The Snark Factor

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...