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The Katie Halper Show takes a (hopefully) humorous look at the news, politics, pop culture, and the arts through news segments and conversations with writers, journalists, activists, artists and political comedians. Katie Halper, co-host Gabe Pacheco and engineer Reggie Johnson chat it up and bring you segments like "Excuse You," "Right Wing Erotica," "Family Values,"  and “The Sixty-Second Rant."

Born and raised on the mean streets of New York City’s Upper West Side, Katie Halper is a comedian, writer, filmmaker and history teacher based in New York. 

A co-founder and member of the comedy ensemble Laughing Liberally, Katie has performed at Town Hall, Symphony Space, The Culture Project, D.C. Comedy Festival,  and The Nation Magazine Cruise. Katie's writing and videos have appeared in Salon, The New York Times, Comedy Central, The Nation Magazine, Jezebel,  Guernica, Alternet, Raw Story, Feministing and more. Katie appears regularly on HuffPost Live as well as MSNBC, RT, the Alan Colmes Show, Sirius radio (which hung up on her once).  The National Review calls comedian Katie “cute and somewhat brainy.”

Katie co-produced Tim Robbins’s film Embedded, (Venice Film Festival, Sundance Channel); Estela Bravo’s Free to Fly (Havana Film Festival, LA Latino Film Festival); was outreach director for The Take, the Naomi Klein/Avi Lewis documentary about Argentine workers (Toronto & Venice Film Festivals, Film Forum); co-directed New Yorkers Remember the Spanish Civil War, a video for Museum of the City of NY exhibit.

Katie went to Florida in 2008 with Judy Blume and Letty Cottin Pogrebin to tell Jews to vote for Obama and wrote the viral online videos Women for McCain, Jews for McCain and Gays for McCain. 

Katie’s latest project is her award-winning film, COMMIE CAMP, a documentary about Camp Kinderland, the summer camp the Right loves to hate.

Katie went to the Dalton School, where she has taught history, and Wesleyan University, where she learned that "labels are for jars."


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Multipolarista

Chuck interviews cultural critic, writer, educator, and scholar Henry Giroux on his recent Counterpunch article "Targeting Children - Killing Fields in the Age of Mass Shootings. "https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/05/31/targeting-children-killing-fields-in-the-age-of-mass-shootings/

Targeting Children / Henry Giroux

Abby and Robbie Martin cover Biden’s failed Summit of the Americas, where Abby confronted Secretary of State Antony Blinken about the Israeli assassination of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, and numerous Latin American countries boycotted due to the exclusion of Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua. They talk about the mass shootings in Uvalde and Buffalo and how this unique phenomenon is an extension of extreme American narcissism AKA Empire Baby syndrome, the strategy of tension surrounding the anti-trans hysteria being cultivated by the GOP and the leaked SCOTUS draft about overturning Roe v Wade, and how the mind bending AI art tools like DALL E 2 is about to change our reality.

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Uniquely American Mass Murders, 'Officer Safety', Anti-LGBTQ Strategy of Tension & AI as Art

Nick joins Charles, Alex, and Dan to make the case that Chris Martin is the new Barney.

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125 - Biuyiuyuitiful (ft. @JucheMane)

Abby is joined by Project Censored's Dr. Mickey Huff & Dr. Nolan Higdon, authors of the new book "Let's Agree to Disagree" and "United States of Distraction." They discuss media consolidation, how the elites manipulate political divisions, the new wave of internet repression and how we can become media literate in this era.

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US Propaganda, Censorship & Our Huxleyan Servitude

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Pulitzer Prize–winning Journalist Chris Hedges talks about the war in Ukraine, endless war, America's gun fetish, abortion, the fascists in our midst, and the Democrats, who enable them.

Chris Hedges (https://chrishedges.substack.com/) is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where he served as the Middle East Bureau Chief and Balkan Bureau Chief for the paper. He previously worked overseas for The Dallas Morning News, The Christian Science Monitor, and NPR. He was the host of the Emmy Award-nominated RT America show On Contact and now has a show at The Real News. 
Find all of his work at https://chrishedges.substack.com/

Relevant articles:

Fascists In Our Midst (https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/fascists-in-our-midst)

Jesus, Endless War, and the Rise of American Fascism (https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/jesus-endless-war-and-the-rise-of)

America's Gun Fetish (https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/americas-gun-fetish)

The Triumph Of Death (https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-triumph-of-death)

No Way Out But War (https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/no-way-out-but-war)

Chris Hedges On Christian Fascism And Democrats' Hypocrisy

On the second episode of The Katie Halper Show, historian Claire Potter joins us live in studio to talk about the Confederate Flag, how we talk about history and when racism and heritage are the same thing. She'll probably surprise you with her recommendations for reliable sources. I play an interview with one of the major organizers of Take Down The Flag SC, Mariangeles Borghini. We also bring you a Trump update or "Trumpdate," and how one Mexican artist responded to his claim that Mexico is sending over a bunch of rapists. Spoiler alert: it involves candy, a stick, and bashing. And we debut our how-full-of-it-are-you-eter. 

Ep 2: Historian Claire Potter debunks the Confederate Flag debate

The debut episode of The Katie Halper Show looks at Donald Trump, his "great relationship with the blacks," and the song he should have played when he announced his presidency. Then Rebecca Carroll and Syreeta McFadden discuss  the "transracial mishegas" that is Rachel Dolezal story, and Ava Farkas, the executive director of the Metropolitan Council on Housing talks about what she got arrested and placed in string handcuffs over. Also in the studio are Gabe Pacheco and Reggie Johnson. 

Ep 1: "Transracial Mishegas" Rebecca Carroll & Syreeta McFadden on Rachel Dolezal

On Episode 3 of the Katie Halper show, we talk to Jelani Cobb of the New Yorker about the sliding scale definition of racism, which makes it so easy for people to claim they're not racist.  Pablo Benson Silva talks about the Puerto Rican debt crisis, Giovanni Zelko and Andrew Kirell talk about Islamophobia. And Gabe Pacheco and I talk about our night with Jimmy "The Rent is too damn High" McMillan. Plus, Gabe has a thing for blue-eyed gorillas and Katie floats a brown-eyes-only guest policy. 

Ep 3: Jelani Cobb & Jimmy "The Rent is Too Damn High" McMillan

On episode 4 of The Kate Halper Show, Nate Silver of fivethirtyeight talks to us about a study which finds that Black Americans are almost eight times as likely as white Americans to be victims of homicide. Comedians Ted Alexandro and Desiree Burch talk about politics and humor, and Chris Cobb discusses how he encouraged New York City to recognize site of a former slave market on Wall Street and mark it with a plaque. And speaking of terrible, greedy, rich white men, we give you a Trumpdate. Did you know that there is a Donald Trump State Park? Well, we at The  Katie Halper Show are renaming it. We have some great candidates. And they're Mexican. 

Ep 4: Nate Silver, Ted Alexandro, Desiree Burch, NYC's Slave Market

On episode 5 of The Katie Halper Show, political comedian Justin Williams goes through the headlines of the week, Ali Gharib talks about Iran and his infiltration of alcoholic terror-cells, Meredith Clark shares her Wisconsinite and journalistic insights into Scott Walker, And Fernando Sosa the Mexican-born and raised artist explains what inspire him to create the Donald Trump The Butt Plug as well as other butt plugs and inaction figures. 

Ep 5. The Donald Trump Butt Plug, Meredith Clark, Ali Gharib, Justin  Williams

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The Katie Halper Show takes a humorous look at the news, politics, pop culture, and the arts through news segments and conversations with writers, journalists, activists, artists and political comedians.