
Lunatic In the Newsroom
Hosted by Josh Spiegel and BJ Shea and Josh · Josh Spiegel
5.0from 88 ratings
- 52
- Episodes
- 27
- Transcribed
- 88
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2025
- First episode
About Lunatic In the Newsroom
Hey, I'm Josh Spiegel, host of the podcast Lunatic In The Newsroom. If you enjoy journalism that drifts into mild panic, wild overthinking, and a guaranteed nervous breakdown, Lunatic In The Newsroom is for you. It's news like you've never heard before. The only newsroom with a panic button. You'll laugh, you'll cry and gasp in horror as the show spirals completely out of control. It's not just news. It's emotionally unstable. Lunatic In The Newsroom. Listen today!
- Publisher
- Josh Spiegel
- Category
- comedy · news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 18 Aug 2025
- Latest episode
- 21 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
27 of 52 episodes have a transcript.

21 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
S E50: An AI Doomsday Awaits! | 050

7 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
S E49: Do You Feel Safe? | 049

31 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
S E48: Meet The Midterms’ Strangest Candidates | 048
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S E50: An AI Doomsday Awaits! | 050
Published 21 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] He needs to come back. I'm not a tech guru, but the fact that these CEOs are now, if we're going to take them at face value, and I'd like to sounding this alarm is starting to freak me out. Yeah. I mean, in the world of science fiction, they have really shown us the path. There's been so many wonderful shows. that have come out and movies that have basically said, hey, do you want to let computers do your thinking for you? I mean, like everything and tell you what to do and take over your place. And it usually doesn't end well because they start thinking that humans are the problem and they feel like humanity would be served so well if there was no humanity. […]
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 5.0 / 5
- 56 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 32 ratings
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Josh Spiegel and BJ Shea and Josh host the show. Published by Josh Spiegel.
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