West
Place
A broad region of the United States west of the Great Plains, known in this context for its mustang populations and horse-management programs.
27 episodes featuring West
WSJ What’s News
DHS Pays Local Police to Make Immigration Arrests
Federal funding is reshaping local participation in immigration enforcement while market stress, AI governance concerns, and Canada’s U.S. strategy widen the stakes.
Oct 2, 2026 · 12 min
Equity Mates Investing Podcast
AI and electrification push infrastructure into a new growth era
The episode examines whether essential networks can meet surging demand while preserving the stable, regulated cash flows investors expect.
Oct 1, 2026 · 43 min
The Matt Walsh Show
Walsh defends predator stings against Hollywood’s moral indictment
The episode tests whether exposing suspected predators serves the public interest or turns trauma, spectacle, and tragedy into entertainment.
Sep 28, 2026 · 1h 1m
Morning Brew Daily
AI infrastructure meets diplomacy, inertia and a 45-year retail winner
The episode connects U.S.-China technology diplomacy and fragile AI construction projects with the consumer habits and market forces reshaping business.
Sep 25, 2026 · 30 min
The Tucker Carlson Show
Refinery strikes expose America’s energy and war-making vulnerabilities
The episode links attacks on energy infrastructure to fuel-price pressure, shifting geopolitical power, and the risk that nuclear escalation becomes easier to contemplate.
Sep 24, 2026 · 1h 45m
Marketplace
Fed officials prepare markets for higher rates
The episode connects persistent inflation and monetary-policy uncertainty with labor disruption, housing strain, climate risk, and pressure on farmers.
Sep 24, 2026 · 25 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
Science Friday
Submerged landscapes rewrite early American history
Underwater sites preserve evidence from vanished Ice Age environments, offering a crucial test of how and when people reached the Americas.
Sep 23, 2026 · 18 min
Prof G Markets
Ellison wins approval as media power and housing strain converge
The episode connects a newly cleared media acquisition’s political and editorial risks with a housing market divided by rates, supply, and income.
Sep 22, 2026 · 32 min
Morning Wire
Burmawi challenges Western assumptions about Islam’s political role
The discussion examines how policymakers interpret Islam and Islamism, and why those interpretations shape debates about American political life.
Sep 20, 2026 · 16 min
The President's Daily Brief
Russia’s election machine meets a widening hybrid war
The episode connects Iran’s targeting of U.S. forces with Russia’s domestic repression and mounting pressure on NATO and Europe.
Sep 19, 2026 · 58 min
Something You Should Know
Horses built civilization; strategic laziness may improve modern work
The episode connects an animal’s historical power with a modern argument that purposeful idleness can produce more meaningful, effective work.
Sep 19, 2026 · 51 min
Ologies with Alie Ward — Discard Anthropology (GARBAGE)
El Niño reshapes weather, food security and wildfire risk
Understanding Pacific Ocean cycles helps explain why climate hazards cascade across regions and hit communities with unequal capacity to prepare and recover.
Sep 16, 2026 · 1h 4m
Office Hours with Prop G
China’s Rise Tests the Global Order
The episode connects China’s technological, geopolitical, and cultural expansion to a sharper era of competition with the United States and Europe.
Sep 15, 2026 · 47 min
Consider This from NPR
Post-9/11 missteps reshaped Russia and China’s view of America
The episode traces how wars, crises, and withdrawals weakened U.S. credibility while strengthening confidence in Russian and Chinese alternatives.
Sep 6, 2026 · 12 min
Friday Night Economic Review
Markets rise as households absorb the economic strain
The discussion connects household pressure, government spending, geopolitical risk, and silver scarcity to a broader argument about distorted economic signals.
Sep 4, 2026 · 49 min
Friday Night Economic Review
Privacy advocates warn surveillance is becoming everyday infrastructure
The conversation examines how data collection, algorithmic manipulation, and digital identification could shift power from individuals toward centralized institutions.
Sep 3, 2026 · 1h 2m
Breaking News from Pod Save America
Trump’s public-land politics put the West’s identity at stake
The episode examines whether treating national parks, wild horses, and other public responsibilities as political assets could reshape Western politics and public trust.
Sep 1, 2026 · 21 min
Pablo Torre Finds Out
A shelved cartoon exposes Hollywood’s corporate logic
Eric Bauza’s account of Coyote vs. Acme connects animation’s cultural inheritance to the financial, labor, and technological pressures reshaping Hollywood.
Sep 1, 2026 · 44 min
The Daily
Ocean rescues expose a hidden Coast Guard brain injury risk
The reporting challenges the assumption that traumatic brain injuries require explosions or direct blows, revealing how routine rescue work may cause lasting harm.
Sep 1, 2026 · 42 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 Bill Simmons Podcast
Chesney bets on culture as college football churns
The episode connects sports fandom’s enduring appeal with a college football system increasingly shaped by transfer-market volatility and NIL economics.
Aug 24, 2026 · 2h 21m
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
The Shawn Ryan Show
SEAL operator turns combat trauma into a mission of recovery
Alex West connects elite military service, combat loss, suicidal crisis, and sobriety to his later work helping veterans and first responders heal.
Aug 20, 2026 · 4h 35m
The Bulwark Daily
AI backlash collides with climate danger and political force
The conversation connects public distrust of powerful technologies with immigration enforcement, climate disruption, and the limits of optimism about progress.
Aug 20, 2026 · 1h 5m
Today, Explained
Loomer’s Ukraine reversal tests MAGA’s Russia politics
Laura Loomer’s shift toward backing Ukraine and opposing Vladimir Putin could expose new fractures inside MAGA and affect Donald Trump’s foreign-policy choices.
Aug 10, 2026 · 28 min
TBPN
AI, factories and design collide in the next industrial race
The episode connects AI’s security and information problems with the harder question of who can turn software advances into trusted products, factories and businesses.
Aug 6, 2026 · 2h 48m