We’re Not Kidding with Mehdi & Friends
Hosted by Mehdi Hasan and Mehdi · Zeteo
4.9from 494 ratings
- 53
- Episodes
- 50
- Transcribed
- 494
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2024
- First episode
About We’re Not Kidding with Mehdi & Friends
We're Not Kidding is a show where funny people talk about serious things, hosted by Zeteo founder Mehdi Hasan and regularly featuring internationally acclaimed comedian Bassem Youssef.
- Publisher
- Zeteo
- Category
- comedy · news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 23 Apr 2024
- Latest episode
- 21 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
50 of 53 episodes have a transcript.
21 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
'She-Hulk' Actor Tatiana Maslany on Israel's Genocide, AI in Hollywood, and… Canada
18 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Socialists Are Winning Elections — Mehdi & Sam Seder Explain Why
6 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
'Politics for Hot People' – The Socialist Comedian Making Politics Cool
Inside a recent episode
'She-Hulk' Actor Tatiana Maslany on Israel's Genocide, AI in Hollywood, and… Canada
Published 21 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] What is your view of the AI revolution, the arrival in Hollywood? A lot of actors are very upset. Where do you stand on the use of AI in movies, TV shows? I mean, I think it's idiotic. I think it's totally stupid. And I think it's sapping our... creativity it's take it's stealing from us it's polluting our you know neighborhoods it's taking up land it's sucking our water like how is this in any way but when people are like oh yeah i used it to like create a pitch deck for this or whatever i'm like what did you do five years ago We made stuff. It's, like, so easy to do that. It's such a... I think, like, this inevitability thing, too, where everybody's like, oh, well, it's here, so we have to, like, learn to live with it is just, like, propaganda. […]
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- Tatiana Maslany
- Sam Seder
- Mary Beth Barone
- Hasan Piker
- Adam Friedland
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- 4.9 / 5
- 494 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 47 / 100
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- Quality
- 38
- Social presence
- 97
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 91
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Questions about We’re Not Kidding with Mehdi & Friends
Who hosts We’re Not Kidding with Mehdi & Friends?
Mehdi Hasan and Mehdi host the show. Published by Zeteo.
How often do new episodes come out?
The show publishes daily, based on its RSS feed.
Does We’re Not Kidding with Mehdi & Friends take guests?
Yes. Guests have been identified in episode analyses.
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