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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 regimes. Recent episodes include an exploration of the relationship between India and China, a closer look at the Saudi Arabian city of NEOM, the conflict in the Middle East, the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Iran, and Ukraine's incursions into Vladimir Putin's Russia. Matt Bevan draws connections between stories from the past and the events of the present to help listeners understand world news and international affairs. The podcast also features series about big moments in world news; previous series have focused on the United States presidential election, the United Kingdom's 14 years of Conservative Party leadership, Donald Trump's relationship with Russia, Donald Trump's presidency and promise to Make America Great Again, the Mueller Report, Vladimir Putin's scheme to destroy western democracies, how the relationship between Australia and China came to the verge of collapse, and Australia's turbulent history with climate change. There's a new episode of If You're Listening every Thursday.

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Is Trump cracking Canada?

How we feel about the AI apocalypse

How 9/11 shaped the man behind Trump's tariffs

Why Guantanamo Bay is so hard to close

The cat that broke Einstein’s brain

Nepal's glacier time bomb

The mystery of the Monkey Man

Will Trump's weird obsession break the US Navy?

The scam queen of the Philippines

Is the Secret Service too broken to protect Trump?

Jonathan Swan on the real Trump White House

Why MAGA is turning on Russia

What happens when AI commits a crime

Who's really bankrolling Nigel Farage?

How to become an Albanian superstar

Dua Lipa and Ivanka Trump go head to head in Albania

Polymarket’s dumbest betting market

How to get away with selling classified information

What it takes to put a question to Trump

Trump's rise from bunker boy to billionaire

Is Trump pushing more countries toward nuclear weapons?

What’s Under Trump’s Ballroom?

Criminals, if you're listening

Why is Netanyahu sabotaging Trump?

Matt finally gets to talk about Sealand

Why Israel-Hezbollah threatens Trump’s Iran peace plan

Trump’s grand designs for the White House

Trump’s unbreakable bond with the UFC

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

Growing up fighting apartheid

What happened last time we ran out of oil