PG132: Korea Talks, Iran Protests, DOJ on Marijuana, Wolff’s Book and Offshore Drilling

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

Politics, News

4.5 • 772 Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2018

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In our first show of 2018 Mike and Trey look at what they thought would be a quiet week in the news that quickly exploded. First they look at the unexpected offer by Kim Jong Un to talks between North and South Korea. Then the hosts turn their attention to the emergence of protests in Iran and look at the similarities and differences between the 2009 and 2018 protests. After this weeks foreign policy questions are finished Trey and Mike discuss domestic policy beginning with Session’s DOJ memo on marijuana. They briefly discuss the more substantive outcomes of Michael Wolff’s upcoming book on the Trump White House before turning their attention to changes to offshore drilling. This episode of The Politics Guys is sponsored by http://www.policygenius.com the free way to compare insurance quotes made simple.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-politics-guys/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the politics guys. I'm Michael Baranowski, a political scientist at Northern Kentucky University.
0:30.6	Welcome to the politics, guys, the podcast for an in-depth, bipartisan weekly policy analysis of the news.
0:35.0	I'm Trey Orndorff, and this week I'm joined by Michael Baranowski, how are you doing this week, Mike?
0:37.1	I'm doing okay, Trey. How about you?
0:42.7	Well, it's a new year. It's 2018, so I'm doing phenomenal because I haven't screwed it up yet.
0:48.4	Oh, yeah. There's still a lot of year to go, so I have faith in my shelf. I have faith in you, too, actually, Trey. I think it's going to be a great year. I agree. I agree. And I think the other thing is going to be kind of exciting is to see what we
0:54.8	do here in the politics guys for the upcoming 2018 year. I'm pretty excited about what we have planned
0:59.7	and what we're going to be doing. And I know you are too. And so I hope that listeners,
1:03.7	you're willing to take a look at us in 2018 as well. Absolutely. A lot of big stuff going on,
1:10.0	big elections that I'm very much looking forward to,
1:12.8	and well, all kinds of other stuff.
1:14.9	Well, you and all of your leftist colleagues are probably waiting for the future.
1:20.6	But we'll see what happens.
1:21.7	You never know.
1:22.7	I mean, it might be the year that Trump turns it around and No, I mean, it's 2018.
1:29.6	It's not an alternative future timeline.
1:30.9	But be that as it may.
1:34.0	This week, there's a lot of big news that we want to get into.
1:36.3	So let's head into some of our analysis.
1:38.5	And let's start with Korea.
1:45.2	If listeners don't know, there were some really surprising things happening while the holiday was going on.
1:52.9	Kim Jong-un in his New Year's address made overtures that he'd be willing to have talks with South Korea. And this is a really big deal because the two countries have been at a complete standstill
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