The St. Louis Podcast

France is on fire. It started with teachers and students protesting packed classrooms, unfilled teaching jobs and crumbling schools, and it turned into more than 2,300 arrests and about a thousand police injured in a single day. Energy prices there are up 21% in a year. Sound familiar? Here at home, the national debt just passed $40 trillion, and the dollar has lost 23% of its value since 2020. Trump struck a deal with Putin for Russian diesel, Ukraine reportedly ran out of Patriot intercept...

One man has put more than a quarter of a billion dollars into this election since July. Crypto and AI super PACs are sitting on nine-figure war chests aimed at Congress and state houses. And in Festus, Missouri, a town of about 12,000, the city council approved a $6 billion data center without telling the public who would run it. Voters fired every incumbent on the ballot. Gas went from $2.81 in January to over $4.30. AAA says this is the first October on record with the national average abo...

Trump told a rally crowd "let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego." California leaders lost it, and the White House says he was misunderstood. Meanwhile, Sam Altman says the good of AI will outweigh the bad, while businesses keep paying more for AI tools and seeing less in return. Paramount officially closed its takeover of Warner Bros. HBO, CNN, DC, Harry Potter and around 15,000 films now live under one roof. And Reddit is convinced the new season of American Horror Stor...

Welcome back to the show! In today's episode, we cover a dramatic mid-air hijacking attempt, the real reasons behind skyrocketing grocery prices, and a Missouri redistricting fight that just won't end. In this episode, we discuss: The FlyDubai Hijacking: A co-pilot allegedly stabbed the captain and tried to crash a flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv, sending the plane into a 14,000-foot dive before passengers and off-duty crew regained control. We break down the timeline, the unanswered question...

Welcome back to the show! In today's jam-packed episode, we dig into underreported military casualties, a White House press ban that even Fox News refused to go along with, and the growing chorus of AI insiders warning that superintelligence could be an existential risk. In this episode, we discuss: The Pentagon's Missing Numbers: A Washington Post investigation reveals the real death toll from the Iran conflict may be significantly higher than what's been publicly disclosed, and the Pentag...