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The Back Room with Andy Ostroy

The Back Room with Andy Ostroy

The Back Room with Andy Ostroy is a weekly unscripted, humorous, honest take on politics and pop culture featuring notable guest interviews and a shit-ton of righteous indignation

Produced by RFR and Andy Ostroy · Radio Free Rhinecliff and Andy Ostroy

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Show overview

The Back Room with Andy Ostroy has been publishing since 2022, and across the 4 years since has built a catalogue of 522 episodes, alongside 7 trailers or bonus episodes. That works out to roughly 250 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a several-times-a-week cadence.

Episodes typically run thirty-five to sixty minutes — most land between 34 min and 56 min — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. Roughly 43% of episodes carry an explicit flag from the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language News show.

The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 2 days ago, with 72 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2024, with 153 episodes published. Published by Radio Free Rhinecliff and Andy Ostroy.

Episodes
522
Running
2022–2026 · 4y
Median length
44 min
Cadence
Several per week

From the publisher

The Back Room with Andy Ostroy presents a humorous, honest take on politics and pop culture featuring notable guest interviews, a shit-ton of righteous indignation, and rip-roaring repartee with co-producers Matty Rosenberg and Jen Hammoud. We're havin' a ball, and so will you! Got somethin' to say?! Email us at [email protected] Leave us a message: 845-307-7446 Twitter: @AndyOstroy Produced by Andy Ostroy, Matty Rosenberg, and Jennifer Hammoud @ Radio Free Rhiniecliff Music by Andrew Hollander Design by Cricket Lengyel

Latest Episodes

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Dr. Mary Anne Franks on Trump's Autocratic Overreach and the Complicit Supreme Court and Tech Broligarchy; Free Speech and Online Harassment; the Abuse of Power; and More

Jun 27, 20261h 19m

TN State Rep. Justin J. Pearson on Redistricting, Racism, Affordability and the Midterms, his Congressional Campaign, and More

Jun 25, 202638 min

Marisa Renee Lee on Life, Love, Loss, Grief, Hope, Healing and her New Book Waiting for Dawn: Living with Uncertainty

Jun 23, 202644 min

Jeffrey Toobin on Trump's Assault on Democracy, How SCOTUS has Empowered him, and Whether the Guardrails are Holding

Jun 20, 20261h 4m

Barb McQuade on her New Book The Fix: Saving America from the Corruption of a Mob-Style Government

Jun 17, 202627 min

Adam Mockler on How to Effectively Beat Back Republican BS...and So Much More!

Jun 15, 202630 min

Andrew McCabe on the Current State of the FBI under Kash Patel and the Impact on the Bureau's Credibility, Hiring and Firing, and Morale

Jun 13, 20261h 7m

Batya Ungar-Sargon on her New Book The Jews and the Left

Jun 11, 202627 min

Alisyn Camerota on Life, Loss, Grief and Reinvention

Jun 8, 20261h 2m

Keisha Lance Bottoms on her Campaign for Georgia Governor and her New Memoir, The Rough SIde of the Mountain

Jun 6, 202643 min

Danielle Crittenden on her Terrific New Book Dispatches from Grief: A Mother’s Journey Through the Unthinkable

Jun 4, 202659 min

MI State Sen. Mallory McMorrow on her U.S. Senate Campaign

Jun 2, 202630 min

Asha Rangappa on the Iran War, Trump's Autocratic Overreach and DOJ/FBI Weaponization, the Administration's Incompetence, and How Democrats Need to Fight Back and Win in November

May 31, 202645 min

Ruth Ben-Ghiat on Trump, Orban, Xi/China and Whether She's Still Optimistic About American Democracy

May 26, 202636 min

Kristy Greenberg on Trump's $1.776 Slush-Fund and IRS Immunity Deal, Blanche, Bondi, Comey, Epstein...and the KNICKS!

May 23, 202654 min

Jonathan Jordan on his Terrific New Book IKE AND WINSTON: World War, Cold War, and an Extraordinary Friendship

May 21, 202654 min

Andrew Weissmann on his New Book Liar's Kingdom: How to Stop Trump’s Deceit and Save America

May 19, 202654 min

Nate Soares Explains How and Why AI May Ultimately Kill Us All

May 16, 20261h 3m

Jonathan Vigliotti on his New Book Torched: How a City Was Left to Burn, and the Olympic Rush to Rebuild L.A.

May 14, 202652 min

Elie Honig on Epstein/Lutnick/Bondi; Patel; Comey; SCOTUS/Virginia; Kimmel, Disney/ABC and the FCC; and Birthright Citizenship

May 11, 202640 min
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