This is the trailer for the new Consumer Choice Center original podcast series Control Freaks, a show about people who seek to tell consumers what to do. Season 1 will cover Robert F. Kennedy Jr, the Secretary of Health and Human Services in the Trump administration.

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In this week's solo episode: some of Haribo's cola candy in the Netherlands contains... cannabis, the airline compensation review is dragging on, and Flixtrain expands its network in Europe.

May 29, 2025

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Should you get the extended warranty on a new MacBook? Fabio Fernandes joins the podcast this week to discuss how to handle your electronics. Also: are highly processed foods bad for you?

May 15, 2025

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In this week's episode, Justin Leventhal, Senior Policy Analyst at the American Consumer Institute and our own Research Manager Emil Panzaru join us to discuss sports betting regulation and implications in both Europe and the United States.

May 1, 2025

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Yaël Ossowski joins the podcast this week to give us a rundown on the upcoming federal election in Canada, discuss mandatory bike helmets in the Netherlands, and the latest in the scandal surrounding EU funding of NGOs.

April 24, 2025

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This week's episode is co-hosted with our own Elizabeth Hicks, and we can't help but notice that after our long break, the world of international trade got a lot worse.

April 17, 2025

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There will be a new season of the Fun Police podcast, which is why there haven't been new episodes of this podcast as of late. Please go over to the "Fun Police" channel on the podcast app you're currently using, subscribe and hit the notification bell so you don't miss the weekly episode update that is starting on March 5th ! Thank you for listening, and we will be back to regularly scheduled episodes in the near future.

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This week's episode is co-hosted with Fabio Fernandes. We talk about the introduction of the common charger (USB-C) in the European Union. We also discuss the announcement by Meta to reverse its content moderation policies.

January 16, 2025

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Merry Christmas ! Thank for listening to this podcast in 2024, and we'll be back with new episodes in the coming year.

These topics in this episode:

– New EU Commission wants to make your flights more expensive (again)

– Keep some cash at home, says the Dutch National Bank

– Legal weed will debut in some Dutch cities in April

December 19, 2024

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CCC Research Manager Emil Panzaru joins us on this episode to discuss the latest Sharing Economy Index and how they got to their findings.

Check out the report here: https://consumerchoicecenter.org/sharing-economy-index-2024/

December 5, 2024

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