Every day, headlines slide across your phone.

Oil prices. Trade deals. Interest rates. Infrastructure bills.

Most of the time, they feel abstract. Far away. Like something happening to someone else.

Until your water bill goes up.

Your rent spikes.

Your street stays broken for three more years.

ZIP: Where Policy Lands is a short-form podcast that connects those moments.

Each episode starts with one real question in one real place—and traces how decisions made in boardrooms, legislatures, and foreign capitals quietly land in American zip codes.

This isn’t punditry.

It isn’t partisan.

It’s translation.

From global policy to local consequences.

From headlines to doorsteps.

Episodes are short, focused, and grounded in real locations.

One place. One question. One clear attempt to answer it.

About the Show

ZIP explores how policy actually works once it leaves the press conference and hits everyday life.

Whether it’s a blue-collar town in Illinois or a high-rise neighborhood in New York, the system is the same—even when the places are different.

If you’ve ever wondered why things cost more, break faster, or feel harder than they used to, this show is for you.

Credits

Host, Writer, and Producer:

Patrick Fore

Patrick Fore Creative

Theme Music:

The Universe in Your Eyes

by baegel

Licensed through Epidemic Sound

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New episodes weekly.

Five to eight minutes each.

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