All Episodes

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

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

What Gavin and Spongebob have in common

Congress has a solution to protect American kids from AI Slop. Will it work?

We Came, We Saw, We Got The Hell Out.

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

Thank you, again, On the Fringe Community

Bears gone wild 2!

The Bishnoi Gang is quietly squeezing Canada

Why you should be paying attention to the Sudanese Civil War

We're living in the age of the Terminator

The Counterfeit by Dr. Ralph DeFalco

He said blockchain would revolutionize the world..and it revolutionized his

The rich tale of 'Gold Bar Dave,' a CIA Officer who took millions in gold bars home

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?!

Double or nothing: The UAE is waking up to a new world order

Mali on the Edge. The Sahel in the Balance. (Feat. Stuart)

The Dark Side of Prediction Markets

Is college worth it today? Dave and Gav'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 authentic relationships and trust in a world doused in AI slop--with Braden Frame, COO of Modern Cartographers

A war that is going on, yet gets almost no coverage

Keep the faith in these trying times

Bonus Episode: The Fog of War...Markets

Season 4, Episode 9: The Balkans from 30,000 feet (Feat. Leo Andolsek)

Season 4, Episode 8: Our apologies to the yam farmers

Season 4, Episode 7: The Gulf States just got pushed off the fence

Season 4, Episode 6: Rules of Engagement in Gaza

Bonus Episode: From the Blue House to the Big House

Season 4 Bonus: 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 $13 million golden opportunity in Macau

Season 4 Bonus: 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

Season 3 Bonus: A Chat GPT Christmas Miracle?

Season 3, Episode 24: Reno PD Needs Lt. Dangle

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

Bonus Episode: A Tale of Two Airstrikes

Season 3, Episode 22: IndiGone. IndiGo's epic meltdown and India's Commercial Aviation Sector

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 18: The Twisting and Turning Tales of Alice...Guo

Bonus Episode: One Bear of a Problem in Japan

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

Season 3, Episode 12: The front lines of the AI future (feat. Sherman Tylawsky)

Season 3, Episode 11: How the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) 'fights crime' in the Golden Triangle

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 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

How the Taliban does business

A Short Message about Indonesia

Season 3, Episode 5: A Crash Course on GPTs and AI (featuring John Otwell)

Season 3, Episode 4: The Center of Asia's Maritime Universe

Season 3, Episode 3: A Bird's eye view of Bolivia (Featuring Joseph Bouchard)

Season 3, Episode 2: Kazakhstan and Central Asia from 30,000 Feet (Featuring Joe Barnes)

Season 3, Episode 1: The Bungle in the Jungle

Season 3 Starts Soon. Here's a teaser

Season 2, Episode 42: The Man of the Hour in West Africa

Season 2, Episode #41: Operation Spider's Web—Zelenskyy's Ace, or, his Jack?

Living Abroad, Episode 5: Going in Reverse

Living Abroad: Don't do this at the airport

Season 2, Episode 40: Will an American education be worth it?

Season 2, Episode 39: As Harvard goes, So goes US

Season 2, Episode 38: We're tearing through the declaration

Season 2, Episode 37: Trump did what?!?

Living Abroad Episode 5: A Cautionary Tale

Season 2, Episode 36: Deepfakes are throwing deep!

Season 2, Episode 35: Bamboozled by bots

How to Meet People in a Foreign Country

Season 2, Episode 34: How I learned to stop worrying and love our new AI overlords

Season 2, Episode 33: Tears and Bullets

Season 2, Episode 32: Canada chooses Carney!

How to Travel Abroad, Episode 3

Season 2, Episode 30: One spark in Kashmir

Season 2, Episode 29: Thai'd up in Bangkok

Living Abroad Episode 2: The Admin Episode

Living Abroad Episode 1: Why'd you buy the ticket?

Season 2, Episode 28: Money talks

Season 2, Episode 27: What the hell is DSCA?

Season 2, Episode 26: Go directly to Jail. Don't collect 1 million followers.

Season 2, Episode 25: It's all coming down

Season 2, Episode 24: Something's Brewing in Ethiopia

Season 2, Episode 23: The Big Punching Bag

Season 2, Episode 22: I sense a pattern here...

Season 2, Episode 21: Off to the glue factory

Season 2, Episode 20: Poland's big announcements

Season 2, Episode 19: Things are falling in Korea

Season 2, Episode 18: Xi's got eyes on you!

Season 2, Episode 17: Unintended Consequences of Peace in Ukraine

Season 2, Episode 16: Great Game, Great Lakes

Season 2, Episode 15: Congo the Third

Season 2, Episode 14: Paul Kagame

Season 2, Episode 12b: The Future of Education

Season 2, Episode 12a: The Future of Education

Season 2, Episode 13: Congo Revisited

Season 2, Episode 11: Russian desert adventures

Special Episode 1: New Album Cover

Season 2, Episode 10: The Future, AI, and Small Modular Reactors

S2, Episode 9: Rebels WITH a cause

Season 2, Episode 8: The things cocaine kingpins do for love <3

Season 2, Episode 7: Sit in the Corner and Shut Up

Season 2, Episode 6: Fighters in far-off dark corners

Season 2, Episode 5: Chat GPT Plans a Vacation

Season 2, Episode 4: Operation Jetway

Season 2, Episode 3: Pig Farming in the Golden Triangle

Season 2, Episode 2: Korea's Festering Crisis

Season 2, Episode 1: The Turkestan Islamic Party in Syria

Sliced n Diced #15 Vietnam's Anti-Corruption Push

On the Fringe #11 Syria Part 2

Sliced n Diced #17 From Florida with Love

Sliced N' Diced #16, Korea Part 2

Sliced n Diced #14: Yoon Declares Martial Law, Part 1

Sliced n Diced #13 Greenland

On The Fringe #10 Syria

Sliced n' Diced #12 Cairo Airport Woes

On the Fringe #11 Methanol Poisoning and Travel Safety

On the Fringe #10 Shakespearean Filipino Politics

On the Fringe Episode 9: In with the Nu(santara)

Sliced n Diced #6: Eric Adams

Sliced n Diced! #5: Going Down Under

On the Fringe Episode 8: A Day in the Life of a Peace Corps Volunteer in Indonesia

On the Fringe Episode 7: Peace Corps Indonesia

Sliced and Diced! Episode #4 Nigeria Floods

Sliced and Diced! Episode #3: Alice Guo, Part 2:

Episode 6: Ethiopia, Egypt, Somalia, and the Horn of Africa, Part Two

On the Fringe Episode 5: Ethiopia

On the Fringe -- Sliced n' Diced #2 Mongolian adventures with no recourse!

On The Fringe--Sliced n' Diced! #1 Alice Guo

Episode 4: Transnational Crime in Asia, Part 2

On The Fringe #3: Transnational Crime in Asia