about the current conversation about social media, what's missing and what we should actually be doing to protect young people and make social media safer.

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Bluer Skies and Greener Pastures (ft. Morgan Sung) May 11, 2023

This week, we're diving in to see what all the fuss around Blue Sky is about. Is it really like Twitter before it got bad and as fun as people are saying? Is the magic temporary or can Blue Sky keep the magic as the platform scales? To talk about that and much more, TechCrunch reporter Morgan Sung joins Katelyn and Oliver for an interesting conversation about news anchors saying skeet on air, cyberbulling Matt Yglesias and endless tittes on the Skyline.

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Cancel Doom Posting (ft. Katherine Cross) Apr 27, 2023

This week we have a VERY special episode with a reappearance of one of our favorite guests, Katherine Cross! This week, she's talking about her recent piece in WIRED magazine When Social Media Presents Only an ‘Unlivable Life’ and how all the doom posting about fascism and anti-trans hate is warping our brains and demobilizing us to fight back.

It's an eye opening conversation that's worth your time and attention, especially if you're feeling down and overwhelmed about the state of the world.

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The Internet Can't Handle A Little Friendly Competition (ft. Lyndsey D'Arcangelo) Apr 13, 2023

This week Katelyn sits down with women's sports writer Lyndsey D'Arcangelo to discuss the recent controversy regarding double standards, sexism and racism in the NCAA Women's Basketball Championship. Plus, Kate cancels freelance taxes, Oliver, and many of our listener's frustrations.

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The Right Cancelled Chocolate?! (ft. Fae Johnstone) Mar 23, 2023

Right wing extremists are doxxing, engaging in a harassment campaign, and starting an international boycott over chocolate ads. Activist Fae Johnstone joins Katelyn and Oliver to share what it's been like to be at the center of the ridiculous controversy, provide a glimpse into politics in another country and share concerns over inclusive ad campaigns with fascism on the rise.

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Canceling Anti-Fat Medical Institutions (ft. Da'Shaun L. Harrison) Mar 09, 2023

Recent guidance has come out recommending children have surgery or go on drugs to lose weight. Why is this a problem and what's the history behind anti-fat politics in America? Katelyn and Oliver sit down with writer, journalist and theorist Da'Shaun Harrison to explore these questions and learn about how anti-fatness is rooted in and inextricable from anti-blackness. Da'Shaun is the author of Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-fatness as Anti-Blacknessand Editor-at-Large of Scalawag Magazine.
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Back On Our Bullsh*t (ft. Tuck Woodstock) Feb 23, 2023

Today we're delving into what's going on at the New York Times after more than 1,200 contributors and writers for the paper signed a letter criticizing the paper's coverage. Spoiler: leadership is not taking it well. Katelyn breaks it down with the one and only Tuck Woodstock, host of the Gender Reveal podcast.

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Cancel-o Wizard Game-o (ft. Ana Valens) Feb 13, 2023

For our two year anniversary, we're of course canceling the bad wizard game with very special guest, gaming journalist Ana Valens. She sits down with Katelyn to share her thoughts about whether there's any ethical way to play, stream or engage with the game and makes some very good jokes. Plus, Oliver opens up about why you've been hearing them less during interviews before cancelling gold start discourse, JAQ-ing off, AI and sharing their deepest fears about our incoming dolphin overlords.

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We're Back to Cancel the New York Times (ft. Michael Hobbes) Jan 26, 2023

We're back and up to our usual hijinks! In this episode, Katelyn delves into this past weekend's transphobic article in the New York Times with the newly declared mascot of the show, Michael Hobbes. The two discuss this year's slew of anti-trans articles at various publications, why this disinformation keeps getting elevated and the concerning lack of trans voices in media. Plus, we cancel paperwork, bosses and Katelyn for making the worst joke in all of history at the end of out of context cancellations.
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The Tesla Guy Freaked Out & Bought Twitter (ft. David Karpf) Dec 01, 2022

This week we're delving into the chaos happening on the bird app with Professor Dave Karpf. Katelyn talks to him about Elon's midlife crisis, the sledgehammer he seems to be taking to the app, life on social media after Twitter, the most likely outcomes for the Twitterverse and much, much more.
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Cancelling Kanye (ft. Tal Lavin) Nov 03, 2022

This week Katelyn talks to Tal Lavin, the author of Culture Warlords, about Kanye West's recent anti-semitism. It's a jumping off point to a deeper conversation about anti-semitism in American society, Christian Zionism, the links between anti-semitism and transphobia and so much more.

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Combating Hate With Science (ft. Katy Montgomerie) Oct 20, 2022

This week Katelyn sits down with YouTuber and LGBTQ activist Katy Montgomerie to discuss her talk about hate movements being cancelled because of hate. Plus Katy gives some insight into the science of hate and how to combat it.

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Cancel Culture Queers (ft. Meredith Talusan) Oct 06, 2022

This week we have an extra special episode lined up for you featuring an in-depth conversation about cancel culture with author Meredith Talusan. Meredith was one of the first people who challenged Oliver about gatekeeping from community that often comes from cancel culture several years ago, and the trio discuss the influences of their views on this touchy topic. In this episode, Meredith talks about how her time growing up in a dictatorship shaped her views, the role power plays in cancel culture, plagiarism, and how we're often too quick to drag one another.
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When Everyone Is Welcome, Many Of Us Aren't (ft. Wil Willams) Sep 08, 2022

This week on the show Katelyn and Oliver take a look at what happens when people spreading fascist ideas and hate come into certain spaces, questioning the idea that everyone can be welcome. This conversation revolves around Ben Shapiro showing up unexpectedly at the Podcast Movement conference after the Daily Wire was allowed to have a booth and includes special guest Wil Williams, who makes audio fiction shows through Hug House Productions.

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Can Speech Be Violence? (ft. Michael Hobbes) Aug 25, 2022

This episode, Katelyn and Oliver sit down with Michael Hobbes to discuss the awful discourse from the usual cancel culture suspects around the violent attack on author Salman Rushdie.
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How Do You Solve A Problem Like Alex Jones? (ft. Parker Molloy) Aug 16, 2022

In this episode, Katelyn and I talk to Parker Molloy in the wake of the first Alex Jones trial and unpack how traditional and social media fueled his rise to become the conspiracy theory grifter he is today. To keep up with Parker's work, check out readthepresentage.com.
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Love and Cancel Jul 21, 2022

We're back! In this episode, Katelyn and Oliver take a closer look at the backlash against Thor: Love and Thunder’s homophobic backlash and its larger implications alongside the weird world of Marvel haters that have popped up on YouTube.
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Dysfunction at The Post Jun 23, 2022

This week, Katelyn and I delve into all the drama, dysfunction and chaos that's been happening behind the scenes at The Washington Post this month. Plus, we cancel a listener's ex, talk Lisa Frank Dicks, and bring you your biweekly helping of cancelations.
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Fallout Of A Verdict (ft. Moira Donegan) Jun 09, 2022

Katelyn and Oliver are joined this week by The Guardian's Moira Donegan for a follow up on the Depp/Heard verdict. We talk about the potential ramifications the decision could have on the free speech of domestic violence survivors.
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Deep Depp-ception (ft. Michael Hobbes) May 26, 2022

This week Katelyn talks to Maintenance Phase co-host Michael Hobbes about the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard trial, the plethora of minformation around it and the social media fallout. Plus listeners submit a delightful collection of out of context cancellations and Katelyn tells Oliver a story about how an odd dream probably saved her life once.

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Cancelling SCOTUS May 12, 2022

This week Katelyn and Oliver are taking on the highest court in the national because...there was obviously no other option. For this episode we invited Ian Millhiser, an expert on the Supreme Court and Senior correspondent at Vox, to break down his case against SCOTUS. It's a colorful conversation with lots of verbal shitposting despite the grim world we're living in right now. Sometimes we've just got to laugh to keep from crying.

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Canceling Elon Musk (ft. A.E. Osworth) Apr 28, 2022

Cancel Me, Daddy is finally back—just in time to cover the dystopian news of Elon Musk's deal to buy Twitter. In this episode Katelyn shares her concerns about what this means for the Internet, her career and trans Twitter. Then, Oliver sits down with author A.E. Osworth to discus their stunning debut novel, We Are Watching Eliza Bright, exploring themes of disinformation, parasocial relationships, messy queer communities and more.

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War Isn't Cancel Culture Mar 10, 2022

Katelyn and Oliver are talking about how right wing pundits can’t help but make the war in Ukraine all about their favorite culture war issue and looking at some of the most outrageous takes getting play in right-wing media. Plus, the pair discuss Andrew Cuomo's recent complaints about being cancelled, open up about mental health struggles in these dark times, and take on some out of context cancellations.

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Why Everyone On Twitter Is A Jerk (ft. Katherine Cross) Feb 24, 2022

Why is everyone on Twitter is such an asshole? Katherine Cross, an incredibly talented sociologist researching online harassment, answers that question this week on Cancel Me, Daddy. This episode has both Katelyn and Oliver thinking about how they use Twitter, and Katherine gives lots of practical steps about how to navigate online harassment and support others in the bird app's crosshairs.

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Canceling Spotify LIVE! Feb 10, 2022

Katelyn and Oliver host their first live show, with an incredible lineup of special guests from the very first year of Cancel Me, Daddy.
The pair are joined by Parker Malloy, Terra Field, Jude Doyle, Sara Luterman and Emily St. James (formerly VanDerWerff) where topics range from big existential questions about cancel culture, to the Spotify controversy over platforming Joe Rogan's misinformation, to the cancel culture grift economy and sex toys. It's a wild, zany wide after a wilder year!
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Canceling Katelyn Jan 27, 2022

Katelyn and Oliver discuss the recent harassment campaign Katelyn recently found herself on the receiving end of and what that says about cancel culture and being a trans woman on the internet. Then the pair delve into the dark abyss that is intersection of heterosexuality and TikTok to give you the run down on the West Elm Caleb discourse.

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Cancel Me, Father Jan 13, 2022

This week Katelyn & Oliver bringing you a very special episode to start off the year by cancelling....The Pope! They discuss the head of the Catholic Church's remarks about cancel culture and discuss the institution's troubling and hypocritical history. In this episode, these cancel culture experts explore how even grifters who don't have much of a platform are cashing in on the cancel culture grift economy. Plus, there's colorful discussion of neck beards, cryptocurrency, Oreo wine and so much more.

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Cancel Me, Santa (ft. Parker Molloy) Dec 16, 2021

For this year's last episode, Katelyn & Oliver dive into the War on Christmas with the one and only Parker Molloy, author of The Present Age Newsletter and former editor-at-large of Media Matters. In this episode, we discuss Fox News' burning Christmas tree, the historical origins of the so-called War on Christmas, and how the right-wing talking point relates to the ongoing conversation around cancel culture. Plus, we have our very first Cancel Us segment, where we invite you to cancel us for our spicy takes.

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Please Mess With Texas (Ranch Nog Edition) Dec 02, 2021

This week, Katelyn & Oliver delve into the effort in Texas to ban LGBTQ books from schools and follow up on the latest in the Chapelle saga. Plus, things get a little strange with discussion of a furby drag king...and Katelyn's "favorite" condiment: ranch nog.

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The Fighting Sealions (ft. Michael Hobbes) Nov 11, 2021

Katelyn and Oliver are joined by journalist and Maintenance Phase co-host Michael Hobbes to discuss the most ingenious cancel culture grift yet, the newly formed (and unaccredited) University of Austin. The new college doesn’t offer degrees but is still likely to make boatloads of cash.
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Netflix Part 2 Oct 28, 2021

Katelyn and Oliver revisit the Netflix/Dave Chappelle controversy with an in-depth interview with the two trans employees most affected by the fallout. Joining the show are B. Pagels-Minor, who was fired by Netflix after helping to organize the company’s trans employee walkout, and Terra Field, who was briefly suspended after a Twitter thread of hers criticizing the company’s decision-making around Chappelle’s special went viral.

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Shame on Chappelle (ft. Imara Jones) Oct 14, 2021

It wouldn't be Cancel Me, Daddy if we didn't delve into Dave Chappelle's horrible, new Netflix special "The Closer." Katelyn and Oliver are joined by the one and only Imara Jones of TransLash Media who shares her sharp analysis and insightful perspective on the hateful special who's actually being silenced. The trio discuss how Netflix can't "carbon offset" bigotry, the ways this special puts Black trans women especially at risk, and the problem with hate being profitable.
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The Depp's of Cancel Culture Sep 30, 2021

This week Katelyn and Oliver-Ash dive into Johnny Depp's insipid remarks about cancel culture and the latest Republican panic over the National Archives adding a content notice to give people diving into historical documents a heads up about our nation's troubling past. Plus, the pair discuss whether cancel culture is a phenomenon created by the media and how much our industry is actually to blame. I
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Censoring Judith Butler (ft. Eoin Higgins) Sep 16, 2021

This week Katelyn and Oliver-Ash have a colorful conversation with freelance journalist Eoin Higgins about the Judith Butler debacle and the big transphobia problem at the UK branch of The Guardian.

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Triple Jeopardy Sep 02, 2021

In this episode Katelyn and Oliver-Ash unpack the incredibly fraught search for a Jeopardy host. Plus the two discuss former Monty Python star John Cleese's upcoming disaster of a show about so-called cancel culture.

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Conservatives Go Gonzo Aug 12, 2021

This week, Katelyn and Oliver and delving into the conservative controversy around a wholesome episode of a Muppet's show for kids that features a trans affirming story line. Plus, they talk about what Louie CK's national tour tells us about cancel culture (or the lack thereof).

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Democracy Dies with Dogma Jul 29, 2021

This week Katelyn and Oliver are back to discuss the Washington Post banning Felicia Somnez from covering stories about sexual assault after she spoke up about her own experience with sexual violence. Plus, the two discuss their love for Ted Lasso and cancel queer discourse.

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How Twitter Can Undo A Life (ft. Emily VanDerWerff) Jul 08, 2021

This week Katelyn and Oliver-Ash interview Emily VanDerWerff about her article about the fallout from the story "I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter" and the devastating impact it had on the talented writer Isabel Fall. The conversation touches on the way the Twitter algorithm encourages these kinds of pile ons, what our responsibility is, transmisogyny and so much more.
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Only Fans Fuckery Jun 24, 2021

In this show, Katelyn and Oliver dive into reports that OnlyFans is likely to start moving away from adult content. We discuss how sex workers are often exploited to build online platforms, what that says about who's voices get heard, and how the move is likely rooted in government censorship.
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The Cancel Culture Grift Hypocrisy Jun 10, 2021

Katelyn and Oliver look at Nikole Hannah-Jones being denied tenure at the University of North Carolina, the baseless criticisms of her 1619 project at the NYTimes and the effort across the country to censor professors and teachers from sharing it.

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"Cancelling" Mother's Day & Snow White May 13, 2021

This week Katelyn & Oliver dive into some of the latest nothing burger panic on the right. First, we discuss the right wing panic that boiled over this Mother's Day over using gender neutral reproductive language. Then, we look at how mild cultural criticism of an updated Disney ride is spurring one of the latest panics.
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A Recycled Moral Panic Apr 29, 2021

This episode we have an in-depth conversation about cancel culture and some of the moral panic's roots with Michael Hobbes, of the popular podcasts "You're Wrong About" and "Maintenance Phase."Katelyn, Oliver, and Michael discuss tactics the right uses to create moral panics and how they rope journalists in to spread their propaganda, how it's okay for college kids to be annoying and go a little too far, and why political correctness with new branding has reemerged as a pet issue of the right.

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The Outrage Industrial Complex Apr 15, 2021

In this episode, Katelyn and Oliver delve into the Republican temper tantrum over Major League Baseball pulling its All Star game out of Georgia in response to the state’s draconian voter suppression law...and shed light about how it’s part of a larger, more ominous strategy to shut down dissent. Plus, the two explore an existential question: Is “cancel culture” even real?
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The Substack Bros & Teen Vogue Apr 01, 2021

Katelyn and Oliver-Ash explore the controversy surrounding Alexi McCammond's being appointed to—and then stepping down from—the role of Editor in Chief at Teen Vogue. Plus, Oliver takes on the Substack bros with a deep and thoughtful conversation with author Jude Ellison S. Doyle.

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Cuomo Shit & Tater Dicks Mar 18, 2021

he Cancel Daddy comes for New York Governor Andrew Cuomo in light of his decrying “cancel culture” in response to calls for his resignation due to several allegations of sexual misconduct. Plus Katelyn and Oliver discuss the bizarre controversy over Mr. Potato Head, pearl clutching about Dr. Seuss and what books we should actually be concerned about over calls for them to be taken off the shelves.

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America Uncancelled? Mar 04, 2021

Hosts Katelyn Burns and Oliver-Ash Kleine break down the events of this weekend's Conservative Political Action Convention (CPAC), and the hypocrisy behind its theme: "America Uncancelled." They also give in depth analysis of the newest beneficiary of the cancel culture grift economy, former Smith College professor Jodie Shaw.
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Sia's Snafu & The Mandalorian Mess Feb 18, 2021

Hosts Katelyn Burns and Oliver-Ash Kleine delve into the temper tantrums surrounding the ousting of Gina Carano from the hit show The Mandolorian over her anti-semitic social media post and dispel the myth there’s a double-standard against Republicans in Hollywood. Plus, talented disability journalist Sara Luterman comes on the show to discuss the dumpster fire that is Sia’s new film Music.

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The Zenith of Cancel Culture Feb 04, 2021

In our first show, hosts Katelyn Burns and Oliver-Ash Kleine jump headfirst into the fray by poking holes in the right-wing panic over cancel culture after the insurrection on January 6 from lawmakers like Sen. Josh Hawley and Rep. Matt Gaetz. Plus, they discuss whether the firing of New York Times editor Lauren Wolfe over an innocuous tweet has anything to do with this whole cancel culture thing or not.
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Introducing Cancel Me, Daddy Jan 24, 2021

The pearl clutching about “cancel culture” and “censorship” has become louder and more absurd while also getting more and more play in the media. Journalists Katelyn Burns and Oliver-Ash Kleine see this panic for what it is though: a grift. In this new podcast, they take a closer look at these temper tantrums, dispelling myths, laughing at the most outrageous takes, and shedding light on which perspectives are actually being suppressed and left out of the conversation. You can hear a new episode of Cancel Me, Daddy every other week, wherever you listen to podcasts.
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