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Real Life Lore (2016–present) on Nebula

The answer: Currently airing — last episode June 19, 2026.
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Network / streamer
Nebula
Premiered
March 4, 2016
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

DateEp.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.