{"podcast":{"title":"The Josie Show","slug":"spaces-x-josie-6719832","podcast_index_feed_id":6719832,"rss_url":"https://feeds.libsyn.com/552282/rss","website_url":"https://www.timcast.com","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/7/b/e/c/7bec13e584a89c69d959afa2a1bf1c87/TJS_Audio_PFP.jpg","author":"Timcast Media","episode_count":115,"summary":"The Josie Show is your home for UNFILTERED & UNFLINCHINGLY HONEST discussions about the most important political and cultural headlines of the day. Josie Glabach aka The Redheaded Libertarian on X.com is one of the most engaged and influential social media personalities, cutting through the noise and hysteria to deliver incisive analysis that's always informed by America's founding Constitutional principles.","last_synced_at":"2026-08-02T14:19:24.909346+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/spaces-x-josie-6719832"},"episode":{"title":"ZeroHedge Debate Moderated by Josie, Mike Benz vs. Cenk Uygur Debate US Foreign Aid","slug":"zerohedge-debate-moderated-by-josie-mike-benz-vs-cenk-uygur-debate-us-foreign-aid","published_at":"2025-07-01T15:17:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/spaces-x-josie-6719832/zerohedge-debate-moderated-by-josie-mike-benz-vs-cenk-uygur-debate-us-foreign-aid","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/spaces-x-josie-6719832","url":"https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/foreign-aid-deep-states-tentacle-control","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/51cea77a-e1cc-41cf-9294-c42566cc37ae/Zero_Hedge_Debate.mp3?dest-id=4768147","summary":"But is it worse than that? Not simply a wealth transfer but a lever of control, wielded by the U.S. government to make weaker nations fall in line. Soft power as they call it. Few understand it better than Mike Benz, formerly the \"Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Communications and Information Policy\" at the State Department. Benz believes soft power and foreign aid, managed effectively, have their place in the U.S. empire. Tonight we are bringing the reformist Benz together with foreign aid proponent Cenk Uygur and abolitionist Keith Knight (editor of Scott Horton's Libertarian Institute) to answer the question: \"should we abolish foreign aid?\" Hosted by Josie.","meta_description":"But is it worse than that? Not simply a wealth transfer but a lever of control, wielded by the U.S. government to make weaker nations fall in line. Soft p…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":5251,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/spaces-x-josie-6719832/episodes/zerohedge-debate-moderated-by-josie-mike-benz-vs-cenk-uygur-debate-us-foreign-aid/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/spaces-x-josie-6719832/zerohedge-debate-moderated-by-josie-mike-benz-vs-cenk-uygur-debate-us-foreign-aid.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}