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Krystal Kyle & Friends
by Krystal Kyle & Friends
Krystal Ball and Kyle Kulinski dive into politics, philosophy and random BS with people they like. krystalkyleandfriends.substack.com
Episodes
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Episode 298 Audio: Vaush
Abdul El-Sayed and Jon Ossoff showed us how it’s done when they destroyed their Republican opponents on live TV during last week’s debates. Kyle is joined by Vaush, our special guest this week, for play-by-plays of our favorite moments, where Democratic nominees made MAGA look unhinged, bigoted,...
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Episode 297 Audio: Touré
You’ll be thrilled to see political commentator Touré making a return to KK&F for a discussion on one of the biggest stories in recent memory. Nikole Hannah-Jones, domestic correspondent for the NYT and founder of the 1619 Project, wrote a piece in the NYT grappling with the ramifications of...
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Episode 296 Audio: Mike Prysner
Mike Prysner, this week’s guest and executive director of the Center on Conscience and War, knows what it’s like to be radicalized by firsthand experience of the brutality of the U.S. military. He joined the Army himself at age seventeen, right before 9/11, and was part of the invasion of Iraq in...
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Episode 295 Audio: Camila Lourdes Galarza
The usual suspects currently burning American democracy to the ground are also leading the torture, kidnapping, and murder of civilians abroad in order to terrorize and exploit foreign countries, reminding us that our struggle for freedom against our government is intimately and inextricably tied...
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Episode 294 Audio: Gil Durán
Gil Durán rejoins KK&F to talk about the tech overlords doing a hostile takeover of American democracy, multibillionaire prepping for the apocalypse, and why it’s so necessary for this political issue to become front and center. Among the sordid cast of characters we discuss are Peter Thiel, Elon...
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Episode 293 Audio: Garrison Lovely
This episode with Garrison Lovely, we survey the recent and horrifying Hugging Face AI hacking scandal, a reminder of the high stakes of our battle against AI’s stranglehold on our society. If you need another reason to worry about our future under the tech overlords, enter the Hugging Face hack,...
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Episode 292 Audio: The Vanguard
This week with the guys from The Vanguard pod, Zac and Gavin, we talk about the firestorm surrounding Hasan’s recent remarks about Zionism. When conservatives tried to drag Abdul El-Sayed through the mud for having campaigned with Hasan, made a public statement clarifying that Hasan did not speak...
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Episode 291 Audio: Wajahat Ali
We’re grateful to Wajahat Ali, writer of The Left Hook on Substack, for his keen insight as our special guest for post-Dem primary discussion! Waj is a fantastic chronicler and analyst of the most depraved and inhumane dimensions of the Trump presidency, helping us to understand the systems in...
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Episode 290 Audio: Oliver Larkin
We’re getting ready for a potential MAJOR win for democratic socialists by talking to candidate Oliver Larkin. He’s running in the Dem primary for FL-25 in a primary that will take place in just a few days, where he’s a bright spot in a larger movement of leftist candidates fearlessly championing...
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Episode 289 Audio: Nathan Robinson
This week, we have the pleasure of discussing Abdul El-Sayed’s stunning victory in the Michigan Dem primary for senate, plus the role of independent left media — and we have the special pleasure of doing it with Nathan, who founded and is editor-in-chief of Current Affairs. He’s the perfect…
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Episode 288 Audio: Rania Khalek
Rania Khalek is our special guest for Episode 288, in which we discuss her own experience facing a subpoena from Trump as a reporter at BreakThrough News. As we survey the sorry state of free speech and independent media in a country supposedly founded on those values, we’re also inclined to…
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Episode 287 Audio: Charles Booker
For Episode 287 with Kentucky Senate hopeful Charles Booker, we debate the possibility that Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell is dead, both in terms of its implications for the future of American politics and in terms of what it reveals about the Republican Party’s true loathing of and lack of...
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Episode 286 Audio: Joy Reid
Episode 286 of KK&F finds us talking with political commentator Joy Reid about her political journey and the dead ends present in the Democratic Party. Joy brings our attention to the powerful connections between the genocidal violence in Gaza and the boomerang that, as we know, leads to American...
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Episode 285 Audio: David Griscom
Huge thanks to David Griscom, an expert and historian of left politics, for appearing on the show to help us see a future for Blue Texas. David shows us all the ways that our culture’s perception of Texas politics is deeply flawed, both in terms of Texan radical history (a proud tradition) and as...
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Episode 284 Audio: Gil Durán
Thanks to our amazing special guest Gil Durán for a conversation about the tech overlords taking over American politics with influence on both sides of the aisle. Obviously, especially with the public trading of SpaceX, Elon Musk is our major point of reference in this discussion. Elon doesn’t...
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Episode 283 Audio: Murtaza Hussain
Welcome to Episode 283 of KK&F with reporter Murtaza Hussain, on the penalty of the deal for peace in Iran. After this week’s news of the brokered deal went public, Murtaza wrote a piece for Drop Site News documenting mixed reactions and protests in Iran. He attests to the fact that the deal was...
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Krystal Ball Joins Public Citizen's Informed Resistance
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Episode 282 Audio: Garrison Lovely
For Episode 282, we talk to journalist Garrison Lovely about the SpaceX IPO and Elon’s new coup as the world’s first trillionaire, as well as the massive impact of that debut on the tech world and on the highest echelon of global wealth. From Starlink to the SpaceX AI project, the SpaceX with...
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Episode 281 Audio: Will Sommer
We’re wading into the trenches of the right-wing influencer flame wars! And while it inspires anything but confidence in the future of American political discourse, it’s also a source of important insight into MAGA world and its craziest, dumbest drama. This week’s guest, Will Sommer, covers the...
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Episode 280 Audio: Ruth Ben-Ghiat
Historical parallels between our autocrat-in-chief and the despots of the past abound. It’s hardly comfort to think that others have struggled under the many tyrants of history as we struggle now, but it is humbling and inspiring, of course, to see where mass anti-authoritarian and anti-fascist...
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Episode 279 Audio: Young Don
Young Don is joining us for a special episode unpacking the midterms and analyzing the Roganverse’s shift away from Trump-world. The center of attention is the Trump campaign’s shameless struggle to run political opponents out of office. Bill Cassidy and Thomas Massie are Republicans who have...
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Episode 278 Audio: Ashley St. Clair
Episode 278 finds us in a frankly unprecedentedly juicy convo with someone who’s been in the inner circle of the MAGA influencer ecosystem and has all the tea on their shady coordination systems: Ashley St. Clair. Through her ascendance to national attention as a major MAGA influencer, Ashley saw...
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Episode 277 Audio: Ryan Grim
With the help of our special guest Ryan Grim, in our latest conversation about the ongoing mess of a war Trump is waging on Iran, we take a close look at the media narratives shielding Trump from ultimate responsibility for that conflict. In one of those narratives, Saudi Arabia becomes a main...
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Episode 276 Audio: Adam Johnson
Through its coverage of Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, the American media basically wrote the playbook for how to sell a genocide. Adam Johnson, our guest for this week, has just published an in-depth, scathing analysis of that playbook — his book is appropriately named How To Sell A...
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Episode 275 Audio: Professor Mohammad Marandi
Tehran University’s Professor Mohammad Marandi joins us for Episode 275 of KK&F, where we talk about why Trump’s war on Iran is and will be a failure, as well as the Epstein class war crimes that everyone should be talking about. Trump’s war on Iran began over a month ago, reflecting his...
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Episode 274 Audio: Toure
Welcome to Episode 274 of KK&F, featuring special guest Toure as we talk about the new war crimes the U.S. is threatening Iran with. Pete Hegseth just reminded Iran, amidst a ceasefire to the conflict that has wrought devastation in Iran and killed hundreds, that the U.S. is ready to pursue an...
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Episode 273 Audio: Murtaza Hussain
For Episode 273 of KK&F we’re talking to reporter Murtaza Hussain from Drop Site News to talk about the latest juncture of America’s war in Iran. Today, Iran officials join the U.S. for peace talks in Islamabad. Iran has submitted a ten-point plan to establish peace in the region, and it remains…
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Episode 272 Audio: Angie Nixon
She proudly owns the title of “the biggest pain in Ron DeSantis’s ass” — so you know Angie Nixon, candidate for Senate in Florida, is doing something right! Angie’s status as probably the most vocal and involved state legislator comes from her background as a union organizer, as well as an...
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Episode 271 Audio: Luke Thomas
Episode 271 with Luke Thomas lets us talk to a wide-ranging political commentator, someone who’s covered everything from the MMA world to (most recently on Luke Thomas Gets Political) lefty politics and current events. We really enjoyed getting political with Luke to talk about the war in Iran,...
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Episode 270 Audio: Josh Citarella
In Episode 270 of KK&F, we sit down with Josh Citarella to talk about our blackmailing president, his Epstein links, and his inane, catastrophic World War III in the works. There should be absolutely no getting around it, but Trump and his people, while they continue to wage an absolutely…
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Episode 269 Audio: Vaush and Guy Christensen
On Episode 269 of KK&F, featuring Vaush and Guy Christensen, we’re having a necessary conversation about the dead-end politics of the Democratic Party and what’s holding us back from organizing collectively at the grassroots level as the American public. The major setback, perhaps, is that the...
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Episode 267 Audio: Griffin Davis
We have the fabulous Breaking Points producer Griffin Davis joining us on the show this week, Besides the possibility of a successful left-wing Tea Party, the continuing urgency of abolishing ICE, we also on the absolutely essential historical context missing from Camila Cabelo’s recent comments…
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Episode 266 Audio: Krystal & Kyle
We’re keeping it Krystal & Kyle this week to discuss the beginning of arrests related to the revelations of the Epstein files (with the high-profile arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor). Plus, more on Zohran Mamdani’s political bind and strategic compromises, the life sentence given to former...
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Episode 265 Audio: Pretty Bad Lefty
Even Tim Pool is distancing himself from Trump, and that’s how you know it’s REALLY not good. PrettyBadLefty, or Brandon, is the host of The Discourse with Brandon and a regular Majority Report contributor. We talked to Brandon about how revelations of the Epstein files, the ICE raids, and more…
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Episode 264 Audio: Good Politic Guy
Good Politic Guy AKA Mac joins us to break down the biggest news of the week — which contains some major bombshells and revelations about the future of this country, including the increasing precarity of the economy as we know it. Layoff and unemployment rates are skyrocketing, and the cost of...
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Episode 263 Audio: Ken Klippenstein
On this special episode of KK&F, investigative reporter Ken Klippenstein shares info from insiders about the Trump admin’s growing surveillance machine. From those leaks, he’s learned that Border Patrol and ICE have been gathering sensitive personal data on anyone even suspected of having a...
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Episode 262 Audio: Matt Bernstein
Andrew Tate and Clavicular at the club, singing Kanye’s “Heil Hitler” on the way… we’re calling it the right-wing freakosphere, and its gross, mask-off embrace of fascist culture needs to be studied so it can be eradicated. As we discuss with A Bit Fruity host Matt Bernstein, that space is...
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Episode 261 Audio: Pisco
Youtuber and legal expert Pisco joins us this week to lay out the case for why ICE is guilty of murder. As ICE continues to terrorize Minneapolis, kidnap residents, and perpetuate violence after the murder of Renee Good, Trump is throwing around a ton of horrifying comments showing his awareness…
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Episode 260 Audio: Graham Platner
Senate candidate Graham Platner joins us to discuss the murder of Renee Good by ICE agents mere blocks from where George Floyd was murdered only a few years ago. Now, residents of Minneapolis have seen truly how far Trump’s government is willing to go to create a reign of terror over working…
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Episode 259 Audio: Taylor Lorenz
Taylor Lorenz, a leading journalist tackling contemporary issues in internet culture, rejoins us to go off on current trends pushing young men to embrace conservative expectations of their physiques. Clavicular is a streamer who’s used his platform to advance aesthetic standards for men based on...
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Episode 257 Audio: Keith Edwards
Lefty commentator Keith Edwards joins the show this week for a discussion on the reign of terror and violence Trump has brought to America in under a year of his second term. As a prominent independent news host, Keith is also a great source of insight into the challenges presented to lefty...
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Episode 256: Cameron Kasky
It’s relatively normal these days to see candidates expect to ride into office based on buzzy, attention-grabbing social media campaigns, but as we saw with Zohran, that’s only a small piece of the bigger puzzle New Yorkers are thinking about when they cast their vote. Name recognition can play a...
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Episode 255 Audio: Aftyn Behn
Aftyn Behn joins KK&F to discuss her juggernaut campaign to unseat Republican Van Epps as a progressive in Tennessee. Aftyn thinks of herself as a unifier, closing the gap between Democrat and Republican voter turnout and building a broad coalition that brought in former Trump supporters and...
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How to Trigger MAGA and Alienate White Nationalists with Krystal Ball
This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit krystalkyleandfriends.substack.com/subscribe
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Episode 254 Audio: Gianmarco Soresi
Gianmarco shares some of the major influences that have shaped his approach to comedy, with many immediately recognizable names: Maria Bamford, Jeff Asmus, Chris Fleming, John Mulaney. He’s taken cues from the greats in modern stand-up comedy and has become, in his own right, an extremely...
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Episode 253 Audio: Justice Democrats
Welcome to Episode 253 of KK&F, where we’re talking with Usamah Andradi and Geoff Simpson of Justice Democrats about how to remake the Democratic Party to serve the interests of the American people! Justice Democrats have provided essential support to grassroots progressives as they run up…
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Episode 252 Audio: Antonio Delgado
In Episode 252 of KK&F, we talk about the insane bombshell of the released Epstein files, and Trump’s increasingly desperate attempts to direct attention away from them. Plus, we talk to New York Governor-hopeful Antonio Delgado about his campaign. Kathy Hochul has long been a fixture of New York...
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Episode 251 Audio: Ryan Grim
Our faves (just kidding), like Ben Shapiro, have been engaging in some truly historic fearmongering about the election of someone who wants to make housing affordable and buses free. God forbid! They’re calling Zohran a far-left extremist, a totalitarian who will attack basic American freedoms....
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Episode 250 Audio: Max Flugarth
Max Flugrath of Fair Fight is on the show this week (for our 250th episode!) to talk all things Trump election rigging. Fair Fight is based in Georgia, so Max has seen some of the worst of Trump’s attacks on democracy. It’s a microcosm of Trump’s bigger project of maintaining power without…
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Episode 249 Audio: Ro Khanna
Congressman Ro Khanna is back on the show this week! For Episode 249, we’ve brought him to KK&F for a conversation about his fight with Thomas Massie to get the Epstein files released. Ro explains to us how and why he’s taken on the massive task of bringing the Epstein files to light, something...
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