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The Sauce with Maya Gurantz and Rebecca Cohen

Maya Gurantz & Rebecca Cohen

A culture & politics podcast where we drink cocktails and ruin the stuff you love.

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Sauce Classics Trump’s Dementia

The Sauce with Maya Gurantz and Rebecca Cohen ·

2025/10/28

Huh, people are talking about Trump and dementia? Funny, WE TALKED ABOUT THIS A YEAR AGO! Rebecca and Maya revisit our episode where we investigate Trump’s lapses in memory, behavior and language and ask how well they match up with the medically defined symptoms of frontotemporal dementia.

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1:25:16

VetBros and Pete Hegseth (with Guest John Armenta!)

The Sauce with Maya Gurantz and Rebecca Cohen ·

2025/10/22

Who is Pete Hegseth, how in hell did he end up Secretary of Defense, why is he renaming it the Department of War, and what were he and Trump doing calling 600 top generals into a room for a Big Boy Pep Talk? Very Special Guest John Armenta–an army vet and communications professor who studies … Continue reading "VetBros and Pete Hegseth (with Guest John Armenta!)"

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1:11:00

Charlie Kirk, Jimmy Kimmel, and Free Speech Part A...

The Sauce with Maya Gurantz and Rebecca Cohen ·

2025/10/10

Why were flags at half mast for a grifting podcaster? In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder, Rebecca and Maya break down his life and the aftermath of his death–along the way noting flagrant political opportunism, right wing abuses of “free speech”, and key differences between various terminally online young male subcultures.

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1:12:31

Problematic Fave: BOB DYLAN (with very special guests...

The Sauce with Maya Gurantz and Rebecca Cohen ·

2025/09/15

Bob Dylan is many things. A basic bitch isn’t one of them. We welcome brilliant lifelong Dylan-ologists Elizabeth Nelson and Jeff Jackson to pull apart what Dylan means, why music biopics suck, and everything James Mangold missed in the most recent filmic attempt to contain Dylan’s legacy, the nostalgia-fest A Complete Unknown.

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1:04:05

The Biggest Loser

The Sauce with Maya Gurantz and Rebecca Cohen ·

2025/09/02

Rebecca and Maya watched Fit For TV, the recent streaming Netflix docu-series on The Biggest Loser, and talk fat-shaming, abuse as motivation, fake therapeutic breakthroughs after which nothing changes, and why it takes a decade and a documentary for us to publicly acknowledge that the thing that seemed so fucked up back then was, indeed, … Continue reading "The Biggest Loser"

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35:47

The Epstein Files!

The Sauce with Maya Gurantz and Rebecca Cohen ·

2025/08/25

Will the Epstein Files put the final dagger into the rise of fascism? Rebecca and Maya are here to ruin any hopes you have. We’ve known for DECADES that Donald Trump was a creepy-buddy with mysterious financier-pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Is this going to trigger a MAGA-Trump breakup? Might the administration be hoist on its own … Continue reading "The Epstein Files!"

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1:10:32

Severance

The Sauce with Maya Gurantz and Rebecca Cohen ·

2025/06/25

Maya and Rebecca ride the down elevator into Apple TV’s hit Severance. Identity. Work-life balance. Bullshit jobs. Setting good boundaries. The toxic rot and unremitting evil at the very heart of Capitalism. Is this show hitting the BIG GESTALT BUTTON of THIS MOMENT?

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49:17

Martial Law (with Very Special Guest Dr. Carrie Ann...

The Sauce with Maya Gurantz and Rebecca Cohen ·

2025/06/16

As Trump deploys National Guard and Marines to LA in the face of widespread civilian protests against ICE raids, we talk Martial Law and autocratic use of force (and drink!) with Dr. Carrie Lee, an expert in civil-military relations who concisely breaks down the specifics of what we should be looking for in this Administrations’s … Continue reading "Martial Law (with Very Special Guest Dr. Carrie Ann Lee!)"

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1:09:01

RIP Free Speech

The Sauce with Maya Gurantz and Rebecca Cohen ·

2025/05/01

For years, right wingers have loudly decried supposed attacks on free speech. Yet now those free speech warriors are strangely silent as Trump punishes universities and ICE arrests students for expressing dissent. Maya and Rebecca explain how this turnabout is not simple hypocrisy, uncovering how right wing discourse about free speech paved the way for … Continue reading "RIP Free Speech"

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1:07:58

Dems in Disarray

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2025/02/25

With Trump and Musk trampling American democracy, why aren’t elected Democrats doing more to stop the carnage? Maya and Rebecca piece together why the opposition party can’t seem to get its shit together and draw unexpected insight from the Drake and Kendrick Lamar feud to figure out what Democrats should be doing differently,

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1:15:40

Ruining Huck Finn, with VERY SPECIAL GUESTS David F....

The Sauce with Maya Gurantz and Rebecca Cohen ·

2025/02/13

Let’s ruin the Great American Novel. Maya and Rebecca are joined by Artist (and longtime Sauce listener!) Marcus Kwame Anderson and writer David F. Walker to discuss their new book– Big Jim and the White Boy, an audacious (and inspired) retelling of Huck Finn. Listeners may remember Marcus and David from the last time we … Continue reading "Ruining Huck Finn, with VERY SPECIAL GUESTS David F. Walker and Marcus Kwame Anderson"

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1:19:17

Bread and Circuses: Michael Jackson ONE and Cirque du...

The Sauce with Maya Gurantz and Rebecca Cohen ·

2025/02/06

How are we going to survive the fascist takeover of our government? Through a delicate balance of activism and avoidance. Maya and Rebecca introduce a new ongoing feature, BREAD AND CIRCUSES with Cirque du Soleil’s insane Michael Jackson show, and unpack what it teaches us about how to make a spectacle out of a very … Continue reading "Bread and Circuses: Michael Jackson ONE and Cirque du Soleil"

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TRANS PANIC! (Election 2024 Edition) with Special...

The Sauce with Maya Gurantz and Rebecca Cohen ·

2024/12/17

After a nice long stretch of denial, Maya and Rebecca dip our toes back into political waters with Very Special Guests Guy Branum and Grace Freud, who bring queer and trans perspectives to the transphobic messaging the Trump campaign relied on so heavily this past election season. Why was it so effective? How did it … Continue reading "TRANS PANIC! (Election 2024 Edition) with Special Guests Guy Branum and Grace Freud"

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1:37:08

WTF Happened?

The Sauce with Maya Gurantz and Rebecca Cohen ·

2024/11/21

Welp, America has chosen fascism. But the rejection of liberal democracy didn’t start with Donald Trump; it’s been taking shape for decades. Maya and Rebecca sort out how things went so horribly wrong, both this election cycle and over the last 40 years of American politics. Is our political system broken? And what do we … Continue reading "WTF Happened?"

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1:33:34

The Trump Cult: Revisited

The Sauce with Maya Gurantz and Rebecca Cohen ·

2024/11/04

So we’re all freaking out in this final stretch before Election Day 2024. Rebecca and Maya revisit our episode on the Trump Cult from four years ago, recorded right before Biden’s inauguration, which we then thought—perhaps naively—would be the last one we’d have to do. We listen to it again and ask: why are we … Continue reading "The Trump Cult: Revisited"

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1:07:10

Why Is the Race So Close??

The Sauce with Maya Gurantz and Rebecca Cohen ·

2024/10/22

On the one hand, a demented felon on a cross country tour, swaying and screaming nonsense into the void. But on the other hand–wait, HOW IS THERE ANOTHER HAND? Rebecca and Maya assess Trump’s increasingly fascist language, rapidly deteriorating coherence, and try to wrap our heads around how this can even be close. And the … Continue reading "Why Is the Race So Close??"

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1:16:10

All-American Fascism Part 2: Neo-Nazi Boogaloo

The Sauce with Maya Gurantz and Rebecca Cohen ·

2024/09/30

We all know Trump is a fascist, but lately he and JD Vance have taken it to a whole new level. Maya and Rebecca break down the unvarnished neo-Nazi talking points in their recent rhetoric and ponder the question: Is white nationalism really an effective campaign strategy?

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The Harris-Trump Debate

The Sauce with Maya Gurantz and Rebecca Cohen ·

2024/09/16

What did we want to see in last week’s Debate between TFG and VP Harris? Nothing that would make us want to puke. Maya and Rebecca talk about the impossibility of debating Trump, the things Kamala actually made possible, and whether our brains have been too broken by all of this to even see clearly … Continue reading "The Harris-Trump Debate"

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1:27:40

Vance, Walz and Dueling Masculinities

The Sauce with Maya Gurantz and Rebecca Cohen ·

2024/09/09

JD Vance and Tim Walz represent a stark contrast in not just donut-ordering skills, but also performances of masculinity. Maya and Rebecca compare the drastically different representations of maleness embodied by each VP candidate, uncovering what their rhetoric and political philosophies reveal about their attitudes toward gender roles, and examining how it all connects to … Continue reading "Vance, Walz and Dueling Masculinities"

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1:04:24

Sauce Classics: RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA!

The Sauce with Maya Gurantz and Rebecca Cohen ·

2024/09/06

As the DOJ indictments on Russian interference in right wing media and politics begin rolling out this week, Maya and Rebecca thought it would be a good time to share this episode about the changing roles Russia has played and continues to fill in the American cultural imagination.

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