It's the Foreign Influence Podcast, with American Bill Poorman 🇺🇸 and Dutchman Nikolaj Groeneweg 🇳🇱 taking you on a humorously serious and seriously humorous romp through international events. This time: • Ukraine continues its fight 🇺🇦 • Covid is still with us • 5,000 planets and counting! Thanks for listening! Reach out to us at hello@foreigninfl…

It's the Foreign Influence Podcast, with American Bill Poorman 🇺🇸 and Dutchman Nikolaj Groeneweg 🇳🇱 taking you on a humorously serious and seriously humorous romp through international events. This time: • Nikolaj claims he's still in Paris, not in Ukraine, but Bill isn't sure... • Blame the West for the invasion? • Triple vaxxed? ✅ Covid? ✅ DOUBLE…

It's the Foreign Influence Podcast, with American Bill Poorman 🇺🇸 and Dutchman Nikolaj Groeneweg 🇳🇱 taking you on a humorously serious and seriously humorous romp through international events. This time: • Well, one more horseman of the apocalypse is upon us. • We stand with Ukraine 🇺🇦. • Masks are coming down, but the covid risk for many is low. •…

It's the Foreign Influence Podcast, with American Bill Poorman 🇺🇸 and Dutchman Nikolaj Groeneweg 🇳🇱 taking you on a humorously serious and seriously humorous romp through international events. This time: • It's hard to quit the 'rona • US politics is awesome • Australians are hard core • Looking for good news wherever you can find it Thanks for lis…

It's the Foreign Influence Podcast, with American Bill Poorman 🇺🇸 and Dutchman Nikolaj Groeneweg 🇳🇱 taking you on a humorously serious and seriously humorous romp through international events. This time: • In this New Year's Eve episode, we celebrate the purely awesome, truly spectacular year that was 2021. • Nikolaj got the 'rona! And it's coming …

It's the Foreign Influence Podcast, with American Bill Poorman 🇺🇸 and Dutchman Nikolaj Groeneweg 🇳🇱 taking you on a humorously serious and seriously humorous romp through international events. This time: • We struggle to make Biden quotable, but you can't say we didn't try. • A report out of France details decades of abuse of children by the French…

It's the Foreign Influence Podcast, with American Bill Poorman 🇺🇸 and Dutchman Nikolaj Groeneweg 🇳🇱 taking you on a humorously serious and seriously humorous romp through international events. This time: • Thanks to a nuclear-powered sub deal between the US and Australia, we have the latest example of things slowly brewing into a low-level conflict…

It's the Foreign Influence Podcast, with American Bill Poorman and Dutchman Nikolaj Groeneweg taking you on a humorously serious and seriously humorous romp through international events. This time: • Searching for good news, we find a country that has achieved top-level vaccination rates. Only to not open up again! • Learning to live with covid. • …

It's the Foreign Influence Podcast, with American Bill Poorman and Dutchman Nikolaj Groeneweg taking you on a humorously serious and seriously humorous romp through international events. This time: • Ah, delta, we're just getting to know you. But ffs, people - get vaccinated. • Afghanistan - the end or just a pause between American adventures? • Mo…

It's the Foreign Influence Podcast, with American Bill Poorman and Dutchman Nikolaj Groeneweg taking you on a humorously serious and seriously humorous romp through international events. This time: • Just one topic, really - Singapore! Nikolaj is back in Europe now, and Bill is back in the US, of course. Time for some reflection on our time in SG a…

It's the Foreign Influence Podcast, with American Bill Poorman and Dutchman Nikolaj Groeneweg taking you on a humorously serious and seriously humorous romp through international events. This time: • Catching up on covid - vaccines are getting there, but the variants are coming. Who's fault is it this time? • Under Biden's presidency, the US and Eu…

It's the Foreign Influence Podcast, with American Bill Poorman and Dutchman Nikolaj Groeneweg taking you on a humorously serious and seriously humorous romp through international events. This time we had to catch up on a lot of items since we took an episode off: • We allows ourselves just a bit of covid optimism, given the success of the vaccines …

It's the Foreign Influence Podcast, with American Bill Poorman and Dutchman Nikolaj Groeneweg taking you on a humorously serious and seriously humorous romp through the fortnight's international events. This time: • Happy Mother's Day to all whom it may concern! And a special thank you to our own two special "birthing people". • We've all survived …

It's the Foreign Influence Podcast, with American Bill Poorman and Dutchman Nikolaj Groeneweg taking you on a humorously serious and seriously humorous romp through the week's international events. This time: • India is experiencing a horrific covid outbreak, but the efficacy of the vaccines is really good. If only we can get them to where they are…

It's the Foreign Influence Podcast. In fact, it is the 50th episode of the Foreign Influence Podcast! As always, join American Bill Poorman and Dutchman Nikolaj Groeneweg as they take you on a humorously serious and seriously humorous romp through the week's international events. This time: • Bill has had his first dose of vaccination, and he feels…

It's the Foreign Influence Podcast, with American Bill Poorman and Dutchman Nikolaj Groeneweg, taking you on a humorously serious and seriously humorous romp through the week's international events! This time: • High level US and Chinese officials met for the first time since Biden took office, and it was quite the argumentative spectacle. • In a s…

It's the Foreign Influence Podcast, with American Bill Poorman and Dutchman Nikolaj Groeneweg, taking you on a humorously serious and seriously humorous romp through the week's international events! This time: • Biden announces "America is back". Is that good news? • American credibility and empire and allies and promise. • From Paris to Peoria? Sa…

It's the Foreign Influence Podcast, with American Bill Poorman and Dutchman Nikolaj Groeneweg, taking you on a humorously serious and seriously humorous romp through the week's international events! This time: • De-platforming people - talking them offline is a serious issue. Isn't it? • Comparing US vs European concepts of freedom of speech and fr…

It's the Foreign Influence Podcast, with American Bill Poorman and Dutchman Nikolaj Groeneweg, taking you on a humorously serious and seriously humorous romp through the week's international events! This time: • Seriously, what the hell else are we going to talk about? There was an insurrection - not hard to call it an attempted coup - in the US th…

It's the Foreign Influence Podcast, with American Bill Poorman and Dutchman Nikolaj Groeneweg, taking you on a humorously serious and seriously humorous romp through the year's week's international events! This time: • It's our end-of-the-year show! We still don't know where the crab people are, but we're sure they're delicious. • According to scie…

It's the Foreign Influence Podcast, with American Bill Poorman and Dutchman Nikolaj Groeneweg, taking you on a humorously serious and seriously humorous romp through the week's international events! This week: • The Supreme Court joins the Deep State • The US is making being a Third World country great again • In a related manner, Nikolaj has just …

It's the Foreign Influence Podcast, with American Bill Poorman and Dutchman Nikolaj Groeneweg, taking you on a humorously serious and seriously humorous romp through the week's international events! This week: • Fun with the War on Christmas and various Trump Cult highjinks • The cash machine that is tearing the fabric of American democracy • This …

It's the Foreign Influence Podcast, with American Bill Poorman and Dutchman Nikolaj Groeneweg, taking you on a humorously serious and seriously humorous romp through the week's international events! This week: • Pretty much the entire Eastern Hemisphere has signed a new free trade agreement and brought covid under control. They're moving on while t…

It's the Foreign Influence Podcast, with American Bill Poorman and Dutchman Nikolaj Groeneweg, taking you on a humorously serious and seriously humorous romp through the week's international events! Another episode with a focus on the US, because, you know: • The presidential race has been called for Biden/Harris, and we're breathing a sigh of reli…

It's the Foreign Influence Podcast, with American Bill Poorman and Dutchman Nikolaj Groeneweg, taking you on a humorously serious and seriously humorous romp through the week's international events! Did you hear there was an election in the US yesterday? Well, we've got you covered with trenchant analysis and commentary, including: • Count all the …

It's the Foreign Influence Podcast, with American Bill Poorman and Dutchman Nikolaj Groeneweg, taking you on a humorously serious and seriously humorous romp through the week's international events! This week: • Bill has voted. He had to wait an hour-and-a-half to do so, and Nikolaj just can't understand how that's possible. • Lying and politics - …

It's the Foreign Influence Podcast, with American Bill Poorman and Dutchman Nikolaj Groeneweg, taking you on a humorously serious and seriously humorous romp through the week's international events! This week: • Paris faces attacks of freedom of expression - again. • Europe is going under a new lockdown, the US never got it together, but Asia and t…

It's the Foreign Influence Podcast, with American Bill Poorman and Dutchman Nikolaj Groeneweg, taking you on a humorously serious and seriously humorous romp through the week's international events! This week: • The continuing saga of Trump getting the covid. • How patient should you be with anyone who still supports Trump? • Trump and the US's loo…

It's the Foreign Influence Podcast, with American Bill Poorman and Dutchman Nikolaj Groeneweg, taking you on a humorously serious and seriously humorous romp through the week's international events! This week: • Well, we thought we'd be discussing the US presidential debate, but then Trump got the covid! • With current international trends, Europe …

It's the Foreign Influence Podcast, with American Bill Poorman and Dutchman Nikolaj Groeneweg, taking you on a humorously serious and seriously humorous romp through the week's international events! This week: • Coronavirus chaos continues in the US, with the Trump administration seizing control over health science and anti-mask rallies that leave …

It's the Foreign Influence Podcast, with American Bill Poorman and Dutchman Nikolaj Groeneweg, taking you on a humorously serious and seriously humorous romp through the week's international events! This week we discuss some of the events we feel haven't gotten enough attention, as the US election and covid-19 dominate everyone's attention: • Early…

It's the Foreign Influence Podcast, with American Bill Poorman and Dutchman Nikolaj Groeneweg, taking you on a humorously serious and seriously humorous romp through the week's international events! This week: • Bill despairs at finding a common truth for Americans, while Nikolaj is just baffled by the entire spectacle. Conspiracy theories are runn…

It's the Foreign Influence Podcast, with American Bill Poorman and Dutchman Nikolaj Groeneweg, taking you on a humorously serious and seriously humorous romp through the week's international events! This week: • We're back after all the baloney Bill had with moving back to the US. • US presidential politics holds its conventions. • In the good news…

It's the Foreign Influence Podcast, with American Bill Poorman and Dutchman Nikolaj Groeneweg, taking you on a humorously serious and seriously humorous romp through the week's international events! This week: • Bill and Nikolaj record in the same studio for the last time in the foreseeable future. • The US, the Netherlands, France - everyone in th…

It's the Foreign Influence Podcast, with American Bill Poorman and Dutchman Nikolaj Groeneweg, taking you on a humorously serious and seriously humorous romp through the week's international events! This week: • Protests against police violence against blacks continue in the US, and police are using ugly tactics against protestors. • Singapore is p…

It's the Foreign Influence Podcast, with American Bill Poorman and Dutchman Nikolaj Groeneweg, taking you on a humorously serious and seriously humorous romp through the week's international events! This week, an episode mostly on 'Merica. Highlights are below, but please make sure to sign up for our newsletter - the Foreign Influence Dispatch - fo…

It's the Foreign Influence Podcast, with American Bill Poorman and Dutchman Nikolaj Groeneweg taking you on a humorously serious and seriously humorous romp through the week's international events! This week: • China lays the groundwork for a final crackdown on Hong Kong • Reflecting on the privileges and restrictions of being an expat, based on th…

In this episode of the Foreign Influence Podcast, we shake things up a bit with Bill interviewing freelance science journalist Mark Zastrow about South Korea's response to the SARS-Cov-2 coronavirus. The country has become an international model on how to contain the virus, and Bill talked to him about how South Korea has managed to crush the coron…

It's the Foreign Influence Podcast, in which American Bill Poorman and Dutchman Nikolaj Groeneweg - in defiance of all things corona - take you on a humorously serious and seriously humorous romp through the week's international events! This week: • Staying in is hard for some people. • What it takes to make the necessary trade-offs between the pub…

Warning: We were a bit wound up on this episode, so definitely some NSFW words. 🤬🥺😇 It's the Foreign Influence Podcast, in which American Bill Poorman and Dutchman Nikolaj Groeneweg - in defiance of all things corona - take you on a humorously serious and seriously humorous romp through the week's international events! This week: • Once Pres. Trump…

A special episode of the Foreign Influence Podcast - following up on one our previous episodes, we talk again with Adam Hodgkins, who had been in isolation with covid-19 here in Singapore but has now been released! Bill caught up with him by phone to discuss his 25-day-long experience recovering from the disease and the physical and mental strains …

It's the Foreign Influence Podcast, in which American Bill Poorman and Dutchman Nikolaj Groeneweg - in defiance of all things corona - take you on a humorously serious and seriously humorous romp through the week's international events! This week: • Singapore has at last joined much of the rest of the world in lockdown, or as they're calling it her…

It's the Foreign Influence Podcast, in which American Bill Poorman and Dutchman Nikolaj Groeneweg - in defiance of all things corona - take you on a humorously serious and seriously humorous romp through the week's international events! A special episode this week: • Our friend, Adam Hodgkins, talks to us about his being infected with SARS-Cov-2 an…

It's the latest episode of Foreign Influence, in which American Bill Poorman and Dutchman Nikolaj Groeneweg - despite the unrelenting coronavirus news - take you on a humorously serious and seriously humorous romp through the week's international events! This week: The WHO now says Europe is the global epicenter of the covid-19 outbreak. We talk to…

It's the latest episode of Foreign Influence, in which American Bill Poorman and Dutchman Nikolaj Groeneweg take you on a humorously serious and seriously humorous romp through the week's international news! This week: In the midst of the Europe's growing struggles with the coronavirus covid-19, the Trump administration takes time to throw them und…

After a few unfortunate delays (some virus related, some technical), American Bill Poorman and Dutchman Nikolaj Groeneweg are back, taking you on a humorously serious and seriously humorous romp through the week's international news! This week: Covid-19 continues quickly, and we're becoming resigned to that. (Some of the data we mention are already…

Join American Bill Poorman and Dutchman Nikolaj Groeneweg, living in Asia, as they take you on a humorously serious and seriously humorous romp through the week's international news! This week: Coronavirus ain't going away, so all we've got is gallows humor US politics is feeling the Bern, even though Europeans might call it a mild warming A fantas…

Join American Bill Poorman and Dutchman Nikolaj Groeneweg, living in Asia, as they take you on a humorously serious and seriously humorous romp through the week's international news! This week: Coronavirus in Singapore The legitimacy of the Communist Party in China is challenged by the virus US politics is its own special form of shitshow And some …

Join American Bill Poorman and Dutchman Nikolaj Groeneweg, living in Asia, as they take you on a humorously serious and seriously humorous romp through the week's international news! This week we have a special focus on the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak: The novel coronavirus out of Wuhan, China continues to spread, and all Bill wants is an antibacter…