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Says Who?SULLY, IT'S ME with Brian StetlerDan has been in England for a week and now it’s time to come back to America and Election 2016--but first, he has a nice, quiet plane ride with no access to the news. Surely that will go well.
Like Dan’s plane, this election is coming in for a landing. How will this last week go? We asked CNN’s Brian Stelter to talk us through this final week and to discuss the role the media has played in this entire, never-ending (but maybe actually almost ending?) election. Come on, everyone. We’re landing this election...
2016-11-0252 min
Says Who?DONALD DARKO with Olivia NuzziSubscribe on iTunes here. We are also available on most podcatching platforms, so you can listen to us however and wherever you like!
It’s Halloween! Welcome to this SPOOKY episode of Says Who. Dan is just trying to get to the basement to record, but reality isn’t cooperating. Maureen has finally broken into her many spectral forms. And who keeps calling on the phone?
Then the real chills and thrills come: Olivia Nuzzi of the Daily Beast is here to talk about her fifteen months covering Donald Trump, including her trips into Trump Towe...
2016-10-2646 min
Says Who?THREE IS A MAGIC NUMBER with Molly BallSubscribe on iTunes here. We are also available on most podcatching platforms, so you can listen to us however and wherever you like!
We did it! We made it through the third debate! Everything is fine now. Except, who is at the door? What’s that strange machine? Did you know that there have been twenty-five debates in this election cycle? Did you want to know that? Neither did we.
Dan is eating too much pie. Maureen has been up to something. And Molly Ball from The Atlantic speaks to us, fresh off a plane fr...
2016-10-2145 min
Says Who?MINICAST: RELAX WITH SAYS WHOSubscribe on iTunes here. We are also available on most podcatching platforms, so you can listen to us however and wherever you like!
Today’s episode is a MINICAST. The full episode this week will be up on Friday for our POST DEBATE discussion with Molly Ball, politics reporter from The Atlantic.
But! We wanted to give you something you could use to help you in this trying time. This is the official Says Who relaxation hypnosis tape. Feel your election stress melt away. Come relax with us. RELAX.
Have questions for your fr...
2016-10-1808 min
Says Who?THE GHOST OF TWOoOoOoo DEBATES with Jamelle BouieSubscribe on iTunes here. We are also available on most podcatching platforms, so you can listen to us however and wherever you like!
After living through the leaked Trump tape and the second debate (not to mention the VP debate that feels like a million years ago but was actually a week ago), Maureen and Dan try to get out of covering the election, but a spectral visitor brings sets them back on task. The ghost that visits them is nowhere near as terrifying as reality, as the Republican party splits with Trump and the second debate...
2016-10-1233 min
Says Who?SEX, TAXES, AND AUDIOBOOKS with Farai ChideyaSubscribe on iTunes here. We are also available on most podcatching platforms, so you can listen to us however and wherever you like!
Maureen has been listening to audiobooks at night; Dan has some serious questions about where she’s been getting them from. No one has been sleeping much, not Maureen, or Dan, or Donald Trump. It has been a week of midnight creeping, late night tweeting, and general mayhem. Debate meltdowns, imaginary sex tapes, leaked taxes, and increasingly inflammatory proclamations--how to cope with it all? Enter 538’s Farai Chideya, who has been traveling the country this...
2016-10-0544 min
Says Who?THE GREAT DEBATE COASTER with Chris HayesSubscribe on iTunes here. We are also available on most podcatching platforms, so you can listen to us however and wherever you like!
Something strange is happening in the Says Who? studio. Dan and Maureen are visited by a terrible spectre with a strangely familiar voice. Dan isn’t sleeping and Maureen walks through her troubled theme park past. MSNBC’s Chris Hayes comes along and talks about his favorite gum! Also the election. He definitely talks about the election too. Learn what happens behind the scenes on MSNBC, and get a measured take on the debate. Chri...
2016-09-2848 min
Says Who?SUPER PALS, SUPER POLLS with Josh KatzSubscribe on iTunes here. We are also available on most podcatching platforms, so you can listen to us however and wherever you like!
We’ve been hanging on polls for months, but we realized that we didn’t know how polls work. So we got Josh Katz of the New York Times Upshot to explain it to us. Come walk through the process of polling with someone who truly understands how this numerical sausage gets made! This involves landlines, disembodied hands answering phones in haunted houses, and computer models that run millions of simulated elections every few hour...
2016-09-2133 min
Says Who?MAKE ANY OTHER YEAR GREAT AGAIN ALSO with Ana Marie CoxSubscribe on iTunes here. We are also available on most podcatching platforms, so you can listen to us however and wherever you like!
In this inaugural episode of SAYS WHO, Dan and Maureen talk to senior political correspondent for MTV news and creator of Wonkette, Ana Marie Cox.
We sing some songs. We talk of tacos, hats, haunted mansions, and balloons. Oh and also the grinding reality of the 2016 Presidential election. Also that. Ana brings the facts. Maureen sings a few times. Dan tries to find the light in a time of shadow.
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2016-09-1440 min