Hot Girl Briefing

Hey y'all the Hot Girls are back! This week we are talking a bit more about alliances and NATO specifically! How does a country join NATO? Why is it such a big deal that Finland joined the alliance? What does this mean for Ukraine and Sweden? Find out the answers the these questions and more on this week's Hot Girl Briefing!

Hey y'all! Super sorry we forgot to press the upload button! In this week's episode we are talking about the newly forming relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia. How does China fit into this? Why not someone else? What does this mean for the United States? Find out the answer to these questions and more on this week's episode of your Hot Girl Briefing!

Hey Hot Girls! Your hosts, Hunter and Erica are back! We do apologize, finals season and new work roles had us pressed but now we are back to talk about a different reunion! South Korea and Japan are on a new track of friendship starting out with a bang. What does this mean for the two countries? Why were they not vibing in the first place? Find out on this week's episode of your Hot Girl Briefing!

Hi everybody! To celebrate President's Day here in the United States we wanted to head back to our roots and compile a list of fun/interesting facts about presidents and their lives at the White House and more. The funny, the goofy, the creepy, and the just no-fun, this episode has it all. Thank you all for tuning in and we will see you all next time for your Hot Girl Briefing.

Hi everybody! Welcome back to another episode of your Hot Girl Briefing! This week your hosts, Hunter and Erica, will be breaking down the topic of the Chinese Spy Balloon that has been quite the topic of conversation this last week. Was the balloon a weather research device or was it a spy device? What does this mean for US-China relations? How are politicians reacting to the balloon? Find out the answers to these questions and more on this week's episode of your Hot Girl Briefing!

Hi everybody! First of all, a giant thank you to everyone who made 300,000 listens possible! As we surpass a monumental number we wanted to bring in a feel-good episode as well! This week we will be talking about the ozone layer and how it is reported to be back on track to recovery per a United Nations (UN) report. What exactly happened to make a hole in the ozone layer? What happened in order to stop it and lead to recovery? Also, why do the Hot Girls stan the Montreal Protocol and what even is it? Find out the answers to these questions and more in this week's Hot Girl Briefing and we will see you on an all-new episode next week!

Hi everybody! The Hot Girls are back again this week with an all-new episode. This week we talk about major sporting events and how they can help a country gain soft power! Are there any drawbacks? How did it work for China with the 2008 Beijing Olympics? What about Qatar with the 2022 World Cup? We will look at the stories that have come from both and see why there may be a difference. As always, for sourcing, please check out our website at hotgirlbriefing.com - and we will see you all next week for your Hot Girl Briefing!

Hey Hot Girls! This week your hosts, Erica and Hunter, are back with a new full-length episode! We will be talking about Japan's new defense strategy and why it is changing the security environment of East Asia like we have not seen before. How big is big for a defense strategy overhaul? Why shift strategy now, and what was the tipping point? Find out the answers to these questions and more on this week's episode of your Hot Girl Briefing!

Hi everybody! The Hot Girls are back this week with another requested episode! This week we will be talking about everything extradition and how exactly it works! Turns out it's a bit more of a process than people think. How exactly does it work? Can you give up your right to not be extradited? What happens if you are arrested in a country without an extradition treaty? How does INTERPOL fit into all of this? Find out the answer to these questions and more on this week's briefing and leave with a little bit more knowledge of the high profile extraditions that are going on now!

Hi everybody! The Hot Girls are officially back and off of sabbatical, so thank you all for being so understanding! This week we will be discussing an increase of protests in China! These stem from the 'zero Covid' policy which we did an episode on a while ago, so feel free to go and check out that episode here for more information! We are happy to back and can't wait to see you all next week!

Hey y'all we know we've been a bit MIA but we wanted to make an announcement for our American listeners to get out and vote! It is so important to do so and make sure that your voice is heard! With that, we will see you all on Monday for a brand new episode!

Hi everybody! Thank you for your patience as the Hot Girls have been wrecked from the last week and this week! Thank you all for tuning in for this week's Hot Girl Briefing where your hosts, Hunter and Erica, will be discussing the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) . Who attended the overnight trip? Who had fun on it and who supplied the drama? Find out what got signed and how the world leaders of the SCO got along for their summit!

Hi everybody! This week we finally fixed Hunter's audio! In addition that we are talking about Space Forces! Which countries possess the ability to take down satellites? How can you even take down an adversary's satellite? Is this even legal? What rules are currently governing the whole concept of space? Find out the answers to these questions and more on this week's episode of your Hot Girl Briefing!

This episode does contain a discussion pertaining to sexual assault and issues surrounding sexual assault. Please be advised of this before listening as this episode is rated as explicit to help serve as a possible trigger warning for those who may be uncomfortable with the discussion of the topic. Hello everyone! The Hot Girls are back from our summer vacation this week with a more serious episode this week that we felt a need to talk on. We will be covering the recent resolution to come out of the United Nations General Assembly. This resolution is monumental for furthering the rights necessary to combat sexual assault and gender-based violence. As the tone of this episode will be more serious we hope to see further progress being made in the future on issues of sexual assault and gender-based violence and acknowledge that this is a movement in a positive direction. Thank you all for tuning in and we hope we can leave every listener a little more informed than they were before the episode! We will see you all next Monday for a brand new episode of your Hot Girl Briefing.

Hello everyone! This week your hosts, Erica and Hunter, will discuss updates regarding the recent Presidential election in the Philippines! Come and check out all the new drama and scandals that have come to the surface since we last talked! How is the new President doing? How has he reckoned with the legacy of the past administration? Is China or the United States the new bestie? Find out the answer to these questions and more in this week's Hot Girl Briefing!

Hey everybody! Big news! The Hot Girls will be setting up a Patreon with exclusive content at the end of this month! Erica and Hunter discuss the incoming Patreon and how the content there will be slightly different from what we're used to on the pod! For this week's episode, we will be giving y'all a bit of insight into how we imagine the Patreon episodes will be structured with a little less sourcing and a little more of our personal opinions and thoughts on specific events, and policies, or issues in domestic and foreign affairs. For this episode, we will discuss House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her visit to Taiwan, and the Chinese Ambassador to the United States, Qin Gang, and his thoughts on the matter. As always, thank you all so much for tuning in and we will see you all next week on another episode of Hot Girl Briefing!

Hey everybody! First! Please let us know on Spotify or our other social media or website what y'all want to be called as an audience! This week your hosts, Hunter and Erica, will be discussing the International Space Station AKA the ISS. Have you ever wondered how it came to be? How did the United States and Europe end up collaborating with Russia as well as Japan and Canada? What exactly are Canada's integral contributions to the ISS? How exactly do all of these entities cooperate and who is the head boss? Check out the answer to these questions and more on this week's Hot Girl Briefing!

Hey everybody! Thank you all for tuning into another episode of your Hot Girl Briefing! This week we will be covering Shinzo Abe and his legacies. Shinzo Abe was the Prime Minister of Japan from 2012 to 2020 and left behind large shoes to fill. As an effective leader and organizer in the international system, Abe's legacy is positively thought of when it comes to Japanese foreign policy. We will talk about Abe's career as a whole in this episode and what exactly it means for Japan. Once again, thank you all for tuning in and we will see you all next week for another episode of your Hot Girl Briefing!

Hello everyone! So we've all heard of the great resignation with everyone resigning from corporate girly status but turns out government leaders and employees are doing the same. Now there may be a scandal or two, or maybe even several, BUT politicians and government employees are resigning in the month of July. Not only has the UK seen Boris Johnson speak on his soon-to-be resignation, but Sri Lanka's President Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Wickremesinghe have also signaled that they will be resigning in the near future. Three powerful politicians in one week? Oh, wait there's more? How about the 300+ Virginia government employees that have resigned? And to think the month of July isn't even halfway over. Check out this episode to hear all about scandals and floundering policy to learn why these politicians and government employees are on their way out of office. Thank you all so much for tuning in Hot Girls and we will see you all next week for another episode of your Hot Girl Briefing!

Hello everybody! After the holiday weekend, your Hot Girl hosts are back! This week we are talking about the Summit of the Americas! Ever heard of it? That's okay if you didn't because we are here to talk about it from its birth to just this last month's summit! Check in with us as we spill the tea on why the President of Mexico said that he would not be in attendance and why the Biden administration had to commit a party faux pas and call certain guests to make sure they would even be RSVPing. Turns out the Western hemisphere and specifically, Latin America has some disdain over the US-hosted summit this time around. As always, thank you for tuning in and we will see you all next week for another episode of your Hot Girl Briefing!

Hello everyone! The Hot Girls are back! We will be discussing gun control legislation in the United States as well as gun control abroad! We will be looking at studies as well as overall policy that is being discussed in the debate on regulations concerning firearms. Thank you all for listening and we will see you all next week for another episode of Hot Girl Briefing!

Thank you to all of our loyal fans who have checked in and have been wanting more of the pod! After a bit of summer vacay, school is back in session at Hot Girl Briefing and your Hot Girls, Erica and Hunter, are here to brief you all. Thank you so much for tuning in and check out our newest episode on video!

Hello everybody! On this not so brief Keep It Brief, we will be discussing the baby formula shortage! How did we get here? Could it be because of putting our eggs in one basket? Maybe a little bit of a monopoly on the market? What about tariffs? Find out how this whole situation came to be on this week's episode of your Hot Girl Briefing!

Hi everybody! We are back for part two of our American Exceptionalism episode and are happy to be talking more about the concept! In this episode, we talk about some of the myths of American exceptionalism as well as where else in the world we have seen such a concept arise. Turns out it's not just an American ideal but other countries have some quite similar concepts! Thank you all for tuning in and we will see you all on Monday for a Keep It Brief!

Hello everybody! This week your hosts, Hunter and Erica, will be engaging in a talk about American exceptionalism! How does this play into America's image domestically? What about in the international system? Is America holding itself to a standard that is different from what it expects from the rest of the world? How can we reconcile those two views? Find out the answers to these questions and more in this first part of our episode on American exceptionalism and soft power!

Hello everybody! On this special sendoff episode you hosts, Hunter and Erica, will going through and providing a recap and key takeaways on what we have learned throughout our Keep It BRI segment dedicated to China's one and only Belt and Road Initiative. We will be discussing past episode's key takeaways ranging from specific sector areas, renewable energy infrastructure, how we can compare China's lending style, where China is investing, specific regional focuses, how the One China Principle impacts the Belt and Road, the debt trap myth, to what exactly even is the Belt and Road Initiative? We really do want to thank you all for tuning in every episode and making this our most popular segment to date and hope that you all do understand our moving back to one episode a week. Thank you all so much and do not worry, our transition back to once a week episodes is not going to be cold turkey, as next week we will be releasing a two part episode coming out on Monday and Thursday to help us transition to our new schedule. Once again, thank you all so much and we cannot wait for this new era in Hot Girl Briefing history and can't wait to see you on Monday!

Hello everyone, on this episode of your Keep It Brief we are talking about the current water contamination in Hawai'i! The US Navy is currently overseeing efforts to defuel and help solve the ongoing water crisis after one of its fuel tanks has leaked. Tune in to hear more on the situation and how the Pentagon has been dealing with this process throughout. Thank you for listening and we will see you all on Thursday!

Hello everyone! Thank you all so much for tuning in for all of our country analysis segments! We will be shelving our country analysis segment (but don't worry we will make sure to drop in some surprise episodes now and then for all of you Hot Girls ;) ) for the time being! We decided to pick Denmark as our final country for the segment to really get down to the root of this segment! There is always something in a country's domestic politics that does not make the news and we sure do have it for the Hot Girls. Once again, thank you all so much and we can't say how appreciative we are for everyone giving this segment so much love! See you all on Monday for a Keep It Brief segment!

Hi everybody! This week we will be talking about changes in labor, specifically, the four-day workweek! This is not only an ongoing topic in America but also in other countries such as Japan and Spain! Hear about the pros and the cons and how this is starting to take shape as a global labor trend! Thanks so much for tuning in and we will see you all on Thursday!

Hi everybody! We all want a green girl summer but what exactly is China doing about that through the Belt and Road? The BRI knows coal is going out of style so China has to combat that but how? Is it through wind farms? Nuclear power plants? Solar energy projects? What is so special about Argentina? Find out the answers to these questions and more in this episode of your Hot Girl Briefing!

Hi everybody! This episode we will be talking about the upcoming election in the Philippines! This election is filled with information that seems a little similar to America's past few presidential elections in terms of alleged scandals, political dynasties, as well as foreign policy as a core issue. Thank you all for tuning in and we will see you all on Thursday for a new episode of our Keep It BRI segment!

Hi everybody! As a follow-up to our League of Nations episode (if you haven't listened to that yet, check it out!), we wanted to give a brief overview of the United Nations. We will be going over the history of the United Nations, the main bodies of the UN, specialized agencies, funds and programs, and other related bodies! Specifically talking about the Security Council and why it was created as well as how the UN differs from the League of Nations. Count how many times Geneva is mentioned in this episode and we will make sure to give you a shoutout on our next episode if you can keep track! Thank you all so much for tuning in for this special episode of your Hot Girl Briefing! Stay hot and stay informed and we will see you all on Monday!

Hi everybody! Ever wondered about what came before the United Nations? Ever heard of the League of Nations? What about Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points? Check out our thoughts on what the biggest takeaways (positives and negatives) of the League of Nations are and how they helped to shape the modern international system! See you all on Thursday for a special follow-up episode on the United Nations!

Hi everybody! This week we decided to take a further look into Ethiopia! How does Ethiopia stack up to its neighbors? What about their history with Italy? What about the time? Come and get some more information in this week's Country Analysis!

Hey everybody! This week we will be discussing the drama that went on in Washington back in the 1940s over homing pigeons of all things! Why was there drama? Who got the War Department involved? Did FDR like the pigeons? WHO IS Cher Ami?? Find out the answers to these questions and more in this week's Keep It Brief!

Hey everybody! On this week's segment covering the Belt and Road Initiative, your hosts will be discussing the digital component of the BRI in Latin America! How does China invest in Latin America? What are the big projects we have seen so far? How is the United States reacting to this investment? What else can we expect in the future? Find out the answers to these questions and more in this week's Keep It BRI! Thank you all so much for tuning in and we will see you all next Monday for a Keep It Brief!

Hi everybody! Every wonder how gas prices are set? How much does the President of the United States have to do with these prices? Does OPEC play a role? What about the oil and gas companies? Find out the answers to these questions and more! Thank you all for tuning in and we will see you all on Thursday!

Hi everybody! This week we will take a deep dive into New Zealand! Learn the capabilities and current allegiances that New Zealand has in addition to their ongoing domestic issues. Thank you all so much for tuning in and we will see you on Monday!

Hi everybody! This week we will be discussing the bill that was recently passed by the Senate regarding Daylight Saving Time! How would this impact America? Why is this a thing? Who supports it? Who hates it? Find out the answers to these questions and more on this weeks Keep It Brief!

Hi everybody! So we know that China lends a lot of money to other countries but how does it lend to those countries? Does it have its own prerogative or can we see similarities elsewhere? Check out the episode to find out and we will catch you on Monday for a Keep It Brief!

Hi everybody! This week your hosts, Erica and Hunter, will discuss trade in Africa and how the United States is investing and trading with Africa! We will be looking at how other countries or blocs have influenced African development and trade as well as looking at how the continent trades within itself. Thank you all for tuning in and we will see you on Thursday for a new episode of our Keep It BRI segment!

Hi everybody! We do apologize for the delay but we will be putting out our full-length episode tomorrow on Tuesday the 29th, rather than today on our normal schedule of today on Monday. Thank you for bearing with us and we will see you all tomorrow!

Hi everybody! In this episode, your hosts, Hunter and Erica, will be discussing everything you need to know about Japan. Covering everything from an aging population, to a heavy work culture, to fun facts provided by your lovely host Erica. Thank you all for listening and we will see you all on Monday!

Hi everybody! This week your hosts, Hunter and Erica, will be discussing the Council on Foreign Relations, "Five Good Foreign Policy News Stories in 2021". We will be running through the top 5 as well as the honorable mentions and getting into a bit of a Hot Girl take on each of them to bring a bit of positivity to the pod. As always, thank you so much for tuning in and we will see you all on Thursday for our country analysis segment!

Hi everybody! This episode we will be discussing how the war instigated by Russia in Ukraine is impacting the Belt and Road Initiative. What does the war mean for China? How will China go forward with the BRI? Does the war mean that a piece of the BRI is failing? Find out the answers to these questions and more in this episode of Keep It BRI!

Hello everybody! This episode we will be covering any and all updates from the current conflict in Ukraine with the one and only, Dr. Paul Kubicek. Heavily discussed will be President Putin's viewpoint of the world, potential solutions to ending the conflict, as well as what we might expect in the future. Thank you all for tuning in and we will continue to provide updates on the ongoing conflict.

Hello everybody! This week's country analysis we will be discussing Haiti! A country that started out hopeful with large potential, Haiti has been limited in its development from a number of factors. How does it rank in the international system today? Who is the President? Check out these answers and more on this country analysis!

Hello everybody! This week the hosts of Hot Girl Briefing are joined by Tyler Murray to talk about Kazakhstan and the recent civil unrest that has occurred within its borders. We will also be discussing how Kazakhstan fits into the larger regional order, especially with how Kazakhstan works with Russia. Thank you all so much for tuning in and we will see you on Thursday for our country analysis episode!

Hi everybody! In this episode on your biweekly Belt and Road segment we will be discussing Burkina Faso and the Taiwan issue. We will be discussing how the timeline of Chinese BRI investment lines up with Burkina Faso recognizing the One-China Principle. Thank you all for tuning in and we will see you all on Monday for a full-length episode!

Hello everybody! This week on our Keep It Brief we will be discussing the recent events in the Catholic Church where Baptisms have been invalidated due to incorrect phrasings. How does religion have an impact on policy and what does this mean for the Holy See? Find out the answer to these questions and more on this week's episode of your Hot Girl Briefing!

Hello everybody! This week your hosts will be discussing Albania! How does Albania stack up to other countries? Have you ever heard about how nearly two-thirds of a country were part of a pyramid scheme? We have the stats and the stories on this week's country analysis. Thank you for tuning in and we will see you next Monday for a Keep It Brief!