A Special Tranche In Hell, with Sarah Haider
The Unspeakeasy With Meghan Daum
Meghan Daum
4.7 • 855 Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2026
⏱️ 87 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Time for another reunion! Sarah Haider, Meghan's co-host on the late, great A Special Place In Hell, has a lot to say about the Epstein files, so she visited the podcast to unload.
After opening the episode with an homage to the classic intro from our former podcast, the ladies talk about how everyone's a pedophile now, why Ghislaine Maxwell was drawn to such bad boyfriends, and why Epstein's favorite muffins (yes, literal muffins) were so delicious they inspired poetry.
Because it's Sarah, they also discuss the latest in Fertility Crisis Discourse, including new nostalgia about teenage motherhood and Sarah's idea of a GI Bill for mothers.
Finally, they reveal the only conditions under which we would revive A Special Place In Hell. The answer may (not) surprise you.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | I don't know if we learned anything new that we didn't already know prior to the release of these files. |
| 0:07.0 | I think we now have a lot more misinformation on our hands. |
| 0:13.0 | And it's given fodder to like grifters on social media. |
| 0:17.0 | It's just going to be similar to the Me Too era where we, some people's lives |
| 0:23.0 | just got ruined. |
| 0:31.5 | Okay. Are we, are we doing the intro? You want me to try to do it? |
| 0:35.6 | You could try. |
| 0:38.2 | In the culture wars, there are no winners, just podcasters. |
| 0:43.6 | Only if you are willing to risk their lives in the face of some of the dumbest ideas to have ever captured civilization. |
| 0:50.9 | Every time your quarterly taxes are due, we, Megan Down and Sarah Hader, humbly accept this mission |
| 0:57.7 | to bring you conversations that are equal parts, stunning, brave, and rare, safe, legal, and rare. |
| 1:05.3 | I think that should be our motto now. |
| 1:07.9 | Nice to see you, Sarah. |
| 1:09.3 | Nice to see you. |
| 1:10.5 | It's been months. It's been a few months. Yeah, I know. |
| 1:14.6 | People can't wait. How's your life? How's everything? |
| 1:19.5 | The baby's good, but you know, it's still newborn life. Well, I don't, she's technically not a |
| 1:24.5 | newborn anymore, but it's still the up all night breastfeeding life. |
| 1:30.9 | Really? Yeah. But is she like six months? How old? No, no, four and a half. I like a six-month-old |
| 1:38.7 | baby. I only, I like them between six to eight months, six to nine months, maybe. That's cute. I don't like when they're smaller or bigger than that. Yeah, I see it. Yeah. I understand. But yeah, my baby is a, so this is a good baby. It's a good baby, easy baby, but, you know, it's just so young. Needs a lot of attention right now. She's needy. Yeah, I don't like |
| 2:03.0 | that. Yeah, needy baby. She's clinging. She's clinging. She's, yeah, obsessed with me. Yeah. So she's sort of like a bad |
| 2:10.0 | boyfriend. Yeah. Okay. I hear you. Well, speaking of bad boyfriends, we're going to talk about a number of things, |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Meghan Daum, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Meghan Daum and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

