In this episode, Alex talks about how some Senate Democrats voted with Republicans to avoid a government shutdown. Alex is furious at Democrats like Chuck Schumer and spends the episode talking about how the Democrats are not equipped to handle this moment. He also argues that Democrats should start taking pages from the “Never-Trump” playbook and actually challenge Republicans before all of the damage is done. Sometimes, if you are in the wilderness for too long, you get very lost…
Mar 15, 2025•21 min•Ep. 507
In this episode, Alex starts by reflecting on the COVID-19 Pandemic, five years after the first lockdowns. He reflects on his contradictory thoughts on what policymakers did right and wrong, and his time in Spain seeing a different policy perspective. For the rest of the episode, Alex talks about Trump’s reciprocal trade war with the European Union. It started with tariffs on European steel and aluminum, then tariffs on American whiskey, which led to Trump threatening tariffs on European alcohol...
Mar 13, 2025•28 min•Ep. 506
In this episode, Alex is getting over his head cold but has a lot to say about current events. He celebrates Real Madrid’s victory against Atletico Madrid, lambasts Gavin Newsom for having a podcast that is trying to be “the left wing Joe Rogan”, and reacts to a clip of the White House Press Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, gaslighting the public about why tariffs are good for the consumer. For the rest of the episode, Alex dives into the specifics of the negotiations between the U.S. and Ukraine ov...
Mar 13, 2025•32 min•Ep. 505
In this episode, Alex starts by talking about how a potential ceasefire deal has been reached between Ukraine and the United States. Now the pressure is on Russia to agree to the 30-day ceasefire. Next, Alex mentions that the House will be voting today to prevent a government shutdown. Speaker Johnson still faces some internal opposition ahead of the vote. For the rest of the episode, Alex talks about how the Trump Administration is going after left-wing antisemitism because it is left-wing rhet...
Mar 11, 2025•38 min•Ep. 504
In this episode, Alex talks about three days of sectarian violence in Syria that have led to over 1,300 people being killed. Many of these tragedies seem to be related to revenge killings of the Alawite population that was supporting Assad. Alex then talks about fears of a recession as the stock market had another bad day. He wonders why Trump seems to have accepted that an economic crisis is coming. Alex later talks about DOGE embracing an AI model to do the work of the federal employees that h...
Mar 11, 2025•35 min•Ep. 503
In this episode, Alex starts by wondering if the end of DOGE is near. After a heated cabinet meeting, Trump has said that government cuts should be done with a scalpel and not a hatchet. Only time will tell if that is true because the Department of Defense has removed over 20,000 archival photos and data that mention historical black figures, woman of color, and gay veterans. Ironically, the DoD accidentally removed photos of the Enola Gay (the plane that bombed Hiroshima). While this is satiric...
Mar 08, 2025•23 min•Ep. 502
In this episode, Alex talks about why the Trump tariffs are a sham (if he really thought they worked he wouldn’t go back on them). He also talks about Hungary joining DOGE efforts to go after USAID funding and why this seems like an authoritarian crackdown. Alex also brings up Hungary getting isolated from the EU and why the EU seems to be fracturing.
Mar 07, 2025•39 min•Ep. 501
In this episode, Alex gives his reaction and analysis to Trump’s address to Congress last night. He talks about how this address both bored him and worried him to his core. The speech was hyperpartisan, vengeful, dishonest, and also the longest in modern presidential history. Alex is finally convinced that Trump will never be able to be the president for all Americans and also is shocked by how much control Trump has over the party and the country. As many Americans struggle with higher cost of ...
Mar 05, 2025•24 min•Ep. 500
In this short episode, Alex reacts to the USDA Secretary talking about how it is great that Americans are reacting to high egg prices by wanting to buy chickens to raise and lay eggs. Alex argues this is against microeconomics and will lead to higher prices all around. Alex also talks about the miracle of egg production and why the industrialization led to the situation we are experiencing with bird-flu and other issues. Republicans have stopped talking about egg prices as much because it is bec...
Mar 05, 2025•16 min•Ep. 499
In this episode, Alex talks about Marco Rubio (Little Marco to some) shrinking into his chair during the heated Oval Office bullying of President Zelensky. Then, for the rest of the episode, Alex asks his listeners if the Trump Administration is just trying to fuck everything up at this point. The stock market plummeted today as Trump promised new tariffs on Mexico, China, and Canada. Alex talks about how Canada can respond and why it will mobilize our neighbors to the north. Later, He also talk...
Mar 04, 2025•37 min•Ep. 498
In this episode, an angry Alex reacts to Trump and Vance bullying President Zelensky at the White House as it seems clear that the United States doesn’t care about helping Ukraine anymore.
Mar 01, 2025•30 min•Ep. 497
In this quick episode, Alex talks about the spreading measles outbreak in Texas and New Mexico that has killed one school-aged child and has infected hundreds. Heath and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr. has downplayed the outbreak has vaccine skepticism is on the rise. Alex roasts the Make America Healthy Again movement and argues that it is contradictory at best and dangerous at worst.
Feb 28, 2025•20 min•Ep. 496
In this episode, Alex mainly focuses on Amazon purchasing the creative rights to the James Bond franchise. He is mad because the Broccoli family served as strict but important gatekeepers for the Bond franchise; they were long term protectors for the Bond series and how it evolved over the decades. Now Amazon will be able to change anything it wants and expand the Bond universe. Alex thinks it could now follow other struggling franchises like Star Wars, Marvel, and Lord of the Rings.
Feb 27, 2025•30 min•Ep. 495
In this episode, Alex starts by talking about why he isn’t surprised that Dan Bongino has been tapped to be the Deputy Director of the FBI. Bongino is unhinged, distrusts the FBI, is an election denier, and is a loyal podcast host that loves Donald Trump. Next, Alex gives an update on the German elections that happened Sunday. Finally, it has been three years since the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the United States has finally made a total shift to neutralize culpability on the global stage. ...
Feb 25, 2025•31 min•Ep. 494
In this episode, Martin Benes returns to the podcast for part two of their conversation. The episode is foreign affairs focused. They talk about the German elections, Trump’s chaotic global nationalism, why the American Right likes El Salvador, what is next for Ukraine, and much much more!
Feb 23, 2025•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 493
In this episode, Alex brings back friend of the pod, Martin Benes, to talk about the hostile government takeover that is happening. They talk about the recent wave of firings in the federal government, Elon Musk becoming a living meme, whether voters will turn on the Trump-Musk alliance, and why this purge isn’t about efficiency. They also talk about the legacy of Mitch McConnell, Steve Bannon’s criticism of DOGE, and much more!
Feb 22, 2025•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 492
In this episode, Alex starts by talking about Mitch McConnell’s legacy, whether there is a need for moderate Republicans anymore, and why CPAC has become an absolute clown show. For the rest of the episode, Alex takes a deep dive into the federal elections that will take place in Germany on Sunday. These elections could be historic, not because the Christian Democratic Union (center right) is expected to win the most seats, but because the Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) may get 20% of the vot...
Feb 22, 2025•42 min•Ep. 491
In this episode, Alex worries that the United States is handing Russia and Putin everything they want, as Trump’s diplomatic envoy met with its Russian counterparts in Riyadh earlier today. Ukraine was left out of the negotiations as the Trump team allowed its Russian counterparts to parrot propagandist talking points and many in Europe worry that the American side already gave Putin everything he’s wanted. Alex worries that the United States has switched sides as Europe is divided on how to res...
Feb 19, 2025•25 min•Ep. 490
In this special, President’s Day episode, Alex speaks with Grayson Forsberg and they talk about everything. As they rate drinks ranging from an Aperol Spritz to High Noons, they cover weird Instagram algorithms, the flaws of our two party system, foreign policy blunders, their next reality show, and much more.
Feb 18, 2025•1 hr 34 min•Ep. 489
In this episode, seven attorneys in New York City have resigned after the Acting Deputy Attorney General, Emil Bove, asked them to drop Eric Adams’ corruption charges. There are ethical violations associated with this action as it looks like Bove wants to reward Adams with a pardon if he advances the Trump agenda. Alex also talks about the fall of Eric Adams and a Russian drone striking the protective shield at the reactor in Chernobyl. He ends by talking about Trump’s obsession with toilets....
Feb 15, 2025•32 min•Ep. 488
In this quick episode, Alex reacts to JD Vance’s performance at the Munich Security Conference on Friday. Steaming with hypocrisy, Vance roasts European leaders for denying elections, limiting free speech, and threatening democracy. Alex can’t believe how much Vance has changed as Russian television networks have praised Vance’s rhetoric.
Feb 14, 2025•12 min•Ep. 487
In this episode, Alex talks about the Associated Press getting barred from White House Press Briefings after calling the Gulf of America the “Gulf of Mexico.” Alex then talks about how Trump is going to struggle to explain to Americans why he is doing the proper economic policies for the country as prices continue to increase. Finally, it looks like Kash Patel is going to get confirmed to be the next director of the FBI. The comes as there are accusations that he is already influencing the recen...
Feb 14, 2025•35 min•Ep. 486
In this episode, Alex welcomes in a winter storm late Wednesday night as he laments the confirmation of Tulsi Gabbard, questions if there are any moderate Republicans left in the Senate, and then is troubled by the news that Trump had a conversation with Putin over Ukraine. It looks like the Trump Administration will look to quickly end the war, while also normalizing Putin, ignoring Ukrainian demands, and turning its back on NATO.
Feb 13, 2025•22 min•Ep. 485
In this episode, Alex talks about how a nineteen year old hacker and cyber expert named online as "Big Balls" has been granted access to wide ranging facets of the federal government (without proper vetting). He also talks about the strange Monarch to Prime Minister dynamics between Elon Musk and Trump and why it looks a showdown is coming between the courts and Trump as he has defied some of their rulings. Also, the Gulf of Mexico has officially been renamed to the Gulf of America... Eggs will ...
Feb 12, 2025•30 min•Ep. 484
In this episode, Alex takes a needed break from American politics and turns to talking about Spain and Greece. It is bad news in Greece, as the island of Santorini is in a state of emergency, after over 7,000 small earthquakes have hit the island within a week. Over 12,000 people have fled the island and locals fear what the future of tourism may look like. Talking about Spain, Alex thinks the Spanish government is doing things that the American government should emulate. The Spanish government ...
Feb 07, 2025•25 min•Ep. 483
In this episode, Alex discusses a press conference with Donald Trump where he ranted about his plans for Gaza. Even though he may have properly diagnosed failures to find peace, Alex worries that Trump is emboldening the far-right in Israel by talking about temporarily removing Palestinians from Gaza (and using military force to do so) so they can turn Gaza into the “Riviera of the Middle East.” Alex thinks that Trump could actually use his influence to try and rebuild Gaza, but he worries that ...
Feb 06, 2025•18 min•Ep. 482
As Elon Musk, along with young engineers without security clearances, has holed himself up in the Eisenhower Building, it looks like he has been able to gut programs, get access to Treasury Department accounts, and freeze grants. All of this has been done without hearings, oversight, or debate; Congress should stand up to these actions since Musk is unelected and Congress has the power of the purse. However, it seems like a constitutional crisis is brewing as the courts may be the only means to ...
Feb 05, 2025•43 min•Ep. 481
In this episode, Alex talks everything related to Trump, tariffs, and trade wars. The crisis has been temporarily averted, but Alex worries that more is coming and Trump’s isolationist tendencies will turn “America First” into “America Alone.”
Feb 04, 2025•29 min•Ep. 480
In this episode, Alex talks about the tragic collision at Reagan National Airport in DC. He argues that a network/system of failures led to this tragedy and it is clear that there isn’t one thing to point the blame on. However, Trump has blamed DEI and the Biden Administration; Alex thinks the right has its own form of DEI. Next, Alex gives some analysis surrounding the confirmation hearings of RFK Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, and Kash Patel. He hopes that one of these three will not be confirmed and get...
Jan 31, 2025•44 min•Ep. 479
In this episode, Alex talks about the chaos that has occurred in Washington D.C., and around the country, as the Trump Administration released a memo on Monday that temporarily froze all funding towards federal grants and other large programs. Since this memo was released, the Trump Administration has scaled many of these freezes back. However, Alex talks about the Project 2025 side of this and why he thinks that the chaos is the point.
Jan 30, 2025•23 min•Ep. 478
