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- The COVID death toll has surpassed the White House's initial window of expectations, how will that affect the election?

- Trump worked hard to bring back Big 10 football. Will white working class voters in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio St., Minnesota and Wisconsin reward him?

- Does the TikTok/Oracle deal pass the smell test with China Hawks?

- Dr. Joshua Scacco discusses how digital communication from the White House has evolved from the first website to the information machine it is today.

- Remembering 9/11 and the road we've travelled 19 years later.

- Mail Bag! Including questions about the economy, the electoral college and when the stock market might tank.

- Interview with Dr. Annelle Sheline about the Israel/UAE deal, troop drawdowns and Trump's Nobel Prize nomination.

- Bob Woodward not only has a new book coming, he has tapes of President Trump discussing COVID in January. Are the quotes devastating? How is Trump trying to spin it? How can Biden attack?

- New polls show Biden losing the latino vote OUTRIGHT in Florida.

- A man bravely walked to the mic in Lincoln, Nebraska and demanded change. Change in how we describe boneless Buffalo wings when they neither wings nor would they ever have bones in them. The viral sensation himself, Ander Christensen, discusses the moment and the reaction.

- Dave Levinthal (Business Insider) discusses the Biden cash surge, the Trump campaign cash burn and what we learned in the Kanye FEC report.

- Raise the Dead Season 2 is coming in October. Hear the trailer at the end of the episode.

- A story about Donald Trump calling WWI veterans "losers" has ripped through the news cycle. Is it true? Maybe. But Justin has his Capital J Journalism hat on to rail against anonymous sources.

- Jobs report is very good but the stock market tanks, is this good or bad news for Trump?

- Mailbag including questions about political betting odds, black Trump support, Australian gun confiscation and if Justin is falling for the right wing framing of riots vs. protests.

- Interview with Kelly Zvobgo about the concept of Truth Commissions and if we might see them in America on a local or national level.

- Joe Biden left Delaware. He will make not one but two speeches this week in states he doesn't live in. What spurred the frontrunner from his basement? What did he say while on the loose for the first time in the general election.

- A new round of polls shows a tighter race in the battleground states.

- The Kennedy Dynasty is... dead? Or at least irrelevant after a man named after the patriarch of the clan just lost a race in *gasp* Massachusetts.

- Interview with Stuart Schrader about the influence the military has had on police equipment and crowd control tactics.

- An RNC like none before it has come to an end in grandiose fashion. How did it come off? How did they appeal to? Will it work?

- Biden is leaving the basement! Allegedly! Find out where he is going and when he is planning on going there.

- Kevin Ryan of The Blaze on the post-modern RNC and what it means for November.

- The rapid-fire RNC has dawned. Less Zoom, more speakers and reality show surprises. Will all the yelling and graphic abortion talk scare away the pleas to skittish establishments conservatives?

- Is Donald Trump seriously trying to make a play for the black vote? A look back at the speakers during the RNC, the messages they are sending and more.

- Economic thinking has broken loose and infected our political world, we interview Elizabeth Popp Berman (@epopppp) about how the world of dollars and cents is now the dominant way to think about public policy and more.

- Biden blew away low expectations and set a great narrative

- Did Bill Clinton unearth an unbeatable attack line against Trump's COVID response?

- Mailbag including questions about Biden, NeverTrump distrust for Kamala, Schools and the very rare "Trump is the worst and that's why we need to re-elect him" argument

- Interview with Jo-Ellen Pozner about the optics, visual metaphors and fashion of the totally reimagined DNC

- Thoughts on the DNC so far. It's awkward. Boy, do they want to talk to Republicans more than Progressives.

- AOC causes a commotion when her only appearance was to second the nomination of Bernie Sanders during the roll call. This was stupid for a few historical reasons. Also... a conspiracy theory on why it happened.

- Alieza Durana (@aliezadurana @EvictionLab) discusses the broader issues around housing insecurity and how big of an eviction crisis we are facing post COVID.

Parents are making intensely hard decisions about where, when and how to send their kids back to school and if they aren't going back... what to do with them. Childless millennial Justin Robert Young is exceptionally unqualified to talk about any of this. Instead he has recruited a wide variety of experts to help discuss the issues around education in the age of COVID.

- Co-hosting the entire episode is Tamar, the producer/booker for Px3 who not is not only wrestling with a 2-year-old and 6-year-old she is also the step-mother to a '20 high school graduate.

- Discussing the options (or lack thereof) for parents is Jessica Calarco (@JessicaCalarco) an associate professor of sociology at Indiana University, and she studies inequalities in education and family life.

- But what do you do when faced with those options? Providing the boots on the ground perspective is Erik and Carolyn Young (@YoungPodcast) of the Young Family Podcast. Not only do they have two kids to worry about they are also in touch with parents around the country and have the pulse of what decisions are being made and why.

- Is anything going to change? Or will the changes the exist now fade away for lack of funding? Sarah Reber (Brookings Institution) and Nora Gordon (Georgetown) discuss the finance of crisis education and what we can and can't expect in congress' delayed COVID bill.

A cavalcade of guests help Justin break down the Kamala pick.

- Gloria Young (Justin's mother, @globugyoung) is over the moon and will get a "Soul of the Nation" tattoo on her stomach like Tupac if she gets any more excited

- Andrew Heaton (The Political Orphanage, @MightyHeaton) is pumped that it's not Elizabeth Warren but is also unsure of what Kamala stands for.

- Jack Allison (Struggle Session, JackAM, @JackAllisonLOL) has lost all reason as a progressive to follow this election and has given in to cynical horserace coverage

- Chad Prather (Chad Prather Show, @WatchChad) warns other Trump fans to not let their Kamala memes distract them from the issues

- Michael Socolow (Media History Professor at University of Maine, @MichaelSocolow) believes this reaffirms Biden's glide path to the White House

- July jobs report is "meh" but will it be used as a weapon by Trump or Biden?

- Veepstakes Eve Part II! Has anything changed?

- Is Kanye running as a spoiler candidate? If so is it because he loves Trump or he hates the Obama administration?

- Mailbag including questions about the economy, local judges and the origin of the term "cuck" that will blow you away.

- Tom Merritt (@acedtect) discussing Trump's executive orders on TikTok and WeChat. Also, how our new Cold War with China will affect tech going forward.

- Justin has become obsessed with the YouTube accounts of both candidates. Find out what messages they are pushing and discover which of them is posting HUNDREDS of videos a month.

- Cocaine Mitch caves on COVID stimulus, Veepstakes down to two, all DNC speakers will be virtual

- Interview with Victoria Jackson (@HistoryRunner) about the tipping point of college athletics and why the entire season should be cancelled so the NCAA can save itself.

- News Bits! Epstein docs unsealed. COVID surges back in Japan, Germany and Australia. Penguins hockey returns. Congress lets unemployment benefit expire.

- Mailbag! JuRY gets ROASTED for his Cuomo take and reads Umberto Eco's 14 Features of Fascism from both left and right perspectives.

- Molly Wood (@MollyWood) of Marketplace and Make Me Smart breaks down everything you need to know about the big tech hearings on Wednesday and if we will see any action.

- Biden-heavy episode this week. Is Biden running for president or simply to eject Trump from office?

- Susan Rice is our last VP vetting candidate... but honestly... is it necessary? We all know who the real nominee is.

- Biden finally weighs in on Portland but is he playing into Trump's hands?

- The history and impact of political memes with Jamie Cohen (@NewAndDigital) who pioneered a degree in the subject.

- Trump cancels RNC in Jacksonville in latest step to show he cares about COVID handing a big victory to the Dems. But did he just officially stop shooting himself in the foot on this?

- Mailbag! Ranked choice feedback from Aussies, teachers lecture on school reopening and a discussion of Trump's agents in Portland and Chicago.

- Interview with Sachin Pandya (@sachinspandya) about COVID liability legislation.

- Donald Trump's campaign has made some incorrect assumptions about COVID and failed to have discipline enough to define Joe Biden. Both could cost him the election. Justin breaks it down.

- Andrew Heaton (@MightyHeaton) has a massive announcement. Seriously.

- Tom Clark (@tom_s_clark) helps sift through the Supreme Court decisions. Should conservatives be happy about the judges they appointed?

- All the numbers say that this election is going to be a generational landslide. But does it feel like it? We look back at 1980 to compare and contrast.

- Why COVID killed our appetite for Trump's rhetoric, the NBA taking heat from Sen. Hawley and why masks got politicized in our mailbag.

- Interview with Jason McDaniel (@ValisJason) about Ranked Choice Voting and if it is ultimately worth the unintended consequences.

- With RBG hospitalized, is Cocaine Mitch getting ready to run the hurry up offense to appoint another justice?

- We have some finalized matchups for Senate in Alabama, Texas and Maine.

- Kanye West is quitting the presidential race... or is he...

- Tom Merritt delivers a history lesson on how Richard Nixon almost became the Andrew Yang of his day

- Interview with Jennifer Mercieca (@jenmercieca) about the differences in rhetoric between Donald Trump and Barack Obama. Also,does Hide-A-Biden play to Joe's rhetorical strengths?

- With COVID deaths moving in the wrong direction again, President Trump is going to have to wrestle with his lack of approval on his handling. And by the way, he has a convention coming up.

- Mailbag including questions on Kanye, how the immigrant wave of the 1900 compares to modern day racism, being confronted by a freezing cold take from pre-COVID world and more.

- Interview with Davin Phoenix (@Davin_Phoenix) on how voters from different races are animated to go to the polls and what role anger does or doesn't play.

- Party platforms are historically angry and boring. Now the Democrats are going to hold theirs online while the progressive wing is desperately searching to move the party leftward. This will be a disaster.

- Kanye. The Forbes article. The Birthday Party. Please skip this segment if you hate Kanye.

- Interview with Kevin Mattson about comparisons between Trump and Nixon as well as Trump and Carter. Also, bonus talk about punk music in the 80s and Reagan.

- We discuss some of the odd cases of mask mandates including Knox County, Tennessee where the only man to vote against it is WWE Superstar Kane.

- Herman Cain has COVID and that could affect the power struggle within the Trump campaign.

- Dave Levinthal (Business Insider) talks the FEC crumbling, Biden beating Trump in fundraising and what a money factory The Villages.

- Biden lives! Justin breaks down his first speech and Q and A. What is his strategy now that he's emerged from the basement? What parts of Trump is he targeting? How did he handle his questions including a parting shot about his mental cognition?

- Hickenlooper survives a doozy of a final month to get his party's nomination for Senate. Amy McGrath will now take on Cocaine Mitch in November. Both beat progressives. Does the Bernie revolution play in the rural parts of the country?

- Risa Brooks (@RisaBrooks12) discusses the simmering tensions between Trump and military leaders nervous about their historic relationship with civilian government.

BONUS EP BECAUSE YOU DESERVE IT! - Mailbag questions on Tulsa, electoral college, police reform and more! - Interview with Pete Freedman of Central Track in Dallas, Texas about the desperate place COVID left his website, the unexpected rise in traffic with the lockdown, the intensity of covering a month of protests, how Facebook made an old article go viral and more.

- With another election stretching past election night and only more mail ballots on the horizon, is it time we realized that Election Week 2020 is coming?

- Trump's Tulsa rally was a big missed opportunity but not as big as his position on testing.

- We speak with Joanna Schwartz (UCLA) about Qualified Immunity, the arguments for/against, if it will be replaced by congress and why it might be the only thing Justices Thomas and Sotomayor agree on.

- Interviewing Trump fans in line for the rally

- Waiting for Air Force One to land with Kevin Ryan

- Sorting through the confusion brought on by attendance woes

- Getting pepper sprayed during the protests

- We interview the first woman in line for the Trump rally who drove five days from Florida to be there. Justin asks about masks.

- A trip to the former Black Wall Street to reflect on Juneteenth

- Interview with Seth Masket (FiveThirtyEight, Mischiefs of Faction) who defends the photo op and is dragged into a WAY too granular conversation about John Hickenlooper's Senate primary because Justin can't shut up about it.

- Donald Trump will officially reboot the 2020 campaign on Saturday but what are the stakes for Biden and Trump? Will the risky gambit be a fatal blow for Trump? Will it force Biden out of the basement? How tenable is Biden's very conservative strategy?

- John Hickenlooper didn't succeed in running for president but he's currently leading the GOP incumbent for Senate. But will he make it there? A few new revelations complicate Hick's chances to make it out of the primary.

- The Senate GOP has introduced their police reform bill, will they be able to work with the House? Is Cocaine Mitch trying to speed this along or slow it further?

- Interview with Daniel DiSalvo about police unions, their role in politics and if reform is possible without their cooperation.

- Justin is going to Tulsa to cover the first Trump rally so it gets him thinking about the lockdown and how we can hope to live our lives with the virus.

- John Bolton's book is finally going to come out at the end of the month. Will this be the one that FINALLY DOES TRUMP IN? Spoiler: probably not.

- Kyle C. Kopko and Christopher J. Devine (Authors of the new book Do Running Mates Matter?) join the show to discuss the historical worth of a vice president.

- Congress is possibly moving toward putting a bi-partisan police reform bill on Trump's desk and Joe Biden is suggesting a $300 million payment to police departments. We look at the strategy behind Joe's move to the right on police.

- A roundup of the primary contests last night including the hot mess in Georgia.

- Vetting Keisha Lance Bottoms, the mayor of Atlanta, who is now a Veepstakes frontrunner.

- Interview with Michael Socolow about the media's role in covering COVID, protests and election. Also, a conversation on how shrewd the Hide-A-Biden strategy is.

- Your emails including a defense of Canadian divisions, JLO for VP, a screen on straw men and for the first time in months... AN ANGRY EMAIL!

- Biden is leading by 7% on average but should he be leading by more considering his opponent is dealing with a pandemic and nationwide riots?

- Police officer listeners reached out after the Police Brutality episode with their thoughts.

- Interview with George Dehner about the 1957 and 1968 pandemics and the origins of our modern social distancing

Justin discusses the George Floyd murder and the the reaction

- The history of how little accountability police departments have and how repealing Qualified Immunity could make a difference overnight.

- A moment when Rush Limbaugh applied Colin Kaepernick-esqe dexterity in his conversation with the Breakfast Club

- Vetting Val Demings, the only VP possibility who is a former police chief

Justin discusses the George Floyd protests and ensuing damage. Charges brought against the officer that did it. Trumps escalating war with Twitter in light of his executive order. The defunding of the WHO is also mentioned because a lot happened this morning.

Also, an interview about reopening anxiety and the universal truth with Kevin Ryan.

- Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is a serious candidate to be selected as Joe Biden's VP candidate so Justin takes a look at her past in Michigan and what she can bring to a Biden-Whitmer ticket in November.

- Emails about our interview last Friday and a question about why masks have become a political issue.

- Tom Merritt of Daily Tech News Show discusses Twitter's decision to put a fact check link on two Trump tweets. How well thought out was this move? Does it bring Silicon Valley closer to regulation? Is it just opening a #HellPortal or maybe even a #PortalToHell?

- Biden's comments to The Breakfast Club have kicked up another storm. We look at the context and predict if it matters past the news cycle.

- Poll the nation or poll each states individually and Biden is leading, but poll all the battleground states together and Trump is leading. Why is there a difference?

- We interview Dr. Eric Merkley about political polarization in Canada and how our neighbors to the north are weathering the COVID storm.

- More Americans think China is an enemy post COVID-19 and both Biden and Trump are portraying each other as soft on Xi. Is China becoming an issue that can move voters? Or is Biden chasing it a trap? - In what I believe to be a first, a sitting congressman currently running for re-election in November had his world turned upside down because his mistress revealed their affair... via her own narrative podcast. - Interview with Dr. Lisa Keränen about the language used in politics about illness. Learn why it's good news when politicians go from calling a pandemic a monster in the bushes to calling it a raging fire.

- Hours of research has finally unearthed a reasonable theory of what Obamagate is. Also, why it might be a successful strategy for Trump in the general.

- Benjamin Waterhouse and Lee Vinsel join the show to discuss America's troubled history with "experts" and how COVID has affected it.

- Your emails including why Woodrow Wilson getting the Spanish Flu might have caused World War II

- Actual politics! HOORAY! An election happened and we debate if it means anything or not

- If Trump got sick from the Vid, he wouldn't be the first president felled by a pandemic. In fact, he would certainly be able to recover with less pressure on him. The story you will be pissed you didn't know before you heard it here!

- Interview with Cindy Cohn of the Electronic Frontier Foundation about the dangers of technical solutions to COVID and her organizations work to help protect digital rights.

- The 1958 pandemic killed over 100,000 Americans but you've never heard of it and it didn't have political ramifications. What the hell?

- Tara Reade breaks her silence in TV interview

- Embarrassing political skits for campaigns

- Interview with Mindy Romero ( Director of the California Civic Engagement Project at the Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California) about the viability of mail-in voting

- Hyperbole-Free Coronavirus Update

- Justin rants about a few stories that were awful and actively made the world dumber during a pandemic

- After daring to ask Twitter what they love and hate about politics, Justin seeks to illustrate how political ads succeed and fail in taking advantage of the results

- Andrew Heaton (Political Orphanage) rants

- Hyperbole-Free Coronavirus Update

- Biden broke his Tara Reade silence, we have the full breakdown

- Coronavirus death toll slowed a little but Trump is getting into the political danger zone

- Interview with Joe Uscinski about COVID conspiracies big and small

- Hyperbole-Free Coronavirus Update

- Some states open fast, others open slow but all we want to some transparency on how we get there

- Biden's new Tara Reade talking points might have made a bigger mess

- Interview with Trevor Hoppe about the history of criminalizing illness in America and why we need to be careful about how we do it now.

- Hyperbole-Free Coronavirus update

- Trump's "suggestion" to inject disinfectant

- Kemp's political future after reopening Georgia

- A glimmer of hope from New York?

- The list of drugs found in the hotel room of the Andrew Gillum scandal

- Breaking down the Mayor of Las Vegas' CNN interview with Paul Mattingly, Matt Donnelly and Jacob Smith from Ice Cream Social

- Hyperbole-Free Coronavirus Update

- If the escalating COVID death toll doesn't slow in the next week like it's supposed to, is Trump screwed?

- The outrage scammers who are creating discord for fun and profit

- Interview with Professor Osamah F. Khalil about this history of oil in the Middle East and how it became forever tied to American politics

- We begin our two-week Campaign Undertaker giveaway of Bernie Sanders 2020 campaign memorabilia.

- Hyperbole-Free Coronavirus Update

- Interview with Christopher McKnight Nichols (Director of the Oregon State University Center for the Humanities) on the history of American Isolationism

- Interview with Rick Hills (NYU Law Professor) about the powers of the federal government in times of crisis.

- Your emails!

- Hyperbole-Free Coronavirus Update

- Joe Biden's endorsement parade

- Andrew Heaton joins us to talk about Justin Amash and if his Never Trump Libertarian campaign helps or hurts the president.

- Dave Levinthal joins to talk about Q1 fundraising, the wreckage of Bloomberg and the Kamala Harris clues that point to a possible VP nom

- Hyperbole-Free Coronavirus Update

- Trump drops his second Biden ad and a very brutal pattern has already emerged

- Are we on track to reopen parts of the economy in May?

- Interview with Graham Mooney of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine about the history of public health in the age of pandemics

- Mail bagI

- Hyperbole-Free Coronavirus Update

- Remembering Bernie 2020

- Interview with Tim Merritt (brother of Tom) who actually voted in Wisconsin yesterday

- Elizabeth Warren swag giveaway

- Interview with Jack Allison about the end of Bernie, state of the DNC and Biden v. Trump

- Hyperbole-Free Coronavirus Update

- Is a National Shelter At Home order possible? What hurdles does it have to clear?

- China lied

- Wisconsin Primary pushed?

- An interview with Barbara Martin about her Instagram account @WeThePeeple about her politically-themed Peep dioramas.

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- Hyperbole Free Coronavirus Update

- For the first time we have a federal projection into how many people will die from COVID-19 and it's very grim. We discuss the reality of the situation and touch on the political physics that will come from it.

- For real though? Wisconsin is really going to have polling places where people vote in a week?

- China is lying about the number of cases and deaths from COVID-19 according to the multiple intelligence sources.

- Interview with Dan Hopkins about the nationalization of politics and why that is both good and bad for our modern plague problem.

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- Hyperbole-free Coronavirus Update

- A '93 staffer has made a sexual assault claim against Joe Biden, will CNN ask him about it tonight?

- I think China is lying about being over their coronavirus infection.

- Interview with Steven Conn of Miami University about the Great Depression and what is similar to now and what is not.

- Most questions I get revolve around some version of "is Trump going to win/lose in November because of this?" So, I answer as best I can.

- Honestly who is running the Biden campaign?

- Eric Geller of Politico on cyber security, vote by mail in 2020 and if the mood is right for online voting.

- Facts, figures and news about COVID-19 and no nonsense

- FEC filings show Bloomberg spent WAY more than we thought

- Insider trading scandal rocks DC

- Discussion with Kevin Ryan about the impending birth of his first child, journalism critiques and Bernie predictions.

- A tribute to Bernie 2020

- Joe's (last?) primary blowout

- The reality for Bernie and the argument for him to suspend his campaign now

- Interview with Elizabeth Cohen about citizenship in America

- Your emails

- Justin thinks Trump just bet his presidency on the coronavirus fallout

- Interview with Samara Klar on how disdain for parties is leading to political inaction and less romance.

- Justin checks in with his mom about coronavirus, who she is going to vote for in the Florida primary and her reaction to Florida gubernatorial runner up Andrew Gillum being caught in a South Beach hotel room with meth and a gay escort.

- Biden wins Michigan and both candidates are cancelling campaign stops so it's time to call in some friends from the trail now that we are possibly at the end of the road.

- Dan Newhauser of Vice explains what it was like on the ground during the great Centrist Convergence in Texas before Super Tuesday.

- JD Durkin of Cheddar tells us if Biden or Bernie are preferable to Trump in some of the most volatile pivot counties in America.

- Andrew Heaton of the Political Orphanage exclaims how great Biden's likely nomination is for his sex life.

- Why Bernie needs Michigan

- The three moments that lost Elizabeth Warren the election and a confirmation of a long held theory

- Interview with Eitan Hersh about Political Hobbyists and how to motivate them

- A mea culpa on Joe Biden

- Breaking down the Super Tuesday results

- Hard lessons for Bernie 2020

- Breaking down the financials on Michael Bloomberg's hilarious run for president

- Interview with Dr. Precious Hall about why Bernie exploded in Nevada and why the results might have sealed his fate on Super Tuesday

An audio documentary about one of the most surreal political rallies in modern history.

Featuring musical performances by:
Yolanda Adams, Kat Taylor and Juvenile.

Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden are the most likely to win South Carolina. Hear what both of the candidates told their supporters in the make-or-break First in the South Primary.

- A quick explanation of why I got banned from Twitch for streaming the debate (with UPDATE at the end)

- Debate recap including Bloomberg's lack of a bounce back, Biden's gun violence gaffe and Bernie's baffling defense of Fidel Castro

- Interview with Seth Masket about the state of the two-party system, anger against third parties and the possibility of a brokered convention

- Trump rally finds MAGA Nation stands unafraid

- The hunt to find a Trump fan who saw Parasite and get his review of the President's new least favorite Best Picture winner

- At a Bernie benefit listening to top surrogate Nina Turner

- Interview with Councilman James Howard Adams of Boulder City, NV about local politics in the Silver State and his duel life as a rock star

- Final Caucus Predictions

- Pete's got jokes

- Bernie's health becomes an issue and his campaign fans the flames

- The results of watching hours of NYC mayoral debates to pick apart Bloomberg's strengths and weaknesses

- Interview with Brooks Flippen about the lessons Mayor Pete can learn from Jimmy Carter

- Pete's hesitation in New Hampshire might have cost him the win

- What to make of the first polls out of SC and NV after IA and NH

- Mailbag!

- Interview with Ohio congressional candidate Mike Larsen on leaving TV for politics, pitching jokes to Ted Kennedy and why he's challenging Jim Jordan.

- Biden is a disaster and should drop out immediately

- Full results breakdown with New Hampshire Institute of Politics professor Christopher Galdieri

- Campaign Undertaker takes multiple victims including Andrew Yang! A LIVE EULOGY FROM HIS CAMPAIGN SUSPENSION!

- Interview with Andrew Heaton

- I got a hunch about Joe Biden

- Mayor Pete surging in New Hampshire

- Wolves begin to comes for DNC head Tom Perez

- Interview with Mayor Pete superfan (and my mom) Gloria Young

- A look at the consequences of the bungled Iowa Caucus, specifically for Biden and Warren

- Interview with Dave Peterson of Iowa State University breaking down the numbers for Bernie and Pete

- Mitt breaks ranks with the GOP on final impeachment vote

- Recapping a Made For Television State of the Union

- The back and forth on impeachment scheduling leaves the caucus in limbo for three frontrunners

- Visiting Delany HQ after he drops out of the race

- Interview with Taylor Frame of famous Des Moines t-shirt shop Raygun on becoming a campaign stop, how '20 compares with '08 and which candidate has yet to visit this season

- The serious vibe from Bernie HQ including how to caucus and words of encouragement from Rep. Ilhan Omar

- Who is going to blame their presidential failures on impeachment?

- Despite the Bolton Bomb, why the trail might still be on track to end Friday

- Mayor Pete's big problem...

- Interview with Matt Grossman about the history of trends in political parties

- Are the vast majority of candidates challenging incumbent presidents simply not electable?

- Impeachment update

- RUDY HAS A PODCAST AND ITS NOT A PODCAST AT ALL

- Interview with Leah Stokes about the Green New Deal

- Mayor Pete's "Please Clap" moment
- Do I have a Biden blindspot?
- Breaking down Bernie vs. Hillary (2020)
- Full Iowa Caucus breakdown with Dave Peterson
- Mailbag!

- Cocaine Mitch takes the wheel of impeachment, how short will he make it?

- Biden floats two new names as possible Veep

- China? Done. New NAFTA? Done. But what deal is next and will it have a massive effect on the election?

- Interview with Osamah Khalil about the history of US relations with Iran from post-WW2 to the hostage crisis.

- CNN's horrible debate filled with awful performances

- Did Yang win the night by securing Dave Chappelle's endorsement?

- An interview with Andrew Heaton about his most dreaded possible general election match up

- Why Hunter is only going to be a bigger problem for Joe

- Impeachment Trial should start next week how does that affect the 2020 candidates?

- Marianne Williamson is done

- Interview with Texas Senate candidate Annie "Mama" Garcia about why she's running, Texas Democrats and if a gun control candidate can win in the Lone Star State

- Is WWIII over?

- Mitch McConnell has the votes to start impeachment

- DNC will cancel debate if trial begins

- Interview with comedy writer Jack Helmuth on the difference between writing for The Blaze and Comedy Central

- Are we going to war?

- Can Trump afford to go to war

- Interview with Lou Shubert on why we should and shouldn't worry

- Elizabeth Warren's awful Q4 numbers

- A battle hymn for the coming conflict

- A deep dive into Mayor Pete hatred

- Guessing the over/unders on Q4 fundraising

- Impeachment reheating?

- Elizabeth Warren is ebegging, that can't be a good sign...

- DNC's stupide debate thresholds coming under more fire

- Interview with Hans Noel about the evolution of party ideologies

- Winners and losers from last night's debate

- I don't get why people thought Klobuchar had a good night

- Pete takes punches from everyone and remains standing

- January debate thresholds could limit stage to five right before Iowans vote

- The history of party divisions with David Karol

- Will the internet ever be a representative place for politics?

- Impeachment is happening

- My mom has strong impeachment feelings

- There is a debate happening tomorrow

- Andrew Heaton on how DC is reacting to yet another impeachment

- The Judiciary Committee continues to delay the articles of impeachment vote but Justin spoils the next two months anyway

- Interview with Tom Merritt about the shocking Conservative blowout

- Robert Gulotty (professor at the University of Chicago) on the history of tariffs and educated guesses on the China Deal

- Pelosi reunites two wayward 90s lovers... impeachment and NAFTA

- Biden's puzzling one-term gambit

- Biden/Kamala/Mayor Pete with Jack Allison

- UK election preview with Tom Merritt

- Debate thresholds might create an all-white stage

- Final Harris campaign obit

- Bloomberg slams Dem slate

- Interview with Mike Bruke about how courts are legislating from the bench

- Your emails.

- Kamala Harris is out of the race and here is why she lost.

- How long are we going to pretend to care about impeachment.

- Kanye + Osteen, covering Trump on edibles and Kim Kardashian 2024 with The Blaze's Kevin Ryan

- Another tell-all article about the disaster known as the Kamala Harris campaign

- SNL and politics through the years with Matt Sienkiewicz

- Steyer ad blitz backfiring?

- Joe Biden's South Carolina strategy showing cracks

- What 2016 Trump can teach Elizabeth Warren in how to handle Medicare for All

- Did Big Structural Bailey curse Warren?

- Andrew Heaton

- The history of Turkey and Syria with Professor Nora Fisher Onar

- #ButYourEmails mailbag

A week before it launches, Px3 listeners get first crack at Raise the Dead.

It's a brand new history podcast series from Justin Robert Young telling the story of the 1960 election between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon. Moreso, how understanding the facts of that election would have made us much more prepared for the election of Donald Trump in 2016.

John F. Kennedy only won one race for the White House and his slogan was "Get America Moving Again"...

- Mueller resurfacing for impeachment?

- Is somebody going to use the C-word in the House?

- History of Hollywood in politics with author Kathryn Brownell.

- Iowa, NH, NV and SC: which of them are MUST WIN states for each 2020 Democrats?

- Gordon Sondland's testimony shakes Justin's faith in him knowing anything

- Debate predictions and candidates to watch

- Interview with number one Px3 Mayor Pete surrogate Gloria Young

- Elizabeth Warren, Wayne Messum, Alan Moore are join the parade

- Is Marie Yovanovitch a super compelling witness or just someone really upset that she was fired from her dream job?

- Roger Stone is found guilty and someone in Trump World takes a victory lap.

- Interview with Professor Matt Pauly about the history of Ukraine and some wild stories about being in Moscow during the fall of the Soviet Union.

- Kamala Harris' campaign is leaking and that might herald a visit from the Campaign Undertaker

- Mailbag including one challenging why I have encouraged the press to name the whistleblower

- Impeachment Hearings Begin: Choose Your Quest...

- Deval Patrick is in, Sanford is out

- Rudy Has A Podcast?

- Economic fear receding?

- Andrew Yang bombed his Breakfast Club interview

- Interview with Brian Sack

- The return of a beloved segment we haven't seen for a while. Involving a Poll.

Wait, is it for real this time? Bloomberg is rumored to be filing paperwork on a 2020 run. We bring in Jo-Ellen Pozner to discuss the NYC mayor and his chances. The New York Times and Washington Post got advanced copies of the Anonymous Senior Trump official book Warning, we review the reviews. And finally a chat about the Democratic Primary debate threshold with Debate Tracker (@TrackerDebate) which is awesome because Justin found someone more obsessed with them than he is.

We review the magical and calamitous ride of Beto O'Rourke from 2018 to his exit from the presidential race. Donald Jr. unmasks the whistleblower while selling books. What does Kentucky going blue mean for Trump and Mitch? Is Quid Pro Quo the right goal for Dems? Andrew Heaton joins the show to talk the rise and fall of Betomania and we make some guesses on his future and FINALLY we break down the biggest financial disasters in 2016.

GONG! Hear Justin's first reaction to the news that Beto O'Rourke is no longer running for president. Is the Impeachment Process meddling with the 2020 Primary more than anything Trump could do in Ukraine? How Warren's opponents will attack her Medicare for All rollout. An interview about the rise of populism with Joe Lownz co-author of "Producers, Parasites, Patriots: Race and the New Right-wing Politics of Precarity". Mailbag!

How will the formalization of the impeachment process affect the Democrats chances of impeaching Trump? What lessons can be learned from 1998? Is Joe Biden a dead man walking at the tides turn on his Iowa and New Hampshire poll numbers?

With the blockbuster statements by Ukraine envoy Taylor now public, Justin takes a few guesses on how Trump will try and bat it back. Tom Merritt joins to discuss the wildest week in Brexit and what will happen going forward. JuRY breaks down the Yang Playbook from the crafting of his image to the cultivating of his audience.

Justin talks about the Bill Taylor testimony and if it is hurting the democrats that it is not live on television. An interview with Rose McDermott about the psychology of politics and why it might be a bad match for online conversation.

Justin breaks down the Ohio debate and has some words for the frontrunner Elizabeth Warren. We remember the most pivotal endorsement of the last 20 years in light of AOC's decision to back Bernie. Dave Levinthal from the Center for Public Integrity breaks down the official Q3 fundraising numbers and reveals a candidate whose campaign might already be broke. We are then joined by The Political Orphanage's Andrew Heaton who helps us brainstorm names for candidate fanbases.

We break down tonight's debates and add a few predictions. Last minute Brexit developments. Hunter Biden speaks! An interview with Susan Merriam (co-founder The Center for American Politics and Design) about campaign posters and logos. Bonus: a recording from the DragonCon live show featuring ImprovWars.com.

There is only one question that can move the impeachment process and only Rowdy Roddy Piper can answer it. My mom breaks down all the 2020 candidates. Elizabeth Warren is your new frontrunner as impeachment melts Joe Biden. Bernie out of the hospital after heart attack but how hard will be push when he returns to the road? A discussion of China and the recent spate of actions against by the NBA and Blizzard to protect business relations with Scott Johnson and Brian Ibbot of The Morning Stream.