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Left-wing political cartoonist Ted Rall and right-wing political cartoonist Scott Stantis cut the BS out of today's news, politics and pop culture.

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Left-wing political cartoonist Ted Rall and right-wing political cartoonist Scott Stantis cut the BS out of today's news, politics and pop culture.

    Episode 157 | July 21, 2024: Biden Drops Out. What's Next?

    Episode 157 | July 21, 2024: Biden Drops Out. What's Next?

    Political cartoonists and analysts Ted Rall (on the Left) and Scott Stantis (on the Right) react to a shocking development in the world of politics: President Joe Biden has finally, after weeks of intrigue and pressure from within the Democratic Party succumbed to concerns about his mental acuity and dropped out of the 2024 presidential campaign weeks before the Democratic National Convention. What happens next? Scott and Ted conduct a postmortem of what amounts to a coup d'etat and call...

    • 50 min
    Episode 156 | July 20, 2024: Trump's Triumphs and Biden's Final Days

    Episode 156 | July 20, 2024: Trump's Triumphs and Biden's Final Days

    Political cartoonists and analysts Ted Rall (on the Left) and Scott Stantis (on the Right) take on a dramatic week in politics. Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt and emerged looking great from the Republican National Convention. Meanwhile, Democrats continued to call for President Joe Biden to step aside from the presidential race, Kamala Harris began to fend off attacks from the Right and the Left and the beleaguered Biden was forced to quarantine himself after he came down with...

    • 1 hr 17 min
    Episode 155 | July 14, 2024: Assassin Shoots Trump

    Episode 155 | July 14, 2024: Assassin Shoots Trump

    Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt yesterday afternoon when a gunman shot at him at a rally in Pennsylvania, grazing the former President's right ear. He appeared defiant, raising his fist as Secret Service agents spirited him away from the scene. Political cartoonists and analysts Ted Rall (on the Left) and Scott Stantis (from the Right) look into the political and cultural ramifications from the history of political violence in the United States to gun culture to the upcoming Re...

    • 50 min
    Episode 154 | July 5, 2024: Biden Death Watch

    Episode 154 | July 5, 2024: Biden Death Watch

    An anxious America is hanging on tenterhooks to see whether Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. will be able to hang on to the Democratic nomination, and whether he might even be compelled to resign amid a whirl of news stories following his disastrous debate performance, indicating that he has been mentally and physically incapacitated, and not fulfilling the duties of the Presidency, for many months and probably years. Political cartoonists Ted Rall and Scott Stantis (from the Left and Right, ...

    • 1 hr 4 min
    Episode 153 | June 27, 2024: Simulcasting the Biden/Trump Debate with Special Guest Angie Wong

    Episode 153 | June 27, 2024: Simulcasting the Biden/Trump Debate with Special Guest Angie Wong

    Political cartoonists Ted Rall (on the Left) and Scott Stantis (on the Right) simulcast their reactions to the 2024 presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. Joining them is Angie Wong, political analyst, fundraiser and Ted's co-host on "The Final Countdown" on Radio Sputnik.In a special DMZ America Podcast, Scott, Angie and Ted react to the Trump/Biden debate as it unfolded. The DMZ America Podcast is recorded weekly by political cartoonists Ted Rall and Scott Stantis. Twi...

    • 2 hrs 5 min
    Episode 152 | June 21, 2024: What If a Huge Asteroid Was About to Smash into the Earth? How Would Humans React? Debate Primer, Religion in Politics

    Episode 152 | June 21, 2024: What If a Huge Asteroid Was About to Smash into the Earth? How Would Humans React? Debate Primer, Religion in Politics

    Internationally-syndicated Editorial Cartoonists Ted Rall (from the left) and Scott Stantis (from the right) discuss the pressing issues of the day.First up, there is an asteroid headed for the Earth and will pass the closest to our planet in the history of our species. Happily, the asteroid will miss us but how would humanity react if the next time we weren't so lucky? Ted and Scott reveal their sense of how our species would respond.Next, Ted and Scott handicap the upcoming presidential deb...

    • 1 hr 11 min

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