Against the Grain
Hosted by Julia and Matthew · Matthew Schmitz and Julia Yost
4.6from 71 ratings
- 33
- Episodes
- 10
- Transcribed
- 71
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2025
- First episode
- 13M
- YouTube views
About Against the Grain
Arts, culture, and politics with Matthew Schmitz and Julia Yost.
- Publisher
- Matthew Schmitz and Julia Yost
- Category
- society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 1 Jul 2025
- Latest episode
- 1 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
10 of 33 episodes have a transcript.
1 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
“Primetime” and the Roots of Pedo Panic
14 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Rural Surge
1 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Postwar Order Is Ending (with R. R. Reno)
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“Primetime” and the Roots of Pedo Panic
Published 1 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] It's somehow getting at the zeitgeist. And I think that's what I walked out of the theater thinking about. Why has the pedo charge changed? become so central to our political and national life. You're not asking me, are you? Yeah. Oh, I don't know. I don't know. I think there are a couple of reasons, right? Yeah. I mean, it's something that recurs through history for some reason. It recurs through history, but I think in our particular moment, it's, not too hard to see why the pedophilia charge is becoming central and also why it's increasingly united to kind of classic anti-Semitic tropes. We have been going through, are still going through a long populist moment with lots of denunciation of elites and calls for radical change. […]
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- R R Reno
- Greg Conti
- Helen Andrews
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 12,735,844
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 30 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.4 / 5
- 41 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 34 / 100
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- Quality
- 10
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 51
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