<p>It’s the night before Thanksgiving and somehow I ended up on a call with a Daily Wire recruiter, meeting one of the internet’s first viral stars, and spiraling into a full holiday fever dream sponsored by Ken Burns’s new American Revolution doc. Pour one out with me for this party of the century as I unpack the clash of ideas, influencers who are fake, algorithms that are tyrants, and why I’m still thankful. Before we break out into a full-blown civil war, here’s to America—still the wildest miracle on Earth. (Second only to immaculate conception, depending on who you ask.)Follow me:IG: @talktometaylorX: @TaylorFerberTikTok: @TalkToMeTaylor </p>

An Escobar in My Chat… and My Power Went Out. I’m Not Kidding.

"Don’t tell me what I can and can’t say." Veteran journalist Taylor Ferber wrote this in her unprecedented Playboy feature, challenging the idea that brains and beauty are mutually exclusive, as the only woman who both posed and was a featured writer. After years as Hollywood's "Celebrity Whisperer" who interviewed and humanized the biggest A-listers, her irreverent show empowers viewers to think freely outside rules in politics, media, and pop culture, getting big guests like Blake Shelton, Tucker Carlson, Dave Portnoy, to say what they really think.