Culture Wars: From Cracker Barrel to the College Classroom

Citizen McCain with Meghan McCain

Citizen Cain Productions

News, News Commentary, Society & Culture

3.9 • 692 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Meghan and Miranda are back at the desk and ready to close out summer with a bang—even if it means Miranda’s entering her annual cold-and-flu season (yay, school germs!). They’re catching up on the wildest headlines of the week, including: Cracker Barrel’s logo drama: The internet revolted, the brand backpedaled, and Trump had thoughts. Taylor Swift gets Trump's blessing: Kind of. He weighs in on Swift and Travis Kelce... with a classic Trump twist. The student double life: A new study says college students are pretending to be more progressive than they are to appease professors and boost their grades. Meghan and Miranda bring in Citizen McCain’s College Associate, Russell, to give us the real scoop on campus culture. It’s political whiplash, internet chaos, and hot takes galore—post-summer break energy fully activated.

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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.
0:33.5	I'm so happy you guys are here really quickly.
0:36.9	Today we have no guest.
0:38.1	It's just Miranda and I.
0:39.2	We just decided we were going to sort of end the summer because it, by the way, it's pretty chilly here. Like in the D.C. area. It is not, I think it's like 60 something. Oh, my God. Can I kill you, please? Ashley has a sweatshirt on. Like it's like, I don't know if fall's coming early, but I feel like the summer is coming to an end.
0:38.6	And Miranda and I just decided. I kill you, please. Ashley has a sweatshirt on. Like, it's, it's like, I don't know if fall's coming early, but I feel like the summer
0:56.3	is coming to an end.
0:57.1	And Miranda and I just decided in our hot topic meeting that we just wanted to just have one,
1:02.3	do it old school, the two of us.
1:04.2	So we need more audience interaction today.
1:08.2	So please raise your digital hand.
1:09.6	Don't be shy.
1:11.9	Elena, if you're watching,
1:17.1	we always love to hear from you. Lucas. Emily, all of our regulars. Yeah, all of our regulars.
1:21.6	We are happy to have you. So you need to send some of that my way. Despite my sweater,
1:26.7	I'm sick. It's the third week of school, so I will be sick until June. Everybody, just the heads up, got my tissues.
1:29.6	We need clean eggs to sponsor us. It is 110 degrees here in Los Angeles. So I need you to send
1:37.8	some of that my way. It's disgusting. Yeah, it's 107 in Arizona. My brother was telling me,
1:41.5	and I was like, it's horrendous. It's like lovely here. You can have like a nice picnic, like go outside. Anyway. So also if you are listening on the
1:49.3	podcast, you want to join us on Zoom. We can register to do that at 2way.tv slash Megan.
1:54.0	And please subscribe to our YouTube channel. It's YouTube.com slash at Citizen McCain YouTube.
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