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Real Life Lore (2016–present) on Nebula
The answer: Currently airing — last episode June 19, 2026.
11seasons
429episodes
About Real Life Lore
RealLifeLore explains the history, geography, undercurrents and geopolitics of international disputes both big and small around the globe with the occasional diversions off planet or into 'that seems weird" situations that are quite telling.
Real Life Lore episode schedule
429 aired
Aired · 429
| Date | Ep. | Title |
|---|---|---|
| June 19, 2026 | S2026·E18 | The World is Getting a New Longest Flight (22 Hours) |
| June 12, 2026 | S2026·E17 | Why Russia is Suddenly Losing in Ukraine |
| May 29, 2026 | S2026·E16 | A European Ice Age is Coming Sooner Than We Thought... |
| May 22, 2026 | S2026·E15 | Why Louisiana is America's Fastest Dying State |
| May 16, 2026 | S2026·E14 | The World's Dumbest Geopolitical Conflict: The Falklands |
| April 30, 2026 | S2026·E13 | What's Hidden Under the World's Most Mysterious Places? |
| April 24, 2026 | S2026·E12 | How Iran Will Kill 80+ Years of US Global Hegemony |
| April 15, 2026 | S2026·E11 | Why Israel is Trying to Conquer 10% of Lebanon |
| April 8, 2026 | S2026·E10 | The Dumbest Decision in American History |
| March 27, 2026 | S2026·E9 | Why 400,000 People Live in Earth's Coldest City |
| March 18, 2026 | S2026·E8 | How The Iran War is Becoming a World War |
| March 13, 2026 | S2026·E7 | The Middle East's Next War After Iran |
| February 26, 2026 | S2026·E6 | Why New Hampshire Hides Geography's Deadliest Glitch |
| February 20, 2026 | S2026·E5 | Why Cuba is the Fastest Dying Country on Earth |
| February 18, 2026 | S2026·E4 | Why The EU's Deadliest Border is in Africa |
| January 30, 2026 | S2026·E3 | What a US Invasion of Greenland Would Actually Look Like |
| January 24, 2026 | S2026·E2 | Why NOTHING About Maduro's Kidnapping Makes Sense |
| January 14, 2026 | S2026·E1 | How The UAE Just Got Wrecked In Yemen |
| December 24, 2025 | S2025·E37 | What's Hidden Under the Jungle of New Guinea? |
| December 19, 2025 | S2025·E36 | Why The Worst Border Gore on Earth Exists |
| December 12, 2025 | S2025·E35 | How Japan is Preparing for War With China |
| November 28, 2025 | S2025·E34 | The Worst Horror On Earth You Aren't Being Told About |
| November 19, 2025 | S2025·E33 | Why 90% of Japan is "Empty" |
| November 11, 2025 | S2025·E32 | Why Iran is Rapidly Dying |
| October 31, 2025 | S2025·E31 | Why The 2-State Solution Just Became Impossible |
| October 17, 2025 | S2025·E30 | America's Biggest Looming Catastrophe |
| October 11, 2025 | S2025·E29 | Why Israel & Turkey Are Heading To War Over Syria |
| September 30, 2025 | S2025·E28 | How The World Map Has Changed Since 2000 |
| September 22, 2025 | S2025·E27 | Why The US & Venezuela Are On The Brink of War |
| September 11, 2025 | S2025·E26 | Why Tourists Are Flocking to Afghanistan Now |
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| August 29, 2025 | S2025·E25 | Why The US Southeast Coast is Absurdly Empty |
| August 22, 2025 | S2025·E24 | The Hunt for the World's Most Wanted War Criminals |
| August 19, 2025 | S2025·E23 | Why Cambodia & Thailand Are Moving Towards War |
| July 31, 2025 | S2025·E22 | Why Myanmar is Dying |
| July 23, 2025 | S2025·E21 | Why The World's Most Segregated Metro Exists |
| July 16, 2025 | S2025·E20 | Why Iran Will Never Give Up Getting Nuclear Weapons |
| June 29, 2025 | S2025·E19 | How Satellites Reveal China's Taiwan Invasion Plans |
| June 25, 2025 | S2025·E18 | The Lake That Might Explode & Kill Millions |
| June 21, 2025 | S2025·E17 | How The US & Iran Became Arch-Enemies |
| June 13, 2025 | S2025·E16 | Chechnya: The Insane North Korea of Europe |
| May 30, 2025 | S2025·E15 | The Deadliest Dam Collapse In History |
| May 24, 2025 | S2025·E14 | Why The Most Crowded Island On Earth Is Sinking |
| May 16, 2025 | S2025·E13 | How Geography Constantly Pushes India & Pakistan to War |
| April 30, 2025 | S2025·E12 | Why Cambodia & Laos Are Absurdly Empty |
| April 26, 2025 | S2025·E11 | Why America's Next War is Heading to Mexico |
| April 16, 2025 | S2025·E10 | This is Why You Can't Go to North Korea Anymore |
| March 31, 2025 | S2025·E9 | Why Everyone's Terrified About China's New $137B Mega-Dam |
| March 21, 2025 | S2025·E8 | How Badly Has the War Doomed Ukraine's Future? |
| March 15, 2025 | S2025·E7 | Why Germany is Still So Divided Between East & West |
| February 28, 2025 | S2025·E6 | Trump's Plan to Take Over Gaza is a Nightmare |
| February 21, 2025 | S2025·E5 | How Rwanda is Conquering Their 100x Larger Neighbor |
| February 14, 2025 | S2025·E4 | Why Trump Wants America to Retake the Panama Canal |
| January 31, 2025 | S2025·E3 | The Real Reason Trump is Threatening to Seize Greenland |
| January 25, 2025 | S2025·E2 | Why the Fall of Syria Checkmates Iran & Russia |
| January 18, 2025 | S2025·E1 | Why Singapore is Asia's Most OP Country |
| December 20, 2024 | S2024·E36 | Why NATO Actually Expanded Up To Russia's Borders |
| December 14, 2024 | S2024·E35 | Why This Part of Africa is Erased on Every Map You See |
| December 9, 2024 | S2024·E34 | Why North Italy is Rich and South Italy is "Poor" |
| November 29, 2024 | S2024·E33 | How Trump's 2nd Term Will Change Europe Forever |
| November 23, 2024 | S2024·E32 | How Geography Ruthlessly Cripples Africa |
| November 8, 2024 | S2024·E31 | Why You Can't Travel Between Hawaii's Islands by Boat |
| October 31, 2024 | S2024·E30 | How North Korea is Rapidly Preparing for Its Own War Soon |
| October 25, 2024 | S2024·E29 | Every Single Border Dispute in Europe Today Explained |
| October 3, 2024 | S2024·E28 | Why Israel is Invading Lebanon |
| September 27, 2024 | S2024·E27 | Why Russia's New Axis is Way Dumber Than You Think |
| September 26, 2024 | S2024·E26 | How New York Became America's Fastest Shrinking State |
| September 14, 2024 | S2024·E25 | What's Hidden Under the Amazon Rainforest? |
| August 30, 2024 | S2024·E24 | Why Ukraine Suddenly Decided to Invade Russia |
| August 24, 2024 | S2024·E23 | How the US Made Itself Impossible to Ever Invade |
| August 10, 2024 | S2024·E22 | Why the Netherlands is Europe's Most OP Country |
| August 1, 2024 | S2024·E21 | How the Trump Assassination Attempt Happened |
| July 26, 2024 | S2024·E20 | Why America's 750 Military Bases are So Controversial |
| July 12, 2024 | S2024·E19 | What's Hidden Under the Ice of Antarctica? |
| June 28, 2024 | S2024·E18 | Why South Korea is Literally Going Extinct |
| June 21, 2024 | S2024·E17 | Why Afghanistan is Headed to War With all its Neighbors |
| June 12, 2024 | S2024·E16 | The Catastrophic Insanity of Saudi Arabia's "The Line" |
| May 30, 2024 | S2024·E15 | Why Russia Might Invade Georgia (Again) |
| May 21, 2024 | S2024·E14 | How Geography is Pushing China & India to War |
| May 10, 2024 | S2024·E13 | Why Kazakhstan is Insanely Empty |
| April 29, 2024 | S2024·E12 | The 12 New Countries That Might Exist Soon |
| April 22, 2024 | S2024·E11 | How NATO & Russia are Preparing to Fight Total War |
| April 13, 2024 | S2024·E10 | Why Yemen is Dying & Oman is Booming |
| March 29, 2024 | S2024·E9 | Why Egypt's New Capital is Bankrupting the Country |
| March 23, 2024 | S2024·E8 | Why France & Russia are Secretly at War in Africa |
| March 20, 2024 | S2024·E7 | How Ukraine Checkmated the Russian Navy |
| February 28, 2024 | S2024·E6 | Why the Hell Does Phoenix Exist |
| February 23, 2024 | S2024·E5 | Why Sudan is Dying (and it's a Global Problem) |
| February 7, 2024 | S2024·E4 | Why Norway is Becoming the World's Richest Country |
| January 29, 2024 | S2024·E3 | Why the Panama Canal is Dying |
| January 26, 2024 | S2024·E2 | How Europe's Next War Could Start in the Balkans |
| January 17, 2024 | S2024·E1 | How Yemen is Wrecking the Entire Global Economy |
| December 22, 2023 | S2023·E35 | Why Venezuela is Preparing to Conquer Guyana |
| December 16, 2023 | S2023·E34 | Why Haiti is Dying & the DR is Booming |
| December 9, 2023 | S2023·E33 | How Gaza Could Trigger a Bigger US-Iran War |
| November 28, 2023 | S2023·E32 | Why Ethiopia is Preparing to Invade Eritrea Next |
| November 18, 2023 | S2023·E31 | Why Israel is Invading Gaza |
| November 6, 2023 | S2023·E30 | Why the International Date Line Looks So Stupid |
| October 31, 2023 | S2023·E29 | Why the US Interior is VASTLY Emptier than Canada's |
| October 25, 2023 | S2023·E28 | How the US & China Are Preparing to Fight Total War |
| October 14, 2023 | S2023·E27 | How Taiwan Will Stop China's Invasion |
| September 30, 2023 | S2023·E26 | Why North Korea is Preparing to Attack Ukraine Next |
| September 23, 2023 | S2023·E25 | Why NATO's Biggest Internal Problem is Turkey |
| September 7, 2023 | S2023·E24 | How the US Conquered Hawaii & Made it 91% Empty |
| August 26, 2023 | S2023·E23 | Why Russia Isn't Actually Collapsing |
| August 11, 2023 | S2023·E22 | Why 82% of Saudi Arabians Just Live in These Lines |
| August 4, 2023 | S2023·E21 | How North Korea Finally Made it Impossible to Escape |
| July 29, 2023 | S2023·E20 | How Ukraine is Breaking Through Russia's Naval Blockade |
| July 22, 2023 | S2023·E19 | Saudi Arabia's Catastrophic "Everything" Problem |
| July 7, 2023 | S2023·E18 | Why China is Shrinking VERY Fast |
| June 26, 2023 | S2023·E17 | Why the Russians Blew Up Ukraine's Largest Dam |
| June 18, 2023 | S2023·E16 | Why The Middle East's Borders Guarantee Forever Wars |
| May 26, 2023 | S2023·E15 | Why 99.7% of Mongolia is EMPTY |
| May 12, 2023 | S2023·E14 | Why Texas is Becoming America's Most OP State |
| May 2, 2023 | S2023·E13 | Why Iran is Helping Russia's Invasion of Ukraine |
| April 26, 2023 | S2023·E12 | Why Every Country Has Military Bases in Djibouti |
| April 13, 2023 | S2023·E11 | Why Wyoming is VASTLY Emptier Than Colorado |
| March 31, 2023 | S2023·E10 | Why the Americas Still Aren't Connected by a Road |
| March 28, 2023 | S2023·E9 | Why 80% of New Zealand is Empty |
| March 24, 2023 | S2023·E8 | Why This Circle Could Spark Africa's Biggest War |
| March 13, 2023 | S2023·E7 | Why Ukraine Re-Taking Crimea Will Destroy Russia |
| February 28, 2023 | S2023·E6 | Why Russia's Biggest Threat is Actually China |
| February 18, 2023 | S2023·E5 | Why 82% of Mexico is Empty |
| February 10, 2023 | S2023·E4 | How Satellite Images Reveal What's Happening in Ukraine |
| January 27, 2023 | S2023·E3 | Why Nobody Can Stop North Korea |
| January 16, 2023 | S2023·E2 | Why Belarus Might Invade Ukraine Too |
| January 7, 2023 | S2023·E1 | Why 97% of Namibia is Empty |
| December 30, 2022 | S2022·E48 | Why Turkey is Preparing to Invade Syria (Again) |
| December 16, 2022 | S2022·E47 | Why No One Has Measured the Coastline of Britain |
| December 13, 2022 | S2022·E46 | Why NATO's Biggest Weakness is Scotland |
| December 7, 2022 | S2022·E45 | Why Visiting This Lost Island Will Kill You |
| November 30, 2022 | S2022·E44 | How Qatar Became the World's Most OP Country |
| November 25, 2022 | S2022·E43 | Why Finland Joining NATO Checkmates Russia |
| November 22, 2022 | S2022·E42 | Why Most Indians Live Above This Line |
| November 7, 2022 | S2022·E41 | Why the Russians Destroyed the World's 4th Largest Lake |
| October 28, 2022 | S2022·E40 | How War in Ukraine is Destroying Russia |
| October 19, 2022 | S2022·E39 | How Libya Built Brand-New Rivers Across the Sahara |
| October 15, 2022 | S2022·E38 | Why Azerbaijan Will Keep Attacking Armenia |
| October 7, 2022 | S2022·E37 | The Big Trouble if DC Becomes the 51st State |
| September 30, 2022 | S2022·E36 | Germany's Catastrophic Gas Problem |
| September 22, 2022 | S2022·E35 | Why Ireland Has Fewer People Than 200 Years Ago |
| September 15, 2022 | S2022·E34 | Why 80% of Americans Live East of This Line |
| September 8, 2022 | S2022·E33 | Why China is Fighting Japan Over These Islands |
| August 29, 2022 | S2022·E32 | Why Geography Makes the US Insanely OP |
| August 18, 2022 | S2022·E31 | Why There's a CIA Base in the Center of Australia |
| August 11, 2022 | S2022·E30 | South Africa's Catastrophic Water Problem |
| August 7, 2022 | S2022·E29 | Why This Tiny Island Has More People Than Russia |
| July 28, 2022 | S2022·E28 | China's Catastrophic Oil & Gas Problem |
| July 19, 2022 | S2022·E27 | How Las Vegas Exists In America's Driest Desert |
| July 14, 2022 | S2022·E26 | How Canada Just Got a Land-Border With Denmark |
| July 7, 2022 | S2022·E25 | What's Hidden Under the Ice of Greenland? |
| June 29, 2022 | S2022·E24 | Why War in Ukraine is Causing Apocalyptic Famine |
| June 24, 2022 | S2022·E23 | Why California is Running Out of Water |
| June 15, 2022 | S2022·E22 | Why Does Russia Own This Old Piece of Germany? |
| June 10, 2022 | S2022·E21 | Why California High Speed Rail is Struggling (Re-upload) |
| June 4, 2022 | S2022·E20 | Why 95% of Australia is Empty |
| May 30, 2022 | S2022·E19 | Russia's Catastrophic Oil & Gas Problem |
| May 26, 2022 | S2022·E18 | Why California Failed High-Speed-Rail |
| May 10, 2022 | S2022·E17 | Why China is Killing Asia's 3rd Longest River |
| May 5, 2022 | S2022·E16 | Why 70% of Spain is Empty |
| April 29, 2022 | S2022·E15 | Will Taiwan Trigger WW3 by 2027? |
| April 22, 2022 | S2022·E14 | Why Ghana Deliberately Flooded 3.5% of Their Land |
| April 12, 2022 | S2022·E13 | Why the Ukraine No-Fly Zone Won't Ever Happen |
| April 7, 2022 | S2022·E12 | Why Russia Is Fighting Japan Over These Islands |
| March 30, 2022 | S2022·E11 | How Putin's Invasion Is Changing the World Forever |
| March 22, 2022 | S2022·E10 | Why 1/3rd of France is Almost Empty |
| March 16, 2022 | S2022·E9 | How Pirates, Rebels & Insurgents Make Money |
| March 7, 2022 | S2022·E8 | What Lands Did Europeans Discover First? |
| February 26, 2022 | S2022·E7 | Why Russia is Invading Ukraine |
| February 23, 2022 | S2022·E6 | Why the New Space Race is More Insane than Ever |
| February 11, 2022 | S2022·E5 | How Maps LIE To You |
| February 5, 2022 | S2022·E4 | Why Nobody Wants This Part of Europe |
| January 31, 2022 | S2022·E3 | How This 1 Picture Explains ALL of History |
| January 22, 2022 | S2022·E2 | Why Indonesia is Moving Their Capital City |
| January 8, 2022 | S2022·E1 | Why Most Humans Live Inside This Small Circle |
| December 27, 2021 | S2021·E44 | The Insane Transportation of a 17-ton Magnet |
| December 22, 2021 | S2021·E43 | Why Anchorage is America's Most OP City |
| December 14, 2021 | S2021·E42 | Why Belarus is Constantly Attacking Europe |
| December 9, 2021 | S2021·E41 | Why Japan is Shrinking Fast |
| November 30, 2021 | S2021·E40 | Why Iraq Is a Dying Country |
| November 16, 2021 | S2021·E39 | Why Venice's Geography SUCKS |
| November 9, 2021 | S2021·E38 | Why France is Secretly the World's 5th Biggest Country |
| October 31, 2021 | S2021·E37 | What If You Were Stranded on the World's Most Remote Island? |
| October 29, 2021 | S2021·E36 | Portugal's Insane Plan to Double Its Territory |
| October 16, 2021 | S2021·E35 | Why 94% of China Lives East of This Line |
| October 8, 2021 | S2021·E34 | The 15 Countries People Think Are FAKE |
| September 30, 2021 | S2021·E33 | Why Blocking this Strait Will Start WW3 |
| September 24, 2021 | S2021·E32 | Why Nobody Knows the World's Longest River |
| September 14, 2021 | S2021·E31 | Why New Orleans' Geography SUCKS |
| August 31, 2021 | S2021·E30 | Why Nobody Wants This Part of Africa |
| August 27, 2021 | S2021·E29 | Why North Korea is the Hardest Country to Escape |
| August 17, 2021 | S2021·E28 | Why Mexico City's Geography SUCKS |
| August 9, 2021 | S2021·E27 | What If the 1908 Tunguska Asteroid Hit Earth Today? |
| July 31, 2021 | S2021·E26 | Why Afghanistan Is Impossible to Conquer |
| July 23, 2021 | S2021·E25 | Why 50% of Canadians Live South of This Line |
| July 17, 2021 | S2021·E24 | What If You Were Stranded In the Sahara Alone? |
| July 9, 2021 | S2021·E23 | What If We Covered the Sahara With Solar Panels? |
| June 26, 2021 | S2021·E22 | How a Dome Makes Israel Almost Invulnerable |
| June 19, 2021 | S2021·E21 | Why Turkey is Transforming Istanbul Into an Island |
| June 11, 2021 | S2021·E20 | How 100,000 Satellites Will Change Earth Forever by 2040 |
| May 29, 2021 | S2021·E19 | How the US East Coast Lost Half It's Oil to 1 Hacker |
| May 28, 2021 | S2021·E18 | Why Climate Change Will Make Russia a Superpower Again |
| May 26, 2021 | S2021·E17 | What Happens If Yellowstone Blows Up Tomorrow? |
| May 15, 2021 | S2021·E16 | What Made Haiti's Earthquake the Deadliest this Century? |
| May 11, 2021 | S2021·E15 | The Insane Acceleration of Top Fuel Dragsters Visualized |
| April 30, 2021 | S2021·E14 | The Insane Complexity of the India/Bangladesh Border |
| April 13, 2021 | S2021·E13 | Why the World's Biggest Ship is an AWFUL Idea |
| April 2, 2021 | S2021·E12 | How 1 Boat Just Caused a $400 Million an Hour Traffic Jam |
| March 31, 2021 | S2021·E11 | Countries With WAY Fewer People Than You Think |
| March 25, 2021 | S2021·E10 | The Problem With the Middle East's Borders |
| March 10, 2021 | S2021·E9 | How America's Chernobyl Could Be Happening on This Island |
| February 27, 2021 | S2021·E8 | Why Taiwan "Sorta" Claims Mongolia and More |
| February 23, 2021 | S2021·E7 | China's Insane Plan to Dig a Canal Across the Balkans |
| February 20, 2021 | S2021·E6 | Why the Future of Cars is Inevitably Electric |
| February 8, 2021 | S2021·E5 | The World's Helium Problem: When Will We Run Out? |
| January 30, 2021 | S2021·E4 | How Europe's Greatest Warship Was Destroyed by a Breeze |
| January 23, 2021 | S2021·E3 | Elon Musk's Insane Idea to Get 1 Million People on Mars by 2050 |
| January 16, 2021 | S2021·E2 | That Time When Kazakhstan Was the Entire USSR For 4 Days |
| January 9, 2021 | S2021·E1 | Africa's Desert Problem: How to Stop the Sahara |
| December 31, 2020 | S2020·E45 | The World's Strangest Borders Pt 6: Wacky US States |
| December 26, 2020 | S2020·E44 | The Bizarre Way We'll Keep Track of Time on Mars |
| December 19, 2020 | S2020·E43 | The World's Most Restricted Airspaces You'll NEVER Fly Over |
| December 15, 2020 | S2020·E42 | The Pacific Ocean is VASTLY Bigger Than You Think |
| November 30, 2020 | S2020·E41 | What Landing at the World's Most Dangerous Airport is Like |
| November 27, 2020 | S2020·E40 | Why 4, 13, 17, 39 & 666 Are the World's Spookiest Numbers |
| November 21, 2020 | S2020·E39 | The Bizarre 300 Year Adventure of Oliver Cromwell's Head |
| November 12, 2020 | S2020·E38 | Why There Are NO Flights Between East Asia & South America |
| October 31, 2020 | S2020·E37 | The Insane Logistics of Transporting the Biggest Object in History |
| October 29, 2020 | S2020·E36 | Every Country England Has Invaded: Visualized |
| October 20, 2020 | S2020·E35 | What if Chile Was Waaaaaay Longer?? |
| October 13, 2020 | S2020·E34 | The Insane Dutch Plan to Dam the North Sea |
…and 199 earlier episodes not shown. Long-running show.