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TikTok Dictators and the End of Hegemony
Season 1 Episode 8
This week, the cousins speed-run chaos: Houthis hitting Israel, Trump cutting side deals, and Jordan taking heat for not hosting enough sick kids fro…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
A Jew and a Nihilist Talk About The Pope
Season 1 Episode 7
After a whirlwind of parenting, flights, and failed schedules, the cousins are back with overreactions and the U.S. dollar’s free fall. They riff on …
10 months ago
The Tip of a Peninsula with a Bunch of Crazy People
Season 1 Episode 6
Marko unloads on the myth that austerity worked in Greece, calling out lazy linear thinking, Eurozone nerds with Excel models, and Paul Krugman’s fan…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Let Them Drink Bleach
Season 1 Episode 5
Trump's tariff chaos isn’t strategy - it’s a policy car crash in slow motion. Jacob Shapiro and Marko Papic walk listeners through how we got here: t…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Riding on the Hog of a Fiscal Orgy
Season 1 Episode 4
Jacob and Marko convene an emergency episode to discuss Liberation Day. Afterwards, they speak to fellow cousin Matt Gertken about President Trump’s …
11 months ago
Get Off Our Lawn!
Season 1 Episode 3
Jacob and Marko make a cousins episode happen even as Jacob is moving into a new office and Marko is on the road – at one point he was literally reco…
11 months ago
Will the U.S. go to War with Iran?
Season 1 Episode 2
Jacob and Marko run down the most important issues of the week: Will the U.S. go to war with Iran? Why did President Erdogan arrest his top rival? Is…
11 months, 1 week ago
F*cking Around and Finding Out
Season 1 Episode 1
The inaugural episode of the Geopolitical Cousins podcast sees Marko and Jacob wax philosophical about net assessments, debate where the Trump admini…
11 months, 2 weeks ago