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Michael Valdes is an IBEW Journey Level Inside Wireman. He joins the show to talk about the UAW strike, class issues in America, how politicians of both sides view the working class generally and labor unions in particular, and what gives him hope for moving forward.   ----- Twitter @michael_valdes @kevinamaley ----- Email ZipcodeZeroPodcast@gmail.com ----- Music Urban Deer Hunt:  https://linktr.e...

In her book " Faith Defeated My Pain " , Jasmine Pettross describes her journey from being diagnosed with cancer at a young age, to struggling to find meaning in her suffering, to finding purpose in her pain and a path forward in life. As she says in her book "No matter the hardships that are faced in life, the time it takes to heal and face situations that you have no control over...

Robert Powell is a co-founder of the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies, a non-profit, in September 2017. The purpose of the organization is the scientific study of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena. Affiliation with the organization is open to all individuals with a background in science, the military, or law enforcement. Powell has a BS degree in Chemistry and is a former collegiate debater. He ha...

Justin B. Kinney is an Associate Professor in the Simons Center for Quantitative Biology at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. He received a Ph. D. in Physics from Princeton University in 2008, is a co-author on >40 journal articles, and serves as project leader on two National Institutes of Health research grants. His lab has developed widely-used research methods, including methods that are now u...

George Beebe spent more than two decades in government as an intelligence analyst, diplomat, and policy advisor, including as director of the CIA’s Russia analysis, director of the CIA’s Open Source Center, and as a staff advisor on Russia matters to Vice President Cheney. His book, The Russia Trap: How Our Shadow War with Russia Could Spiral into Nuclear Catastrophe (St. Martin’s Press, 2019), wa...

A fierce proponent of the right to keep and bear arms, Taylor Svehlak is a longtime gun-rights advocate, and briefly served as Director of Communications for a three-letter pro-gun advocacy group (not that one). In his spare time he is also an amateur firearms collector and gunsmith. In the past, he has worked on campaigns for a variety of conservative candidates across the local, state, and feder...

Derek Earl Baron aka "Wandering Earl" left home in 1999 for what was supposed to be a three month post-graduation trip to Southeast Asia and has essentially been traveling the world non-stop ever since. He has been to over 130 countries on six continents living a life of adventure that many people dream of. He’s learned Spanish in Mexico, been kicked out of Romania, acted in a Bollywood...

Critically acclaimed author John Schad joins the podcast to speak on his forthcoming book "Jack the Ripper: Revealed".  Schad grew up fascinated by stories of Jack the Ripper and his murder streak across Victorian London. After spending nearly a decade immersed in research, he has published his findings on the true identity of the world's most notorious serial killer.  What he has t...

What's going on with Ukraine? The Institute for the Study of War's Alex Mitchell joins Zipcode Zero to give an update on the war, Putin's strategy, what the U.S.'s role is and what we can expect to happen this winter. Alexander Mitchell is the director of external relations at the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), where he is responsible for the planning, management and exe...

David Plotz is the CEO of City Cast ,  a network of daily local news podcasts in cities around the country - also accompanied by a daily email newsletter that keeps you in the know about what’s happening in your community.  Currently available in Chicago, Denver, Houston, Salt Lake, Pittsburgh, Las Vegas, DC, Philly, Boise, Portland, Madison – and in other cities soon, City Cast is the smartest, e...

Norman Finkelstein is an American political scientist, activist, former professor, and author. His primary fields of research are the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and the politics of the Holocaust. He is a graduate of Binghamton University and received his Ph. D. in political science at Princeton University. In the year 2020, Norman Finkelstein was named the fifth most influential political scient...

Dahlia Lithwick is a senior editor at Slate and, in that capacity, has been writing their Supreme Court Dispatches and Jurisprudence columns since 1999. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Harper’s, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The New Republic, and Commentary. Lithwick hosts Amicus, Slate’s award-winning biweekly podcast about the law and the Supreme Court.  In 2018 Lithwick rece...

Abdul Mukati is an entrepreneur and digital nomad. He has built businesses from a young age, suffered set backs and come back from it all stronger than ever. Today he joins us from Thailand to share how he built his life and offers insights to those who want to get ahead.  You can follow Abdul on Instagram: @TravelBoundCouple Music by Urban Deer Hunt Follow me @KevinAMaley and subscribe to the Zip...

To celebrate the midterm elections, Zipcode Zero invited Jake Morgenstern on to share reactions and analysis as results came in Tuesday night. In this episode we discuss: * Initial thoughts on what unfolded Tuesday * Predictions for what the results will mean for the next two years in Washington * Who Democrats should run in 2024 * And what current Supreme Court Case Moore v. Harper could mean for...

Dean Baker co-founded CEPR in 1999. His areas of research include housing and macroeconomics, intellectual property, Social Security, Medicare and European labor markets. He is the author of several books, including Rigged: How Globalization and the Rules of the Modern Economy Were Structured to Make the Rich Richer . His blog, “ Beat the Press ,” provides commentary on economic reporting. He rece...