Lost in America

Belarusian comedian Misha Kalhin joins the show from his possible new home of Yerevan, Armenia to update the guys on the latest madness coming out of his home country. On May 23, Belarus' government…

Michael Ira Kaplan and Turner Sparks get together for their monthly World's Smartest Podcast Network roundtable with Andrew Heaton and Dr. Andrea Jones-Rooy to discuss the 2021 divorce rate drop in C…

The Mongolian People's Party recently ruled, through congressional vote, to change the term limits for Mongolian President from two terms to one. In response, sitting President Battulga, who comes fr…

Since we last talked to Russian comedian Oleg Denisov (just eleven weeks ago), Vladimir Putin has done the following:

1. Threatened to invade Ukraine with 100,000 troops
2. Continued to imprison his politica…

Peru's presidential race has narrowed down to two candidates, and Peruvian comedian Jaime Ferraro is back to tell us why neither is a great choice. On one side there is Keiko Fujimori, an authoritari…

Fidel Castro is dead and Raul Castro is retired, so who is running Cuba? Roseann Lake, The Economist Magazine's Cuba correspondent, is here to tell us all about Cuban President and newly elected fir…

Loyalists in Northern Ireland are rioting and Irish-American comedian Des Bishop is here to explain to us why. To explain the present, Des gives us crash course in Irish-UK history that starts in the…

Ari Shaffir has spent the last six months living in Ecuador and he joins the show today to report on the insane presidential election race that his adopted country is in the middle of. It's down to …

Mexico is legalizing weed! Today we have comedian Mister Marco in Cabo San Lucas back on the show to explain to us how Mexico got to this point, what it means for the average Mexican citizen and wha…

On March 7, 2021 Philippine security forces systematically killed nine political activists who President Duterte accused of being communists. To find out what is so bad about being a communist, we we…

Armenian Comedian Narek Margaryan calls in while driving through Yerevan traffic to explain why the reported "military coup attempt" in Armenia was not a coup attempt at all. After Armenia lost a 44-…

French comedian Adrien Arnoux joins us from his home in Paris to explain why former French President Nicolas Sarkozy just got convicted of corruption charges, and what this unprecedented ruling means…

Peru has another exciting presidential scandal and here to tell us all about it is Peruvian comedian Jaime Ferraro straight from his home in Lima. This time the scandal involves former President Mart…

Spanish comedian Danny Boy-Rivera joins us from his home in Madrid to explain Catalonia's quite serious attempt to leave Spain, and their most recent state election where the pro-independence parties…

Russian comedian Oleg Denisov joins the show from Moscow to report back on the anti-Putin protest he attended in Pushkinskaya Square surrounding Alexi Navalny's arrest. Russians are upset with the tr…

German comedian Stefan Danziger joins the show from his home in Berlin to answer every question we have about Angela Merkel, and give his thoughts on which direction the country might head next now t…

Indian comedian Daniel Fernandes joins us from his home in Mumbai to explain why India's farmers have been on strike since November, 2020. They have built Burning Man style campsites on the outskirts…

Brazilian comedian Carol Zoccoli joins the guys to answer every question they have regarding her country's loose-cannon of a President, Jair Bolsonaro. Where did he come from? How did he rise to powe…

Michael Ira Kaplan and Turner Sparks get together for their monthly World's Smartest Podcast Network roundtable with Andrew Heaton and Dr. Andrea Jones-Rooy to discuss the QAnon cult's future, the go…

Malaysian comedian Kavin Jay joins the guys from his home in Kuala Lumpur to recount the wildest story of political corruption that this pod has ever heard. Sit back, relax and enjoy as he lays out t…