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A core tenet of this show and the entire Channel 253 Podcast Network is that local politics is a point of leverage by which people can get and make meaningful change. This is a belief...

Almost one year to the date of his last appearance, we’re welcoming back Chris Langston from Proof in Old Town.  Chris was previously the mind behind en Rama, Hilltop Kitchen, and 1022 South J. He...

Joby Warrick is a national security reporter for the Washington Post and the author of The Triple Agent, Black Flags, and Red Line. He first joined us in 2019 to talk about Black Flags and...

Marguerite Martin is the owner of MoveToTacoma.com, a real estate matchmaking site that helps people find homes in Tacoma. On this show, she’s also affectionately known as the “Pod Auntie” because she helped me get...

Eli Cranor is the author of several acclaimed crime novels, including Don’t Know Tough, Ozark Dogs, and Broiler. One of the most distinctive voices in Southern noir, Cranor writes novels that deliver compelling crime stories...

Drones have fundamentally changed the economics of warfare. For much of the Global War on Terror, the US enjoyed an overwhelming technological advantage, using drones for surveillance and targeted strikes with little fear that adversaries...

Brandi Buchman is the Law & Justice Reporter for HuffPost and has spent years covering the January 6 attack on the Capitol, its aftermath, and the prosecutions that followed. Few journalists have devoted more time...

Jordan Harper is among the best working writers of our time.  Last year, Harper joined the podcast ahead of the release of the film adaptation of his novel She Rides Shotgun. This week he returned...

Grant Wahl’s untimely passing in 2022 left a gaping hole in the global soccer community, and particularly in US journalism when it comes to speaking truth about FIFA. Grant was a champion for human rights...

This week, for the first time, I’m sitting down for an episode with a current student. I’ll call her “T” since, as we all know, people on the internet can be strange. T is a...

This is our third special episode discussing the US war on Iran and the wider regional complications.  Here are the headlines from the episode: We are safe and well We have secured a “good for...

This is our second special episode discussing the US war on Iran and the wider regional complications.  On Friday, we departed Abu Dhabi for Thailand. We’ll be living out of our backpacks until it is...

In preparation for the upcoming Academy Awards on March 16, this is our annual Oscars conversation. We ranked the ten Best Picture nominees and some films we wish would have been nominated. Chase is a...

This is a special episode, a conversation with Hope, about the situation here in Abu Dhabi and the broader Middle East thanks to the US war on Iran. Here are the headlines from the discussion:...

Tom Rademacher is a prior Minnesota State teacher of the Year, author, and parent to a really rad kid. Recently his family made the decision for the safety of their family to move to Spain. ...