Kickass News
Hosted by Hollywood producer and political media strategist Ben Mathis, KickAss News is a twice weekly podcast that features the most interesting personalities and thought leaders in politics, entertainment, tech, business, science, and more. Enjoy the podcast? Then please support the show and help keep us on the air by making a donation to our GoFundMe campaign at www.gofundme.com/kickassnews. Another way you can support the show is to subscribe to the podcast and leave us a review on iTunes to help keep us ranking strong on the top podcasts charts. For more information visit www.kickassnews.com. Thanks for listening!
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Remembering Anthony Bourdain (Rerun)
Today's episode is a rerun of an interview with that originally aired 10/12/17. Anthony speaks candidly about the problem of food waste, who is to blame, and who is working on solutions. He discusses how he and his...
36 min
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John C. Reilly and Steve Coogan on Becoming Lau...
John C. Reilly and Steve Coogan discuss their childhood love of the Laurel & Hardy movies, stepping into the shoes of the legendary comedy duo for their new film , and the transformation that allowed John to step in the famously large pants...
43 min
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Leon Panetta on Governing by Leadership Instead...
talks about hard decisions, worthy fights, and "governing by leadership instead of by crisis." He recalls growing up in Monterey, California as the first generation of Italian immigrants and warns the Trump Administration’s harsh...
37 min
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The Office's Paul Lieberstein Turns Back Pain i...
Paul Lieberstein () talks about his 20 year struggle with crippling back pain inspired his funny and moving directorial debut film . He shares how the king of indie filmmaking Mark Duplass convinced him to make the movie himself rather than...
41 min
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Pete Holmes Talks Fatherhood, Comedy, and Makin...
Comedian talks about his new HBO comedy special , paying his dues as a comic, and all of life’s weird and wonderful questions. Pete says standup is still his first love, but podcasting is how he makes friends these days, and he...
55 min
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Tha Fabulous Tina Brown Returns
The legendary returns to talk about growing up in an entertainment family, how she got expelled from 3 different boarding schools for being a “subversive influence,” and how that same subversiveness served her well as editor of Vanity Fair....
48 min
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Historian H.W. Brands on Washington in the Age ...
Historian discusses his new book . Professor Brands talks about how these three political giants crafted the Compromise of 1850 which barely held the Union together, why none of these three men was ever elected President, and how...
47 min
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The Daily Show's Trevor Noah
talks about his new standup special and why he dedicated it to his mom whom he calls “the first comedian that he ever saw” and “most gangster human being you’ll ever meet in your life.” He discusses growing up in South Africa during...
41 min
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David Priess Reveals How to Get Rid of a President
returns to deliver a colorful political history of the schemes, maneuvers, and conspiracies that have attempted to remove unwanted presidents. He discusses the various President’s who’ve died in office of natural and unnatural...
42 min
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Author Michael Connelly on Cops, Crime Reportin...
Best-selling crime novelist talks about his literary hero Raymond Chandler, how he followed in the footsteps of the king of detective noir when he first came to Los Angeles, and how Chandler’s novels influenced his own writing. He...
49 min
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Dan Rather on the Values That Unite America
Legendary newsman Dan Rather talks about his 60 year career and how his travels and conversations have given him a “wide shot” of the American experience and the values that unite us. He condemns recent attacks on some on those values...
47 min
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General Stanley McChrystal on Myths and Realiti...
General Stanley McChrystal talks about the myths and reality of leadership. He shares how he came to reassess the legacy of his military hero General Robert E. Lee in the aftermath of Charlottseville, how he personally learned that the man...
48 min
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Willem Dafoe on Art, Acting and "Embracing the ...
Oscar-nominated actor Willem Dafoe (Platoon, Spiderman, The Grand Budapest Hotel) shares how his beginnings in experimental theater inform his acting, what draws him to independent films, and what it’s like to make his 100th movie....
42 min
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Washington Post Reporter Greg Miller on Trump, ...
Greg Miller is one of the reporters for who received the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for his groundbreaking stories on Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, and the resulting investigations of the Trump...
53 min
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Comedian Chris Gethard on the Art of Losing
Comedian illustrates his personal and professional manifesto "lose well" with hilarious and ultimately empowering tales about his own missteps, misadventures, and public failures from the cancellation of his Comedy Central sitcom after ten...
53 min
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Roger Daltrey on The Who, Woodstock, and his Ro...
Roger Daltrey, founder/lead singer of The Who, discusses how the hardships experienced by Brits in WWII paved the way for the musical revolution of the 1960s, he recalls what it was like to be the poster-boys for the British “mod” movement (and...
43 min
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Sir Michael Caine on Old Movie Stars, Young Coc...
Sir Michael Caine has starred in over 100 movies and won two Academy Awards, and today he shares stories and advice from his remarkable career. He reveals why he never believed in taking advice from older movie stars, why he never wanted to...
36 min
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Senator Ben Sasse on Political Division and Ame...
does a deep dive into the societal shifts affecting modern American life and the roots of our political divisiveness. He talk about the outsized role politics plays in our daily lives, how "polititainment" celebrities like Sean Hannity are...
53 min
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Anthony Atamanuik Opens Up the Trump Presidenti...
Anthony Atamanuik, host of Comedy Central's The President Show returns to the podcast to talk about his new book American Tantrum: The Donald J. Trump Presidential Archives, why the President wants to open his Presidential Library while he's...
46 min
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Julian Castro Is Always Looking Ahead
Julian Castro graduated high school a year early, won election to city council while he was still in law school, and became San Antonio's youngest mayor at age 27, before eventually serving as President Obama's Secretary of Housing and Urban...
47 min
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Legendary Sports Announcer Verne Lundquist
Legendary sports broadcaster Verne Lundquist recalls some of his favorite moments in sports and some of his favorite calls from Jack Nicklaus's final victory at the 1986 Masters and Tonya Harding's attack on Nancy Kerrigan at the 1994...
37 min
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Doris Kearns Goodwin on Presidential Leadership
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian revisits four of her favorite U.S. Presidents for her new book . Today she discusses the ideological family tree shared by Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, and Lyndon...
56 min
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Founder of "The Onion" Scott Dikkers
As the founder of , practically invented "fake news." He discusses the origins of the satirical news site as a print newspaper on college campuses, how he drew inspiration from National Lampoon and Spy Magazine, and the article...
43 min
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Mitch Albom on Life, Death, and Morrie
is the author the all time best-selling memoir Tuesday's with Morrie and six #1 Bestsellers that have sold over a million copies worldwide. He talks about his new novel The Next Person You Meet in Heaven, how losing his adopted daughter to...
53 min
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Jeff Bridges Gets Zen About Art, Acting, and th...
discusses his 6 decades in Hollywood and what he learned about acting from dad Lloyd Bridges. He recalls the "Little Rascals" version of Tucker that he and Francis Ford Coppola made prior to filming, laughing it up with Robin Williams...
48 min