Daniel Brook & Brandy Schillace: The Sex Expert Who Scared Hitler
The Gist
Mike Pesca
4.4 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Daniel Brook and Brandy Schillace trace the life and legacy of Magnus Hirschfeld, the so-called "Einstein of Sex," from his pioneering Institute for Sexual Science to the Nazis parading his severed likeness at the 1933 book burning. They dig into the longer prehistory of Weimar queer politics and antisemitism, discussing how obsessions with masculinity and "degeneracy" turned sexuality into a political weapon. Plus: Donald Trump's astonishing pardon of convicted Honduran ex-president Juan Orlando Hernández, and a spiel on what Marjorie Taylor Greene's resignation actually says about her district.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, December 2nd, 2025 from Peach Fish Productions. |
| 0:07.8 | It's the gist. I'm Mike Peska. |
| 0:10.1 | And what is Donald Trump doing? |
| 0:13.0 | A sentence we could have said just about any time during this past administration and his first. |
| 0:18.8 | But this one's doozy. |
| 0:20.5 | This one's hard to explain, or maybe really |
| 0:23.1 | easy to explain. He was bribed, but he also pardoned the former president of Honduras. By the way, |
| 0:29.5 | weighing in on Honduras's current election, he pardoned Juan Orlando Hernandez. |
| 0:36.2 | The people of Honduras really thought he was set up and it was a terrible thing. |
| 0:40.3 | He was the president of the country. |
| 0:42.3 | And they basically said he was a drug dealer because he was the president of the country. |
| 0:46.3 | And they said it was a Biden administration set up. |
| 0:49.3 | And I looked at the facts and I agreed with them. |
| 0:52.3 | Here is a description of what landed Juan Orlando Hernandez in jail. |
| 0:58.0 | Hernandez partnered with some of the largest cocaine traffickers in the world to transport |
| 1:03.4 | tons of cocaine through Honduras to the United States. |
| 1:07.4 | If this was done by boat, Honduras would be blown up. And if he wasn't killed |
| 1:13.0 | the first time, I suppose he would be shot out of the water again. But because Hernandez is by |
| 1:18.9 | now a very rich man, I think we can only presume Donald Trump gave him a pardon. In contradiction to all of his tough talk, and admittedly, extremely tough bordering on war criminal |
| 1:34.4 | actions against other drug purveyors. |
| 1:38.5 | Well, I don't think we're going to necessarily ask for a declaration of war. |
| 1:42.5 | I think we're just going to kill people that are bringing |
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