A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein
Episodes
Samantha Fulnecky Failed the Grift
12 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When Samantha Fulnecky filed a religious discrimination complaint against her university after failing an essay assignment in which she only reference...
Jeffree Star Has Always Been Like This
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On the afternoon Charlie Kirk died, Jeffree Star livestreamed a four-minute-long rant about how nonbinary people aren’t real. Star, with his pink ha...
The Jewish Fear Industrial Complex
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There is no bigger danger to Jews, apparently, than New York City’s Mayor-Elect, Zohran Mamdani. The morning after he was elected, the ADL announced...
The Liberal Wine Moms are Radicalizing (with Jennifer Welch)
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jennifer Welch, a 51-year-old Texan turned Oklahoman, is radicalizing America one wine mom at a time. The southern podcaster (who might finally be our...
What Is the Point Of Bill Maher?
17 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Bill Maher is the last sane voice on the left. But he doesn’t believe in the rights of transgender people, or of Palestinians. He thinks college cam...
The Unraveling of Debra Messing and “Liberal Zionism”
03 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For the last two decades, Debra Messing — the star of early 2000’s hit Will & Grace — has been something of a liberal Hollywood icon, courting a...
Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Revisions
19 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The day after Charlie Kirk was murdered, Ezra Klein published an essay in the New York Times: “Charlie Kirk Practiced Politics The Right Way.” Kle...
Dr. Phil: From Nice Guy to Nazi (with Aubrey Gordon)
05 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Phil has a new hobby: ICE raids. The daytime television fixture bewildered fans when he began touring with the Trump campaign last year, ending hi...
Sydney Sweeney and the Outrage Machine
23 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sydney Sweeney is Hollywood’s most-discussed starlet, often for confusing reasons. Her existence as a visible woman with a human body made her the t...
The Trans Teen Imprisoned for Refusing to Join the IDF
06 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Yona Roseman is 19. In two weeks, the Israeli government is imprisoning her for refusing to join Israel's military, for which service is required by a...
Jojo Siwa’s Truman Show
25 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jojo Siwa has been a lot of things: an eleven-year-old abused on television for public entertainment, a tween merchandising mogul with a billion dolla...
The New York Times Thinks Gays Have Gone Too Far (with Chase Strangio)
12 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On the twilight of Pride Month, the New York Times published (and sent out a push notification for) a guest essay titled “How the Gay Rights Movemen...
Why Is Everyone Going Back Into the Closet?
27 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From granola fascism to the manosphere, much gets said of the various right-wing pipelines people have gone down in the years since lockdown. One such...
Never Apologize to Fascists (with Contrapoints)
13 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Last week, world-class athlete Simone Biles stood up to failed-athlete-turned-crybully Riley Gaines when Riley antagonized a transgender child to her ...
The Antisemitism Panic (with Matt Lieb)
30 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“From the river to the sea” is antisemitic. “Free Palestine” is antisemitic. Children’s YouTuber Ms. Rachel raising money for child amputees...
A Morning With Vivian Wilson, Elon’s Estranged Daughter
16 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In today’s special episode, we’re taking a break from political and cultural analysis to chat with someone who’s been at the center of today’s...
The Breeders Who Want You to Have More Kids Right Now
03 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Last week, the New York Times reported: “White House Assesses Ways to Persuade Women to Have More Children”. But who exactly is behind this push, ...
“Alpha Males” Are Making Men Lonelier (with Ryan Broderick)
18 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When fitness influencer Ashton Hall’s absurd morning routine went viral a few weeks ago, I was… moved. The hours-long skincare, gym, and journalin...
Maia Poet: The Final Boss of Detrans Grifters (with Kat Blaque)
04 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What does “gender ideology” have in common with ISIS? Well, they are both… things, arguably. As more people become aware of opportunities to com...
Gwen Stefani: From Feminist to Fascist
21 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When Gwen Stefani made a tacit endorsement of Tucker Carlson earlier this month, I felt like somebody had knocked the wind out of me. Had the iconic 9...
The Complex Tragedy of Grimes
07 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To the mainstream news, she’s the mother of three of Elon Musk’s children. To a certain type of extremely online Tumblr user in the year 2012, she...
The Incoherent Sexual Politics of the Right
21 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Elon Musk just (allegedly) had his thirteenth child with a fourth woman — a 26-year-old “conservative” influencer named Ashley St. Clair. In a p...
How Conservatism Infiltrated Pop Culture
07 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Quiet luxury. Clean girl. Old money. Trad living. Kylie Jenner’s pivot from Black culture vulture to glass skin pilates princess. College youth dres...
The Tech Bro-ligarchy
24 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Our country is now run by a bunch of spineless billionaires who were cast out as nerds in college so they launched a vendetta against humanity. Today,...
Blake Lively and the Amber Heard Effect
10 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The first episode of this podcast ever recorded was about Amber Heard and the online public’s inability — or unwillingness — to distinguish betw...
Why is the Media Coverage of Luigi Mangione So Bad?
19 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The remarkable dissonance between the public’s embrace of UnitedHealthcare CEO assassin Luigi Mangione and the mainstream media’s outward disdain ...
How Did Elon Musk Get Like This?
13 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There was a time before Elon Musk was tweeting 60 times a day about trans people and the woke mind virus — and it wasn’t that long ago. As recentl...
Is Glinda Good?
28 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A Bit Fruity was due for a good old-fashioned film analysis. Wicked is a kids movie that is actually for adults, holding up a mirror to our increasing...
How the Right is Winning Young Men (with Taylor Lorenz)
15 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This was the first election where the online far-right radicalization of young boys and men revealed itself in exit polls. After years of being fed di...
Riley Gaines: Tie for 5th, Grift for Life
30 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In America, the only thing standing between you and wealth beyond your wildest dreams is tying for fifth with a trans person. Today, media critic Ari ...
Jubilee Must Be Stopped
10 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The slogan of YouTube’s most popular debate channel, Jubilee, is “provoke understanding & create human connection.” So why is all of its content...
The Cult of Stan Culture (with Amanda Montell)
26 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Well, I got Swiftied. As I sat there, sifting through ever more creative and graphic death threats, I wondered: is it time for a podcast episode? Toda...
Chappell Roan’s War on Fame (with Eliza McLamb)
12 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
H-O-T-T-O-G-O, Chappell Roan is someone we do not actually know. But what do we do with the (very real) feelings and relationships we form with the pe...
The Crunchy to Far Right Pipeline
28 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How does a harmless interest in yoga turn into a crusade against homosexuals in public schools? Specific though it seems, we’ve all seen it happen: ...
Transvestigating (with Contrapoints)
14 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Your gender is not determined by your anatomy, your chromosomes, your hormones, or even your internal sense of self. It is determined by J.K. Rowling....
The Kamalafication of BRAT
01 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Is Kamala bumpin’ that? Is BRAT summer over? Who killed it? Today, Maia of Rehash and I attempt a cynical but fair analysis of meme culture, Gen Z n...
Hawk Tuah: From Harmless Meme to Right Wing Symbol
17 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I stay away from heterosexual mess, but this time it came to me. Today, Taylor Lorenz and I work backwards to understand how a 21-year-old bed spring ...
Stories from the AIDS Crisis
03 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A special episode where we hear from listeners of the show who were lovers, nurses, relatives, students, and friends of people who died from AIDS. Sup...
The Celebrity Ozempidemic (with Aubrey Gordon)
20 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A drug that needs no introduction and a culture of fatphobia that lives on. Today, we are ALL beating the Ozempic allegations. Use code "fruity" at ...
Oli London & the Right Wing Grift (with Taylor Lorenz)
05 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How does a white gay guy from England go from “trans-Korean” troll to a member of the conservative media establishment? It’s easier than you thi...
Amy Schumer & the Plague of White Feminism (with Broey Deschanel)
21 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Girlbossing too close to the sun can cause a real trainwreck. Today, we examine the unstable foundation of Amy Schumer's feminist brand of comedy and ...
Everything the Media is Getting Wrong About the College Protests
09 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Until a month ago, college students in America were dweeby snowflake liberals, too socially anxious to notify the waiter of an incorrect order. Now, t...
Annoying Gays are Not the Problem
24 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Autistic nonbinary TikTokers. Loud, flamboyant gay men. The twink who filmed himself having sex in the Senate hearing room. Are gay rights being erode...
Drake Bell and the Cycle of Abuse
09 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The new docu-series “Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV” is shedding light on the abuse that early-2000s child stars faced behind the scenes o...
J.K. Rowling’s Spiral into Madness (with ContraPoints)
26 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
From “sex is real” to Holocaust denial — if it happened to the wizard lady, it can happen to you. Support me on Patreon! Watch more from the br...
How Love, Simon’s Author was Pushed Out of the Closet
12 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In 2018, I called “Love, Simon” a “gay movie made by a straight woman for straight people.” Today, I tell you why I was wrong. Support me on P...
Conservatives Don’t Care About Your Kids
27 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A rant. Support me on Patreon! Learn more about Trans Lifeline. Big thanks to Rocket Money for sponsoring today’s show. Save more and get your lif...
The 100-Year-Old Myth of Gays “Coming for Your Children”
13 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I get called a “groomer” on Twitter every day — which is weird, because I want nothing to do with your kids. What is it with queers and kids tha...
Surviving AIDS in the 80s
30 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Staley was a 24-year-old, closeted finance guy when he was diagnosed with HIV. Having been handed a death sentence, he quit his job and devoted ...
The Political Power of Taylor Swift
16 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Taylor Swift has the power to swing the presidential election. What if nothing else matters? Support me on Patreon! Find Angela on Twitter, not X. Fin...
Bud Light and the End of Rainbow Marketing, For Now
02 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How the manufactured hysteria over a single can of beer brought an end to the golden age of rainbow Doritos and “Homo Estás” Chipotle ads — at ...
George Santos is a Terrible Person and the Embodiment of the American Dream
20 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Is there valor in scamming your way through a system that failed you, even if you hurt people along the way? What is the value of the lies we tell our...
The Detransitioner Panic
05 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
99% of people who transition continue identifying as transgender for the rest of their lives. The very small amount of people who stop or reverse thei...
Queer Palestinians & The Power of Pinkwashing
21 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Are “Queers for Palestine” really like “Chickens for KFC”? No, but understanding intersectional justice can be hard, and sharing memes is easy...
Christian Indoctrination in Homeschooling
07 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The number of kids being homeschooled today is more than double of what it was four years ago, and nobody is making the rules. While the religious rig...
Libs of TikTok
24 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
At the forefront of today’s anti-LGBTQ movement is one shockingly uncharismatic woman. Journalist Taylor Lorenz helps us understand the rise of Chay...
The Mom Who Invented Gender Reveals Regrets It
10 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 2008, Jenna Karvunidis was looking for ways to involve her distant mother in the life of her soon-to-be child. Fifteen years, thousands of acres of...
Becoming a Woman (with Miss Benny)
03 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Like many people, sitting still and staring at the wall during the early days of the pandemic brought up new feelings for Miss Benny. Notably, that sh...
Amber Heard & The Myth of the Perfect Victim
26 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
One year later, we revisit the trial that metastasized through society, leaving a culture of brutal misogyny in its wake. NBC journalist Kat Tenbarge ...
LGBT Conservatives
19 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
LGBT conservatives: Why? How? Where did they come from? What can we learn from them, and how can we dismantle the LGBT conservative that lives within ...
Introducing: A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein
22 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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