Episode 126 -- Bari Weiss, Part 1

In Bed With The Right

Adrian Daub and Moira Donegan

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Sexuality

4.8 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2026

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

It's the first half of our (possibly? hopefully?) two-part series on In Bed with the Right final boss, Bari Weiss: reactionary centrist extraordinaire, #MeToo backlasher and the woman who parlayed a grifty "cancel culture" Substack into running pretty much 90% of the news you're still allowed to air on TV. This first episode deals with her origin story, up to her high-profile exit from the New York Times.

CONTENT NOTE: Yes, we know we're mispronouncing her name. It's really hard to get out of the habit, but we promise promise promise to get better at it before Part 2! We meant (in this one very specific instance) no disrespect.

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0:00.0	So this is future, Moira, coming at you from a couple days after we recorded this Bar E. Weiss episode.
0:06.2	You do it again.
0:11.0	I'm coming at you from a couple of days after we recorded this episode because our wonderful producer, Mark Yoshizumi, got in touch with me and he's like, Moira, you mispronounce the name of
0:23.6	this woman throughout the entire episode. And I'm like, what are you talking about? And apparently,
0:30.1	guys, apparently it's Barry. I've been calling her barry for like a decade, but it's Barry as
0:36.3	as in like a bear that you run from in the woods, berry-wise.
0:39.2	So fun fact about that more, you know who's been pointing that out since we've been making
0:43.7	this podcast? Our listeners, we have tons of listener email about this. I don't know what to tell
0:50.2	you. They were there before we were. Part of it is I've said it that way in my head. I've thought about this person a lot over the last 10 years, and you have a way of pronouncing a person's name in your head, and it's at least at my age, really hard to let go of it. So every time I'd fuck it up on the tape, I'm like, fuck. I know it's happening, but I can't, I can't stop myself.
1:10.9	I mean, I had this whole soapbox that I got on on this text thread with Adrian where I was like, look, if it was a non-white person's name, I'd want to get it right. If it was a person we liked or who hadn't done anything wrong, I'd want to get their name right. But this is like a white person who sucks. I was like, can't we just leave it in?
1:28.8	And Adrian, to his great carrot, it was like, no, we should get the name right.
1:32.1	So this is us, for the record, saying it's not Bari Weiss, it's Barry Weiss.
1:36.7	And we apologize for the error.
1:39.3	And nothing else.
1:49.0	Hello? Hello, I'm Adrian Dahl.
1:50.3	And I'm Weirondigan.
1:52.5	Whether we like it or not, we're in bid with the right.
2:15.7	So, Adrian, today we are talking about a little lady who's made quite a big name for herself, somebody who began as sort of a campus culture warrior and now has brought that ethos of the cancel culture panic to some of the highest echelons in American media.
2:20.6	That's right. We are going to be discussing one, Bari Weiss.
2:21.2	That's right.
2:25.3	We were joking before we started recording that we only pick on billionaires now who can either sue us into oblivion or hunt us for sport.
2:29.3	We're really just jonesing for a most dangerous game scenario here at this point.
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