Power Plays

About Power Plays

Power leaves a trail. Nova and Zuri are here to follow it. Power Plays is an investigative podcast in which two Gen-Z voices examine political scandals, corruption allegations, hidden money trails, conflicts of interest, and abuses of authority around the world. With sharp analysis, fearless questions, and a fresh perspective on global politics, Nova and Zuri break down complicated cases and explain how power operates behind closed doors. They trace the people, institutions, financial networks, and decisions at the center of each story—without turning the conversation into another dry political lecture. From suspicious contracts and unexplained wealth to cover-ups, influence networks, and public officials accused of betraying the people they serve, Power Plays explores what happens when authority is protected by money, silence, and fear. Power Plays is an independent commentary and investigative podcast. Episodes distinguish established facts, reported allegations, and host analysis. A person discussed in connection with an allegation should not be considered guilty unless responsibility has been established through an appropriate legal process. Sources and corrections are provided when applicable. A HustleStudios Podcast Network production. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/power-plays--7179881/support (https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/power-plays--7179881/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss).

Publisher

HustleStudios Podcast Network

Category

business · news · true crime

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

15 Jul 2026

Latest episode

15 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

7 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   15 Sept 2026

   S1E011: Blood Oaths and Black Accounts

   POWER PLAYS — Episode 011: Blood Oaths and Black Accounts Stories that will keep you on the edge of your seat. NOVA and ZURI break down the blood oaths and black accounts and what it means. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS 0:10 — Introduction: today we are talking about blood oaths and black accounts 1:30 — The background: what happened and why it matters 4:00 — The key people involved and their roles 7:00 — The turning point: when everything changed 10:00 — The evidence: what investigators found 13:00 — The theories: what people think really happened 16:00 — The aftermath: how it affected everyone involved 19:00 — The lessons: what we can learn from this 22:00 — Similar cases and patterns 25:00 — Final thoughts and analysis 28:00 — Closing thoughts and outro ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔥 ABOUT THE HOSTS NOVA — The Lead Host. Brings the research, the facts, and the analysis. ZURI — The Co-Host. Brings the reactions, the questions, and the perspective. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📱 SOURCES Reddit, news archives, court documents, and investigative journalism. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔔 NEW EPISODES DAILY #PowerPlays #HustleStudios #Podcast ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ A HustleStudios Production 🎧 Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/power-plays--7179881/support (https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/power-plays--7179881/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss). Support fearless, accessible investigations into corruption, money, and abuses of power: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/power-plays--7179881/support Power Plays distinguishes verified facts, reported allegations, and commentary. Individuals accused of wrongdoing are presumed innocent unless proven guilty through an appropriate legal process. Views expressed by guests are their own. If you have additional evidence or believe something in this episode requires correction, please contact the show through its official channels. A HustleStudios Podcast Network production.

2. 

   7 Aug 2026

   S1E008: Thrones, Palaces, and the People Who Stole Them

   POWER PLAYS — Episode 008: Thrones, Palaces, and the People Who Stole Them Stories that will keep you on the edge of your seat. NOVA and ZURI break down the thrones, palaces, and the people who stole them and what it means. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS 0:10 — Introduction: today we are talking about thrones, palaces, and the people who stole them 1:30 — The background: what happened and why it matters 4:00 — The key people involved and their roles 7:00 — The turning point: when everything changed 10:00 — The evidence: what investigators found 13:00 — The theories: what people think really happened 16:00 — The aftermath: how it affected everyone involved 19:00 — The lessons: what we can learn from this 22:00 — Similar cases and patterns 25:00 — Final thoughts and analysis 28:00 — Closing thoughts and outro ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔥 ABOUT THE HOSTS NOVA — The Lead Host. Brings the research, the facts, and the analysis. ZURI — The Co-Host. Brings the reactions, the questions, and the perspective. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📱 SOURCES Reddit, news archives, court documents, and investigative journalism. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔔 NEW EPISODES DAILY #PowerPlays #HustleStudios #Podcast ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ A HustleStudios Production 🎧 Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/power-plays--7179881/support (https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/power-plays--7179881/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss). Support fearless, accessible investigations into corruption, money, and abuses of power: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/power-plays--7179881/support Power Plays distinguishes verified facts, reported allegations, and commentary. Individuals accused of wrongdoing are presumed innocent unless proven guilty through an appropriate legal process. Views expressed by guests are their own. If you have additional evidence or believe something in this episode requires correction, please contact the show through its official channels. A HustleStudios Podcast Network production.

3. 

   6 Aug 2026

   S1E007: Cash, Gold, and Tuna: The Most Audacious Political Heists on Earth

   POWER PLAYS — Episode 007: Cash, Gold, and Tuna: The Most Audacious Political Heists on Earth Stories that will keep you on the edge of your seat. NOVA and ZURI break down the cash, gold, and tuna: the most audacious political heists on earth and what it means. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS 0:10 — Introduction: today we are talking about cash, gold, and tuna: the most audacious political heists on earth 1:30 — The background: what happened and why it matters 4:00 — The key people involved and their roles 7:00 — The turning point: when everything changed 10:00 — The evidence: what investigators found 13:00 — The theories: what people think really happened 16:00 — The aftermath: how it affected everyone involved 19:00 — The lessons: what we can learn from this 22:00 — Similar cases and patterns 25:00 — Final thoughts and analysis 28:00 — Closing thoughts and outro ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔥 ABOUT THE HOSTS NOVA — The Lead Host. Brings the research, the facts, and the analysis. ZURI — The Co-Host. Brings the reactions, the questions, and the perspective. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📱 SOURCES Reddit, news archives, court documents, and investigative journalism. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔔 NEW EPISODES DAILY #PowerPlays #HustleStudios #Podcast ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ A HustleStudios Production 🎧 Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/power-plays--7179881/support (https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/power-plays--7179881/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss). Support fearless, accessible investigations into corruption, money, and abuses of power: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/power-plays--7179881/support Power Plays distinguishes verified facts, reported allegations, and commentary. Individuals accused of wrongdoing are presumed innocent unless proven guilty through an appropriate legal process. Views expressed by guests are their own. If you have additional evidence or believe something in this episode requires correction, please contact the show through its official channels. A HustleStudios Podcast Network production.

4. 

   3 Aug 2026

   S1E004: Blood Money and Ballot Boxes

   POWER PLAYS — Episode 004: Blood Money and Ballot Boxes Stories that will keep you on the edge of your seat. NOVA and ZURI break down the blood money and ballot boxes and what it means. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS 0:10 — Introduction: today we are talking about blood money and ballot boxes 1:30 — The background: what happened and why it matters 4:00 — The key people involved and their roles 7:00 — The turning point: when everything changed 10:00 — The evidence: what investigators found 13:00 — The theories: what people think really happened 16:00 — The aftermath: how it affected everyone involved 19:00 — The lessons: what we can learn from this 22:00 — Similar cases and patterns 25:00 — Final thoughts and analysis 28:00 — Closing thoughts and outro ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔥 ABOUT THE HOSTS NOVA — The Lead Host. Brings the research, the facts, and the analysis. ZURI — The Co-Host. Brings the reactions, the questions, and the perspective. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📱 SOURCES Reddit, news archives, court documents, and investigative journalism. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔔 NEW EPISODES DAILY #PowerPlays #HustleStudios #Podcast ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ A HustleStudios Production 🎧 Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/power-plays--7179881/support (https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/power-plays--7179881/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss). Support fearless, accessible investigations into corruption, money, and abuses of power: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/power-plays--7179881/support Power Plays distinguishes verified facts, reported allegations, and commentary. Individuals accused of wrongdoing are presumed innocent unless proven guilty through an appropriate legal process. Views expressed by guests are their own. If you have additional evidence or believe something in this episode requires correction, please contact the show through its official channels. A HustleStudios Podcast Network production.

5. 

   16 Jul 2026

   S1E003: Power Knows No Boundaries

   POWER PLAYS — Episode 003: Power Knows No Boundaries Stories that will keep you on the edge of your seat. NOVA and ZURI break down corruption, political scandals, and abuse of power across eight countries — from Netanyahu's trial to Lukashenko's iron grip. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS 0:10 — Introduction: eight stories of power and corruption 1:30 — Benjamin Netanyahu: three corruption cases in Israel 6:00 — Park Geun-hye: the Choi Soon-sil scandal in South Korea 11:00 — Jair Bolsonaro: jewelry and pandemic corruption in Brazil 16:00 — Joseph Estrada: the plunder case in the Philippines 20:00 — Thaksin Shinawatra: telecom tycoon and Thai politics 24:00 — Robert Mugabe: kleptocracy in Zimbabwe 27:00 — Teodoro Obiang: the supercar kleptocracy of Equatorial Guinea 29:00 — Aleksandr Lukashenko: frozen corruption in Belarus 30:00 — Closing thoughts and outro ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔥 ABOUT THE HOSTS NOVA — The Lead Host. Brings the research, the facts, and the analysis. ZURI — The Co-Host. Brings the reactions, the questions, and the perspective. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📱 SOURCES Reddit, news archives, court documents, and investigative journalism. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔔 NEW EPISODES DAILY #PowerPlays #HustleStudios #Podcast ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ A HustleStudios Production 🎧 Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/power-plays--7179881/support (https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/power-plays--7179881/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss). Support fearless, accessible investigations into corruption, money, and abuses of power: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/power-plays--7179881/support Power Plays distinguishes verified facts, reported allegations, and commentary. Individuals accused of wrongdoing are presumed innocent unless proven guilty through an appropriate legal process. Views expressed by guests are their own. If you have additional evidence or believe something in this episode requires correction, please contact the show through its official channels. A HustleStudios Podcast Network production.

6. 

   15 Jul 2026

   S1E002: When Power Becomes Plunder

   PowerPlays — Episode 1: S1E002: When Power Becomes Plunder Two hosts covering political corruption bring you political stories every episode. Political Stories explained, analyzed, and discussed. TIMESTAMPS 0:00 — Welcome and introduction 2:00 — Today's topic: S1E002: When Power Becomes Plunder 5:00 — Deep dive into the main story 10:00 — Key moments and analysis 15:00 — Discussion and hot takes 20:00 — Theories and predictions 25:00 — Community corner and listener questions 28:00 — Final thoughts and closing ABOUT THE HOSTS Two hosts covering political corruption SOURCES: Research from multiple verified sources. NEW EPISODES DAILY #PowerPlays #HustleStudios #Podcast A HustleStudios Production Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/power-plays--7179881/support (https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/power-plays--7179881/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss). Support fearless, accessible investigations into corruption, money, and abuses of power: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/power-plays--7179881/support Power Plays distinguishes verified facts, reported allegations, and commentary. Individuals accused of wrongdoing are presumed innocent unless proven guilty through an appropriate legal process. Views expressed by guests are their own. If you have additional evidence or believe something in this episode requires correction, please contact the show through its official channels. A HustleStudios Podcast Network production.

7. 

   15 Jul 2026

   S1E001: The Billion Dollar Scandal

   PowerPlays — Episode 2: S1E001: The Billion Dollar Scandal Two hosts covering political corruption bring you political stories every episode. Political Stories explained, analyzed, and discussed. TIMESTAMPS 0:00 — Welcome and introduction 2:00 — Today's topic: S1E001: The Billion Dollar Scandal 5:00 — Deep dive into the main story 10:00 — Key moments and analysis 15:00 — Discussion and hot takes 20:00 — Theories and predictions 25:00 — Community corner and listener questions 28:00 — Final thoughts and closing ABOUT THE HOSTS Two hosts covering political corruption SOURCES: Research from multiple verified sources. NEW EPISODES DAILY #PowerPlays #HustleStudios #Podcast A HustleStudios Production Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/power-plays--7179881/support (https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/power-plays--7179881/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss). Support fearless, accessible investigations into corruption, money, and abuses of power: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/power-plays--7179881/support Power Plays distinguishes verified facts, reported allegations, and commentary. Individuals accused of wrongdoing are presumed innocent unless proven guilty through an appropriate legal process. Views expressed by guests are their own. If you have additional evidence or believe something in this episode requires correction, please contact the show through its official channels. A HustleStudios Podcast Network production.

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