All Episodes

Bonus: World Maps in Chinese are Fascinating! (and great tools to learn a foreign language!)

Russia in the Rearview Mirror? Author Joe Barnes's Travelogue through the Former Soviet Union

Single? The Algorithm Knows Who is Right for You

The Ongoing and Pivotal War that Everyone's Forgotten

Why Saudi Arabia is facing a shock to its system

Uncle Sam Saved a Few Bucks. China got F-35 Parts

All about the Houthis in Yemen

An Intercontinental Refugee Crisis is Unfolding Between the Middle East and Africa

Don't Waste Time, Make a Dime: Singapore Decides to Pay People to Stop Doomscrolling

We're STILL Pissed About Losing the CIA World Factbook

No Easy Option: Saudi Arabia is Between Iraq and a Houthi Place

NYC's AI Moratorium: Creating Space to Think...in the Classroom and in Policy (Feat. Kevin Wong)

The US wants to fix maps, except for maps of Africa (Bonus Episode)

A new dawn for old problems: What Niger's Failed Coup Means for West Africa

Lowkey...Don't count out Gen Z (Feat. Chauncy Wadsworth)

Never Meta anyone who does it better: Who wins in the $17 billion settlement?

I thought the video was AI generated. The devastating Nepal floods

Shift happens? Outlining the Mecca Agreement between Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan

You + random Fred’s Facebook argument = BIG $$$ for an Indonesian villager

Does the US-South Korea alliance cool as Northeast Asia simmers?

Run for office like you would a First Down: Sherman's run across Nevada's Second District

An overview of the migration crisis in Ceuta, a Spanish city in Africa

A megaphone for the people's voices: Featuring Ramon Perez and Dan Williams

How American Idol can inspire political change and fight gerrymandering (feat. Tom Joseph)

Prediction Markets are the next big thing in finance (feat. Andrew Lebbos, SVP of Benzinga)

Indonesia's ambitious program to feed millions of kids is a window into the country

A sad tale about backpackers getting caught up in local problems in Southeast Asia

Voter equality is underrated: The state of open primaries in the United States (Feat. Chad Peace)

Is "insider trading" the secret ingredient to digital success on the music charts?

What Gavin and Spongebob have in common (Bonus Episode)

Will Congress' solution to protect American kids from AI slop work?

We came. We trained the locals. We got the hell out: The U.S. military's recent mission to Nigeria

A big thank you from Dave and Gavin as we come up on 2 years

A mistaken identity...It's all in the name On the Fringe

Bears gone wild 2!

The Bishnoi gang is quietly squeezing Canada

Technology in Sudan's Civil War is changing modern warfare

The Terminator Age has begun

The Counterfeit: Chinese spy-ops, and a possible future view of America (Feat. Dr. Ralph DeFalco)

The prediction market legal slugfest between states and the Feds is going 12 rounds

The CIA doesn't have a big enough broom for the Gold Bar Dave scandal

The slower the Strait of Hormuz gets, the faster things move in the Gulf

Rebuilding democracy from the ground up: the Digital Democracy Project (Feat. Ramon Perez)

How and why you should learn a foreign language (feat. Polyglot David Ramos)

Gadgets in the Dragon's Grip: China's control over critical minerals (Feat. Tomasz Nadrowski)

Pakistan: a kingmaker or a pawn in the Gulf--Or Both?!

The UAE is waking up to a new world while Saudi hits snooze

Mali's Junta is short on time, fuel, and control (Feat. Stuart Bolus)

The Dark Side of Prediction Markets

Is higher ed worth it as small colleges shut down? Dave and Gavin's take

There's no strait answer to Europe's jet fuel problem

Trump's Board of (Rest In) Peace

AI is so 2025 if prediction markets get their way

How to build trust in a world doused in AI slop (ft. Braden Frame, COO of Modern Cartographers)

A war that's going on, yet gets almost no coverage

Keep the faith in these trying times

The Fog of War...Profiteering on Prediction Markets

A Wild Ride through the Balkans: From Tito to Today

Why West Africa is struggling and falling to jihadists

The Gulf States just got pushed off the fence

Season 4, Episode 6: Indonesia, Gaza, and rules of engagement

Why South Korean Presidents go to prison: From the Blue House to the big house

Would soldiers hope for a war if they could become instant millionaires?

Season 4, Episode 5: Things are heating up in the Gulf, Part 2

Season 4, Episode 4: Things are heating up in the Gulf, Part 1

A casino in Macau cashing in on a golden opportunity

The World Factbook has been closed

Season 4, Episode 3: Cleaning house in Cambodia and China

Season 4, Episode 2: What if peace was a literal country club?

Season 4, Episode 1: The rule of fang and claw

A MASSIVE thank you from Dave and Gavin

Bonus: A ChatGPT Christmas Miracle? Or, straight to the top of Santa's naughty list?

Season 3, Episode 24: Reno PD needs Lt. Dangle, an episode about blind trust in AI systems

Season 3, Episode 23: Kyrgyzstan, land of mountains, mines, and elections. Featuring Joe Barnes

Bonus: A Tale of Two Airstrikes

Season 3, Episode 22: IndiGone. An epic meltdown for India's biggest airline

Season 3, Episode 21: On the Edge of Everything. The Future of AI, with Derek Crager, CEO of Practical AI

Season 3, Episode 20: Why the state of African democracy matters, featuring Stuart Bolus

Bonus: American women have a problem with America

Season 3, Episode 19: The twisting and turning tales of Alice...Guo

Bonus Episode: One bear of a problem in Japan that the Japanese can't just grin and bear

Season 3, Episode 17: Courtship on the king's court

Season 3, Episode 16: Horatiu wants to go to prison

Season 3, Episode 15: Bamako on the brink

This is one country you don't want to visit right now

This is a country you don't want to visit now

Season 3, Episode 14: A Christian missionary was kidnapped in the heart of Niger's capital

Season 3, Episode 14: A Christian missionary was kidnapped in the heart of Niger's capital

Season 3, Episode 13: Why is Gen Z rising up worldwide? No, really.

Season 3, Episode 13: Why is Gen Z revolting worldwide? No, really.

Season 3, Episode 12: The Front Lines of the AI Future (featuring Sherman Tylawsky)

Season 3, Episode 11: How The CCP (Communist Part of China) 'fights crime' in the Golden Triangle

Season 3, Episode 10: How scam farms in Southeast Asia are crippling Thailand's tourism industry

Season 3, Episode 10: A deep dive on the numbers. How scam farms in Southeast Asia are crippling Thailand's tourism industry

Living Abroad, Episode 8: How to NOT have a bad hair day in a foreign country

Season 3, Episode 9: What you need to know about Nepal's youth movement

Season 3, Episode 8: We don't need no education. We don't need impulse control

Season 3, Episode 7: Questions that anyone using AI needs to ask themselves (featuring John Otwell and Kevin Wong)

Season 3, Episode 6, Part 2: A disaster in Afghanistan

Season 3, Episode 6, Part 1: A disaster in Afghanistan