meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
American Prestige

News - MBS White House Visit, US Pushes New Ukraine Deal, UN Votes on Gaza

American Prestige

Daniel Bessner & Derek Davison

History, Politics, News

4.8705 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Subscribe now to skip the ads and get all of our episodes. Danny and Derek are praying for Kim Kardashian to pass the bar. In this week’s news: Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia visits the White House (1:56); the U.S. pushes a new Ukraine peace deal (8:58); Israel continues killing people in Gaza (12:30), Palestinians’ shelters are failing in heavy rain (13:57), the UN votes on Trump’s Gaza plan (15:22), and Palestinians seeking relief are put on flights to South Africa, raising ethnic cleansing concerns (18:11); Israel continues to bomb and move borders in Lebanon and Syria (21:50); the U.S. and South Korea agree on a nuclear submarine deal (25:21); an attack on a church in Nigeria draws international attention (27:46); the DRC and M23 sign a new peace framework (29:53); an elections update for Chile (31:17) and Ecuador (33:03); Trump reopens a backchannel to Venezuela (34:47); and an update on Operation Southern Spear (38:14).

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

You're listening to American Prestige.

0:02.7

To listen ad-free, you can subscribe at Americanprostagepod.com.

0:08.3

Find the link in our show notes.

0:13.0

That's kind of conversation to your soul.

0:18.7

That's conversation.

0:22.6

To your soul. And to I'm Danny Bessner, here as always, my friend and comrade, Derek Davidson,

0:39.9

and we are excited to bring you the news.

0:41.5

But before we do, we've got an announcement.

0:44.1

We're going to be soon releasing a new series.

0:47.1

We're calling it Chinese prestige, and it's a history of modern China with the great Yidi Wu.

0:52.9

Similar to our of this World Series,

0:55.5

this History of China series will be available for free

0:59.0

to annual subscribers.

1:00.6

So if you are not an annual subscriber,

1:03.4

please consider signing up to that tier.

1:05.8

Everyone else, it's going to cost the usual five bucks.

1:08.9

We think you'll really like it.

1:10.0

We have gotten a lot of requests over the years to do something deep on China, a really deep dive into how it became the country, the nation state that it is today. And Derek, I don't know if what you think. I think this is really one of our best series. I think it's really fascinating. It gives an entire overview of China with a great scholar, again, that's Yidi Wu,

1:30.1

who's just excellent at what she does. And I don't know if you want to add anything to that,

1:34.1

but everyone keep your eye out for that. Anything you want to add, Big D?

1:38.8

It's very good. People should check it out. No, Yidi is excellent, and it was a very long and deep look at, I mean, it's, what, 10 episodes, so it's definitely worth your time. It is a lot of episodes. I forget how many episodes. It's eight, nine, or ten, but we've spent a lot of time on it. Somewhere along that. And we really do think you'll like it. So check it out. And again,

2:02.3

to get it not for quote-unquote free, but to get it for a good deal, become an annual subscriber.

...

Transcript will be available on the free plan in 4 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Daniel Bessner & Derek Davison, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Daniel Bessner & Derek Davison and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.