About this podcast
Three friends - a YouTuber, a filmmaker, and a pilot, interview their friends and public figures, conducting interesting and engaging conversations about their life stories as well as relevant issues, and taking questions from a live audience on this weekly podcast.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 40 episodes
- Nebraska - The US Explained · 1 h 3 min · Episode 47Come with me to the prairies and badlands that marked for countless settlers the edge of the Plains, the beginning of the rugged West that lay beyond, an essential center of…
- Nevada - The US Explained · 1 h 3 min · Episode 46No state in the country has seen, or even come close to, the shockingly high population explosion Nevada experienced over the past half century. Las Vegas, a small roadside stop…
- West Virginia - The US Explained · 1 h 7 min · Episode 45West Virginia is an anomaly. Given its own statehood long after any of its neighbors, indeed even after most of the West Coast, the Mountain State born in the fires of the Civil…
- Kansas - The US Explained · 60 min · Episode 44Kansas is peaceful, rural, an epitome of the American Heartland, sitting in fact, at the exact center of the country’s Lower 48 states. Its most famous export, The Wizard of Oz…
- Oregon - The US Explained · 1 h 6 min · Episode 43Within the massive borders of this West Coast state, sit one major city and several smaller ones, towered over by the lonesome, snowcapped peaks of the Cascades. Here too are a…
- Minnesota - The US Explained · 1 h 23 min · Episode 42At the beginning of the journey of one of the world’s greatest rivers, sits Minnesota. In the country’s icy north, it’s charted an impressive journey of its own, today…
- California - The US Explained (Part 2) · 1 h 37 min · Episode 41The most populous state by far in the nation. One of the largest economies on the planet. Home to an incredibly diversity of both cultures and regions, some of the largest cities…
- California - The US Explained (Part 1) · 1 h 54 min · Episode 40The most populous state by far in the nation. One of the largest economies on the planet. Home to an incredibly diversity of both cultures and regions, some of the largest cities…
- Wisconsin - The US Explained · 1 h 13 min · Episode 39Wisconsin feels different. America’s Dairyland is, of course, part of the agricultural Midwest, but in this tree-covered state, lake houses and woodland cabins abound. Here are…
- Iowa - The US Explained · 1 h 5 min · Episode 38In the heart of America, between the country’s two greatest rivers, stretches a vast expanse of flat farmland and picturesque rolling hills. This is a land of small towns and…
- Texas - The US Explained · 1 h 58 min · Episode 37Where the American South meets the American West, this is a land of cattle ranchers, cowboys, and oilmen, of Cajuns, of border towns where Spanish has been spoken long before…
- Florida - The US Explained · 1 h 39 min · Episode 36Florida - It's a land of swamps and islands, beautiful yet for much of its history remote, a backwater jutting into the Gulf of Mexico. Today though, it's the third most populous…
- Michigan - The US Explained · 1 h 14 min · Episode 35Michigan - mountains and mines, wild forests, islands, and lakes sit together with one of the largest cities in the country, a heavily urbanized hive of industry home to millions…
- Arkansas - The US Explained · 1 h 9 min · Episode 34Here in Arkansas the swamps and bayous of the fertile Mississippi Delta meet the country’s largest cluster of mountains between the Rockies and Appalachians. A mostly rural…
- Missouri - The US Explained · 1 h 3 min · Episode 33Missouri sits in the middle. For the last forty years, it’s been the average center of the country’s population, and today, more than any other, it can claim to be the state…
- Maine - The US Explained · 55 min · Episode 32Maine - The state at the northeastern tip of the United States is an outlier. In the heavily urbanized East Coast, it’s predominantly rural. It takes up half of New England’s…
- Alabama - The US Explained · 59 min · Episode 31The story of Alabama is in large part the story of America, one that has much to be proud of, with progress and innovation, kind people and a strong regional culture, yet at the…
- Illinois - The US Explained · 1 h 6 min · Episode 30The river winds through a canyon, at times more than a thousand feet from top to bottom. But unlike the canyons of the west, its walls are made not of earth and rock, but of…
- Mississippi - The US Explained · 47 min · Episode 29Famed author William Faulkner said of his home state, “to understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.” As I take you on this journey through every…
- Indiana - The US Explained · 45 min · Episode 28It’s spanned by vast fields of corn and soybeans, making it one of the most agriculturally productive states in the country. Stunning sand dunes, one of the only national parks…
