The world is on fire. There's a coup. Inflation is through the roof, and AI is taking our jobs. What does it all mean? Each week, Matt Bevan explains the biggest story in world news while hiding in his basement from assassins and authoritarian regimes.
Recent episodes include an exploration of the relationship between India and China, a closer look at the Saudi Arabian city of NEOM, the conflict in the Middle East, the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Iran, and Ukraine's incursions into Vladimir Putin's Russia. Matt Bevan draws connections between stories from the past and the events of the present to help listeners understand world news and international affairs.
The podcast also features series about big moments in world news; previous series have focused on the United States presidential election, the United Kingdom's 14 years of Conservative Party leadership, Donald Trump's relationship with Russia, Donald Trump's presidency and promise to Make America Great Again, the Mueller Report, Vladimir Putin's scheme to destroy western democracies, how the relationship between Australia and China came to the verge of collapse, and Australia's turbulent history with climate change.
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590 - Trump's rise from bunker boy to billionaire
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The world is on fire. There's a coup. Inflation is through the roof, and AI is taking our jobs. What does it all mean? Each week, Matt Bevan explains the biggest story in world news while hiding in his basement from assassins and authoritarian regimes.
Recent episodes include an exploration of the relationship between India and China, a closer look at the Saudi Arabian city of NEOM, the conflict in the Middle East, the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Iran, and Ukraine's incursions into Vladimir Putin's Russia. Matt Bevan draws connections between stories from the past and the events of the present to help listeners understand world news and international affairs.
The podcast also features series about big moments in world news; previous series have focused on the United States presidential election, the United Kingdom's 14 years of Conservative Party leadership, Donald Trump's relationship with Russia, Donald Trump's presidency and promise to Make America Great Again, the Mueller Report, Vladimir Putin's scheme to destroy western democracies, how the relationship between Australia and China came to the verge of collapse, and Australia's turbulent history with climate change.
There's a new episode of If You're Listening every Thursday.
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Published16 Jul 2026
Duration25:30
Episodes
590-
Trump's rise from bunker boy to billionaire
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16 Jul 2026
589-
Is Trump pushing more countries toward nuclear weapons?
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14 Jul 2026
588-
What’s Under Trump’s Ballroom?
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09 Jul 2026
587-
Criminals, if you're listening
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07 Jul 2026
586-
Why is Netanyahu sabotaging Trump?
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02 Jul 2026
585-
Matt finally gets to talk about Sealand
Listened
30 Jun 2026
584-
Why Israel-Hezbollah threatens Trump’s Iran peace plan
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25 Jun 2026
583-
Trump’s grand designs for the White House
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23 Jun 2026
582-
Trump’s unbreakable bond with the UFC
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18 Jun 2026
581-
The Taiwanese masters of genital weightlifting
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16 Jun 2026
580-
Will Xi Jinping cross the Taiwan Strait?
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11 Jun 2026
579-
How Peking Duck and Moutai changed the world
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09 Jun 2026
578-
Taiwan’s violent, messy, beautiful democracy
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04 Jun 2026
577-
Was Taiwan's Olympic champion sabotaged?
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02 Jun 2026
576-
Taiwan’s 100 year fight for freedom
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28 May 2026
575-
The secret techbro city of the future
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26 May 2026
574-
Trump and Xi Jinping’s deadly game of chess
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21 May 2026
573-
What is Palantir doing in Australia?
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19 May 2026
572-
Will anything stop Palantir?
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14 May 2026
571-
The FBI dug a tunnel under the Russian embassy
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12 May 2026
570-
How did Palantir get so powerful?
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07 May 2026
569-
Matt's producers present the weirdest tales from the basement
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05 May 2026
568-
The unexpected loser of the Iran war
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30 Apr 2026
567-
How not to cover a radioactive incident
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28 Apr 2026
566-
Will the US and Iran make a deal (again)?
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23 Apr 2026
565-
When will Australia run out of fuel?
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21 Apr 2026
564-
How the Iran war exposed Australia's energy mistakes
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16 Apr 2026
563-
Trump’s on-again, off-again negotiations with Iran
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14 Apr 2026
562-
The brutal scam compounds of Myanmar
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09 Apr 2026
561-
Growing up fighting apartheid
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07 Apr 2026
560-
What happened last time we ran out of oil
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02 Apr 2026
559-
When Iraq accidentally bombed a U.S. warship
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31 Mar 2026
558-
We were warned about the Strait of Hormuz
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27 Mar 2026
557-
Why Iran is building their own internet
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24 Mar 2026
556-
Iran is running out of water
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19 Mar 2026
555-
Life inside the Iranian Revolution
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17 Mar 2026
554-
Who is Trump really fighting in Iran?
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12 Mar 2026
553-
Kylie Moore-Gilbert says Trump might be stuck in Iran
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10 Mar 2026
552-
Trump thinks he can switch off the Iran War
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05 Mar 2026
551-
Making sense of Trump’s attack on Iran
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03 Mar 2026
550-
Where did Epstein’s money come from?
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26 Feb 2026
549-
The Epstein Q&A our lawyers approved
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24 Feb 2026
548-
Epstein’s ghost is haunting the UK
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19 Feb 2026
547-
The time an astronaut said they weren't coming back
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17 Feb 2026
546-
How Epstein and QAnon blew up the justice system
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12 Feb 2026
545-
There Will Be Mud (again)
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10 Feb 2026
544-
Stephen Miller: Edgelord in Chief
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05 Feb 2026
543-
Pod Save America on the endless escalation of Trump
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03 Feb 2026
542-
Steven Pinker thinks we’re worried about the wrong things