Josh and Joe are joined by Joel Christensen, classics professor at CUNY Graduate School to discuss The Odyssey, both the Homerian epic and Christopher Nolan’s recent adaptation. The three talk through the differences between the movie and the original, what modern actor could fit the bill for Odysseus, and what Gods we should all be worshipping and sacrificing to.
Kate and Josh talk Ken Martin’s woes, a new Democratic primary calendar and Trump’s self-defeating obsession with the SAVE Act.
Josh and Joe are joined by Devin Kennedy, history professor and author of the new book “Coding Capitalism: Computers and the Remaking of The Postwar US Economy”.
Kate and Josh talk Senate primaries and new innovations in the Trump corruption space.
TPM’s Kate Riga joins Josh and Joe to talk about sports and the right, specifically the tendency of the current administration to make itself the main character. We talk Kash Patel and the Olympics, Trump and FIFA, and everything Caitlin Clark/WNBA.
Kate and Josh talk the McConnell/Graham conspiracy theories, recent ICE killings and SCOTUS’ foray to the Hill.
Josh and Joe are joined by TPM congressional reporter and aspiring Olympic fencer, Emine Yücel about working on Capital hill, training to be an olympian, and how growing up in Turkey helps her as a journalist in the United States.
Kate and Josh monitor the Maine and Michigan Senate campaigns, as well as the mysterious hospitalization of Mitch McConnell.
Kate and Josh convene for an emergency pod following the publishing of a rape allegation against Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner.
The TPM Show and TPM Social Club collide in their first ever crossover episode to chat about the end of the Supreme Court term, the pathetic state fair and how it feels to be American under the Trump regime.