Greetings! It’s the battle of the podcasts.  On Sunday, Kamala Harris was interviewed on “Call Her Daddy,” a six-year-old podcast with a huge female audience.  Not to be outdone on the podcast front, Trump appeared yesterday on the most popular right wing podcast, “The Ben Shapiro Show” (here’s the full transcript of the interview).   Based on information I’ve pulled from the podcasting platform Castbox, Trump potentially reached twice as many listeners as Harris. “The Ben Shapiro Show” has 637,318 Castbox subscribers, while “Call Her Daddy” has 290,216.  Those are big numbers in the pod world. Keep in mind, Castbox has less than 2% of the podcast platform market, dominated by Spotify and Apple…Fall movie star Mel Gibson has a TV series in development. The Gibson project is about the 1565 Siege of Malta, when an outnumbered army of Christians held off Muslim invaders (The Western Journal)…The American Conservative calls newly sworn-in president of Mexico Claudia Sheinbaum “the dangerous radical on our southern border”…Right wing entertainment blogger Christian Toto gives thumbs down to The Apprentice, a new theatrical film about Trump’s early adult years and his tutelage under the much reviled lawyer Roy Cohn.  Toto concludes that “partisan rage” sinks the “The Apprentice” (lousy title, BTW).  “The screenplay, by Fox News critic Gabriel Sherman repeatedly echoes 2024 amidst its talking points,” writes Toto in his Tinseltown blog Hollywood in Toto. “Sherman loathes Fox News, but he’d be better served by turning off MSNBC.” The film opens Friday…If  you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard