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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

A 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

Trump 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

One 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

10-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

Three 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

Missouri's "no income tax" plan sounds like a win. It isn't.The top 1% saves $40,000 a year. You save $231 then lose $500 when sales taxes go up to cover the gap. 60% of Missourians end up paying more. And once you vote yes, lawmakers never have to ask permission to raise the sales tax again. On groceries. Rent. Car repairs. Prescriptions. No voter approval required.One St. Louis billionaire has spent $45 million pushing this. Missouri voters already rejected it in 2016. Now it's back.New episodes every week. Like, subscribe, and drop your thoughts 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

In less than 50 days, the US started the worst energy crisis in the history of the global oil market. Then blockaded the same waterway we were screaming at Iran to reopen.Japan is burning coal it promised to stop burning. South Korea's stock market crashed 12% in a single day because Samsung's semiconductor fabs run on energy that flows through the Strait of Hormuz. Germany says it's not their war. France is blocking Israeli military planes from its airspace. The UK prime minister is publicly fed up. And Trump is threatening to pull out of NATO entirely.Oh and Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Megan Kelly, and Alex Jones are all calling this a disaster. Trump's response was a 482-word True Social rant calling them low IQ, ugly, and irrelevant. While there's an active naval blockade on 20% of the world's oil supply.Eric breaks down every angle this week. No filter.🎧 Listen now. Share it. Start a conversation.👉 Connect with us!Website: https://stlouispodcast.com/Facebook: The St. Louis PodcastInstagram: @stlouispodcast Twitter: @stlouispodcastsTik Tok: @stlouispodcast

A self-taught independent analyst named Nick Nemo is making a case that 29 of the top 30 U.S. life insurers are technically insolvent without reinsurance credit that may not actually exist. The man who bet against subprime mortgages in 2008 is calling it a potential great financial crisis. The forensic accountant who spent 41 years inside the industry agrees. And Vermont passed a law making the books confidential — even under subpoena.Meanwhile the Iran ceasefire everyone celebrated lasted about 10 minutes before Israel launched 100 strikes in Lebanon. The Strait of Hormuz still isn't open. Iran is charging a million dollars a ship to pass through what used to be a free international waterway. Both sides are claiming victory. Someone is lying.Eric breaks down both stories this week: raw, unfiltered, and straight from the data.🎧 Listen now. Share it. Start a conversation.👉 Connect with us!Website: https://stlouispodcast.com/Facebook: The St. Louis PodcastInstagram: @stlouispodcast Twitter: @stlouispodcastsTik Tok: @stlouispodcast

Boomers paid $738 a year for college. Millennials are starting life $40,000 in debt. Boomers bought homes at 3x their annual income. Millennials are looking at 7-8x. And boomers now own 51% of all U.S. wealth while millennials hold just 10%.In this episode, Eric breaks down the real generational wealth gap with hard data: housing, wages, student debt, retirement savings, healthcare costs, and a Social Security system that may run dry before millennials ever collect. This isn't about blaming individuals. It's about understanding why things are so different for younger generations and what we can actually do about it.🎧 Listen now. Share it. Start a conversation.👉 Connect with us!Website: https://stlouispodcast.com/Facebook: The St. Louis PodcastInstagram: @stlouispodcast Twitter: @stlouispodcastsTik Tok: @stlouispodcast

Eric breaks down 314 Day in St. Louis, the growing fallout from the Iran war, the LaGuardia crash, and the massive jury verdict against Meta and YouTube that could become a turning point for Big Tech.Because once a jury says these platforms knowingly addicted kids, this stops feeling like a debate and starts feeling a lot bigger.🎧 Listen now. Share it. Start a conversation.👉 Connect with us!Website: https://stlouispodcast.com/Facebook: The St. Louis PodcastInstagram: @stlouispodcast Twitter: @stlouispodcastsTik Tok: @stlouispodcast