This week, we tap in with one of the white whales of this podcast, Danny Bessner of American Prestige, a “heterodox foreign policy podcast”, which he cohosts with fellow comrade Derek Davison. We talk about Danny’s path from being a listener of Marc Maron to becoming a legendary podcaster in his own right and listening to more niche pods such as The LexG Movie Podcast. Over the course of our talk we get into Danny’s experience becoming radicalized by 9/11 and then grad school, getting into podcasting through Chapo Trap House and Jacobin, podding with “the Babe Ruth of Podcasting” (Matt Christman) on Hinge Points, challenging guests, the Left crumbling on Israel/Palestine, Jan. 6 and the hinge point that is Donald Trump. If you’d like to skip straight to the interview, tune into