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The Sauce with Maya Gurantz and Rebecca Cohen

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Drinking cocktails & ruining the stuff you love. A culture & politics podcast hosted by two feminists who are too smart for their own good, @mayagurantz.bsky.social and @gynostar.bsky.social.

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The Sauce with Maya Gurantz and Rebecca Cohen @saucepodcast.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

While everyone's noticing Pete Hegseth and his insecure masculinity, now might be a good time to revisit (or hear for the first time!) our conversation about Hegseth, fragile masculinity and the whole phenomenon of VetBro culture. www.saucepodcast.com/vetbros-and-...

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VetBros and Pete Hegseth (with Guest John Armenta!)

Who is Pete Hegseth, how in hell did he end up Secretary of Defense, why is he renaming it the Department of War, and what were he and Trump doing calling 600 top generals into a room for a Big Boy…

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Rebecca Cohen @gynostar.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Want to understand more about FIFA corruption? I highly recommend this episode of @saucepodcast.bsky.social with guest Ken Bensinger, journalist and author of “Red Card,” an investigation into soccer’s massive international scandals. www.saucepodcast.com/sauce-classi...

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Sauce Classics: The World Cup!

Can Maya & Rebecca ruin the World Cup? They already did! We revisit that conversation with NY Times journalist Ken Bensinger, author of “Red Card,” which details the investigation into soccer’s…

The Sauce with Maya Gurantz and Rebecca Cohen @saucepodcast.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Who could have seen this coming with Graham Platner? Us, obviously! www.saucepodcast.com/graham-fucki...

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Graham Fucking Platner

Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner has zero high level political experience, multiple credible misogyny accusations, and a bullshit “white working class” persona… not to m…

The Sauce with Maya Gurantz and Rebecca Cohen @saucepodcast.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

WTF has Trump been doing in Iran? In our latest episode, Maya & Rebecca attempt to unpack Trump and Netanyahu’s recent misadventure in the Middle East, as it becomes clear that, in fact, no one involved understands what the fuck they’re doing in Iran. www.saucepodcast.com/iran/

Donald Trump and Bibi Netanyahu standing next to each other. Caption: Axis of idiots

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Rebecca Cohen @gynostar.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Seems like an appropriate time to bring up our Sauce podcast episode about the right wing's ongoing, increasingly successful mission to capture – and ultimately destroy – higher ed. (With brilliant guest @brownphdgirl.bsky.social!) www.saucepodcast.com/right-wing-a...

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Right Wing Attacks on Higher Ed (with Nadia E. Brown!)

College presidents forced to resign. Faculties gutted. Anti-DEI legislations cropping up nationwide. There’s no doubt about it–Right Wing activists are attacking Higher Ed, trying to &#…

The Sauce with Maya Gurantz and Rebecca Cohen @saucepodcast.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

ICYMI: Rebecca finally convinced Maya to watch ANDOR... Can a show about fighting space fascism shed light on our IRL moment—maybe even help inspire the IRL rebellion? www.saucepodcast.com/andor/

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Was Star Wars Antifa all along? Rebecca finally convinced Maya to watch ANDOR, and they both have a lot of thoughts. Can a show about fighting space fascims in a galaxy far, far away shed light on …

The Sauce with Maya Gurantz and Rebecca Cohen @saucepodcast.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Did you listen? We want to hear your thoughts! Also should we do a whole episode ruining PT Anderson?

The Sauce with Maya Gurantz and Rebecca Cohen @saucepodcast.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

ICYMI, we had an indepth conversation about SINNERS and the history of Black cinema with special guest @davidfwalker.bsky.social, author of "Black Film, A History of Black Representation and Participation in the Movies." It's good stuff! Give it a listen: www.saucepodcast.com/sinners-and-...

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Sinners and Black Film (with Special Guest David F. Walker!)

Maya and Rebecca talk about Ryan Coogler’s Sinners with special guest David F. Walker, author of Black Film, a new illustrated history of Black cinema and Hollywood. Together we uncover how S…

The Sauce with Maya Gurantz and Rebecca Cohen @saucepodcast.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

New episode! Maya and Rebecca ruin ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, outlining what made it such irresistible bait for Academy voters (hint hint: prestige white guys being “political”). www.saucepodcast.com/one-battle-a...

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ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER

Maya and Rebecca ruin ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, Paul Thomas Anderson’s Oscar-littered opus, outlining just what made it such irresistible bait for Academy voters (hint hint: prestige white gu…

The Sauce with Maya Gurantz and Rebecca Cohen @saucepodcast.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

This week, we get eyewitness reports from friends in Minneapolis. We're joined by artists/professors/activists Lisa Channer and Sonja Kuftinec to talk life under federal occupation, how hyper-local networks are saving the day, and the role of art in activism. www.saucepodcast.com/dispatch-fro...

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Dispatch from Minneapolis (with Very Special Guests Lisa Channer and Sonja Kuftinec!)

This week, we’re joined by friends in Minneapolis to hear eye witness reports of a city under siege by its own government. Maya and Rebecca welcome very special guests, artists/professors/act…

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John Armenta @johnarmenta.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

It would be a lot funnier if it weren’t so serious.

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Rebecca Cohen @gynostar.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

His dementia symptoms continue to get worse and more obvious. Remember when we talked about this on my podcast? www.saucepodcast.com/sauce-classi...

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Sauce Classics Trump’s Dementia

Huh, people are talking about Trump and dementia? Funny, WE TALKED ABOUT THIS A YEAR AGO! Rebecca and Maya revisit our episode where we investigate Trump’s lapses in memory, behavior and language a…

The Sauce with Maya Gurantz and Rebecca Cohen @saucepodcast.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Things make a lot more sense when you realize that all the people in charge right now are 12-year-olds. In this week's ep, Maya & Rebecca try to figure out how to survive the immaturity of those currently in power and holding guns. Drinking highly recommended. www.saucepodcast.com/everyone-is-...

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EVERYONE IS TWELVE

Is “everyone is 12” the unifying theory of our times? Through the power of dramatic reading and drawing upon their experience wrangling actual 12-year-olds, Maya and Rebecca explore whe…

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Melissa @melissagayle.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

watching the biggest loser doc after listening to @saucepodcast.bsky.social's new episode and everyone involved with making that show should be in jail

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Rebecca Cohen @gynostar.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Interestingly enough, we already covered this on my podcast bsky.app/profile/sauc...

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Rebecca Cohen @gynostar.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

People have totally memory-holed the Roy Moore debacle

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Ah, his desperately shifting claims are starting to make sense now. www.wsj.com/politics/trump-...

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 18/07/2025

it isn’t hyperbole, donald trump has pardoned more child sex offenders than any president in american history

The Sauce with Maya Gurantz and Rebecca Cohen @saucepodcast.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

We watched SEVERANCE, and we have some thoughts. Specifically about the question: Why does this show feel so resonant right now? Listen and tell us what you think... www.saucepodcast.com/severance/

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The Sauce with Maya Gurantz and Rebecca Cohen @saucepodcast.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

With the National Guard and Marines deployed against US citizens in LA, we talk martial law and autocratic use of force wit an actual expert: Dr. Carrie Lee, a specialist in civil-military relations, who concisely breaks down the specifics -- whether to worry, why to be hopeful, and what to do next.

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Martial Law (with Very Special Guest Dr. Carrie Ann Lee!)

As Trump deploys National Guard and Marines to LA in the face of widespread civilian protests against ICE raids, we talk Martial Law and autocratic use of force (and drink!) with Dr. Carrie Lee, an…

The Sauce with Maya Gurantz and Rebecca Cohen @saucepodcast.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

With the National Guard and Marines deployed against US citizens in LA, we talk martial law and autocratic use of force wit an actual expert: Dr. Carrie Lee, a specialist in civil-military relations, who concisely breaks down the specifics -- whether to worry, why to be hopeful, and what to do next.

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Martial Law (with Very Special Guest Dr. Carrie Ann Lee!)

As Trump deploys National Guard and Marines to LA in the face of widespread civilian protests against ICE raids, we talk Martial Law and autocratic use of force (and drink!) with Dr. Carrie Lee, an…

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Rebecca Cohen @gynostar.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

ICYMI - My podcast is back! @mayagurantz.bsky.social and I traced how right wing uproar over "free speech" actually paved the way for our current totalitarian moment.

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Rebecca Cohen @gynostar.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Speaking of presidents and mental decline, I highly recommend this episode of @saucepodcast.bsky.social, in which we laid out, in detail, the evidence of Donald Trump's substantial brain damage from advancing dementia. www.saucepodcast.com/trumps-demen...

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Trump’s Dementia

It doesn’t take a geriatrics expert to see that Donald Trump is deteriorating. Is it just normal aging, or something… else? Maya and Rebecca investigate Trump’s lapses in memory, …

The Sauce with Maya Gurantz and Rebecca Cohen @saucepodcast.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

New episode! Right wing free speech warriors are strangely silent while Trump squashes freedom of expression. Maya & Rebecca uncover how this isn't just hypocrisy - their rhetoric actually paved the way for the totalitarian suppression we're experiencing now. www.saucepodcast.com/rip-free-spe...

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RIP Free Speech

For years, right wingers have loudly decried supposed attacks on free speech. Yet now those free speech warriors are strangely silent as Trump punishes universities and ICE arrests students for exp…

The Sauce with Maya Gurantz and Rebecca Cohen @saucepodcast.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Why can’t the Democrats get their shit together? Where is the The Resistance (tm)? In our latest episode, we pull apart what the opposition party is doing wrong and, drawing unexpected insight from the Drake-Kendrick feud, determine how they can get it right. www.saucepodcast.com/dems-in-disa...

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Dems in Disarray

With Trump and Musk trampling American democracy, why aren’t elected Democrats doing more to stop the carnage? Maya and Rebecca piece together why the opposition party can’t seem to get…

The Sauce with Maya Gurantz and Rebecca Cohen @saucepodcast.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Let’s ruin the Great American Novel! @mayagurantz and @gynostar are joined by Artist (and longtime listener!) Marcus Kwame Anderson and writer David F. Walker to discuss their new book– Big Jim and the White Boy, an audacious (and inspired) retelling of Huck Finn.

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Ruining Huck Finn, with VERY SPECIAL GUESTS David F. Walker and Marcus Kwame Anderson

Let’s ruin the Great American Novel. Maya and Rebecca are joined by Artist (and longtime Sauce listener!) Marcus Kwame Anderson and writer David F. Walker to discuss their new book– Big…

The Sauce with Maya Gurantz and Rebecca Cohen @saucepodcast.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

How are we going to survive this fascist takeover of our gov’t? Denial? Maya and Rebecca kick off new feature BREAD AND CIRCUSES with Cirque du Soleil's Michael Jackson show, unpacking what it teaches us about making spectacles out of a very bad man. (Oh wait, I thought we were trying to do denial?)

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Bread and Circuses: Michael Jackson ONE and Cirque du Soleil

How are we going to survive the fascist takeover of our government? Through a delicate balance of activism and avoidance. Maya and Rebecca introduce a new ongoing feature, BREAD AND CIRCUSES with C…

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Ben Mathis-Lilley @benmathislilley.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Voters INSIST that Democrats work with Elon Musk’s Commission on Whether International Jews Started the Los Angeles Fire and Staged the Sandy Hook Massacre to find common sense solutions that will make a difference to them at the kitchen table.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Sobering but a reflection of many convos I've had in the last year: "I used to joke with colleagues that higher education is besieged on two fronts: by fascists on one side and neoliberals on the other. As we look ahead to a second Trump administration, these two threads appear ready to converge."

Universities and the Coming Storm

It’s difficult for colleges to defend democracy if they aren’t run democratically.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

If Trump were president now, he'd be using the wildfires to extort Gavin Newsom and CA, and everyone on here knows it. As Nicole Hemmer points out on the pod, he has a history of this, and this impulse is deeply rooted on the right. Check out our exchange: newrepublic.com/article/1900...

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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

my reaction to new tech like this is just so frequently "why?"

panel 1: “I’ve made a robot that screams!”
panel 2: [robot screaming]
panel 3: “why?”
panels 4 and 5: [thinking]

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wes(is no longer)injapan @wesinjapan.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Brett Favre is just interested in sending a picture of the current moment. Google Brett Favre Sends Pictures.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 05/01/2025

This is the party Elon Musk is endorsing and will have a big streamed interview with their leader next week in X.

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 05/01/2025

Man I hope so but I’m here at #aha25 and the conversations I hear are a lot of collaborators! “Just feed all your articles into the AI and use it to organize your notes.” “Use AI to write some of your work” It’s bleak!

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Just as the strong record of the Great Society was eclipsed by Vietnam, Biden’s domestic accomplishments were likewise overshadowed for the left by Gaza.

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Mario Augusto Puga Valera ♾️🇵🇪 @mapugavalera.org.pe · 23/12/2024

El más reciente episodio del #podcast “The Sauce”, conducido por @gynostar.bsky.social, permite comprender mucho el problema de la transfobia reciente en los Estados Unidos.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

WATCH: “They asked me if I wanted my medication or if I wanted my TODAY show interview to run.” United Health denied his life-saving medication until it was about to become a national story. A cruel, broken for-profit system. 🇺🇸 #MedicareForAll Full: www.democracynow.org/2024/12/20/h...

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UnitedHealth vs. Patients: NYC Man’s Battle to Get Lifesaving Drug

Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the shooting death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, has been charged with first-degree murder and second-degree murder as an act of terrorism. Thompson’s assassin...

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Maya Gurantz @mayagurantz.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

We're back! @saucepodcast.bsky.social is joined by @guybranum & @gracefreud.bsky.social, who help us break down the Trump campaign's transphobic messaging this past election season. Why was it so effective? Is there any good way to respond to these right wing demonologies?

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TRANS PANIC! (Election 2024 Edition) with Special Guests Guy Branum and Grace Freud

After a nice long stretch of denial, Maya and Rebecca dip our toes back into political waters with Very Special Guests Guy Branum and Grace Freud, who bring queer and trans perspectives to the tran…

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Sterling McGarvey @sterlingmcgarvey.com · 15/12/2024

This thread is a perfect encapsulation of everything fun about @saucepodcast.bsky.social

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Well, when put it that way…

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Rebecca Cohen @gynostar.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Okay, Skeeters. What's your strategy for dealing with relatives who, shall we say, have different politics than you? Do you try enforce a "no politics at family gatherings" rule? Just ignore them? Dump all the gravy in their lap and storm out? It feels like every approach has a down side.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Good. It’s horrific how other platforms abused their reach to strangle local, independent, and national outlets alike. I WANT to see news and actual vetted work and I WANT journalists to get rewarded for it. Because I want to live in a thinking human world over some AI generated slop dystopia

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Rebecca Cohen @gynostar.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

On my podcast we talked about how America's politics got so broken - and it definitely didn't start with Donald Trump.

The Sauce with Maya Gurantz and Rebecca Cohen @saucepodcast.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Welp, America chose fascism. But the rejection of liberal democracy didn’t start with DJT; it’s been taking shape for decades. @mayagurantz & @gynostar sort out how things went so horribly wrong, in this election cycle and over the last 40 years. Is our political system broken? What do we do now?

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Welp, America has chosen fascism. But the rejection of liberal democracy didn’t start with Donald Trump; it’s been taking shape for decades. Maya and Rebecca sort out how things went so…

The Sauce with Maya Gurantz and Rebecca Cohen @saucepodcast.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

WHY ARE WE BACK HERE? Why did America elect a patently unfit fascist... again??? We found some answers by revisiting our episode on the Trump Cult, how it operates and why it's so effective. Listen & tell us how you're coping with living among so many cultists. www.saucepodcast.com/the-trump-cu...

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The Trump Cult: Revisited

So we’re all freaking out in this final stretch before Election Day 2024. Rebecca and Maya revisit our episode on the Trump Cult from four years ago, recorded right before Biden’s inaug…

The Sauce with Maya Gurantz and Rebecca Cohen @saucepodcast.bsky.social · 09/09/2024

JD Vance & Tim Walz represent stark contrasts, not just in donut-ordering skills. In our latest ep, Maya & Rebecca compare performances of masculinity embodied by each, how their rhetorics/politics reveal gender assumptions, & why right-wing attacks on Walz fail. www.saucepodcast.com/vance-walz-a...

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Vance, Walz and Dueling Masculinities – The Sauce Podcast

The Sauce with Maya Gurantz and Rebecca Cohen @saucepodcast.bsky.social · 29/08/2024

Trump's deterioration is obvious, but is it normal aging or something more concerning? In our latest episode, Maya & Rebecca dive deep into the medically defined symptoms of dementia and examine how they match up with Trump's speech, language & behavior. www.saucepodcast.com/trumps-demen...

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Trump’s Dementia – The Sauce Podcast