Elephants in Rooms
Hi, I’m Ken LaCorte. I spent 20 years behind-the-scenes at Fox News and now host “Elephants in Rooms”.
Here, we jump into topics that many people avoid and that the mainstream narrative often vilifies. Even when they’re true.
If you’re looking for true insight into issues – without straw men or sensationalism – you’ve found the right place.
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 23 minutes
- Episodes
- 96
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
Escaping the media bubble | Adam B. Coleman
Wrong Speak Publishing founder Adam B. Coleman used to follow the typical mainstream media – until the media pushed him over the red line, and he discovered truths he'd never seen before.
Adam tells K…
Hit job? I talked to a NYT writer about his Tucker book | Jason Zengerle
The New York Times has rarely been kind to conservatives, and that’s true now more than ever.
That’s why when I got an email from a New York Magazine writer – asking me for an interview for his upcomi…
The surprising math behind revolutions | BJ Campbell
BJ Campbell is the creator of the Handwaving Freakoutery blog, where he uses statistics and numbers to challenge the mainstream views on anything from culture and the media to crime and guns.
In this …
How to build a media empire from your bedroom | Rumen Naumovski
At age 24, Rumen Naumovski is the founder of Resist the Mainstream, a right-leaning news site that gets millions of views a month. His newsletter goes out to 500K readers and he has a combined 1.3 mi…
IRAQ: A Marine officer asks, "Why did we do it?"
Winston Tierney is a retired Lt. Colonel in the Marine Corps who’s seen the Iraq war up close. What he saw changed his view on the war in Iraq and war in general, which eventually led him to write a …
Derick Johnson | America is getting softer
Our society is getting softer.
Toxic feel-good movements are thriving, the military is struggling to recruit, and there's a new "offensive" words every week.
Derrick Johnson is a former Army veteran a…
Zac Kriegman | Reuters data scientist FIRED for exposing BLM
Zac Kriegman, a former data scientist for Thomson Reuters, joined me on the podcast to talk about his firing from one of the most influential new organizations in the US for sharing data that discred…
Bethany Mandel | How do you pass American values to your kids?
Bethany Mandel joins Ken on the podcast to discuss the red flags in K-12 education, the stigma surrounding homeschooling, and the right way to teach our children about American values.
Mandel is an au…
Christian Toto | Hollywood's good, bad, and ugly woke
Christian Toto is an award-entertainment journalist with more than a decade of experience, a contributor at the Daily Wire, and the founder of HollywoodInToto.com, a site that covers pop culture from…
Heather Mac Donald | Is crime increasing due to false charges of racism?
Heather Lynn Mac Donald is a best-selling author, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and a contributing editor at City Journal.
She joined the podcast for an interesting conversation about the real…
Michael Oreskes | Former NY Times and NPR Editor
Michael Oreskes joins Ken on the podcast to discuss the political left and right, the current state of the media, and how the Internet changed both.
Oreskes is a journalist with decades of experience.…
John Ondrasik | The "Five For Fighting" singer talks about his protest against the Afghanistan withdrawal
Five for Fighting’s John Ondrasik joins Ken to talk about John's protest song about the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal and its censorship. Also ... U.S. veterans, Afghanistan refugees, Ken’s time …
Hollie McKay | Reporting from Kyiv, surrounded by Russian forces
Hollie McKay is a war correspondent and war crimes investigator. After reporting from Afghanistan as it fell to the Taliban, she sneaked into Ukraine during the Russian invasion. She talked to Ken fr…
John Moody | Former head of news at Fox News
Ken and John Moody talk about Roger Ailes, the early days of Fox News, the news media industry, what made America great.
John recently published "Of Course They Knew, Of Course They ..." — a decidedl…
Ben Boychuk | Author & Managing Editor of American Greatness
Ken talks with Ben about California politics, how Sandpoint Idaho dealt with BLM protesters, Covid stats, and why searching "Ken LaCorte" online sometimes includes "sex offender" in the results.
To se…
Drew Curtis | The challenges of censorship and building a social media platform
Drew Curtis is the founder of Fark, a news site with a solid dollop of humor. He and Ken talk whiskey, tech, what to do in a tsunami, censorship, and how Reddit is likely the largest porn site in the…