meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
On the Media

MAGA Fractures Over Epstein. Plus, What Michael Douglas Movies Tell Us About Masculinity.

On the Media

WNYC Studios

Magazine, Brooke_gladstone, Micah_loewinger, Politics, Newspapers, Media, 1st, Advertising, Social Sciences, Studios, Radio, Transparency, Tv, History, Science, News Commentary, Npr, Technology, Amendment, Newspaper, Wnyc, News, Journalism

4.68.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Why MAGA (and the rest of us) can’t seem to let the Epstein files go.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

President Trump said his administration would release the Epstein files, but now he says those files are a hoax.

0:05.8

Make some noise if you care about the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.

0:09.8

Everybody cares. Trump adding, I don't want their support anymore.

0:13.7

MAGA has found its fault line from WNYC in New York. This is on the media. I'm Brooke Gladstone.

0:20.3

And I'm Michael Onger. But where's the line

0:22.7

between healthy skepticism and conspiracism? People who have engaged in conspiracy theories feel like

0:30.2

their theories have been vindicated and thus they are very excited. Plus, how the films of Michael

0:35.8

Douglas inadvertently trace the origins of today's masculinity

0:40.4

crisis. He became an avatar for these changes that men were going through, and it seems like

0:48.6

maybe it was a bit of a burden to act out an entire nation's sickness.

0:56.0

It's all coming up after this.

1:03.6

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

1:04.7

I'm Michael Lohinger.

1:06.1

And I'm Brooke Gladstone.

1:10.2

So at one point, we thought we really wouldn't have to go there,

1:11.9

or at least all the way there. But at this point, it thought we really wouldn't have to go there, or at least all the way there.

1:19.1

But at this point, it seems perversely contrarian not to, because in all our years of scrutinizing the MAGA movement,

1:22.6

we've never seen such division in its ranks.

1:28.4

Breaking news overnight about the Jeffrey Epstein files and the conspiracy theories officially being rejected.

1:34.6

So first, the chronology, which began on July 6th in the evening with an Axiose story,

1:37.6

but took off on the 7th when everyone else jumped in.

1:42.0

Overnight, the FBI and Justice Department releasing 11 hours of footage, they say,

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from WNYC Studios, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of WNYC Studios and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.