Best The Main Event Radio Show Podcasts (2025)

Mike revisits his 2019 conversation with Senator Chris Murphy on the AUMF — the two-decade-old law still used to justify U.S. military strikes from Yemen to the Caribbean. Plus, a new strike on a Venezuelan vessel raises questions about presidential authority and transparency. We trace how “temporary” wartime powers became permanent policy, and wha…

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Wisdom of Crowds: Tyler Cowen: We Are Lucky to Be Living in This Era 39:34

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit wisdomofcrowds.live “This is one of the greatest historical eras mankind will ever see.” So says Tyler Cowen, economics professor at George Mason University, renowned author and chairman at the Mercatus Center, a think tank. He is also a writer, and famous podcaster whose books, like The…

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Macro N Cheese: Ep 350 - Naked Corruption with Bill Black 1:00:29

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Do you know what kakistocracy means? You’ll find out in this episode with guest Bill Black. Because, yeah, this is an educational podcast. A lot of us learned the term ‘elite control fraud’ from Bill in past episodes and you’ll hear more about it here. Bill is a great storyteller. His experience as a regulator trying to enforce laws against the gre…

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5-4: Rhiannon Interviews Mahmoud Khalil 43:05

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On this episode of Popular Cradle, (Rhiannon’s other podcast!), she interviews Columbia grad student Mahmoud Khalil, who was detained by ICE for more than 100 days earlier this year. You can find Popular Cradle wherever you listen to podcasts. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsBy Prologue Projects

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The Daily: 'The Interview': The Culture Wars Came for Wikipedia. Jimmy Wales Is Staying the Course. 43:34

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Attacks on the site are piling up. Its co-founder says trust the process. Thoughts? Email us at [email protected] Watch our show on YouTube: youtube.com/@TheInterviewPodcast For transcripts and more, visit: nytimes.com/theinterview Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favor…

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The Good Fight: Quico Toro on Charlatans 59:30

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Yascha Mounk and Quico Toro explore why we fall for them—and how to protect ourselves. Quico Toro is a contributing editor at Persuasion, the Director of Climate Repair at the Anthropocene Institute, and writes the Substack One Percent Brighter. He is the author, with Moisés Naím, of Charlatans: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Hucksters Bamboozle the …

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The Nation Podcasts: The Water Remembers with Amy Bowers Cordalis | A People's Climate 30:55

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For the first time in over a century, the Klamath River flows free again—thanks to the vision, courage, and determination of the Yurok Tribe. In this episode of A People’s Climate, Shilpi Chhotray talks with Amy Bowers Cordalis, a member of the Yurok Tribe and leader in the largest dam removal project in U.S. history. From devastating fish kills an…

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Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts: Voting Rights, But Mainly for White People 54:27

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Janai Nelson, president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund argued in defense of the Voting Rights Act in the pivotal Supreme Court case, Louisiana v Callais this week. Nelson joins Dahlia Lithwick on this episode of Amicus to probe the implications of the case for voting rights around the country, and the role of the Supreme Court in a democratic syst…

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This Week in Virology: TWiV 1262: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin 44:19

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In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin with Vincent Racaniello are dismayed by the government shutdown, the firings at the CDC including EIS agents, H5N1 isolation from backyard birds and its stability in raw milk and cheese, before Dr. Griffin deep dives into recent statistics on the measles epidemic, RSV, influenza and SARS-CoV-2 infections, …

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Bannon`s War Room: WarRoom Battleground EP 872: People Think Science “Disproves” God’s Necessity — But The More We Know, The More God Is Necessary

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WarRoom Battleground EP 872: People Think Science “Disproves” God’s Necessity — But The More We Know, The More God Is NecessaryBy WarRoom.org

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Bannon`s War Room: Episode 4860: So Goes Texas So Goes The Country

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Episode 4860: So Goes Texas So Goes The CountryBy WarRoom.org

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The Gist: Lisa Graves: On The Roberts Court's Power Play 39:17

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Lisa Graves joins to discuss Without Precedent: How Chief Justice Roberts and His Accomplices Rewrote the Constitution and Dismantled Our Rights—from court "capture" networks to why she sees the recent immunity ruling and emergency-docket moves as system-tilting, not umpiring. She and our host spar over what counts as a "constitutional crisis," con…

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The Bulwark Podcast: Peter Hamby: The Mini Dictator Wants What He Wants 1:17:32

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The administration under sticky fingers Trump is now pretending it cares about the sanctity of classified documents, while it seems that Marco Rubio is the one pushing for regime change in Venezuela. In California, the redistricting ballot measure has been seen as one of the most significant battles in the November election, but the Supreme Court m…

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Left Anchor: The American Farm Crisis - 369 EXCERPT 33:53

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Today Ryan has Sarah Taber, a small farmer and proprietor of the Farm to Taber YouTube channel, on to talk about just what is going on with American farming--the collapse in soybean exports, what farmers thought they would by voting for Trump, how he has made the H-2A visa program even more exploitative, why so many farmers are addicted to producin…

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Bell Curve: Gold Hits All-Time Highs, Stablecoin Adoption, and Historic Liquidations | Roundup 59:46

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On this week’s Roundup, we discuss gold’s new highs, and the implications this has for Bitcoin and crypto markets. We also unpack institutional crypto adoption, stablecoin-driven innovation, market liquidations, CeFi vs. DeFi resilience, and rising interest in prediction markets and tokenized financial systems.Thanks for tuning in! — Katana directs…

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The Majority Report with Sam Seder: 3605 - Republican's Losing the Shut Down & Fearing No Kings w/ Heather 'Digby' Parton, Film Guy Matthew 1:38:55

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It's Casual Friday at the Majority Report On today's show: On Wednesday night Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Bernie Sanders held a townhall in Washington DC hosted by Kaitlin Collins on CNN. At the townhall Sanders and AOC used the opportunity to call out Russ Vought and the Trump administration's attack on "democrat programs". AOC and Sand…

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Normal Men: Episode 28 - George Takes Portugal 1:35:31

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On the joys of travel, Chinese tariffs and mineral access, and appropriate appropriations.By George Pearkes

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Changelog: There will be bleeps 1:41:45

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Mike McQuaid and Justin Searls join Jerod in the wake of the RubyGems debacle to discuss what happened, what it says about money in open source, what sustainability really means for our community, making a career out of open source (or not), and more. Bleep! Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 2 minutes at the end of this episode an…

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Bannon`s War Room: Episode 4859: Big Tech Data Centers Crush American Energy

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Episode 4859: Big Tech Data Centers Crush American EnergyBy WarRoom.org

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Bannon`s War Room: Episode 4858: Arraignment Of John Bolton; Taking Down Leftist Terror Groups

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Episode 4858: Arraignment Of John Bolton; Taking Down Leftist Terror GroupsBy WarRoom.org

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Letters from an American: October 16, 2025 13:56

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Get full access to Letters from an American at heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/subscribeBy Heather Cox Richardson

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T1C 05 | The 1% Closer With Reed Goossens 2:16

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Title: The 1% Closer With Reed Goossens Summary: Reed emphasizes that grit, consistency, and continuous learning are the keys to long-term success. He attributes his achievements to showing up daily, evolving constantly, and embracing discomfort. The biggest risk he ever took was moving to the United States with no set plan — a move that completely…

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Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar: 10/17/25: Zohran DOMINATES, Shapiro CONDEMNS Young GOP Chat, Dem On Kill Tony 1:08:25

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The Breaking Points team discusses the NYC mayoral debate between Cuomo, Zohran and Sliwa, the "young" Republican group chat leaks, and we're joined again by Delaware's State Rep Medinah Wilson-Anton who recently did a stand up set on Kill Tony. Follow Medinah: https://www.instagram.com/madinahfordelaware/ To become a Breaking Points Premium Member…

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Dwarkesh Podcast: Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away 2:25:19

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The Andrej Karpathy episode. During this interview, Andrej explains why reinforcement learning is terrible (but everything else is much worse), why AGI will just blend into the previous ~2.5 centuries of 2% GDP growth, why self driving took so long to crack, and what he sees as the future of education. It was a pleasure chatting with him. Watch on …

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The Dishcast with Andrew Sullivan: Charles Murray On Taking Religion Seriously 52:41

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Charles is a writer, social scientist, and longtime friend. He currently holds the F.A. Hayek Chair Emeritus in Cultural Studies at the American Enterprise Institute. His many books include Losing Ground, The Bell Curve (co-authored with Richard Herrnstein), C…

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Serious Trouble: Drake's Not Like Us (Familiar With Defamation Law) 19:12

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.serioustrouble.show Letitia James has been indicted, as President Trump’s retribution campaign continues. (So has John Bolton, but that happened after we recorded.) While the Bolton indictment has a forbidding, professional feel, the James indictment does not, and is likely to be vul…

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Volts: How to get New York back on track toward its climate targets 49:55

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New York passed one of the most ambitious climate laws in the country, but is now struggling to meet its goals. I’m joined by Doreen Harris, president of NYSERDA, the agency on the front lines of implementing the law. We explore what’s working, from community solar to new transmission lines, and what isn’t, including the slow pace of scaling up ren…

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Big Technology Podcast: Erotic ChatGPT, Zuck’s Apple Assault, AI’s Sameness Problem 57:25

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Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) Sam Altman says ChatGPT will start to have erotic chats with interested adults 2) Also, more sycophancy? 3) Is sycophancy the lost love language 4) Is erotic ChatGPT good for OpenAI’s business? 5) Is erotic ChatGPT a sign that AGI is actually far away? 6…

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Money Stuff: The Podcast: No Nap Rooms: Credit, Peace, 24X 31:22

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Katie and Matt discuss late-cycle credit accidents, dancing while the music plays, banks vs. private credit, the Nobel Peace Prize, institutional-grade prediction markets, 23-hour-a-day stock trading, picking off drunks at 3 a.m., digesting news outside of market hours, windows of liquidity and the rhythm of being a human. See omnystudio.com/listen…

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The Nation Podcasts: Gaza Ceasefire, CIA in Venezuela, Madagascar Coup w/ Nathaniel Powell | American Prestige 1:02:36

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Lead might be in our protein supplements, but Danny and Derek bring you the news free of most heavy metals. This week: the ceasefire in Gaza begins with prisoner exchanges (1:38), but controversy arises over deceased captives (5:30), plus Israeli violations and Hamas clashes with armed factions (9:35), and a summit in Sharm El Sheikh (14:36); a Uni…

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Jacobin Radio: Long Reads: Pedro Sanchez and Spanish Politics w/ Eoghan Gilmartin (Part 1) 41:21

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Long Reads continues our recent focus on the politics of southern European countries over the last decade. This week and in our next episode, we’re looking in detail at what’s been happening in Spain. In contrast with Greece and Portugal, Spain still has a government today headed by the center left. The Spanish Socialist leader Pedro Sanchez has at…

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Master Plan: The Master Plan Book Is Here (With Trailer) 4:41

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We’ve got big news — Master Plan is now a book! Master Plan: The Hidden Plot to Legalize Corruption in America, co-authored by David Sirota and Jared Jacang Maher, is now available from all major booksellers. The 265-page book expands on the award-winning podcast with exclusive archival documents, new reporting, and never-before-seen photos. It tel…

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Coffee Break Spanish: Announcing the Coffee Break Treasure Hunt 2025 1:51

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New mini-series! Starting on Monday 20th October, join Mark and the Coffee Break Spanish Team for a virtual treasure hunt across Europe, in which we'll discover clues, solve the mystery and practise our Spanish. But this is not just a language lesson – it's a competition! By taking part you could win some amazing prizes which will help you take you…

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Hard Fork: California Regulates A.I. Companions + OpenAI Investigates Its Critics + The Hard Fork Review of Slop 1:05:10

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This week, Gov. Gavin Newsom of California signed a big package of A.I. and social media bills into law — including the first state law in the United States to regulate A.I. companions. We talk through what stood out to us in the package and whether these protections will work. Then, the subpoena that has the whole tech world talking. Nathan Calvin…

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The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens: What Sloths Teach Us About the Superorganism 17:50

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In this week’s Frankly, Nate reflects on the multiple metaphors brought to mind via a single photograph, which depicts a sloth climbing a barbed wire fence in Costa Rica. Beyond evoking compassion for a species that’s on the receiving end of human intervention into its ecosystem, the image raises larger ideas about the response of animals, includin…

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The Bay Blend: Friday, October 17, 2025: Your Local Event Roundup + The Bay Blend hits 100 episodes!!! 7:40

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This is episode 100 of the Bay Blend! Just a quick thank you if you've been a true blender as we've gotten this show off the ground. We won't get too sappy with it, but we seriously couldn't do this without you - so thank you. Here's to 100 more, and beyond. Anyways, you can tell we’re getting really close to the holiday season with the amount of c…

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Bankless: ROLLUP: $19B Flash Crash | Binance Fee Leak | China L2 on ETH | $14B BTC Reserve

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Markets just saw a $19B wipeout in a single day. In this week’s Weekly Rollup, we break down the Friday Flash Crash, what really caused it, and whether it signals the end of the cycle or just a reset. We also cover Binance’s leaked listing fees, a major Chinese tech company quietly building on Ethereum, and reports that the U.S. may add $14B in Bit…

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The Urbanist Agenda: Why is it SO HARD to Take a Train Across the Border? (w/Jon Worth) 44:43

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The EU is heavily promoting rail as an alternative to flying and driving, but while the "big" high-speed train projects get a lot of attention, it's often maddeningly difficult to take a regional train across an EU border. Jon Worth has travelled on almost every single rail line in the EU and he has an incredible wealth of knowledge about how cross…

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Plain English with Derek Thompson: Everybody Thinks AI Is a Bubble. What If They’re Wrong? 52:07

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Two weeks ago, in one of our most popular podcasts of the year, the investor and author Paul Kedrosky explained why he thinks AI is a bubble. In the last few days, practically everybody seems to agree. I hate this. I don’t like feeling like my position is the same position as everybody else’s. Conventional wisdoms are often more conventional than w…

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Ones and Tooze: The Frankfurt Book Fair 32:49

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Adam is attending the Frankfurt Book Fair this week. He and Cameron discuss the history of the fair and the broader economics of the publishing industry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Foreign Policy

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The Daily: A Shutdown Where None of the Normal Rules Apply 32:53

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Under normal circumstances, the profound pain of a government shutdown compels both parties to negotiate a quick resolution on behalf of the American people. But, so far, nothing about this shutdown is normal. Times journalists Michael Barbaro, Tyler Pager, Catie Edmondson and Tony Romm sit down to discuss why this shutdown feels so different. Gues…

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Interintellect Hostcast: Olga Yakimenko: Perception, Stories and Films 56:23

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In this episode of Hoscast, we talk with Olga Yakimenko, film-maker, writer and of course, Interintellect Host. Throughout the conversation we talk about how moving around so often shaped her view of the world, why she really enjoys human perception and what is the power of stories. We also talk about her most recent project: "The User Illusion", w…

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Trending In Ed with Mike Palmer: Leading Strategically in K12 with Authors Liz City and Rachel Curtis 31:20

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In K-12 education, the urgency of children's needs often eclipses strategic thought, resulting in constant reaction and a "whack-a-mole" approach to problems. We talk with co-authors Elizabeth "Liz" City and Rachel Curtis about their new book, Leading Strategically: Achieving Ambitious Goals in Education, which offers a practical, accessible framew…

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99% Invisible: Hidden Levels #4: Machinima 45:08

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Back in the 90s, artists turned video games into movie sets, and their wildest ideas are finally hitting documentaries. Hidden Levels is a production of 99% Invisible and WBUR's Endless Thread. Subscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ to listen to new episodes of 99% Invisible ad-free and a whole week early. Start a free trial now on Apple Podcasts or by vi…