Oakland
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Oakland is a major city on the eastern side of San Francisco Bay, known for its diverse communities, port, arts scene, and political history.
34 episodes featuring Oakland
Pardon My Take
NFL picks meet playoff heartbreak and championship memories
The episode connects Week 4 betting debates with baseball’s emotional volatility and firsthand accounts of two championship runs.
Oct 2, 2026 · 3h 30m
Huberman Lab Essentials
Pollan asks whether the brain creates consciousness
The conversation tests human-centered ideas of awareness against evidence from plants, animals, microbes, psychedelics, and artificial intelligence.
Sep 28, 2026 · 2h 3m
The Bulwark Daily
Trump loyalty strains Republicans as court battles intensify
The episode connects Republican deference to Trump, election-chain-of-custody concerns, and the long conservative campaign to reshape the Supreme Court.
Sep 25, 2026 · 60 min
TBPN
Meta bets personal AI can make glasses everyday computers
The episode connects Meta’s consumer-AI strategy to the infrastructure, reliability, security, and planetary-engineering bets shaping technology’s next phase.
Sep 24, 2026 · 2h 2m
The Joe Budden Podcast
JBP weighs celebrity power against public accountability
The episode connects entertainment debates, public controversy, family costs, safety, and political anxiety into a broader argument about accountability.
Sep 23, 2026 · 3h 7m
Morning Brew Daily
AI, media consolidation and private equity reshape everyday life
The episode connects fragile public infrastructure, concentrated corporate power and technology-driven markets across aviation, media, restaurants and finance.
Sep 22, 2026 · 30 min
The Bulwark Daily
Trump’s Iran messaging collides with AI and education fights
The episode connects strained war messaging, attacks on press access, AI policy uncertainty, and school-choice pressures to broader questions of political accountability.
Sep 21, 2026 · 1h 10m
Hard Fork
AI safety enters the mainstream as Hard Fork signs off
The episode captures a pivotal debate over whether frontier AI needs coordinated restraint, stronger liability rules, or safeguards that could entrench powerful labs.
Sep 18, 2026 · 1h 24m
Pardon My Take
Buffalo’s offense surges as Week 2 picks meet Presidents Cup pressure
The episode pairs an early NFL read on contenders, frauds, and betting angles with a revealing look at the pressure of elite match-play golf.
Sep 18, 2026 · 2h 57m
IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson
H.E.R. reclaims control of her music and identity
H.E.R.’s story shows how a young artist can turn early industry control, public exposure, and isolation into creative autonomy.
Sep 16, 2026 · 1h 15m
We Fixed It, You're Welcome
UPS Rebuilds Its Operating Model Around Local Judgment
UPS’s restructuring tests whether a century-old operating culture can adapt to lower volume, changing customer dependence, and sustained cost pressure.
Sep 16, 2026 · 46 min
Radiolab
A 60-word law powers America’s endless war
The episode shows how a narrowly written post-9/11 authorization became a durable legal basis for detention, drone strikes, and undeclared wars.
Sep 4, 2026 · 1h 7m
Prof G Markets
Scott Galloway confronts wealth’s grip on identity
The conversation examines how financial insecurity can drive ambition, politics, relationships, and the difficult search for enough.
Aug 31, 2026 · 1h 2m
Stock Movers
Wildfire liability rattles utilities as oil and Apple shift
The episode connects immediate market moves with longer-term questions about energy risk, corporate succession, and how cities prepare for growth.
Aug 31, 2026 · 7 min
Global News Podcast
Meta faces child-safety reckoning as AI chip demand surges
The episode connects corporate accountability, technological power, humanitarian crises and political pressure across several continents.
Aug 27, 2026 · 36 min
The Journal.
Meta settles youth-safety case as regulation accelerates
The settlement tests whether court-enforced product changes can protect young users more effectively than a larger but delayed verdict.
Aug 27, 2026 · 24 min
WSJ What’s News
Meta settlement puts teen-platform safeguards under scrutiny
The settlement could reshape default settings on major social platforms while the episode connects technology, health, policy, markets, and disaster response.
Aug 26, 2026 · 9 min
The Shawn Ryan Show
George Christie explains why he left the Hells Angels
Christie’s account connects outlaw-club loyalty, institutional failure, violence, and conscience to the personal cost of walking away.
Aug 24, 2026 · 3h 49m
Pivot
Mark Cuban targets healthcare middlemen and billionaire taxes
The conversation tests whether transparency, contract audits, and better-designed taxes can challenge entrenched corporate incentives without driving wealth and innovation elsewhere.
Aug 21, 2026 · 1h 20m
UNBIASED Politics
Minnesota challenges Texas over ICE extradition dispute
The episode connects a state-to-state legal fight with federal immigration enforcement, regulatory leadership, public-land policy, and mounting fiscal pressure.
Aug 20, 2026 · 55 min
Global News Podcast
Meta faces child-safety trial as global crises widen
The episode connects a major technology accountability case with institutional conflict, a worsening Ebola outbreak, medical research, and environmental threats.
Aug 19, 2026 · 32 min
Bloomberg Tech
AI infrastructure boom tests markets, regulators and communities
The episode connects enormous AI investment with shareholder returns, financing risk, energy and construction backlash, inflation, and public accountability.
Aug 19, 2026 · 53 min
Up First from NPR
Florida primary upends Senate race as Meta faces addiction trial
The episode connects volatile election results and trade uncertainty with a consequential legal test of how social platforms affect young users.
Aug 19, 2026 · 16 min
WSJ What’s News
Meta faces trillion-dollar test over youth safety
The case could shape how platforms are held accountable for alleged harms to children and expose Meta to extraordinary financial liability.
Aug 18, 2026 · 11 min
Morning Brew Daily
Meta Faces Landmark Trial Over Youth Safety and Product Design
The case tests whether social-media companies can be held responsible for designing products that states say put children at risk.
Aug 18, 2026 · 30 min
Consider This from NPR
States challenge Meta’s design of addictive platforms
The case could determine whether social media companies face legal and product-design consequences for risks to children.
Aug 18, 2026 · 10 min
Bloomberg Daybreak: US Edition
Trump’s Iran stance puts Hormuz shipping at risk
The episode connects an expired U.S.-Iran agreement to uncertainty over a vital shipping route, while tracking pressures across geopolitics, markets, and business.
Aug 18, 2026 · 22 min
Bloomberg Tech
AI’s next test: financing, safety and the teen market
The episode connects AI’s commercial expansion to the financial, regulatory and security risks that could shape its next phase.
Aug 18, 2026 · 53 min
The Bulwark Daily
Democrats debate turning Trump’s vanity into a political liability
The conversation tests whether Democrats can convert Republican hypocrisy, Trump’s self-interest, and popular issues into a sharper electoral strategy.
Aug 14, 2026 · 1h 17m
The Bill Simmons Podcast
LeBron’s Philadelphia arrival ends the Process debate
The episode turns a sprawling sports mailbag into a question about legacy, franchise direction, and whether Philadelphia’s long rebuild has finally run its course.
Aug 10, 2026 · 2h 28m
The Shawn Ryan Show
Former Mongols leader traces brotherhood’s cost and his exit
Justin DeLoretto’s story shows how identities built on loyalty and conflict can shape a life—and how difficult rebuilding becomes after leaving.
Aug 10, 2026 · 4h 6m
TED Radio Hour
Medical progress cannot earn trust on its own
The episode shows how honest uncertainty, patient listening, and collaboration can make healthcare more responsible and humane.
Aug 7, 2026 · 50 min
The Bulwark Daily
Republicans enable Trump as global threats grow
The episode argues that Republican acquiescence to Trump is weakening democratic accountability while distracting the United States from economic and strategic challenges.
Aug 7, 2026 · 1h 6m
Up First from NPR
Hormuz talks collide with Michigan’s Senate fight and Trump’s economic pitch
The episode connects a potentially consequential shipping crisis with two political tests of whether leaders can persuade voters amid economic and cultural pressure.
Aug 6, 2026 · 16 min