Cancel Me, Daddy
Cancel Me, Daddy

Cancel Me, Daddy

Katelyn Burns, Christine Grimaldi, Flytrap Media

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The pearl clutching about “cancel culture” and “censorship” has become louder and more absurd while also getting more and more play in the media. Journalists Katelyn Burns and Christine Grimaldi see this panic for what it is though: a grift. They take a closer look at these temper tantrums, dispelling myths, laughing at the most outrageous takes, and shedding light on which perspectives are actually being suppressed and left out of the conversation. You can join our community and support our work on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cancelmedaddy A Flytrap Media Production

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Delay, Deny, Depose (this is not a threat)
DEC 19, 2024
Delay, Deny, Depose (this is not a threat)
The health insurer horror stories haven’t stopped coming in the two weeks since UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot and killed by alleged murderer-turned-folk hero Luigi Mangione. And the ruling class is not having it! Elected officials, corporate CEOs, and the mainstream media with the power to change or buck the system are hell bent on protecting it, at the expense of many more lives. This week, Katelyn and Christine discuss the sudden, ongoing suppression of free speech, sharing each of their experiences with health insurance, censorship be damned. Their conversation spans UHC’s denials and demands for Christine’s mental health records in 2024 to Kate’s gender-affirming surgeries, which she crammed into one year to meet her deductible under one of the various insurance plans that Americans will have in their lifetime. Thirsty Internet assassin boyfriend memes, of course, rise to the top. And Kate asks Christine to name the greater Italian American—Christopher Columbus, or Luigi Mangione? Tune in for her answer! Links: Katelyn Burns: “Among Us” skeet via Bluesky Annie Waldman for ProPublica: How UnitedHealth’s Playbook for Limiting Mental Health Coverage Puts Countless Americans’ Treatment at Risk Jeanne Pinder for Clear Health Costs: UnitedHealthcare delays mental health payments, causing outrage Independent journalist Marisa Kabas’ Mangione family Bluesky skeet censored Independent journalist Ken Klippenstein: New Crisis Hotline for CEOs? Taylor Ardrey for USA Today: 'Delay, Deny, Depose': Florida woman arrested, accused of threatening insurance company Reductress: Luigi Mangione meme Samantha Irby: Luigi Mangione meme via Instagram r/WhitePeopleTwitter (and Bluesky): Luigi Mangione versus Kyle Rittenhouse meme Your Ombudsmon's Corner: Marisa Kabas skeet critiquing Semafor Editor in Chief Ben Smith defending Bluesky’s apparent welcome to transphobes and trolls Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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46 MIN
Alf Hog and the Bluesky X-odus (ft. Faine Greenewood)
DEC 5, 2024
Alf Hog and the Bluesky X-odus (ft. Faine Greenewood)
This week, Katelyn and Christine chat with Faine Greenwood, who created the “Alf hog” meme that caught the attention of everyone from AOC to Jeri Ryan to Jake Tapper in the early days of Bluesky.
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61 MIN
The Loser Election (ft Michael Hobbes)
NOV 14, 2024
The Loser Election (ft Michael Hobbes)
This week, Katelyn and Christine make sense of the “multiverse” of election takes with “Cancel Gunkle” Michael Hobbes, journalist and co-host of Maintenance Phase and If Books Could Kill.
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59 MIN
The Daddy Election (ft. Talia Lavin)
OCT 31, 2024
The Daddy Election (ft. Talia Lavin)

Our regularly scheduled episode happens to fall on Halloween! And spooky season is feeling extra—as extra as Tucker Carlson rallying “Daddy Trump” to give America a “vigorous spanking” for being a “bad little girl.” It’d be funny if it wasn’t sickening, and terrifying. We’re just five days from the 2024 presidential election, featuring the return of the Orange Fascist—and white evangelical power could strong-arm the strongman back into the White House.

This week, author and friend of the pod Talia Lavin unravels the intricacies of the movement, the subject of her new book, “Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America,” with Katelyn and Christine. To well-funded white evangelical nationalists, only Trump can deliver us from the literal demons behind every abortion and pronoun. We need to take this group seriously, or the joke is on us come Election Day.

Content Warning: This episode includes extensive discussion of child abuse and corporal punishment, which Wild Faith explores as central to the Christian right’s political project: creating the conditions for future generations of obedient soldiers for God and country. Please listen with care, and take good care. 

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62 MIN
Crossover: BEEF - Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz vs. The Catholic Church: Mexico's First Feminist
OCT 21, 2024
Crossover: BEEF - Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz vs. The Catholic Church: Mexico's First Feminist

Special episode swap with BEED, a podcast by former Cancel Me, Daddy guest Bridget Todd:


This week on Beef, the brilliant 17th century nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz dares to defy the Catholic Church with her scholarship and searing wit.

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32 MIN