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The world is on fire. There's a coup. Inflation is through the roof, and AI is taking our jobs. What does it all mean? Each week, Matt Bevan explains the biggest story in world news while hiding in his basement from assassins and authoritarian...

Episodes

The Taiwanese masters of genital weightlifting

Will Xi Jinping cross the Taiwan Strait?

How Peking Duck and Moutai changed the world

Taiwan’s violent, messy, beautiful democracy

Was Taiwan's Olympic champion sabotaged?

Taiwan’s 100 year fight for freedom

The secret techbro city of the future

Trump and Xi Jinping’s deadly game of chess

What is Palantir doing in Australia?

Will anything stop Palantir?

The FBI dug a tunnel under the Russian embassy

How did Palantir get so powerful?

Matt's producers present the weirdest tales from the basement

The unexpected loser of the Iran war

How not to cover a radioactive incident

Will the US and Iran make a deal (again)?

When will Australia run out of fuel?

How the Iran war exposed Australia's energy mistakes

Trump’s on-again, off-again negotiations with Iran

The brutal scam compounds of Myanmar