This episode was recorded before Russian-Bated Ukraine. The interview with Bronco provides a lot of useful context on how we got here.

Hello and welcome to Useful Idiots. I'm Katie Halper. I'm Aaron Madtek. How are you doing Aaron? I'm well. Now Katie, I have a content question about useful idiots.

As you know in the first episode of my run here, useful idiots, I disclose that I'm not just now a new temporary co-host, but I'm also a paying subscriber at Useful Idiots. That's substack.com.

Which makes me a huge fan of the original useful idiots team, Katie Halper and Matt Taivi. And I'm wondering, taking off my co-host hat here, just as a consumer, as a content consumer, I am pining for some Katie Halper and Matt Taivi content.

I'd love to see a reunion. Is there anything I can do to to fill that need?

You could go to thank you for bringing this up. You could go to youtube.com slash the Katie Halper show and check out a very good episode that we did with none other than wait for it. Matt Taivi.

Wow.

So Aaron, I can't believe you asked what for two it is timing with this question. Yeah. I just saying right now, just as I am pining for some Katie Halper Matt Taivi content there is there.

It's there. It's amazing with not only Matt Taiyibi, but why I have Matt Taiyibi on and I have him talking with Katrina Van Inhooval. So I got two guests. First is just me and Matt Taiyibi.

Great chat. Then it's me, Taiyibi and Katrina. And it's great because you get to watch Katrina and Taiyibi who spent time in the former Soviet Union when it was the Soviet Union, but also afterwards in Russia.

Talk about Russia and Ukraine. And then if you're a patron on subscriber, you get to hear an extended interview I did with Katrina Van Inhooval. And that's at patreon.com slash the Katie Halper show.

And we have a great show for you today. We're so excited to be talking to Branko Marciottic, a Jack Winrider who's written some amazing pieces about not only the conflict and Russia Ukraine, but also the media's coverage of it and politicians kind of gining off of the of tensions.

So very excited about that.

It goes down a lot of work on this topic, wrote a great book all about Joe Biden. Oh, yeah, yesterday's man has a lot of insight into it has a lot of insight into how Ukraine factors into Joe Biden's political career.

And there's a lot to talk about there. So I'm looking forward to hearing what Branko has to say.

Yeah, very excited. If you want to hear an interesting discussion about we're not going to get into it quite yet, but we will. And maybe a sub-stack only one Vouch Aaron gone to a little thing with Vouch.

So just a little teaser you can access that at sub-stack useful idea sub-stack.com.

And if you have no idea who Vouch is, you're lucky. But if you want to learn who Vouch is, you can tune in it.

Sub-stack at our sub-stack.

And should we just get to the four basic food groups?

That's why we're here. Let's do it.

All right. So I have Democrats suck and we have to do like a lightning round because there's so much democratic suckiness.

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