Episodes
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Episode 1061: The Midterms Part 2 The Aftermath — McLaughlin and Sosnik on the Blue Wave and What Comes Next
The votes are in, and Democrats have won control of both the House and the Senate, flipping seats in red states including Texas, Kansas, and South Carolina. Now John McLaughlin, President Trump’s pollster since 2016, and Doug Sosnik, who ran the political operation in the Clinton White House, are...
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Episode 1060: The Honoring of Ignorance — Matt Towery on the Mirage Machine Distorting American Politics
Millions of Americans are voting based on a picture of reality that someone else painted for them. Matt Towery calls it the mirage machine: a combination of legacy media, partisan fact-checkers, and compliant pollsters that has convinced a large swath of the public that President Donald Trump is...
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Episode 1059: Medicare for All — Dr. Joel Zinberg on What It Would Really Cost You
Two-thirds of Americans now say they support Medicare for All, the highest level ever recorded. But Dr. Joel Zinberg warns that Medicare for All is not Medicare as we know it. It would ban the private insurance that covers more than half of Americans, eliminate Medicare Advantage and Part D drug...
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Episode 1058: America's Golden Age — Adventures in Space
What will it take to open America's next frontier? Newt looks to the stars, beginning with Abraham Lincoln's Pacific Railway Act of 1862 as a model for unleashing private investment in space. From reusable rockets and nuclear propulsion that could shorten the trip to Mars, to a permanent American...
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Episode 1057: America's Golden Age — Artificial Intelligence Will Change Everything
Could artificial intelligence be the most important development in human history? Newt explains why he believes AI will define the next 50 years, how it differs from the computing we've known for decades, and why its real power comes from combining with medicine, robotics, and space. He shares...
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Episode 1056: America's Golden Age — America Fifty Years at a Time
What can 50-year stretches of American history teach us about 2076? Newt travels through America 50 years at a time, from the deaths of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson on July 4, 1826, to a young Abraham Lincoln campaigning for railroads he had never seen, to the age of Edison, Ford, and the…
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Episode 1055: America's Golden Age — Why Our Best Days Are Ahead
Why should Americans be optimistic about the next 50 years? On the day his new book is released, Newt explains the big idea behind America's Golden Age: science, technology, culture, and entrepreneurship are coming together to create an explosion of growth, opportunity, and choice. From the…
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Episode 1054: America's Golden Age — What Will Daily Life Look Like in 2076?
What will America look like when it celebrates its 300th birthday in 2076? Newt takes listeners on an imaginative journey 50 years into the future, exploring how artificial intelligence, medical breakthroughs, household robotics, and space exploration could transform everyday life. From...
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Episode 1053: The Chip Age — How Semiconductors Became the World’s Most Powerful Resource
More than a trillion chips are made every year, roughly 150 for every person on earth. They power our phones, our cars, our missiles, and the artificial intelligence revolution. And more than 90% of the most advanced ones come from a single company in Taiwan, built with machines that only one...
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Episode 1052: The Houthis — Survival, Expansion, and the Iran-Backed Threat in the Red Sea
The Houthis’ slogan is ‘Death to America, Death to Israel.’ They seized Yemen’s capital in 2014. Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, the United States, and Israel have all bombed them. They have been sanctioned and designated a terrorist organization. And they are still standing, still...
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Episode 1051: The End of a Fair Price — Lindsay Owens on How Companies Use Your Data to Charge You More
For 150 years, the price tag was a promise: one price, the same for everyone. That promise is gone. Today, algorithms help landlords set your rent, software tracks your clicks to figure out the most you will pay, and two shoppers can buy the same carton of eggs in the same store on the same day…
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Episode 1050: The Midterms, 27 Days Out — McLaughlin and Sosnik on Who Will Control Congress
With 27 days until the 2026 midterms, mail-in voting is already underway and the polls are moving. Since September, the generic ballot has shifted toward Democrats, and prediction markets now give them roughly a 90% chance of winning the House. But is the race as settled as it looks? Newt brings...
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Episode 1049: The Exhausted Majority — Who Independents Really Are and Why They'll Decide 2026
Nearly half of American voters now call themselves independents, but Adam Brandon argues they are far more than a mushy middle ground between the two parties. In his new book, The Exhausted Majority: Building a Home for the Politically Homeless, Brandon profiles a coherent, center-right bloc of...
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Episode 1048: Drones, AI, and the Future of War — How Artificial Intelligence Is Remaking the Battlefield
Ukraine has become the most innovative military power in the world, building drones by the millions, fielding ground robots, and wiring the battlefield together with software. Russia is racing to match it. Iran has used $35,000 drones to force the United States to fire interceptors costing...
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Episode 1047: Trace Gallagher — Life Lessons, Lucky Breaks, and Three Decades at Fox News
Before Trace Gallagher became one of Fox News's most recognizable faces, he was a professional water skier at Six Flags Marine World, where he once taught Jimmy Buffett to ski. A knee injury ended that career and sent him on an unexpected path through announcing, local television, and eventually...
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Episode 1046: Inside DOGE — The Waste Was Real and the Resistance Was Fierce
In January 2025, Tyler Hassen was running a diversified energy business in Houston. Weeks later, he was inside the West Wing as a DOGE senior insider, named Acting Assistant Secretary of Policy, Management, and Budget at the Department of the Interior with authority over $35 billion in spending…
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Episode 1045 The $17 Billion Meta Settlement — and What It Means for Your Kids
Last month, a bipartisan coalition of 51 attorneys general announced what may be the largest consumer protection settlement in American history: a $17 billion dollar agreement with Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram. California Attorney General Rob Bonta led the fight, accusing…
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Episode 1044 Charlie Kirk — Faith, Free Speech, and a Legacy That Lives On
One year after Charlie Kirk was assassinated at Utah Valley University, his friend and longtime confidant Christy Edwards Lawton joins Newt to discuss her new memorial photo book, Charlie Kirk: In His Own Words. Built entirely from Charlie's own posts on X, never-before-seen photographs, and...
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Episode 1043: Alzheimer's Disease Breakthrough New Blood Tests, New Treatments, and What Congress Must Do Now
More than seven million Americans live with Alzheimer's disease today, a number projected to nearly double by 2060. It already consumes 20% of all Medicare spending and costs the economy close to half a trillion dollars annually. But the science is finally catching up. Newt is joined by former…
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Episode 1042: Burn It Down — What the Polls Say Young Americans Really Want
Most political analysts say Generation Z is quietly turning conservative. Rich Baris says the data tells a completely different story. The director of Big Data Poll and the most accurate national pollster of both 2016 and 2024 joins Newt to discuss his new book, Burn It Down: What the Polls Say...
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Episode 1041: How America Borrowed Its Way to $40 Trillion — and What Comes Next
The federal debt just crossed $40 trillion, months ahead of schedule and less than a decade after hitting $20 trillion. Net interest payments now exceed what America spends on defense or Medicare. Thomas Hoenig spent 38 years at the Federal Reserve, including two decades as president of the…
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Episode 1040: Profit from the Profit — Why Most Investors Are Actually Speculating
Most people think they're investing. David Bahnsen thinks they're speculating — and there's a profound difference. The founder and chief investment officer of the Bahnsen Group, which manages over $10 billion in client assets, joins Newt to discuss his new book, Profit from the Profit: The Past,...
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Episode 1039: 25 Years After 911 — Confronting the Next Generation of Threats
Twenty-five years after September 11th, is America ready for the next generation of threats? House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rick Crawford joins Newt to discuss the bipartisan task force review of the original 9/11 commission report — what worked, what didn't, and what must be built for the...
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Episode 1038: The Global War on God — Dr. Hak Ja Han and the Fight for Religious Liberty
An 83-year-old great-grandmother, legally blind and in failing health, has spent nearly a year in a South Korean detention cell — and Newt believes her case is part of something far larger. Dr. Hak Ja Han, co-founder of the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification and known to millions...
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Episode 1037: How to Win 2026 — Part 5 A Healthier America — Lower Costs, More Choice, Longer Lives
In Part Five of his "How to Win 2026" series, Newt Gingrich lays out the Republican case on healthcare: what President Trump and congressional Republicans have already done to lower costs and expand choices, and what still needs to be built. American families are paying roughly the price of a new...
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Episode 1036: How to Win 2026 — Part 4 The American Party — Issues That Poll 70 Percent or Higher
In Part Four of his "How to Win 2026" series, Newt Gingrich makes the case for what he calls "the American Party" — not a new political organization, but a governing platform built on issues where seventy percent or more of Americans already agree, across party lines. Drawing on eight years of...
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Episode 1035: How to Win 2026 — Part 3 The Republican Answer on Affordability and Iran
In Part Three of his "How to Win 2026" series, Newt Gingrich tackles the two hardest arguments in the entire 2026 campaign: the economy and Iran. On affordability, Newt makes the Republican case with specific facts and dollar figures: the steepest drop in prescription drug prices in sixty years,...
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Episode 1034: How to Win 2026 — Part 2 In Their Own Words — The Case Against Big Government Socialism
In Part Two of his "How to Win 2026" series, Newt makes the case against today's Democratic Party — in their own words. This is the most substantive episode in the series — a methodical, documented case that today's Democratic Party has drifted far from the tradition of Roosevelt and Kennedy into...
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Episode 1033: How to Win 2026 — Part 1 The Strategy for a Historic Republican Midterm Victory
Speaker Newt Gingrich launches a bold five-part series on how Republicans can win a historic victory in November 2026. In this opening solo episode, Newt argues that the coming election is not a referendum on the present — it's an argument about the future. Drawing on his famous 2016 "two…
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Episode 1032: A Venn Diagram of One — Lenny McAllister's Case for a United America
Lenny McAllister has been in rooms most people never occupy at the same time — CPAC and the NAACP, Americans for Prosperity and the ACLU, Tea Party events and the Essence Music Festival. That's exactly the point. The Pittsburgh commentator, CNN and Fox analyst, and one of the earliest prominent...
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Episode 1031: Biological War — Annie Jacobsen on the Threat That Scares the Pentagon More Than Nuclear War
The Pentagon ranks biological warfare as a greater threat than nuclear war — and investigative journalist Annie Jacobsen spent years finding out why. The Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Nuclear War joins Newt Gingrich to discuss her new book, Biological War: A...
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Episode 1030: Cat 5: The 2033 War — America's Debt, Military, and China on a Collision Course
Marine combat veteran, former Assistant Secretary of Defense, and military historian Bing West has spent six decades on battlefields from Vietnam to Afghanistan — and he's angry. In his new book, Cat 5: The 2033 War, West argues that America's leaders won every battle in three wars but lost every...
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Episode 1029: Greatest American Inventions — The Smartphone
On January 9, 2007, Steve Jobs walked onstage and declared three "revolutionary" products were actually one: the iPhone. Newt closes his 15-part series with the invention that fused the telephone, the transistor, the internet, GPS, and the camera into a single device now carried by six billion...
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Episode 1028: Greatest American Inventions — The Internet Search Engine
By the mid-1990s, the web was drowning in pages and starving for a way to find anything useful. Newt tells how two Stanford PhD students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, had a better idea: rank pages by how the web itself linked to them. Their algorithm, PageRank, became Google—incorporated in a…
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Episode 1027: Greatest American Inventions — The MRI Scanner
For most of human history, seeing inside a living body meant surgery. Newt tells how Dr. Raymond Damadian and physicist Paul Lauterbur turned 1940s nuclear magnetic resonance research into the MRI scanner—a machine that images soft tissue in astonishing detail without radiation or a single...
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Episode 1026: Greatest American Inventions — The Mobile Phone
On a Manhattan sidewalk in 1973, Motorola engineer Martin Cooper made the first handheld cellular call—to his rival at Bell Labs, just to say Motorola got there first. Newt traces the mobile phone from a $3,995 status symbol to a global phenomenon with more subscriptions than people on Earth....
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Episode 1025: Greatest American Inventions — GPS
Twelve thousand five hundred miles above Earth, 31 satellites quietly guide nearly every navigation app on the planet. Newt tells how GPS, developed by the Department of Defense as a military tool, became a free gift to humanity after President Reagan opened it to civilian use following the 1983...
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Episode 1024: Greatest American Inventions — The Nuclear Reactor
Beneath a football stadium at the University of Chicago on December 2, 1942, Enrico Fermi's team achieved the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction in history—producing just half a watt of power but proving a concept that would reshape the world. Newt traces the Manhattan Project's dual...
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Episode 1023: Greatest American Inventions — The Moving Assembly Line
Henry Ford didn't invent the automobile—he invented a way to make it affordable. Newt examines how Ford's 1913 moving assembly line cut Model T production time from 12.5 hours to 93 minutes, and how Ford's controversial $5-a-day wage turned his own workers into customers, helping create the...
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Episode 1022: Greatest American Inventions — The Personal Computer
For thirty years, a computer was something only governments and corporations could own—an entire room of machinery. Newt tells how that changed in 1975, when a $439 kit computer on the cover of Popular Electronics inspired a Harvard student named Bill Gates and an HP engineer named Steve Wozniak…
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Episode 1021: Greatest American Inventions — The Internet
On the night of October 29, 1969, a UCLA student typed two letters into a Stanford-bound terminal before the system crashed—and the internet was born. Newt traces ARPANET's Cold War origins as a decentralized network built to survive nuclear attack, through Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn's TCP/IP…
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Episode 1020: Greatest American Inventions — The Polio Vaccine
Before 1955, polio closed swimming pools, filled hospital wards with iron lungs, and terrified American parents every summer. Newt tells the story of Dr. Jonas Salk, who defied scientific consensus with a killed-virus vaccine, tested it on 1.8 million children in the largest clinical trial in...
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Episode 1019: Greatest American Inventions — The Transistor
At Bell Labs in December 1947, three scientists—John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley—demonstrated a tiny device that would outlast the vacuum tube and launch the digital age. Newt traces the transistor's evolution from a sliver of germanium into the integrated circuit and,...
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Episode 1018: Greatest American Inventions — The Electrical Power System
Every invention in this series—the phone, the internet, the smartphone—depends on one foundational breakthrough. Newt unpacks the electrical power system's tangled origin story: Thomas Edison's Pearl Street Station, Nikola Tesla's alternating current, and George Westinghouse's bet that AC was the...
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Episode 1017: Greatest American Inventions — The Airplane
Two bicycle mechanics from Ohio, with no college degrees and no government funding, beat every well-financed rival to achieve the impossible. On December 17, 1903, Orville Wright flew 120 feet in 12 seconds over the dunes of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina—and humanity's earthbound existence ended.…
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Episode 1016: Greatest American Inventions — The Telephone
Alexander Graham Bell grew up obsessed with the human voice—his family taught elocution and speech to the deaf. That obsession led him, on March 10, 1876, to transmit the first intelligible words over a wire: "Mr. Watson, come here." Newt traces Bell's race against rival Elisha Gray, the birth of...
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Episode 1015: Greatest American Inventions — The Electric Telegraph
In 1844, a painter named Samuel Morse and machinist Alfred Vail shattered the oldest limit on human civilization: the speed of information. Their electromagnetic telegraph sent messages by wire at the speed of electricity, ending an era when news traveled no faster than a horse or a ship. Host…
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Episode 1014: The Power of Pull — What Most Startup Founders Get Wrong
Most startup founders are doing it backwards — and Harvard Innovation Labs fellow Rob Snyder spent two miserable years learning that the hard way. After failing to sell a product that made perfect logical sense, a single phone call from a Dunkin' franchisee changed everything: the customer didn't...
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Episode 1013: Bad Counselors — An All-American Made Film
For years, Hollywood executive Chris Fenton helped American studios chase the Chinese market — inserting pro-Beijing messaging into films, moving production offshore, and teaching China's own industry how to compete. Now he regrets it. Fenton joins Newt to explain how 60% of American film and TV...
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Episode 1012: Inside the Ukraine War – Drones, Diplomacy, and the Risk of Escalation
The Ukraine war has now outlasted World War I — and there's no clear end in sight. Former CIA Russia analysis director George Beebe joins Newt for a sobering assessment of where things stand. They dig into how AI-guided drones costing $17,500 apiece are reshaping the battlefield and challenging a...