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Citizen McCain with Meghan McCain

Festivus for the Rest of Us: Media Meltdowns and Bravo Truths

Citizen McCain with Meghan McCain

Citizen Cain Productions

News Commentary, News, Society & Culture

3.9692 Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2025

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Merry Christmas, happy holidays, and welcome to the final episode of Citizen McCain for 2025. Meghan and Miranda close out the year with a chaotic, emotional, and very on-brand holiday spectacular as Meghan prepares to head out on maternity leave and Miranda gears up to keep the show rolling with guest hosts in the new year. Friends of the show Colonel Kurtz and Jessica Reed Krauss join for a deep dive into conservative media chaos, the fallout from Candace Owens' online crusade, Megyn Kelly's viral rant, and why some internet controversies feel huge online but barely register in the real world. The group also breaks down the Vanity Fair interview that set Washington buzzing, questionable political media judgment calls, and the difference between real accountability and click-driven outrage. The episode wraps with Bravo royalty Carlos King, who delivers a no-holds-barred reality TV breakdown. From 'Real Housewives of Salt Lake City' divorces and reunion power rankings to why 'Beverly Hills' is boring right now, Candy Burruss and Todd Tucker's heartbreaking split, and which Housewives are most likely getting the boot next season. The episode wraps up with a Festivus-style airing of grievances from the audience and the hosts, covering everything from bots, brand deals, and political nonsense to coconut water, Costco, and pregnancy photo shoots. Then the conversation turns serious with a thoughtful exchange about antisemitism, allyship, and what it actually means to show up for Jewish communities at home and abroad. It's funny, unfiltered, heartfelt, and very long. A perfect send-off to 2025, with gratitude for the audience, love for the team, and a promise that Citizen McCain is not going anywhere. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:02.1

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0:23.0

18 plus, next required. Want to save big on party pleasers? Ask Sainsbury's. Sainsbury's good food for all of us.

0:23.2

18 plus, next required, cheapest product free, available in store and online, excluding locals, subject to availability, teas and sees apply.

0:33.8

Megan McCain has entered the chat.

1:03.6

Yeah. Megan McCain has entered the chat. Hello, Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays.

1:07.1

Welcome to our last episode of Citizen McCain for the year 2025.

1:13.0

Just a reminder that I'm going to be giving birth very soon. So I'll be on a attorney leave.

1:18.6

Maybe today. Not today. But the show will continue with Miranda and a series of guest hosts, which we're very excited about. So the show will continue. And I am hoping to be out for around six

1:24.2

weeks. So it'll be a little bit of time. All things. I'm so scared. You'll be great. Everything will be great. So the show will be continuing. We're not going anywhere. I don't know if I'm allowed to say that the show's like really not going anywhere. We're at least going on for another year, which is very exciting. That's actually very exciting and good news. Yes, we will be here for a while. You're stuck with us. You get a lot more content from us, very exciting. That's actually very exciting and good news. Yes, we will be here for a while. You're stuck with us. Sorry.

1:45.1

You get a lot more content from us. Very exciting. And we just want to remind you that if you haven't

1:50.6

subscribed to our YouTube channel, go to YouTube.com slash at Citizen McCain, YouTube. And you can listen to us wherever podcasts are found. Really quickly, we are excited to welcome two friends we want to do a friend episode

2:02.6

oh just one friend one friend it's our christmas party end of the year christmas party we're

2:07.4

having a good time our christmas party oh we'd like to welcome colonel kurt christian who is a very

2:13.5

well-known YouTuber covering celebrity controversies politics and pop culture and you can And you can catch her at Colonel Kurtz 99 on X and Instagram.

2:21.3

And is it Colonel Kurtz 99 for YouTube too?

2:24.1

No problem.

2:24.7

We always have mic issues, I swear.

2:27.0

Okay.

2:27.4

I'm like you're on the Death Star.

2:29.5

Anyway, Colonel Kurtz, Kristen, has a huge YouTube account and covers basically all the topics that I'm always, always interested in. Oh, can I give an audience note to everybody while we're settling this up? Okay, so unless you're going to do it, the preview of what we're going to do at the end of the show with our... Yeah, continue. Okay. So something fun that we want to do today, and we're going to run a little bit long with the show. So just to give you guys something extra and like a little bonus feature, at the end of the show, Megan and are going to just do our biggest gripes of the year, basically what we hated and what we didn't like. So get your gripes ready because we want to hear from you. Basically, anything that really pissed you off or bugged you. It could be something big, something small, something petty, trivial, whatever. We want to hear from you basically anything that really pissed you off or bugged you

3:07.5

it could be something big something small something petty trivial whatever we want to hear from you

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