TLPP: The Radicalist David Josef Volodzko on the New Yorker's Racist Writers

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🗓️ 9 September 2025

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Today I’m joined by The Radicalist David Josef Volodzko, news editor and senior writer at The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. If you have the means, FIRE is a great place to donate your money to. (Don’t let the fact that I used to work for them sully your view of the premiere free-speech organization in the world.) David and I talk about his list of The New Yorker’s racist staff writers, whether a hunger for ass makes one Black, Raja Jackson, and the curse my children put on me. I’m trying to forget the awful Thalidomide metaphor I made during the episode. It’s not working. So here’s my definition of Latinx — a word which, according to the center-left think tank Third Way, Democrats should stop using. I’m going to strike Thalidomide from my vocabulary as well. Check out my book, That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore: On the Death and Rebirth of Comedy https://amzn.to/3VhFa1r Watch my sketch comedy streaming on Red Coral Universe: https://redcoraluniverse.com/en/series/the-lou-perez-comedy-68501a2fd369683d0f2a2a88?loopData=true&ccId=675bc891f78f658f73eaa46d Rock XX-XY Athletics. You can get 20% off your purchase with promo code LOU20. https://www.xx-xyathletics.com/?sca_ref=7113152.ifIMaKpCG3ZfUHH4 Attorneys on Retainer https://attorneysforfreedom.my.site.com/signupattorneysonretainerus/s/?promoCode=LU51ZEZ324 Support me at www.substack.com/@louperez Join my newsletter www.TheLouPerez.com Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../the-lou-perez.../id1535032081 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2KAtC7eFS3NHWMZp2UgMVU Amazon: https://music.amazon.com/.../2b7d4d.../the-lou-perez-podcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLb5trMQQvT077-L1roE0iZyAgT4dD4EtJ Lou Perez is a comedian, producer, and the author of THAT JOKE ISN'T FUNNY ANYMORE: ON THE DEATH AND REBIRTH OF COMEDY. You may have seen him on Gutfeld! , FOX News Primetime, One Nation with Brian Kilmeade, and Open to Debate (with Michael Ian Black). Lou was the Head Writer and Producer of the Webby Award-winning comedy channel We the Internet TV. During his tenure at WTI, Lou made the kind of comedy that gets you put on lists and your words in the Wall Street Journal: “How I Became a ‘Far-Right Radical.’” As a stand-up comedian, Lou has opened for Rob Schneider, Rich Vos, Jimmy Dore, Dave Smith, and toured the US and Canada with Scott Thompson. Lou has also produced live shows with Colin Quinn, the Icarus Festival, and the Rutherford Comedy Festival. For years, Lou performed at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater (both in NYC and L.A.) in sketch shows with the Hammerkatz and his comedy duo, Greg and Lou. Greg and Lou is best known for its sketch "Wolverine's Claws Suck," which has over 20 million views on YouTube alone. In addition to producing sketch comedy like Comedy Is Murder, performing stand-up across the country, and writing for The Blaze's Align, Lou is on the advisory board of Heresy Press, a FAIR-in-the-arts fellow, and host of the live debate series The Wrong Take and The Lou Perez Podcast (which is part of the Lions of Liberty Podcast Network). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:48.1	Hey guys, welcome back to the Lou Perez podcast on the Lions of Liberty Podcast Network.
0:53.4	I'm your host, Lou Perez, and today I'm joined by David Joseph Falatsko.
0:57.2	He's the news editor and senior writer at Fire,
0:59.6	the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.
1:03.7	And he also has an awesome stuff stack called The Radicalist.
1:05.9	David, thank you for joining me.
1:07.2	Thank you for having me on.
1:07.8	Yeah.
1:12.0	I don't know if you know this, but I used to work at fire for a little time.
1:20.0	I didn't know that, no. Yeah. Yeah, I was there during the expansion. So for a lot of people who don't know fire, used to, they basically used to concentrate on free speech cases on college campuses.
1:32.0	So it was, they would, you know, take schools, you know, to court if they were infringing on, you know, the First Amendment of, you know, of their students.
1:35.3	And then also they would push, you know, a culture of free inquiry and expression,
1:42.0	citing, you know, John Stewart Mill, you know, quite a bit. And then a few years ago, you know, John Stuart Mill, you know, quite a bit.
1:45.3	And then a few years ago, they expanded their mission from just doing college stuff to doing,
1:53.2	to taking on speech cases at the culture at large.
1:57.8	So I was, I was fortunate enough to be a part of the expansion, which was kind of insane,
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