Podcasts by Strange Days with Fernand Amandi

Strange Days with Fernand Amandi

Strange 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.

Further podcasts by Fernand Amandi

Podcast on the topic Nachrichten

All episodes

Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
The Admiral's Admiral from 2021-04-09T17:57:53

Admiral Jim Stavridis & Tiffany Cross

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
Lucky Joe from 2021-03-29T14:59:41

Amie Parnes & Johnathan Allen

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
How to Prepare for Climate Change from 2021-02-05T22:42:05

Ready for the coming impact of climate change?

Fear not as CBS Sunday science expert David Pogue tells #StrangeDaysPodcast how to get ready + Frank Schaeffer warns how radicalized evangeli...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
DEMOCRACY HAS PREVAILED from 2021-01-22T17:33:15

How should President Biden spend his hard fought political capital?

Brilliant Biden transition advisor Chris Lu + MSNBC National Security superstar
Malcolm Nance tell #StrangeDaysPodc...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
Confederate Offspring from 2021-01-14T19:33:19

Will the domestic terrorist attack on our US Capitol by pro-Trump white supremacists spark a Second Civil War?

Experts, Tim Wise and Jared Yates Sexton, who long ago predicted these events...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
The Attack on American Democracy from 2021-01-11T17:18

Was the attack on the US Capitol the end or the launch of the insurrectionist danger we now face?

Authoritarian scholars Ruth Ben-Ghiat + Sarah Kendzior break down the attempted coup by pr...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
How To Throw A Punch from 2020-12-11T22:09:22

Should the Biden White House ignore or appease Mitch McConnell?

One of the wisest minds in Democratic politics, Adam Jentleson, author of the new book, #KillSwitch joins the #StrangeDaysPo...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
Scorched Earth Sabotage from 2020-12-01T17:17:20

In times of trouble, #StrangeDaysPodcast turns to trusted voices to explain the way forward, as does this week’s episode featuring MSNBC contributor Eddie S. Glaude Jr., author of #BeginAgain + NPR...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
306 - 232 from 2020-11-18T22:55:57

Will Donald Trump’s coup attempt to overturn his election loss to Joe Biden be successful?

Ex FBI Assistant Director Frank Figliuzzi + Ex CIA officer Rolf Mowatt-Larssen explain why we mus...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
Vote for Biden from 2020-10-27T14:05:26

On the last #StrangeDaysPodcast before the most vitally important election in American history, the super duo of Sarah Kendzior & ex CIA Officer Rolf Mowatt-Larssen + a surprise guest, prepare us f...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
Hope for the best, prepare for the worst from 2020-10-12T21:27:52

Is the FBI prepared for ‘worst case scenarios’ if Trump incites post-election violence?

Ex FBI Assistant Director Frank Figliuzzi explains the contingencies to #StrangeDaysPodcast + Miami...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
The Plot to Steal the Election from 2020-10-01T13:43:04

Are we sufficiently prepared to stop Trump’s transparent efforts to steal the election?

MSNBC national security analyst Malcolm Nance + #SCOTUS legal expert
Elie Mystal explore the sc...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
Deja News: Sarah Kendzior + Rolf Mowatt-Larssen Part 1 from 2020-09-26T02:39:43

Are we approaching the brink of a full-on American dictatorship?

#HidingInPlainSight author and Gaslit Nation's Sarah Kendzior + ex-CIA officer
officer Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, join #Stra...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
It Was All A Lie from 2020-09-15T12:46:11

Has the GOP been acting in bad faith for decades, and not just in the Trump era?

Famed Project Lincoln strategist Stuart Stevens, the mastermind behind the Romney 2012 campaign, tells #Str...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
Make a Plan Now from 2020-09-02T23:20:23

Fascism expert Timothy Snyder returns to #StrangeDaysPodcast, offering urgent advice on how to best resist if Trump refuses to leave + MSNBC reporter & #Separated author Jacob Soboroff exposes how ...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
The Unraveling of America from 2020-08-27T15:15:32

Does our response to #COVID19 signal the end of the American era?

Wade Davis, whose viral Rolling Stone piece makes a wistful + compelling case for that premise, explains to #StrangeDaysPo...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
Democracy Is On The Ballot from 2020-08-21T23:00:36

Will fascism + white supremacy be the new normal if Joe Biden loses the election?

Jason Stanley explains to #StrangeDaysPodcast, How Fascism Works +
Robert P. Jones unpacks why Americ...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
The Madman's Theory to Stealing the Election from 2020-08-14T14:46:14

Is Donald Trump really a madman or is his ‘madman act’ a tactic to consolidate power? CNN’s Jim Sciutto explains his take on #TheMadmanTheory while election security expert Jennifer Cohn tells #Str...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
Your Money AND Your Life from 2020-08-04T19:42:06

Can a Democrat really defeat an incumbent GOP President?

Legendary Democratic strategist Paul Begala, author of #YoureFired is one of the few to have ever done it and he tells #StrangeDays...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
The Intelligence Briefing from 2020-07-31T15:20:51

How dangerous to our American democracy is the prospect of #TrumpsGestapo?

VERY, according to MSNBC’s Malcolm Nance + ex CIA officer/Belfer Center’s Rolf Mowatt-Larssen in this sobering #S...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
This Is Who They Are from 2020-07-23T17:27:25

Are authoritarianism experts feeling better about the Presidential election, given Joe Biden’s polling lead?

Two of America’s most prescient scholars on autocracy & fascism, Ruth Ben-Ghiat...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
The Most Dangerous Branch from 2020-07-16T20:04:30

Does your stomach churn when you see Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s name trending?

#SCOTUS expert David Kaplan explains why today’s Supreme Court is #TheMostDangerousBranch + Katherine Stewart warn...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
The Post-Policy Imposters from 2020-07-10T14:48:05

If the current polling holds, will an epic GOP electoral defeat forever alter American politics?

Maddow show producer Steve Benen, author of #TheImpostors, explains why to #StrangeDaysPodc...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
The Pirate Ship from 2020-07-02T20:53:23

If Joe Biden wins, do anti-Trump ad makers like Project Lincoln + Meidas Touch deserve some of the credit?

#StrangeDaysPodcast talks to the creative geniuses behind both groups:
Rick ...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
In Women We Trust from 2020-06-26T18:00:05

Will it ultimately be the women of America who salvage the republic?

Amee Vanderpool tells #StrangeDaysPodcast why sheroes will save the day +
Daryle Lamont Jenkins explains why close...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
Bill Browder's Warning from 2020-06-17T20:06:16

Has anything been done to make the 2020 elections safer from Putin’s meddling?

Magnitsky Act mastermind + Putin’s greatest foe Bill Browder tells #StrangeDaysPodcast what’s changed + brill...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
We All Clearly Saw It from 2020-06-05T23:09:14

America is broken. Can we fix it?

Writer, thinker & activist, Toure explains why #GeorgeFloydProtests are galvanizing the world + MSNBC legal analyst Barb McQuade tells #StrangeDaysPodcast...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
Trumpocalypse from 2020-05-29T15:51:19

Can we restore American democracy regardless of Donald Trump winning or losing reelection?

#Trumpocalypse author David Frum charts the course forward + The Hill's
Amie Parnes takes us ...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
The Coming Chaos from 2020-05-20T21:59:59

Why is Frank Figliuzzi so concerned about the coming chaos?

Listen to the ex FBI Asst. Director tell #StrangeDaysPodcast why things have taken a darker turn + Miami Herald’s Leonard Pitts ...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
What If Trump Wins? from 2020-05-14T21:41:06

What if Donald Trump wins?

As disturbing a thought as it is, we explore the nightmarish question w/
Washington Monthly’s Paul Glastris + Mother Jones’s David Corn tells #StrangeDaysPod...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
The Trump Cult is a Death Cult from 2020-05-06T22:00:34

Are we underplaying the dangerous domestic threat the white terrorist Trump death cult means for America?

Author Jared Yates Sexton paints a disturbing picture and Cult Expert Steven Hassa...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
The President of Disinformation from 2020-04-30T13:38:32

Is Donald Trump’s catastrophic response to the #coronavirus an active measure?

Legendary ex-CIA intelligence officer John Sipher offers his take to #StrangeDaysPodcast + Author & Johns Ho...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
Are your policies black? from 2020-04-23T21:04:35

Who should be Joe Biden’s VP pick?

Kennedy School Fellow and author of #SayItLouder, Tiffany Cross tells #StrangeDaysPodcast who she’d take + Fletcher School Professor Dan Drezner explain...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
Hiding In Plain Sight from 2020-04-15T22:08:39

This week Donald Trump declared himself a dictator, so now what?

Gaslit Nation host and New York Times bestselling #HidingInPlainSight author
Sarah Kendzior explains to #StrangeDaysPo...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
The New New Stimulus from 2020-04-10T03:14:48

Has the #coronavirus economy forever widened the gap between rich & poor?...or can the new federal stimulus bills prevent that?

Two brilliant thinkers, Eurasia Group's Ian Bremmer + Poli...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
No Normalizing Preventable Deaths! from 2020-04-01T21:53:46

Is the media normalizing Donald Trump during the #coronavirus as they did in 2016? Playboy White House Correspondent Brian Karem takes #StrangeDaysPodcast inside the briefing room + #DirtyRubles au...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
Help Me, Help You from 2020-03-26T19:29:26

In a panic over your finances & 401(k) thanks to the #CoronavirusPandemic?

#StrangeDaysPodcast has you covered w/ CNBC financial guru Ron Insana offering his best advice + PoliSci expert D...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
#Don'tBeASpreader from 2020-03-21T00:09:06

Freaked out about the #coronavirus?

Fear not, #StrangeDaysPodcast is here to guide you by the hand w/ #WorldWarZ creator/mastermind, Max Brooks + the brilliant religious scholar Reza Aslan...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
Go Joe! from 2020-03-11T21:22:35

Now that Joe Biden will be the Dem nominee, will more Republicans vote for Joe over Trump? #NeverTrump Washington Post columnist Max Boot opines + political scientist Marcus H. Johnson explains to ...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
A Nation In Revolt from 2020-03-04T22:54:36

Is race still at the heart of what the 2020 election is truly about? And has Joe Biden now vanquished Bernie Sanders?Anti-racism scholar Timothy Wise and legendary Democratic pollster wise-man Stan...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
A VERY (UN)STABLE (NON)GENIUS from 2020-02-27T02:07:36

A must hear #StrangeDaysPodcast as Washington Post Pulitzer Prize duo Carol Leonnig & Philip Rucker paint a disturbing picture of what they found in their book A Very Stable Genius + author Anne Ne...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
Words Matter from 2020-02-19T17:19:12

Are the #DemDebates helping or hurting The Democrats chances against beating Donald Trump? Legendary Democratic wiseman Joe Lockhart shares hard truths w/#StrangeDaysPodcast + star GOP pollster Kri...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
American Dictatorship from 2020-02-12T22:31:56

Is the United States now a dictatorship?

2016 #NeverTrump Presidential candidate & StandUpRepublic head
Evan McMullin weighs in + Political scientist Rachel Bitecofer tells #StrangeDa...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
Authoritarian Democracy from 2020-02-05T22:31:23

On one of our nation’s darkest days, I URGE you to listen to one the most important, enthralling interviews ever conducted on #StrangeDaysPodcast between ?Sarah Kendzior + former CIA Senior Officer...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
(202) 224-3121 from 2020-01-29T23:27:13

Miss the Impeachment Trial coverage this week?

Have no fear, #StrangeDaysPodcast is here with Elie Mystal & Jennifer Taub telling us what to expect after the Senate GOP acquits + polling g...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
Unmaking the Presidency from 2020-01-23T12:00:20

How much irreparable harm has Donald Trump done to the Presidency? "Unmaking the Presidency" authors Susan Hennessey and Benjamin Wittes assess the damage. Later, Allan Lichtman, predictor of 9 pas...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
Running Against the Devil from 2020-01-16T20:09:45

Will The Democrats blow the most important election in history?

Not if Rick Wilson can help it, as he tells #StrangeDaysPodcast what they must do to stop Trumpocalypse 2.0 + New York Magaz...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
Wagging the Iranian Dog from 2020-01-09T16:27:42

Did Donald Trump order the #Soliemani killing to #WagTheDog?

MSNBC Analyst & US Navy combat vet, Malcolm Nance explains the #IranCrisis to #StrangeDaysPodcast + The Atlantic's James and De...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
How To Raise A Reader from 2020-01-02T10:00:03

Happy 2020!

For the first #StrangeDaysPodcast of the new year and new decade, hear New York Times Books editor Pamela Paul share secrets of #HowToRaiseAReader and New York Times bestsellin...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
Merry Impeachmas from 2019-12-19T22:27:51

They impeached him, now what? 2019’s last #StrangeDaysPodcast features AEI’s Norm Ornstein + Washington Post’s Greg Sargent analyzing impeachment next steps.

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
If We Can Keep It from 2019-12-11T23:25:34

Are we at America's end?

The Daily Beast's Michael Tomasky untangles what imperiled the republic & assesses If We Can Keep It & Social Security expert & Sha Na Na legend Jon "Bowzer" Baum...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
In Defense of Elitism from 2019-12-05T00:20:20

An action packed, must-listen #StrangeDaysPodcast features Joel Stein making a strong case in Defense of Elitism, Eleanor Randolph, revealing “The Many Lives of Michael Bloomberg” + Jonathan Safran...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
End the GOP from 2019-11-26T23:14:06

Surprise! We're hitting your playlists early this Thanksgiving week with two special interviews from the Miami Book Fair with Leonard Pitts Jr. and Kevin Kruse & Julian Zelizer.

Listen, su...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
They Don't Represent Us from 2019-11-21T00:04:41

What do we do now when it’s painfully obvious that they don’t represent us? Harvard scholar Larry Lessig outlines a pathway forward to #StrangeDaysPodcast + Author Tom LoBianco who has covered Mike...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
Yes We Can! from 2019-11-13T22:42:49

Just because Barack Obama isn’t President, doesn’t mean his influence has faded. Administration alum Chris Lu tells #StrangeDaysPodcast why he’s still hopeful + Obama Foundation CEO David Simas rev...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
Get Over That Quickly, the World is Messy from 2019-11-07T21:40:31

Are progressive purity tests undermining The Democrats ability to win elections and govern?

Signal Boost Show host and CNN commentator Jess McIntosh tackles the question and Think Progres...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
The Cult of Trump from 2019-10-31T11:46:27

Happy Halloween, #StrangeDaysPodcast listeners!!! In this SPOOKY episode of the podcast we discuss one of the scariest topics of all: The Cult of Trump, with author Steven Hassan. A little later in...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
Adapting to Adversity from 2019-10-24T14:26:57

May Day, May Day, May Day! Yes folks, it's still October, but we're sending out a distress call out for the state of America. POLITICO's National Security Correspondent, Natasha Bertrand joins us t...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
Digital Civil Wars & Lying Charts from 2019-10-17T13:27:48

Buckle up, #StrangeDaysPodcast listeners, because you're in for a ride! This week, we discussed impeachment and the fourth Democratic debate with one of the most ferocious political voices in the t...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
Beware the Evangelicals from 2019-10-09T20:02:49

“BE WARNED: IF TRUMP IS IMPEACHED OR LOSES IN 2020, EVANGELICAL LEADERS ARE CALLING FOR THE OVERTHROW OF THE U.S GOVERNMENT” says our latest #StrangeDaysPodcast guest, Frank Schaeffer, son of the l...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
Armies, Courts, and Police from 2019-10-02T22:26:35

Confused and overwhelmed by the deluge of impeachment news? Well you’re in luck, because Sarah Kendzior is here to break it all down on the #StrangeDayPodcast. Later on the podcast, we talk to the ...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
Winners Take All from 2019-09-26T05:00:26

Are billionaire philanthropists change-agents or do they actually help preserve the plutocracy class? Winners Take All author Anand Giridharadas shares his provocative take on #StrangeDaysPodcast a...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
Proof of Conspiracy from 2019-09-19T15:43:31

Seth Abramson & Neera Tanden

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
Exfiltration of the Russian Family from 2019-09-12T11:00:36

Rolf Mowatt-Larssen and Jeff Sharlet.

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
Where is the Red Line? from 2019-09-05T11:00:16

Where is the Red Line? by Fernand Amandi

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
What Does It Mean To Be An American? from 2019-08-29T09:00:25

Taegan Goddard & David Maraniss

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
Welcome to Hell World from 2019-08-22T16:47:16

Ron Insana & Luke O'Neil

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
Bold Rage or Calm Stoicism? from 2019-08-15T22:07:08

Thomas Nichols & Eddie S. Glaude Jr.

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
America's Reluctant Prince from 2019-08-08T11:00:25

America's Reluctant Prince by Fernand Amandi

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
The Democratic Debates from 2019-08-02T03:46:05

Elie Mystal & Joe Trippi

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
The Mueller Hearings from 2019-07-26T04:01:51

Frank Figliuzzi & Asha Rangappa

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
Punch Back Harder from 2019-07-18T11:00:14

Adam Jentleson and Julia Davis

Read Adam Jentleson's The Political Costs of Not Impeaching Trump here:
https://www.gq.com/story/democrats-impeaching-trump

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
The Tyrannical Mind of Donald Trump from 2019-07-11T17:04:01

Dean Haycock and Simon Rosenberg

https://amzn.to/2XT4vm4

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
The Man Who Sold America from 2019-06-28T23:13:23

Host of MSNBC's AM Joy and the author of the new Morrow / Harper Collins book, The Man Who Sold America

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
Hillary 2020? from 2019-06-26T17:26:31

Jill Wine-Bank and Philippe Reines

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
Siege: Trump Under Fire and Fury from 2019-06-20T16:32:47

Michael Wolff, Olga Lautman, and The Children's Trust of Miami-Dade.

Please enjoy and leave a review!

Buy Michael Wolff's latest book here: https://amzn.to/2IUS2Vh

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
Impeach the Autocrat from 2019-06-13T16:50

Impeach the Autocrat by Fernand Amandi

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
To End a Presidency from 2019-06-06T17:05:38

Laurence Tribe, Marc Caputo, Michael Grunwald, and Katie Phang.

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
Chertoff and Mudd on Mueller from 2019-05-29T21:55:11

Phil Mudd and Michael Chertoff.

Purchase Michael Chertoff's book Exploding Data here: https://amzn.to/2WtYDyN

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
Fight Like a Mother from 2019-05-23T13:45:23

Shannon Watts and Ossian Ward

Make sure to leave a review!

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
Will the Rule of Law Unchain Democracy? from 2019-05-16T11:00:19

Nancy McLean. Barbara McQuade, Mimi Rocah.

Make sure to leave a review!

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
What the Hell Just Happened to Our Country? from 2019-05-09T12:20:46

Lea Black and Steve Almond

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
Land the Plane from 2019-05-02T11:00:19

Cheri Jacobus and Julie Zebrak.

Make sure to leave a review!

Cheri Jacobus, 'Everybody is Wrong': https://www.thedailybeast.com/everybody-is-wrong-trump-impeachment-hearings-will-...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
Be a Living Alarm from 2019-04-24T16:49:06

Rolf Mowatt-Larssen and Timothy Snyder.

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
Figliuzzi and Mudd on the Mueller Report from 2019-04-18T16:35:32

Former FBI Counter Intelligence Deputy, MSNBC's Frank Figliuzzi and Former FBI Counter Terrorism Deputy, CNN's Philip Mudd -both of whom worked closely for years with Special Counsel Robert Mueller...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
Boldly Rage Against It from 2019-04-11T11:00:14

Vicky Ward and Leonard Pitts Jr.

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
Mueller's War from 2019-04-03T21:58:03

Mueller biographer Garret Graff and comedian Ben Gleib

Make sure to leave us a review!

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
The Barr Report from 2019-03-26T16:39:29

Surprise! We just couldn't wait til Thursday to get something out. Following the conclusion of the Mueller report, Fernand talks with MSNBC's Malcolm Nance and CNN's Phil Mudd about their reactions...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
Shared Psychosis from 2019-03-21T21:55:57

Dr. Bandy X. Lee, mental health expert, discusses the second edition of "The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump" and elections expert Jennifer Cohn weighs in on the our election security in this week’s...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
"He's Just Not Worth It" from 2019-03-13T21:49:44

Author and scholar Sarah Kendzior graces us with her presence again this week along with Watergate prosecutor and MSNBC legal analyst Nick Akerman. Enjoy and leave a review!

Become a Patre...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
The Ambassador Who Told Trump, "No Mas" from 2019-03-07T12:00:18

Hey, hey, hey! Natasha Bertrand of the Atlantic Magazine and former Ambassador to Panama John D. Feeley join us this week on the #StrangeDaysPodcast. Enjoy and leave a review!

Become a Pat...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
A Racist, A Conman, and A Cheat from 2019-02-28T22:13:51

Yes, the #CohenHearing was lit???, as #NeverTrumper Tim Miller explains on today's episode. Then we are joined by Camelot's End author Jon Ward and legendary Democratic wisemen Bob Shrum and Mike A...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
A Nation, Shattered and Gaslit from 2019-02-21T12:00:15

Amie Parnes, Senior Political Correspondent for The Hill, and Sarah Kendzior, author of The View from Flyover Country join us on this week’s femme-powered episode of #StrangeDaysPodcast. Enjoy, and...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
The Kleptocracy of America <3 from 2019-02-14T12:00:15

Franklin Foer of the Atlantic Magazine, and CNN Legal Analyst Jennifer Taub join us this week on a special edition #ValentinesDay episode of #StrangeDaysPodcast. But we don’t stop there; we wrap th...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
Suicide of the West from 2019-02-07T12:00:15

Join us this week on the Strange Days Podcast when we speak to Steven Lee Myers of the New York Times, based in Beijing, and Jonah Goldberg of the National Review, author of “Suicide of the West: H...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
It's Even Worse Than You Think from 2019-01-31T23:03:17

This week on #StrangeDays, we cover the crisis in Venezuela with WLRN (South Florida NPR station) Americas Editor Tim Padgett, who covers Latin America and the Caribbean, and Venezuelan-born South ...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
Will the Media Save us from Trump? from 2019-01-24T22:15:49

Playboy political writer and CNN analyst Brian Karem joins us, along with Washington Post op-ed columnist Greg Sargent, for a blazing new episode of the #StrangeDaysPodcast. Enjoy and leave a revie...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
The Trilogy of Treason from 2019-01-17T22:51:52

Malcolm Nance and David French, Billy Corben and Grant Stern.

Please make sure to leave us a review!

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
The Trump Shutdown from 2019-01-09T23:48:01

Fmr Rep. Carlos Curbelo join the M&M boys: Marc Caputo, Mike Grunwald, and finish with Dan Partland, director of the upcoming Kickstarter funded documentary "#UNFIT: Malignant Narcissism Comes to W...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
Madame Speaker from 2019-01-03T22:44:32

We 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
...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
Pod Save America from the Corrosion of Conservatism from 2018-12-27T12:00:05

Conservative 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 (S...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
Good and Mad Presidents of War from 2018-12-20T12:00:15

Authors 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 ...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
The Twelve Days of Mueller from 2018-12-13T21:05:58

Garrett Graff and Philip Mudd

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
Protect Democracy from 2018-12-06T22:48:34

THE 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 organi...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
Russia if You're Listening... from 2018-11-29T20:59:51

What 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?

...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
Russian Flyover Country from 2018-11-20T23:03:13

This 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 Insi...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
The Fixer from 2018-11-15T17:48:13

Boy 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 B...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
We Saved Democracy from 2018-11-07T23:58:16

Phew! 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 bo...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
The Confessions of George Papadopoulos from 2018-10-25T11:00:03

In conversation with The Atlantic's Natasha Bertrand.

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
Active Measures from 2018-10-23T15:11:04

Filmmaker 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...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
The March to Save Democracy from 2018-10-18T19:09:50

Malcolm Nance

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
The Best Team Wins from 2018-10-09T17:21:46

Adrian 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!

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
Rendezvous with Oblivion from 2018-10-05T17:03:43

Interview with author and historian Thomas Frank.

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
The Real Blackkklansman from 2018-10-02T14:50:50

Happy 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...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
Mr. Trump's Wild Ride from 2018-09-27T17:52:05

CBS 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 o...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
Sound the Alarm from 2018-09-20T20:02:04

Political 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 gai...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
Democracy in Chains from 2018-09-13T23:09:12

Nancy MacLean, Bill Press

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
Fear of the Anonymous Resistance from 2018-09-07T19:12:41

Norm Ornstein, Marc Caputo, and Michael Grunwald.

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
#BringItHome from 2018-08-30T22:53:01

Marc Caputo, David Smiley, R. Laurence Moore and Isaac Kramnick.

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
The Assault on Intelligence from 2018-08-23T22:40:45

This 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!...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
R-E-S-P-E-C-T from 2018-08-16T22:36:50

Pete 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

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
Everything Trump Touches Dies from 2018-08-09T17:41:25

This 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 li...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
The Plot to Destroy Democracy from 2018-08-02T22:18:07

MSNBC 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
<...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
Messing with the Enemy from 2018-07-26T11:00:14

Are 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 cybersec...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
Treasonous Traitor Trump from 2018-07-19T22:13:04

Hi 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 ...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
Infrastructure Week from 2018-07-11T22:22:24

I'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 w...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
A Progressive Governor for Florida? from 2018-06-27T00:15:20

This 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 dem...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
The Second Week that Broke Me from 2018-06-21T21:54:26

Ali Noorani & Simon Rosenberg, Guy Winch, Michael Eric Dyson

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
The Week that Broke Me from 2018-06-15T16:24:45

Welcome 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 ...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
Be Water My Friend from 2018-06-08T12:52:07

Miami 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 ne...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
The Soul of a Democrat from 2018-05-31T21:06:58

Buenas 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 Co...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
Putin's Worst Nightmare from 2018-05-23T19:18:37

On 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 Ke...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
Shock the Conscience from 2018-05-17T19:05:32

A #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 P...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
Governor Gwen Graham? from 2018-05-11T00:19

Welcome 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 Magaz...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
On Tyranny from 2018-05-03T23:56:34

On 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",...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
The 27 Club from 2018-04-26T22:25:48

Weirder 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...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
The Prince Edition from 2018-04-19T23:15:01

The Prince Edition by Fernand Amandi

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
The Not Deficit Hawk from 2018-04-12T22:56:26

Friends, 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 ...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
The Searcher from 2018-04-05T23:53:21

You 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 “19...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
He's Gonna Go Medieval on Mueller from 2018-03-30T00:58:05

Bienvenidos 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...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
Hijo de Putin from 2018-03-23T13:14:47

This 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 i...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
The Fearsome Foursome from 2018-03-15T22:59:27

The 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 ...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
Airborne! from 2018-03-09T00:19:52

Happy 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 anal...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
The Snake from 2018-03-01T23:52:56

Strange 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 ...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
A World Without Mind from 2018-02-23T01:28:03

Newly-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 existentia...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
An American Myth from 2018-02-15T22:16:35

Welcome 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 Donn...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
Nothing to Fear but Fear from 2018-02-09T00:25:10

Welcome 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 2...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
Proud Shitholers from 2018-02-02T00:34:10

The 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 Coun...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
The Real Secret Society: Cabal Edition from 2018-01-26T04:06:04

Sorry 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,...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
Grading Year One of Trump: F U from 2018-01-19T01:06:54

How long has it been? 5 years? 10 years? An eternity?! No, it’s only been one year but damn if it doesn’t feel like longer since Trump took the oath of office. Today, we take a look back at the pre...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
Don't Tug on Superman's Cape from 2018-01-12T00:32:03

Welcome back to the next installment of Strange Days. We bring back the M&M boys (Marc Caputo and Michael Grunwald of POLITICO) for their first episode of the new year, to discuss the Fire & Fury c...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
It's a Trap! from 2018-01-04T20:23:19

Happy new year gang, it's the return of the swamp! In our first episode of 2018, we'll be talking to Simon Rosenberg, President of the New Democratic Network, to get his take on the "bomb cyclone" ...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
"Donald Trump, you have sacrificed nothing and no one" from 2017-12-21T14:42:49

After one of the most tumultuous and historic years in American history, let’s end it on a positive note, and this episode is sure to inspire some confidence in you. First we'll dive into the mind ...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
The New South Defeats the Old South from 2017-12-15T00:04:41

Phew! That was a close one wasn’t it? Congrats to Doug Jones and welcome to the #Resistance. We brought in Teen Vogue’s Lauren Duca to discuss the defeat of Roy Moore and what it spells for Donald ...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
Donald Trump used to call me... from 2017-12-07T21:16:23

Fernand chats with Norm Ornstein at the Miami Book Fair about his latest book, One Nation After Trump: A Guide for the Perplexed, the Disillusioned, the Desperate, and the Not-Yet Deported. Next up...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
The Coalition of Thinkers from 2017-11-30T22:05:18

Join the Coalition of Thinkers this week when Fernand kicks off the program with former conservative radio talkshow host, Charlie Sykes to talk about his book How the Right Lost its Mind. Next, the...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
The Unbelievable Plot to Hack the Man That Invented Christmas from 2017-11-23T03:22:58

Our 6th installment of Strange Days has arrived in time for the holidays! This week we come to you from the 34th annual Miami Book Fair. MSNBC’s Katy Tur talks about her book, Unbelievable, detaili...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
"He runs with energy of the Sun" from 2017-11-17T00:11:58

Turn up the heat because we’re cookin’ with grease! First we stir the pot with Donna Brazile and the controversy around her new tell-all book, Hacks. Next we separate the ingredients that make up T...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
"A populist in the streets, corporatist in the sheets" from 2017-11-10T01:15:26

Title credit to the witty and talented Michael Grunwald from POLITICO Magazine, who joins us to talk about Trump’s Swamp a year after the election. Simon Rosenberg from the NDN phones in to discuss...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
November 2nd from 2017-11-03T01:47:35

November 2nd by Fernand Amandi

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
October 26 from 2017-10-26T23:48:40

Fernand talks politics of Puerto Rico with The Miami Herald's Patricia Mazzei and Bendixen & Amandi's Anthony Williams, how the Weinstein scandal has impacted the world of politics with NBC News le...

Listen
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
October 18th Pilot from 2017-10-19T22:16:09

Strange Days with Fernand Amandi's debut podcast. Featuring POLITICO Magazine's Michael Grunwald, POLITICO Florida's Marc Caputo, and former U.S. Congressmen Republican David Jolly and Democrat Pat...

Listen