{"podcast":{"title":"Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté","slug":"useful-idiots-with-katie-halper-and-aaron-mat-1429483","podcast_index_feed_id":1429483,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/304318.rss","website_url":"https://www.usefulidiotspodcast.com/podcast","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/304318/bd4899cbc23ee1656dd8a30e3c5d8fd8.jpg","author":"Katie Halper and Aaron Maté","episode_count":497,"summary":"Useful Idiots with Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/useful-idiots-with-katie-halper-and-aaron-mat-1429483"},"episode":{"title":"Lindsey Graham: \"The Iran War is worth losing my job\" (and how to make that happen)","slug":"lindsey-graham-the-iran-war-is-worth-losing-my-job-and-how-to-make-that-happen","published_at":"2026-05-18T15:53:04+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/useful-idiots-with-katie-halper-and-aaron-mat-1429483/lindsey-graham-the-iran-war-is-worth-losing-my-job-and-how-to-make-that-happen","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/useful-idiots-with-katie-halper-and-aaron-mat-1429483","url":"https://www.usefulidiotspodcast.com/p/lindsey-graham-the-iran-war-is-worth","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/198279108/da2fb3960c0c9ba9b6a10a9e31e8a33b.mp3","summary":"Don’t miss our weekly recap of the craziest moments in corporate media: Watch this week’s Monday Mourning here: From Lindsey Graham’s mouth to God’s ears: when asked on Meet the Press if the Iran War was worth losing the midterms over, Senator Lindsey Graham proclaimed: “It’s worth losing my job!” Finally, something to agree with arch-Zionist warmonger Lindsey Graham on! And speaking of God’s ears, Trump held a Christian Nationalist party to celebrate the US’s 250th birthday, where speakers claimed that it took God two centuries to bring us Donald Trump so that he could finally put a ballroom in the White House. That’s not a joke they really said that. From Lindsey Graham to Mike Johnson to John Fetterman to former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, we’ve got a Monday Mourning that oscillates between the importance of bombing civilian infrastructure in Iran to the importance of that ballroom. It’s a ridiculous and jam-packed episode. Thanks for supporting our work! Subscribe to the show to become a Useful Idiot and get bonus content! Plus, join our new fundraiser on YouTube for Global Health Partners to help get urgent medical aid to Cuba – click donate next to the video on YouTube linked above! Useful Idiots is supported by YOU This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.usefulidiotspodcast.com/subscribe","meta_description":"Don’t miss our weekly recap of the craziest moments in corporate media: Watch this week’s Monday Mourning here: From Lindsey Graham’s mouth to God’s ears:…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4084,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/useful-idiots-with-katie-halper-and-aaron-mat-1429483/episodes/lindsey-graham-the-iran-war-is-worth-losing-my-job-and-how-to-make-that-happen/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/useful-idiots-with-katie-halper-and-aaron-mat-1429483/lindsey-graham-the-iran-war-is-worth-losing-my-job-and-how-to-make-that-happen.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}