Pol and Pop (Politics/Pop Culture‪)‬ Anthony

In part 2 of this 2 part conversation, we continue on with delving into the Trump trial, covering everything that happened from the beginning of the actual trial through to the end of the Stormy Daniels testimony.

Trump's trial is well underway! In part 1 of this 2 part conversation, we start off with some undercard topics first: racial prejudice, treatment of animals, and various RFK Jr. news. Since I didn't want this episode to be all undercard matches, I also included the first part of the title match, our discussion about the gag order!This episode is dedicated to Michael Garippa, my nephew who just went through a very, very tough 11th birthday on Thursday, as explained in the opening p...

In this episode, Woody and I delve into some side issues. We delve into OJ Simpson and comparing his trial to Trump's, older athletes that are still playing or returning to their sports, local news about Key Bridge and Senator Cardin retiring.I'm experimenting a little bit with loudness normalization, since I feel like there's been too much difference between the quieter parts and the louder parts recently/This is the second part of a two-part conversation.

In this, the final episode of Get 2 the Point, we start out by recapping the series. Then, we talk about the U.S. Senate, including the history of the filibuster and the problem of aging Senators who don't have term limits. After that, we speculate on where the U.S. political landscape is going from here. Then we smoothly segue from discussing the Senate to discussing how various people have more versus less amounts of power to change things in their lives.And the rest of th...

In this episode, Woody and I get all caught up on current events again. We start with a little more on the eclipse (mainly to hear about Woody's experience), then we address Iran vs Israel, the Trump hush money payments trial, new extreme Abortion laws in Arizona and Florida, how it seems like neither Trump nor Biden could possibly win (and yet...), and House Speaker Mike Johnson possibly being on the way out after the Ukraine and Israel aid deal.This is the first part of a two-part con...

Sometimes, it's right in the middle of the day, and suddenly the moon gets right between you and the sun and it gets really dark out for a few minutes. Likewise, we take a break from our usual series of politics and pop culture for this episode.I took a trip through Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, and Kansas, scheduling it all so that I could see the April 8th solar eclipse in totality in Missouri during the trip. I got to get a "slice of life" for s...