Checks and
Balance

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John provides context about the history of the State of the Union, mentioning that Washington and Adams delivered it as a speech, Jefferson changed it to a written statement, and it remained so for ov

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Peter Granitz, the producer, sets up the question by discussing Dan Rostenkowski's political career and his indictment.

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Earlier this week, President Trump said he would not allow the opening of the Gordie Howe International Bridge to punish Canada.

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The sporting event that begins this weekend, my personal favorite, is not the Super Bowl, but the Winter Olympics.

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This quiz is about the Maine Senate race.

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It should not come as a surprise that this week's quiz is all about Minnesota.

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Donald Trump is not the only president to have struggled with this question of affordability. Other presidents have as well.

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We've talked long enough about Venezuela on this podcast so for this week's quiz we're going to talk about Greenland. The sources for this quiz come from the CIA's World Factbook.

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It is a Christmas-themed quiz, Christmas but make it politics.

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At the beginning of the episode, we heard about the Luddites. In some corners today, that's used as an insult or sometimes a more endearing term for those who are tech averse or want to slow down the deployment of technology.

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Operation Mongoose was a CIA plan to oust which Western Hemisphere leader?

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In 1920, Socialist Party candidate Eugene Debs won nearly a million votes for president, but he was in prison.

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In honor of Nancy Pelosi and her retirement, John asks about other speakers of the House.

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For this week's quiz, I'm going to ask you about some ballot measures and elections that didn't get quite as much attention.

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There are other cities in America that have mayoral races this year. It's not just NYC.

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This is about the White House itself, given that we're witness to a new construction project there.

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The president took to Truth Social this week to complain about an unflattering photo that Time magazine selected for its cover.

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This week's quiz is about Democrats in the Lone Star state.

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The theme is a topical one. It's about government shutdowns.

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Earlier, we heard about speeches at the United Nations General Assembly taking place this week in New York.

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Earlier, we heard about how socialism once thrived in Milwaukee. So, we have some questions about that great city on a great lake.

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Earlier this week, Jerry Nadler announced that he will not run for re-election. He is a longtime Democratic representative from Manhattan and former chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. We thoug

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At the beginning of this podcast we heard about coffee which is of course a major Brazilian export and a delicious one particularly when paired with a little pão de queijo. For this week's quiz we've

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The quiz is about the Kennedy Center. Donald Trump, of course, replaced the board of the Kennedy Center this year, and the new board named him as the chairman, which was a great surprise to everyone.

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Before I let you both go, it's quiz time, and this one is going to be all about the setting for this meeting, the state of Alaska. So, Charlotte, I'm expecting you to smash this. We've all three spent

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This was the year we talked about Tom DeLay, his activities in 2003. Now we're gonna talk about other things that were happening in 2003.

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Earlier this week, former North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper announced he's gonna run for the Senate seat there. This is something Democrats are really excited about because he was their best hope in

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Before I let you both go, I have a quiz for you. And appropriately, the theme for this one is books, films, and songs that have a question as a title.

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Santos was expelled from Congress after a House ethics report detailed how he used campaign funds for personal use, such as hotel stays, designer clothes, and Botox, of course, and filing false report

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President Trump's erstwhile partner, Elon Musk, says that he's going to create a new political party called, what else, the America Party. I don't know who'd want to sign up to run with Musk calling t

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Earlier this week, President Trump unveiled a new product he's selling, Trump fragrances. There's a male and a female one and they're called something like Success.

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Earlier this week, Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski entertained the idea of becoming an independent, leaving the Republican Party. On the GD Politics podcast, she said she's open to exploring something d

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This week's quiz is about the G7, which met in Alberta, Canada. So nothing to do with Iran or Israel or nuclear weapons. G7, of course, is a group of wealthy democracies. They meet once a year to do s

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Earlier this week, New Jersey voted in primaries to select the candidates for governor. Political nerds pay close attention to the governor's race in New Jersey because it follows the presidential ele

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Late last month, Charlie Rangel died. He was a longtime congressman from Harlem. Rangel was one of the founding members of the Congressional Black Caucus. And he was always impeccably dressed. He had

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The US Treasury announced last week that it will end production of the penny next year. It will remain legal tender for some time, though. I, for one, wholly support this. This week's quiz is all abou

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We have not talked about Qatar's $400 million gift to President Trump, offering him a new jet to use as Air Force One, a gift that he said he would be stupid not to take. Qatar says it's not trying to

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Pope Leo grew up in the Chicago area and seems to be a White Sox fan. He lived in Dalton, which is in Illinois' second congressional district. So first question, that district is now represented by Ro

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Earlier, we heard a little bit about the hostage crisis in Iran. Inevitably, a lot of people first learned of the ordeal from the 2012 movie Argo. Very enjoyable movie, in my view.

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We are a show about American politics. We're going to move our gaze northward and have a quiz this week about Canada, just to set you a bit off kilter.