Boom! Lawyered: Breaking Down the Supreme Court

Boom! Lawyered: Breaking Down the Supreme Court

The Supreme Court is reshaping American life, one ruling at a time. In this episode, we're joined by Imani Gandy and Jessica Pieklo, Executive Producers at Rewire News Group and co-hosts of the legal podcast Boom! Lawyered, to break down the most consequential SCOTUS term in recent memory. We're covering the latest in the mifepristone battle, the growing legal threats to birthright citizenship, and what Louisiana v. Callais means for the future of voting rights in this country. Imani and Jessica connect the dots on how these cases intersect and what's really at stake for reproductive rights, democracy, and equal protection under the law.  Got a hot take? Think you’re not wrong about something? I want to hear it. Call me and leave a voicemail at (205)538-3202 and follow along on Instagram @HesNotWrongPodcast, and let’s keep the conversation going. Make sure to subscribe, leave a review, and join me every Sunday morning - grab your coffee, and let’s talk. Follow on YouTube, Instagram, & TikTok: @HesNotWrongPodcast Subscribe on Subtack: https://substack.com/@hesnotwrong Contact: chad@hesnotwrongpodcast.com www.HesNotWrongPodcast.Com

Scott Solomon: Will Going to Mars Change What it Means to be Human?

What if going to Mars changes what it means to be human? We've spent decades asking whether we can get to Mars. But evolutionary biologist Scott Solomon wants to ask a different question: what happens to us once we stay? In this episode, I sit down with Scott, a faculty member at Rice University and author of Becoming Martian: Our Future Beyond Earth (MIT Press), to explore the science of what a permanent human presence on Mars would actually look like. Not the rockets. Not the politics. The biology. We talk about the rovers already crawling across the Martian surface and what they've discovered, the unanswered questions about whether humans can even reproduce in space, and what the NASA Twins Study revealed about what deep space does to the human body at a genetic level. Scott Kelly spent a year in orbit while his identical twin stayed on Earth. What they found changes everything. We get into it all: will babies be born via c-section only, bodily changes, that children born on Mars may never be able to visit Earth. And we wrestle with the biggest question underneath all of it. Are we rushing toward a future we're not ready for? Scott is one of those rare scientists who can make you feel the weight of deep time and the excitement of what's coming in the same breath. I hope that this one will change how you think about how fast we are trying to get to Mars. Got a hot take? Think you’re not wrong about something? I want to hear it. Call me and leave a voicemail at (205)538-3202 and follow along on Instagram @HesNotWrongPodcast, and let’s keep the conversation going. Make sure to subscribe, leave a review, and join me every Sunday morning - grab your coffee, and let’s talk. Follow on YouTube, Instagram, & TikTok: @HesNotWrongPodcast Subscribe on Subtack: https://substack.com/@hesnotwrong Contact: chad@hesnotwrongpodcast.com www.HesNotWrongPodcast.Com

Khiara Bridges: You Can’t Buy Your Way Out of Dying in Childbirth

In this episode of He’s Not Wrong, we’re joined by Khiara M. Bridges, author of Expecting Inequity, to unpack why Black women are still dying at alarming rates during pregnancy and childbirth regardless of income, education, or insurance. We connect the national maternal health crisis to Alabama’s devastating outcomes, healthcare segregation, Medicaid policy, and the rollback of voting rights and civil protections. Our conversation makes clear that maternal mortality is not a medical mystery, it’s the predictable result of political and structural decisions. Got a hot take? Think you’re not wrong about something? I want to hear it. Call me and leave a voicemail at (205)538-3202 and follow along on Instagram @HesNotWrongPodcast, and let’s keep the conversation going. Make sure to subscribe, leave a review, and join me every Sunday morning - grab your coffee, and let’s talk. Follow on YouTube, Instagram, & TikTok: @HesNotWrongPodcast Subscribe on Subtack: https://substack.com/@hesnotwrong Contact: chad@hesnotwrongpodcast.com www.HesNotWrongPodcast.Com

Sami Sage: BETCH, WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON

Sami Sage has been telling women the truth, about politics, pop culture, and everything in between, since 2011, when she and two college friends started an anonymous blog in a Cornell apartment. That blog became Betches Media, one of the most influential women's media brands on the internet, and Sami became one of the most recognizable voices in news and political commentary for millennial and Gen Z women. In this episode, we sit down with the co-founder and Chief Brand Officer of Betches Media, host of the award-winning daily news podcast Morning Announcements, co-host of American Fever Dream with V. Spehar, and NYT bestselling author of Democracy in Retrograde. We get into all of it, how Betches went from a WordPress blog to a $24 million acquisition, why she pushed one of the internet's funniest brands into politics, and what it actually takes to wake up every single morning and make sense of the chaos for millions of people who are counting on you. We also dig into her book, Democracy in Retrograde, co-written with former Senate counsel Emily Amick, and what civic engagement looks like right now, in a political moment that has tested even the most engaged among us. Plus, we get into the news stories that she has covered extensively: the Trump and the US-Iran conflict, Eric Swalwell and the Democratic media ecosystem.  Got a hot take? Think you’re not wrong about something? I want to hear it. Call me and leave a voicemail at (205)538-3202 and follow along on Instagram @HesNotWrongPodcast, and let’s keep the conversation going. Make sure to subscribe, leave a review, and join me every Sunday morning - grab your coffee, and let’s talk. Sami on Insta: https://www.instagram.com/sami/?hl=en Sami on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@samisagesays Sami on Substack: https://samisagesays.substack.com/ Betches News: https://www.betches.com/ Follow on YouTube, Instagram, & TikTok: @HesNotWrongPodcast Subscribe on Subtack: https://substack.com/@hesnotwrong Contact: chad@hesnotwrongpodcast.com www.HesNotWrongPodcast.Com

Dr. Demetre Daskalakis: Gold Standard Science Is Dead at the CDC

Dr. Demetre Daskalakis spent five years at the highest levels of the CDC leading HIV prevention, running the White House mpox response, and eventually directing the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, the division responsible for the entire country's vaccine policy. He watched RFK Jr. take over the Department of Health and Human Services and begin dismantling the scientific infrastructure of one of the most respected public health institutions in the world. He stayed as long as he could. When he hit his line in the sand, he walked out and said publicly what most people inside were too afraid to say - that the CDC you knew is over, that his former colleagues are hostages, and that the nation's health security is in the hands of people driven by ideology instead of evidence. Today he is here to tell the full story from his early days testing men for HIV in New York City bathhouses, to the halls of the CDC, to the moment he decided enough was enough. This is the inside account of how American public health was broken on purpose, and what it means for every single one of us. Got a hot take? Think you’re not wrong about something? I want to hear it. Call me and leave a voicemail at (205)538-3202 and follow along on Instagram @HesNotWrongPodcast, and let’s keep the conversation going. Make sure to subscribe, leave a review, and join me every Sunday morning - grab your coffee, and let’s talk. Follow on YouTube, Instagram, & TikTok: @HesNotWrongPodcast Subscribe on Subtack: https://substack.com/@hesnotwrong Contact: chad@hesnotwrongpodcast.com www.HesNotWrongPodcast.Com