Lost in America

We get the World's Smartest Podcast Network gang of Andrew Heaton and Dr. Andrea Jones-Rooy back for another whirlwind roundtable where we solve all the world's problems in an hour. This week we tac…

American comedian Jorge Castellanos joins us from his home in Shanghai, China to discuss the hardcore lockdown he has been in for the last 13 days. He and his wife cannot leave their apartment, they…

Russian comedian Oleg Denisov joins us from his temporary home in Germany (he has left Moscow for now) to give insight into what the Russian people are hearing, seeing, thinking and believing when it…

Ukrainian comedian Anton Tymoshenko joins the show from his temporary home, an underground hookah bar in Kyiv. He has been living there since the war started a month ago with 15-20 other friends and …

Just six months ago the Polish government was seen as an uncooperative actor by the European Union and an authoritarian state by the western world. Today they have become the media darlings of the wo…

It's been 10 days since Misha Kalhin in Kyiv, Ukraine was on the pod, which is 10 years when you are sitting in the middle of a war. We have him back today to answer all of our questions including "…

Get Tickets to Turner's Live Album Recording on March 11, 2022 at the Friars Club in New York City Here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/turner-sparks-live-comedy-album-recording-friars-club-march-11-20…

Shafic Gawhari is the managing director of Moby Media Afghanistan, a company that owns Afghanistan's #1 TV network TOLO TV. He joins us from his home in Kabul, Afghanistan to tell us how he is puttin…

Misha Kalhin checks in from his high-rise apartment in Kyiv, Ukraine to give us a full update on the war with Russia from his vantage point. We talk hand-to-hand combat, air raids, bomb shelters and…

Canadian comedian Todd Van Allen joins us from his home in Ottawa, aka ground zero for the Canadian trucker protests of the last three weeks, to explain the whole ordeal and tell us what it was reall…

We get the World's Smartest Podcast Network gang of Andrew Heaton and Dr. Andrea Jones-Rooy back for another roundtable, this time live and on location at the Friars Club in NYC. In the span of one h…

Chinese comedian Tony Chou joins the show from his home in Beijing to give us a report on what it's like to be in Beijing for the 2022 Winter Olympics. He also talks in detail about the covid-protoco…

Belarusian comedian Misha Kalhin checks in from his new home in Kiev, Ukraine to answer the questions "What is Putin's end goal with Ukraine?", "What does Putin want from the West?" and "Why does Put…

Balkan comedy legend Pedja Bajovic joins us from his home in Croatia to try to explain why Bosnia & Herzegovina has three Presidents and why one of them wants to take his third of the country and joi…

Kazakh comedian Nazerke Amirova joins us to explain the post-Soviet history of Kazakhstan, the battle for power currently happening between the current dictator and the former dictator, and why Vladi…

Apologies on the bad sound this episode. Turner thought his mic was plugged in the whole time and apparently it wasn't, so this is the best we could do to recapture the conversation. Next week everyt…

Ukrainian comedian Anton Tymoshenko tells us what life is like in his country now that Vladimir Putin has amassed 175,000 Russian troops at Ukraine's border and is preparing for a winter attack. Foll…

The Sudanese Military took over the country and put the Prime Minister on house arrest last month. This past week they let him out of house arrest and made him Prime Minister again, but the PM's supp…

Libyan Comedian Mohanad Elshieky tells us the fascinating story of how he went from being a child in Muammar Gaddafi's Libya, to a political radio host in Benghazi during Gaddafi's fall, to a man bei…

Senator/ Boxer Manny Pacquiao is running for the President of The Philippines against a team of Sara Duterte and Ferdinand Marcos Junior aka Bong Bong Marcos. If those names sound familiar it's becau…