Weekend Listen: BTS Leads Netflix’s Push for Growth in Asia
BTS is back. After a near four-year hiatus, the K-pop icons returned with a historic Netflix event – the platform’s first concert live streamed from Asia. On today's Big Take Asia podcast, host K. Oa...
29 Maalis 18min
How US Troops Could Go About Taking Hormuz
Leaders in Washington and Tehran are on the clock, with about a month to wrap up the Iran war before it does greater damage to the global economy and their own political fates, according to retired Ad...
27 Maalis 19min
What Really Happened in the Battle for Warner Bros.
Just when it seemed that Netflix had clinched the deal to purchase Warner Bros. Discovery, Paramount Skydance Corp. swooped in with a $110 billion counter-offer that was ultimately too good for the st...
26 Maalis 17min
The Prosecutor Who Tried to Stop Epstein, in Her Own Words
Two decades ago, a federal prosecutor in Florida spent two years investigating Jeffrey Epstein and urged her superiors to charge him. Her frustrations mounted as her boss, US Attorney Alex Acosta, pur...
25 Maalis 22min
What Trump Wants in Cuba
President Donald Trump says he believes he’ll have the “honor of taking Cuba.” As the island nation suffers from major blackouts and a US squeeze on its oil supply, its regime’s survival — and the cou...
24 Maalis 19min
$100 to Fill Up Your Tank? Some Drivers Look Elsewhere
As the war with Iran drags out and oil prices remain turbulent, it raises the question of whether — and how — prolonged conflict in the Middle East might impact global fossil fuel dependence and the f...
23 Maalis 16min
The Sixth Bureau Episode 6: Nothing Is Holy
In Episode 6 of The Sixth Bureau, a series from The Big Take, with spy Xu Yanjun in prison, the US government pursues some of his collaborators. Plus, host Jordan Robertson gets an unexpected call whi...
20 Maalis 35min
Reopening the Strait of Hormuz Is Going to Take Awhile
Has Iran laid mines across the Strait of Hormuz? With attacks on gas and oil facilities across the Middle East sending energy prices soaring, a key to restoring global oil supplies is ensuring the Str...
19 Maalis 14min
