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Newt's World
Join Newt Gingrich, former U.S. Speaker of the House and Ph.D. historian, for the most diverse, informative, and entertaining podcast available. Every episode is an education.
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Episode 1026: Greatest American Inventions — The Mobile Phone
On a Manhattan sidewalk in 1973, Motorola engineer Martin Cooper made the first handheld cellular call—to his rival at Bell Labs, just to say Motorola...
Episode 1025: Greatest American Inventions — GPS
Twelve thousand five hundred miles above Earth, 31 satellites quietly guide nearly every navigation app on the planet. Newt tells how GPS, developed b...
Episode 1024: Greatest American Inventions — The Nuclear Reactor
Beneath a football stadium at the University of Chicago on December 2, 1942, Enrico Fermi's team achieved the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reac...
Episode 1023: Greatest American Inventions — The Moving Assembly Line
Henry Ford didn't invent the automobile—he invented a way to make it affordable. Newt examines how Ford's 1913 moving assembly line cut Model T produc...
Episode 1022: Greatest American Inventions — The Personal Computer
For thirty years, a computer was something only governments and corporations could own—an entire room of machinery. Newt tells how that changed in 197...
Episode 1021: Greatest American Inventions — The Internet
On the night of October 29, 1969, a UCLA student typed two letters into a Stanford-bound terminal before the system crashed—and the internet was born....
Episode 1020: Greatest American Inventions — The Polio Vaccine
Before 1955, polio closed swimming pools, filled hospital wards with iron lungs, and terrified American parents every summer. Newt tells the story of...
Episode 1019: Greatest American Inventions — The Transistor
At Bell Labs in December 1947, three scientists—John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley—demonstrated a tiny device that would outlast the...
Episode 1018: Greatest American Inventions — The Electrical Power System
Every invention in this series—the phone, the internet, the smartphone—depends on one foundational breakthrough. Newt unpacks the electrical power sys...
Episode 1017: Greatest American Inventions — The Airplane
Two bicycle mechanics from Ohio, with no college degrees and no government funding, beat every well-financed rival to achieve the impossible. On Decem...
Episode 1016: Greatest American Inventions — The Telephone
Alexander Graham Bell grew up obsessed with the human voice—his family taught elocution and speech to the deaf. That obsession led him, on March 10, 1...
Episode 1015: Greatest American Inventions — The Electric Telegraph
In 1844, a painter named Samuel Morse and machinist Alfred Vail shattered the oldest limit on human civilization: the speed of information. Their elec...
Episode 1014: The Power of Pull — What Most Startup Founders Get Wrong
Most startup founders are doing it backwards — and Harvard Innovation Labs fellow Rob Snyder spent two miserable years learning that the hard way. Aft...
Episode 1013: Bad Counselors — An All-American Made Film
For years, Hollywood executive Chris Fenton helped American studios chase the Chinese market — inserting pro-Beijing messaging into films, moving prod...
Episode 1012: Inside the Ukraine War – Drones, Diplomacy, and the Risk of Escalation
The Ukraine war has now outlasted World War I — and there's no clear end in sight. Former CIA Russia analysis director George Beebe joins Newt for a s...
Episode 1011: Americans Who Made the 20th Century — From Ronald Reagan to Hedy Lamarr
What does it mean to have the American can-do spirit — and who best embodied it during the most turbulent century in our nation's history? Author Rich...
Episode 1010: Rick Scott – It's Time for the Senate to Do Its Job
With the SAVE America Act stalled in the Senate for the third time, Senator Rick Scott is sounding the alarm. The former two-term governor and success...
Episode 1009: Glory, Grief, and the Gavel The Most Dramatic Speaker's Race in a Century
In January 2023, Kevin McCarthy endured five grueling days and 15 rounds of balloting to win the Speaker's gavel — the most dramatic Speaker's race in...
Episode 1008: Trump's Superpower The Founders Return
What would the Founding Fathers think of America today? That question sparked historian and novelist Johanna Neuman's new book, Trump's Superpower, in...
Episode 1007: Where Are Americans Moving — and Why?
Every year, millions of Americans vote with their feet — packing up and crossing state lines in search of something better. But what exactly are they...
Episode 1006: America 250 – The Declaration of Independence
On America's 250th birthday, Newt delivers a special solo episode dedicated to the document that started it all: the Declaration of Independence. Newt...
Episode 1005: America 250 – The Story of the National Anthem with Shannon McLucas
Newt talks with Fort McHenry National Park Ranger and historian Shannon McLucas about the remarkable story behind America's national anthem. McLucas r...
Episode 1004: America 250 – The Greatest Sentence Ever Written with Walter Isaacson
Newt welcomes bestselling biographer Walter Isaacson to discuss his new book, The Greatest Sentence Ever Written, a deep dive into the Declaration of...
Episode 1002: America 250 – The Future of NASA and Space Travel with Jared Isaacman
Newt talks with NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman about America's renewed push into space. Isaacman, a former commercial astronaut who led the Inspira...
Episode 1003: America 250 – The Netflix Effect in America with Clete Willems
Newt talks with Clete Willems, Chief Global Affairs Officer at Netflix, about the company's sweeping impact on the American economy and culture as the...
Episode 1001: America 250 – Faith, Farm Life, and the Fight for America with Senator Tim Hutchinso
Newt talks with former Senator Tim Hutchinson about his new memoir, From Spavinaw to D.C.: A Conservative's Journey Through Faith, Farm Life, and the...
Episode 1000: America 250 – Great American State Fair with President Donald J. Trump
Newt celebrates America’s 250th birthday and his 1000th episode of Newt’s World with President Donald J. Trump and the kickoff to the Great American S...
Episode 999: America 250 – Guide to Historic Sites with Brenda Hafera
Newt talks welcomes Brenda Hafera of The Heritage Foundation to discuss the Heritage Guide to Historic Sites, an interactive website launched ahead of...
Episode 998: America 250 – The American Revolution with Ken Burns
Newt is joined by legendary documentary filmmaker Ken Burns to discuss The American Revolution, his sweeping six-part, twelve-hour PBS series explorin...
Episode 997: America 250 – Rage and the Republic with Jonathan Turley
Newt talks with legal scholar Jonathan Turley about his bestseller, Rage and the Republic. Turley reveals why Thomas Paine — flawed, brilliant, nearly...
Episode 996: America 250 – Abraham Lincoln with Dr. Allen Guelzo
Newt welcomes back historian Dr. Allen Guelzo to discuss Abraham Lincoln's enduring legacy as America approaches its 250th anniversary. Dr. Guelzo, a...
Episode 995: America 250 - The Case for America with Bret Baier
Newt talks with Bret Baier, Fox News Chief Political Anchor about his new book, “The Case for America: An Argument on Behalf of Our Nation.” Baier mak...
Episode 994: America 250 – Revolution with Eric Metaxas
Newt talks with bestselling author Eric Metaxas about his new book, “Revolution: The Birth of the Greatest Nation in the History of the World,” and th...
Episode 993: America 250 – All American Patriotism with Rachel Campos-Duffy
Rachel Campos-Duffy, cohost of FOX & Friends Weekend and New York Times bestselling author, joins Newt to discuss her new book, All American Patriotis...
Episode 992: America 250 – George Washington's Forgotten Highway West
Most Americans know George Washington as a general and president — but few know him as an obsessive surveyor and land speculator with his eye fixed on...
Episode 991: Rainmaker - Solving the West's Water Crisis
Newt talks with Augustus Doricko, founder and CEO of Rainmaker. They discuss how drone-based cloud seeding could transform America's water future. Dor...
Episode 990: Grady Connolly A Journey through America's Basilicas
Newt talks with Grady Connolly, founder of Social Thomist and author of the new book “Basilicas: A Pilgrim's Guide to America's Most Remarkable Cathol...
Episode 989: China's War on Faith A Conversation with Ambassador Sam Brownback
Newt talks with Ambassador Sam Brownback about his new book, “China’s War on Faith.” Brownback, who previously served as a United States Senator, the...
Episode 988: Inside the Battle for Free Speech on the Internet
Newt talks with Sarah Westall, host of the Business Game Changers Podcast, about her legal battle against YouTube, Google, and the U.S. government ove...
Episode 987: Obamacare Enrollment Fraud
Newt talks with Elle Minarik, from the Paragon Health Institute, about their new report, “The Persistent Obamacare Enrollment Fraud” which details the...