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April 15, 2025Podcast

S04E16 – Trump’s Tariffs and Stock Market Volatility

In this episode of Finding Common Battle Grounds, Ryan and Tom talk about how Trump’s tariff chaos tanked the stock market. Josh was supposed to join us, but he ended […]
March 29, 2025Podcast

S04E15 – Tesla Terrorists and Signal Stupidity

In this episode of Finding Common Battlegrounds, Ryan and Josh hold down the fort without Tom, who’s mysteriously absent—prompting wild speculation about his whereabouts, from fighting in Ukraine to joining […]
February 23, 2025Podcast

S04E14 – Immigrants and Culture

In this episode of Finding Common Battle Grounds, we discuss immigration. The launching point for our discussion is a recent increase in murders and shootings in Sweden that are mostly […]
February 9, 2025Podcast

S04E13 – Musk Destroys USAID

In this episode of Finding Common Battle Grounds, Josh, Ryan, and Tom explore one of the initiatives of the Trump administration and DOGE – Elon Musks destruction of USAID. We […]
January 25, 2025Podcast

S04E12 – Are presidential pardons out of control?

In this episode of Finding Common Battle Grounds, Josh, Ryan, and Tom discuss the recent spate of Presidential pardons – Biden’s pardon of family, friends, and people in his administration […]
January 5, 2025Podcast

S04E11 – Was the Killing of United Healthcare’s CEO the Government’s Fault?

In this episode of Finding Common Battle Grounds, Tom, Josh, and Ryan discuss the killing of United Healthcare’s CEO, Brian Thompson, by Luigi Mangione. Josh starts out by saying that […]
December 12, 2024Podcast

S04E10 – Did Dating Norms Swing the 2024 Presidential Election

In this episode of Finding Common Battle Grounds, Josh, Tom, and Ryan explore new gender/dating norms. We focus on a recently published editorial in the New York Times that argues […]
November 13, 2024Podcast

S04E09 – Dissection of Trump’s Victory and Identity Politics

The 2024 Presidential election just occurred and Donald Trump won convincingly against Kamala Harris. In this episode, we examine reasons people gave for voting for Donald Trump, including: immigration, wages, […]
October 26, 2024Podcast

S04E08 – Government and Disasters and Is Trump a Fascist?

In this episode of Finding Common Battle Grounds, we tackle two topics. First, we discuss whether the government should help people rebuild if their homes are in zones that will […]
October 3, 2024Podcast

S04E07 – Independent Voters in the Presidential Election and a Crisis in Science

In this episode of Finding Common Battle Grounds, we are joined by Vance Reavie from the Independent Center. We start with a lengthy discussion about independent voters – how many […]