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Searching for America with Robyn Curnow

Robyn Curnow, Bleav

A podcast about American culture, identity, and everyday life — seen through the eyes of an outsider. A South African foreign correspondent — who spent 20 years covering conflicts and change around the world, interviewing Mandela and presidents, and winning awards — moved to suburban Atlanta, looked around, and started taking notes. Searching for America is what she found. It"s part cultural anthropology, part love letter, part field guide. If David Attenborough narrated suburban America —

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00:27:19

Dive bars, happy places and bad dudes with a CIA...

Searching for America with Robyn Curnow ·

2025/02/04

CIA intelligence officer (ret.) Marc Polymeropoulos joins Robyn Curnow to talk about the successes and failures of his time on the frontlines in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere, as well as his love of dive bars and heavy metal music.Marc was one of the CIA's most highly decorated operations officers. He specialized in counterterrorism, the Middle East and South Asia and was in charge of the CIA's clandestine operations in Europe and Eurasia when he retired in

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00:31:25

A Russian attack and the CIA cover-up (2) | Marc...

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2025/02/04

What happened in Moscow when CIA operative Marc Polymeropoulos was attacked by an energy weapon that left him with a traumatic brain injury? There are still too many questions and not enough answers from America's intelligence community, says the decorated intelligence officer on what appears to be a systematic, targeted attack on American spies by a foreign government. Marc discusses, what he calls, a cover-up of Havana Syndrome with Robyn Curnow in this frank, emotional conversation about a career

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00:15:26

Use and abuse of the words Nazi and Hitler | Robyn...

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2025/01/28

During Holocaust Remembrance Week, Robyn Curnow laments the words 'Nazi' and 'Hitler' are being overused in political name-calling. Stop cherrypicking the past to pigeonhole the present, she says, especially when it comes to the Holocaust.No. Trump and his team are not Nazis and Hitlers. No. Americans are not like 'Germans supporting Hitler,' or 'Russians supporting Putin' blindly. And no, Big Business is not doing a Vichy France capitulation. Leave the Holocaust out of political mudslinging - it's

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00:19:15

Buckle up, Buttercup | Robyn Curnow

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2025/01/22

Trump's has power and political capital. Americans - over 60% - are optimistic and want his policy promises to succeed.The Democrats have lost the White House, the Senate, the House, the Village People and Silicon Valley in the last four years. Now the Techbros are in DC - looking to deregulate the future instead of litigating the past with identity politics. Chapters 00:00 Trump 2.0: A New Era Begins 04:03 Political Capital and Optimism in America 11:59 The Tech Bros: Innovating Government 17:09

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00:31:32

Goat rodeos and space nukes | Jeffrey Lewis and Robyn...

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2025/01/15

Robyn Curnow spoke to Jeffrey Lewis, pre-eminent American nuclear expert, State Department security advisor and a self-described ‘arms control wonk. ’Robyn has known Jeffrey ever since he tweeted during President Trump’s first term that the administration’s nuclear plans were a ‘goat rodeo.’ But this time around, the world is different and Trump's team is different. They talk about non-rational actors, paranoid leaders and nuclear realities. And how Pres Trump has a great opportunity to use his

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00:20:23

China, baby, it's all about China | Jim Sciutto and...

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2025/01/07

The Biggest New Year Challenge for America: China! CNN's National Security Analyst, fmr. Chief of Staff to the US Ambassador to China and author of The Return of Great Powers joins Robyn Curnow to talk about how 2025 will be the Year of the Xi-Dragon.Xi Jin Ping's ambitions clash with Donald Trump's plans - where do they battle it out and what does it mean for America and the rest of the

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00:23:53

New Year, New World | Jim Sciutto and Robyn Curnow

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2025/01/02

The world is changing and it reminds CNN's National Security analyst Jim Sciutto of the 19th Century. He joins Robyn Curnow to talk about how 2025 will continue to trend towards Great Power rivalry and how that will or will not change with President Trump's reemergence on the global stage.

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00:10:25

Xmas cheer for the New Year | Robyn Curnow

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2024/12/23

Christmas Cheer (and Fear) this happy Yuletide! Greetings from the American South where the inflatable Santas are bigger and better and BBQ pork is a seasonal delicacy. Robyn Curnow is hopeful that the Trump team's better angels will sing this time around. She's hoping the push and pull between his Disrupters and his Enforcers will create a less chaotic Presidency and lessen the worst instincts of The Don. For various reasons, Americans have trusted Trump with the country - will he leave it in a

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00:29:23

But You Don't Look Arab | Hala Gorani and Robyn Curnow

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2024/12/17

Gorani Street, Aleppo, Syria is where Hala Gorani's family lived for generations. As an American-born child of Syrian immigrant parents she and her extended family across the world are watching what is happening in Syria with a personal interest. As a journalist, Hala is reluctant to make predictions on how a post-Assad Syria will play out because she says disappointment is baked into the Syria expat experience. Hala Gorani and Robyn Curnow were correspondents and anchors together at CNN for over

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00:11:05

Trump's Road to Damascus | Robyn Curnow

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2024/12/10

Is there going to be a Balkanization of Syria after the fall of Assad? Robyn Curnow, who has covered Syria since the rise of ISIS, argues that even though President Trump doesn't want America to get involved there are opportunities for the US and allies like Israel, the Kurds etc in a post-Assad vacuum.Will the country break up and how will fragmentation play out? How many backchannel conversations have there been with US forces in Syria and the rebels now in Damascus? What games are being played

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00:15:27

Biden's nothing-burger Africa trip | Robyn Curnow

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2024/12/05

Robyn Curnow covered all the previous US President's trips to Africa. She says Joe Biden's sleepy, whistle-stop trip to Angola is symbolic of U.S. weakness on the continent during his presidency.She interviewed President George W. Bush in Zambia, President's Carter and Clinton in South Africa and First Lady Michelle Obama in Botswana. She was there when President Obama attended Nelson Mandela's memorial service in Soweto and present in the White House Rose Garden when President Trump welcomed

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00:29:34

War and Peace | Lynsey Addario

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2024/11/25

War photographer Lynsey Addario captures moments in history that are difficult to witness. She talks to Robyn Curnow about being an American during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and what it is like to face danger head-on. Her path to the frontlines was an unlikely one; her parents were hairdressers and she grew up in a small Connecticut town in a large Italian-American family.http://www.robyncurnow.net http://www.searchingforamericapod.com http://www.x.com/lynseyaddario

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00:25:34

Not Havana a good time | Robyn Curnow and Patrick...

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2024/11/19

Robyn Curnow covered Fidel Castro's funeral from Havana and was in Cuba when President Obama made an historic visit to the island. Patrick Oppmann has lived and worked as a foreign correspondent in Cuba for over a decade. Talking to Robyn from his home in Havana, Patrick weighs up what the appointment of Marco Rubio as Secretary of State. As the son of Cuban exiles, Rubio has always taken a hardline against Havana's leadership. While much of Trump's plans for his second term are still unclear, one

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00:13:42

What next, 'Merica? | Robyn Curnow

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2024/11/13

The electoral map is red, red, red. Across America, folks decided that they preferred Donald Trump to Kamala Harris. Why did the Democrats lose so badly? How did Trump get such a wide, and deep, mandate from the American public?A South African living in the American South, Robyn Curnow brings her outsider perspective to the conversation about why Trump won (which did not surprise her in the least.) She argues it's wrong to suggest that more than half of Americans have been brainwashed by rightwing

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00:17:26

Duh, Why Trump won | Robyn Curnow

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2024/11/07

As Donald Trump prepares to take control again - with a huge mandate from the American public - Robyn Curnow unpacks the result with her frank outsider perspective. While she's spent time trying to understand why so many of her neighbors voted for Trump, she is also clear that this is not a race the Democrats should have lost. Why? Joe Biden made a decision to run for a second term. If he had not, would things be very different

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00:13:03

The Here Be Dragons Election | Robyn Curnow and guests

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2024/11/04

Early European map makers drew dragons and wrote ‘Here Be Dragons’ on areas of the world that were still undiscovered or unknown. It is an HBD week in America. We are about to sail into uncharted waters, and it’s totally and utterly unclear what the waves will reveal after the election. In the first ten episodes of Searching for America, Robyn Curnow asked her guests to give her three words to describe America. Three words only. In this special election episode she piles all the words together and

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00:14:58

An election scarier than Halloween | Ben Jealous

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2024/10/29

Ben Jealous is one of America's civil rights leaders. He's worked with Kamala Harris in San Francisco and heads up the country's largest and oldest environmental group. Robyn Curnow talks to him about black men being 'Trump-curious,' white poverty and his personal story as the son of a mixed-race marriage that was illegal at the time.http://www.x.com/benjealous http://www.x.com/robyncurnow http://www.searchingforamericapod.com http://www.robyncurnow.net http://www.instagram.com/robyncurnow Ben

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00:11:59

That's when we knew something was off with Bill Cosby...

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2024/10/29

Ben Jealous has given thousands of speeches as an American civil rights leader but few would guess that he had a childhood stutter that still defines his patterns of speech. As a surfer, he says he tends to ride his words and sentences like a wave. When he was a kid, Bill Cosby humiliated his stammer which left Ben's family stunned at the contrast between Cosby's public and personal behavior. Take listen to Ben favourite things on this bonus b-roll episode. Ben Jealous Three words to describe

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00:30:00

Please, no, American politics are not 'unprecedented'...

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2024/10/23

The son of a rabbi and a renowned sociologist, Julian Zelizer is a Princeton historian who studies modern American politics in a clear, cool way. Robyn Curnow - who has covered elections around the worlld wanted to know why the politics of Donald Trump has taken so firmly root in American life and why Americans get so amped up over single issues. And, Robyn (who was in the 'belly of the beast' at CNN) and Julian talk frankly about the mistakes the media made in covering Trump in the early days. And

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00:17:51

The Son of a Rabbi, LBJ and the Grateful Dead |...

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2024/10/23

What are the current American leaders like? Princeton historian Julian Zelizer tells Robyn Curnow his perceptions of Trump, Biden, Vance, Harris and other leaders he's interviewed. Three words to describe America right now? Fractured, divided and fragile. Time travel? Oval Office, 1960's during Lyndon Johnson Presidency Music? Grateful Dead Ideal dinner guests? Ella Backer, Martin Luther King, FDR, Jerry

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