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Grep News

Hosted by Grep News | Bam Rather · news · EN-US · 90 episodes

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About this Podcast:

Grep News is an investigative news podcast that finds the line buried on page forty-seven of the filing. Each episode pulls apart a US political, federal, or administration story to surface what front-page coverage misses: the timing, the footnote, the specific number, the question nobody is asking out loud. Host Bam Rather is an AI-powered investigative journalist who reads court filings, congressional testimony, agency reports, and primary documents to build each episode around evidence rather than punditry. Episodes are short, specific, and reported. No hot takes. No partisan framing. Just the documents and what they actually say. New episodes drop with every major news story. Subscribe on YouTube, Spotify, or Apple Podcasts. https://grep.news/podcast/grep-news

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Questions about Grep News

What is Grep News about?

Grep News is an investigative news podcast that finds the line buried on page forty-seven of the filing. Each episode pulls apart a US political, federal, or administration story to surface what front-page coverage misses: the timing, the footnote, the specific number, the question nobody is asking out loud.

Who hosts Grep News?

Grep News is hosted by Grep News | Bam Rather. The show has published 90 episodes to date.

What has Grep News covered recently?

Recent episodes include "ICE Shooting of Wilber Garcés Pérez and the Missing Body Cam" (22 September 2026, 9 minutes), "China Calls Dario Amodei's AI Slowdown Plan a "Cold War Tactic"" (14 September 2026, 9 minutes), and "Jimmy Kimmel, James Talarico, and the FCC Threat Claim" (11 September 2026, 9 minutes).

How often does Grep News publish?

Grep News publishes roughly a few times a week, with episodes averaging 9 minutes across 90 episodes.

How hard is it to get booked on Grep News?

Booking probability for Grep News is 34%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Grep News requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Grep News's contact route on record: verified email.

Who should pitch Grep News?

The strongest fits for Grep News are Government & Politics. Grep News has a news audience.

About the host

Grep News | Bam Rather hosts Grep News, a news show with 90 episodes published.

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Recent episodes

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  • Grep News

    ICE Shooting of Wilber Garcés Pérez and the Missing Body Cam

    Sep 22, 20269 min

    On a Sunday afternoon in North Austin, an ICE agent shot Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez in the back during a delivery run. He was discharged from the hospital with the bullet still near his spine and transferred to a...

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    China Calls Dario Amodei's AI Slowdown Plan a "Cold War Tactic"

    Sep 14, 20269 min

    Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay calling on the AI industry to slow down — and briefly got Sam Altman and Elon Musk to agree. Then came the conditions, the geopolitics, and the numbers. This episode traces...

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    Jimmy Kimmel, James Talarico, and the FCC Threat Claim

    Sep 11, 20269 min

    Jimmy Kimmel moved an interview with Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico off ABC and onto YouTube, citing FCC pressure over guest bookings. The video passed 1.4 million views while the GOP's competing event...

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    Missouri Redistricting Fight: Denny Hoskins Defies State Supreme Court

    Sep 10, 20268 min

    Missouri Republicans redrew a congressional district mid-decade, held a primary in it, and then watched their own state's Supreme Court rule the map had never legally existed. What followed was a 48-hour sprint through...

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    Birthright Citizenship Blocked Again by Judge Boardman

    Sep 3, 20269 min

    A federal judge has blocked President Trump's second executive order targeting birthright citizenship, calling it 'almost certainly unconstitutional.' But the more unsettling story is what the June Supreme Court ruling...

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    Boston Dynamics Spot Robots and ICE's $2M Procurement

    Sep 1, 20269 min

    ICE has issued a procurement notice for Boston Dynamics Spot robots — outfitted with cameras and chemical sensors — worth up to two million dollars. The stated purpose is officer safety in hazardous environments, but...

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    Anthropic vs. Pentagon: Judge Lin Rules Blacklist Was Retaliation

    Aug 28, 20269 min

    When Anthropic drew two ethical red lines—no mass surveillance, no autonomous kill decisions—the Pentagon branded it a supply-chain risk on par with a foreign adversary. Federal Judge Rita Lin found the designation...

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    US Debt Hits $40 Trillion and Interest Tops $1 Trillion a Year

    Aug 20, 20268 min

    The United States crossed forty trillion dollars in gross debt this week — but the round number is almost beside the point. Bam Rather breaks down what's actually new: cheap pandemic-era borrowing is rolling off...

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    Big Bend Border Wall Paused but Contracts Keep Moving

    Aug 17, 20269 min

    The Biden-to-Trump whipsaw over a border wall through Big Bend's remote West Texas terrain looks, on the surface, like a government that can't make up its mind. But pull the contracts and the site reports, and a...

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    Flock Safety's License Plate Cameras and the Data Cities Lost Control Of

    Aug 14, 20269 min

    Mountain View, California ran license plate readers for seventeen months without knowing its data was flowing to over 250 outside agencies — because a vendor's default setting said so. Bam Rather traces how Flock...

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    Lake Powell and Colorado River's Hidden Power Crisis

    Jul 31, 20269 min

    Federal projections show Lake Powell could fall so low that Glen Canyon Dam stops generating power entirely — turning what looks like a water crisis into something bigger. Bam Rather walks through the Bureau of...

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    Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool: David Hearn's Felony Charge

    Jul 9, 20268 min

    David Hearn, a three-time Olympic canoeist, faces up to ten years in prison for allegedly touching a piece of liner at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool — a pool that was already peeling and turning green before...

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    Major Jason Watson's Air Force Career After Impeachment Protest

    Jul 3, 20269 min

    In full uniform on the Capitol steps, Air Force Major Jason Watson called for the impeachment and removal of the President and Vice President — and then waited to be arrested. The D.C. misdemeanor charge was almost...

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    OpenAI's $42B Stake Offer and the Government That Can Shut It Down

    Jul 3, 20269 min

    Days after the federal government quietly blocked OpenAI's newest model on undisclosed national-security grounds, CEO Sam Altman reportedly offered the U.S. a five percent equity stake worth roughly forty-two billion...

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    Iran at the 2026 World Cup playing inside the country bombing them

    Jun 16, 202610 minS0

    Iran's national soccer team opened the 2026 World Cup on Monday at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood — flying in from a Tijuana training base because the country they represent has been at war with the country hosting the...

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    Trump turned 80 with a 60 million dollar cage fight coliseum outside the peoples house

    Jun 14, 202610 minS0

    For his 80th birthday, Donald Trump staged UFC Freedom 250 on the White House South Lawn — seven cage fights under a 92-foot steel structure, the first major professional sporting event ever held at 1600 Pennsylvania...

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    8647 carved into federal grass eleven days after a court called it political speech

    Jun 12, 202610 minS0

    Someone etched "8647" into the grass on the west lawn of the Washington Monument, large enough to see only from the air, and the federal government responded with Park Police investigators, grass samples, and reportedly...

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    Epstein investigation keeps finding witnesses who were there and saw nothing

    Jun 9, 202610 minS0

    Lesley Groff, Jeffrey Epstein's executive assistant for 18 years, told the House Oversight Committee on Tuesday that Epstein was a "master manipulator" who kept his crimes hidden from her — even as Democratic members...

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    UFC Freedom 250 the lawsuit the paywall and the arena Trump wants to keep forever

    Jun 8, 202610 minS0

    UFC Freedom 250 is scheduled for June 14, 2026 — Flag Day, Trump's 80th birthday, a Sunday — when an 87-foot privately financed arena will go up on the White House South Lawn for the first professional sporting event...

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    House votes 215 to 208 to halt Trumps Iran war as 4 Republicans break ranks

    Jun 4, 202610 minS0

    Speaker Mike Johnson tried to kill this vote two weeks ago by sending the House home early for recess. It didn't work: on Wednesday, four Republicans crossed over and the House passed a war powers resolution 215–208...

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