Clown Car

About Clown Car

Discussion of politics, philosophy, and current events www.richardhanania.com (https://www.richardhanania.com/s/hanpod?utm_medium=podcast)

Publisher

Richard Hanania

Category

news · science

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

25 May 2023

Latest episode

9 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

142 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   9 Oct 2026

   Mr Tracey Goes to Ithaca

   This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com (https://www.richardhanania.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_7) Having heard that the mayor of the city was proposing suspending permits for Cornell events to protect locals from hordes of Ivy League rapists, Michael Tracey went to Ithaca to personally call on him to resign. You can watch what happened and read about the adventure here (https://www.mtracey.net/p/my-visit-to-ithaca-to-discuss-rape). Michael joins me to stream directly from the Cornell campus. We talk about the media freakout he has inspired, and I question him on whether he’s being recognized as he goes about his business. We get into a fiery debate late in the podcast about whether Michael is exaggerating what institutions are claiming constitutes rape. I say that the “affirmative consent” standard is ridiculous enough as applied to sexual assault, but no, he insists that all unwanted touching could might be classified as rape according to Cornell, and this is just wrong. I trust the judgment of listeners on this. This post is sponsored by Mechanize. AI alignment is perhaps the most important issue of our time, and if you’re interested in being part of that effort, Mechanize is hiring software engineers at a base salary of $300K-$400K/year, plus substantial bonuses. They also have openings for other positions, including Recruiter ($200K). Here is their website (https://www.mechanize.work/?utm_source=hanania), and you can apply here (https://www.mechanize.work/apply/?utm_source=hanania). If you apply, make sure to use the links provided here so I can receive credit, and name me as a reference in the process. Note: If you would like to get this podcast through a regular podcast app, go to richardhanania.com (http://richardhanania.com/) on a browser on your device (it doesn’t work in the app), log in to Substack, and click on the tab for either the Hanania Show (https://www.richardhanania.com/s/hanpod) or the H&H Podcast (https://www.richardhanania.com/s/hhpod). Select the episode you want, and then choose one of Apple, Spotify, etc. under “Listen on” to your right. You’ll be able to add the show through an RSS feed, after which you will get new episodes, either free or paid depending on what kind of subscriber you are, through whichever platform you use.

2. 

   9 Sept 2026

   Gloria Steinem and the Satanic Panic

   This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com (https://www.richardhanania.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_7) The peak of Gloria Steinem’s influence was before my time. I knew that she was a famous feminist but little else. As it turns out, as Michael Tracey taught me in his article (https://www.mtracey.net/p/gloria-steinem-leader-of-the-womens) upon her death (see also part II (https://www.mtracey.net/p/meet-one-of-gloria-steinems-forgotten)), she was a crazy person who was an important figure in the Satanic sex abuse mass hysteria of the 1980s and early 1990s. Steinem also popularized the idea of multiple personalities. This has all gone unmentioned in the tributes that have come out since her death. Michael joins me on the livestream to talk about Steinem and her legacy. I had mixed feelings reading Michael’s article. On the one hand, what happened with the Satanic Panic was truly depressing. At the same time, I had thought we were unusually stupid today, and yet nothing of the last few decades compares to putting people on trial over allegations that a random daycare was ritually abusing children. Michael argues that moral panics like this take off when we get buy-in from both conservative bumpkins and liberal elites, which we saw in the 1980s and again today with the Epstein hysteria. We touch a bit on Lindsey Clancy, a case I’ve tried not to pay attention to because it’s too depressing. We reflect a bit on the political reaction to the case, which I find more worth discussing. See here (https://x.com/RichardHanania/status/2097460739598680192?s=20) for the video that upset rightoids, which we talked about during the stream. We close with a preview of my article on the one-year anniversary of Charlie Kirk’s death, out tomorrow. This post is sponsored by Mechanize. AI alignment is perhaps the most important issue of our time, and if you’re interested in being part of that effort, Mechanize is hiring software engineers at a base salary of $300K-$400K/year, plus substantial bonuses. They also have openings for other positions, including Recruiter ($200K). Here is their website (https://www.mechanize.work/?utm_source=hanania), and you can apply here (https://www.mechanize.work/apply/?utm_source=hanania). If you apply, make sure to use the links provided here so I can receive credit, and name me as a reference in the proces Note: If you would like to get this podcast through a regular podcast app, go to richardhanania.com (http://richardhanania.com/) on a browser on your device (it doesn’t work in the app), log in to Substack, and click on the tab for either the Hanania Show (https://www.richardhanania.com/s/hanpod) or the H&H Podcast (https://www.richardhanania.com/s/hhpod). Select the episode you want, and then choose one of Apple, Spotify, etc. under “Listen on” to your right. You’ll be able to add the show through an RSS feed, after which you will get new episodes, either free or paid depending on what kind of subscriber you are, through whichever platform you use.

3. 

   6 Aug 2026

   Censured for Simping?

   This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com (https://www.richardhanania.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_7) Michael joined me today to talk about two Congressional scandals recently in the news: the Chuck Edwards censure, (https://ethics.house.gov/press-releases/statement-of-the-chairman-and-ranking-member-of-the-committee-on-ethics-regarding-representative-chuck-edwards-2/) and the abuse allegations being made against Congressman Max Miller by his former wife and former father-in-law, who happens to be Senator Bernie Moreno. I thought the case against Miller looked really bad, but Michael shifted my views on it. The Chuck Edwards thing I find quite hilarious, and we end up getting into a long debate about what counts as simping as we browse through the ethics report. Check out my X thread on the Edwards story (https://x.com/RichardHanania/status/2084980751729319945). See also Michael on Max Miller’s strange “political marriage,” (https://x.com/mtracey/status/2084283086829756658) which Trump officiated. Note: If you would like to get this podcast through a regular podcast app, go to richardhanania.com (http://richardhanania.com/) on a browser on your device (it doesn’t work in the app), log in to Substack, and click on the tab for either the Hanania Show (https://www.richardhanania.com/s/hanpod) or the H&H Podcast (https://www.richardhanania.com/s/hhpod). Select the episode you want, and then choose one of Apple, Spotify, etc. under “Listen on” to your right. You’ll be able to add the show through an RSS feed, after which you will get new episodes, either free or paid depending on what kind of subscriber you are, through whichever platform you use.

Who has been a guest on Clown Car

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Murtaza Hussain
• Michael Tracey
• Radical Feminist Hitler

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

3.9 / 5

18 ratings

Spotify

4.1 / 5

7 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 63 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

93

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

84

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