Zipcode Zero
Trying to understand the world by talking to those living in it. Politics, history, culture and life stuff. Hosted by Kevin Maley.
Episodes
28 episodes
All About Germany with James Hawes
The Federal Republic of Germany is a country with a long and rich history. It’s a country that is best known in the West as central to the dominant geopolitical struggles of the 20th century – namely the two World Wars and the Cold War. T...
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Episode 28
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1:20:13
Tim Walz and the state of Presidential Politics with Michael Baharaeen
Yesterday Minnesota governor Tim Walz was announced as Kamala Harris’s running mate for the Democratic ticket in the 2024 presidential election. To discuss that pick, and the state of the race, I’m joined today by Michael Baharaeen,...
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Episode 27
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58:55
Presidential Debate Special with Sean Dempsey
Donald Trump vs. Joe Biden. Who will win?Sean Dempsey is dedicated libertarian stalwart and party member from the great state of New Hampshire. As a stalwart leftist (me) and dedicated libertarian (Sean) we breakdown the first 2024 pres...
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Episode 26
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1:57:36
The New York Times' W.J. Hennigan on the Risk of Nuclear War
“Today, every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate the day when this planet may no longa be habitable. Every man, woman and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles, hanging by the slenderest of threads, capable of being cut at any m...
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Episode 25
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57:33
Ryan Grim on "The Squad: AOC and the Hope of a Political Revolution"
Today’s guest is Ryan Grim, author of the new book “The Squad – AOC and the Hope of a Political Revolution”. Ryan Grim is the Intercept’s Washington bureau chief and cohost of the show Counter Points. He was pr...
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Episode 24
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On Israel and Palestine with Historian Zach Foster
We’re now in two months of the Israel-Gaza War and after a brief ceasefire, the fighting has erupted again. I think its hard to understand this current conflict without understanding the history of Israel and Palestine,...
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Episode 23
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1:19:55
U.S. Foreign Policy with Matt Duss
Foreign policy is all over the news these days as wars rage from The Middle East to Eastern Europe. To help get a better sense of those issues, as well as what a better, more values based U.S. Foreign Policy could look like, I am joined today b...
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Episode 22
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45:33
On Politics and America with Congressman Mike Capuano
Today’s guest is former Congressman Mike Capuano, who represented Massachuetts’s 7th Congressional District from 1999 to 2019. I pick Mike’s brain on a wide range of issues, including, of course, Israel and Gaza, Ukraine, what he th...
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Episode 21
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54:19
On Liberals and Liberalism Robert Kuttner
In an economy with steady growth, low unemployment and core inflation down to 3.2%, why do so many Americans say that the Biden Administration has left them worse off economically? How is Trump winning or tied with voters under 30? <...
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Episode 20
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55:28
How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement with Freddie deBoer
Over the last decade we’ve seen the rise of a wide range of social justice movements, from Occupy Wall Street to Me Too to Black Lives Matter. Where are those movements now and what impact have they had? In his new book “How the Eli...
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Episode 19
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52:26
A View from the West Bank with Dalia Hatuqa
On October 7, Israel suffered a brutal attack as Hamas militants from Gaza rampaged across the south, massacring up to 1,500 Jews and taking 200 more captive.Israel’s response has been to unleash a massive bombing campaign on the G...
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Episode 18
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The State of Republican Politics with Taylor Svehlak
While all eyes were on Congress this week, the Republican presidential primary continued to unfold across the country. I’ve found that primary a little bizarre and a little boring – especially the last debate. With Trump ahead by 40 or 50 point...
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Episode 17
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52:01
Covering U.S. Foreign Policy with Liam Cosgrove
Liam Cosgrove is a DC-based correspondent for The Grayzone, an independent news website dedicated to original investigative journalism and analysis on politics and empire. With much of the mainstream media being pretty aggressively ...
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Episode 16
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53:50
Labor, Class and Politics with Michael Valdes
Michael Valdes is an IBEW Journey Level Inside Wireman. He joins the show to talk about the UAW strike, class issues in America, how politicians of both sides view the working class generally and labor unions in particular, and what gives him h...
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Episode 15
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1:20:35
Purpose and Pain with Jasmine Pettross
In her book "Faith Defeated My Pain" , J...
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Episode 14
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51:52
Understanding UAPs with Robert Powell
Robert Powell is a co-founder of the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies, a non-profit, in September 2017. The purpose of the organization is the scientific study of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena. Affiliation with the organization is open to a...
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45:09
The Unraveling Covid Consensus with Dr. Justin Kinney and Dr. Yanna Lambrinidou
Justin B. Kinney is an Associate Professor in the Simons Center for Quantitative Biology at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. He received a Ph.D. in Physics from Princeton University in 2008, is a co-author on >40 journal articles, and serves a...
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1:09:51
Where Things Stand in Ukraine with George Beebe
George Beebe spent more than two decades in government as an intelligence analyst, diplomat, and policy advisor, including as director of the CIA’s Russia analysis, director of the CIA’s Open Source Center, and as a staff advisor on Russia matt...
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Episode 11
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1:01:38
Welcome to the Gun Show with Taylor Svehlak
A fierce proponent of the right to keep and bear arms, Taylor Svehlak is a longtime gun-rights advocate, and briefly served as Director of Communications for a three-letter pro-gun advocacy group (not that one). In his spare time he is also an ...
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Episode 10
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1:19:59
Adventures in Travel with Wandering Earl
Derek Earl Baron aka "Wandering Earl" left home in 1999 for what was supposed to be a three month post-graduation trip to Southeast Asia and has essentially been traveling the world non-stop ever since.He has been to over 130 countries o...
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Episode 9
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1:00:26
Revealing the Ripper with John Schad
Critically acclaimed author John Schad joins the podcast to speak on his forthcoming book "Jack the Ripper: Revealed". Schad grew up fascinated by stories of Jack the Ripper and his murder streak across Victorian London. After spending ne...
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Episode 8
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1:23:46
Understanding Ukraine with Alex Mitchell
What's going on with Ukraine? The Institute for the Study of War's Alex Mitchell joins Zipcode Zero to give an update on the war, Putin's strategy, what the U.S.'s role is and what we can expect to happen this winter.Alexander Mitche...
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Episode 7
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57:47
Parsing Politics with David Plotz
David Plotz is the CEO of City Cast, a network of daily local news podcasts in cities around the country - also accompanied by a daily email newsletter that keeps you in the know about what’s happ...
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Episode 6
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47:45
Cancel Culture with Norm Finkelstein
Norman Finkelstein is an American political scientist, activist, former professor, and author. His primary fields of research are the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and the politics of the Holocaust. He is a graduate of Binghamton University and ...
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Episode 5
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1:19:24
SCOTUS Talk with Dahlia Lithwick
Dahlia Lithwick is a senior editor at Slate and, in that capacity, has been writing their Supreme Court Dispatches and Jurisprudence columns since 1999. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Harper’s, The New Yorker, The Washington Post,...
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Episode 4
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