
World Brief with Zach McCormick
90 second breakdowns of world events from the legal perspective
Episodes
58 episodes
What's the Real Reason for the Cracker Barrel Rebrand Backlash?
What’s the real reason for the backlash to the Cracker Barrel Rebrand?It’s not what you may think -- it might be fatigue from non-stop corporate authoritarianism. Take a listen and tell us what you think.For a deep dive and a comm...
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Season 3
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Episode 35
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1:22

BlackRock Takes Over WEF
In a quiet announcement released on Friday, the World Economic Forum(“WEF”), announced that its CEO, Larry Fink, has taken over as interim “co-chair” of the infamous organization. Deep dive on Substack at
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Season 3
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Episode 34
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1:25

Echoes of Nero: LA Wildfire Land Grab
Is there a connection between the Roman Emperor Nero and the LA Wildfires?Yes. Nero infamously “fiddled” while Rome burned to the ground and then took the land and built a palace on it. Now, something similar may be happening to some vic...
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Season 3
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Episode 33
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1:30

News Flash: Monday August 11, 2025 - Flooding, Explosion and Tropical Storm
Its August 11, 2025 this is your News FlashOnce in a thousand years floods in Wisconsin, explosion at chemical plant in Pennsylvania, tropical storm Erin in the Atlantic target east coast. If you know anything about the...
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Season 3
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Episode 32
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0:51

Hiking Banned in Canada
Is it illegal to hike on public land? Yes, in parts of Eastern Canada. In Nova Scotia - which shares a border with Maine- it is now a criminal offense to hike, camp or drive through the woods on “Crown Land” (public property),...
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Season 3
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Episode 30
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1:26

Universal ID v. Illegal Immigration
Could a “Digital ID” stop illegal immigration? Yes, if you’re in the UK or so it has been claimed. According to the British think tank Labour Together, that’s precisely what the “Britcard” would do. The organization, whose ideas hav...
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Season 3
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Episode 30
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1:30

ID Required to Watch Youtube?
Will you need ID to watch videos on YouTube? Yes, even in the US, starting August 13th, 2025, if the AI thinks you’re under 18 you might have to provide an ID for full access. In a move that mirrors the ID verification la...
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Season 3
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Episode 29
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1:26

Extradited 4 Free Speech?
If you’re in the US, could you be arrested for violating a foreign country’s online speech laws?Yes at least in theory. Through a process called extradition, a foreign country (like the UK for example), could decide that you’ve violated...
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Season 3
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Episode 28
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1:28

The American Home Buying System is Broken
If you ask this question: "Is the American home buying system normal?"Objectively, the answer is "no". For the most part, the current system — which revolves around 30 year mortgages — was created by central banks to conceal their ...
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Season 3
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Episode 27
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1:27

Wifi Tracking Your Movements In-home?
Xfinity (whose parent company is Comcast), now offers a service called “WiFi Motion” which allows users (in select areas) to monitor motion inside their home using nothing more than the WiFi signals. Functioning like radar, th...
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Season 3
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Episode 26
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1:27

War & Pizza? How Restaurant Traffic Can Predict Global Conflict
Can wait times at pizza restaurants predict war?Yes but only in certain locations and at certain times of the day. For example a popular account on X called the “Pentagon Pizza Report” follows real-time customer traffic numbe...
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Season 3
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Episode 25
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1:29

Riot Incorporated: Who's Making Money Off Riots?
“Professional agitators” definitely get paid for stirring up trouble but it’s not clear who’s actually paying THEM. Following apparent top-level security briefings on the subject, President Trump branded the 2025 LA Anti-ICE r...
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Season 3
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Episode 24
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1:20

Warfare Forever Changed: Carrier-launched Drones Defeat Russian Air Defenses and Take Out Long-range Bombers
Warfare Just Changed ForeverOver the weekend the Ukraine used off-the-shelf drones hidden in semi-truck trailers to strike Russian Nuclear-capable bombers deep inside Russia. The operation, code-named “Spide...
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Season 3
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Episode 23
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1:27

Lost American Nuclear Powered Ice Base Found in Greenland?
Lost Secret Nuclear US Icebase in Greenland Is there a lost American nuclear-powered ice-base hidden in Greenland?Yes. But the reactor isn’t there anymore. Camp Century as it was known, had been frozen in time until it...
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Season 3
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Episode 22
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1:26

Florida: Pay Taxes in Gold & Silver
Florida Gold Rush?Florida is set to recognize gold and silver as currency that can be used to pay taxes. Committee Substitute Bill 999 is making its way through the Florida legislature and, ...
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Season 3
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Episode 21
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1:06

Coinbase Ad Attacks Fed During NBA Playoffs
Did Coinbase just attack the Federal Reserve? Oh yeah. Big time. The crypto clearinghouse Coinbase just published an ad attacking the Federal Reserves policy of “printing” money while touting the benefit of Bitcoin (which has a set ...
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Season 3
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Episode 20
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0:47

Debt Jubilee
Debt Jubilee What if ALL debts were forgiven and everyone just started over?It sounds crazy but it’s actually been done before - a lot - every 50 years in some cases. And it’s exactly what it sounds like - ALL de...
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Food Dyes Banned?
It was just announced that the FDA will be phasing out eight petroleum-based food dyes by next year. Citrus Red No. 2 and Orange B are going to have their authorizations pulled in the next few weeks while the FDA is asking for voluntary c...
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Season 3
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Episode 24
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1:17

Crypto is Over-hyped
Is Crypto is over-hyped?Yes. It’s just a ledger that’s distributed to lots of other users and essentially password protected. But a ledger is nothing new - you can find them chiseled onto stone tablets going back millennia. W...
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Season 3
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Episode 23
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1:05

Why Does It Matter Who Is Pope?
Why does it matter who is Pope?In short? Everyday life. The Pope - the head of the Catholic Church- is the spiritual leader of nearly 1.5 billion people worldwide, controls a centuries-old (mostly cash) financial...
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Season 3
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Episode 22
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1:29

Have You Been Eating "Gene Edited" Food?
Have you been eating genetically modified food without knowing it? Could be. So-called “gene edited” (GE) foods don’t have to be labeled in more than 20 countries including the US, UK, Canada, Japan and Australia and that...
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Season 3
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Episode 21
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1:29

Luxury Brands Exposed?
Where was your luxury purse actually made? Recent allegations suggest that many luxury brand labels such as Chanel, Gucci, Louis Vitton and others are making their products, (or most of them) in China and not in the country li...
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Season 3
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Episode 20
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1:29

Insurance Foreclosure Landmine?
Is America about to step on an “Insurance foreclosure land mine”. Seems like it. As if it wasn’t bad enough that no one can afford to buy a decent home, a new threat is looming. “ Insurance foreclosures”. Insurance costs...
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Season 3
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Episode 19
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