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By Tyler Cooper

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Most explainer podcasts treat international news like vegetables your mom made you eat. Tyla Cooper actually makes geopolitics interesting. The former high school teacher turned globe-trotting storyteller breaks down complex world events like he's talking to his smartest friend over coffee, not reading from a Wikipedia page. Every episode tackles one major story happening right now, from trade wars to border disputes to political shake-ups that actually matter. Cooper connects the dots between seemingly random events across continents, using the kind of weird analogies and real-world examples that stick in your brain long after you've finished listening. Think less CNN anchor, more that one teacher who made history class actually fun. You'll walk away understanding not just what happened, but why it matters for your world. Cooper spent three years backpacking through 40 countries asking locals the questions most journalists never think to ask, and that perspective shows up in every story he tells. New episodes drop daily, so you'll never be that person who has no idea what everyone's talking about. Follow now for your daily dose of world events that actually make sense. New episodes every day—follow now!

Episode Date
What Flat Earth Believers Get Right About Human Psychology
Jul 07, 2026
Why Canada's Mountains Look Exactly Like Switzerland (The Geology Nobody Talks About)
Jul 07, 2026
Why Canada and America Built 8,891 Km of Unguarded Border (And Russia Can't)
Jul 07, 2026
Mexican Coke is a $2 Billion Lie (And We All Fell for It)
Jul 07, 2026
The $2.3 Billion Virus Map That Saved Millions (And How Scientists Built It)
Jul 07, 2026
The Ancient Star Map That Changed Everything We Know About Space
Jul 07, 2026
Why Flying From Tokyo to LA Can Make You Time Travel (The Date Line Secret)
Jul 07, 2026
Switzerland's $800 Billion Secret: How They Stay Neutral While Everyone Else Fights
Jul 07, 2026
How America Legally Stole Hawaii: The $50M Business Plot That Changed Everything
Jul 07, 2026
How Big Cereal Convinced Americans That Cookies Are Breakfast
Jul 07, 2026
What My 6AM Food Anxiety Taught Me About Breaking Bad Habits Forever
Jul 07, 2026
How American Businessmen Stole an Entire Country in 1893
Jul 07, 2026
How America Stole Half of Mexico: The $15 Billion Land Grab Nobody Talks About
Jul 06, 2026
What My First Galaxy Photo Reveals About Space Photography
Jul 06, 2026
The $44 Billion Industry That Knows Everything About You
Jul 06, 2026
How America Stole 50 Islands in 50 Years (The Empire Nobody Talks About)
Jul 06, 2026
What 47 Real Questions Reveal About What You Actually Want to Know
Jul 06, 2026
Why Vox Borders Failed: The $2 Million Lesson Every Media Company Ignores
Jul 06, 2026
How America Bought the Middle East for $3.8 Billion (Then Lost It All)
Jul 06, 2026
The 3 Geographic Accidents That Made NYC America's Richest City
Jul 06, 2026
Why America and Canada Are Still Fighting Over This Tiny Rock
Jul 06, 2026
The Real Reason Young Voters Are Giving Up on Democracy
Jul 06, 2026
I Wore Every Type of Mask for 30 Days. Here's What Actually Works.
Jul 06, 2026
Netflix's $47B Nostalgia Algorithm Is Hijacking Your Brain
Jul 06, 2026
Where America Actually Hides Its Biggest Secrets (You Drive Past Them Daily)
Jul 06, 2026
What 20 Years of Reporting Taught Me About Why News Is Toxic
Jul 06, 2026
I Spent 847 Hours Making One Map. Here's What I Learned.
Jul 06, 2026
Why People Think the World is Flat
Jul 06, 2026
Why Every Journalist Lies to You (And How We Sleep at Night)
Jul 06, 2026
The $2.3 Trillion Heist: How America Really Conquered Iraq
Jul 06, 2026
China's $17 Trillion Secret: How They Beat America in 40 Years
Jul 06, 2026
How GameStop Broke Wall Street (Explained with Pokémon Cards)
Jul 06, 2026
Why People Think the World is Flat
Jul 05, 2026
800 US Military Bases: The $150 Billion Empire Nobody Talks About
Jul 05, 2026
How Justin Timberlake Escaped NippleGate While Janet Jackson's Career Died
Jul 05, 2026
What Pokemon Teaches You About Learning Languages (Seriously)
Jul 05, 2026
Why People Think the World is Flat
Jul 05, 2026
Russia Is 6.6 Million Square Miles: Here's How They Actually Did It
Jul 05, 2026
How LA Created America's Most Infamous Homeless Camp (Skid Row Explained)
Jul 05, 2026
One Canal Controls 12% of Global Trade (And Has Nuclear Secrets)
Jul 05, 2026
The $3.2 Million Scam Hidden Inside Every McDonald's Ice Cream Machine
Jul 05, 2026
Why NFTs Aren't Dead (And What Most People Still Don't Understand)
Jul 05, 2026
The $47 Billion Shampoo Lie That's Ruining Your Hair
Jul 05, 2026
Australia's 5,600km Secret: The World's Longest Fence Isn't For Humans
Jul 05, 2026
China's $1 Trillion Africa Takeover: What America Doesn't Want You to Know
Jul 05, 2026
India vs China Border Conflict: How Nuclear Powers Fight Without Guns
Jul 05, 2026
Taiwan Crisis: How a 1940s Civil War Creates Today's Global Flashpoint
Jul 05, 2026
How Switzerland Engineered Europe's Most Successful Country
Jul 05, 2026
How America's First Government Failed: The Articles of Confederation Explained
Jul 05, 2026
How Money Really Flows Into American Elections: Legal Loopholes Explained
Jul 05, 2026
How Billionaire Wealth Actually Works: Assets vs Cash Explained
Jul 05, 2026
How El Chapo Built a Mile-Long Prison Tunnel: Engineering Behind the Escape
Jul 05, 2026
How Ships Hide in Ocean Dark Zones: The Technology Behind Illegal Fishing
Jul 04, 2026
How US Immigration Deportations Actually Work in 2026
Jul 04, 2026
How Gold Actually Works: The Psychology Behind 5,000 Years of Value
Jul 04, 2026
How the Panama Canal Actually Works: Engineering Marvel Built on Human Sacrifice
Jul 04, 2026
How the Mormon Church Built a $293 Billion Financial Empire
Jul 04, 2026
Area 51: How the CIA's Secret Spy Plane Program Fooled the World
Jul 04, 2026
How the $350B Bottled Water Industry Changed Your Mind About Tap Water
Jul 04, 2026
How Nuclear Weapons Actually Work: The Physics Behind Atomic Power
Jul 04, 2026
How Corporate Mergers Made Your Groceries More Expensive
Jul 04, 2026
How North Korea Uses Architecture to Control Its Citizens
Jul 04, 2026
How Purchasing Power Actually Changed: 1955 vs 2025 Economic Reality
Jul 04, 2026
Congo's Resource War: How 200 Armed Groups Fight Over Minerals, Not Land
Jul 04, 2026
How Military Satellites Actually Work in Modern Space Conflicts
Jul 04, 2026
How Boredom Actually Works: Your Brain's Signal System Explained
Jul 04, 2026
How Deep Sea Mining Works: The $16 Trillion Ocean Floor Rush
Jul 04, 2026
How Finland Built Europe's Most Advanced Military Defense System
Jul 04, 2026
How Private Companies Make Money Off America's Welfare System
Jul 04, 2026
How Proxy Wars Actually Work: The Hidden Mechanics of Modern Conflict
Jul 04, 2026
How Military War Games Actually Work: Inside Combat Simulations
Jul 04, 2026
South China Sea Disputes: How Ancient Claims Became Modern Conflicts
Jul 04, 2026
How AI is Changing Modern Warfare: Speed, Strategy and New Challenges
Jul 03, 2026
NEOM City: How Saudi Arabia is Building a $1 Trillion Desert Metropolis
Jul 03, 2026
CIA Black Sites: How the Secret Prison Network Actually Operated
Jul 03, 2026
How AI Legislation Actually Works: From Principles to Specific Rules
Jul 03, 2026
How Plato's Atlantis Became a Modern Myth: The Real Story Behind the Legend
Jul 03, 2026
How Nations Were Actually Invented: The Surprising History of Nationalism
Jul 03, 2026
Kamala Harris: How a Civil Rights Activist Became a Tough Prosecutor
Jul 03, 2026
How Donald Trump's Queens Childhood Shaped His Business Mindset
Jul 03, 2026
How Hezbollah Grew from Militia to Military Power: A 40-Year Timeline
Jul 03, 2026
How the U.S. Military Spends $853 Billion: Breaking Down America's Defense Budget
Jul 03, 2026
Why Your Brain Gets Tired: The Hidden Cost of 35,000 Daily Decisions
Jul 03, 2026
How Russia Quietly Occupies 20% of Georgia: The Invisible Border Crisis
Jul 03, 2026
How Foreign Money Secretly Enters US Elections: The Egypt-Trump Case Study
Jul 03, 2026
How Mormons Built Utah: The Complete Story of America's Most Unique Settlement
Jul 03, 2026
How 43 Countries Stack Their Submarine Fleets: A Complete Breakdown
Jul 03, 2026
Income Inequality: How $25K vs $25M Shows America's Wealth Gap
Jul 03, 2026
How Kurdistan Was Divided: The Post-WWI Borders That Split a People
Jul 03, 2026
How Childhood Trauma Shaped Elon Musk's Business Empire
Jul 03, 2026
How Japan is Rebuilding Its Military After 80 Years of Pacifism
Jul 03, 2026
WWII Pacific War: How Japan's Overextension Led to Defeat
Jul 03, 2026
How Your Brain Actually Processes Information: The Food Analogy That Explains Everything
Jul 03, 2026
How the Iran-Iraq War Shaped Modern Middle Eastern Politics
Jul 03, 2026
Why Britain is the Center of the World
Jul 03, 2026
Yemen Civil War: How a Local Conflict Became a Regional Proxy War
Jul 03, 2026
This Tiny African Country Controls 12% of Global Shipping (You've Never Heard of It)
Jul 02, 2026
The $1 Billion Pop Star Heist: How Gulnara Karimova Fooled the World
Jul 02, 2026
Why 60% of Americans Think the FBI Killed Martin Luther King Jr.
Jul 02, 2026
The $2 Billion Cover-Up That Split Ireland in Two
Jul 02, 2026
The CIA vs Presidents: How America's Deep State Really Works
Jul 02, 2026
Why America Sells Weapons to 103 Countries: The $175 Billion Strategy
Jul 02, 2026
How Lockheed Martin Made War Into a $500 Billion Business
Jul 02, 2026
The $200M Hack That Shut Down America's Power Grid
Jul 02, 2026
How Apple and Intel Chips End Up in Russian Missiles (Despite US Sanctions)
Jul 02, 2026
Why Netanyahu's Strategy Actually Strengthens Hamas
Jul 02, 2026
2023 Wrapped: How Putin, Xi, and Musk Accidentally Rewrote the Rules of Power
Jul 02, 2026
The $2 Trillion Reshoring Plan That's Changing Global Commerce
Jul 02, 2026
The $50 Billion Supplement Scam: Why Your Vitamins Don't Work
Jul 02, 2026
Switzerland Has 2.3 Million Guns and Almost Zero Gun Crime: Here's Why
Jul 02, 2026
Henry Kissinger: Strategic Genius or War Criminal?
Jul 02, 2026
How Teenagers in Basements Are Building Smart Weapons That Terrify Generals
Jul 02, 2026
Why 61% of Americans Think the CIA Killed JFK
Jul 01, 2026
How Israel's War Just Triggered World War 3
Jul 01, 2026
Why Xi Jinping's Map Just Started World War 3 (On Paper)
Jul 01, 2026
How Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook Enabled Genocide in Myanmar
Jul 01, 2026
Why 22% of Americans Think the Moon Landing Was Fake
Jul 01, 2026
The $4 Billion Olive Oil Scam That Fooled Everyone
Jul 01, 2026
How Somali Fishermen Became the World's Most Feared Pirates
Jul 01, 2026
The $2 Trillion Lie: How Bush's Team Sold Iraq War Before Threat Assessment
Jul 01, 2026
Why Joe Rogan Makes $100M While CNN Loses Millions
Jul 01, 2026
The Chinese Spy Network That Fooled the CIA for 15 Years
Jul 01, 2026
How Joseph Smith Went From Digging for Gold to Creating America's Fastest Growing Church
Jul 01, 2026
Why Xi Jinping Just Won the Cold War (And Biden Doesn't Know It Yet)
Jul 01, 2026
The $2B Media Collapse That Made Me Start My Own Channel
Jul 01, 2026
Why Mark Zuckerberg Is Wrong About Deepfake Detection in 2026
Jul 01, 2026
How America Stole Puerto Rico and Made 3.2 Million People Second-Class Citizens
Jul 01, 2026
The $800 Billion Military Shift China Doesn't Want You to Know About
Jul 01, 2026
The Pentagon's Secret Plan to Kill Americans in 1962
Jul 01, 2026
How the U.S. Government Stole a Whole State From Native Americans in 1907
Jul 01, 2026
Why Trump's $50 Trillion Greenland Dream Could Start World War 3
Jul 01, 2026
Nancy Pelosi Beat Warren Buffett: How Politicians Make Millions Trading Stocks
Jul 01, 2026
Sudan's $3 Billion Gold Rush: How Resources Fueled a Civil War
Jun 30, 2026
How 57,000 Greenlanders Survive -40°F Winters (Ancient Tricks Climate Change Is Killing)
Jun 30, 2026
The $1.6 Trillion Nuclear Dream That Became America's Biggest Energy Nightmare
Jun 30, 2026
Robert Peary vs Frederick Cook: Who Really Reached the North Pole First?
Jun 30, 2026
Kim Jong Il's $2 Billion Hollywood: How North Korea Kidnapped Its Way to Propaganda Gold
Jun 30, 2026
The 400 Treaties America Broke: How the US Government Colonized Its Own Land
Jun 30, 2026
200 Years of Death: How Antarctica Killed Every Explorer Who Tried
Jun 30, 2026
Your Bank Account Is Lying: 97% of Your Money Doesn't Actually Exist
Jun 30, 2026
Europe's Bloodiest War Since WWII That History Class Never Taught You
Jun 30, 2026
Why America's $100 Billion Lottery Scam Makes States Rich Off Your Bad Math
Jun 30, 2026
Why Jerome Powell Gets Unemployment Numbers Completely Wrong
Jun 30, 2026
The $47B Dairy Industry Lie: Why 'Got Milk?' Was Never About Your Health
Jun 30, 2026
How Russian YouTubers Beat Putin's $2.4B Censorship Machine
Jun 30, 2026
The 73 Countries Where America Staged Coups: A Century of Secret Wars
Jun 30, 2026
Military Pilots Reveal UAPs Breaking Laws of Physics: What the Government Won't Say
Jun 30, 2026
Why Leonardo da Vinci's 500-Year-Old Submarine Sketch Could End the World
Jun 30, 2026
Why Biden's $52 Billion Chip War Against China Is Failing
Jun 30, 2026
How Coca-Cola Uses Ancient Japanese Secrets to Make You Addicted
Jun 30, 2026
How King Leopold II Stole 84% of Africa in Just 30 Years
Jun 30, 2026
Why Switzerland Built 374,142 Bunkers: The Cold War Strategy That Worked
Jun 30, 2026
Why Warren Buffett Says Recessions Are Actually Good for Capitalism
Jun 29, 2026
Why Vitalik Buterin Says Crypto Isn't Dead (And He's Right)
Jun 29, 2026
Qatar's $220B Secret: How They Hid Workers from World Cup Cameras
Jun 29, 2026
How Qatar Spent $220 Billion to Buy FIFA's World Cup
Jun 29, 2026
The Navy's Secret Files on Bermuda Triangle Disappearances
Jun 29, 2026
Why Christopher Columbus Never Actually 'Discovered' America: The Real Colonial Story
Jun 29, 2026
Putin's $400B Energy Weapon: How Russia Held Europe Hostage
Jun 29, 2026
How Two Americans Drew North Korea's Border on a National Geographic Map in 1945
Jun 29, 2026
Why NASA Still Uses Feet and Inches (And Why America Never Will Switch)
Jun 29, 2026
Putin's New Strategy: Why Russia Abandoned Quick Victory for Slow Land Grab
Jun 29, 2026
How a Spanish Novel Made California an Island for 200 Years
Jun 29, 2026
Why SUBWAY Appears in Every Korean Drama (And South Korea's $2B TV Loophole)
Jun 29, 2026
Why Columbus Changed Everything: How Europe's Trade Failures Created Modern Imperialism
Jun 29, 2026
How Wonder Bread Destroyed American Health (And Made Billions)
Jun 29, 2026
Why Big Pharma Refuses to Make Male Birth Control Pills
Jun 29, 2026
Why Jerome Powell's Fed Can't Stop Inflation (6 Minute Breakdown)
Jun 29, 2026
Your Donated Body Gets Sold for $15,000: America's Hidden Corpse Industry
Jun 29, 2026
Why Julian Assange's 2024 Deal Created the First Anti-Journalism Precedent
Jun 29, 2026
How China Controls 80% of Your Tesla Battery: The $47 Billion Congo Secret
Jun 29, 2026
Why Putin's $800B Sanctions Backfired (And What Biden Got Right)
Jun 29, 2026
The $2.3 Trillion Afghanistan War: Who Actually Got Rich While Soldiers Died
Jun 28, 2026
Putin's 3 Fatal Mistakes That Will End His War
Jun 28, 2026
Xi Jinping's Taiwan Plan: The $28 Trillion War That Could End America's Dominance
Jun 28, 2026
Putin's 3 Secret Fears That Started the Ukraine War
Jun 28, 2026
The 3 Weirdest Borders on Earth That Make Zero Geographic Sense
Jun 28, 2026
Why Elon Musk's Bitcoin U-Turn Just Changed Crypto Forever
Jun 28, 2026
How Chiquita Banana Stole 6 Countries: The $2 Billion Central America Heist
Jun 28, 2026
Turkey's 52-Year Secret: Why They Won't Let Go of Northern Cyprus
Jun 28, 2026
How 3,000 War Donkeys Took Over Cyprus After Turkey's 1974 Invasion
Jun 28, 2026
The UN Buffer Zone That Split Cyprus in Half: 52 Years Later
Jun 28, 2026
This Ghost Town Was Sealed for 50 Years: What We Found Inside Will Shock You
Jun 28, 2026
How One YouTuber Got McDonald's Ice Cream Machines Fixed by the Federal Government
Jun 28, 2026
How America Stole Panama From Colombia Using Volcanic Postage Stamps
Jun 28, 2026
Why People Think the World is Flat
Jun 28, 2026
How China Solved the 50,000 Character Keyboard Problem
Jun 28, 2026
The $20 Million War America Forgot: How McKinley Stole The Philippines
Jun 28, 2026
Hitler's Bizarre Plan to Invade Iceland: The Nordic Blood Obsession
Jun 28, 2026
The $500B Space Traffic Jam That Could End Human Spaceflight
Jun 28, 2026
How Iceland Beat Britain in 3 Wars You've Never Heard Of
Jun 28, 2026
The $15 Billion Lab Leak Cover-Up That Changed Science Forever
Jun 27, 2026
Why Iceland's 374°F Underground Water Changed How I Think About Health
Jun 27, 2026
How Nuclear Bombs Accidentally Created Godzilla and the Bikini
Jun 27, 2026
Why 2 Million Mormons Are Secretly Planning Their Exit
Jun 27, 2026
Why Indonesia Has 127 Active Volcanoes and Your Country Has Zero
Jun 27, 2026
The Longest Border in the World
May 31, 2026
The $15 Billion Swiss Tunnel That Broke Every Engineering Rule
May 30, 2026
Why Every Content Creator Needs to Stop Buying Budget Equipment
May 30, 2026
Greenland's 57,000 People Just Became the Most Important on Earth
May 30, 2026
Inside Trump's $2.8B ICE Operation: The Biggest Deportation Machine in US History
May 29, 2026
Why Trump, Denmark, and Elon Musk All Want Greenland (And What That Means)
May 29, 2026
11 Million People Nobody Talks About: The Real Immigration Story
May 29, 2026
Why George Bush Created America's Most Hated Agency After 9/11
May 29, 2026
The CIA Coup That Created 70 Years of Middle East Chaos
May 29, 2026
Why Trump's Border Wall Actually Made Illegal Immigration Worse
May 29, 2026
The CIA Coup That Changed Everything: How America Destroyed Iran's Democracy in 1953
May 29, 2026
Why the Pacific Ocean Controls Your Weather (And Most People Don't Know It)
May 29, 2026
What Oppenheimer Got Wrong About Nuclear Bombs (The Real Physics)
May 29, 2026
The $10,000 Video Equipment That Ruined My Channel
May 29, 2026
The Vox Application That Beat 2,847 Candidates (Full Breakdown)
May 28, 2026
The Travel Mistake 90% of People Make (That Ruins Their First Day)
May 27, 2026
Why Elon Musk Says College Is a Waste of Time (He's Half Right)
May 26, 2026
The $15,000 Studio Mistake That Nearly Killed My Channel
May 25, 2026
I Tracked Every Memory for 365 Days. Here's What I Discovered.
May 24, 2026
Why Your Brain Sabotages Learning (And How to Hijack It Back)
May 23, 2026
I'm Dyslexic: What My Brain Actually Does When I Try to Read
May 22, 2026
How The Dutch Turned Drowning Into Billions: The Flood Engineering That Built Amsterdam
May 21, 2026
My 2019 Travel List Predicted Every Instagram Hotspot You Love
May 20, 2026