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You're the reasonable middle. Look around. Socialism is a compliment. Antisemitism is back in style. "Pet parents" outnumber the real kind. Cars drive themselves. A whole generation has 950 followers and no one to call. You've noticed. You just stopped saying it out loud. Club Normie says it for you: this is weird. Then it asks why. Every Friday, host Jennifer Weissmann sits down with the people who actually know—pollsters, professors, policy analysts, and the occasional millennial—and comes back with one more piece of the new world explained. No shouting. No team jerseys. Just answers for the politically homeless and the socially bewildered. You're not crazy. You're a normie. Press play. Explores cultural phenomena, societal changes, and the feeling of modern life "minus the meltdown".

Recent Episodes

Who’s Funding the Chaos in the Middle East | It’s Closer to Home Than You Think.

Send us Fan Mail Iran. And you. Midterms are coming. Sick of the Middle East? Too bad — it’s not sick of you. Every phone, every tank of gas, every box on your porch floats through waters patrolled by men who make school kids chant “Death to America” before breakfast. Bridget Toomey, Iran and terrorism expert at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, pulls back the curtain on who’s bankrolling the chaos: Iran and its proxy network, from the Houthis choking the Red Sea to the squeeze...

12 MIN

Goodbye, Ivy League? | Why Parents Are Rethinking Some Colleges.

Send us Fan Mail Insight every parent should tell their kid before they leave for college: Know the difference between someone who disagrees with you and someone who wants you gone. Most parents would do almost anything to get their kid into Harvard. So why are some crossing it off the list? Three Jewish moms just dropped their freshmen at college, and one question shaped every choice they made: Will my kid be safe?You'll hear about the classmate who said, "Really? Trust a Jew?", the da...

13 MIN

The Great Unraveling | A Legendary Pollster on What Broke America—and What Comes Next

Send us Fan Mail Angry, Educated, and Alone | A Veteran Pollster on America’s Reality Gap After 50 years of polling America, veteran pollster Paul Talmey says he’s never seen the country this angry—or this distrustful. Talmey pulls back the curtain on America’s growing reality gap: how the primary system reshaped both parties, why younger Americans are embracing socialism, the controversy surrounding Israel and antisemitism on college campuses, and the forces driving America toward a de...

18 MIN

Welcome to Club Normie

Send us Fan Mail Normie (n.) — someone whose opinions were perfectly mainstream until roughly Tuesday. A normie never thought their opinions were controversial. They just kept believing the same reasonable things while the definition of reasonable quietly moved out of state. Strollers with dogs in them. Therapists that are AI. Communism, back and looking great to many. And every relationship now comes with an org chart — who's got the power, who doesn't, and which one you are toda...

1 MIN

Why I'd Rather Tell ChatGPT Than My Therapist | Confessions of a Millennial

Send us Fan Mail You've typed something into ChatGPT you'd never say out loud. So has everyone else. Nobody's admitting it. Host Jennifer Weissmann sits down with Ryan Ochs, a millennial who tells Claude the things he skips in therapy. He's not sorry. He's also not sure it's a good idea. Judgment-free comes at a price. Find out what you're trading for it, why we may be the loneliest generation that feels the least lonely, and what still costs a premium when everything else is inst...

13 MIN