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Citizen McCain with Meghan McCain

Bring Back Barkley, Cancel the Capes & What the Hell Is Up with Ghislaine?

Citizen McCain with Meghan McCain

Citizen Cain Productions

News, News Commentary, Society & Culture

3.9692 Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2025

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Meghan and Miranda kick off this supersized episode with a rant we can all get behind: enough with the superhero movies already! They share their love for original films like 'Eddington' and their frustration that no one’s seeing them (seriously, why is it only playing at 10pm?). Then, Ethan Strauss, host of Random Offense and writer of House of Strauss, joins to talk sports, culture, and why we may never see larger-than-life legends like Barkley, Shaq, or Rodman again. His takes are sharp, unfiltered, and full of surprises. Later, journalist and bestselling author Vicky Ward stops by for an exclusive look at the Idaho Four case. She shares details from her new book, emotional moments from the courtroom, and what the media keeps missing. Plus: fresh Epstein reporting, what’s next for Ghislaine Maxwell, and whether a pardon might actually be in play. Movies, media, legends, and legal drama... it’s a packed episode you don’t want to miss.

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0:00.0

Megan McCain has entered the chat.

0:07.0

Megan McCain has entered the chat. Welcome to Citizen McCain.

0:34.3

I can't believe it's going to be the end of July.

0:36.3

Pretty soon, beginning of August. I don't know where the hell all this the end of July pretty soon, beginning of August.

0:35.7

I don't know where the hell all this time has going. Thank you all for joining us. Just a reminder, if you're listening on the podcast, you want us to join us on Zoom. You can register to do that at 2way.tv slash Megan. And if you've not subscribed to our YouTube channel, please do it at YouTube.com slash at Citizen McCain, YouTube. and remember raise your digital hand.

0:37.1

If you want to ask us a question,

0:56.2

we'd love to hear it. please do it at YouTube.com slash at Citizen McCain, YouTube. And remember, raise your digital hand.

1:01.2

If you want to ask us a question, we'd love to hear from you. Just like, just like this. Just like, oh, like this. Thank you. And really quick, we are so excited. We're going to have Ethan Strauss on

1:07.0

the show today. And then Vicki Ward, Ethan Strauss, a very famous sports writer and commentator.

1:13.1

And Vicki Ward is one of my favorite types of people. She writes and reports on all things.

1:20.0

Conspiracy theory, Epstein, murder. We love these kind of journalists. Very excited to have her come on.

1:26.6

Really quickly. Miranda, we've been doing this for like

1:29.7

two and a half years, give or take. I hosted radio with you for like five years. We've been on air a lot.

1:35.1

Is this my very first sports guest? Right. Yeah. Okay. So yesterday when they were when we were doing

1:41.8

our meeting and I was like, what? Boy, we're doing sports.

1:45.1

What are we going to talk about with this guy? Yeah. So luckily he can talk about anything. But I literally

1:51.0

was like I like don't actually know that much about sports. Sadly, I do not like I just came up with some stuff.

1:58.0

We got some stuff. We did. We are going to. I mean, some things to ask him. But I had, I will candidly say I had to have my husband help me a little bit. Before we start with Ethan, is there anything you want to share about this weekend? Still haven't seen Eddington. Apparently nobody else is either. It hasn't even made $10 million. And it's like this fabulous movie. Yes. I tried so hard to go see Eddington. And I,

2:24.9

we can call Nick and ask him. Every single movie theater in the Los Angeles area is only

2:30.8

playing it at 1030 at night. They stop, they stop showing it. I don't know if

2:35.3

everyone's going to see the Smurfs. I don't know what's going on, but no one is showing Eddington at any reasonable time. So I'm going to have to wait now. Um, and actually, I go at 10.30. That's crazy. It's like that's almost three hour movie. I know. I will never make it. So I'm considering having one of our friends email our other

2:54.6

friends at A24 and ask them for a link. Why don't we do that? Yeah, because the entire team screeners. Yeah.

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