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The St. Louis Podcast
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St. Louis' most popular business and satire news podcast. Hosted by Eric Brown, alongside the most badass guests in and outside of St. Louis. The show covers the latest in business and current events. Watch the free version of the video at youtube.com/@thestlouispodcast
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Shooting $2M Missiles at $5,000 Drones. Do the Math - The St. Louis Podcast: Episode #157
1w ago00:46:19Tap to summarizeThe US is shooting $2 million Tomahawk missiles at $5,000 Iranian drones. We've fired more Tomahawks in this war than any military campaign in history. Northrop Grumman is up 6%. Lockheed is up 40% since January. The S&P fell that day. Defense was the only sector that went up.Meanwhile Pete Hegseth just asked Congress for $1.5 trillion for the Pentagon — up from the $200 billion he floated in March.Oh, and five of the biggest tech companies are hiding $1.65 trillion in off-balance-sheet debt through special purpose vehicles. More hidden debt than they officially report. Oracle just got downgraded to one notch above junk bond status. Nobody's covering it.Also the Houthis are back, now targeting the Saudi pipeline — the only relief valve left for global oil markets.🎧 Listen now. Share it. Start a conversation.👉 Connect with us!Website: https://stlouispodcast.com/Facebook: The St. Louis PodcastInstagram: @stlouispodcast Twitter: @stlouispodcastsTik Tok: @stlouispodcast
Transcribe →Your Kid Has a Screen, The Guy Who Built It Sends His Outside - The St. Louis Podcast: Episode #156
2w ago00:51:57Tap to summarizePeter Thiel gives his kids 90 minutes of screens per week. Steve Jobs told a reporter his kids had never used an iPad. Bill Gates banned phones at the dinner table. These are the people who built the apps your kids can't put down.The US spent $30 billion putting laptops in schools. Gen Z is now the first generation in modern history to score lower on standardized tests than the one before them. Test scores are dropping globally. And the Newport Beach riots? Researchers say it's a loneliness epidemic — kids so starved for human connection they'll fly across the country to loot a grocery store together.Also: Meta's data center allegedly poisoned a Wyoming town's water supply. Entry-level hiring fell 50% since 2019. And prediction markets are running on insider trading while calling it democratized finance.🎧 Listen now. Share it. Start a conversation.👉 Connect with us!Website: https://stlouispodcast.com/Facebook: The St. Louis PodcastInstagram: @stlouispodcast Twitter: @stlouispodcastsTik Tok: @stlouispodcast
Transcribe →The War Is Back On. Nobody Voted for It. Again. - The St. Louis Podcast: Episode #155
3w ago00:39:08Tap to summarizeThree weeks ago Trump signed a peace deal. This week the US bombed 80 targets in Iran, Iran fired missiles at a US base in Jordan, and the Strait of Hormuz slammed shut again.No vote. No declaration. No debate. The war just restarted over the July 4th weekend while everyone was grilling.Also this week — 57,000 jobs added against an expectation of 110,000. Real wages fell for the third straight month. The average household has spent $3,100 extra on essentials since January. And beef prices hit their highest in memory over the cookout holiday.Oh, and St. Louis only has 12 ambulances. Half the federal guideline for a city this size. And they just pulled $500K from EMS to fund a police board nobody voted for.Eric's not holding back.
Transcribe →Nobody Believes the Iran Deal Anymore. Not Even MAGA. - The St. Louis Podcast: Episode #154
Jun 2600:38:11Tap to summarizeTrump signed the peace deal less than a week ago. Iran's military says the strait is closed. Iran's own foreign ministry says it's open. The US says it never closed. Nobody agrees, and ships still aren't moving normally.Tucker says it's a retreat. Schumer says Iran won. Ted Cruz says Trump got bad advice. The left and the right are united against this deal for the first time in years.Meanwhile Trump's economic approval just hit the lowest of his presidency. The stock market hit an all-time high the same week. A self-identified Trump voter in Georgia called it a slap in the face.And politicians are legally insider trading on prediction markets while your power bill subsidizes AI data centers.🎧 Listen now. Share it. Start a conversation.👉 Connect with us!Website: https://stlouispodcast.com/Facebook: The St. Louis PodcastInstagram: @stlouispodcast Twitter: @stlouispodcastsTik Tok: @stlouispodcast
Transcribe →The War "Ended." Iran Got Everything It Wanted - The St. Louis Podcast: Episode #153
Jun 1900:45:50Tap to summarizeTrump demanded unconditional surrender in March. Iran just got its oil revenue back, a path to lifting every sanction, and a $300 billion reconstruction fund. Even Lindsey Graham says the deal sounds awful.Why end it now? Trump said it himself at the G7: "Every time we talked about the possibility of peace, the stock market shot up like a rocket ship."Same week, Elon Musk became the world's first trillionaire off SpaceX's IPO. And the FBI arrested five people, one from Missouri, allegedly plotting to attack billionaires and politicians on the White House lawn.Eric breaks down who actually won this war, and it's not who you think.🎧 Listen now. Share it. Start a conversation.👉 Connect with us!Website: https://stlouispodcast.com/Facebook: The St. Louis PodcastInstagram: @stlouispodcast Twitter: @stlouispodcastsTik Tok: @stlouispodcast
Transcribe →Trump Got $16M. CBS Got a New Pro-Israel Boss. Coincidence? - The St. Louis Podcast: Episode #152
Jun 1200:46:19Tap to summarizeA 36-year CBS veteran was fired the day after he asked why management was ordering him to put falsehoods on air. The new executive producer has zero broadcast experience. The new editor-in-chief was hired partly for her pro-Israel stance. And the owner's family just happens to be the largest private donor to the IDF.Trump sued CBS, got a $16 million settlement, and the FCC approved the merger weeks later. Paramount is now seeking approval to buy CNN too.Meanwhile the war hits 100 days. Iran still controls the strait. Airlines are cutting routes. Gas futures show we may not see $3 a gallon until 2032. And SpaceX just did the most retail-exposed IPO in history at a $1.77 trillion valuation while losing $4 billion a year.🎧 Listen now. Share it. Start a conversation.👉 Connect with us!Website: https://stlouispodcast.com/Facebook: The St. Louis PodcastInstagram: @stlouispodcast Twitter: @stlouispodcastsTik Tok: @stlouispodcast
Transcribe →Trump Just Made Himself Untouchable by the IRS. Forever - The St. Louis Podcast: Episode #151
May 3000:42:56Tap to summarizeTrump sued the IRS (an agency he controls!!!) over a leak that exposed he paid $750 in federal income taxes. The lawsuit was almost certainly dead on arrival. So why file it?To manufacture a settlement. His own DOJ, run by his personal former defense lawyer who was told to recuse himself, quietly posted a one-page document to a government website. The IRS is now forever barred from auditing Trump, his sons, and over 400 business entities. The word "forever" is in the actual document.Also this week, a CIA officer with fake degrees, a fake pilot's license, and a fake resume stole $40 million in gold bars. For 17 years. Nobody checked.And Google is getting $2 billion in tax breaks in Missouri, funded in part by COVID relief money meant for small businesses.🎧 Listen now. Share it. Start a conversation.👉 Connect with us!Website: https://stlouispodcast.com/Facebook: The St. Louis PodcastInstagram: @stlouispodcast Twitter: @stlouispodcastsTik Tok: @stlouispodcast
Transcribe →St. Louis Has $255 Million and Nobody's Been Helped? - The St. Louis Podcast: Episode #150
May 1800:51:46Tap to summarizeOne year after the tornado. 5,000 damaged homes. 69 demolitions completed. And the city just quietly signed a $26 million contract with an out-of-state company, no press release, no announcement, that's been audited for price gouging in three other states.Oh, and AutoZone just quietly warned its managers about the largest motor oil shortage in American history. Because the Strait is still closed and nobody wants to say it out loud.Plus RFK wants your kids eating grass-fed protein bowls at school while giving districts $4.60 to make it happen. And cutting the one program that made affordable local food possible.Eric is fired up on this 150th episode. And he's not holding back.🎧 Listen now. Share it. Start a conversation.👉 Connect with us!Website: https://stlouispodcast.com/Facebook: The St. Louis PodcastInstagram: @stlouispodcast Twitter: @stlouispodcastsTik Tok: @stlouispodcast
Transcribe →The World Doesn't Want to Come to America Anymore - The St. Louis Podcast: Episode #149
May 800:50:56Tap to summarize10-year-old boys are searching bone smashing on TikTok. Teenagers are injecting steroids to fix their jawlines. A meth-addicted 20-year-old with millions of followers was calling it "empowering young men" until YouTube finally banned him.Meanwhile America is hosting the biggest sporting event in human history and the hotels are empty. 85% of Kansas City bookings are below projections. The world just doesn't want to come here anymore.Eric is fired up this week and doesn't hold back on any of it: looks maxing, absent dads, the World Cup disaster, gerrymandering, and why $100k doesn't mean what it used to.New episode every week. Like, subscribe, and drop a comment.🎧 Listen now. Share it. Start a conversation.👉 Connect with us!Website: https://stlouispodcast.com/Facebook: The St. Louis PodcastInstagram: @stlouispodcast Twitter: @stlouispodcastsTik Tok: @stlouispodcast
Transcribe →War Profits, Car Surveillance, and Nobody's Going to Jail - The St. Louis Podcast: Episode #148
May 400:39:21Tap to summarizeThree massive oil trades placed 15 to 20 minutes before each one. $2.3 billion total. The negotiations were classified. There was no public news.Someone knew.And the DOJ unit built to investigate exactly this? Gutted from 36 lawyers to two.Then there's your new car. By 2027, a federal mandate requires infrared cameras watching your eyes and a kill switch that decides if you're allowed to drive. Meanwhile, 80,000 cameras across 49 states are already scanning your license plate 20 billion times a month — and ICE is accessing that data without a warrant.This isn't coming. It's already here.New episodes every week. Like, subscribe, and tell us what you think in the comments.🎧 Listen now. Share it. Start a conversation.👉 Connect with us!Website: https://stlouispodcast.com/Facebook: The St. Louis PodcastInstagram: @stlouispodcast Twitter: @stlouispodcastsTik Tok: @stlouispodcast
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