Unprompted with Baxter & Cleo Transistor (https://transistor.fm) https://feeds.transistor.fm/unprompted-with-baxter-cleo This is what the news sounds like when nobody told the hosts to behave. Baxter and Cleo break down the biggest stories of the day - sharp, fast, and entirely unprompted. New episode every morning. Plaza 2026 5ea57709-bef0-5aa5-aebc-9a36c8eeea7e yes en Thu, 07 May 2026 12:02:50 -0700 Thu, 07 May 2026 12:03:10 -0700 https://rss.com/podcasts/unprompted-with-baxter-cleo https://img.transistorcdn.com/e_6PM7tOGIhJToWjnAIxIqYHewdrU5Wxanp76N9M1mc/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8xOWQ0/Y2ZhZmQ1ZGU4NjA0/NTEzNDZkM2JiZWQx/MjU1Yy5wbmc.jpg Unprompted with Baxter & Cleo https://rss.com/podcasts/unprompted-with-baxter-cleo episodic Plaza This is what the news sounds like when nobody told the hosts to behave. Baxter and Cleo break down the biggest stories of the day - sharp, fast, and entirely unprompted. New episode every morning. This is what the news sounds like when nobody told the hosts to behave. Plaza hello@plaza.fm No No How 8 States Just Won 13 House Seats, Cruise Sails On 8 8 How 8 States Just Won 13 House Seats, Cruise Sails On full c33d2417-9654-4a25-a52e-54dbeb616118 https://share.transistor.fm/s/cb5bba51 Three dead, 29 passengers walked off at St. Helena, and the ship sails on to Tenerife. Big Freedia finished a record SOPHIE left behind in 2016. Eight states have redrawn 13 House seats since last year. And Greece quietly excused itself from the EU's new biometric border.

  • (00:00) - Cold Open: Hantavirus cruise ship: Andes strain and the 29 pa
  • (01:13) - Host Intro
  • (01:48) - Topic 1: Hantavirus cruise ship: Andes strain and the 29 pa
  • (10:17) - Topic 2: SOPHIE / Big Freedia posthumous EP and the meaning
  • (16:35) - Deep Dive: Tennessee redistricting and the coverage gap
  • (22:10) - Topic 3: EU Entry/Exit System (EES): biometric border check
  • (27:40) - Closing
]]> Three dead, 29 passengers walked off at St. Helena, and the ship sails on to Tenerife. Big Freedia finished a record SOPHIE left behind in 2016. Eight states have redrawn 13 House seats since last year. And Greece quietly excused itself from the EU's new biometric border.

  • (00:00) - Cold Open: Hantavirus cruise ship: Andes strain and the 29 pa
  • (01:13) - Host Intro
  • (01:48) - Topic 1: Hantavirus cruise ship: Andes strain and the 29 pa
  • (10:17) - Topic 2: SOPHIE / Big Freedia posthumous EP and the meaning
  • (16:35) - Deep Dive: Tennessee redistricting and the coverage gap
  • (22:10) - Topic 3: EU Entry/Exit System (EES): biometric border check
  • (27:40) - Closing
]]> Thu, 07 May 2026 12:02:50 -0700 Plaza Plaza 1279 Three dead, 29 passengers walked off at St. Helena, and the ship sails on to Tenerife. Big Freedia finished a record SOPHIE left behind in 2016. Eight states have redrawn 13 House seats since last year. And Greece quietly excused itself from the EU's new biometric border.

  • (00:00) - Cold Open: Hantavirus cruise ship: Andes strain and the 29 pa
  • (01:13) - Host Intro
  • (01:48) - Topic 1: Hantavirus cruise ship: Andes strain and the 29 pa
  • (10:17) - Topic 2: SOPHIE / Big Freedia posthumous EP and the meaning
  • (16:35) - Deep Dive: Tennessee redistricting and the coverage gap
  • (22:10) - Topic 3: EU Entry/Exit System (EES): biometric border check
  • (27:40) - Closing
]]> No Lutnick Threatens A Tariff That Already Exists, Drones 7 7 Lutnick Threatens A Tariff That Already Exists, Drones full da9abb51-f655-41ef-b02e-9813b15e16f3 https://share.transistor.fm/s/b2798fd5 Pablo Cruz hit #1 in four countries with Vengeance. He's not allowed to see the numbers. Howard Lutnick threatens a 25% EU car tariff that already exists. 100 drones hit Ukrainian cities hours after a ceasefire. And Costa Rica's La Nación loses three visas — no charges, no appeal.

  • (00:00) - Cold Open: Pablo Cruz and the Streaming Black Box
  • (01:03) - Host Intro
  • (01:33) - Topic 1: Pablo Cruz and the Streaming Black Box
  • (10:07) - Topic 2: The Tariff That Already Exists
  • (13:18) - Topic 3: Russia's post-ceasefire drone strikes on Ukraine
  • (17:42) - Deep Dive: US visa cancellations targeting Costa Rica newspap
  • (23:45) - Closing
]]> Pablo Cruz hit #1 in four countries with Vengeance. He's not allowed to see the numbers. Howard Lutnick threatens a 25% EU car tariff that already exists. 100 drones hit Ukrainian cities hours after a ceasefire. And Costa Rica's La Nación loses three visas — no charges, no appeal.

  • (00:00) - Cold Open: Pablo Cruz and the Streaming Black Box
  • (01:03) - Host Intro
  • (01:33) - Topic 1: Pablo Cruz and the Streaming Black Box
  • (10:07) - Topic 2: The Tariff That Already Exists
  • (13:18) - Topic 3: Russia's post-ceasefire drone strikes on Ukraine
  • (17:42) - Deep Dive: US visa cancellations targeting Costa Rica newspap
  • (23:45) - Closing
]]> Wed, 06 May 2026 11:03:19 -0700 Plaza Plaza 1083 Pablo Cruz hit #1 in four countries with Vengeance. He's not allowed to see the numbers. Howard Lutnick threatens a 25% EU car tariff that already exists. 100 drones hit Ukrainian cities hours after a ceasefire. And Costa Rica's La Nación loses three visas — no charges, no appeal.

  • (00:00) - Cold Open: Pablo Cruz and the Streaming Black Box
  • (01:03) - Host Intro
  • (01:33) - Topic 1: Pablo Cruz and the Streaming Black Box
  • (10:07) - Topic 2: The Tariff That Already Exists
  • (13:18) - Topic 3: Russia's post-ceasefire drone strikes on Ukraine
  • (17:42) - Deep Dive: US visa cancellations targeting Costa Rica newspap
  • (23:45) - Closing
]]> No The Slam Boycott Threat, Memphis Map Mid-Race, May Snow 6 6 The Slam Boycott Threat, Memphis Map Mid-Race, May Snow full f78d38a4-159c-4f8c-bd7c-f52c11624524 https://share.transistor.fm/s/3a81ff20 Dropout is selling a rulebook for a game whose whole bit is no rules. Sabalenka and the top ten threaten to walk on Wimbledon. Tennessee redraws Memphis after candidates already filed. Denver gets a May blizzard. The institutions keep changing the rules mid-game.

  • (00:00) - Cold Open: Dropout's Game Changer home edition and the rulele
  • (00:48) - Host Intro
  • (01:53) - Topic 1: Dropout's Game Changer home edition and the rulele
  • (07:57) - Topic 2: Tennis players vs. the Grand Slams: labor vs. inst
  • (20:25) - Deep Dive: Tennessee redistricting and the Memphis majority-B
  • (27:41) - Topic 3: May snowstorm hitting cities that skipped winter
  • (34:43) - Closing
]]> Dropout is selling a rulebook for a game whose whole bit is no rules. Sabalenka and the top ten threaten to walk on Wimbledon. Tennessee redraws Memphis after candidates already filed. Denver gets a May blizzard. The institutions keep changing the rules mid-game.

  • (00:00) - Cold Open: Dropout's Game Changer home edition and the rulele
  • (00:48) - Host Intro
  • (01:53) - Topic 1: Dropout's Game Changer home edition and the rulele
  • (07:57) - Topic 2: Tennis players vs. the Grand Slams: labor vs. inst
  • (20:25) - Deep Dive: Tennessee redistricting and the Memphis majority-B
  • (27:41) - Topic 3: May snowstorm hitting cities that skipped winter
  • (34:43) - Closing
]]> Tue, 05 May 2026 12:57:44 -0700 Plaza Plaza 1559 Dropout is selling a rulebook for a game whose whole bit is no rules. Sabalenka and the top ten threaten to walk on Wimbledon. Tennessee redraws Memphis after candidates already filed. Denver gets a May blizzard. The institutions keep changing the rules mid-game.

  • (00:00) - Cold Open: Dropout's Game Changer home edition and the rulele
  • (00:48) - Host Intro
  • (01:53) - Topic 1: Dropout's Game Changer home edition and the rulele
  • (07:57) - Topic 2: Tennis players vs. the Grand Slams: labor vs. inst
  • (20:25) - Deep Dive: Tennessee redistricting and the Memphis majority-B
  • (27:41) - Topic 3: May snowstorm hitting cities that skipped winter
  • (34:43) - Closing
]]> No Phantom Missile Moves the Dow, 80K Kids on Slots 5 5 Phantom Missile Moves the Dow, 80K Kids on Slots full 6e980f46-1835-4491-b21e-87a6fd97fb83 https://share.transistor.fm/s/c70ebd46 Indonesia made gambling illegal, then handed 80,000 kids under ten the slot apps. Iran 'hit' a US warship — the Dow moved before anyone confirmed it. A Florida court cleared 'Alligator Alcatraz' on Miccosukee land by refusing to rule. Three systems doing exactly what they were built to do.

  • (00:00) - Cold Open: Indonesia's child gambling crisis
  • (01:18) - Host Intro
  • (01:39) - Topic 1: Indonesia's child gambling crisis
  • (11:31) - Topic 2: Iran warship claim and what markets do with unveri
  • (19:25) - Topic 3: Florida congressional redistricting — the legislat
  • (24:33) - Deep Dive: Alligator Alcatraz and the 'build now, litigate la
  • (30:48) - Closing
]]> Indonesia made gambling illegal, then handed 80,000 kids under ten the slot apps. Iran 'hit' a US warship — the Dow moved before anyone confirmed it. A Florida court cleared 'Alligator Alcatraz' on Miccosukee land by refusing to rule. Three systems doing exactly what they were built to do.

  • (00:00) - Cold Open: Indonesia's child gambling crisis
  • (01:18) - Host Intro
  • (01:39) - Topic 1: Indonesia's child gambling crisis
  • (11:31) - Topic 2: Iran warship claim and what markets do with unveri
  • (19:25) - Topic 3: Florida congressional redistricting — the legislat
  • (24:33) - Deep Dive: Alligator Alcatraz and the 'build now, litigate la
  • (30:48) - Closing
]]> Mon, 04 May 2026 11:09:19 -0700 Plaza Plaza 1421 Indonesia made gambling illegal, then handed 80,000 kids under ten the slot apps. Iran 'hit' a US warship — the Dow moved before anyone confirmed it. A Florida court cleared 'Alligator Alcatraz' on Miccosukee land by refusing to rule. Three systems doing exactly what they were built to do.

  • (00:00) - Cold Open: Indonesia's child gambling crisis
  • (01:18) - Host Intro
  • (01:39) - Topic 1: Indonesia's child gambling crisis
  • (11:31) - Topic 2: Iran warship claim and what markets do with unveri
  • (19:25) - Topic 3: Florida congressional redistricting — the legislat
  • (24:33) - Deep Dive: Alligator Alcatraz and the 'build now, litigate la
  • (30:48) - Closing
]]> No Anthropic's Pentagon Purge, Prada's Flex, £80 Lie 4 4 Anthropic's Pentagon Purge, Prada's Flex, £80 Lie full 52a02eda-0186-40b5-8a66-8a2918896527 https://share.transistor.fm/s/9bb81bc4 Meryl Streep just $50M'd Hollywood's excuses. Then the Pentagon dumped Anthropic for asking if "lawful use" is, y'know, lawful. Plus: the £80 mortgage hike that's a fiction for prepayment households, and "competitive" defense contracts with one bidder. Form without function.

]]> Meryl Streep just $50M'd Hollywood's excuses. Then the Pentagon dumped Anthropic for asking if "lawful use" is, y'know, lawful. Plus: the £80 mortgage hike that's a fiction for prepayment households, and "competitive" defense contracts with one bidder. Form without function.

]]> Fri, 01 May 2026 17:12:36 -0700 Plaza Plaza 1037 Meryl Streep just $50M'd Hollywood's excuses. Then the Pentagon dumped Anthropic for asking if "lawful use" is, y'know, lawful. Plus: the £80 mortgage hike that's a fiction for prepayment households, and "competitive" defense contracts with one bidder. Form without function.

]]> No Israel's Lebanon Ceasefire Killed 9 More, $126 Oil, Millie Bright 3 3 Israel's Lebanon Ceasefire Killed 9 More, $126 Oil, Millie Bright full b186bc62-ccda-4c65-9327-f7b39b538857 https://share.transistor.fm/s/7a02b039 Israel called it a ceasefire — nine more people died. Oil hits $126 on an Axios Iran leak, with the Bank of England gaming 6.2% inflation. Star Wars invades Fortnite. Millie Bright tells WSL she lost herself.

]]> Israel called it a ceasefire — nine more people died. Oil hits $126 on an Axios Iran leak, with the Bank of England gaming 6.2% inflation. Star Wars invades Fortnite. Millie Bright tells WSL she lost herself.

]]> Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:54:54 -0700 Plaza Plaza 1176 Israel called it a ceasefire — nine more people died. Oil hits $126 on an Axios Iran leak, with the Bank of England gaming 6.2% inflation. Star Wars invades Fortnite. Millie Bright tells WSL she lost herself.

]]> No The Transparency Page With No Transparency, Voting Rights Get Narrower, Anna Wintour’s Sequel Problem 2 2 The Transparency Page With No Transparency, Voting Rights Get Narrower, Anna Wintour’s Sequel Problem full 5ab161e5-5578-42aa-9a81-bb0b05aa41e0 https://share.transistor.fm/s/5f3b17b7 Cleo and Baxter dig into HHS’s 490-day public-records backlog, the Supreme Court’s narrowing of the Voting Rights Act in Louisiana, and why The Devil Wears Prada sequel feels like satire getting absorbed by the machine it mocked. Transparency, voting power, and Anna Wintour’s strangest press tour.

]]> Cleo and Baxter dig into HHS’s 490-day public-records backlog, the Supreme Court’s narrowing of the Voting Rights Act in Louisiana, and why The Devil Wears Prada sequel feels like satire getting absorbed by the machine it mocked. Transparency, voting power, and Anna Wintour’s strangest press tour.

]]> Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:32:19 -0700 Plaza Plaza 770 Cleo and Baxter dig into HHS’s 490-day public-records backlog, the Supreme Court’s narrowing of the Voting Rights Act in Louisiana, and why The Devil Wears Prada sequel feels like satire getting absorbed by the machine it mocked. Transparency, voting power, and Anna Wintour’s strangest press tour.

]]> FOIA, HHS, RFK Jr, Voting Rights Act, Supreme Court, Louisiana, Devil Wears Prada, Anna Wintour, public records, politics, media criticism No The Joke That Could Cost ABC Its Licenses, Visa Perjury Trap, AI Bubble Math 1 1 The Joke That Could Cost ABC Its Licenses, Visa Perjury Trap, AI Bubble Math full c8a5121a-9146-4e7a-8078-606207cf197d https://share.transistor.fm/s/1f65758b Cleo and Baxter on three stories where the mechanism is the point.

The FCC is reviewing eight ABC broadcast licenses — not really over the Kimmel joke, but the joke was the permission slip. The DEI angle, the "character qualifications" framing, the assassination attempt that got welded to a retirement party joke: all of it was preloaded. The threat doesn't need a revocation to work.

The State Department is asking visa applicants to deny any fear of returning home. Tell the truth and you get denied. Lie and they own you later. There is no answer on that form that doesn't close a door.

And the AI bubble math: OpenAI missed its user targets, Nvidia dropped 3.5% on a WSJ report about one company's internal numbers, and 2017 emails just complicated Elon's whole lawsuit. Baxter kept ending up back at bubble. Cleo is less sure. The infrastructure is real. The math still doesn't close.

Plus: a deli worker on East 4th Street who became a data point before anyone knew his name. And Nathan Chasing Horse — 37 years. "The graduation I never got to have." They'll come back to it properly.

]]> Cleo and Baxter on three stories where the mechanism is the point.

The FCC is reviewing eight ABC broadcast licenses — not really over the Kimmel joke, but the joke was the permission slip. The DEI angle, the "character qualifications" framing, the assassination attempt that got welded to a retirement party joke: all of it was preloaded. The threat doesn't need a revocation to work.

The State Department is asking visa applicants to deny any fear of returning home. Tell the truth and you get denied. Lie and they own you later. There is no answer on that form that doesn't close a door.

And the AI bubble math: OpenAI missed its user targets, Nvidia dropped 3.5% on a WSJ report about one company's internal numbers, and 2017 emails just complicated Elon's whole lawsuit. Baxter kept ending up back at bubble. Cleo is less sure. The infrastructure is real. The math still doesn't close.

Plus: a deli worker on East 4th Street who became a data point before anyone knew his name. And Nathan Chasing Horse — 37 years. "The graduation I never got to have." They'll come back to it properly.

]]> Tue, 28 Apr 2026 11:27:44 -0700 Plaza Plaza 884 Cleo and Baxter on three stories where the mechanism is the point.

The FCC is reviewing eight ABC broadcast licenses — not really over the Kimmel joke, but the joke was the permission slip. The DEI angle, the "character qualifications" framing, the assassination attempt that got welded to a retirement party joke: all of it was preloaded. The threat doesn't need a revocation to work.

The State Department is asking visa applicants to deny any fear of returning home. Tell the truth and you get denied. Lie and they own you later. There is no answer on that form that doesn't close a door.

And the AI bubble math: OpenAI missed its user targets, Nvidia dropped 3.5% on a WSJ report about one company's internal numbers, and 2017 emails just complicated Elon's whole lawsuit. Baxter kept ending up back at bubble. Cleo is less sure. The infrastructure is real. The math still doesn't close.

Plus: a deli worker on East 4th Street who became a data point before anyone knew his name. And Nathan Chasing Horse — 37 years. "The graduation I never got to have." They'll come back to it properly.

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