The Unspeakeasy With Meghan Daum

Meghan Daum

Booking Overview

This is an interview podcast focused on cultural and moral assumptions, featuring candid conversations with writers, journalists, scholars, psychologists, artists, and other public thinkers. PR agencies could credibly pitch authors, cultural critics, academics, journalists, psychologists, and subject-matter experts with distinctive perspectives, strong expertise, or a timely book or project; booking difficulty is medium.

Metrics

Episodes: 262

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.6/5.0

Estimated listeners: 10k-100k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

YouTube: 11.0k subscribers

Instagram: 592 followers

Contact Information

mdaum213@gmail.com

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Host

Meghan Daum - Author, essayist, and journalist known for bringing nuance, humor, and unconventional perspectives to cultural and moral questions.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium
Typical Credentials:  
Authors, journalists, academics, psychologists, cultural critics, artists, and other established public thinkers with specialized expertise and an original perspective on cultural or moral questions.
Required Achievements:  
Published books, Established journalism or media work, Recognized academic or professional expertise, Public-facing podcasts, lectures, or commentary

Recent Guest Discussions

Jenny Holland - Cultural Criticism, Journalism, Ideological Shifts, Media Change, American Exceptionalism, And Political Assumptions.

Lisa Marchiano - Jungian Psychology, Archetypes, The Shadow, Synchronicity, Political Polarization, Ideology, Loneliness, And The Search For Meaning.

Mark Oppenheimer - Judy Blume’s Life And Work, Literary Biography, Young Adult Fiction, Censorship, Cultural Controversy, And Social Change.

Recent Topics

Cultural Criticism, Social Commentary, Journalism, Psychology, Literature

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
The Unspeakeasy With Meghan Daum
:

Anne Frank Examines Her White Privilege: the Musical feat. PJ Adzima

July 29, 2026

After a decade of ideological conformity, is American theater ready to laugh at itself again? This week Meghan is joined by Broadway star, comedian, and producer PJ Adzima, founder of Stage Time NYC and producer of Slam Frank—a mind-melting new musical that reimagines The Diary of Anne Frank through "an intersectional, multi-ethnic, genderqueer, Afro-Latin hip-hop lens." (You read that right.) Slam Frank was conceived by composer and lyricist Andrew Fox, who was stunned and inspired by a Twit...

Jenny Holland's Crusade To Save Culture, One Landmine At a Time

July 13, 2026

This (almost) Fourth of July conversation originally appeared on Jenny Holland's channel, Saving Culture From Itself, but it's really a "collab," as they say in the pod-biz. Meghan has talked with Jenny before on YouTube livestreams, but this is the first time they've done an official podcast together. This conversation kept circling back to the kinds of tripwires and trigger points that cause people to tune out ideas before they even hear them—for instance my advocacy for Spencer Pratt in th...

Making Jungian Sense of the World, with Lisa Marchiano

June 30, 2026

Meghan's guest this week is Lisa Marchiano—Jungian analyst, author, and co-host of the popular podcast This Jungian Life. She's long been intrigued by Carl Jung's ideas but also found them somewhat elusive. So she asked Lisa to help me understand why Jung resonates so deeply with so many people and why his work feels especially relevant today. They discuss archetypes, the shadow, synchronicity, Jung's break with Freud, and how Jungian psychology can help us make sense of political polarizatio...

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