Lost in America

We get the World's Smartest Podcast Network gang of Andrew Heaton and NYU professor Andrea Jones-Rooy, Ph. D. back to help us once again take a deeper look at some current American issues. This week …

Italy elected a new Prime Minister in Giorgia Meloni this week, and the world is freaking out. She is a hard-right politician who has praised former fascist leader Benito Mussolini, she is anti-immi…

Belarusian comedian Misha Kalhin joins the show from his home in Kyiv, Ukraine to tell us how Russia lost 3,800 square miles of land in three days. He also tells us why he might join the military so…

The Queen is dead, long live the King. Boris Johnson is dead (politically), long live Liz Truss. Who is she? What impact will she have? What will her policy be on Ukraine? What legislation is accompl…

Former Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev died on August 30, 2022, and today Russian comedian Oleg Denisov joins us from his new home in Germany to talk about Gorbachev's legacy in Russia and abro…

We get the World's Smartest Podcast Network gang of Professor Andrew Heaton and Andrea Jones-Rooy, Ph. D. back to answer the question "Has Woke-ness Become a Religion?". We tackle it from all angles…

Armenian Comedian Narek Margaryan is back to explain why Armenia has stayed neutral during Russia's war with Ukraine. While he believes the war is terrible, he explains why historically Russia has b…

New York-born Puerto Rican (Nuyorican) comedian Zilla Vodnas joins us to give a brief history of Puerto Rico and to lay out the reasons Puerto Ricans are for or against becoming the 51st state. Curre…

Sri Lanka's President fled the country in July, leaving his people with a collapsed government, a bankrupt economy and untenable inflation. Sri Lankan comedian Malinda Perera is back on the show toda…

Balkan comedy legend Pedja Bajovic joins us from his home in Croatia to explain why Serbia has been the only country in Europe to stay neutral during the war in Ukraine, and why Putin, The US, NATO a…

On July 8th Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated with a homemade gun. Today we have Japanese comedian Momo Takamori on the show from his home in Osaka to talk about Abe's legacy…

Turner and Kap went to El Salvador last week to turn the Lost In America Podcast into a TV show, it was pure madness, and today they hop on the mics to tell you all about it. They played with a Cong…

Ukrainian comedian Anton Tymoshenko joins the show from his home in Kyiv, Ukraine to talk about his upcoming comedy tour of Ukrainian bunkers, the current morale of the Ukrainian people and how he th…

Colombian comedian Paulo Hernandez gives us a quick history of Colombia's Narco Wars from 1958-2016 and explains why his country now decided to elect their first leftist President in recent history.

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We get the World's Smartest Podcast Network gang of Professor Andrew Heaton and Andrea Jones-Rooy, Ph. D. back for another whirlwind roundtable where we solve all the world's problems in an hour. Thi…

The Philippines has elected Ferdinand Marcos Jr., son of the country's disgraced dictator by the same name, as president of the country. How did it happen and what does it say for the future of stron…

Sri Lankan comedian Malinda Perera tells us what Sri Lanka's options are now that they have defaulted on all of their loans, and how they got here in the first place. This is a wild tale involving e…

Hungarian comedy legend Litkai Gergely joins us to explain the rise and reign of Hungarian strong-man Prime Minister Viktor Orban. PM Orban was just reelected in April to a third 4-year term, althoug…

On March 27, 2022, sixty two people were murdered in El Salvador in gang related killings. In response, President Nayib Bukele declared a state of emergency and has arrested over 22,000 suspected gan…

Comedian Misha Kalhin joins us from the 18th floor of his Kyiv, Ukraine apartment to catch us up on his life since we last spoke on March 9th, 2022. Misha is doing well, his family is doing well and…