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Pundit Portrait: Bari Weiss
🕑 Added 2025-07-29 09:00:07 +0000 UTCMichael and Peter discuss the rising star of Bari Weiss, who took a one-note journalism career and spun it into a media empire.
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Justin Avery
That SkyNewsAfterDark™️ talking head sounds like Sharri Markson who, let’s face it, is a skid mark on the toilet of gutter journalism. Her voice makes fingernails on a blackboard seem like meditation music. A few weeks ago she tried to make an antisemitism issue out of our PM wearing a Joy Division t-shirt. She’s just an ambulance chaser. Utter trash.
Christopher Weinland
Goddamn Bari Weiss sucks so much John Oliver is getting a few shots in. I'd never actually heard her speak before - absolutely insufferable. https://youtu.be/gieTx_P6INQ?si=_XLr0SSV_q13oaJP
MomsTired
It’s like the most annoying person on your college campus is now in charge of CBS, except Bari Weiss WAS the most annoying person on my college campus and I’m baffled every time I hear how big she’s become. I had hoped to never hear from her again after her “get all the Muslim professors fired” tour during undergrad.
Tyler Omichinski
Watched Last Week Tonight this week and was like "I feel like I've heard half of this already"
Amber Rose
Please do an update on BW given her Morning Show-esque takeover of CBS & her super fun make-your-own university in an old department store in Austin.
William WV
I would love to be able to share this with a large number of non-subscribers. That might just net you some more subscribers.
Carin
😂😂😂The little boy from The Omen!!!! Can’t stop laughing!
chelsea
It can also be called ‘white woman tears’ when Bari does her crybaby bullying to attack black & brown people under the guise of her own “suffering”
Nicole Harry
As a 28 year old feeling old hearing Peter say “cunty little 27 year olds” made me feel so young and liberated even if I don’t like Sabrina carpenter. Thank you from the wannabe fun 28 year olds😌😌😌
Aiko
Don’t worry we aren’t on some spiritual psychosis over here just trying to index some research
Aiko
A litany for your evening/:(@)\ 🧿💙🩵💭 .FEAR IS THE MIND KILLER. I MUST NOT FEAR FEAR IS THE MIND 1 KILLER. 2 MIND. 1 ENDERS. 2 BEGINNERS.. 2 GAME.s 1PLAYED… 1000000BITCHES. FUCKED….(but only 100gecs)
G
Michael and Peter, the “project” with “Free Press” is a replacement for Fox News. Rupert Murdoch will die some day, and the assets get split evenly among his kids. Rupert and his only die hard right-wing kid Lachlan fought in court to try to change that, and they lost. The right-wing billionaires funding Bari Weiss are preparing for the end of Fox.
Yaki
As a cunty 29-year-old, I’m too unfortunately just not a fan of Sabrina Carpenter’s music. I wish I was. Her perspective on sexuality in her music is brilliant and complex. It’s not about sex itself, it’s about relationships with others brains and their ideas of sex. “Taste” is about the relationship with the other woman. Is it queer? She’s the one asking the question. It feels like it belongs in a full Death, Sex & Money miniseries. The music, unfortunately, just doesn’t hit my ears right. It doesn’t get me humming (although I can see how technically amazing it is and understand why others find it catchy). But honestly she deserves a doctorate in human psychology. Sabrina Carpenter, Ph.D., I like the ring of it.
mad_shark
Always fun to get an update on how this character is doing. Normally I hate to be that person but...for your consideration: I am a HS teacher at an independent school and we were tasked to read a particular book on AI this summer. I have had... feelings abt it, but would love to hear y'alls take on IBCK. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/198678736-co-intelligence
ashbin
Your new Patreon pitch can be "join to hear Peter say cunty"
Bella
I caved and got a patreon membership simply for the bari weis eps. I haven’t even listened yet but know you two will not disappoint. (been a fan since the beginning, will stay on the patreon forever, you already know)
ES
She did more stuff.
ES
Michael Hobbes really did a podcast with Sarah Marshall for all those years and doesn’t know that women have been doing triple axels for decades?
Leandra J
I’m so confused wasn’t this the first post you ever did…..?
brennabean
Why yall send me podcast recommendations that are just more of yall. I listen to u so much I pay you. Peter I pay for ur newsletter. Don’t advertise to me. Good lord
Kaela Garcia
When I’m cracking fine shyt Michael hobbes but he sees my copy of atomic habits on my bookshelf so Peter comes in and blows my shit schmoove off 💔🥀
Åshild Hjellbrekke
I again want to suggest an episode about “Shaman” Durek Verrett. He’s written several books and is very problematic. On top of that he is married to a Norwegian princess. When his book Spirit Hacking was being translated into Norwegian, this was a passage that was deleted* (but it might still be in the English version): «When I go to hospitals and I work with people who have cancer, the first question I always ask is: “Why do you want this cancer?” That upsets some people. Kids, however, are not burdened by these kinds of hang-ups. When I work with children, and I ask them why they want their cancer, they tell me straight up: “Because I don’t want to be here anymore.”» So yeah. If books could KILL, right? 😅 * https://www.vg.no/rampelys/i/701mGW/durek-verrett-til-vg-om-endringene-i-boken-det-er-ikke-slik-at-et-barn-oensker-aa-faa-kreft (source - in Norwegian)
Corey Zinn
Love you guys. If you guys aren't done wanna do David Allen, will you at least do the 4 Agreements?
