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In this short episode, Drew and Alex give their thoughts on the protests, violence and political crackdowns that are taking place in both Cuba and in South Africa. Cuba is in a very dire situation. The perfect storm of sanctions reinstated by
Between 1830 and 1998, Canadian governments and churches separated more than 150,000 native children from their parents and placed them in mandatory boarding schools. Children were forced by the schools to cut their hair, forget about their cul
Eminent Domain is the right given by the constitution for the government to seize private property for public use, with payment of compensation. For example, the government can take someone's private property to make room for a new highway or a
Conspiracies have become more prominent these days and some are more dangerous than others. This episode from May of 2020 goes over Occam’s Razor and how it can help use logic and common sense to cut through some cooky conspiracy theories. O
It has been almost two weeks since Haiti’s president, Jovenel Moïse, was assassinated in his residence by armed forces. Usually this amount of time would have given authorities time to solve the assassination, but in this case there are still m
A schism is a division that usually occurs between a group of people that belong to an organization, movement, or religious denomination. In this episode, Drew and Alex discuss what a political schism is, why they may happen, and then they disc
The Firehose of Falsehood is every autocrat’s dream and it was crafted by the Soviet Union to sow chaos and division without direct force. According to researchers at the RAND Corporation, it describes a phenomenon where a nation’s leading clas
The Tonic Accord is off this week following the holiday weekend. However, this “Tonic Rewind” episode remains relevant as not all sources of news and information are created equally and the rise of misinformation is a prevalent issue.From Fe
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has turned 100 and it has been wildly successful in ways that the Soviet Union would have envied. When the Soviet Union imploded in 1991, many pundits thought that China would be next. Instead, the CCP has been
The United States military is about halfway done with withdrawing the last of its 3,500 American troops from Afghanistan. Over the last two decades, the country has been hit by massacres and violence almost daily. A recent index by Georgetown U
In this episode, Drew and Alex give their analysis on the New York City Primary, as well as the bizarre life and death of John McAfee, the man who innovated antivirus software, yet died living like Joe Exotic. The New York City primary has so
In this end of the week short episode - Drew and Alex talk about the recent Supreme Court decision involving the NCAA. The Court unanimously sided with former college players in a dispute with the NCAA over compensation issues. According to ES
Juneteenth is a new federal holiday in the United States that sheds light on the emancipation of enslaved African Americans. It is also known for celebrating African-American culture. Last week, the Senate Bill 475, called the "Juneteenth Natio
Deepfakes are a phenomenon in which an existing image or likeness of a person is replaced with someone else’s image. This technology used to only linked with Snapchat or Instagram, but now it is becoming more nefarious. Last month, the Foreign
In this end of the week episode, Drew and Alex touch on some of the fascinating, hilarious, crazy, and fascinating political/cultural issues they have seen over the last week. They discuss: Jeffrey Toobin, the Chief Legal Analyst at CNN, who r
Peru was something of a success story in Latin America. According to the Economist’s tracking, from 2001 to 2016, the poverty rate fell from 60% to 21% and the economy also grew at an average annual rate of 5.6%. The government also used a heal
It took four elections over just two years to finally get a coalition to oust Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu, Israel’s longterm Prime Minister. Finally, 60-59 majority was created that removed Netanyahu from his role. The new ruling coalition is a f
The G7 is a global alliance made up of some of the world’s most important economic “big hitters,” this includes Canada, Germany, the United States, France, the United Kingdom, Japan, and Italy. This year, the U.K. hosted the summit and it marke
Due to the pandemic, the Tokyo Olympics were postponed from the summer of 2020 and now are going to be taking place in late July of 2021. However, these summer games have become controversial. In May, 83 percent of those polled in Japan said th
In this quick episode, Drew and Alex try to understand why West Virginia’s senator, Joe Manchin, is still holding out against fellow Democrats’ desire to end the filibuster. His political ideology is being a “bipartisan centrist” but is that po
On May 31, Democrats staged a walk-out in the Texas legislature, this prevented Republicans from passing a bill that would tighten the state’s voting laws. Like other red states, Texas has been emboldened by success in the 2020 election and Tru
In late May, Belarus forced a Ryanair plane to land in Minsk, the capital of Belarus. The plane was flying from Greece to Lithuania, but was in Belarusian airspace. Local forces cited a “bomb threat” as the reason for the stop. After hours in M
Myanmar’s military junta, or the Tatmadaw, controls the majority of the nation’s elections and parliament. Last February, in a military coup, they ousted Aung San Suu Kyi, of the National League for Democracy, this was over what the junta deeme
In this special episode, Alex sits down with Jon Friesen, an old friend. Jon grew up around firearms and was taught at a young age to give them the upmost respect and responsibility. From competition shooting in high school to eventually servin
In this end of the week episode, Drew and Alex dive into a crime reporting app called “Citizen” which some have called a private security subscription service. The app “is a mobile app that sends users location-based safety alerts in real time,
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