Make It Make Sense with Grant Hermes
Politics has never been more chaotic, and most podcasts just add to the noise. Make It Make Sense with Grant Hermes cuts through it.
Grant is an AP Award-winning journalist with over a decade of on-the-ground reporting on the biggest political stories, scandals, and elections in America. Twice a week, he takes the stories dominating the headlines and breaks them down in plain English — no jargon, no spin, no shouting.
If you care about what’s happening in this country but you’re exhausted by how it’s being covered, this is the show for you. Real reporting. Clear explanations. Actual context.
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Make It Make Sense with Grant Hermes
We Made It Worse: How the US Handed Iran a Nuclear Argument w/ Eric Czuleger
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How Close Did We Actually Come? — Iran, The Peace Talks, and What Happens Next
The VP is on a plane to Pakistan. Peace talks are scheduled for Saturday in Islamabad as Iran comes in with better cards than it had before the war.
Grant talks to Eric Czuleger from The Under Report back on the show to break down the most overwhelming week in recent memory; what actually happened, how close Tuesday really was to a nuclear war, and why the way this has played out may have made a nuclear Iran more likely, not less.
They get into:
- Why the US position going into Saturday's talks is so difficult
- What "writing your opponent's victory speech" means for these negotiations
- Why are nuclear weapons everywhere more likely now than any time since the 1970s
- Why the IRGC hardliners are now more in control than Iran's elected government.
This is a freewheeling conversation, and they cover a lot of ground; it's worth it.
LINKS:
THE UNDER REPORT BY ERIC CZULEGER
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