Friendly Fire: The Great Clancy Debate, California Crazy & Taylor Swifting the NFL

September 3, 2026

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Friendly Fire: The Great Clancy Debate, California Crazy & Taylor Swifting the NFL

The episode opens with the hosts lamenting the sheer stupidity of the current news cycle — from Hunter Biden claiming he's "48.6 percent gay" to President Trump proposing renaming Lake Ontario to "Lake America." But beneath the banter, three substantive conversations emerge: the Lindsey Clancy murder trial and what it reveals about mental health, gender, and the law; California's gubernatorial race as a test case for whether a Republican can win in a deep blue state; and the broader crisis of conservative economic messaging heading into the 2026 midterms.

The Lindsey Clancy Case: Mental Illness, Bad Law, and a Gender War

The trial of Lindsey Clancy — a Massachusetts mother who strangled her three young children — has become a national flashpoint. Isabel Brown lays out a crucial detail often missed: Clancy was never diagnosed with postpartum depression or postpartum psychosis before the murders. One of the many doctors she visited "actually said you're presenting with depressive episodes that are not oriented in psychosis." The postpartum psychosis narrative, Isabel argues, was a legal strategy deployed after Clancy hired a lawyer.

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1 Friendly Fire: The Great Clancy Debate, California Crazy & Taylor Swifting the NFL
2 (00:17) **Opening Banter on Hunter Biden's Sexuality** - The hosts joke about Hunter Biden claiming to be "48.6% gay" and what that means for Democratic politics
3 (04:43) **The Stupidity of Current Politics** - Ben expresses frustration with the absurdity of national discourse, from renaming Lake Ontario to deporting Milo Yiannopoulos
4 (07:43) **The Lindsey Clancy Case Debate** - The hosts dive into the controversial murder trial of the Massachusetts mother who killed her three children
5 (13:32) **Psychiatry's Underdeveloped State** - Ben explains why psychiatric diagnoses and treatments are inherently uncertain
6 (14:57) **Interview: Steve Hilton on California's Decline** - California gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton joins to discuss his campaign against Javier Becerra
7 (16:55) **Hilton on Election Integrity in California** - The candidate explains how California's voting system advantages Democrats

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Guests on this episode

Isabel Brown Ben Shapiro Steve Hilton

Show Notes

Isabel Brown joins the show to settle, once and for all, the national Lindsay Clancy debate. The hosts react to Hunter Biden's coming out as "a little bit" gay. Steve Hilton lays out his plan to save California from itself. Ben Shapiro and Andrew Klavan relive the deportation of Milo Yiannopoulos and make bold predictions about impeachments, 2028, and Taylor Swift.

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