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The Unspeakeasy With Meghan Daum

Mar 2, 2026

Meghan talks with investigative journalist and bestselling author Sam Quinones (Dreamland, The Least of Us) about the piece of the homelessness crisis we’re often encouraged to treat as secondary: synthetic drugs, especially methamphetamine, and its connection to the rapid rise of street psychosis and...


Feb 23, 2026

Time for another reunion! Sarah Haider, Meghan’s co-host on the late, great A Special Place In Hell, has a lot to say about the Epstein files, so she visited the podcast to unload.

After opening the episode with an homage to the classic intro from our former podcast, the ladies talk about how everyone’s a pedophile...


Feb 19, 2026

A special solo episode! Now out from behind the paywall.

As a recent bonus episode for subscribers, Meghan recorded some thoughts about a media dustup that was making her head explode. In the wake of the latest Epstein document dump, a smaller, unrelated story emerged a few weeks ago that carried some of the same...


Feb 10, 2026

Is it really true that no one—or at least no one under 30—is having sex anymore? In this episode, Meghan talks with neuroscientist, author, and former sex researcher Dr. Debra Soh about her new book Sextinction: The Decline of Sex and the Future of Intimacy, a data-packed look at why millennials and Gen Z are having...


Feb 2, 2026

In this episode, Meghan talks with science writer and professional skeptic Michael Shermer about his new book Truth: What It Is, How to Find It, and Why It Still Matters, and about why agreeing on basic facts has become so difficult, even when everyone is looking at the same video. They discuss Minneapolis, ICE...