Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
163 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 302 ratingsStrange days have found us…Political commentator and electoral polling expert Fernand Amandi leads this discussion about news, politics, and culture. Frequent guests include prominent national reporters, former and current elected officials, opinion makers, filmmakers, and anyone else with their finger on the pulse of our nation during these unprecedented times in the age of Trump. A new episode every week coming to you from our studio in South Florida.
Strange Days is produced by Hannah Artman and Daniela Ferrera.
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Madame Speaker
January 03, 2019 22:44 - 45 minutes - 42 MBWe kick off 2019 with Simon Rosenberg, founder of the New Democratic Network, and former Congressman Steve Israel, author of “Big Guns”. Enjoy! Buy “Big Guns”: https://amzn.to/2LNTKZQ Become a Patreon subscriber: www.patreon.com/strangedays Don't forget to leave a review!
Pod Save America from the Corrosion of Conservatism
December 27, 2018 12:00 - 49 minutes - 45.2 MBConservative author, consultant, and editorialist Max Boot ("Corrosion of Conservatism") joins us, followed by former Obama senior advisor and co-host of "Pod Save America" Dan Pfeiffer ("Yes We (Still) Can". Enjoy! Buy "Corrosion of Conservatism": https://amzn.to/2CrUz7B Buy "Yes We (Still) Can": https://amzn.to/2RfDXrG Become a Patreon subscriber here: www.patreon.com/strangedays Leave a review!
Good and Mad Presidents of War
December 20, 2018 12:00 - 51 minutes - 47.2 MBAuthors Rebecca Traister ("Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger") and Michael Beschloss ("Presidents of War") join us from the Miami Book Fair. Enjoy! Buy "Presidents of War": https://amzn.to/2BrsvPK Buy "Good and Mad": https://amzn.to/2Ls7WaP Become a Patreon subscriber to gain access to exclusive bonus content: www.patreon.com/strangedays Leave a review if you like the show!
The Twelve Days of Mueller
December 13, 2018 21:05 - 40 minutes - 37 MBGarrett Graff and Philip Mudd
Protect Democracy
December 06, 2018 22:48 - 54 minutes - 49.6 MBTHE Rick Wilson joins us to discuss Everything Trump Touches Dies and more, as well as an insightful discussion with Ian Bassin and Ben Berwick of Protect Democracy, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to fighting attacks, from at home and abroad, on our right to free, fair, and fully informed self-government. Enjoy! If you like the show please leave a review. Become a Patreon subscriber (www.patreon.com/strangedays) to gain access to exclusive bonus content such as our intervi...
Russia if You're Listening...
November 29, 2018 20:59 - 38 minutes - 35.4 MBWhat happens when you get POLITICO's Michael Grunwald & Marc Caputo + MSNBC legal analyst Katie Phang cross-examining Donald J. Trump confidant Roger Stone on Michael Cohen's guilty plea? You get the latest episode🔥of the #StrangeDaysPodcast Leave a review!
Russian Flyover Country
November 20, 2018 23:03 - 43 minutes - 39.4 MBThis weekend we had the pleasure of attending the Miami Book Fair and spoke to some of the brightest authors around, including David Corn and Michael Isikoff, authors of "Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donal Trump", as well as Sarah Kendzior "The View from Flyover Country". Enjoy, and leave a review! Become a Patreon subscriber to gain access to exclusive bonus content! www.patreon.com/strangedays
The Fixer
November 15, 2018 17:48 - 57 minutes - 52.7 MBBoy do we have a doozie for you! We welcome back a friend of the show, Pulitzer-Prize winning writer Leonard Pitts Jr., to recap the midterms and commemorate the late Stan Lee. We end with author Bradley Tusk, to discuss his book, "The Fixer", about startups, politics, and more. Enjoy, and leave a review! Become a Patreon subscriber to enjoy exclusive bonus content: www.patreon.com/strangedays
We Saved Democracy
November 07, 2018 23:58 - 31 minutes - 28.6 MBPhew! We breathe a sigh of relief with Malcolm Nance and digest what happened yesterday. Enjoy! Please leave a review. Become a Patreon subscriber and gain access to exclusive bonus content: www.patreon.com/strangedays
The Confessions of George Papadopoulos
October 25, 2018 11:00 - 26 minutes - 23.8 MBIn conversation with The Atlantic's Natasha Bertrand.
Active Measures
October 23, 2018 15:11 - 31 minutes - 28.5 MBFilmmaker Jack Bryan joins our LIVE recording of #StrangeDays from #Politicon. Enjoy and leave a review! Buy/Rent Bryan's "Active Measures" here: https://amzn.to/2CXDLH7 Become a Patreon subscriber to enjoy bonus content: www.patreon.com/strangedays
The Best Team Wins
October 09, 2018 17:21 - 23 minutes - 21.7 MBAdrian Gostick and Chester Elton discuss their book, The Best Team Wins: The New Science of High Performance. Tune in Thursday for our next release, and make sure to leave us a review!
Rendezvous with Oblivion
October 05, 2018 17:03 - 47 minutes - 43.5 MBInterview with author and historian Thomas Frank.
The Real Blackkklansman
October 02, 2018 14:50 - 36 minutes - 33 MBHappy Tuesday podcasters! Check out my interview with Ron Stallworth and Leonard Pitts, Jr. + special guest and good friend Anthony Williams. Make sure to leave us a review and let us know what you think!
Mr. Trump's Wild Ride
September 27, 2018 17:52 - 1 hour - 62.6 MBCBS Chief White House Correspondent Major Garret and U.S. Congressional Candidate for Florida's 25th District Mary Barzee Flores. Enjoy! Leave us a review if you like the show, and join our Patreon community to gain access to exclusive content: www.patreon.com/strangedays Buy "Mr. Trump's Wild Ride": https://amzn.to/2OdL8iR
Sound the Alarm
September 20, 2018 20:02 - 56 minutes - 51.9 MBPolitical scientist and Washington Post columnist Brian Klaas, and The Atlantic writer Franklin Foer. Enjoy! If you like the show, please leave a review. Become a Patreon subscriber to gain access to exclusive content: www.patreon.com/strangedays.
Fear of the Anonymous Resistance
September 07, 2018 19:12 - 1 hour - 65.2 MBNorm Ornstein, Marc Caputo, and Michael Grunwald.
#BringItHome
August 30, 2018 22:53 - 1 hour - 69.9 MBMarc Caputo, David Smiley, R. Laurence Moore and Isaac Kramnick.
The Assault on Intelligence
August 23, 2018 22:40 - 1 hour - 67 MBThis week we speak with General Michael Hayden as well as the guys behind the #KremlinAnnex protests, Adam Parkhomenko, John Aravosis, joined by Jeff Crile. If you like the show, leave us a review! Enjoy and see you next week. Join our Patreon community and gain access to bonus content: www.patreon.com/strangedays Buy Assault on Intelligence: American National Security in an Age of Lies: https://amzn.to/2MwnFsQ
R-E-S-P-E-C-T
August 16, 2018 22:36 - 1 hour - 57.4 MBPete Dominick and Randi Rhodes Don't forget! We're on patreon: www.patreon.com/strangedays If you like the show, leave a review! See you next week
Everything Trump Touches Dies
August 09, 2018 17:41 - 1 hour - 80.5 MBThis week on #StrangeDays, THE Rick Wilson talks to us about his new book, "Everything Trump Touches Dies" and iconic punk rocker Henry Rollins to discuss Trump and where we go from here. If you like the show leave a review! Buy Rick Wilson's "Everything Trump Touches Dies": https://amzn.to/2MyktsS Join our Patreon community today and help make this the best political podcast out there! https://www.patreon.com/strangedays
The Plot to Destroy Democracy
August 02, 2018 22:18 - 1 hour - 57 MBMSNBC National Security Contributor Malcolm Nance, Nevada Independent's Jon Ralston, Author Tom Oliphant. Buy Malcolm Nance's "The Plot to Destroy Democracy": https://amzn.to/2M48lD6 Buy Tom Oliphant's "The Road to Camelot": https://amzn.to/2LZTo4E Visit www.patreon.com/strangedays to join our community and receive access to exclusive content such as this week's interview with Tom Oliphant.
Messing with the Enemy
July 26, 2018 11:00 - 1 hour - 76.2 MBAre you out there? Still holding on? I know you hear me say it often, but I do not exaggerate when I say each week gets stranger and stranger. This week was no different. This week we talk cybersecurity and Russian interference with former FBI agent Clint Watts, author of Messing with the Enemy: Surviving in a World of Hackers, Terrorists, Russians, and Fake News. Next, we talk Mueller investigation with former federal prosecutor in the Watergate scandal, Nick Akerman, who offers some juicy p...
Treasonous Traitor Trump
July 19, 2018 22:13 - 1 hour - 74.5 MBHi folks, welcome back to #StrangeDays! This week we’re bringing you a variety of compelling conversations. First, we start with a world that I come from, the world of progressive talk radio. Dean Obeidallah joins us to talk to us about what it’s like covering the everyday absurdity that is the Trump presidency. Following that, we have a conversation with a dear friend of mine, MAMA Stephanie Miller, to get her take on the talk radio in these strange days we find ourselves in. Moving onto a m...
Infrastructure Week
July 11, 2018 22:22 - 1 hour - 68.8 MBI'm baaack! I know it's been two weeks since our last show so I hope you didn't miss me too much. After the long holiday, we had to bring back both of the M & M boys to catch up on infrastructure week under the Trump administration, as well as the latest SCOTUS pick. After that. Marc joins us as we continue our coverage on the Florida gubernatorial race with Orlando businessman and Democratic candidate for governor Chris King. We'd also like to announce that starting today, you can choose to...
A Progressive Governor for Florida?
June 27, 2018 00:15 - 58 minutes - 53.4 MBThis week we're bringing you another interview with a candidate for what I would say is one of the most important races in the country. That is the Florida gubernatorial race, and we brought on democratic candidate Andrew Gillum, Mayor of Tallahassee FAMU Rattler alllll the way. Of course we had to bring the heat with the M&M boys(Marc Caputo of POLITICO Florida and Michael Grunwald of POLITICO Magazine). Enjoy! If you like the show, leave a review! Tell us what you think, your opinion matte...
The Second Week that Broke Me
June 21, 2018 21:54 - 1 hour - 73.4 MBAli Noorani & Simon Rosenberg, Guy Winch, Michael Eric Dyson
The Week that Broke Me
June 15, 2018 16:24 - 1 hour - 61.8 MBWelcome back Strange Days listeners! This week, prepare for a rollercoaster of emotions - we start with the matriarch of comedy and mayor of zero f**ksville, Kathy Griffin as she recounts her last year and why she is not sorry about the photo seen 'round the world. We end on a somber note this week as we discuss the recent passing of the brilliant Anthony Bourdain. Friends of the show Billy Corben from Rakontur and Marc Caputo of POLITICO Florida join us to remember the legend, and to talk a ...
Be Water My Friend
June 08, 2018 12:52 - 1 hour - 79.9 MBMiami Herald 's Leonard Pitts Jr utters the once unthinkable, National Review's brilliant David French reveals if he’ll run against Trump & Matthew Polly unveils the man behind the legend in his new Bruce Lee biography. Enjoy, and please make sure to leave a review!
The Soul of a Democrat
May 31, 2018 21:06 - 51 minutes - 47.2 MBBuenas tardes mis amigos! This week on the #StrangeDaysPodcast, we shine a light on the Democratic party. First we talk big picture with Thomas B. Reston, author of SOUL OF A DEMOCRAT: The Seven Core Ideals That Made Our Party – And Our Country – Great. After that we speak with a Democrat looking to unseat a 25-year Congressional incumbent and fellow... [checks notes] Democrat? That’s right. We speak with Suraj Patel, running for NY District 12, about the change he wants to bring to Congress,...
Putin's Worst Nightmare
May 23, 2018 19:18 - 1 hour - 59.8 MBOn this episode of #StrangeDaysPodcast, we talk to Putin’s worst nightmare & #MagnitskyAct mastermind Bill Browder about #TrumpRussia+ Best Buddies founder Anthony Shriver on his mom Eunice: The Kennedy Who Changed the World w/ Pulitzer Prize-winning author Eileen McNamara.
Shock the Conscience
May 17, 2018 19:05 - 1 hour - 82.2 MBA #StrangeDaysPodcast EXCLUSIVE! For the first time ever, we brought together MSNBC’s Malcolm Nance and Phil Mudd, for an important conversation with an incredible panel featuring none other than POLITICO Florida's Marc Caputo and Miami Book Fair's Mitchell Kaplan. We're talking Mueller investigation, James Comey, newly-appointed CIA Director Gina Haspel, and more. LIVE from Books & Books in Coral Gables, FL. This conversation is not one to miss folks. Have any questions for me? Send a messa...
Governor Gwen Graham?
May 11, 2018 00:19 - 59 minutes - 54.2 MBWelcome back Strange Days loyalists! The upcoming 2018 election may be our most important yet, and for this episode we were joined by the M&M boys (POLITICO Florida's Marc Caputo and POLITICO Magazine's Michael Grunwald) and Florida gubernatorial candidate Gwen Graham to discuss, among other things, why Grunwald thinks she may be the anti-Trump. And an #AskAmandi Q&A to wrap the show. Enjoy
On Tyranny
May 03, 2018 23:56 - 1 hour - 63.7 MBOn the newest episode of Strange Days, one of the most important (and disturbing) interviews we've ever done with Yale Professor & author of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century", Timothy D. Snyder. After that we have IAVA head Lieutenant Paul Rieckhoff weigh in on the chaos surrounding the Department of Veterans Affairs. And finally, we brought back another segment of AskAmandi Q&A! Have any questions for me? Send a message to Strange Days Podcast on Facebook, tweet them t...
The 27 Club
April 26, 2018 22:25 - 1 hour - 65.9 MBWeirder and weirder it gets folks. This week has been no different. One of my mantras is “country over party” and for the installment we brought on someone who embodies this. David Frum joins us to discuss his new book “Trumpocracy: the Corruption of the American Republic” and his thoughts on how Republicans should act in the Trump age. For the second week in a row, we are joined by MSNBC contributor and fellow podcaster Touré, as he reflects on the recent incident at a Starbucks in Philadelp...
The Not Deficit Hawk
April 12, 2018 22:56 - 1 hour - 90.6 MBFriends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears! Strange Days is back and this week we cover it all. We start our episode by talking with a fellow podcaster and Miamian Roben Farzad, discussing his fascinating new book, “Hotel Scarface: Where Cocaine Cowboys Partied and Plotted to Control Miami”, as well as what it’s like to be an Iranian-American. After that...the boys are back in town! POLITICO’s own Marc Caputo and Michael Grunwald are back, and they are joined by a new friend of the podcas...
The Searcher
April 05, 2018 23:53 - 1 hour - 95.2 MBYou know what time it is. It’s time to open your ears and your mind, because Strange Days is back and this week’s episode is sure to leave you astounded. Do you remember reading George Orwell’s “1984” in school? Did you ever think, this can never happen in America? It’s time to rethink that because we ARE in Oceania right now. We have to address the news that Sinclair Broadcast Group forced their nearly 200 stations across the country to air their dog whistle propaganda and we found the rare ...
He's Gonna Go Medieval on Mueller
March 30, 2018 00:58 - 1 hour - 56.7 MBBienvenidos Strange Days faithful! This episode is sure to be a treat. A lot has happened since we last spoke. Trump’s lawyer called it quits (I don’t blame him), Mueller and the investigation have been repeatedly attacked, and the army of women seeking justice against Trump gained victories. If you feel over your head in trying to comprehend everything that’s happened, you are not alone. So we will attempt to sort through it all with our friend and CNN legal expert Katie Phang, joined by th...
Hijo de Putin
March 23, 2018 13:14 - 52 minutes - 48.5 MBThis week in Strange Days brought us a very strange call from Trump to Putin, congratulating him on his election win. Huh?! It really does get stranger and stranger. We cover all the developments in the Trump-Russia saga with Steven Lee Myers, author of "The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin". Do you like books with pictures in it? Because we have two very interesting interviews with some graphic novelists, one Shannon Wheeler, author of "Sh*t My President Says", and another Khal...
The Fearsome Foursome
March 15, 2018 22:59 - 1 hour - 70 MBThe Resistance Strikes Back! Congrats to Conor Lamb on your win in a district Trump won by 20 points. This week has seen even more shake-ups in the White House, believe it or not. Rex Tillerson is out and Mike Pompeo is in. Who better to analyze this move than former CIA Deputy Director Philip Mudd, who happened to work with Gina Haspel, the woman set to take over as CIA Director? And how could we leave out the M&M boys? Marc Caputo and Michael Grunwald of POLITICO join us in the studio to di...
Airborne!
March 09, 2018 00:19 - 1 hour - 69.9 MBHappy Thursday Strange Days listeners! This week, we take a bird's eye view of foreign policy, corruption, and conflict in the Middle East with the brilliant Rula Jebreal, a Middle East Policy analyst, journalist, screenwriter, and university professor. Then we have "Thanks Obama" author David Litt share what it was like working at his dream job as a speech writer in The White House during the Obama years. And finally, as part of our “Flip that Seat” series, we interview veteran and West Virg...
The Snake
March 01, 2018 23:52 - 1 hour - 76.9 MBStrange Days have found us again my friends. This week made our heads spin, so we tried to break it all down with the help of the brilliant Allan Lichtman, author of The Case for Impeachment. Then we speak to Frank Sharry, founder of America’s Voice, to discuss immigration under the Trump administration and the future of DACA along with our intern, Dreamer Maryajosé Zubillaga Sanchez. And of course, we had to bring in a Strange Days favorite, POLITICO's Michael Grunwald, to talk typical Trump...
A World Without Mind
February 23, 2018 01:28 - 56 minutes - 52 MBNewly-minted PBS News Hour White House Correspondent Yamiche Alcindor explains why the Stoneman Douglas students are revolutionizing the gun reform debate, the lovely Chenell tackles the existential threat of sea-level rise and global climate change with authors Ashley Dawson and Jeff Goodell, and not to be missed, a must-listen discussion with The Atlantic's Franklin Foer who warns us about how our insidious reliance on big technology is creating a World Without Mind.
An American Myth
February 15, 2018 22:16 - 1 hour - 78.7 MBWelcome back Strange Days podcasters, today Phillip Mudd joins us again this week to share reactions to yet another heartbreaking school shooting. Former Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala also weighs in as we discuss what gun violence means for the future on public health in our country. We debut a new segment, "Flip This Seat: A Swing District Spotlight" with Congressional candidate Pam Keith. Finally, we close today with our Mueller experts, Garrett Graff and Phillip Mudd...
Nothing to Fear but Fear
February 09, 2018 00:25 - 1 hour - 78.4 MBWelcome back loyal Strange Day listeners, you’re about to hear a whopper of an episode. We begin with filmmaker Jen Senko as she breaks down how the right-wing media brainwashed her father in her 2016 film, “The Brainwashing of My Dad”. Next, we got GOP strategist and ‘Never Trumper’ Rick Wilson on the line, joined by former Congressman Patrick Murphy, and stranger to the podcast, Marc Caputo of POLITICO Florida, to talk Democratic Party strategy, memo wars, and Trumplandia. Finally, we wrap ...
Proud Shitholers
February 02, 2018 00:34 - 1 hour - 95.5 MBThe FBI has "grave concerns" about the release of the now infamous Nunes memo and who better to explain the implications of what its release might mean than the ex-Deputy Director of the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center, former Mueller deputy, CNN contributor and 'proud shitholer,' Philip Mudd, and former chief White House ethics lawyer under President George W. Bush, Richard Painter, to discuss the most recent updates in the Mueller investigation. In light of Super Bowl Sunday, we just had to h...
The Real Secret Society: Cabal Edition
January 26, 2018 04:06 - 1 hour - 57.5 MBSorry I’m late! I barely made it back in time for my own show, and what a strange week it's been. Remember when Donald Trump declared war on the NFL? “Son’s of b**ches” if I recall correctly. Well, we get a player’s perspective of that debacle from none other than Super Bowl Champ Jonathan Vilma, joined by fellow UM alumni and 30-for-30 documentary filmmaker Billy Corben. Unfortunately, those pesky M&M boys (Marc Caputo and Michael Grunwald) crashed the party and joined us for quite a round o...