Lee Camp and Graham Elwood
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Lee Camp (Redacted Tonight) and Graham Elwood (Jimmy Dore Show) give comedic takes on current stories involving the US government and their coverups.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Lee Camp and Graham Elwood pair detailed institutional history with sharp comic scrutiny of official decisions, corporate influence, and contested national stories.
Government Secrets turns documented episodes of official failure and corporate influence into a two-person comic argument. Lee Camp and Graham Elwood trade research-heavy accounts with running jokes, moving between NASA's resistance to engineers before the Challenger launch,…
July 4's signature timeline meets an intro with too many buttons; your civics refresher comes with heckling.
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Bob Elberg warned NASA about the O-rings the night before launch -- the call went ahead anyway.
Government Secrets reconstructs the conference call the night before Challenger launched, when Bob Elberg and his colleagues told NASA that the O-rings in the booster joints would stiffen in the cold -- and this was going to be the coldest launch on record by a considerable…
A blunt, funny look at Navy fraud, official shrugging, and how little anyone dug.
Government Secrets turns the Fat Leonard Navy scandal into a plainspoken account of contracts, ports, and the kind of official shrugging that lets a fraud keep moving.
Politics, history, and jokes keep crossing paths, but the receipts hold the line.
Government Secrets ties Ukraine, Crimea, Donbass, and the Dawes Act into one anti-imperial line and keeps the pace moving with a crab mug, Baltimore, and a deliberately clumsy cold open.
A blunt look at how policing, prisons, and ICE connect.
Government Secrets connects LAPD training trips to Israel with a broader critique of policing and punishment at home. It says Israeli companies introduced the LAPD to facial recognition and drone technology during those visits, then links that thread to broken windows policing,…
A loose political comedy set that jumps from vodka and LA unrest to Iraq, Israel, Iran, and official lies.
It moves from addiction jokes and vodka into Los Angeles protests, Iraq, Israel, Iran, and the old problem of official lies. The set keeps returning to the claim that Los Angeles has been burning again, then widening into unrest, looting, and the different way armed incursions…
Corporate misconduct and frontier history, delivered with bite.
Government Secrets opens with oil-company misconduct, including the Chevron-Ecuador fight and the damage done by the fake cleanup effort, before turning to the Donner Party and the facts the hosts say are forgotten or ignored.
A brisk, skeptical tour through the Panama Papers and the fallout around Mossack Fonseca.
The episode treats the Panama Papers as a wide-angle look at offshore finance, shell games, and the institutions that let them keep going. It moves cleanly from Mossack Fonseca's paper trail to the leak itself, then into the fallout in Germany and Brazil, with the Commerzbank…
A sharp Vietnam history segment that uses banter to make the numbers hit harder.
The episode opens in loose banter about Asia, Kim Jong-un haircuts, and Apocalypse Now before settling into Vietnam's math. The comic back-and-forth keeps the history from turning stiff, and the casualty figures give the argument real weight.
A near-daily politics rundown from Dana Goldberg and Alison Gill on Trump-era legal fights.
Three Slate journalists debate the week's politics, plus live shows and author interviews.
Mike Pesca opens with a monologue, then digs into Supreme Court ethics and Iran policy.
Government Secrets Podcast Episode 170 links the 1915 Lusitania sinking to newly released British papers saying the wreck contained "a large amount of ammunition" and warning a 1982 salvage operation might "literally blow up on us." The hosts argue that Churchill wanted neutral shipping near Britain to help bring the United States into World War I, then connect that pattern to the show’s wider claim that governments hide wartime facts for political ends.
Government Secrets episode 174 with Lee Camp and Graham Elwood opens by connecting Los Angeles wildfire politics, Karen Bass’s fire-department budget cut, and the Red Cross work they say gets overshadowed by cameras and contractors.
Government Secrets Podcast episode 197 pairs a long segment on U.S.
Lee Camp and Graham Elwood start with a long comic exchange about Graham fighting apps, buttons, Costco, China, and Thailand, before Lee pivots into “unknown history” from World War II, the Cold War, and the founding of the United States.
Government Secrets starts in sloppy, insult-heavy banter before pivoting into the history of American resistance to health care reform.
Lee Crabbe and Greg Bellewaert open with a Spanish Shopify ad and then slide into mug jokes before turning to Pearl Harbor foreknowledge.
Lee Camp and Graham Bellwood open Government Secrets by trading jokes about being late, haircuts, gas prices, and a $17 airport bag of pistachios.
Government Secrets episode 169 opens with Lee Camp and Graham Elwood joking about a Tibet filming trip, Axe Body Spray, Red Bull, and 300 shirts before shifting to the Patty Hearst kidnapping.
Lee Camp and Graham Hill open with censorship, comparing their own deplatforming and demonetization to Jimmy Kimmel’s return and arguing that mainstream media ignored their cases.
Government Secrets Podcast episode 189 links two fixed topics: presidents convicted of crimes and the history of child labor in the United States.
Government Secrets episode 183 ties together the Crazy Snake Rebellion in 1909 Oklahoma and the story of Ona Judge escaping George Washington’s household in 1796.
Government Secrets Podcast episode 172 pairs a long rundown on the Pinkertons with a second segment on Alaska Pipeline spills, starting from Alan Pinkerton's 1850 detective agency and ending with repeat spill counts on Alaska's North Slope.
Recoverment Secrets episode 193 opens with the ongoing attacks on Venezuela and then shifts into the 2002 U.S.-created coup against Chavez.
Comedians Lee Camp and Graham Elwood banter about tech mishaps and government surveillance in a satirical news show.
Spanish Shopify first, then rockabilly and Challenger.
Technology starts the mess.
Episode 194 starts sour with a New Year opener.
A shopping ad slides into chaos.
Government Secrets episode features irreverent political commentary mixing satire with historical research.
Lee Camp and Graham Elwood spend the episode on U.S.
Lee Camp argues that the Iran war is tied to a long-running U.S.-Israel strategy, not only to nuclear weapons, and he points to repeated official warnings from 1992 through 2025 that Iran was “months away” or “days to weeks away.” He cites Wesley Clark’s account of a Pentagon memo describing war plans for Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Iran, then connects that history to the current U.S.
The show opens with a loose, ranty stretch about oil companies that keep getting fined and keep behaving the same way.
400,000 dead, 500,000 birth defects, and the companies responsible are still in business and still poisoning.
The episode opens with a loose travel-and-hair riff, then drifts into politics and the usual American nonsense of the day.
The episode opens with a Shopify sponsor read and a burst of jokes about a $4 haircut, Kim Jong-un, and America’s awful grasp of Asia.
The show opens in ragged real time, with the hosts talking through the fires, cleanup, and the strain of people trying to get back to normal.
Comedians Lee Camp and Graham Elwood humorously discuss government coverups and the absurdity of smart devices after Lebanon explosions.
Comedians Lee Camp and Graham Elwood joke about US government secrets and share travel stories from Southeast Asia.
Comedians Lee Camp and Graham Elwood riff on US government secrets and coverups with a satirical tone.
Comedians Lee Camp and Graham Elwood deliver satirical commentary on US government secrets and current events.
Comedians Lee Camp and Graham Elwood humorously discuss government coverups and bizarre billionaire antics.
Comedians Lee Camp and Graham Elwood humorously discuss US government secrets, including the bombing of Nord Stream pipelines.
Two comedians banter about tech issues before diving into comedic commentary on government coverups.
Two comedians banter about technical issues and joke about their censored status before diving into comedic takes on government secrets.
Two comedians humorously discuss government coverups and censorship in this episode of Government Secrets Podcast.