Everyone has political opinions these days, but after you listen to this episode, you'll actually know what you're talking about.

Sam and Paul grill former LA Times columnist Tom Petruno and get to the bottom of how the economy works, what's been going on in politics, what do people mean by Fed and interest rates, how the US government spends more than it taxes, and how places like Ohio turned to Trump. But according to Tom, there's still hope—shalalala.