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Hosted by John Ziegler a well-known conservative commentator the Free Speech Broadcasting podcast provides the best in news & opinion regarding all the hot topics of the week.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
John Ziegler scrutinizes disputed public narratives through persistent interviews, detailed media criticism and a plainly stated point of view.
John Ziegler treats public controversies as arguments about how stories become accepted, then tests those narratives through extended interviews and close attention to disputed details.
The Michael Jackson media circus gets a second hearing; you can keep the jury instructions.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A long, combative sit-down that treats the timeline as the real battleground.
John Ziegler frames a private, hours-long meeting with Matt Lauer as a case study in how media firestorms can settle into accepted truth before the full picture is available.
A forceful defense of Michael Jackson that keeps testing whether the evidence holds together.
This episode treats the Michael Jackson allegations less as a settled story than as a fight over who gets to frame it. John Ziegler, Taj Jackson, and Charles Thomson keep circling back to Square One, the timeline, and the people who claimed expertise while missing key facts.
A pointed media critique built around Jones's account of the Michael Jackson trial and its coverage.
The discussion centers on the Michael Jackson trial, the media response around it, and Aphrodite Jones's choice to push back by self-publishing after major publishers rejected a pro-Jackson book.
A hard-edged, uneasy interview that keeps pressing on the logic of a difficult story.
This segment leans on a tense, repetitive back-and-forth that keeps circling chronology, motive, injury, and the speaker's account of what happened. The host keeps returning to each claim instead of letting it slide, and that steady pressure gives the conversation its shape.
Conservative politics with faith-forward urgency.
Moral questions with consequences for minds, machines, and power.
WSJ reporters unpack the Epstein files, surrogacy industry abuses, and true-crime court battles.
Dan Carlin's solo essays connecting executive power, historical collapse, and American democracy.
John Ziegler interviews his daughters Grace, age nine, and Diana, age four, for the sixth annual family Christmas episode of World According to Zig.
Ziegler says the point is to get back to the details.
John Ziegler opens by restating his promise to tell the truth about the news from a conservative perspective.
John Ziegler opens with his familiar conservative-news frame, then shifts into a conversation with Aphrodite Jones.
The episode sits through a tense interview that keeps coming back to one central claim.