BEYOND THE NORM WITH STORMY DANIELS

Stormy may not have advanced Trump’s actual guilt but she did one better and made him look like a dirty old man, enamored with himself and his supposed bedroom prowess, obsessed with conning women into bed. Her testimony which bordered on the fantastical was an amazing display that gave Trump a dose of his own medicine. In the words of the Washington Post, Stormy pulled a Trump on Trump. A master of social media, Stormy has been fighting trolls for half a decade, but her testimony was a masterclass in deflection and showed the only way to beat Trump outside of the ballot box is at his own game.

Transcribed - Published: 10 May 2024

The Defiant Podcast has exclusive access to audio recordings of Stormy Daniels corroborating every aspect of her courtroom testimony. Hear Ms. Daniels discuss how she met Donald Trump, how he tricked her into sleeping with him and trapped her in his room. And what the sex was like. In addition, she’ll discuss his offers of appearing on the Celebrity Apprentice, how she reminded him of his daughter Ivanka and so much more. WARNING THESE CLIPS ARE UNSUITABLE FOR YOUNG LISTENERS AND MAY DISTURB OTHERS.

Transcribed - Published: 9 May 2024

Donald Trump continues to deteriorate as he's forced to sit still and shut his mouth in court. Deprived of his 12 daily Diet Cokes, he's falling asleep in court, and once asleep, he's emitting a steady stream of foul-smelling flatulence that is sickening his legal team. It's an apt metaphor for what Trump is doing to the legal system and those around him while his lawyers beg Judge Merchan to drop the gag order. Find out what happened and so much more as Rick Wilson joins the show to read the political tea leaves.

Transcribed - Published: 6 May 2024

In a week that saw violent campus protests nationwide, President Biden stays safely in the middle and winds up alienating both the progressive left who want him to take up the Palestinian cause and those who don’t want to see chaos reign on American College Campuses; giving Trump and his MAGA followers an opening to weaponize the protests and blame Biden for the mess. Will this drag the President down in November and deliver Trump the White House? Jennifer Taub joins to explain it all.

Transcribed - Published: 3 May 2024

In the (Court)Room Where it Happens: A special and singular episode on Trump’s trial, including 3 experts who spent the week as one of the few dozen people permitted to be inside the courtroom where Trump’s trial is happening. Norm Eisen and Jon Alter, along with Harry were all feet from Trump, the witnesses, and the jury. They are joined by Karen Friedman Agnifilo, who has extensive experience with the NY courts, including Judge Merchan, to break down the trial in its broad strokes & nuances; and to anticipate what’s coming next. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/jen-psaki-discussing-say-more-with-harry-litman-tickets-8669 (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/jen-psaki-discussing-say-more-with-harry-litman-tickets-866910250897)

Transcribed - Published: 1 May 2024

A special episode of The Defiant Podcast is dedicated to discussing the Palestinian Protests on college campuses nationwide. Majid welcomes intelligence expert Malcolm Nance to discuss who might be behind it all. Join us for 90 minutes of hot-button issues.

Transcribed - Published: 29 April 2024

Majid breaks down Trump's sleazy alliance with tabloid kingpin David Pecker and their illegal pact to get Trump elected. Lincoln Project Founder Reed Galen joins to discuss the impact of the trial and what it will take to destroy Donald Trump.

Transcribed - Published: 26 April 2024

WE ARE NOT JOURNALISTS is a weekly podcast starring popular social media pranksters Walter Masterson and Maximillian Clark, who take delight in asking laugh-out-loud, nonsensical questions of today’s newsmakers, many of whom remain relentlessly and utterly clueless. Being somewhat socially responsible, there are also experts, comedians, and politicians analyzing how crazy everything is, and maybe collectively, we can figure out how to save the world.

Transcribed - Published: 25 April 2024

Majid looks back on a weird week in Trump land as Sleepy Don angles for a mistrial then looks ahead to day one of the jury trial. Insiders are betting on a guilty verdict. Grant Stern from Occupy Democrats joins for the Big Conversation. Listen now!

Transcribed - Published: 22 April 2024

Majid breaks down the battle between Donald Trump and Judge Juan Merchan. Will order in the court be restored or will Trump continue to press his luck until he's found in contempt? Find out all this and more as Majid is joined by Talking Feds host Harry Litman.

Transcribed - Published: 19 April 2024

On the premiere episode of The Defiant Podcast, Majid spotlights the ongoing GOP meltdown precipitated by the Arizona abortion ruling. Continued overreach by GOP extremists has galvanized Democrats and promises to change the calculus for the 2024 election as voters wake up to what will happen if Trump is allowed to return to the White House. Former FBI Assistant Director Frank Figliuzzi joins Majid to discuss how Russian propaganda has infected the GOP via extremist Republicans like MGT, Matt Gaetz, Lauren Boebert and Paul Gosar who have become the face of the GOP as they move the party deeper into the arms of Vladimir Putin and QANON. Now GOP strategists and Trump himself are fretting that now that the genie is out of the bottle, people are terrified that the GOP is run by a cabal of extremist lunatics. Check out Frank Figliuzzi’s new book “Long Haul,” hailed as a true crime classic about the hunt for the long-haul truckers behind an astonishing 850 murders–and counting. https://www.amazon.com/Long-Haul-Hunting-Highway-Killers/dp/006326515X

Transcribed - Published: 15 April 2024

Are you sick and tired of the MAGA nonsense and the squawking of ignorant right wing trolls; spewing their lies and toxic venom? Does the voice of Donald Trump not to mention the sight of his saggy skin and piss colored hair send you in paroxysms of rage? Are you worried that 2024 will be 2016 all over again and that we will be dragged backwards into a fascist state run by morons and fools who do nothing but hate? You've come to the right place. Don't get mad, get DEFIANT. Welcome to the official podcast of Brooklyn Dad Defiant. With an army of 1.3 million strong, we've decided ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. Its time to stand atop the shoulders of history and shout "STOP!" So join us. Join the DEFIANT PODCAST twice weekly. We're giving a road map to victory, a blueprint for sanity and a way forward out of the madness. LFG!

Transcribed - Published: 8 April 2024

Kathy Griffin, has gone through hell and back at the hands of Donald Trump and lived to tell her tale. I love this woman; she has treated me with respect and empathy from day one. She knows what it’s like to face the firing squad and the full might of the MAGA Machine as it tries to destroy you. In 2017, Griffin was publicly ostracized for a photo shoot in which she held a fake bloodied and severed head replica of Trump. She lost jobs and tearfully apologized at a press conference a few days after the photo appeared on social media. In 2019, she released a self-financed film about how she was federally investigated for conspiracy to assassinate the president and blacklisted in Hollywood. Now, seven years later, Griffin is readying her comeback comedy tour and is set to hit the road with her My Life on the PTSD List tour. A two-time Emmy Award winner and cancer survivor, Griffin is fierce and funny as hell. Kathy Griffin Welcome to Beyond the Norm.

Transcribed - Published: 6 February 2024

My next guest is a part of a special sisterhood of victims having been allegedly assaulted by Donald Trump. Alva Johnson, a former campaign staffer says Trump assaulted her in 2016 when she was working as a campaign staffer for the former president. In interviews and in the lawsuit, Johnson said Trump grabbed her hand and leaned in to kiss her on the lips as he exited an RV outside a rally in Tampa, Florida on Aug. 24, 2016. Johnson said she turned her head and the unwanted kiss landed on the side of her mouth. While the kiss was unwanted, it was what came afterwards that made it worse as Trump came after Johnson with the full weight of his legal team; threatening her for violating her NDA. Since then, Johnson’s life has been turned upside down as she tried to tell the world what happened. She joins me today to finally put this manner to rest and walk us through what happens when you try and take on Donald Trump.

Transcribed - Published: 25 January 2024

Between 2008 and 2012, Tina Nguyen was a politics-obsessed college student and right-wing activist at Claremont McKenna College. Swept up by conservative rhetoric and promises of paid internships and scholarships, Nguyen was privy to the early days of the movement now known as MAGA. Now, Nguyen is pulling back the curtain not just on her own story within the alt-right but the full history of the movement, exposing how the right recruits, trains, indoctrinates and builds entire networks of power to bend America to its nativist will. Based on years of dogged reporting and interviews with countless people—from downing margaritas with the first Breitbart writers to pouring over conspiracy theories sent by COVID-19 deniers and even working for Tucker Carlson in the early days of The Daily Caller — The MAGA Diaries paints a shocking picture of a shameless movement that will do anything to triumph over the left, even if it means destroying every mechanism of government this country holds dear. In The MAGA Diaries, Nguyen blows the whistle on these dangerous extremists for the first time, shining a light on the systematized on-ramp for young Republicans. These are the new leaders of the right, and we must start paying attention.

Transcribed - Published: 18 January 2024

Stormy discusses the hypocrisy of the American Justice system and how she can be the star witness for the prosecution of Donald J. Trump in NY DA Alvin Bragg’s “Hush Money Case,” but her own lawsuit against the former president can be thrown out of court. “They made a moral judgment,” she says. “Because I’m a porn star I don’t deserve the same protection under the law.” But Stormy refuses to give up. “I’m a pain in the ass,” she says. Later, Stormy welcomes Kris Goldsmith to the show. The founder of Task Force Butler, Goldsmith is an Iraq veteran who has dedicated his life to hunting NEO NAZIS and helping veterans escape the grasp of right-wing extremism. Its end result, for Goldsmith, of a hard-lived life. Entering the Army as a teenager, he’d quickly risen to the rank of sergeant. But the horrors of the Iraq War left him with crippling, undiagnosed PTSD. A suicide attempt on the eve of being re-deployed in 2007 got Goldsmith booted from the service with a less-than-honorable discharge. Stripped of his rank, community, and G.I. Bill benefits, Goldsmith entered a dark spiral, which included sinking down rabbit holes of online extremism. With his one remaining lifeline — healthcare through the V.A. — Goldsmith clawed his way back to the surface. He became a veterans advocate, earned a degree from Columbia, and (four appeals later) finally got an upgrade to an honorable discharge. Along the way, helped secure congressional reforms in 2017 that enabled thousands of other vets to get medical help and challenge their own “bad paper.” During the Trump years, Goldsmith worked as chief investigator for Vietnam Veterans of America where he exposed a sophisticated Russian op that targeted U.S. veterans on Facebook to sow racial and political division. For Goldsmith, that open-source intelligence expertise soon gave him a leg up in exposing domestic threats, including fascist groups targeting American youth like Patriot Front. In the aftermath of the insurrection of Jan. 6, Goldsmith saw a need to give patriotic veterans a positive mission — uncovering extremists and insurrectionists in our midst. Task Force Butler’s work centers on exposing the inner workings and public wrongdoing of neo-nazi groups through deep-dive intelligence reports that can give prosecutors the evidence they need to go after the hatemongers in court. The work takes a toll. Goldsmith has been sued, and doxxed by white supremacists. But he refuses to give up.

Transcribed - Published: 14 January 2024

My next guest is Dave Schrader who has spent most of his life immersed in the paranormal. He is an experienced paranormal investigator and host of the popular paranormal podcast, The Paranormal 60 with Dave Schrader. You can also see Dave on Travel Channel & Discovery t's hit TV series, The Holzer Files and Ghosts of Devil's Perch. You may also recognize Dave from his appearances on Paranormal State, Ghost Adventures, Ghost Adventures Screaming Room, Paranormal Challenge, Haunted Hospitals, Fright Club and in the ShockDocs; The Curse of Lizzie Borden & Demon in the White House. From an early age, Dave has been surrounded by the strange and anomalous, from haunted homes to creature sightings, UFO encounters and more. Never a casual observer, Dave pushes claims of the paranormal to the limits by investigating them himself and visiting some of the most active and haunted locations in the world.

Transcribed - Published: 13 January 2024

My next on guest on Beyond the Norm is famed cult de-programmer Dr. Steven Hassan. He has spent the past 45 years rescuing people from the clutches of some of this nation’s most notorious cults and has of late found himself rescuing those afflicted with Trumpism and its various offshoots from QAnon to various extremist groups. A mental health counselor, Hassan flies around the country to hold interventions with cult victims, enabling them to take back their minds and lives. In 2019, Hassan published The Cult of Trump, a book that laid out what he sees as the former president’s cult-leader tendencies and offered advice for the families of Trump extremists. Hassan joins me today as Trump continues to leverage his stranglehold over the GOP for domination while pressuring those who will not bow to his presence to leave the party. This interview is a long time coming and will answer many of your most burning questions of how it’s possible for someone to lose their mind to Donald Trump.

Transcribed - Published: 12 January 2024

My next guest spent 11 months undercover with these people. When Amanda Moore lost her job, she decided to go undercover in MAGA land, attending QAnon events and CPAC, hanging with Neo-Nazis and “blood-and-soil fascists,” and palling around with Proud Boys at Harry's Bar in the lead-up to the January 6 Capitol Riot. But what her new friends didn’t know was that she was often recording them, and the result is a chilling portrait “of what the right looks like from the inside. Here’s what Amanda said about her journey in the article she wrote for the Nation. “I was motivated by my belief that the fascist threat to the country was misunderstood by much of the press and far more dangerous than what was being reported. At first, I had planned only to sell the audio from “Stop the Steal rallies to a podcast and write a couple of blog posts. But I found myself wanting to get a behind-the-scenes look at the far-right movement—to go to events from which the press was barred and observe extremists when they felt they were in their “safe space”—so the project grew into something far bigger: a long-term infiltration of the network of young white nationalists in America.”

Transcribed - Published: 11 January 2024

My next guest spent 11 months undercover with these people. When Amanda Moore lost her job, she decided to go undercover in MAGA land, attending QAnon events and CPAC, hanging with Neo-Nazis and “blood-and-soil fascists,” and palling around with Proud Boys at Harry's Bar in the lead-up to the January 6 Capitol Riot. But what her new friends didn’t know was that she was often recording them, and the result is a chilling portrait “of what the right looks like from the inside. Here’s what Amanda said about her journey in the article she wrote for the Nation. “I was motivated by my belief that the fascist threat to the country was misunderstood by much of the press and far more dangerous than what was being reported. At first, I had planned only to sell the audio from “Stop the Steal rallies to a podcast and write a couple of blog posts. But I found myself wanting to get a behind-the-scenes look at the far-right movement—to go to events from which the press was barred and observe extremists when they felt they were in their “safe space”—so the project grew into something far bigger: a long-term infiltration of the network of young white nationalists in America.”

Transcribed - Published: 11 January 2024

MELANIA TRUMP’S DEPUTY DISHES ON THE FIRST LADY’S CRIMES

Transcribed - Published: 21 December 2023

THE BEST OF MEA CULPA: CONGRESSMAN STEVE COHEN ON TRUMP PROSECUTION

Transcribed - Published: 20 December 2023

THE BEST OF MEA CULPA: ABC NEWS’ JONATHAN KARL ON TAKING ON TRUMP

Transcribed - Published: 19 December 2023

REED GALEN ON FOX NEWS AND THE MAGA MEDIA TAKE OVER

Transcribed - Published: 18 December 2023

THE BEST OF MEA CULPA: DON LEMON ON JANUARY 6TH

Transcribed - Published: 15 December 2023

THE BEST OF MEA CULPA: REVEREND AL SHARPTON DISHES ON DECADES OF TRUMP IDIOCY

Transcribed - Published: 14 December 2023

BEST OF MEA CULPA: WATERGATE STAR WITNESS JOHN DEAN ON THE GOP’S ENDLESS CORRUPTION

Transcribed - Published: 13 December 2023

BEST OF MEA CULPA: OLIVIA NUZZI ON THE GOP’S MAGA LOVE AFFAIR

Transcribed - Published: 12 December 2023

Stormy Daniel's has a Brand New Podcast called, Beyond The Norm. Here is the link to subscribe so you never miss an episode, http://apple.co/stormydaniels

Transcribed - Published: 11 December 2023

THE BEST OF MEA CULPA: JOY BEHAR DISHES ON TRUMP’S DISGUSTING VISITS TO THE VIEW

Transcribed - Published: 8 December 2023

THE BEST OF MEA CULPA: THE NEW YORK TIMES’ DAVID ENRICH DISCUSSES TRUMP CARNAGE

Transcribed - Published: 7 December 2023

BEST OF MEA CULPA: THE NEW YORKER’S JELANI COBB TAKES ON MAGA RACISM

Transcribed - Published: 6 December 2023

FORBES REPORTER DAN ALEXANDER ON TRUMP'S FINANCIAL LIES.

Transcribed - Published: 5 December 2023

BEST OF MEA CULPA: UNDERSTANDING THE FINANCIAL CRIMES OF DONALD TRUMP

Transcribed - Published: 5 December 2023

Best of Mea Culpa Unfit For Command: Why the Generals Hate Donald Trump

Transcribed - Published: 4 December 2023

Best of Mea Culpa: The Cult of Donald J. Trump + A Conversation With Anthony Scaramucci

Transcribed - Published: 1 December 2023

BEST OF MEA CULPA: AN ISRAELI JOURNALIST ON THE HORRORS OF GAZA

Transcribed - Published: 30 November 2023

BEST OF MEA CULPA: TRUMP: THE ART OF THE DEAL AUTHOR TONY SCHWARTZ

Transcribed - Published: 29 November 2023

JAMES CARVILLE VS MICHAEL COHEN IN A RAGIN CAGE MATCH

Transcribed - Published: 28 November 2023

BEST OF MEA CULPA: AUBREY O'DAY ON SEX WITH DON JUNIOR AND OTHER WEIRD TRUMP SH!T

Transcribed - Published: 27 November 2023

Comedian Walter Masterson's new podcast will blow your mind. Check it out today.

Transcribed - Published: 25 November 2023

MEA CULPA LIVE THANKSGIVING SPECIAL FULL SHOW

Transcribed - Published: 24 November 2023

HENRY WINKLER IS A VEHEMENT TRUMP HATER

Transcribed - Published: 23 November 2023

LEV PARNAS REVEALS GUILIANI’S DIRTY SECRETS

Transcribed - Published: 22 November 2023

SADGHURU HELPS MICHAEL FORGIVE HIMSELF

Transcribed - Published: 20 November 2023

MC MEETS THE WRITER WHO WENT UNDECOVER IN QANON FOR A YEAR

Transcribed - Published: 17 November 2023

OMAROSA’S SECRET TRUMP TAPES

Transcribed - Published: 16 November 2023

BEST OF MEA CULPA: "TRUMP WANTED TO INVADE MEXICO," SAYS HIS FORMER DEPUTY MILES TAYLOR IN NEW BOOK

Transcribed - Published: 14 November 2023

MC TAKES ON ALAN DERSHOWITZ

Transcribed - Published: 13 November 2023

RFK JR. LOSES HIS SH!T ON MICHAEL

Transcribed - Published: 10 November 2023