Unfettered Speech – An Integrity Media Podcast

About Unfettered Speech – An Integrity Media Podcast

Integrity Media's Leonard Goodman and Patrick Sullivan talk to the biggest stars in independent journalism about the free speech and censorship issues of the day.

Publisher

Integrity Media

Category

government · news

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

27 Jun 2025

Latest episode

16 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

56 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   16 Oct 2026

   EP:56. Maureen Weston : The New Rules of Sports: Gambling, NIL, and the End of Amateurism

   Sports used to be the escape. Now it is also a frictionless marketplace where you can bet on almost anything, anytime, from a phone in your pocket. We talk with Professor Maureen Weston, a nationally recognized expert in sports law, arbitration, and dispute resolution, to unpack how we got here and what the next legal fights will look like. We start with the rapid rise of legal sports gambling after the 2018 Supreme Court decision, why leagues went from opposing betting to embracing it, and how mobile sportsbooks changed fan behavior. Then we dig into prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket, the “event contract” label, and the regulatory tug of war between state gambling commissions and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Along the way, we confront the uncomfortable questions: what does insider trading look like in a world of tradable outcomes, who is protecting younger users, and how do conflicts of interest get policed when oversight is thin. From there, the conversation widens into the money reshaping college athletics. NIL (name, image, and likeness), the transfer portal, donor collectives, and proposed federal action are pushing college sports toward a pro sports model without the same labor protections. We explore whether college athletes should be treated as employees, what collective bargaining could change, and how Title IX and non revenue sports get squeezed when the biggest dollars flow to football and men’s basketball. We also hit competitive balance in MLB, media rights, salary caps versus luxury taxes, and why private equity sees sports as the last truly live entertainment. If you care about the integrity of sports, the future of college athlete compensation, or the legal rules behind what you watch every night, this one is for you. Subscribe, share the show with a sports fan, and leave a review with your take on one question: what should “fair” look like now? Chapter Markers 0:00. Episode Welcome And Guest 1:34 From Bookies To Betting Apps 5:52 Prediction Markets And Insider Edges 14:54 NIL Turns College Sports Pro 21:20 Donor Collectives Title IX And Unions 34:15 MLB Competitive Balance And Payroll 42:33 Private Equity And Athlete Branding 48:30. Olympics Tennis And Political Rules 52:57 Rooney Rule Racism And Fan Abuse 58:27 MLB Media Rights And Final Wrap

2. 

   6 Oct 2026

   EP:55 Michael Farris : How Groupthink Becomes The Deep State

   “Who is they?” sounds like a throwaway line until you try to answer it out loud. We sit down with Michael Farris, host of Coffee and a Mike, to get specific about what people mean by “the deep state” and why it often looks less like a secret board meeting and more like institutional groupthink: career incentives, social enforcement, and missions that reward obedience while punishing internal dissent. From there, we connect the dots to today’s power centers. We talk tech monopolies and transactional politics, the way narratives get enforced without anyone needing to “give the order,” and why so many people feel politically homeless after years of broken promises and nonstop spectacle. We also revisit 2020 as a turning point for censorship, deplatforming, and the normalization of control systems that can be switched on again fast, whether through algorithms, media coordination, or election rule changes like mail in voting that many voters still don’t trust. Things get even more real when we look ahead: energy infrastructure vulnerability, surveillance that makes old school “papers please” unnecessary, and financial pressure like debanking that can silence people without a single arrest. We close on a different note with the one place people still find common ground: movies, music, and art, plus a stack of recommendations worth your time. Subscribe for more independent conversations, share this with a friend who’s tired of slogans, and leave a review if you want this show to keep growing. When you hear “they,” who comes to mind and why? Chapter Markers 0:24. Welcome And Chicago Media Awards 3:59 Who Exactly Is The Deep State 8:58 Groupthink Networks That Enforce Power 13:35 Rule Followers In School Work Government 15:40 DC Reality And Foreign Policy Doctrine 19:45 Big Tech Monopolies And Trump Incentives 24:24 2020 Fallout And Mail In Voting 29:42 Beyond Left And Right Political Homelessness 41:06 Censorship Prototypes And Energy Fears 48:05 Surveillance Debanking And Modern Silencing 57:56 TikTok Gaza Footage And Media Consolidation 1:01:28 Movies As A Shared Human Language 1:10:54 Where To Follow And Final Thanks

3. 

   29 Sept 2026

   EP:54 Katie Halper - When "Safety" Becomes The Most Dangerous Word

   “Never again” is supposed to be a universal warning, but it’s increasingly used as a political weapon. We sit down with writer, podcaster, and filmmaker Katie Halper to talk about her documentary Never Again, which follows Holocaust survivors who are protesting Israel’s war on Gaza and rejecting the idea that Jewish safety can be built on occupation, siege, or collective punishment. Along the way, we unpack why these voices are so often pushed out of mainstream media and what it means when Jewish communities are treated like a single bloc with a single opinion. We also challenge the familiar stories many of us grew up with, from liberal Zionism to the two-state solution, and ask what happens when slogans replace realities on the ground. Katie shares her own secular Jewish background and what she saw on a Birthright trip, then connects the “safety” narrative to a much larger machinery that runs through US foreign policy, war messaging, and the incentives of the weapons industry. From a NATO ad to the Ukraine war’s escalating human costs, we look at how propaganda primes the public for endless conflict and how demonization narratives can make diplomacy feel impossible. Then we get into the hardest media questions: atrocity propaganda, the Hannibal Directive, October 7 narratives, and the stark double standards in how allegations of sexual violence are amplified or ignored depending on who the victims are. We close by parsing anti-Semitism vs anti-Zionism, why conflation can backfire, and what real political change might require beyond the midterms. If this conversation sharpened your thinking, subscribe, share the episode with a friend, and leave a review with the question you still can’t stop thinking about. Chapter Markers 0:00 Welcome And Guest Introduction 2:20 Never Again And Gaza Protests 5:18 Anti-Zionist Jewish History Hidden 7:46 Liberal Zionism And Two-State Myth 11:13 NATO Messaging And Europe’s War Mood 16:29 Draft Pressure And Ukraine Casualties 18:56 Israel As Imperial Project 21:54 Hannibal Directive And October 7 26:23 Rape Claims As Atrocity Propaganda 32:53 Demonization Narratives From Iraq To Russia 40:32 Anti-Semitism Versus Anti-Zionism 45:21 What A Sustainable Future Could Be 47:33 Midterms And The Limits Of Voting 52:03 Where To Follow Katie Halper

Reach and audience

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

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

10 ratings

Spotify

4.9 / 5

8 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 22 / 100

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

Quality

31

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

32

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