Kat Timpf: An Unapologetic Libertarian at Fox News

The co-host of Gutfeld! talks about how everyone should reject binary thinking.

I’m a bit rushed this week for two big, pretty good reasons: I’m getting MARRIED* next Saturday and I’m mere hours away from interviewing Richard Dawkins in Milwaukee (more on both, but later in the future…). [* married, I’m getting married! See how. very. rushed. I. am.]

So without further ado, let me share my latest Reason Interview podcast, with the great Kat Timpf, whose new book is I Used To Like You Until…:(How Binary Thinking Divides Us). In a totally insane election season, this just might be the most important book of the year. A sequel of sorts to 2023's You Can't Joke About That: Why Everything Is Funny, Nothing Is Sacred, and We're All in This Together, it seeks to show how politics overwhelms common decency and basic logic.

Timpf, who co-hosts the super-popular Gutfeld! late-night show, explains to me why she tells some people she works in porn instead of at Fox News(!), what it's like being libertarian at a conservative network, and how she gets people to engage with each other rather than vilify one another. This podcast was taped in front of a live audience in New York City. For more information on Reason live events, go here.

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And here’s a list of topics, plus links to this episode’s sponsors. Do come out to the Reason Roundtable live taping in New York the night before election!

0:00- Introduction

0:58- Timpf's pregnancy and IVF

2:05- Timpf's new book: 'I Used To Like You Until…'

7:00- 'Hate as a shelter' & binary thinking

17:57- Ad: Zibiotics

19:43- Being a First Amendment absolutist

22:00- Will motherhood change Timpf's views?

24:17- In defense of drag queens

30:12- Using vulnerability to combat binary thinking

33:00- Timpf's husband

36:38- Being a libertarian on Fox News

38:20- Timpf's upbringing

40:49- 2024 presidential election

44:15- Political 'simping' makes Timpf sick

Previous appearance:

• Kat Timpf: Make America Funny Again! June 7, 2023

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• The Reason Roundtable live in New York!, Monday, November 4. Katherine Mangu-Ward, Peter Suderman, Nick Gillespie, and Matt Welch will conduct a live taping of The Reason Roundtable at The Village Underground the night before the election. Tickets are $25, doors open at 6:00 P.M., Ticket includes admission to an afterparty. Details here.