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The Left Unsaid

One family's irreverent, politically-charged discussion of current events and their history.
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June 4, 2025

The Kids are Alright

This week, The Left Unsaid bursts out of the living room and into the headlines. Literally. Our youngest co-host and resident teenage rabble-rouser, Finn, organized a Walkout for Palestine at Chapel Hill High School and made ...

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May 27, 2025

The Oligarchy's Big, Beautiful Looting Spree

This week, the McElwee family returns to the belly of the beast - domestic politics - to rip apart Trump’s $4.5 trillion “budget” bill, aka oligarchic looting plan. We break down what’s in the bill, how it’s quietly murdering...

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May 20, 2025

Reality TV is Now Real: Trump's Oligarchy Tour

This week, we start with the deranged plot twist of the Duck Dynasty guy teaming up with Homeland Security to turn immigration into reality TV. For these people, The Hunger Games was a how-to manual. From there, we drag our m...

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May 13, 2025

Your Border is Showing: From Kashmir to ICE

Meg returns for a Mother’s Day episode that is warm, weird, and wildly enraging. We start with a ceasefire (India and Pakistan) and end with state violence (ICE kidnapping a mom in Massachusetts). In between, we explore the i...

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May 6, 2025

Answer Every Bloody Body: Gaza and the Fight for Civilization

This week, it’s just Patrick and Finn—no Meg, but plenty of rage, history, and dark humor. Starting with the unspeakable horrors coming out of Gaza, they explore not only the U.S.’s financial and political complicity but also...

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April 29, 2025

Founding Fathers and Other Fairy Tales

In this episode of The Left Unsaid , Pat, Meg, and Finn take a wild, unbalanced joyride through the myths we’re taught in school — from the sacred veneration of the Founding Fathers to the soothing bedtime stories spun by Ken...

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April 23, 2025

Harvard vs. The Empire (for now)

In this episode of The Left Unsaid , your favorite intergenerational think tank—Pat, Meg, and Finn—dive headfirst into the authoritarian fever dream that is U.S. higher education under pressure from the Trump administration. ...

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April 15, 2025

Don't Feed the Robot Dogs: Obedience is optional

In this debut episode, Patrick, Meg and Finn sway to the vibes of our current political moment: killer robot dogs dressed as cartoons, Mahmoud Khalil and predictive political repression, why "not obeying in advance" might be ...

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Reviews

Love having the perspective of an informed high schooler.

"Great first episode! Y'all did a fantastic job and it's such an important subject matter, especially now. Interesting to hear how this is playing out in the sphere of public education. Looking fo…"

Ben Hiltzheimer | April 16, 2025