The end of world order as we know it
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
Vox Media Podcast Network
4.5 • 11.1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Megan Rompino here. This week on a touch more, |
| 0:02.8 | Juju Watkins joins us to talk about her year off of the court, |
| 0:06.7 | but definitely not on the sidelines. |
| 0:09.1 | We're also looking at the upsets coming out of the SEC tournament |
| 0:12.7 | and how that might impact selection Sunday |
| 0:15.7 | and the intergenerational span of U.S. players on display at the She Believes Cup. |
| 0:21.7 | Plus, we have a surprise guest. |
| 0:23.5 | You won't want to miss it. |
| 0:24.4 | Check out the latest episode of our podcast, a touch more wherever you get your podcast and on YouTube. |
| 0:32.0 | How can we understand the decisions facing the United States and Israel and Iran as they weigh next moves in this war. |
| 0:39.1 | War that was meant to prevent from reaching a bomb eventually might push them beyond the Rubicon |
| 0:44.7 | and to have that war. I'm John Feiner. And I'm Jake Sullivan. And we're the hosts of The Long |
| 0:50.3 | Game, a weekly national security podcast. This week, former Israeli Defense Intelligence Officer Danny Sintrinoids joins us from Israel to discuss the war against Iran. |
| 1:00.6 | The episode's out now. Search for and follow The Long Game, wherever you get your podcasts. My guest today is my friend and Vox colleague Zach Beecham. |
| 1:25.2 | Zach covers a lot of things. He covers ideology, particularly the political right, both here and abroad, |
| 1:32.3 | and just sort of reports on the state of democracy around the world. |
| 1:37.3 | And he's also one of the most reliable guests in the history of this show. |
| 1:40.3 | He's the only person, I think, who I can count on to not forget to turn on his |
| 1:47.2 | recorder and to not slap his microphone right off the mount mid-sentence disrupting the recording. |
| 1:56.9 | Zach, how would you describe what you do? |
| 2:00.5 | Well, I will neither confirm nor deny that any of those things have happened during recordings that we've done, Sean, and I certainly have never forgotten to bring a water glass with me. |
| 2:10.0 | But, yeah, look, I describe my job in sort of two parts. |
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