The Adult in the Room

Jan 21 2025 150 ep. 53 mins 82

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Victoria Taft is The Adult in the Room Who Sets You Straight on Life, News, Politics. Talking to the most interesting people in the news. The News Sherpa You Didn't Know You Needed.

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The Best Disinfectant: John Eastman and the Question of Lawfare

Jan 21 2025 28 mins

Attorney & legal scholar John Eastman served as an advisor to Donald Trump's campaign team during the 2020 election cycle. After questions were raised about the validity of the election results in many locations, Eastman proposed a path for the team to contest the results. Now, for submitting what many of his supporters say was merely a thought exercise at worst, Eastman is

Targeted: Chris Burgard's Investigation Adventure

Jan 06 2025 72 mins

Director Chris Burgard and Actor Nick Searcy released two documentaries on the infamous January 6, 2001 Capitol riots, exposing how federal law enforcement acted with both malice & incompetence in the course of their investigation. Subsequently, they were both targeted by those same departments. Burgard joins the program to discuss, in his own words, his dealings with federal o

Let There Be Peace on Earth: Another Christmas at War in Ukraine with Pastor Anatoly Kaluzhny

Dec 20 2024 51 mins

Pastor Anatoly Kaluzhny of the New Life Church in Kiev has spent the first half of the holiday season here in the United States, meeting with political figures and influential leaders of faith in order to tell firsthand the stories of his people. Thousands of soldiers and conscripts have perished in Russia's attempted takeover of the eastern part of Ukraine. Cities destroyed. Famil

Ballotgrounds: The War for Election Integrity with Special Guest Cleta Mitchell

Dec 17 2024 49 mins

Cleta Mitchell rose to prominence in the political world when she helped Tea Party groups fight back against the Obama-era IRS and their invasive and opaque decisions regarding who and who isn't considered a nonprofit. Then, under the Trump Administration, she led the questioning of the ballot tabulation in the state of Georgia in 2020. Now, with Trump returning to the White House,

Power Play: Brinksmanship with America's Energy with Power The Future's Daniel Turner

Nov 28 2024 63 mins

With less than 60 days left until Trump returns to office, speculation abounds that current President Joe Biden will use the remainder of his lame duck term to shove through unpopular legislation, pardons, or executive orders. And none may be more concerning than the Democrats' demands for a "climate emergency" declaration, which would treat climate change the same way we treat war

Called to Serve: A Look at Trump’s Planned Military Policy with Ret. Brig. Gen. Anthony Tata

Nov 21 2024 38 mins

Retired US Army Brigadier General Anthony Tata joins the show to discuss one of the hottest topics of this year's election, President-Elect Donald Trump's military policy. From nominating former US Army Major and Fox News host Pete Hegseth to the position of Secretary of Defense to his planned review process for top-level military leadership, Trump's new ideas for streamlining our

The Countdown Begins: Jake Lang's Wait for Freedom

Nov 13 2024 45 mins

Jake Lang is currently in federal custody in Washington, DC while awaiting trial for his role in the January 6, 2021 riot at the US Capitol. Now, with the re-election of Donald Trump, he hopes he will finally be released after spending more than 3 years waiting to learn his legal fate. He returns to the podcast to talk about his hopes for release and describe his treatment while in

Election 2024: Analyzing the Red Wave with Ron Coleman

Nov 11 2024 49 mins

IP & civil rights attorney Ron Coleman returns to talk about the biggest political story in decades, Donald Trump's dominant victory in the 2024 Presidential Election, along with Republicans seizing control of the Senate and maintaining their hold on the House of Representatives...a GOP sweep that contradicted nearly every poll, every prediction, and every statistic. How did th

Best Laid Plans: The Continuing Plot Against Donald Trump with Lee Smith

Oct 25 2024 31 mins

Lee Smith is a former senior editor at The Weekly Standard, the former Editor-in-Chief of The Village Voice Literary Supplement, and has written for such esteemed publications as The New York Times, The Hudson Review, Ecco Press, Atheneum, Grand Street, GQ, and Talk. Now, he joins Victoria to discuss his newest book, Disappearing the President: Trump, Truth, and the Fight for the

Reaping Renewal: The Joy of Regenerative Agriculture with Mollie Engelhart

Oct 18 2024 83 mins

Mollie Engelhart has one of the most eclectic backgrounds you may ever meet. She grew up on a farm in upstate New York before heading to California to study film at the prestigious, Disney-founded California Institute of the Arts. From there, she worked in A&R at Sony and became a recording artist herself, before taking on a new challenge by founding the vegan restaurants KindK