The News Agents - USA

Enjoying listening to an outsider perspective on the US as an American. Keep up the great work.

What a terrible vanity project this is. The smugness and pandering to the Democrats, the denigration of conservatives and of Trump in particular was insufferable…but today after the election it is karma for you lot. If you think your show is credible you need a massive reset.

I’m a daily listener to the main pod and so I feel inclined to listen to this one during the election cycle, but my God are the takes on US candidates poor. Literally saying things no other political pundits are, and for good reason. Why bother?

I was astonished by guest Randy Zelin’s predictions for the Trump trial. His misstated the case and favorably compared Trump to participants of the Boston Tea Party, while providing none of the insight that a trial lawyer might have about jury deliberations. Usually, your show challenges guests when they’re over the top. But this time, you let a person who sounded like one of Rudy Giuliani’s drinking partners carry on. It wasn’t edifying, and it wasn’t you. Please don’t bring Mr. Zelin back!