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A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein

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Last Checked: 2025-08-02 10:46:02

Jojo Siwa’s Truman Show

25 Jul 2025

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Jojo Siwa has been a lot of things: an eleven-year-old abused on television for public entertainment...

The New York Times Thinks Gays Have Gone Too Far (with Chase Strangio)

Sat, 12 Jul

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On the twilight of Pride Month, the New York Times published (and sent out a push notification for) ...

Why Is Everyone Going Back Into the Closet?

Fri, 27 Jun

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From granola fascism to the manosphere, much gets said of the various right-wing pipelines people ha...

Never Apologize to Fascists (with Contrapoints)

Fri, 13 Jun

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Last week, world-class athlete Simone Biles stood up to failed-athlete-turned-crybully Riley Gaines ...

The Antisemitism Panic (with Matt Lieb)

Fri, 30 May

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“From the river to the sea” is antisemitic. “Free Palestine” is antisemitic. Children’s Yo...

A Morning With Vivian Wilson, Elon’s Estranged Daughter

Fri, 16 May

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In today’s special episode, we’re taking a break from political and cultural analysis to chat wi...

The Breeders Who Want You to Have More Kids Right Now

Sat, 03 May

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Last week, the New York Times reported: “White House Assesses Ways to Persuade Women to Have More ...

“Alpha Males” Are Making Men Lonelier (with Ryan Broderick)

Fri, 18 Apr

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When fitness influencer Ashton Hall’s absurd morning routine went viral a few weeks ago, I was… ...

Maia Poet: The Final Boss of Detrans Grifters (with Kat Blaque)

Fri, 04 Apr

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What does “gender ideology” have in common with ISIS? Well, they are both… things, arguably. A...

Gwen Stefani: From Feminist to Fascist

Fri, 21 Mar

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When Gwen Stefani made a tacit endorsement of Tucker Carlson earlier this month, I felt like somebod...

The Complex Tragedy of Grimes

Fri, 07 Mar

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To the mainstream news, she’s the mother of three of Elon Musk’s children. To a certain type of ...

The Incoherent Sexual Politics of the Right

Fri, 21 Feb

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Elon Musk just (allegedly) had his thirteenth child with a fourth woman — a 26-year-old “conserv...

How Conservatism Infiltrated Pop Culture

Fri, 07 Feb

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Quiet luxury. Clean girl. Old money. Trad living. Kylie Jenner’s pivot from Black culture vulture ...

The Tech Bro-ligarchy

Fri, 24 Jan

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Our country is now run by a bunch of spineless billionaires who were cast out as nerds in college so...

Blake Lively and the Amber Heard Effect

Fri, 10 Jan

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The first episode of this podcast ever recorded was about Amber Heard and the online public’s inab...

Why is the Media Coverage of Luigi Mangione So Bad?

Thu, 19 Dec 2024 05:22:00 -0000

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The remarkable dissonance between the public’s embrace of UnitedHealthcare CEO assassin Luigi Mang...

How Did Elon Musk Get Like This?

Fri, 13 Dec

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There was a time before Elon Musk was tweeting 60 times a day about trans people and the woke mind v...

Is Glinda Good?

Thu, 28 Nov 2024 05:12:21 -0000

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A Bit Fruity was due for a good old-fashioned film analysis. Wicked is a kids movie that is actually...

How the Right is Winning Young Men (with Taylor Lorenz)

Fri, 15 Nov

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This was the first election where the online far-right radicalization of young boys and men revealed...

Riley Gaines: Tie for 5th, Grift for Life

Wed, 30 Oct

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In America, the only thing standing between you and wealth beyond your wildest dreams is tying for f...

Jubilee Must Be Stopped

Thu, 10 Oct 2024 07:07:40 -0000

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The slogan of YouTube’s most popular debate channel, Jubilee, is “provoke understanding & create...

The Cult of Stan Culture (with Amanda Montell)

Thu, 26 Sep 2024 06:10:00 -0000

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Well, I got Swiftied. As I sat there, sifting through ever more creative and graphic death threats, ...

Chappell Roan’s War on Fame (with Eliza McLamb)

Thu, 12 Sep 2024 07:29:12 -0000

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H-O-T-T-O-G-O, Chappell Roan is someone we do not actually know. But what do we do with the (very re...

The Crunchy to Far Right Pipeline

Wed, 28 Aug

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How does a harmless interest in yoga turn into a crusade against homosexuals in public schools? Spec...

Transvestigating (with Contrapoints)

Wed, 14 Aug

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Your gender is not determined by your anatomy, your chromosomes, your hormones, or even your interna...

The Kamalafication of BRAT

Thu, 01 Aug 2024 05:50:00 -0000

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Is Kamala bumpin’ that? Is BRAT summer over? Who killed it? Today, Maia of Rehash and I attempt a ...

Hawk Tuah: From Harmless Meme to Right Wing Symbol

Wed, 17 Jul

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I stay away from heterosexual mess, but this time it came to me. Today, Taylor Lorenz and I work bac...

Stories from the AIDS Crisis

Wed, 03 Jul

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A special episode where we hear from listeners of the show who were lovers, nurses, relatives, stude...

The Celebrity Ozempidemic (with Aubrey Gordon)

Thu, 20 Jun 2024 06:50:08 -0000

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A drug that needs no introduction and a culture of fatphobia that lives on. Today, we are ALL beatin...

Oli London & the Right Wing Grift (with Taylor Lorenz)

Wed, 05 Jun

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How does a white gay guy from England go from “trans-Korean” troll to a member of the conservati...

Amy Schumer & the Plague of White Feminism (with Broey Deschanel)

Tue, 21 May 2024 06:45:00 -0000

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Girlbossing too close to the sun can cause a real trainwreck. Today, we examine the unstable foundat...

Everything the Media is Getting Wrong About the College Protests

Thu, 09 May 2024 05:54:47 -0000

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Until a month ago, college students in America were dweeby snowflake liberals, too socially anxious ...

Annoying Gays are Not the Problem

Wed, 24 Apr

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Autistic nonbinary TikTokers. Loud, flamboyant gay men. The twink who filmed himself having sex in t...

Drake Bell and the Cycle of Abuse

Tue, 09 Apr 2024 07:28:06 -0000

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The new docu-series “Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV” is shedding light on the abuse that...

J.K. Rowling’s Spiral into Madness (with ContraPoints)

Tue, 26 Mar 2024 08:13:21 -0000

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From “sex is real” to Holocaust denial — if it happened to the wizard lady, it can happen to y...

How Love, Simon’s Author was Pushed Out of the Closet

Tue, 12 Mar 2024 05:59:48 -0000

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In 2018, I called “Love, Simon” a “gay movie made by a straight woman for straight people.” ...

Conservatives Don’t Care About Your Kids

Tue, 27 Feb 2024 06:29:33 -0000

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A rant. Support me on Patreon! Learn more about Trans Lifeline. Big thanks to Rocket Money for spo...

The 100-Year-Old Myth of Gays “Coming for Your Children”

Tue, 13 Feb 2024 07:24:00 -0000

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I get called a “groomer” on Twitter every day — which is weird, because I want nothing to do w...

Surviving AIDS in the 80s

Tue, 30 Jan 2024 09:24:00 -0000

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Peter Staley was a 24-year-old, closeted finance guy when he was diagnosed with HIV. Having been han...

The Political Power of Taylor Swift

Tue, 16 Jan 2024 09:35:00 -0000

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Taylor Swift has the power to swing the presidential election. What if nothing else matters? Support...

Bud Light and the End of Rainbow Marketing, For Now

Tue, 02 Jan 2024 05:31:00 -0000

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How the manufactured hysteria over a single can of beer brought an end to the golden age of rainbow ...

George Santos is a Terrible Person and the Embodiment of the American Dream

Wed, 20 Dec

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Is there valor in scamming your way through a system that failed you, even if you hurt people along ...

The Detransitioner Panic

Tue, 05 Dec 2023 08:00:00 -0000

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99% of people who transition continue identifying as transgender for the rest of their lives. The ve...

Queer Palestinians & The Power of Pinkwashing

Tue, 21 Nov 2023 10:00:00 -0000

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Are “Queers for Palestine” really like “Chickens for KFC”? No, but understanding intersectio...

Christian Indoctrination in Homeschooling

Tue, 07 Nov 2023 10:00:00 -0000

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The number of kids being homeschooled today is more than double of what it was four years ago, and n...

Libs of TikTok

Tue, 24 Oct 2023 08:00:00 -0000

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At the forefront of today’s anti-LGBTQ movement is one shockingly uncharismatic woman. Journalist ...

The Mom Who Invented Gender Reveals Regrets It

Tue, 10 Oct 2023 07:22:51 -0000

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In 2008, Jenna Karvunidis was looking for ways to involve her distant mother in the life of her soon...

Becoming a Woman (with Miss Benny)

Tue, 03 Oct 2023 08:00:00 -0000

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Like many people, sitting still and staring at the wall during the early days of the pandemic brough...

Amber Heard & The Myth of the Perfect Victim

Tue, 26 Sep 2023 08:00:00 -0000

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One year later, we revisit the trial that metastasized through society, leaving a culture of brutal ...

LGBT Conservatives

Tue, 19 Sep 2023 08:00:00 -0000

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LGBT conservatives: Why? How? Where did they come from? What can we learn from them, and how can we ...

Introducing: A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein

Thu, 22 Jun 2023 02:46:00 -0000

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A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein is coming soon! I'm so happy you're here. Subscribe everywhere podc...