Show overview
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté has been publishing since 2019, and across the 7 years since has built a catalogue of 527 episodes. That works out to roughly 570 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence.
Episodes typically run an hour to ninety minutes — most land between 50 min and 1h 15m — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. It is catalogued as a EN-language News show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 3 days ago, with 67 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2025, with 97 episodes published. Published by Katie Halper and Aaron Maté.
From the publisher
Useful Idiots is an informative and irreverent politics podcast with journalist Aaron Maté and podcaster/writer Katie Halper. Episodes feature on-the-road coverage of the 2020 campaign and exclusive interviews, with humor, commentary and dissection of the politics news of the week. Join Katie and Aaron as they examine important stories that have slipped through the cracks and what the media got wrong – and laugh about whatever is left to laugh about. www.usefulidiotspodcast.com