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Red State Reboot

Fried Green Tomato Media

Red State Reboot is what happens when two friends read way too much news and realize that podcasts are way too easy to make. Every Monday, Ben & Abby take you on a guided tour through the headlines of the day. You’ll come for the digestible political analysis, stay for the cultural critique and unhinged group chat energy, and become a true Rebooty because of a shared empathy for real people trying to make sense of modern times. It’s political comedy for folks who are tired of feeling hopeless,

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28:54

#29 UPDATE: Skrmetti

Red State Reboot ·

2025/06/20

TLDR: SCOTUS isn’t interested in protecting trans kids. But we are!In this ep, we give an update on something we covered back on ep #3 of RSR: the U.S. vs Skrmetti case involving the access of gender-affirming care for minors that made its way all the way from Tennessee to the Supreme Court. On Wednesday, June 18, the Supreme Court upheld the ban on young people accessing this form of healthcare, and on Thursday, June 19, we got on our microphones to get f*cking angry about it. As always, though,

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19:50

#28 REBOOT: Judge Jeanine

Red State Reboot ·

2025/06/19

Unlike Judge Judy’s ‘Judy Justice,’ this REBOOT is one y’all should care about! This week, listen to us (two liberal leftists in need of a lobotomy) cover the one and only (derogatory) Judge Jeanine Pirro. We recorded this one a few weeks back, but the intro is fresh and NEW for ya’ll! BTW: we’re still wondering if we’re the very first or very last people to make a connection between ‘reptilian’ conspiracy theories and ‘draining the swamp…’ We’ll be back tomorrow with one last mini-ep to close out

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#27 UPDATE: Kilmar Abrego Garcia

Red State Reboot ·

2025/06/18

Update alert! We are giving y’all the latest on Kilmar Abrego Garcia today - he is back in the U.S., but things are still rough AF, to say the very least. The U.S. government brought Abrego Garcia back from CECOT (El Salvador’s mega-prison) to charge him federally of a crime, and he is facing trial in Nashville as we speak. In case you weren’t following this sitch already, we pull from a VERY reliable source (ourselves) from mid-April to provide the context throughout, so don’t even worry. We know

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20:58

#26 Dueling Parades

Red State Reboot ·

2025/06/17

Well, slap our asses and call us journalists, because we’re here on a TUESDAY to deliver primo bonus content to y’all as we approach the finale of Season 1 of Red State Reboot! The thesis of this episode is simple… wouldn’t you rather be a part of the good parade than the bad parade? We know we sure would! Enjoy our brief (for us this is SO BRIEF!!) ep on Trump’s rainy pity parade in contrast to the related No Kings protests (plus Pride parades!) that were a hell of a lot more inspiring. See ya

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44:34

#25 Greta & Palestine

Red State Reboot ·

2025/06/16

Y’all know by now that any time we say we have “a quick footnote,” the episode topics are about to jump the hell around. Today, we have MANY quick footnotes. Highlights include: Greta Thunberg continues to inspire us both with her advocacy and with her Internet beef, we reallyyyyyyy have the ick about JD Vance and his socials, Elon & Trump get back together, it’s jailbreak season, the U.S. is notttt going to be on the cute side of WW3, and we (finally, lol) say Free Palestine with our whole

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53:20

#24 Bestie Breakup & Los Angeles

Red State Reboot ·

2025/06/11

Trump & Elon sure did break up, but don’t you even worry for a second that there’s any sort of bestie breakup here on RSR! Listen, y’all. We know things are really rough right now. They are going to continue to be bad. All there really is to do at the end of the day is to stick together, advocate for the preservation of democracy and human rights, and maybe even make our days a lil brighter with some laughs. We hope we successfully accomplished all three of these things in this ep. Today, we’re

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42:08

#23 Trump Reheats South Africa’s Nachos

Red State Reboot ·

2025/06/09

Number 1: We missed y’all last week, say it back!! Number 1.5: Buy the stickers on our website :) Number 2: That smell coming from the kitchen is 100% Trump reheating nasty white supremacy nachos - yuck! In this episode, we’re ‘getting into it’ and talking about the white genocide myth (conspiracy theory) in South Africa, Trump’s meeting with President Ramaphosa, and your aunt’s Facebook posts that Trump definitely printed out and took to the meeting as notes. Come along on a journey where Abby’s

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4:28

#22 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Red State Reboot ·

2025/06/02

Our Statement on Another Matter.

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51:00

#21 Jake Tapper & Journalistic "Integrity"

Red State Reboot ·

2025/05/26

We have two things to say up top: 1) RSR STICKERS ARE FOR SALE!!!! & 2) hang in there, J’Biden! (https://www.friedgreentomatomedia.com/store)Now that we’re all set on those fronts… we need to get into it regarding *that* book by Jake “straw man” Tapper (& Alex Thompson). And no, we’re not talking about some of the former’s shit historical fiction that Abby did fall victim to in the throes of the pandemic. We’re talking Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His

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65:49

#19 Harvard & Hollywood

Red State Reboot ·

2025/05/12

We were stumped on a topic this week, so we took to our hotline inbox and OOOOOOO did y’all cook! Because alliteration scratches our brain, we figured we should combine 2 great listener questions - one on Linda WWE’s ongoing email beef with Harvard, and one on the Hollywood tariffs that Trump imposed (but then moonwalked RIGHT back). Alas, “Harvard & Hollywood” was born and… damn, we had more to say on this than we thought!!!! We get into the patterns of written (typed) TRUMP SPEAK, Hollywood’s

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56:17

#17 The Call Is Coming From Inside The House

Red State Reboot ·

2025/04/28

There’s really something special about podcasting <3 Like the fact this ep caught the live moment when we realized what we had been yapping about for 40 minutes was basically just the Streisand Effect. Nothing (just kidding, literally so much) gets past us! Anyhow, we hope y’all liked our REBOOT last week, but we have a fresh NEW ep for you today! This one starts with our chaotic as f*ck response to a listener voicemail about Katy-Perry-Blue-Origin-gate, a shoutout to the gal who upgraaaaaaaded

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49:35

#16 REBOOT: The Comstock Act & Airport Pulled Pork

Red State Reboot ·

2025/04/21

If y’all feel like things are absolutely f*cking crazy these days… same. We’re taking a break this week! Today’s episode is a REBOOT of ‘The Comstock Act & Airport Pulled Pork’ from March 10. In the ep, we cover Anthony Comstock, the freaks (yes, HWF is ~resurrected~ in this one lol) who are trying to revive nineteenth century morality/obscenity laws, and the ethics and dangers of meat from LaGuardia. Happy Easter if you celebrate!—Text or Call our Hotline: 336-422-6267 IG: @redstaterebootpod

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#15 EMERGENCY EP: Kilmar Abrego Garcia

Red State Reboot ·

2025/04/17

Right now, Kilmar Abrego Garcia is behind bars in CECOT: the notorious mega-prison in El Salvador. One month ago he was pulled over by ICE and told that his protected immigration status no longer applied. Minutes later he was in handcuffs, and three days later - without any new charges, and without a court hearing - he was secretly deported to El Salvador to be imprisoned at CECOT. His family sued in federal court, seeking answers and justice. The federal judge ruled that Abrego Garcia was indeed

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48:38

#14 Tariff Belly Flops & Mental Gymnastics

Red State Reboot ·

2025/04/14

Y’all know the dad that turns the van around to prove a point, even though it’s going to spite him in the end? That’s Trump’s level of stubbornness with his (concepts of a) plan for tariffs, and in this ep, we cover what the hell a tariff is, why historians and economists are shaking their heads at Trump’s recent moves, and end with some projections on how the aftershocks of all this chaos will affect everyday people. Spoiler: it's tariff-fying (…we had to). Also: Ben gives Trump a new nickname,

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64:48

#13 Listener Grab Bag

Red State Reboot ·

2025/04/07

SCOTUS may have held the first listener grab bag with Marbury v. Madison, but the rumors (and the nastiness) are true: we’re rebooting that shit! This week, Ben and Abby are responding to listener texts and voicemails that we received via the NEW (!!) Red State Reboot Hotline. We cover a range of topics, such as… was J’Biden really the most progressive President? Do boycotts work? Is it possible to stay politically well-informed without getting burnt out? And is it *always* worth it to stick up for

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50:16

#12 Bathroom Bill Reboot & Tillis Misses the Plot

Red State Reboot ·

2025/03/31

Former line leaders Ben & Abby are back here again on Red State Reboot! And we have some voicemail inboxes to yap about: U.S. Senator for NC Thom Tillis’... AND OURS!!! Text or call our NEW Red State Reboot hotline at 336-422-6267. But, on a more somber note: in this episode we discuss two things that have disappointed us from our North Carolina legislators in the last couple weeks… 1) the introduction of NC Senate Bill 516 (aka an HB2 “bathroom bill” reboot that uses the guise of ‘protecting

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38:24

#11 Oops...Wrong Group Chat

Red State Reboot ·

2025/03/26

LIVE AND UNEDITED! And back again for a midweek rant and quick-take on THE scoop of the week. ICYMI: National Security Advisor Michael Waltz negligently added the Editor-in-Chief of The Atlantic to a group Signal message with other Trump Administration officials (Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, and others). No one caught the new bonus addition, the group continued to discuss *attack plans* in

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59:06

#8 Freak, Freak, Hair on Fleek: The Rise and Fall of...

Red State Reboot ·

2025/03/17

An episode so nice we recorded it twice! Our perfectionism may be a hindrance on us but TRUST it’s a blessing for y’all <3. Abigail and Benjamin are back here this week to talk all things Karen/CAREN. We dive into the etymology of the term which leads us through an exploration of Mean Girls (side note: please look up ‘Amanda Seyfried dulcimer’ to enjoy a most glorious side of the Internet today), To Kill A Mockingbird, reclaiming pejorative terms, and how leaning into the clickbait-iness of our

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48:34

#7 The Comstock Act & Airport Pulled Pork

Red State Reboot ·

2025/03/10

WE SAY NO AND HELL NO (to abortion bans and foodborne illness)! Just like the bad airport pulled pork that Ben ate last week, the Comstock Act is making us f*cking sick. This week we’re covering Anthony Comstock in all his 1873-world-we-inhabit muttonchops glory, the freaks trying to revive nineteenth century morality/obscenity laws, and the ethics and dangers of meat from LaGuardia... still, we have nothing but respect for (queen) Kathy Hochul. So if you’re also pro-choice and anti-airport food, we

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41:40

#6 Marco! Polio!

Red State Reboot ·

2025/03/03

Red State Reboot reporting on location from… well you’ll just have to listen to find out where we are today! Just like folklore & evermore, this week’s ep is the sister to #5, because immigration and foreign policy go hand-in-hand. That said, what goes in RFK Jr.’s hands is anybody’s guess, but it sure’s not a vaccine! We also cover (in a shockingly positive light) Secretary of State Marco Rubio, but definitely don’t let him off the hook as we call attention to the Administration’s continued

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