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Elsewhere
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…
Episodes
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Netflix's $47B Nostalgia Algorithm Is Hijacking Your Brain
What if I told you Netflix knows exactly which childhood memories make you click "add to list" and they're using that data to hook you for hours? In this…
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Europe's Bloodiest War Since WWII That History Class Never Taught You
Ever heard of a war that killed 130,000 people in Europe just 30 years ago? In this episode, Tyler Cooper uncovers the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s: the…
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Mexican Coke is a $2 Billion Lie (And We All Fell for It)
You've been lied to about Mexican Coke. For years, millions of people have paid premium prices for what they believed was Coca-Cola made with pure cane sugar…
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Why America's $100 Billion Lottery Scam Makes States Rich Off Your Bad Math
Your government is literally running a $100 billion scam, and they're doing it with your permission. Tyler Cooper breaks down how America's lottery system has…
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Where America Actually Hides Its Biggest Secrets (You Drive Past Them Daily)
What if the biggest military secrets in America are hiding in plain sight? That gas station you passed this morning might be 20 miles from a facility so…
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Why Jerome Powell Gets Unemployment Numbers Completely Wrong
What if everything you think you know about unemployment is backwards? Tyler Cooper breaks down why Jerome Powell and the Fed completely miss the point when…
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The $2.3 Billion Virus Map That Saved Millions (And How Scientists Built It)
What if the map that helped save millions of lives during COVID was built in just 11 days? In this episode, Tyler Cooper breaks down how scientists turned an…
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The $47B Dairy Industry Lie: Why 'Got Milk?' Was Never About Your Health
What if the most successful health campaign in American history was actually designed to sell you something your body can't even process? In this episode…
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What 20 Years of Reporting Taught Me About Why News Is Toxic
What if everything you thought you knew about staying informed was actually making you less smart? Tyler Cooper spent two decades in newsrooms and discovered…
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How Russian YouTubers Beat Putin's $2.4B Censorship Machine
When Russian YouTubers with millions of subscribers start fleeing their own country, you know something big is happening. Tyler Cooper breaks down how Putin's…
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The Ancient Star Map That Changed Everything We Know About Space
What if the tiny dots of light ancient sailors trusted with their lives actually hold secrets about the universe we're only just beginning to understand? In…
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The 73 Countries Where America Staged Coups: A Century of Secret Wars
What if I told you the United States has orchestrated coups in 73 countries over the past century? In this eye-opening episode, Tyler Cooper maps out America's…
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I Spent 847 Hours Making One Map. Here's What I Learned.
Ever wonder how those viral animated maps that break the internet actually get made? Tyler Cooper pulls back the curtain on YouTube cartographer Johnny…
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Military Pilots Reveal UAPs Breaking Laws of Physics: What the Government Won't Say
What if everything you thought you knew about physics was about to get flipped upside down? Tyler Cooper breaks down the military encounters with unidentified…
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Why Flying From Tokyo to LA Can Make You Time Travel (The Date Line Secret)
What if you could board a plane on Tuesday and land on Monday? Tyler Cooper reveals the bizarre truth about the International Date Line that turns time travel…
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Why Leonardo da Vinci's 500-Year-Old Submarine Sketch Could End the World
Leonardo da Vinci sketched a submarine in 1515. Five hundred years later, Tyler Cooper explains why those same underwater war machines could literally end…
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Why Biden's $52 Billion Chip War Against China Is Failing
China spent $150 billion trying to build advanced computer chips and still can't match what Taiwan makes in a single factory. In this episode, Tyler Cooper…
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How Coca-Cola Uses Ancient Japanese Secrets to Make You Addicted
Ever wonder why you can't eat just one chip? Tyler Cooper reveals how Coca-Cola and other food giants weaponize a 100-year-old Japanese discovery to hijack…
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How King Leopold II Stole 84% of Africa in Just 30 Years
Ever wonder how one small European country managed to claim territory 80 times its size in Africa? Tyler Cooper breaks down the shocking speed of European…
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Why Switzerland Built 374,142 Bunkers: The Cold War Strategy That Worked
What if staying neutral in a war actually meant turning your entire country into one massive fortress? Switzerland didn't just build a few bunkers during the…
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Why Warren Buffett Says Recessions Are Actually Good for Capitalism
Why does Warren Buffett actually get excited when the stock market crashes? While most people panic during recessions, the Oracle of Omaha sees them as…
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Why Vitalik Buterin Says Crypto Isn't Dead (And He's Right)
FTX collapsed with an $8 billion hole. Terra Luna vanished overnight. Yet Vitalik Buterin just said crypto isn't dead, and the data backs him up. In this…
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Qatar's $220B Secret: How They Hid Workers from World Cup Cameras
What if I told you that Qatar spent $220 billion building the World Cup's most expensive secret? Tyler Cooper exposes how the tiny nation created an invisible…
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How Qatar Spent $220 Billion to Buy FIFA's World Cup
What if a country with zero World Cup history could buy its way to hosting the world's biggest sporting event for $220 billion? In this episode, Tyler Cooper…
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The Navy's Secret Files on Bermuda Triangle Disappearances
The US Navy's classified files reveal something unsettling: ships and planes really are vanishing in the Bermuda Triangle at rates that can't be explained…
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Why Christopher Columbus Never Actually 'Discovered' America: The Real Colonial Story
Most people think European colonialism succeeded because of guns and ships. Tyler Cooper reveals the shocking truth: it was actually the world's first…
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Putin's $400B Energy Weapon: How Russia Held Europe Hostage
Russia turned off the gas tap to Europe, and the continent nearly froze. In this episode, Tyler Cooper breaks down how Putin weaponized $400 billion worth of…
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How Two Americans Drew North Korea's Border on a National Geographic Map in 1945
What if I told you that two guys with a National Geographic map basically split Korea in half over lunch? In this episode, Tyler Cooper reveals how a 30-minute…
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Why NASA Still Uses Feet and Inches (And Why America Never Will Switch)
The US government officially adopted the metric system in 1975. NASA uses it exclusively. So why are Americans still measuring everything in feet and pounds?…
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Putin's New Strategy: Why Russia Abandoned Quick Victory for Slow Land Grab
That 40-mile Russian convoy headed to Kiev? It wasn't just a military failure, it was the moment Putin's entire strategy crumbled. In this episode, Tyler…
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How a Spanish Novel Made California an Island for 200 Years
What if a Spanish romance novel accidentally convinced the world that California was an island for two centuries? In this episode, Tyler Cooper uncovers the…
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Why SUBWAY Appears in Every Korean Drama (And South Korea's $2B TV Loophole)
Ever wonder why Korean drama characters are constantly eating Subway sandwiches? Tyler Cooper uncovers the bizarre government loophole that turned South Korea…
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Why Columbus Changed Everything: How Europe's Trade Failures Created Modern Imperialism
What if I told you that European imperialism started not from strength, but from desperation? In this episode, Tyler Cooper reveals how Europe's biggest trade…
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How Wonder Bread Destroyed American Health (And Made Billions)
What if the bread that built America was actually one of the biggest health disasters in our history? In this episode, Tyler Cooper reveals how Wonder Bread…
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Why Big Pharma Refuses to Make Male Birth Control Pills
What if I told you there's a birth control method that's 96% effective, has minimal side effects, and could revolutionize reproductive health - but you'll…
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Why Jerome Powell's Fed Can't Stop Inflation (6 Minute Breakdown)
Ever wonder why your grocery bill keeps climbing even though Jerome Powell keeps promising inflation is under control? Here's the uncomfortable truth: the…
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Your Donated Body Gets Sold for $15,000: America's Hidden Corpse Industry
Think you know where donated bodies go? Think again. In this episode, Tyler Cooper exposes America's massive for-profit corpse industry that turns "donations…
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Why Julian Assange's 2024 Deal Created the First Anti-Journalism Precedent
June 24, 2024: Julian Assange walked free after pleading guilty to one count of espionage. Most people saw freedom. Tyler Cooper sees something far more…
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How China Controls 80% of Your Tesla Battery: The $47 Billion Congo Secret
What if I told you that your Tesla's battery depends on minerals controlled by a country that doesn't even make electric cars? In this episode, Tyler Cooper…
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Why Putin's $800B Sanctions Backfired (And What Biden Got Right)
Russia just lost $300 billion in a single day, and it wasn't from a stock market crash. Tyler Cooper breaks down how economic sanctions work and why Putin's…
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The $2.3 Trillion Afghanistan War: Who Actually Got Rich While Soldiers Died
While 2,400 American soldiers died in Afghanistan, defense contractors were getting rich off a war machine designed to keep the money flowing. Tyler Cooper…
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Putin's 3 Fatal Mistakes That Will End His War
What if everything Putin's been saying about Ukraine was just cover for three massive strategic blunders? Tyler Cooper breaks down the Russian president's…
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Xi Jinping's Taiwan Plan: The $28 Trillion War That Could End America's Dominance
What if I told you that a 100-mile stretch of water could trigger World War III and crash the global economy overnight? In this episode, Tyler Cooper breaks…
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Putin's 3 Secret Fears That Started the Ukraine War
What if Putin's biggest fear isn't NATO missiles, but losing control of his own people? Tyler Cooper breaks down the three psychological terrors driving…
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The 3 Weirdest Borders on Earth That Make Zero Geographic Sense
Picture this: a country that's 80% controlled by another nation but still considers itself independent, a tomb that got picked up and moved 180 kilometers to…
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Why Elon Musk's Bitcoin U-Turn Just Changed Crypto Forever
Tyler Cooper just uncovered something that could flip everything you thought you knew about cryptocurrency. While everyone's debating whether Bitcoin is…
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How Chiquita Banana Stole 6 Countries: The $2 Billion Central America Heist
Imagine paying $88,000 in taxes while owning half a country. That's exactly what United Fruit Company pulled off in Guatemala while controlling 3.5 million…
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Turkey's 52-Year Secret: Why They Won't Let Go of Northern Cyprus
Think you know about Cyprus? That sunny Mediterranean vacation spot? Tyler Cooper reveals why this island has been split in half for 52 years, with 35,000…
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How 3,000 War Donkeys Took Over Cyprus After Turkey's 1974 Invasion
What if a 50-year-old military invasion accidentally created one of Europe's weirdest wildlife success stories? In this episode, Tyler Cooper uncovers how…
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The UN Buffer Zone That Split Cyprus in Half: 52 Years Later
What if a single street could split two entire communities for nearly half a century? Tyler Cooper uncovers the bizarre reality of Nicosia, the world's only…
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This Ghost Town Was Sealed for 50 Years: What We Found Inside Will Shock You
Picture this: celebrities sipping cocktails on golden beaches, luxury hotels packed with the world's elite, then BAM. Everyone vanishes overnight, leaving…
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How One YouTuber Got McDonald's Ice Cream Machines Fixed by the Federal Government
Ever wonder how a random YouTube video about broken ice cream machines ended up on the desk of federal regulators? Tyler Cooper breaks down the wild story of…
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How America Stole Panama From Colombia Using Volcanic Postage Stamps
Ever wonder how a volcano in Nicaragua helped America steal Panama? Tyler Cooper breaks down the wild story of how the U.S. used everything from deadly French…
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Why People Think the World is Flat
What if I told you that in 2024, there are thousands of people who genuinely believe our planet is a flat disc floating through space? Tyler Cooper breaks down…
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How China Solved the 50,000 Character Keyboard Problem
Picture this: You need to type in Chinese, but your keyboard only has 104 keys. Chinese has over 50,000 characters. How do you solve what seems like an…
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The $20 Million War America Forgot: How McKinley Stole The Philippines
What if America's origin story as an anti-colonial republic was just good marketing? In 1898, the United States paid Spain $20 million (about $650 million…
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Hitler's Bizarre Plan to Invade Iceland: The Nordic Blood Obsession
What if Hitler's strangest military obsession wasn't conquering Europe, but claiming a freezing island most people can't find on a map? In this episode, Tyler…
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The $500B Space Traffic Jam That Could End Human Spaceflight
Picture this: SpaceX alone has launched over 5,000 satellites since 2019. That's more than all the satellites launched in the first 50 years of space…
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How Iceland Beat Britain in 3 Wars You've Never Heard Of
In 1976, a country with fewer people than Wyoming beat Britain in a war. Iceland's secret weapon? Fish. And Tyler Cooper breaks down exactly how they pulled…
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The $15 Billion Lab Leak Cover-Up That Changed Science Forever
Three researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology got sick with COVID-like symptoms in November 2019, weeks before the world knew COVID existed. Tyler…