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Hosted by Fingers Malloy · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 74 episodes
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The Snark Factor is a weekly show that airs on WAAM Talk 1600AM, 92.7FM Ann Arbor. You'll hear unusual takes on the latest news and entertainment from host Fingers Malloy. Sarah Smith and The Snark Factor Players join in on this unique talk show.
Fingers Malloy hosts The Snark Factor, a news show with 74 episodes published.
This week on The Snark Factor , Fingers Malloy looks at the uncertainty surrounding Iran, President Trump’s latest comments about a possible deal, and whether there’s any real off-ramp when you’re trying to negotiate wit
Fingers is flying solo this week as Sarah Smith takes the week off, and he’s got plenty to unload on. This episode covers California’s painfully slow primary vote count, the May jobs report, inflation pressure from the I
Fingers is back on The Snark Factor after a couple of chaotic weeks away — including, yes, a house flood — and he’s got thoughts. This week: a 10-year-old’s electric vehicle essay turns into a national story, Congresswom
Fingers Malloy is joined by guest co-host Teri Christoph of Smart Girl Politics for a wide-ranging episode of The Snark Factor covering Virginia redistricting, housing, boomers, cruise weddings, and why Fingers remains s
Fingers Malloy is joined by Tracy Connors for a wide-ranging Snark Factor that starts with the unanswered question hanging over the Iran conflict: how much is this costing the American people, and why does nobody in Wash
Donald Trump’s on-again off-again posture toward Iran gives Fingers and Sarah plenty to work with, from mock “exclusive audio” of the negotiations to the media’s instant pivot from predicting apocalypse to calling Trump
On this episode of The Snark Factor, Fingers Malloy and Sarah Smith bounce from the Pam Bondi fallout and the Epstein-files mess to the internet frenzy around Kristi Noem’s husband, then into the latest chaos surrounding
Because of technical issues, there wasn’t a new full Snark Factor radio show on WAAM 92.7FM Ann Arbor this weekend — but Fingers didn’t want Sunday to pass without dropping something new. So this episode is a little diff
On this episode of The Snark Factor, Fingers Malloy and Sarah Smith take on a familiar theme: common sense in full retreat. They kick things off with the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award going to Jerome Powell an
Fingers Malloy and Sarah Smith dig into a disturbing attack on a Michigan synagogue, the broader danger of soft targets, and the maddening reality that known terror threats still seem to slip through the cracks. They als
This week on The Snark Factor, Fingers Malloy and Sarah Smith look back at the challenge of doing a pre-recorded show when the news cycle refuses to cooperate — like last week, when the U.S. went to war with Iran after t
This week, Fingers Malloy and Sarah Smith run the national playlist: political theater, media stagecraft, and the strange new reality where everyone has an opinion—none of them come with solutions. They start with the St
If you missed it live on WAAM , the podcast is right here. This week, Fingers and Sarah start with an awkward little truth for Democrats: even with the “midterms are ours” confidence floating around… their own voters don
Sarah Smith has the week off, so Teri Christoph ( RedState contributor , Smart Girl Politics co-founder, and Substack writer ) joins Fingers for a wide-ranging ride that starts with politics and ends with frozen orange j
This week on The Snark Factor, Fingers Malloy and Sarah Smith take on a week where being the adult in the room somehow became a political crime. It starts with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer — not in legal trouble,
This week on The Snark Factor, Fingers Malloy and Sarah Smith dig into the ongoing chaos in Minneapolis and the bigger problem underneath it: the argument isn’t even about what happened anymore — it’s about who gets to e
Three stories. Three minutes. Every weekday. Here’s what survived the week. This Week in Review pulls together a run of stories about trust, control, and the quiet confidence institutions keep asking us to accept. We sta
A $5 billion lawsuit is usually a sign your day isn’t going great. This episode of The Snark Factor opens with Donald Trump suing JPMorgan Chase and its CEO over claims he was “debanked,” which quickly turns into a conve
This week’s Snark Factor 3 in 3 — Week in Review pulls together the headlines that made your shoulders tighten… and the ones that made absolutely no sense. Doctors in the UK are warning that kids and technology aren’t ju
Sarah Smith is off this week, so Fingers Malloy is joined by Amy Miller, a former senior Senate aide and longtime D.C. insider, for a rare thing on The Snark Factor: A calm, informed, no-hysteria conversation about healt
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The Snark Factor is hosted by Fingers Malloy. The show is categorised under news (politics) and has published 74 episodes.
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