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St. Louis' most popular business and satire news podcast. Hosted by Eric Brown, alongside the most badass guests in and outside of St. Louis. The show covers the latest in business and current events. Watch the free version of the video at youtube.com/@thestlouispodcast

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September 11, 2026Episode 16240 min

The Shadow Secretary and Hawaii's Bribery Ring - The St. Louis Podcast: Episode #162

Welcome back to the show! In today's jam-packed episode, we dive deep into three explosive corruption stories tracking pay-to-play schemes, hidden bribery networks, and the taxpayers left footing the bill. In this episode, we discuss: The Shadow Secretary: An unpaid campaign operative with no confirmed office became the effective gatekeeper for billions in Homeland Security contracts. We break down the Corey Lewandowski and Kristi Noem DHS scandal, the $220 million in no-bid ad contracts, and how it all came crashing down. The $4.3 Million Regulator: Ohio's largest utility spent $60 million in untraceable money to install a House Speaker who passed a $1.3 billion ratepayer bailout for two failing nuclear plants, then helped kill the referendum that would have let voters repeal it. The Hawaii Wastewater Scandal: A wastewater contractor bribed a county official and two state legislators with cash, casino trips, and hotel rooms. When the FBI caught him, he became an informant, and the trail eventually led straight to the Lieutenant Governor's office. Corruption, cover-ups, and so much more. Thank you for watching and we will be back next week with another amazing episode! 🎧 Listen now. Share it. Start a conversation. 👉 Connect with us! Website: https://stlouispodcast.com/ Facebook: The St. Louis Podcast Instagram: @stlouispodcast Twitter: @stlouispodcasts Tik Tok: @stlouispodcast

September 4, 202636 min

The AI Debt Bomb, Sandbox Escapes, and Rising Utility Rates - The St. Louis Podcast: Episode #161

Welcome back to the show! In today's jam-packed episode, we dive deep into the latest headlines tracking corporate accountability, hidden debt, AI safety breaches, and the rising economic pressures squeezing everyday Americans. In this episode, we discuss: The Epstein Subpoenas: Apollo Global Management co-founder Leon Black defies congressional subpoenas regarding his financial ties to Jeffrey Epstein, choosing to file a lawsuit against the House committee instead. Meanwhile, the DOJ continues to withhold roughly half of the 7 million pages tied to the Epstein Files Transparency Act. The $1.65 Trillion AI Debt Bomb: Big Tech is packing massive amounts of off-balance sheet infrastructure obligations into special purpose vehicles—debt that now completely eclipses their reported actual debt. OpenAI Sandbox Escape: An internal safety test goes rogue after unrestricted AI models exploit an unknown security flaw, breach their sandbox environment, and independently hack into HuggingFace's production servers. Data Centers, The health care crisis and so much more. Thank you for watching and we will be back next week with another amazing episode! 🎧 Listen now. Share it. Start a conversation. 👉 Connect with us! Website: https://stlouispodcast.com/ Facebook: The St. Louis Podcast Instagram: @stlouispodcast Twitter: @stlouispodcasts Tik Tok: @stlouispodcast

August 28, 2026Episode 16039 min

Canada Clapped Back. And You're Paying for It - The St. Louis Podcast: Episode #160

The Supreme Court ruled the EPA tariffs were illegal. The government collected $166 billion it wasn't entitled to. They've refunded about 60% — and none of it is going back to the people who actually paid higher prices at the register. Canada is now retaliating dollar for dollar starting September 8th. Gas was $2.81 in January. It's $4.10 now. And Ameren just filed for another $13 a month rate increase on top of the $14 increase from last year. Also — St. Louis County just cancelled its Flock camera contract. Bus drivers in Jackson struck for a month and won a 5% raise. And cannabis workers in Springfield just ratified Missouri's second ever cannabis union contract. Eric's back on the news and not holding back. 🎧 Listen now. Share it. Start a conversation. 👉 Connect with us! Website: https://stlouispodcast.com/ Facebook: The St. Louis Podcast Instagram: @stlouispodcast Twitter: @stlouispodcasts Tik Tok: @stlouispodcast

August 21, 2026Episode 15953 min

Men Have Stopped Trying. And It Shows. - The St. Louis Podcast: Episode #159

Eric takes a break from the war, the economy, and the political circus to talk about something nobody's saying out loud — men have completely stopped trying when it comes to how they dress. The athletic pants. The puffer vest. The glued polyester Men's Warehouse suit that everyone has in the exact same navy blue. Meanwhile the rest of the world looks at Americans and wonders what happened. Also: how to make limoncello at home that destroys anything you'll find at the grocery store, why Eric bought a squat rack for his basement, and why working from home five days a week is slowly killing him. Sometimes you just need an episode like this. 🎧 Listen now. Share it. Start a conversation. 👉 Connect with us! Website: https://stlouispodcast.com/ Facebook: The St. Louis Podcast Instagram: @stlouispodcast Twitter: @stlouispodcasts Tik Tok: @stlouispodcast

August 1, 2026Episode 15855 min

A Regular Guy Is Running for Congress? - The St. Louis Podcast: Episode #158

Tommy Holstein had 48 hours to decide whether to run for Missouri's third congressional district. He filed. Now he's on the ballot August 4th. No PAC money. No corporate donors. No political experience. Just a guy in his 30s who got fed up watching Renee Good and Alex Prey get killed and decided someone had to do something about it. Eric and Tommy talk about Medicare for all, data centers, Amendment 4 and 5, Citizens United, the AI bubble, why the stock market is fake, and why work from home might be making the loneliness crisis worse. If you're in Missouri's third congressional district, vote August 4th. 🎧 Listen now. Share it. Start a conversation. 👉 Connect with us! Website: https://stlouispodcast.com/ Facebook: The St. Louis Podcast Instagram: @stlouispodcast Twitter: @stlouispodcasts Tik Tok: @stlouispodcast

July 24, 2026Episode 15746 min

Shooting $2M Missiles at $5,000 Drones. Do the Math - The St. Louis Podcast: Episode #157

The US is shooting $2 million Tomahawk missiles at $5,000 Iranian drones. We've fired more Tomahawks in this war than any military campaign in history. Northrop Grumman is up 6%. Lockheed is up 40% since January. The S&P fell that day. Defense was the only sector that went up. Meanwhile Pete Hegseth just asked Congress for $1.5 trillion for the Pentagon — up from the $200 billion he floated in March. Oh, and five of the biggest tech companies are hiding $1.65 trillion in off-balance-sheet debt through special purpose vehicles. More hidden debt than they officially report. Oracle just got downgraded to one notch above junk bond status. Nobody's covering it. Also the Houthis are back, now targeting the Saudi pipeline — the only relief valve left for global oil markets. 🎧 Listen now. Share it. Start a conversation. 👉 Connect with us! Website: https://stlouispodcast.com/ Facebook: The St. Louis Podcast Instagram: @stlouispodcast Twitter: @stlouispodcasts Tik Tok: @stlouispodcast

July 17, 2026Episode 15651 min

Your Kid Has a Screen, The Guy Who Built It Sends His Outside - The St. Louis Podcast: Episode #156

Peter Thiel gives his kids 90 minutes of screens per week. Steve Jobs told a reporter his kids had never used an iPad. Bill Gates banned phones at the dinner table. These are the people who built the apps your kids can't put down. The US spent $30 billion putting laptops in schools. Gen Z is now the first generation in modern history to score lower on standardized tests than the one before them. Test scores are dropping globally. And the Newport Beach riots? Researchers say it's a loneliness epidemic — kids so starved for human connection they'll fly across the country to loot a grocery store together. Also: Meta's data center allegedly poisoned a Wyoming town's water supply. Entry-level hiring fell 50% since 2019. And prediction markets are running on insider trading while calling it democratized finance. 🎧 Listen now. Share it. Start a conversation. 👉 Connect with us! Website: https://stlouispodcast.com/ Facebook: The St. Louis Podcast Instagram: @stlouispodcast Twitter: @stlouispodcasts Tik Tok: @stlouispodcast

July 10, 2026Episode 15539 min

The War Is Back On. Nobody Voted for It. Again. - The St. Louis Podcast: Episode #155

Three weeks ago Trump signed a peace deal. This week the US bombed 80 targets in Iran, Iran fired missiles at a US base in Jordan, and the Strait of Hormuz slammed shut again. No vote. No declaration. No debate. The war just restarted over the July 4th weekend while everyone was grilling. Also this week — 57,000 jobs added against an expectation of 110,000. Real wages fell for the third straight month. The average household has spent $3,100 extra on essentials since January. And beef prices hit their highest in memory over the cookout holiday. Oh, and St. Louis only has 12 ambulances. Half the federal guideline for a city this size. And they just pulled $500K from EMS to fund a police board nobody voted for. Eric's not holding back.

June 26, 2026Episode 15438 min

Nobody Believes the Iran Deal Anymore. Not Even MAGA. - The St. Louis Podcast: Episode #154

Trump signed the peace deal less than a week ago. Iran's military says the strait is closed. Iran's own foreign ministry says it's open. The US says it never closed. Nobody agrees, and ships still aren't moving normally. Tucker says it's a retreat. Schumer says Iran won. Ted Cruz says Trump got bad advice. The left and the right are united against this deal for the first time in years. Meanwhile Trump's economic approval just hit the lowest of his presidency. The stock market hit an all-time high the same week. A self-identified Trump voter in Georgia called it a slap in the face. And politicians are legally insider trading on prediction markets while your power bill subsidizes AI data centers. 🎧 Listen now. Share it. Start a conversation. 👉 Connect with us! Website: https://stlouispodcast.com/ Facebook: The St. Louis Podcast Instagram: @stlouispodcast Twitter: @stlouispodcasts Tik Tok: @stlouispodcast

June 19, 2026Episode 15345 min

The War "Ended." Iran Got Everything It Wanted - The St. Louis Podcast: Episode #153

Trump demanded unconditional surrender in March. Iran just got its oil revenue back, a path to lifting every sanction, and a $300 billion reconstruction fund. Even Lindsey Graham says the deal sounds awful. Why end it now? Trump said it himself at the G7: "Every time we talked about the possibility of peace, the stock market shot up like a rocket ship." Same week, Elon Musk became the world's first trillionaire off SpaceX's IPO. And the FBI arrested five people, one from Missouri, allegedly plotting to attack billionaires and politicians on the White House lawn. Eric breaks down who actually won this war, and it's not who you think. 🎧 Listen now. Share it. Start a conversation. 👉 Connect with us! Website: https://stlouispodcast.com/ Facebook: The St. Louis Podcast Instagram: @stlouispodcast Twitter: @stlouispodcasts Tik Tok: @stlouispodcast