THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24th, 2026
Ten of today's top conservative podcasts made the cut for tonight's roundup — Karoline Leavitt opens up to Sean Hannity about walking away from her West Wing job, Megyn Kelly wades into a royal-family feud over a disputed new tell-all, and Victor Davis Hanson doubles down in his running clash with Tucker Carlson over the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Matt Walsh, Glenn Beck, Andrew Klavan, Dennis Prager, Ruthless, Daniel Horowitz, and Tucker Carlson himself round out the rest of tonight's lineup.
The Megyn Kelly Show — "Ep. 1404 King Charles vs. Diana's Brother, Plus Chazz Palminteri on Robert De Niro and Woody Allen"
Megyn Kelly dug into Earl Spencer's disputed new book about King Charles and fresh reports that Harry and Meghan may leave the UK for California, before turning to a wide-ranging interview with actor Chazz Palminteri about his Bronx upbringing and Hollywood career.
Discusses Earl Spencer's new book and its disputed claims about King Charles, including a dispute over Piers Morgan's career timeline.
Covers reports Harry and Meghan may leave the UK for California within weeks if taxpayer-funded security isn't restored.
Covers the death of Cindy Crawford's son Presley Gerber, including claims a doctor may have improperly prescribed ketamine.
Palminteri discusses his dyslexia diagnosis and turning down large offers to keep creative control of "A Bronx Tale."
Palminteri reflects on working with Robert De Niro and his role in Woody Allen's "Bullets Over Broadway."
The Matt Walsh Show — "The Media's Latest Lynching Hoax Is Unraveling In Real Time | Ep. 1844"
Matt Walsh argued that recent media narratives framing certain deaths as "lynchings" are being pushed to inflame racial tension ahead of the midterms, then pivoted to criticizing a New York Times op-ed by Nikole Hannah-Jones about her own school choice.
Claims no Black American has been lynched in the country this century.
Criticizes an AP report on the death of Tazia Fortune in Mississippi for omitting that the arrested suspect was also Black.
Notes video evidence in one case showed the victim carrying materials to his own hanging site, supporting a suicide ruling.
Criticizes Nikole Hannah-Jones's New York Times op-ed about enrolling her daughter in a low-performing school for ideological reasons.
Draws historical parallels to violent resistance during the forced school-busing integration era.
The Andrew Klavan Show — "Ep. 1296 - Dumb, Dumber and the Media"
Andrew Klavan criticized modern media for reducing complex issues to oversimplified narratives and coined the "Shapirocal" to describe how once-controversial conservative commentators have gone mainstream, before pushing back on AI-doom rhetoric.
Coins the "Shapirocal," describing Ben Shapiro's shift from censored outsider to mainstream-adjacent voice.
Compares AI-doom messaging to climate-change alarmism, suggesting both justify regulation benefiting large incumbents.
Promotes his film "Run, Hide, Fight: Infidels" and his book "Find Me Nowhere."
Discusses obstacles conservative creators face in the film and publishing industries.
The Glenn Beck Program — "LIVE: The Glenn Beck Program | Hour 1 | 9/23/26"
Glenn Beck opened on a Massachusetts lesbian bar facing boycott threats over an eased mask policy, then moved into an extended segment on Iran and the UN standoff, arguing Trump has effectively given Tehran a binary choice between a deal and regime change.
Cites data showing murders of transgender people fell from 53 in 2023 to 27 in 2025, pushing back on "genocide" framing.
Frames Trump's UN posture as giving Iran a binary choice: a deal or regime change.
Argues Iran's government can't sustain genuine peace with the US because it depends on anti-American sentiment for internal control.
Draws a historical parallel between the US-Iran standoff and Rome's rivalry with Carthage.
Calls for arming Iranian opposition forces in the spirit of the Reagan Doctrine.
The Tucker Carlson Show — "Max Blumenthal on His Iran Trip, Being Detained by Trump & the Globalist Chokehold on American Media"
Tucker Carlson hosted journalist Max Blumenthal to discuss being detained by customs after a reporting trip to Iran, the harassment campaign that followed, and the pair's broader argument that Israeli interests hold outsized sway over the Trump administration.
Blumenthal says he was detained at Dulles Airport and had his phones forensically searched after returning from Iran.
Says he's since filed a Fourth Amendment lawsuit over the seizure.
Laura Loomer publicly pushed for his arrest and passport revocation, claiming she alerted federal agencies about him.
Reported from Tehran on bombed neighborhoods, a damaged synagogue, and the Ayatollah's funeral procession.
Three congressmen sent a letter alleging he was an IRGC-cultivated asset, which he calls baseless.
The Sean Hannity Show — "Karoline Leavitt: What They Don't Tell You About the White House | Hang Out with Sean Hannity"
Karoline Leavitt talked with Sean Hannity about stepping back from her high-profile White House role to focus on her young children, offering behind-the-scenes stories about press dynamics and classified briefings along the way.
Says reporters routinely trade around Trump's personal cell number and that he often calls them back directly.
Recalls a security scare at the Correspondents' Dinner while pregnant, with Trump insisting on going back out.
Discusses sitting in on classified strike briefings referenced by the names "Midnight Hammer" and "Operation Epic Fury."
Cites intelligence claiming Iran had reached 60% uranium enrichment as justification for military action.
Warns that DSA-aligned Democratic positions, like abolishing the Senate, prisons and police, pose a governance threat.
The Victor Davis Hanson Show — "Victor Davis Hanson: Tucker Carlson is Wrong About Hiroshima—And Me"
Victor Davis Hanson pushed back directly on Tucker Carlson's characterization of his views on the atomic bombings of Japan, laying out the historical case for the decision and challenging Carlson to produce evidence for his claim.
Cites Okinawa's roughly 12,000 American and 50,000 Japanese deaths as a preview of invasion costs.
Says planners projected around a million American casualties from a two-phase invasion of Japan's home islands.
Says conventional fire-bombing raids killed more people than both atomic bombs combined, yet draw less scrutiny.
Directly challenges Tucker Carlson to produce any quote showing he called nuclear weapons "glorious."
Argues Carlson has drifted from opposing radical Islam toward pro-Russian views and mischaracterizes Rubio's Trump alignment.
Fireside Chat with Dennis Prager — "Dennis Prager on the Importance of Good Thoughts vs Good Deeds | PragerU"
Dennis Prager argued that good thoughts don't count morally unless they translate into actual deeds, drawing on scripture and historical examples before fielding listener questions on faith and family relationships.
Reinterprets Jesus's teaching on lustful thoughts as distinguishing thought from action rather than equating them.
Cites communist sympathizers as a historical example of people with "good" ideals who backed regimes causing mass suffering.
Tells a caller feeling guilty over intrusive negative thoughts about his ailing mother that his caregiving made him "a great son" regardless.
Takes member questions on capital punishment and Sabbath observance rules.
Ruthless Podcast — "New Election, Old Playbook: Democrats Latest Fake 'Crisis'"
The Ruthless hosts argued Democrats are hyping AI-regulation fears as manufactured, election-timed messaging, drawing comparisons to past campaigns against fracking, before covering a Romanian welfare-fraud ring and reactions to a progressive streamer's Axios interview.
Compare the AI scare tactic to past Democratic campaigns against fracking and net neutrality.
Mock clips of Bernie Sanders and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker comparing AI risk to nuclear weapons.
Suggest effective-altruism advocates are driving AI panic toward regulatory capture rather than genuine safety.
Cover a Romanian organized-crime ring accused of draining US welfare accounts.
React critically to Hassan Piker's Axios interview comparing America unfavorably to other countries on human rights.
Conservative Review with Daniel Horowitz — "The 4 Horsemen Destroying America: China, Islamists, Globalists & Their American Enablers"
Daniel Horowitz hosted economic analyst Kevin Freeman to lay out a "four horsemen" framework for America's decline, blaming communism, Islamism, globalism, and complicit domestic enablers, and proposing gold-backed state currency as a partial fix.
Freeman argued many modern monopolies are government-engineered rather than products of free-market competition.
Flagged roughly $40 trillion in national debt and rising interest costs as a looming crisis.
Freeman coined the term "venture socialism" to describe crony capitalism enabled by government favoritism.
Freeman pitched "transactional gold" — state-level digital accounts letting citizens hold gold-backed money outside federal monetary control.
Both guests tied economic recovery to a needed spiritual/moral renewal among citizens.