Season 1
May 27, 2025
The Oligarchy's Big, Beautiful Looting Spree
This week, the McElwee family returns to the belly of the beast - domestic politics - to rip apart Trump’s $4.5 trillion “budget” bill, aka oligarchic looting plan. We break down what’s in the bill, how it’s quietly murdering...
May 20, 2025
Reality TV is Now Real: Trump's Oligarchy Tour
This week, we start with the deranged plot twist of the Duck Dynasty guy teaming up with Homeland Security to turn immigration into reality TV. For these people, The Hunger Games was a how-to manual. From there, we drag our m...
May 13, 2025
Your Border is Showing: From Kashmir to ICE
Meg returns for a Mother’s Day episode that is warm, weird, and wildly enraging. We start with a ceasefire (India and Pakistan) and end with state violence (ICE kidnapping a mom in Massachusetts). In between, we explore the i...
May 6, 2025
Answer Every Bloody Body: Gaza and the Fight for Civilization
This week, it’s just Patrick and Finn—no Meg, but plenty of rage, history, and dark humor. Starting with the unspeakable horrors coming out of Gaza, they explore not only the U.S.’s financial and political complicity but also...
April 29, 2025
Founding Fathers and Other Fairy Tales
In this episode of The Left Unsaid , Pat, Meg, and Finn take a wild, unbalanced joyride through the myths we’re taught in school — from the sacred veneration of the Founding Fathers to the soothing bedtime stories spun by Ken...
April 23, 2025
Harvard vs. The Empire (for now)
In this episode of The Left Unsaid , your favorite intergenerational think tank—Pat, Meg, and Finn—dive headfirst into the authoritarian fever dream that is U.S. higher education under pressure from the Trump administration. ...
April 15, 2025
Don't Feed the Robot Dogs: Obedience is optional
In this debut episode, Patrick, Meg and Finn sway to the vibes of our current political moment: killer robot dogs dressed as cartoons, Mahmoud Khalil and predictive political repression, why "not obeying in advance" might be ...