Here are some of the topics Pete Buttigieg discussed on the ‘Flagrant’ podcast last week: the White Lotus incest scene, cancer research, Grindr, Fox News, Chinese currency manipulation, lesbian college radio stations in Iowa, progressive taxation, fatherhood, “chick flights into space,” tariffs, whether food in Afghanistan turned him gay, Boston crime rates, corporate offshoring, the United Nations, subways, the Cold War, cancel culture, TikTok. And that’s just a start.⁠ ⁠ Flagrant, hosted by comedians Andrew Schulz and Akaash Singh, bills itself as a “podcast that delivers unfiltered, unapologetic, and unruly hot takes directly to your dome piece.” ⁠ ⁠ “The show is one of the larger nodes in the so-called manosphere, an umbrella term that’s become so overstretched and politically burdened that it’s basically lost all meaning,” writes Puck’s Peter Hamby. “It’s a miasma that helped elect Trump, who made podcasts a cornerstone of his campaign strategy, as many 2024 postmortems have noted...