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Debt Deal Winners and Losers. 2024: Christie, Scott In. Ron and Don at War. Trump vs. The Law. With Ginger Gibson, Senior Washington Editor for NBC News Digital, Gabe Debenedetti, National Correspondent for New York Magazine and Allan Smith, Political reporter for NBC News. Today's Bill Press Pod is supported by The American Federation of Governmen…

Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff of California is a man with a virtual target on his back from MAGA Republicans. He was thrown off the Intelligence Committee by Speaker Kevin McCarthy. Which kind of works for him, because it gives him more time to campaign for the Senate to replace Dianne Feinstein when her term ends at the beginning of 2025. Con…

Debt Optimism. McCarthy Peril. 14th Amendment. DeSantis "Launch." Scott is In. 18 Years for Sedition. With Lynn Sweet, Columnist and Washington Bureau Chief at the Chicago Sun-Times, Scott Wong, Senior Congressional Reporter, NBC News and Philip Bump, Washington Post National Columnist, Author of The Aftermath and How To Read This Chart newsletter.…

This week, we celebrate the birth of one of our own: Jackson Welles! We do this by discussing The Shining, the film released on the exact day of his birth, and by looking into the case of legendary murderous robbers on the lam Bonnie Parker & Clyde Barrow. The story of the outlaw duo brought down in a hail of gunfire is so ubiquitous, it seems like…

The progressive Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison is a man of many firsts. He's the first African American to hold a statewide elected office in Minnesota, and the first Muslim American to hold an elected statewide office in any state. A former Congressman Ellison ran for and won the Attorney General's position in 2018. In 2020, Minnesota Go…

Debt Optimism. Work Requirements on the Table. GOP 2024 Gets Crowded. Abortion: GOP Poison. MTG in Charge? With Shirish Date, Senior White House Correspondent HuffPost, Maya King, Politics reporter for The New York Times covering the South and David Jackson, National Political Correspondent for USA TODAY. Today's Bill Press Pod is supported by The …

The Bulwark’s Will Saletan has a new long article/short book entitled: The Corruption Of Lindsey Graham: A case study in the rise of authoritarianism. This is a very important and well-written and reported story that charts the fall of Graham from severe Trump critic to Trump enabler. He says it was a slow process for Graham and mirrors how a socie…

CNN’s Townhall Debacle. Trump Gives Evidence. Trump Assaults and Defames. Default Fears. Santos Indicted. Trump a Lock? With Sabrina Siddiqui, White House Reporter for The Wall Street Journal, Jeff Dufour, Editor-in-chief, National Journal and Abby Livingston, Writer for The Almanac of American Politics. Today's Bill Press Pod is supported by The I…

In our latest episode, Jackson and B.P. (or is it Maximum Jackson-um and Pope Barnabas?) pay tribute to Florence Nightingale on what would’ve been her 203rd birthday, if only people lived that long. And they do it in a way only Murder, My Dude can: by highlighting the very worst of the profession that she’s synonymous with. Charles Cullen is one of…

Had to vent and let this out. Thanks for listening. Much love to all my supporters.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/phatlove-talk/support

This past month has been a lot. I just need to get this out and vent.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/phatlove-talk/support

Norm Ornstein has been studying and writing about Congress and politics for over 40 years. He is currently a Senior Emeritus Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, a mostly conservative think tank. He wrote (along with Thomas E. Mann) It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extr…

Clarence Thomas “Ethics.” Trump to CNN. Trump “Rape” Trial. J6 Sedition Convictions. Debt Ceiling Looming. With Linda Feldmann, Washington bureau chief, White House/politics correspondent at Christian Science Monitor. Host of the Monitor Breakfast, Kirk Bado, Editor, National Journal Hotline and Dan Merica, National Political Reporter at The Messen…

Disney is out here using their licensed characters in all types of games. Let's briefly talk about Mirrorverse and Speedstorm. Two different games with two opinions I have to share.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/phatlove-talk/support

It's been a wild ride for the media these last few weeks. First Fox settles its Dominion lawsuit by paying nearly $800 million. But they escaped an apology. Then a few days later they fired Tucker Carlson, the highest rated host in prime-time cable news. Then that same day CNN fires Don Lemon. And as a backdrop to all this high-profile news, is the…

I wasn't alone in my thoughts on the Disney+ National Treasure show as it has been CANCELED! I hate to say "I told ya so" but honestly, what did they expect with the show they gave us? Also, at the end I discuss my thoughts on why RedFall is off to a bumpy start not putting 60 FPS at launch. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/…

Biden Announces. Trump Inevitable? Can DeSantis Recover? Pence Testifies. Trump "Rape" Trial. Tucker Firing Fallout. With Allan Smith, Political Reporter for NBC News, Alex Roarty, White House Correspondent for McClatchy Newspapers and Hunter Walker, Investigative Reporter for Talking Points Memo. Today’s Bill Press Pod is supported by The Internat…

In our latest episode, Murder, My Dude returns to the land of the rising sun to take a look at a pair of killings that drew international attention to a controversial custom. Carita Ridgway and Lucie Blackman were both hostesses, workers at Tokyo nightclubs who were tasked with being extra-attentive to parts of the club’s clientele - generally olde…

Yes, there is an Ambassador from the United States focused on the Vatican and the Pope. He's Joseph Donnelly, the former Senator from Indiana and now the United States Ambassador to The Holy See. He explains exactly what the ambassador does, and you'd be surprised how important President Biden, himself a Catholic, is in influencing the Pope and The…

Debt Ceiling Battle. GOP Investigations. Fox Huge Settlement. DeSantis Struggling. Abortion’s Big Impact. GOP Transgender Attack. Senate’s Age Problems. With Jason Dick Editor-in-Chief at CQ-Roll Call, Jackie Alemany, Congressional investigations reporter at The Washington Post and Contributor to NBC News and MSNBC, Katherine Tully-McManus, coverin…

Bill is in Rome at the American Academy and got to engage in one of his favorite pastimes: wondering what residents of the country he is visiting think about us Americans and what they think about their own country. He got the chance to sit down for that very discussion with one of Italy’s best-known journalists. In Italy, Maria Latella is a supers…

GOP Faceplant in TN. The NRA/GOP Bind. Abortion Looming Large. Trump’s Worsening Legal Issues. 2024 GOP Primary. Feinstein Stalemate. Clarence Thomas Ethics. Leaker Arrest. Biden in Ireland. With Philip Bump, National Columnist for the Washington Post, Author of The Aftermath and How To Read This Chart newsletter, Sudeep Reddy, Senior Managing Edit…

This week's episode finally delves deep in to a thrilling, cutthroat world that we've never explored before: the insurance industry. On a serious note, the brutal death of terminally ill Betsy Faria showed how depraved human beings can truly be. The terminally ill wife and mother of two was stabbed over 50 times, including once through an eye, and …

Syliva Poggioli is a legend. Forty-one years reporting from Rome and the world for NPR. She recently resigned from her role as Senior European Correspondent so she has now can be a bit more candid about what she thinks about Italy’s new rightwing government and its connections to Italy’s fascist past. Bill interviewed her in Rome. Today Bill highli…

The content we should have had at S1 is finally coming S3 and I'm excited to talk (and rant) about it!--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/phatlove-talk/support

NF dropped a fantastic new album! Let's talk about that alongside some other new music I've been enjoying.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/phatlove-talk/support

Trump Arrested. Gag Order Coming? Is it a Strong Case? Defund the FBI? Abolish the ATF? Pence to Testify. 2024 GOP Contenders Stymied. Democrats Win Big in Wisconsin. Abortion Looms Large. With Ginger Gibson, Senior Washington Editor at NBC News Digital, Alex Seitz-Wald, Political Reporter for NBC News, Igor Bobic, Senior Politics Reporter at HuffP…

Donald Trump was arraigned yesterday on 34 felony counts in a New York state court. The crime was falsifying business records as part of scheme to potentially avoid taxes and to influence the outcome of the 2016 election. We caught up with New York-based reporter Hunter Walker, a longtime contributor to the Bill Press Pod. Walker literally wrote th…

Live Service games and Paid Entry games are both guilty of implementing Battle Pass systems in their games. Of course, in Phat Love fashion, let me give my two cents on the subject....and go off topic a few times.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/phatlove-talk/support

Trump Indicted. GOP Attacks Prosecutor. DeSantis Struggling. Nashville School Shooting. GOP Budget Woes. With Linda Feldmann, Washington bureau chief, White House/Politics Correspondent at Christian Science Monitor, Host of the Monitor Breakfast, Kirk Bado, Editor, National Journal Hotline and co-host of the National Journal Radio podcast and John …

The weather is warming up, and schools are letting out. It’s time once again for SPRING BREAK!!! But the fun and frivolity all too often turns deadly, and perhaps never more horrifically than in the case of Mark Kilroy, a Texas Longhorn who went to the Gulf Coast to party like it was 1989, and he never returned. The story of his demise has to be he…

OK, this is a little self-referential, but here is last week’s guest, writing about this week’s guest: CNN and The Atlantic’s Ron Brownstein, writing in The Atlantic about Simon Rosenberg. “After working for three decades as an operative in the upper reaches of the Democratic Party, Simon Rosenberg in 2022 became an overnight sensation. Rosenberg w…

Trumps' Legal Peril. Gloves Off on 2024 Race. DeSantis Stumbles. TikTok's Troubles. Unity on China Threat. With Jeff Dufour, Editor in chief of the National Journal, Sarah Wire, National Security/Justice Dept. and Washington Accountability Reporter for The Los Angeles Times, Leah Askarinam, Senior Editor at Grid News and Lauren Burke, writer for Bl…

Ron Brownstein is one of the sharpest analysts of American politics. He is a Senior CNN Political Analyst and a Senior Editor for The Atlantic. He's been reporting and writing about the radical rollback of rights in Red states and he has a new analysis based on years of data research that explains why are politics is so evenly divided. And perhaps …

Trump Legal Watch. Pence Blames Trump for J6. DeSantis Ukraine Controversy. Trump Hits DeSantis on Ethics. Fragile Banking System? Is “Woke” Working? War Powers Challenged. Chicago Mayor’s Race. With Lynn Sweet, Columnist and Washington Bureau Chief at the Chicago Sun-Times, Gabe Debenedetti, National Correspondent for New York Magazine and Jason D…

For the fifth time, Murder, My Dude turns its eyes toward the Emerald Isle to celebrate our oldest special: Murder O’Dude. And it’s a wild one, filled with bad accents and butchered pronunciations! Oh yeah, and a case. The death of Mary Gough Whelan was caused by an accidental fall down the stairs according to her husband, Colin. Investigators soon…

Its been awhile since I've made a rant podcast episode, let's change that.Disney+ thought a National Treasure was worthy of a spin off TV show and THEY WERE RIGHT but BOY! did they do it wrong....--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/phatlove-talk/support

Now that the Republicans are in charge of the House of Representatives, they get to decide what to investigate. Actually, it seems the only thing they are doing is investigating. But they've run into a problem. Democrats on the committees. Delegate Stacy Plasket, Ranking Member on the “Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Governm…

Trump NY Indictment Imminent. Tucker J6 Whitewash. Biden’s Budget. 2024 GOP Race. DeSantis the Real Deal? And an inside look at Sabrina’s trip with Biden to Ukraine. With the aforementioned Sabrina Siddiqui, White House Reporter for the Wall Street Journal, David Jackson, National Political Correspondent for USA TODAY and S.V. Dáte, White House Cor…

And this week, we do something completely different! It’s an extra-special Murder, My Dude with more of a freeform conversation and a bit of a rest for our usual segments. Instead, we’re going to take a look at our favorite murder-themed TV shows and movies. And, unlike always, we DON’T play a game of Who Died The Worst! --- Support this podcast: h…

What a president eats can tell you a lot about the man. What he serves to people at the White House is also revealing. All that is the subject of a new book by Alex Prud’homme, Dinner With The President: Food, Politics, and a History of Breaking Bread at the White House. You can buy it here. Prud’homme is the author, with his great aunt Julia Child…

Part Two of this story. I'm in a better place now. Send me a voice message on Anchor if you would like to reach out or find me on Socials. Much Love.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/phatlove-talk/support

The whole story...Part one.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/phatlove-talk/support

2024 GOP Race Begins. Fox News Unmasked. Tucker’s Spin on J6 Tapes. Dr. Biden in Africa. China in the Crosshairs. With Ginger Gibson, Senior Washington Editor for NBC News Digital, Allan Smith, Political Reporter for NBC News, Emily Goodin, Political Reporter for DailyMail.com and Matt Gertz, Senior Fellow at Media Matters for America. Today's Bill…

Joe Cirincione is a national security and foreign policy expert He previously served for over 12 years as the President of the Ploughshares Fund, a foundation focused on nuclear nonproliferation and conflict resolution. He was an outside advisor to the State Department during the Obama Administration. He is a member of the prestigious Council on Fo…

Biden in Kyiv. Ohio Toxic Train Wreck. Tim Scott Running. Trump Support Fading? J6 Tapes to Tucker. MTG’s Power. Carter in Hospice. With Philip Bump, National Columnist for the Washington Post, author of How to Read this Chart Newsletter and the book: The Aftermath, The Last Days of the Baby Boom and the Future of Power in America, Kirk Bado, Edito…

The weeks immediately following the attacks on September 11, 2001 were wrought with paranoia and a sense that something else bad was going to happen imminently. Those fears were made real on a smaller scale when it soon emerged that members of the media and the United States Senate were mailed letters containing spores carrying the deadly anthrax b…

Remember when Rick Perry wanted to abolish the Energy Department? And then became the Energy Secretary under Donald Trump? He said after he got there that there was a lot the Energy Department did that he didn't know about. Here's what the Energy Department does: It manages the United States' nuclear infrastructure, administers the country's energy…

Nikki Haley In. Biden Health/2024. Fetterman/Depression. Feinstein to Retire. Biden vs Scott. McConnell vs Scott. GOP Ukraine Divide. Balloonacy. With Maya King, Politics reporter for The New York Times covering the South, Sudeep Reddy, Senior Managing Editor at Politico and Igor Bobic, Senior politics reporter at HuffPost. Today Bill once again hi…

Susan Glasser is the ultimate Washington insider. She has had reporting and/or editing positions at Roll Call, The Washington Post, Politico and Foreign Policy magazine. She is the co-author of three books with her husband Peter Baker, Chief White House Correspondent for the New York Times. The best-selling books focused on Vladimir Putin, James Ba…