Comey, Tylenol, the United Nations

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

Politics, News

4.4 • 783 Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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In this episode of The Politics Guys, Trey and Justin discuss the recent indictment of James Comey by the DOJ, analyzing its unusual nature and the implications of President Trump's public statements regarding the legal proceedings. This includes questions about the motivations of the DOJ’s motives and the highly unusual nature of the indictment itself. Next is a discussion of President Trump and RFK Jr’s press conference on Tylenol and autism. Trey outlines the most recent research on the potential connections between the two, with a focus on the nature of correlation studies, and refutes claims that Amish people do not have any rates of autism. Justin brings even more detail into the nature of double-blind studies. Then the pair turn to Trump's UN speech. Here, Trey outlines President Trump’s bold claims about international relations, immigration, and his role as a peacemaker. The pair also discuss their agreement with Trump on the flaws of the UN and, notably, deep agreement that India and the EU supplying Russia with money via oil allows Russia to pursue its military goals. The Politics Guys on Facebook | X Check out the excellent Sustainable Planet podcast. Listener support helps make The Politics Guys possible. You can support us or change your level of support atpatreon.com/politicsguys or politicsguys.com/support. On Venmo, we’re @PoliticsGuys. The Politics Guys is part of The Democracy Group, a network of podcasts that examines what's broken in our democracy and how we can work together to fix it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:16.8	I'm Trey Orndorf, a political scientist at Oklahoma Christian University, and I am joined by Justin Holmes, a professor of political science at the University of Northern Iowa.
1:27.1	Justin, welcome to the politics guys. Hey, Trey, it's great to be here with you. It is. So you get to take over for Ken today. I'm deeply appreciative of that. I'm the Ken Pro Tem, if you are. You know, that needs to be our new saying for that. I love that. It's a political, it's a political science dad joke.
1:44.9	It's at the confluence of like all of my interests.
1:47.4	Yeah.
1:48.2	Well, it's,
1:48.7	it's for good reasons, though,
1:50.0	that we're here.
1:50.4	Ken actually is having some good things going on right now.
1:53.0	I like good things.
1:53.9	He's at a wedding.
1:54.9	So you can't,
1:55.4	you can't beat that.
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