Centered From Reality

Canadians Can't Agree on Anything but Trump!

DOGE Sucked, What’s Coming Next Will Be Worse: Schedule F, Climate Science Cuts & Privatizing NOAA

In this episode, Alex reminds listeners that Project 2025 exists alongside the chaos of DOGE. As Elon Musk is distancing himself from Trump, it is time for Project 2025 to make things worse. He talks about Schedule F ruining the civil service, AmeriCorps cuts that may rock civil society, worrying cuts to climate research, and more.

Disco Isn't Back but Stagflation is (+ A New Strategy in North Carolina to Steal Elections)

Drunk Texting War Plans as VOX is Making Franco Proud, Violence Rises in Kashmir & Marco Makes State Department Cuts

In this episode, Alex goes over a myriad series of events happening around that world that trouble him, especially as the State Department is making cuts and Pete Hegseth is drunk texting war plans.

Signalgate Deux: Hegseth Strikes Back (+ Pope Frances Dies & Divides MAGA)

In this episode, Alex watches the sunset and talks about the sun setting on stability and norms as the Pentagon is in dysfunction. 

We Are About to Deport Afghan Christians & Allies Fleeing Persecution (+ Dangerous Josh Shapiro Conspiracies)

The Immigration Crisis Moves South to Costa Rica & Trump Caves to Putin (+ Little Marco Gets Smaller)

In this episode, Alex sits in his car (again) with a beautiful and positive view while he talks about some dark events going on around the world. First, it looks like Donald Trump and Marco Rubio want to force Ukraine to make a peace deal with Russia ASAP or they will clean their hands of all parts of the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Later, Alex talks about why countries like Costa Rica and Nicaragua are about to see an immigration/humanitarian crisis. This is because migrants seeking asylum in the US are being deterred by the deportations and hostility to foreigners and are heading south. 

‘Amazon Prime But With Humans’ — Privatizing Deportations (+ the Retribution Era is Beginning)

In this episode, Alex focuses on the Trump Administration needing to convince the public that its mass deportation campaign is happening. Though it has deported high profile individuals, deportations are down from 2024. Congress is likely to pass a bill that would nearly double ICE’s budget over the next decade and it looks like the entity wants to deport way more people. The acting ICE director has said that they want to privatize some aspects of deportations and compared the reforms to Amazon Prime but “with people.” 

A Kafkaesque Crisis: Trump Sides with El Salvador, Ignores the Courts & Threatens to Send US Citizens to CECOT

In this episode, Alex talks about Katy Perry (and others) going into “space” for about ten minutes. Then he talks about the prices, heat, traffic, and payment plans that plagued this year's Coachella events. For the rest of the episode, Alex talks about why the Trump Administration is on a collision course with the Supreme Court. A district court ordered the administration to return Abrego Garcia, the man wrongfully deported to CECOT in El Salvador. But after Trump met with President Bukele in the Oval Office, the administration has decided to side with Bukele and is not pursuing his release and return. Alex worries that Trump is defying the courts and is setting a dangerous precedent. 

A White Genocide in South Africa That Doesn't Exist (+ Why Trump is Obsessed With it)

In this “car podcast”, Alex sits in his car after a run and talks about Trump’s weird obsession over white genocide in South Africa. Trump cut off aid to South Africa but granted special refugee status to white, Afrikaner, South Africans. The problem with all of this is that the South African government is not taking land from Afrikaners and is not killing them. Alex talks about how this is a false theory that has empowered white nationalists in South Africa and around the world. It seems like Trump likes the concept because it appeals to his grievance-based politics.