American Diplomat
by Ambassador (Retired) Pete Romero and Writer/Producer Laura Bennett
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What The Government Doesn't Want You to Know
Jun 25, 2026
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Y2K to H1B?
Jun 18, 2026
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Politics by Other Means?
Jun 11, 2026
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Persona No Deseada
Jun 6, 2026
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"This Golden Land"
May 28, 2026
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6/25/26 | What The Government Doesn't Want You to Know | Gotcha, right? Or, "Click before it's too late!" Or even, "Hey, kid. You're pretty good at this. Want a real gun?" Career public diplomacy officer Karl Stoltz tells the truth about "FIMI" – deep fakes, false personas, trolls, bots – lies that aim to provoke fear and anger and destabilize target populations. | — | ||||||
| 6/18/26 | Y2K to H1B? | When did the US first warm to India and why? Why did Pakistan nominate Trump for a Nobel? And what does the Y2K bug have to do with US-India relations today? Former ambassador Don Lu shares stories and insight on person-to person diplomacy and his personal connection to Disney's Splash Mountain. | — | ||||||
| 6/11/26 | Politics by Other Means? | Why can't we just bomb our way to victory in Iran? Listen to Lt. General Karen Gibson, former Director of Intelligence for U.S. Central Command, tell tales of the three-legged stool of military, intel and diplomacy in Iran, Afghanistan, and Iraq – when things go well and when they do not. | — | ||||||
| 6/6/26 | Persona No Deseada | Former Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Todd Robinson spent much of his career under fire, of one kind or another. Listen to his candid views on corruption in Guatemala, blowing up ships without due process, and how to stop fentanyl from killing Americans. | — | ||||||
| 5/28/26 | "This Golden Land" | Is it Burma, or is it Myanmar? Did its former leader Aung San Suu Kyi bring democratic reform or did she commit genocide? Both? Chris Milligan, former Agency Counselor for USAID, highlights breathtaking human resilience and the strategic value of foreign assistance. | — | ||||||
| 5/22/26 | USAID: Into The Wood Chipper | What was USAID? How did DOGE destroy it, and with what impacts to global health and stability? Nick Enrich's book "Into the Wood Chipper" details the demolition of the agency that for less than 1% of the US budget saved 92 million lives globally. Listen to him tell the tale. | — | ||||||
| 5/14/26 | The Case of the Powdered Orange Drink | What is "dumping"? How does it hurt us? Who comes to the rescue? The Foreign Commercial Service! Judy Reinke, after leading the FCS, became Ambassador to Montenegro. Listen to her tales of service near and far. | — | ||||||
| 5/7/26 | Loose Nukes | How to get bomb-ready uranium out of the wrong hands? It's the mid-90s. The Soviet Union just fell. Andrew Weber, former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical & Biological Defense Programs, tells of moose hunts, wild turkey, black ice and convoys under cover of night. How does past diplomacy help us understand the nuclear situation in Iran today? | — | ||||||
| 4/30/26 | Diplomat Lounge: Iran, A Way Out of the Mess✨ | diplomacyIran+3 | Ambassador Gary Grappo | ASU Barrett Honors | — | Irandiplomacy+3 | — | 38m 11s | |
| 4/23/26 | Remember the Old Days (Say, 2020)?✨ | political controldiplomacy+3 | Dave Kostelancik | Trump | HungaryBudapest | OrbanHungary+5 | — | 30m 52s | |
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| 4/16/26 | The Rise and Demise of The House of Orban✨ | Hungary politicsViktor Orban+3 | Kurt Volker | House of Orban | Hungary | Viktor OrbanHungary+4 | — | 26m 47s | |
| 4/9/26 | "That Devil Feltman"✨ | diplomacyUN politics+3 | AMB Jeff Feltman | UN | PyongyangUnited States | diplomatUN+5 | — | 57m 21s | |
| 4/3/26 | Diplomat Lounge: How To Fix Fear and Loathing in a Post Trump World✨ | US influencepost-Trump world+3 | — | American DiplomatDiplomat Lounge | — | US influencepost-Trump+4 | — | 54m 37s | |
| 3/26/26 | Saudi and Israel – It's Complicated✨ | Saudi ArabiaIsrael+5 | Amb. Michael Ratney | — | Saudi ArabiaIsrael+2 | Saudi ArabiaIsrael+6 | — | 52m 06s | |
| 3/20/26 | Sampling Shawarma on the Champs-Elysees in Za'atari Refugee Camp✨ | Middle East conflictdiplomatic insights+3 | Ambassador Stuart Jones | — | Middle EastIraq+2 | Middle Eastdiplomacy+6 | — | 50m 08s | |
| 3/12/26 | Is "Soft Power" Really So Soft?✨ | soft powerhard power+3 | Mark Storella | US | Zambia | soft powerhard power+5 | — | 51m 14s | |
| 3/5/26 | How the Sausage is Made: 25YA✨ | diplomacyapprenticeship+3 | Henry Haggard | American Diplomat | — | diplomacyapprenticeship+3 | — | 48m 59s | |
| 2/26/26 | Gen Z And Their Take on America's Future✨ | Gen Zauthenticity+3 | Kate KelleySophia Agelastos | ASU Barrett Honors Students | — | Gen Zauthenticity+5 | — | 50m 44s | |
| 2/19/26 | Special Envoys: Cleanup on Aisle Seven | At a time when Trump wages war against expertise, with scores of career ambassadors being recalled and a thinning of officers in the field, Undersecretary of State John Bass holds forth on why real estate and business experience, as well as AI, cannot substitute for diplomatic tradecraft. | — | ||||||
| 2/12/26 | Now That's Incredible! (Yes, it is.) | You probably thought that an ambassador's job was to help Americans and work with local governments. And so did Ambassador Dan Rosenblum! But to his amazement he discovered that he was in charge of bioweapons campaigns designed to infect populations and plots to overthrow governments and destabilize society overseas! Not true, of course, but the disinformation machinery is hard at work. At what cost? And what can we do to combat this form of warfare? Listen to Dan's personal experience in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. | — | ||||||
| 2/5/26 | Where Intelligence Meets Diplomacy | Have you ever heard of the teeny tiny Bureau of Intelligence and Research within the State Department? Pull up a chair, because we have Phil Goldberg and Dan Smith here – both career ambassadors (highest rank in the Senior Foreign Service), and both Assistant Secretaries of State for this small but mighty intelligence service. Have a look under the hood at what may be the coolest job in the world. | — | ||||||
| 1/29/26 | PoliticsUS/Israel: Does the Tail Wag the Dog? | Israeli security has been the third rail of public discourse. Support all that Israel does or Hamas owns you. The result: waning support. Joel Rubin is back to unpack how Trump is changing the script. | — | ||||||
| 1/22/26 | What Explains The Global Rise of Anti-Semitism? | Jewish-American political analyst Joel Rubin unpacks the reasons for the increase in hate crimes and why Jewish-American groups did not expect a rise in anti-Semitism. | — | ||||||
| 1/15/26 | Strategic Patience: Can We Return to Diplomacy? | Must our foreign policy be based on ego, resources and might-makes-right? Can we effectively meet future challenges with policies based on American values? Ambassador Mike Polt hopes so, and ASU is developing a plan for the long game. | — | ||||||
| 1/8/26 | Venezuela: Gunboat Diplomacy Redux | Why hasn't Trump decided to keep US boots on the ground? Let us count the reasons. Hint, it's not because it would be a bad look. | — | ||||||
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Chart Positions
16 placements across 16 markets.
Chart Positions
16 placements across 16 markets.