Welcome back to The Missing Bridge in America Podcast! In this podcast, a young advocate, Bryan Escalona, discusses political and social issues that attempt to rebuild the bridge that keeps America united as a country.

In this week's episode, we discuss the recent failure of the Silicon Valley Bank, how the Federal Reserve played a role, and how it will affect our future.

Welcome to the Missing Bridge in America hosted by Bryan Escalona: a young advocate attempting to rebuild the bridge that keeps America united politically!

In this week's episode, we are joined by Bryan Quintana: recent graduate of FIU, intern at the city of Doral, and history guru, discussing how to be more involved in politics, getting more informed on the voting process, and passing on leadership to the future generations.

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Krishna Cowin, a former peer educator at a mental health facility for college students, joins us on this week's episode to discuss how the COVID-19 Pandemic has affected people's mental health in regards to the economy, government response, lockdowns, and our new virtual landscape.

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Luke Negron is a former Pennsylvanian 18th Congressional District Nominee for the Republican Party here to speak with us about big tech, social media's cancel culture, as well as the future of the Grand Old Party as we know it.

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In this episode, we speak on President Joe Biden's recent executive actions and glimpses of his foreign affairs. Similarly, considering the situation going on with Reddit and Wall Street, we articulate what impacts this will have in the future of the stock market, as well as how the government will respond to such.

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The CEO of BridgeUSA joins us in this episode to discuss the treacherous riots that recently sparked in the U.S. Capitol, what led to it, and also what the young generation could be doing differently to prevent further division in our political climate.

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With Joe Biden as the projected winner of this year's presidential elections as well as many congressional seats being filled, in this episode, we discuss the local and national impacts these results have had in the United States, as well as the transition to a new administration. 

With just four days until this year's U.S. Presidential elections, we invited two very intelligent college students to this episode in order to discuss the reliability of polls, possible foreign interference in the election, as well as the risks involved with voting by mail or in person.

The Four Horseman of the tech industry: Twitter, Apple, Alphabet (Google), and Facebook, continue to grow in the tech market, raising concerns on whether they have violated antitrust laws. Similarly, with censorship claims being brought up against these companies and the recent attempt to ban TikTok, it has been clear that the United States has taken more opposition towards these companies than usual. Of the many factors for why these firms have dominated the market, one would be the lack of net neutrality on the internet involving Comcast, and how it has prioritized faster internet service for these tech companies. In this episode, we discuss all these controversies, what factors to consider when classifying monopolies, and how these allegations against the tech companies will continue to envelop. 

Matthew Becerra is currently a college student attending Florida International University pursuing a certificate in Middle Eastern studies. Recently, he has begun to write opinion editorials on hot-button issues in the region such as the Libyan Civil War. In this episode, we had the privilege of discussing with him several regional issues that have been tied to the U.S. in recent months, starting with the Abraham Accords, assessing the significance it has to progress the Arab Israeli conflict. In addition, we speak more generally on U.S. relations with Middle Eastern countries, such as Iran and Libya. Most anticipated, however, we determine how U.S. involvement in the Middle East will change depending on the outcome of this 2020 U.S. presidential election!