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Citizen McCain with Meghan McCain

Housing Heartbreak, Hantavirus Panic And Antisemitism Gone Wild

Citizen McCain with Meghan McCain

Citizen Cain Productions

News Commentary, News, Society & Culture

3.8824 Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2026

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Meghan McCain and Miranda Wilkins are back with a packed episode covering the stories everyone is talking about. Meghan opens up about attending Kat Timpf’s father’s funeral and why life feels especially fragile right now, while Miranda shares the heartbreaking story of losing out on her dream home after an all-cash buyer swooped in at the last second. Then, infectious disease expert Dr. Amesh Adalja joins the show to break down the growing fears surrounding the hantavirus outbreak, cruise ship quarantines, Ebola concerns, and why so many Americans still have PTSD from COVID. Plus: Spencer Pratt’s surprising rise in California politics The explosion of antisemitism online and in politics Seattle’s growing crime and homelessness crisis Why millennials feel locked out of the American Dream The toxic return of body shaming culture The New York Times controversy over Israel coverage Why political media feels completely broken right now And yes, Baby Yoda makes an appearance before the end of the show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Megan McCain has entered the chat. The Welcome to Citizen McCain on this very special Friday episode.

0:35.0

It's Friday, May 15th.

0:36.8

If you are listening to the podcast, you want to

0:38.5

join us on Zoom. You can register to do that at two way.tv slash Megan. And if you're watching right

0:43.4

now on YouTube and want to raise your digital hand for a chat, please do so. And if you've

0:48.4

not subscribed to our YouTube channel yet, what are you waiting for? Please subscribe.

0:51.6

YouTube.com slash at Citizen McCain, YouTube.

0:55.4

We really appreciate it. Okay. We have so many, we have a lot of things to get into today. And I'm very excited. We have a infectious disease specialist to come on to talk about the Hanta virus. We do. I DMed him on Twitter and he agreed to come on. We're very excited to have Dr. Adala come on. And then we have our old friend Jason Rant, who's a political commentator and radio host based in Seattle.

1:16.4

He's going on to talk a little horse race politics going on in the world and why it's really hard to be a NEPO baby out here for me, particularly when I have people like Jack Schlossberg and Rand Paul's son

1:27.8

acting like just complete buffoons everywhere. It's really hard. Everybody thinks that if you

1:33.7

have a parent who's a politician that you're just going to basically be like a non-functional

1:38.4

moron. Thanks guys. Making it worse. So we're going to get into that later. But first and foremost,

1:44.1

okay, why are we doing the Friday show instead of the Wednesday show? I was out of town, as I said. I didn't want to announce why I was out of town because it had not been announced yet. But I was actually in Detroit, outside of Detroit. I flew in Detroit, but it was outside of Detroit for my friend Kat Timp's

2:01.6

father's funeral. And for those of you who don't know who Kat Tim is, you probably, you probably do.

2:06.9

She's a pretty famous comedian who's on the show. She's been on the show. She's been on our show.

2:11.5

I've been friends with her a really, really long time. I've been friends with her since I was like

2:16.3

26 or 27. And we became friends at Fox News. We both were hired at the same time. I've been friends with her since I was like 26 or 27 and we became friends at Fox News.

2:19.6

We both were hired at the same time like pretty early in our careers. And we became friends

2:25.3

because we were the only women coming into Fox News with bare faces and wet hair. All the other

2:29.9

women came like semi camera ready and then we'd go in the makeup room to get more camera ready.

2:34.6

And we were also the only people eating carbs. I remember we were both eating bagels.

2:38.0

And that was the backstage basis of our friendship. And I love her dearly. She is literally

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