Summer Vacation
The Politics Guys are on summer vacation. Mike and Jay will be back with new shows starting on July 17 – the day before the Republican National Convention.
The Politics Guys are on summer vacation. Mike and Jay will be back with new shows starting on July 17 – the day before the Republican National Convention.
Subscribe: iTunes | PocketCasts | Overcast | Stitcher | RSS On this week’s show, Will and Mike begin by discussing the mail bombs sent by Cesar Sayoc to Trump political enemies. Mike points out that these events are symptomatic of the current political environment in which politics is a blood sport. Will agrees with concerns…
Subscribe: iTunes | PocketCasts | Overcast | Stitcher | RSS This week Trey and Mike host together for the first time in a number of episodes. Picking up with one of last week’s topics the hosts discuss the meeting between the leaders of North and South Korea. Trey and Mike both agree the meeting was important, but it was a show over a…

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Castbox | PocketCasts | Overcast Mike joins Trey to open the show with a deep dive into the ICE killing of Renee Good. Mike focuses on the language used by administrative officials and its militant attack on Good. Trey highlights that, even if Good was engaged in illegal activity,…

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | PocketCasts | Overcast | Stitcher | RSS After some suggestions about how to deal with a tough election loss – something nearly half of all voters will experience in the near future – Mike and Jay open the show by discussing the Supreme Court confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett, followed by…

Mike talks to University of Maryland cultural psychologist Michele Gelfand about her new book, . Topics Mike and Michele discuss include: the importance of culture in understanding politics why some cultures are ‘tight’ and others are ‘loose’ the…

Mike and Jay discuss the state of the Democratic primary in the aftermath of a Biden resurgence. Mike Bloomberg makes us wonder whether anyone can,in fact, buy an election and Mike and Jay give their takes on Elizabeth Warren’s “sexism”…