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TBD | Her Daughter Killed Herself. Then She Saw the ChatGPT logs.
Episode • Sep 14
Is #BodyPositivity Over?
Episode • Sep 13
What Next: TBD | You Can't Escape the Charlie Kirk Video
Episode • Sep 12
Does SNL Need Internet Comedians?
Episode • Sep 10
TBD | End of an Electric Avenue
Episode • Sep 7
The Gaylor Fandom Is Going Through It
Episode • Sep 6
What Next: TBD | Is the A.I. Bubble Bursting?
Episode • Sep 5
ICYMI | Is $55K Enough To Work At Your Favorite Podcast?
Episode • Sep 3
What Next: TBD | A24 Meets A.I.
Episode • Aug 31
Slate Money | Sycophantic Suck-Up Machines
Episode • Aug 30
ICYMI | Gavin Newsom’s Sh*tposting
Episode • Aug 30
What Next: TBD | The Great Celebrity Spotify Playlist Hack
Episode • Aug 29
What Next | Could Artificial Blood Save Lives?
Episode • Aug 28
What Next: TBD | Trump Vs. Cancer Research
Episode • Aug 24
ICYMI | ChatGPT Has Ruined the Em Dash
Episode • Aug 23
What Next: TBD | The CDC Under Fire
Episode • Aug 22
ICYMI | Ethel Cain, Lana Del Rey, and the Lorax Girl
Episode • Aug 20
How To! | Declutter Your Digital Life
Episode • Aug 19
What Next: TBD | Down the Text-Scam Rabbit Hole
Episode • Aug 17
ICYMI | The Great Girlboss Comeback
Episode • Aug 16
What Next TBD | Trump Dips into NVIDIA’s Chips
Episode • Aug 15
ICYMI | Kendra Fell In Love With Her Psychiatrist—Then She Met TikTok
Episode • Aug 13
Here Comes the A.I. Music Slop
Episode • Aug 10
ICYMI | Viral Debates: Crossing the Aisle or Clickbait?
Episode • Aug 9
What Happened After Meta Fired Its Fact-Checkers
Episode • Aug 8
Your Next Favorite Book Will Be Fanfiction
Episode • Aug 6
Money Travels: The Eternal Baggage Question
Episode • Aug 4
What Next: TBD | The A.I. Data Center Push That Wasn't
Episode • Aug 3
Why Online Whisper Networks Never Work
Episode • Aug 2
What Next: TBD | The Death of an Online Whisper Network
Episode • Aug 1
ICYMI | Astronomer Updates, Jessie Murph, and Dubious Cults
Episode • Jul 30
Dupes!
Episode • Jul 27
Calico Critters Are Beefing Thanks To TikTok
Episode • Jul 26
TBD | A Colbert Report
Episode • Jul 25
The Astronomer CEO Coldplay Cheating Scandal
Episode • Jul 23
When Bots Go Nazi
Episode • Jul 20
The Internet History of Jojo Siwa
Episode • Jul 19
How The Epstein Files Blew Up MAGAworld
Episode • Jul 18
“Gen-Z Stare” and the Log-In Epidemic
Episode • Jul 16
What Next: TBD | When A.I. is Sycophantic
Episode • Jul 13
Love Island’s Toxic Relationship With Social Media
Episode • Jul 12
Hot Measles Summer
Episode • Jul 11
Encore: Is ChatGPT Your Therapist?
Episode • Jul 9
What Next: TBD | How A.I. Lost (and Won) the Big Beautiful Debate
Episode • Jul 6
ICYMI | Not Even Lawsuits Can Stop AI
Episode • Jul 4
Rerun: Death of the Weather Forecast?
Episode • Jul 4
ICYMI | The Most Famous Facelift on TikTok
Episode • Jul 2
Decoder Ring | The White Noise Boom
Episode • Jul 2
TBD | The FTC’s Merger Shakedown
Episode • Jun 29
How Coming Out Videos Changed YouTube
Episode • Jun 28
TBD | The Other Iran-Israel War
Episode • Jun 27
ICYMI | TikTok May Win Battles, But YouTube Will Win the War
Episode • Jun 25
How To! | Balance Mind, Body—and iPhone
Episode • Jun 24
Airlines Are Selling Your Data to the Government
Episode • Jun 22
Slate Money: We Submit To The AI Overlords
Episode • Jun 21
Is Partiful Cancelled?
Episode • Jun 21
We Deport. You Laugh?
Episode • Jun 20
The Content Creators Crashing the Diddy Trial
Episode • Jun 18
TBD | Summer Travel Tips To Not Get Detained
Episode • Jun 15
ICYMI: It’s International Bestselling Author Quan Millz
Episode • Jun 14
New DOGE, New Tricks
Episode • Jun 13
What Next: TBD | The Future of the Internet Hinges on Gail Slater
Episode • Jun 8
Amicus | There Is No Musk-Trump Feud Without The Roberts Court
Episode • Jun 7
TBD | Is Palantir Building a Data Big Brother?
Episode • Jun 6
ICYMI: Sad Beige Lawsuits and an Influencer’s “Royal Wedding”
Episode • Jun 4
What Next: TBD | So Long, Elon
Episode • Jun 1
ICYMI: Will MomTok Actually Change Mormonism?
Episode • May 31
What Next: TBD | The Drone Wars
Episode • May 30
ICYMI | TikTok’s Favorite Frat and Sorority Chefs
Episode • May 28
TBD | Crypto's Big Win
Episode • May 25
Did These Influencers Build a “Plantation Fitness”?
Episode • May 24
What Next: TBD | Inside OpenAI's Empire
Episode • May 23
Decoder Ring | The Glaring Problem with Headlights
Episode • May 21
What Next: TBD | You’ve Been Deepfaked
Episode • May 18
This Influencer Baby Name Is a Tragedeigh
Episode • May 17
What Next: TBD | The Newarkification of Flying
Episode • May 16
TBD | Online and Pregnant
Episode • May 11
ICYMI | The Battle Over Tattle
Episode • May 10
SCOTUS, Meet The Broligarchs
Episode • May 10
What Next: TBD | Chatbots All The Way Down
Episode • May 9
What Next: TBD | How Elon Wields Power
Episode • May 4
What Next: TBD | Marc Andreessen’s New Deal
Episode • May 2
ICYMI: This Book Drama Gets Hotter in the DMs
Episode • Apr 30
What Next: TBD | Death of the Weather Forecast?
Episode • Apr 27
What Next: TBD | The Immigration Data Dragnet
Episode • Apr 25
ICYMI: The $50M Revolve Lawsuit and Sponcon Literacy
Episode • Apr 23
What Next: TBD | The Baby Monitor Trap
Episode • Apr 20
ICYMI | The Chaos and Confusion of “Family Vlogger” Laws
Episode • Apr 19
What Next: TBD | The U.S. vs Meta
Episode • Apr 18
ICYMI | Did Remi Bader Lie To Her Followers?
Episode • Apr 16
What Next: TBD | TikTok: Somehow Also Affected by the Tariffs
Episode • Apr 13
ICYMI | TikTok Is Taking the “Let Them Theory” Too Far
Episode • Apr 12
What Next: TBD | Trump Tariffs Hit Mushroom Kingdom
Episode • Apr 11
From the “Brokey” challenge to the Kombucha Girl, is it fair for a company to fire someone just because they go viral?
Episode • Apr 9
ICYMI | Getting Fired for Going Viral
Episode • Apr 9
What Next: TBD | Why Wall Street Can’t Quit Elon
Episode • Apr 6
ICYMI | “Emergency Intercom” Fans Have an Emergency Meeting
Episode • Apr 5
What Next: TBD | Where DOGE Is Taking Us
Episode • Apr 4
ICYMI | Justin Bieber Crashes Out and Rachel Zegler Speaks Out
Episode • Apr 2
How To! | Replace Your Tesla
Episode • Apr 1
What Next: TBD | This Is Your Brain On Ketamine
Episode • Mar 30
ICYMI | 9-to-5 Influencers and Social Media’s Relatability Trap
Episode • Mar 29
What Next: TBD | We Made a Memecoin
Episode • Mar 28
ICYMI | Are Influencers Too Normalized To Be Mocked?
Episode • Mar 26
What Next TBD | Bezos 2.0
Episode • Mar 23
ICYMI | The Manosphere That Made Adolescence
Episode • Mar 22
What Next TBD | Trump's War on Scientific Research
Episode • Mar 21
ICYMI | Are New York City Influencers Boring?
Episode • Mar 19
What Next TBD | How Trump Is Trying to Kill Press Freedom
Episode • Mar 16
ICYMI: Hacktivism, Slacktivism, and (Cybertruck) Vandalism
Episode • Mar 15
What Next TBD | Will Tesla Survive Elon Musk?
Episode • Mar 14
ICYMI: What’s Going On with Alabama Barker and Bhad Bhabie?
Episode • Mar 12
What Next TBD | Zuckerberg and the Post-Factcheck Era
Episode • Mar 9
ICYMI: Does This Makeup Make Me Look Republican?
Episode • Mar 8
What Next: TBD | From 4Chan to Charlottesville to DOGE
Episode • Mar 7
ICYMI: The Meghan in Montecito Rebrand
Episode • Mar 5
What Next TBD | Cracking the Egg Crisis
Episode • Mar 2
Slate Money | Trump Math & Techno-Fascism
Episode • Mar 1
ICYMI: And The Oscar Goes To…Club Chalamet
Episode • Mar 1
What Next TBD | The DOGE Resistance
Episode • Feb 28
ICYMI: Ethan Klein’s Attack on Fauxmoi
Episode • Feb 26
What Next TBD | $Trump
Episode • Feb 23
ICYMI: Welcome to the TikTok Pharmacy
Episode • Feb 22
What Next TBD | Elon's Endgame
Episode • Feb 21
ICYMI: The Wishbone Kitchen vs. Bon Appétit Food Fight
Episode • Feb 19
What Next TBD | Can You Pay Attention, Please?
Episode • Feb 16
What Next TBD | Is Elon Actually Trying to Buy OpenAI?
Episode • Feb 14
ICYMI: The Brilliance of “Montoya, Por Favor”
Episode • Feb 12
What Next TBD | Why Trump’s Data Purge is a Digital Book Burning
Episode • Feb 9
ICYMI: The TikTokification of Sports
Episode • Feb 8
What Next TBD | Is Elon Musk Unstoppable?
Episode • Feb 7
ICYMI: Will Memes Save 2025?
Episode • Feb 5
Slate Money | Money Talks: Capitalism Extremists In the Trump 2.0 Era
Episode • Feb 4
What Next TBD | The DeepSeek Panic
Episode • Feb 2
Slate Money | The Federal Employee ‘Buyout’ Makes No Sense
Episode • Feb 1
ICYMI: So You’ve Fallen For A Smear Campaign
Episode • Feb 1
What Next TBD | RFK Jr. Is a Feature, Not a Bug
Episode • Jan 31
ICYMI: Social Media Has Become A Minefield
Episode • Jan 29
What Next TBD | The A.I. Will See You Now
Episode • Jan 26
Slate Money | Trump’s TikTok Backtrack
Episode • Jan 25
ICYMI: TikTok Is Back…Are We?
Episode • Jan 25
What Next TBD | Department of Government Elon
Episode • Jan 24
ICYMI: Rawdogging, Brainrot, and Brat
Episode • Jan 22
What Next TBD | As Fires Approached LA, Angelenos Turned to Watch Duty
Episode • Jan 19
What Next TBD | Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta-Morphosis
Episode • Jan 17
ICYMI: We Have Some News
Episode • Jan 15
What Next TBD | Why Tech Is Bending the Knee
Episode • Jan 12
ICYMI: Scaachi Koul on Terrible Emails, Moo Deng, and Orlando Bloom Fanfiction
Episode • Jan 11
Amicus | TikTok Is Cooked, Trump Is Sentenced
Episode • Jan 11
What Next TBD | Will the Supreme Court Save TikTok?
Episode • Jan 10
ICYMI: Should I Join Bluesky?
Episode • Jan 8
What Next TBD | Bitcoin Takes the White House
Episode • Jan 5
ICYMI: An Influencer Hates To See This Subreddit Coming
Episode • Jan 4
What Next TBD | Musk vs. MAGA
Episode • Jan 3
What Next TBD | The Cost of Suicide Prevention Software
Episode • Dec 29, 2024
ICYMI: Goodbye to All That 2024 Internet
Episode • Dec 28, 2024
ICYMI Encore: Who TF Did Reesa Teesa Marry?
Episode • Dec 25, 2024
Slate Money | From Behind the Money: Why Northvolt Failed to Become Europe’s Battery Champion
Episode • Dec 23, 2024
What Next TBD | Influencer vs. Influencer
Episode • Dec 22, 2024
ICYMI: Our Top Internet Moments of 2024
Episode • Dec 21, 2024
What Next TBD | Drones!??!!!?!!!
Episode • Dec 20, 2024
ICYMI: The 2024 ICYMI Fancam Awards
Episode • Dec 18, 2024
What Next TBD | The Surveillance State Trump Is Inheriting
Episode • Dec 15, 2024
Slate Money: Why Netflix is Reducing Parental Leave
Episode • Dec 14, 2024
ICYMI: 3 Internet Stories We Missed In 2024
Episode • Dec 14, 2024
What Next TBD | Elon Musk and Trump’s Shadow Transition Team
Episode • Dec 13, 2024
ICYMI: Our Favorite TikTok Songs and Sounds of 2024
Episode • Dec 11, 2024
Slate Money Talks: The Synapse Scandal
Episode • Dec 10, 2024
What Next TBD | Spotify Trapped
Episode • Dec 8, 2024
ICYMI: The Internet’s Favorite Moments in Women’s Sports
Episode • Dec 7, 2024
What Next TBD | The Influencer Administration
Episode • Dec 6, 2024
ICYMI: Should I Block My Boyfriend’s Aunt on Instagram?
Episode • Dec 4, 2024
What Next: TBD | When Your Flight’s GPS Gets Spoofed
Episode • Dec 1, 2024
ICYMI: Max Read on Gawker, “Sculder” Fanfiction, and Slack Rules
Episode • Nov 30, 2024
What Next TBD | The Post-Election Social Media Wars
Episode • Nov 29, 2024
ICYMI: Our 2024 ICYMI Friendsgiving Spectacular
Episode • Nov 27, 2024
What Next: TBD | Is Sickle Cell Anemia…Cured?
Episode • Nov 24, 2024
Slate Money: Is Bluesky the New Old Twitter?
Episode • Nov 23, 2024
ICYMI: Should I Buy A Purse Kindle?
Episode • Nov 23, 2024
What Next TBD: What's Google Without Chrome?
Episode • Nov 22, 2024
Care & Feeding | Are Your Kids Safe on Roblox?
Episode • Nov 21, 2024
ICYMI: Princess Treatment, the 4B Movement, and "Women in Male Fields"
Episode • Nov 20, 2024
What Next TBD: The X-odus
Episode • Nov 17, 2024
Slate Money: What the D.O.G.E?
Episode • Nov 16, 2024
ICYMI: Is ChatGPT Your Therapist?
Episode • Nov 16, 2024
What Next TBD: The Manosphere That Delivered Trump Back to Power
Episode • Nov 15, 2024
ICYMI | Who’s Turning on Moo Deng?
Episode • Nov 13, 2024
What Next TBD: The Polls Weren’t Wrong
Episode • Nov 10, 2024
ICYMI: The Fashion Expert Twitter Loves to Hate
Episode • Nov 9, 2024
What Next TBD: Elon Wins
Episode • Nov 8, 2024
ICYMI: Bodega Cats and Cussing Out Your Boss
Episode • Nov 6, 2024
What Next TBD: u up? Go vote.
Episode • Nov 3, 2024
ICYMI: The Internet’s Favorite Fictional Presidents
Episode • Nov 2, 2024
What Next TBD: What Elon Wants From Trump
Episode • Nov 1, 2024
A Word | Star Man: Merlin’s Tour of the Universe
Episode • Nov 1, 2024
ICYMI: The Breakup Reddit Can’t Stop Talking About
Episode • Oct 30, 2024
What Next TBD: Facebook for the Dead
Episode • Oct 27, 2024
ICYMI: How to Thrive as a Party of One
Episode • Oct 26, 2024
What Next TBD: Can TikTok Sway this Election?
Episode • Oct 25, 2024
Victoria’s Secret Is Your Grandma’s Fashion Show
Episode • Oct 23, 2024
What Next TBD: How Secure Is Our Election?
Episode • Oct 20, 2024
How a K-Pop Star’s Comeback Was Canceled
Episode • Oct 19, 2024
What Next TBD | The Elon-Trump Alliance
Episode • Oct 18, 2024
ICYMI: 24 Hours of the Strangest Online Fad Diet
Episode • Oct 16, 2024
What Next: Gambling on Elections, What Could Go Wrong?
Episode • Oct 15, 2024
What Next: An Extremely Online Hurricane Season
Episode • Oct 14, 2024
What Next TBD | 23andMe...And a Looming Data Disaster
Episode • Oct 13, 2024
ICYMI: Hoda Kotb and the Joy of No Context Social Media Accounts
Episode • Oct 12, 2024
What Next TBD: Trump’s Crypto Gurus
Episode • Oct 11, 2024
ICYMI: The Most Famous Rug in Ohio
Episode • Oct 9, 2024
What Next TBD | A.I. Goes Nuclear
Episode • Oct 6, 2024
ICYMI: How Reddit Turned HBO’s Industry Into Appointment TV
Episode • Oct 5, 2024
What Next TBD: Helene Proves Nowhere is Safe
Episode • Oct 4, 2024
ICYMI: Revisiting the Internet’s Hottest—and Messiest—Club
Episode • Oct 2, 2024
What Next TBD: American Life is a Highway
Episode • Sep 29, 2024
ICYMI: How ShxtsNGigs Let Their Audience Down
Episode • Sep 28, 2024
What Next TBD: Big Tech Fears Her
Episode • Sep 27, 2024
ICYMI: Moo Deng Is The New Grumpy Cat
Episode • Sep 25, 2024
How To!: Grow Your Podcast
Episode • Sep 24, 2024
What Next: What Was The Point of Israel’s Pager Attack?
Episode • Sep 23, 2024
What Next TBD: Trump Called. Laura Loomer Answered.
Episode • Sep 22, 2024
ICYMI: “Celebrity Number Six” Was Found, But Not Forgotten
Episode • Sep 21, 2024
What Next TBD: Can Instagram Really Keep Kids Safe?
Episode • Sep 20, 2024
ICYMI: Shannon Sharpe, Henry Danger, and Crashing Out
Episode • Sep 18, 2024
How To!: Rethink Screen Time
Episode • Sep 17, 2024
What Next TBD: Is Boeing Lost in Space?
Episode • Sep 15, 2024
ICYMI: The Costco Guys Bring the Boom
Episode • Sep 14, 2024
Slate Money | Fasten Your Seatbelt, Boeing
Episode • Sep 14, 2024
What Next TBD | TikTok Goes to Court
Episode • Sep 13, 2024
ICYMI: We May Have A New Bad Art Friend
Episode • Sep 11, 2024
Hear Me Out: Podcasting Is Dead
Episode • Sep 10, 2024
TBD | The Misguided Buzz About Mosquitoes
Episode • Sep 8, 2024
ICYMI: Land Ho: Our Top Moments from the Ultimate World Cruise
Episode • Sep 7, 2024
What Next TBD: US v. Google… Again
Episode • Sep 6, 2024
ICYMI: The Internet History of Charli XCX
Episode • Sep 4, 2024
What Next: Why Shein and Temu Are At War
Episode • Sep 3, 2024
What Next TBD: Telegram's CEO Just Got Arrested. Huh?
Episode • Sep 1, 2024
ICYMI: Skibidi Toilet Is An iPad Kid’s Fever Dream
Episode • Aug 31, 2024
What Next TBD: Back To School… Without Phones
Episode • Aug 30, 2024
ICYMI: The Internet History of Kamala Harris
Episode • Aug 28, 2024
What Next TBD: Who’s Going to Regulate AI?
Episode • Aug 25, 2024
ICYMI | Is Ballerina Farm A Victim?
Episode • Aug 24, 2024
What Next TBD: Crypto Courts the 2024 Vote
Episode • Aug 23, 2024
ICYMI: Allison Raskin on Leaving Buzzfeed and Friendship Breakups
Episode • Aug 21, 2024
What Next TBD: The Rise of Off-Brand Ozempic
Episode • Aug 18, 2024
ICYMI: Unladylike’s Cristen Conger on Conspiracy Theories and White Women
Episode • Aug 17, 2024
What Next TBD: Elon Musk’s Bully Pulpit
Episode • Aug 16, 2024
ICYMI: Justin Baldoni Is Not Very Demure
Episode • Aug 14, 2024
What Next: How Boeing Stranded Two Astronauts
Episode • Aug 13, 2024
What Next TBD: Tesla’s Out of Juice. But Are EVs?
Episode • Aug 11, 2024
ICYMI: Should I Stop Sharing My Location? Why Do My Friends Act Wild In My Instagram Comments?
Episode • Aug 10, 2024
What Next TBD: Google’s a Monopoly. What About The Rest?
Episode • Aug 9, 2024
ICYMI: Encore: Why YouTube Loves Video Essays
Episode • Aug 7, 2024
What Next TBD: If They Can Get Sydney Sweeney They Can Get You
Episode • Aug 4, 2024
What Next TBD: Why Are More Young People Getting Cancer?
Episode • Aug 2, 2024
ICYMI: Cody Ko Has Become the Misogyny He Mocks
Episode • Jul 31, 2024
What Next TBD: The Panopticon Olympics
Episode • Jul 28, 2024
ICYMI: The Boys Are Not All Right
Episode • Jul 27, 2024
What Next TBD: Is Silicon Valley Trump-Vance Country?
Episode • Jul 26, 2024
ICYMI: The Day MTV News Went Down
Episode • Jul 24, 2024
What Next TBD: The Conspiracy Theory Election
Episode • Jul 21, 2024
ICYMI: What Next: TBD: The Blu-Ray-naissance Is Here. Sort of.
Episode • Jul 20, 2024
Slate Money: Did Y2K Finally Happen?
Episode • Jul 20, 2024
What Next TBD: America’s Tech Trustbuster
Episode • Jul 19, 2024
Hear Me Out: AI’s Threat to Democracy Flopped
Episode • Jul 16, 2024
What Next TBD: The New World of DIY Medical Tests
Episode • Jul 14, 2024
ICYMI: The “Hawk Tuah Girl” Is the New Scott Disick
Episode • Jul 13, 2024
What Next TBD: Boeing Pleads Guilty
Episode • Jul 12, 2024
ICYMI: Baggu’s Horse Bag Controversy
Episode • Jul 10, 2024
What Next TBD: The Blu-Ray-naissance Is Here. Sort of.
Episode • Jul 7, 2024
ICYMI: How “Bye Sister” Changed Internet Culture Forever
Episode • Jul 6, 2024
What Next TBD: Elon Says Have More Babies
Episode • Jul 5, 2024
ICYMI: The Internet History of Ayo Edebiri
Episode • Jul 3, 2024
What Next TBD: Why Are IUDs Still a Mystery?
Episode • Jun 30, 2024
ICYMI: Rachelle Hampton Logs Off
Episode • Jun 29, 2024
What Next TBD: Why Extreme Weather Keeps Surprising You
Episode • Jun 28, 2024
ICYMI: Finding Queer Friendship Online
Episode • Jun 26, 2024
Death, Sex & Money: Kara Swisher and Orna Guralnik on How to Get People Talking
Episode • Jun 25, 2024
What Next TBD: Is Your Phone Tracking Your Driving?
Episode • Jun 23, 2024
ICYMI: John Green, Tall Love and the Star Wars Hotel
Episode • Jun 22, 2024
What Next TBD: Amazon Wants Your Handprint
Episode • Jun 21, 2024
What Next TBD: The FBI Made a Phone Network. It Was A Trap.
Episode • Jun 16, 2024
ICYMI: The Icarian Journey of Ashley Madison
Episode • Jun 15, 2024
Slate Money: Is Tesla Even a Good Car Company?
Episode • Jun 15, 2024
What Next TBD: Apple Goes Intelligent
Episode • Jun 14, 2024
ICYMI: Netflix’s TikTok Dance Cult Documentary is Missing Something
Episode • Jun 12, 2024
What Next TBD: Fee’d Up: A Musician’s Take on Ticketmaster
Episode • Jun 9, 2024
ICYMI: Inside the Unsolved 2014 Attack on a Furry Convention
Episode • Jun 8, 2024
What Next TBD: The Secret Semiconductor War
Episode • Jun 7, 2024
ICYMI: TikTok’s Current Main Character is a Familiar Face
Episode • Jun 5, 2024
What Next TBD: Would You Buy Poop On the Internet?
Episode • Jun 2, 2024
Slate Money: Nobody’s Gonna Stop Nvidia
Episode • Jun 1, 2024
ICYMI: Anna Sale on Internet Sabbaticals, iPod Culture and WebCrawler
Episode • Jun 1, 2024
What Next TBD: He’s Suing Big Tech Over Uvalde
Episode • May 31, 2024
ICYMI: Encore: TikTok Shop Is a Dystopian Mall Kiosk
Episode • May 29, 2024
What Next TBD: Why Hospitals Keep Getting Hacked
Episode • May 26, 2024
What Next TBD: Scarlett Johansson vs OpenAI
Episode • May 24, 2024
Well, Now: How Social Media Hurts Youth Mental Health
Episode • May 22, 2024
What Next TBD: The Dark Side of GoFundMe
Episode • May 19, 2024
ICYMI: Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show Makes Reality TV Great Again
Episode • May 18, 2024
Slate Money: Biden Zaps Chinese EVs
Episode • May 18, 2024
What Next TBD: Too Stonks Too Furious
Episode • May 17, 2024
ICYMI: Street Fights and Moissanite Rings: Reddit’s Favorite “Selling Sunset” Moments
Episode • May 15, 2024
What Next TBD: Would You Choose Your Child’s Sex?
Episode • May 12, 2024
ICYMI: Never Post: Everyone is a Journalish
Episode • May 11, 2024
What Next TBD: Meet the Trump Campaign’s A.I. Guy
Episode • May 10, 2024
ICYMI: How Kate Middleton’s Disappearance Redefined Monoculture
Episode • May 8, 2024
What Next TBD: Can California Save Journalism?
Episode • May 5, 2024
ICYMI: How Challengers Took Over the Internet
Episode • May 4, 2024
What Next TBD: Bird Flu—It’s in Milk?
Episode • May 3, 2024
What Next: Biden’s Climate Report Card
Episode • May 1, 2024
ICYMI: The End of Foxtrot and Outdoor Voices
Episode • May 1, 2024
ICYMI: The “TikTok Voice” of Our Generation
Episode • Apr 27, 2024
What Next TBD: So ... Is TikTok Banned?
Episode • Apr 26, 2024
ICYMI: Is Roblox Coming for TikTok?
Episode • Apr 24, 2024
What Next TBD: The Internet Archive Endangered
Episode • Apr 21, 2024
ICYMI: How a Chinese Glycine Manufacturer Took Over TikTok
Episode • Apr 20, 2024
Slate Money: Tesla’s Toxic Relationship With Musk
Episode • Apr 20, 2024
What Next TBD: What’s Driving Tesla’s Layoffs?
Episode • Apr 19, 2024
ICYMI: Ann Maddox on Scandoval, Reddit and Grief
Episode • Apr 17, 2024
Money Talks: Felix Wins His Crypto Bet
Episode • Apr 16, 2024
What Next TBD: Is America Ready for Legal Psychedelics?
Episode • Apr 14, 2024
Slate Money: Why America’s Internet Sucks
Episode • Apr 13, 2024
What Next TBD: Does Google Suck Now?
Episode • Apr 12, 2024
What Next: How the Government Botched Financial Aid
Episode • Apr 10, 2024
ICYMI: What Next: TBD: Google’s Scam Obituary Problem
Episode • Apr 10, 2024
What Next TBD: America Needs More Power
Episode • Apr 7, 2024
Slate Money: EVs Need a Charge-Up
Episode • Apr 6, 2024
What Next TBD: Truth Social’s Rocky Week
Episode • Apr 5, 2024
ICYMI: Rebecca Jennings on NYT Connections and Selling Out
Episode • Apr 3, 2024
Slate Money: How to Escape the Invisible Factory
Episode • Apr 2, 2024
What Next TBD: The Psychological Toll of Mars
Episode • Mar 31, 2024
ICYMI: To Ban or Not to Ban TikTok
Episode • Mar 30, 2024
What Next TBD: Can Boeing Pull Out of This Tailspin?
Episode • Mar 29, 2024
ICYMI: Is Nara Smith Actually a Tradwife?
Episode • Mar 27, 2024
What Next TBD: The Next Round of the Union Fight
Episode • Mar 24, 2024
ICYMI: Fybrefest, Fake Deaths and Acrylic vs. Wool
Episode • Mar 23, 2024
Slate Money: Is Apple’s Monopoly Good for Us?
Episode • Mar 23, 2024
What Next TBD: Reddit’s IPO Gamble
Episode • Mar 22, 2024
ICYMI: Anatomy of a Vasectomy
Episode • Mar 20, 2024
What Next TBD: When Private Equity Gets in to Health Care
Episode • Mar 17, 2024
ICYMI: Reddit is the Real Host of “Love is Blind”
Episode • Mar 16, 2024
Slate Money: Work is Mid 🤷♀️
Episode • Mar 16, 2024
Amicus: Who Gets to Lie Online?
Episode • Mar 16, 2024
What Next TBD: Is TikTok Cooked This Time?
Episode • Mar 15, 2024
ICYMI: An ICYMI Birthday Spectacular
Episode • Mar 13, 2024
Death, Sex & Money: Who's Driving Your Uber?
Episode • Mar 12, 2024
What Next TBD: Instagram’s Pedophile Problem
Episode • Mar 10, 2024
ICYMI: Protecting Child Influencers From Their Parents
Episode • Mar 9, 2024
Slate Money: Are Wallets Obsolete?
Episode • Mar 9, 2024
What Next TBD: Why TikTok Went Silent
Episode • Mar 8, 2024
ICYMI: An Entirely Objective Ranking of the Brit Crew
Episode • Mar 6, 2024
What Next TBD: Google’s Scam Obituary Problem
Episode • Mar 3, 2024
Slate Money: Musk vs. the AI Overlords
Episode • Mar 2, 2024
ICYMI: Rachel Karten on Snark Subreddits and Ryan Sheckler
Episode • Mar 2, 2024
What Next TBD: The Supreme Court Takes on Content Moderation
Episode • Mar 1, 2024
ICYMI: The Greatest Love Story Ever Told…Through TikToks
Episode • Feb 28, 2024
What Next TBD: Alabama’s IVF Mess
Episode • Feb 25, 2024
ICYMI: Who TF Did Reesa Teesa Marry?
Episode • Feb 24, 2024
Slate Money: Is Capital One’s Discover Deal Doomed?
Episode • Feb 24, 2024
What Next TBD: The Coasts are Sinking
Episode • Feb 23, 2024
What Next: Why a Hi-Tech Gun Safety Tool Isn’t Working
Episode • Feb 21, 2024
ICYMI: Inside the Internet’s Hottest—and Messiest—Club
Episode • Feb 21, 2024
What Next TBD: Apple Vision Pro: The Ultimate Surveillance Device?
Episode • Feb 18, 2024
ICYMI: The Turbulence of Air Force Taylor
Episode • Feb 17, 2024
A Word: Ghost in the Medical Machine
Episode • Feb 16, 2024
What Next TBD: Warfare Enters the A.I. Era
Episode • Feb 16, 2024
ICYMI: The State of Dating Apps
Episode • Feb 14, 2024
Decoder Ring: Why Do So Many Coffee Shops Look the Same?
Episode • Feb 14, 2024
What Next TBD: Breaking Up with Dating Apps
Episode • Feb 11, 2024
ICYMI: The Terminally Ill Influencers Posting Their Way Through Life—and Death
Episode • Feb 10, 2024
What Next TBD: The NFL’s Concussion Settlement Farce
Episode • Feb 9, 2024
ICYMI: Was TikTok Silent or Silenced?
Episode • Feb 7, 2024
What Next TBD: Streaming Is Cable Now
Episode • Feb 4, 2024
ICYMI: Paloma Diamond Is TikTok’s Favorite Oscar Loser
Episode • Feb 3, 2024
Slate Money: Why Musk Lost $56 Billion
Episode • Feb 3, 2024
What Next TBD: The Taylor Swift Deepfake Saga
Episode • Feb 2, 2024
ICYMI: Nicki Minaj’s 72-Hour Spiral
Episode • Jan 31, 2024
What Next TBD: Why Is Everybody Sick?
Episode • Jan 28, 2024
ICYMI: Why YouTube Loves Video Essays
Episode • Jan 27, 2024
What Next TBD: Are You Ready for the A.I. Election?
Episode • Jan 26, 2024
ICYMI: The TikTok Joy of Mychal the Librarian
Episode • Jan 24, 2024
What Next TBD: Have Algorithms Ruined Our Culture?
Episode • Jan 21, 2024
ICYMI: Stanley, Josh and Tunnel Girl
Episode • Jan 20, 2024
What Next TBD: The Great British Library Hack
Episode • Jan 19, 2024
ICYMI: Harry Potter Fanfiction and Battling TikTok Haters
Episode • Jan 17, 2024
What Next TBD: Is Your Car Tracking You?
Episode • Jan 14, 2024
Slate Money: Apple Maps is Finally Good
Episode • Jan 13, 2024
ICYMI: Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s Influencer Era
Episode • Jan 13, 2024
What Next TBD: Boeing’s Max Mess
Episode • Jan 12, 2024
ICYMI: The Nine-Month Cruise Heard Round the World
Episode • Jan 10, 2024
What Next TBD: Tesla's Cybertruck Problem
Episode • Jan 7, 2024
ICYMI: The Internet History of Tate McRae
Episode • Jan 6, 2024
What Next TBD: Why the New York Times Sued OpenAI
Episode • Jan 5, 2024
ICYMI: Should We Quit Romance Novels?
Episode • Jan 3, 2024
What Next TBD: Who’s Afraid of A.I.? | 2023 In Review
Episode • Dec 31, 2023
ICYMI: Outward: PragerU’s Transphobic Twitter Takeover
Episode • Dec 30, 2023
Slate Money: America’s Boring Superweapon
Episode • Dec 30, 2023
What Next TBD: America’s Killer Car Problem | 2023 In Review
Episode • Dec 29, 2023
ICYMI: Decoder Ring: The Forgotten Video Game About Slavery
Episode • Dec 27, 2023
What Next TBD: Stephen King Is Just as Confused About Blue Checks as You Are | 2023 In Review
Episode • Dec 24, 2023
ICYMI: Goodbye to All That 2023 Internet
Episode • Dec 23, 2023
What Next TBD: Can Hybrid Cars Save Us?
Episode • Dec 22, 2023
ICYMI: The Celebrity Breakups That Wrecked Us In 2023
Episode • Dec 20, 2023
What Next TBD: The Case Against CLEAR
Episode • Dec 17, 2023
ICYMI: Our Top Internet Moments of the Year (Part 2)
Episode • Dec 16, 2023
What Next TBD: Shein’s Newest Offering? An IPO
Episode • Dec 15, 2023
ICYMI: Our Top Internet Moments of the Year (Part 1)
Episode • Dec 13, 2023
What Next TBD: Musk's War on Free Speech
Episode • Dec 10, 2023
Slate Money: The War on Self-Checkouts
Episode • Dec 9, 2023
ICYMI: The Internet’s Biggest Sports Moments of 2023
Episode • Dec 9, 2023
What Next TBD: Spotify Unwrapped
Episode • Dec 8, 2023
ICYMI: The Year of Concerts and Being Outside
Episode • Dec 6, 2023
What Next TBD: They See You When You’re Shopping
Episode • Dec 3, 2023
ICYMI: Buying A Car on YouTube
Episode • Dec 2, 2023
What Next TBD: A Moral War for A.I.
Episode • Dec 1, 2023
Outward: PragerU’s Transphobic Twitter Takeover
Episode • Nov 29, 2023
ICYMI: Colleen Ballinger’s Inevitable Return
Episode • Nov 29, 2023
What Next: The Race (Back) to the Moon
Episode • Nov 26, 2023
ICYMI: The Waves: The Bravo Cinematic Universe
Episode • Nov 25, 2023
Slate Money: The Big Crazy at OpenAI
Episode • Nov 25, 2023
What Next TBD: Where Scams Are Born
Episode • Nov 24, 2023
ICYMI: Our 2023 ICYMI Friendsgiving Spectacular
Episode • Nov 22, 2023
What Next TBD: Inside OpenAI's Implosion
Episode • Nov 21, 2023
Slate Money: Movies | Dumb Money
Episode • Nov 20, 2023
What Next TBD: Bedbugs Are Back, Baby!
Episode • Nov 19, 2023
Slate Money: How Salt Built America
Episode • Nov 18, 2023
ICYMI: The Year in Celebrity Memoirs
Episode • Nov 18, 2023
What Next TBD: How Deepfake Porn Infected a School
Episode • Nov 17, 2023
Decoder Ring: The Forgotten Video Game About Slavery
Episode • Nov 15, 2023
ICYMI: The Internet Used to be a Haven for People with Autism
Episode • Nov 15, 2023
Slate Money: Travel | Jet-setting Like A Journalist
Episode • Nov 13, 2023
What Next TBD: Will A.I. Take My Job?
Episode • Nov 12, 2023
ICYMI: Restaurant Wars: Keith Lee vs. Atlanta
Episode • Nov 11, 2023
What Next TBD: Tesla vs. the Swedes
Episode • Nov 10, 2023
ICYMI: Endless Thread: The expanding universe of Lofi Girl
Episode • Nov 8, 2023
Slate Money: Movies | The Insider
Episode • Nov 6, 2023
Slate Money: The Crypto Crimes of Sam Bankman-Fried
Episode • Nov 4, 2023
ICYMI: Hasan Minhaj’s “Emotional Truths” Are Admitted Fabrications. Does it Matter?
Episode • Nov 4, 2023
What Next TBD: Sam Bankman-Fraud
Episode • Nov 4, 2023
What Next TBD: Biden Goes After AI
Episode • Nov 3, 2023
What Next: How to Catch an Insurrectionist
Episode • Nov 1, 2023
ICYMI: How First-Gen Kids Are Healing Online
Episode • Nov 1, 2023
Slate Money: Why Dimes Shouldn’t Exist
Episode • Oct 28, 2023
ICYMI: How DJ Envy Got Got
Episode • Oct 28, 2023
What Next TBD: SBF Takes the Stand
Episode • Oct 28, 2023
What Next TBD: Self-Driving Cars Crash Into Reality
Episode • Oct 27, 2023
ICYMI: A Former School Shooter is a TikTok Star. Should He Even Be Allowed Online?
Episode • Oct 25, 2023
How To!: Let Go of Kid Clutter
Episode • Oct 24, 2023
Slate Money | Movies: BlackBerry
Episode • Oct 23, 2023
Political Gabfest Reads: How to Survive Working for Amazon
Episode • Oct 21, 2023
ICYMI: Why Bella Hadid Said This Editor “Slayed”
Episode • Oct 21, 2023
What Next TBD: Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard Takeover
Episode • Oct 21, 2023
What Next TBD: Inside Hamas' Social Media Strategy
Episode • Oct 20, 2023
ICYMI: How a Pesto Recipe Devolved Into Delightful Chaos
Episode • Oct 18, 2023
What Next TBD: The $30,000 Zelle Scam
Episode • Oct 14, 2023
ICYMI: Live, Laugh, LinkedIn
Episode • Oct 14, 2023
Slate Money: SBF (Sweaters, Birkenstock, FTX)
Episode • Oct 14, 2023
What Next TBD: The Israel-Hamas War Instantly Broke X
Episode • Oct 13, 2023
ICYMI: How a Substack Revived the Dracula Fandom
Episode • Oct 11, 2023
What Next TBD: The Man Who Turned You Into Data
Episode • Oct 7, 2023
ICYMI: Stop Snitching on Main
Episode • Oct 7, 2023
Slate Money: Is Ozempic Eating Into Snack Profits?
Episode • Oct 7, 2023
What Next TBD: Sam Bankman-Fried—and Crypto—on Trial
Episode • Oct 6, 2023
ICYMI: Nostalgia is the Internet’s Favorite Currency
Episode • Oct 4, 2023
What Next TBD: Inside Crypto's House of Cards
Episode • Oct 1, 2023
ICYMI: Where Did Bobbi Althoff Come From?
Episode • Sep 30, 2023
What Next TBD: Who Will Pay For A COVID Vaccine?
Episode • Sep 30, 2023
What Next TBD: Is Amazon a Monopoly?
Episode • Sep 29, 2023
ICYMI: The Summer of Suits
Episode • Sep 27, 2023
Slate Money: AI Facial Recognition's Creepy Evolution
Episode • Sep 23, 2023
ICYMI: Is “Algospeak” D@ngerous?
Episode • Sep 23, 2023
What Next TBD: What Instacart’s IPO Means for Tech
Episode • Sep 23, 2023
What Next TBD: Did AirBnB Need to Go?
Episode • Sep 22, 2023
ICYMI: Inside the MLM to Life Coach Pipeline
Episode • Sep 20, 2023
Slate Money | Criminals: TheraNOPE
Episode • Sep 18, 2023
What Next TBD: Can Politicians Keep Kids Safe Online?
Episode • Sep 16, 2023
ICYMI: AI-Generated Books are Tarnishing Authors’ Reputations
Episode • Sep 16, 2023
What Next TBD: Google Makes Its Case
Episode • Sep 15, 2023
Mom & Dad: If You’re Tracking Your Kids, Should You Tell Them?
Episode • Sep 14, 2023
ICYMI: The Orwellian World of Vintage Fast-Food Training Videos
Episode • Sep 13, 2023
What Next TBD: Bad Air, Worse Vibes
Episode • Sep 9, 2023
Slate Money: Optimal Illusions
Episode • Sep 9, 2023
ICYMI: Are Green Powders a Pyramid Scheme?
Episode • Sep 9, 2023
What Next TBD: Tech Disrupts the School Bus
Episode • Sep 8, 2023
The Waves: The Bama Rush to Trad Wife Pipeline
Episode • Sep 7, 2023
ICYMI: The Waves: How Drake Betrayed Megan Thee Stallion
Episode • Sep 6, 2023
Slate Money | Criminals Series: The $5 Billion Fraud
Episode • Sep 4, 2023
What Next TBD: Social Media’s Pivot from News
Episode • Sep 3, 2023
Future Tense Fiction: Welcome to the A.I. Haunted House
Episode • Sep 2, 2023
Slate Money: You Better Not Be Working
Episode • Sep 2, 2023
ICYMI: TikTok Shop is a Dystopian Mall Kiosk
Episode • Sep 2, 2023
Dear Prudence: Relationship Podcasts Are Ruining My Friend's Life. Help!
Episode • Sep 1, 2023
What Next TBD: Is LinkedIn...Cool Now?
Episode • Sep 1, 2023
Mom & Dad: Lessons From a Racist Instagram and the Teens It Hurt
Episode • Aug 31, 2023
ICYMI: BookTok’s Horny Hockey Drama and the End of Internet Thirst
Episode • Aug 30, 2023
What Next TBD: The Cost of "Sustainable" Pet Food
Episode • Aug 27, 2023
Slate Money: Twelve Ways to Help Fix the World
Episode • Aug 26, 2023
ICYMI: Addison Rae is the Newest Pop Princess
Episode • Aug 26, 2023
What Next TBD: TikTok's Shady Deal with the U.S.
Episode • Aug 25, 2023
ICYMI: How to Make Millions Playing Dungeons & Dragons
Episode • Aug 23, 2023
What Next TBD: Digital Life After Death
Episode • Aug 20, 2023
ICYMI: The Child Content Creator Crash is Coming
Episode • Aug 19, 2023
What Next TBD: How Crypto Fails Sex Workers
Episode • Aug 18, 2023
ICYMI: You Just Missed This Year’s Most Important Episode of Reality TV
Episode • Aug 16, 2023
Mom & Dad: Screen Time Without Guilt
Episode • Aug 14, 2023
What Next TBD: Tech's Mask Off Moment
Episode • Aug 13, 2023
ICYMI: What NewJeans Tells Us About the Future of K-Pop
Episode • Aug 12, 2023
Slate Money: ESPN Bets on Sports Betting
Episode • Aug 12, 2023
What Next TBD: Can Smart Guns Save Lives?
Episode • Aug 11, 2023
ICYMI: Will Doja Cat Ever Be Canceled?
Episode • Aug 9, 2023
What Next TBD: Another Summer of COVID
Episode • Aug 6, 2023
ICYMI: Decoder Ring: What’s Really Going On Inside a Mosh Pit?
Episode • Aug 5, 2023
What Next TBD: Tesla's Big Lie
Episode • Aug 4, 2023
Decoder Ring: The Quest for a Homemade Hovercraft
Episode • Aug 3, 2023
ICYMI: And the Grammy Goes to…Artificial Intelligence?
Episode • Aug 2, 2023
What Next: Congress Wants to Know: Do Aliens Exist?
Episode • Jul 31, 2023
What Next TBD: America’s Downtown Ghost Towns
Episode • Jul 30, 2023
Future Tense Fiction: Could a Robot Be Your Dog’s Best Friend?
Episode • Jul 29, 2023
Slate Money: Will The UPS Union Deal Deliver?
Episode • Jul 29, 2023
ICYMI: The Girls Are Not All Right
Episode • Jul 29, 2023
What Next TBD: Washington vs. A.I.
Episode • Jul 28, 2023
ICYMI: The Curious Case of Carlee Russell
Episode • Jul 26, 2023
What Next TBD: Why Tech Lays Women Off First
Episode • Jul 23, 2023
ICYMI: The Day AO3 Went Down
Episode • Jul 22, 2023
What Next TBD: America’s $5 Trillion Grid Problem
Episode • Jul 21, 2023
ICYMI: Take a Tour in the Shein Propaganda Factory
Episode • Jul 19, 2023
What Next: How Hollywood Shot Itself in the Foot
Episode • Jul 18, 2023
What Next TBD: America’s Killer Car Problem
Episode • Jul 16, 2023
Slate Money: Trouble in the House of Mouse
Episode • Jul 15, 2023
ICYMI: Did Fancams Determine This Year’s Emmy Nominations?
Episode • Jul 15, 2023
What Next TBD: Will UPS Workers Join "Hot Strike Summer?"
Episode • Jul 14, 2023
ICYMI: Has Black Twitter Found A New Home?
Episode • Jul 12, 2023
How To!: Hack Any Bureaucracy
Episode • Jul 11, 2023
What Next TBD: Is Your Son Watching Andrew Tate?
Episode • Jul 9, 2023
Slate Money: Can Threads Take Down Twitter?
Episode • Jul 8, 2023
ICYMI: How Reddit Turned On Its Creator
Episode • Jul 8, 2023
What Next TBD: Threads vs. Twitter
Episode • Jul 7, 2023
ICYMI: What Next: TBD: The Trouble With TikTok Songs
Episode • Jul 5, 2023
What Next TBD: Turning Your Face Into Your Ticket
Episode • Jul 2, 2023
ICYMI: The Subreddit Teeming with Crime, Complaints and Candles
Episode • Jul 1, 2023
What Next TBD: The Never-Ending Cancer Drug Shortage
Episode • Jun 30, 2023
ICYMI: Finding Queer Love Online
Episode • Jun 28, 2023
What Next TBD: Can Ozempic Cure Addiction?
Episode • Jun 25, 2023
Future Tense Fiction: Who Gets to Escape the Climate Crisis?
Episode • Jun 24, 2023
ICYMI: Why the Internet Couldn’t Get Enough of the Missing Submarine
Episode • Jun 24, 2023
What Next TBD: The U.S. vs Amazon Prime
Episode • Jun 23, 2023
ICYMI: The Super Bowl of Private Chef TikTok
Episode • Jun 21, 2023
What Next TBD: The George Soros Succession
Episode • Jun 18, 2023
ICYMI: Was the MirandaSings Controversy Inevitable?
Episode • Jun 17, 2023
What Next TBD: Reddit’s Rolling Blackouts
Episode • Jun 16, 2023
ICYMI: The TikTok Comedian Caught In A Ticketmaster Controversy
Episode • Jun 14, 2023
What Next TBD: Are You Ready For A.I. Generated Actors?
Episode • Jun 11, 2023
Slate Money: The SEC’s Crypto Crackdown
Episode • Jun 10, 2023
ICYMI: Why “The Ultimatum: Queer Love” Ultimately Fails
Episode • Jun 10, 2023
What Next TBD: Is Crypto Toast?
Episode • Jun 9, 2023
ICYMI: The Short-Lived, Very Controversial Healy-Swift Affair
Episode • Jun 7, 2023
What Next TBD: Tech’s Newest Trillion Dollar Company
Episode • Jun 4, 2023
ICYMI: Meet NPR’s TikTok Boy
Episode • Jun 3, 2023
Money: The Economic Tale of the Writers Strike
Episode • Jun 3, 2023
What Next TBD: When Your Childhood Was Their Content
Episode • Jun 2, 2023
ICYMI: The Only People Who Made Money From Tumblr
Episode • May 31, 2023
What Next: TBD | The Trouble With TikTok Songs
Episode • May 28, 2023
ICYMI -- How To: Succeed at Social Media
Episode • May 27, 2023
Future Tense Fiction: When Robots Go to War
Episode • May 27, 2023
What Next: TBD | Tweetering on the Glass Cliff
Episode • May 26, 2023
ICYMI: Is Ice Spice an Industry Plant?
Episode • May 24, 2023
What Next: TBD | A Tipping Point for Digital Tipping
Episode • May 21, 2023
ICYMI: The Internet’s Biggest Secret
Episode • May 20, 2023
What Next TBD: Why Sports Are All in on Betting
Episode • May 19, 2023
ICYMI: Quiet Luxury is TikTok’s Latest Nonsensical Fashion Trend
Episode • May 17, 2023
Hi-Phi Nation: Rise of the Music Machines
Episode • May 16, 2023
What Next TBD: Space After NASA
Episode • May 14, 2023
ICYMI: Why Tarte Cosmetics is Being Accused of Racism (Again)
Episode • May 13, 2023
What Next TBD: Who’s Afraid of A.I.?
Episode • May 12, 2023
ICYMI: We’re Sorry
Episode • May 10, 2023
Hi-Phi Nation: Effective Altruism and its Critics
Episode • May 9, 2023
Slate Money: Succession S4 Ep7: Two Indias (And Two Episode Directors)
Episode • May 8, 2023
What Next TBD: What's Going on at Meta?
Episode • May 7, 2023
Slate Money: Why The First Republic Failure Is Different
Episode • May 6, 2023
ICYMI: Inside the Nexus of Wellness Culture
Episode • May 6, 2023
What Next TBD: What the Writers' Strike Is Really About
Episode • May 5, 2023
ICYMI: Should Influencers Unionize?
Episode • May 3, 2023
Hi-Phi Nation: The Problem with Gig Work
Episode • May 2, 2023
Slate Money: Succession S4 Ep6: Living+
Episode • May 1, 2023
What Next TBD: Is Your Uber Drivers' Pay Rigged?
Episode • Apr 30, 2023
Slate Money: “Traffic”: Ben Smith and the Death of the Social Web
Episode • Apr 29, 2023
ICYMI: Should We All Be Pirating More?
Episode • Apr 29, 2023
Future Tense Fiction: Live. Love. Die. Repeat?
Episode • Apr 29, 2023
What Next TBD: Stephen King Is Just as Confused About Blue Checks as You Are
Episode • Apr 28, 2023
ICYMI: We’ve Learned Nothing From West Elm Caleb
Episode • Apr 26, 2023
How To!: Face the A.I. Revolution
Episode • Apr 25, 2023
Hi-Phi Nation: Love in the Time of Replika
Episode • Apr 25, 2023
Slate Money: Succession S4 Ep5: Bleed The Swede
Episode • Apr 24, 2023
What Next TBD: "Crap Apps": Why Weather Apps Suck
Episode • Apr 23, 2023
Slate Money: Elon’s Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly
Episode • Apr 22, 2023
Amicus: Justice Roberts’ Unfunny Cyber Stalking Jokes
Episode • Apr 22, 2023
ICYMI: Has TikTok Ruined Live Music?
Episode • Apr 22, 2023
What Next TBD: Will A.I. Close Off the Internet?
Episode • Apr 21, 2023
ICYMI: How the Internet Broke Netflix’s “Love is Blind”
Episode • Apr 19, 2023
Slate Money: Succession S4 Ep4: Succession!
Episode • Apr 17, 2023
What Next TBD: Will Banning Social Media Help Kids?
Episode • Apr 16, 2023
ICYMI: Meet the Internet’s Princess
Episode • Apr 15, 2023
Slate Money: The China Problem
Episode • Apr 15, 2023
What Next TBD: How Gamers Leaked Classified Pentagon Docs
Episode • Apr 14, 2023
ICYMI: The Free Trial Period of Social Media Is Over
Episode • Apr 12, 2023
Hi-Phi Nation: The Digital Future of Grief
Episode • Apr 11, 2023
Slate Money: Succession S4 Ep3: Logan F---s Off
Episode • Apr 10, 2023
What Next TBD: Why Flying Is So Bad Now
Episode • Apr 9, 2023
Slate Money: How to Win at Roulette
Episode • Apr 8, 2023
ICYMI: Blac Chyna and the New Plastic Surgery Era
Episode • Apr 8, 2023
What Next TBD: Wait, TikTok Has a Sister App?
Episode • Apr 7, 2023
Hi-Phi Nation: Ethics and the Future - Trailer
Episode • Apr 6, 2023
ICYMI: Buying Concert Tickets Online is Still a Hellscape
Episode • Apr 5, 2023
How To Succeed at Social Media
Episode • Apr 4, 2023
Slate Money: Succession S4 Ep2: F---ing Pirates
Episode • Apr 3, 2023
What Next TBD: Seeking Asylum Via App
Episode • Apr 2, 2023
ICYMI: Succession’s Kendall Roy is the Internet’s Girlboss
Episode • Apr 1, 2023
Slate Money: The Layoff Dopamine Hit
Episode • Apr 1, 2023
What Next TBD: When A.I. Denies Your Health Care
Episode • Mar 31, 2023
ICYMI: Live from Copenhagen
Episode • Mar 29, 2023
How To!: Bounce Back From a Layoff
Episode • Mar 28, 2023
Slate Money: Succession S4 Ep1: High-Calorie Infosnacks
Episode • Mar 27, 2023
What Next TBD: Tesla’s Full Self-Driving Woes
Episode • Mar 26, 2023
ICYMI: Gwyneth Paltrow and the Ozempic Craze
Episode • Mar 25, 2023
Future Tense Fiction: Can a Pandemic Story Have a Happy Ending?
Episode • Mar 25, 2023
Slate Money: Too Big, To Fail, Too Furious
Episode • Mar 25, 2023
What Next TBD: The Case Against TikTok
Episode • Mar 24, 2023
ICYMI: Encore: Someone’s Selling Human Bones on TikTok?
Episode • Mar 22, 2023
What Next TBD: When A.I. Steals Your Voice
Episode • Mar 19, 2023
ICYMI: Pedro Pascal Is the Internet’s Daddy
Episode • Mar 18, 2023
Slate Money: Normal Bank Failure
Episode • Mar 18, 2023
Future Tense Fiction: Coming March 25
Episode • Mar 18, 2023
Gabfest Reads: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Semiconductors?
Episode • Mar 18, 2023
What Next TBD: Where Is Silicon Valley Going to Bank Now?
Episode • Mar 17, 2023
ICYMI: Dear Prudence: Sister Wants Me to Be Her Surrogate. Help!
Episode • Mar 15, 2023
What Next: Why Silicon Valley Bank Collapsed
Episode • Mar 15, 2023
What Next TBD: Would You Let A.I. Date For You?
Episode • Mar 12, 2023
ICYMI: Vanderpump Rules’ War of the Roses
Episode • Mar 11, 2023
Slate Money: The Banks Special
Episode • Mar 11, 2023
What Next TBD: When Meta Tells Law Enforcement About Your Abortion
Episode • Mar 10, 2023
ICYMI: The Internet Should Be Fun
Episode • Mar 8, 2023
What Next TBD: The Hollywood Weight Loss Wonder Drug
Episode • Mar 5, 2023
ICYMI: The Internet Hates Hogwarts Legacy
Episode • Mar 4, 2023
Slate Money: Microchips and Child Care
Episode • Mar 4, 2023
What Next TBD: What Would Convince a Lab Leak Skeptic?
Episode • Mar 3, 2023
ICYMI: Selena Gomez Loves Logging Off
Episode • Mar 1, 2023
What Next TBD: Is a 25-Year-Old’s Brain Mature?
Episode • Feb 26, 2023
ICYMI: North West Is TikTok’s New Queen
Episode • Feb 25, 2023
Amicus: SCOTUS on the Internet: “It’s Complicated”
Episode • Feb 25, 2023
What Next TBD: Why A.I. Says the Darndest Things
Episode • Feb 24, 2023
ICYMI: Tumblr Revived the Welcome to Night Vale Fandom
Episode • Feb 22, 2023
What Next TBD: The Baby-Sleep Industrial Complex
Episode • Feb 19, 2023
ICYMI: The Influencer Even Skeptics Love
Episode • Feb 18, 2023
What Next TBD: What Made the Balloon Drama Pop Off?
Episode • Feb 17, 2023
ICYMI: The Internet’s Black Emo Renaissance
Episode • Feb 15, 2023
What Next TBD: Contraband Tech Behind Bars
Episode • Feb 12, 2023
ICYMI: Is Weight Lifting a Diet Culture Escape Hatch?
Episode • Feb 11, 2023
Slate Money: Will A.I. Kill the Internet?
Episode • Feb 11, 2023
What Next TBD: Why Ban TikTok?
Episode • Feb 10, 2023
ICYMI: How a 9-Year-Old Took Over TikTok
Episode • Feb 8, 2023
What Next TBD: Did a Twentysomething Con America’s Biggest Bank?
Episode • Feb 5, 2023
ICYMI: The Anal Bead Cheating Scandal That Rocked the Online Chess World
Episode • Feb 4, 2023
What Next TBD: How COVID Changes Our Immune Systems
Episode • Feb 3, 2023
ICYMI: Has the Internet Made Parenting Easier?
Episode • Feb 1, 2023
What Next TBD: Did A.I. Write This Headline?
Episode • Jan 29, 2023
ICYMI: TikTok Isn’t For Creators Anymore
Episode • Jan 28, 2023
Slate Money: Chip War
Episode • Jan 28, 2023
What Next TBD: Will Google Get Broken Up?
Episode • Jan 27, 2023
ICYMI: American Girl’s Addy Is More Than a Slave
Episode • Jan 25, 2023
What Next TBD: Does Meta Even Care When Its Users Get Hacked?
Episode • Jan 22, 2023
Slate Money: It’s Not TV
Episode • Jan 21, 2023
ICYMI: The Internet Won’t Let Austin Butler Forget Vanessa Hudgens
Episode • Jan 21, 2023
What Next TBD: An Antivax Dog Whistle Goes Viral
Episode • Jan 20, 2023
ICYMI: MrBeast Dethroned a Child to Become the Most Successful YouTuber
Episode • Jan 18, 2023
What Next TBD: Tesla’s No Good, Very Bad Year
Episode • Jan 15, 2023
ICYMI: RuPaul’s Drag Race Has Finally Logged On
Episode • Jan 14, 2023
What Next TBD: Why the Feds Want to Kill Noncompetes
Episode • Jan 13, 2023
ICYMI: Who Is Alix Earle And Why Are People Mad at Her?
Episode • Jan 11, 2023
What Next TBD: How War in Taiwan Could Short-Circuit U.S. Tech
Episode • Jan 8, 2023
ICYMI: The Untalented Mr. Ripley
Episode • Jan 7, 2023
Slate Money: Burning Platforms
Episode • Jan 7, 2023
What Next TBD: Will Southwest Be Held Accountable?
Episode • Jan 6, 2023
ICYMI: Fans Ran the World Last Year
Episode • Jan 4, 2023
ICYMI: Encore: We Talked to BYU’s Black Menaces
Episode • Dec 28, 2022
ICYMI: Encore: All Hail the Liver King
Episode • Dec 24, 2022
What Next TBD: One Year - 1942: The Most Hated Man in America
Episode • Dec 23, 2022
ICYMI: Decoder Ring: The New Age Hit Machine
Episode • Dec 21, 2022
What Next TBD: Are You Ready For Lab-Grown Meat?
Episode • Dec 18, 2022
ICYMI: Who Gets to Complain About Their Job Online?
Episode • Dec 17, 2022
Slate Money: Should You Care About the Dot Plot?
Episode • Dec 17, 2022
What Next TBD: SBF's Worst Week Yet
Episode • Dec 16, 2022
ICYMI: Why Did NBC’s Internet Culture Reporter Spend So Much Time on Reddit?
Episode • Dec 14, 2022
What Next TBD: San Francisco’s Self-Driving Mess
Episode • Dec 11, 2022
Slate Money: The NYT Strike: End of the Wordle Streak
Episode • Dec 10, 2022
ICYMI: Goodbye to All That 2022 Internet
Episode • Dec 10, 2022
What Next TBD: Let’s Talk, Chatbots
Episode • Dec 9, 2022
ICYMI:What Is a Kevsexual?
Episode • Dec 7, 2022
What Next TBD: Big Tech’s Boogeymen In Washington
Episode • Dec 4, 2022
ICYMI: Online for the Holidays
Episode • Dec 3, 2022
A Word: Bot Battling in the Age of Elon
Episode • Dec 2, 2022
What Next TBD: Twitter's Vulnerabilities, Exposed
Episode • Dec 2, 2022
ICYMI: Goncharov, Tumblr’s Fake Scorsese Film
Episode • Nov 30, 2022
What Next TBD: The Trap of Buy Now, Pay Later
Episode • Nov 27, 2022
ICYMI: Decoder Ring: The Truth About #TheDress
Episode • Nov 26, 2022
Political Gabfest: What If Twitter Dies?
Episode • Nov 24, 2022
ICYMI: An ICYMI Friendsgiving with Normal Gossip
Episode • Nov 23, 2022
What Next TBD: The End of the Tech Boom
Episode • Nov 20, 2022
ICYMI: What's Going to Happen to Twitter?
Episode • Nov 19, 2022
What Next TBD: The Case Against Climate Reparations
Episode • Nov 18, 2022
ICYMI: Who’s Invited to the Cookout?
Episode • Nov 16, 2022
Decoder Ring: The Truth About #TheDress
Episode • Nov 15, 2022
What Next TBD: Is This The Cryptocalypse?
Episode • Nov 13, 2022
ICYMI: The Internet Wouldn’t Exist Without Sex
Episode • Nov 12, 2022
What Next TBD: Senator Chris Murphy on Elon's Acquisition of Twitter
Episode • Nov 11, 2022
ICYMI: A Man Ate Rotisserie Chicken for 40 Days Straight
Episode • Nov 9, 2022
What Next TBD: Why Are So Many Little Kids Sick Right Now?
Episode • Nov 6, 2022
ICYMI: How Are the Midterms Affecting Social Media?
Episode • Nov 5, 2022
What Next TBD: So How’s It Going, Elon?
Episode • Nov 4, 2022
ICYMI: Did Deplatforming Andrew Tate Work?
Episode • Nov 2, 2022
What Next TBD: Big Brother, Big Tech and China
Episode • Oct 30, 2022
Slate Money: Memelord Takeover
Episode • Oct 29, 2022
ICYMI: Inside the Online Life of a Health & Wellness Reporter
Episode • Oct 29, 2022
What Next TBD: Twitter Is Dead; Long Live Twitter
Episode • Oct 28, 2022
ICYMI: How a Lesbian Emu Influencer Got Milkshake Ducked
Episode • Oct 26, 2022
What Next TBD: Can We Make an Alzheimer’s Drug That Works?
Episode • Oct 23, 2022
ICYMI: What’s It Like Being a Twitch Streamer?
Episode • Oct 22, 2022
What Next TBD: When An Algorithm Raises Your Rent
Episode • Oct 21, 2022
ICYMI: What’s the Deal With Broadway’s 1776?
Episode • Oct 19, 2022
What Next TBD: Are You Ready to Be Composted When You Die?
Episode • Oct 16, 2022
ICYMI: What Makes Online Advice Good?
Episode • Oct 15, 2022
Slate Money: We Can’t Quit Elon
Episode • Oct 15, 2022
A Word: How Tech Can Help—or Harm—Racial Justice
Episode • Oct 14, 2022
What Next TBD: The Next Amazon Union Fight
Episode • Oct 14, 2022
ICYMI: The Internet Is an Invisible Force
Episode • Oct 12, 2022
What Next TBD: When Your Church Surveils Your Phone
Episode • Oct 9, 2022
ICYMI: The Bling Ring Wasn’t Possible Without the Internet
Episode • Oct 8, 2022
What Next TBD: Could the Supreme Court Kill the Internet As We Know It?
Episode • Oct 7, 2022
ICYMI: Why an Orthodox Jewish Boys Choir Is Going Viral
Episode • Oct 5, 2022
What Next TBD: The Philosopher With Silicon Valley's Ear
Episode • Oct 2, 2022
ICYMI: BuzzFeed Set the Try Guys Up to Fail
Episode • Oct 1, 2022
What Next TBD: When Climate Change Makes You Sell Your House
Episode • Sep 30, 2022
ICYMI: Jojo Siwa Did What on TikTok?
Episode • Sep 28, 2022
What Next TBD: Can Nuclear Power Be Green?
Episode • Sep 25, 2022
ICYMI: Serial Didn’t Free Adnan Syed
Episode • Sep 24, 2022
What Next TBD: The Fight Over Online Speech Headed to the Supreme Court
Episode • Sep 23, 2022
ICYMI: It’s OK to Criticize the Dead
Episode • Sep 21, 2022
What Next TBD: The Hidden Abuse Behind Those Spam Texts You're Getting
Episode • Sep 18, 2022
ICYMI: Where AI Art Can Go Wrong
Episode • Sep 17, 2022
What Next TBD: How Big Internet Keeps Small Communities Disconnected
Episode • Sep 16, 2022
ICYMI: Harry Styles Knows Exactly What He’s Doing
Episode • Sep 14, 2022
What Next TBD: The Chaos That Made YouTube a Juggernaut
Episode • Sep 11, 2022
ICYMI: Everyone Wants to Be a Food Influencer…or Do They?
Episode • Sep 10, 2022
What Next TBD: Can A.I. Make Great Art?
Episode • Sep 9, 2022
ICYMI: A Texas Church Did What With Hamilton?
Episode • Sep 7, 2022
How To!: Have a Healthier News Diet
Episode • Sep 6, 2022
What Next TBD: The Summer Vaccine of the Future
Episode • Sep 4, 2022
ICYMI: Encore: Is BYU Virginity Club Real? An ICYMI Investigation.
Episode • Sep 3, 2022
What Next TBD: A.I. Made to Fight Child Porn Ensnared an Innocent Dad
Episode • Sep 2, 2022
ICYMI: Encore: Who Weekly? Explains Bennifer 3.0
Episode • Aug 31, 2022
How To!: Unbreak the News
Episode • Aug 30, 2022
What Next TBD: The Streaming TV Bloodbath
Episode • Aug 28, 2022
ICYMI: Encore: Did TikTok Find Gabby Petito, or Exploit Her?
Episode • Aug 27, 2022
What Next TBD: The Hacker Blowing the Whistle on Twitter
Episode • Aug 26, 2022
One Year - 1986: The Ultimate Field Trip
Episode • Aug 25, 2022
ICYMI: Encore: How a Harry Potter Fanfic Took Over the Internet
Episode • Aug 24, 2022
What Next TBD: We're Expecting the Wrong Things From the CDC
Episode • Aug 21, 2022
ICYMI: Tumblr Changed How We Watch Movies
Episode • Aug 20, 2022
What Next TBD: What All That Money for Green Tech in the Climate Bill Is Buying
Episode • Aug 19, 2022
ICYMI: What Is a Clean Girl?
Episode • Aug 17, 2022
What Next: Who Influences the Influencers?
Episode • Aug 15, 2022
What Next TBD: Big Pharma’s Bet on Psychedelics
Episode • Aug 14, 2022
ICYMI: Was Black Twitter a Mistake?
Episode • Aug 13, 2022
What Next TBD: Crypto Could Leave Texas in the Dark
Episode • Aug 12, 2022
ICYMI: What Makes a Good Internet Boyfriend?
Episode • Aug 10, 2022
What Next TBD: The Monkeypox Vaccine Monopoly
Episode • Aug 7, 2022
ICYMI: Does Nicki Minaj Really Owe the IRS $173 Million?
Episode • Aug 6, 2022
What Next TBD: The Homes We Forgot to Build a Decade Ago
Episode • Aug 5, 2022
ICYMI: Dipping Marcel the Shell in Pink Sauce
Episode • Aug 3, 2022
What Next TBD: The Dark Web of Online Spider Sales
Episode • Jul 31, 2022
ICYMI: We Have Some Gossip For You
Episode • Jul 30, 2022
What Next TBD: Paging Dr. Bezos
Episode • Jul 29, 2022
ICYMI: What is "Hitting the Strip"?
Episode • Jul 27, 2022
What Next TBD: Smart City: Dumb Idea?
Episode • Jul 24, 2022
ICYMI: Madison Malone Kircher Logs Off
Episode • Jul 23, 2022
What Next TBD: Europe Is Burning
Episode • Jul 22, 2022
ICYMI: Frog Eggs, Pheromones, and Yassified Ed Sheeran, Oh My!
Episode • Jul 20, 2022
What Next TBD: Silicon Valley's Hidden Discrimination
Episode • Jul 17, 2022
ICYMI: Our CEO Tried to Scam Me
Episode • Jul 16, 2022
What Next TBD: Can Twitter Sue Elon Musk Into Submission?
Episode • Jul 15, 2022
ICYMI: Doja Cat and Cardi B Are Fighting, But Not With Each Other
Episode • Jul 13, 2022
What Next TBD: Paxlovid's Mysteries
Episode • Jul 10, 2022
ICYMI: The Rise of the Gentleminions
Episode • Jul 9, 2022
What Next TBD: Can FEMA Keep Up With Climate Change?
Episode • Jul 8, 2022
ICYMI: How a Social Justice Instagram Weaponized Cancel Culture
Episode • Jul 6, 2022
What Next TBD: The Good Hackers
Episode • Jul 3, 2022
ICYMI: Daily Harvest Is Crumbling
Episode • Jul 2, 2022
What Next TBD: TikTok’s Mental Health Influencers
Episode • Jul 1, 2022
ICYMI: This Episode Will Not Bum You Out
Episode • Jun 29, 2022
What Next TBD: Does Crypto Investment Need to Be Regulated?
Episode • Jun 26, 2022
ICYMI: There Are No New Jokes On the Internet
Episode • Jun 25, 2022
What Next TBD: Can the Law Keep Up With the Internet?
Episode • Jun 24, 2022
ICYMI: Why Can’t Lesbians Escape Men on Dating Apps?
Episode • Jun 22, 2022
What Next TBD: From the Vault: It's Hot. It's Flooding. Is This the New Normal?
Episode • Jun 19, 2022
ICYMI: American Girl Just Outed One of Their Dolls?
Episode • Jun 18, 2022
What Next TBD: The Culture War Over Electric Cars
Episode • Jun 17, 2022
ICYMI: Did One Direction Create the Internet?
Episode • Jun 15, 2022
What Next TBD: Sheryl Sandberg’s Complicated Legacy
Episode • Jun 12, 2022
What Next TBD: Bots! What Are They Good For?
Episode • Jun 10, 2022
A Word: Black Crypto Boom
Episode • Jun 10, 2022
ICYMI: The Musician TikTok Hostage Crisis
Episode • Jun 8, 2022
What Next TBD: Is Elon Musk Any Good at Business?
Episode • Jun 5, 2022
ICYMI: Are the Mormon TikTok Moms Really Swingers?
Episode • Jun 4, 2022
A Word: Black to the Future Online
Episode • Jun 3, 2022
What Next TBD: Can an Algorithm Spot a Shooter?
Episode • Jun 3, 2022
ICYMI: How Depp v. Heard Broke the Internet
Episode • Jun 1, 2022
What Next TBD: Online Privacy in a Post-Roe World
Episode • May 29, 2022
ICYMI: The Real Story Behind The Viral Makeup All Over TikTok
Episode • May 28, 2022
What Next TBD: Will Bitcoin Ruin El Salvador?
Episode • May 27, 2022
ICYMI: Oh No, Not Another Couch Guy
Episode • May 25, 2022
Better Life Lab: The Future of Wellbeing in an Automated World
Episode • May 24, 2022
What Next TBD: North Korea's Hacking Army
Episode • May 22, 2022
ICYMI: The Trial That Ruined TikTok
Episode • May 21, 2022
What Next TBD: How Buffalo Could Transform Social Media
Episode • May 20, 2022
ICYMI: Tumblr’s “This Is White Privilege” Stays Ahead of Its Time
Episode • May 18, 2022
What Next TBD: Inside Trump’s Twitter Clone
Episode • May 15, 2022
ICYMI: The TikTokkers Taking Down the Troubled Teen Industry
Episode • May 14, 2022
A Word: Is Big Tech Pro-Choice?
Episode • May 13, 2022
What Next TBD: Can A.I. Know What You're Feeling?
Episode • May 13, 2022
ICYMI: The “Am I the A**Hole” Economy Is Thriving
Episode • May 11, 2022
What Next TBD: Is Free Speech Online Just a Myth?
Episode • May 8, 2022
ICYMI: Your Period Tracker Is Not Your Friend
Episode • May 7, 2022
What Next TBD: Can the Internet Rescue Abortion Access?
Episode • May 6, 2022
What Next TBD: The Fantasy of Internet for All
Episode • May 1, 2022
What Next TBD: What Elon Wants With Twitter
Episode • Apr 29, 2022
What Next TBD: A New High-Tech Weapon in Ukraine
Episode • Apr 24, 2022
What Next TBD: The COVID Data Disaster
Episode • Apr 22, 2022
What Next TBD: How TurboTax Tricks Taxpayers
Episode • Apr 17, 2022
What Next TBD: Elonnnnnnnnnnnnn!
Episode • Apr 15, 2022
What Next TBD: Uber Makes Nice With Cabs
Episode • Apr 10, 2022
What Next TBD: Elon Trolls the SEC
Episode • Apr 8, 2022
What Next TBD: A Conversation With Europe's Top Tech Cop
Episode • Apr 3, 2022
What Next TBD: The White House's Favorite Tech Billionaire
Episode • Apr 1, 2022
What Next TBD: The Cost of Going Off-Grid
Episode • Mar 27, 2022
What Next TBD: Why the Zelensky Deepfake Failed
Episode • Mar 25, 2022
What Next TBD: The Startup Delivering Adderall
Episode • Mar 20, 2022
What Next TBD: Hong Kong’s Covid Crisis
Episode • Mar 18, 2022
What Next TBD: How Minnesota Spied On Protesters
Episode • Mar 13, 2022
What Next TBD: Putin's Internet Crackdown
Episode • Mar 11, 2022
What Next TBD: When Your Retina Needs a Software Update
Episode • Mar 6, 2022
What Next TBD: Ukraine’s Information War
Episode • Mar 4, 2022
What Next TBD: Peter Thiel, Patron of the Populist Right
Episode • Feb 27, 2022
What Next TBD: Russia's Other Battlefront
Episode • Feb 25, 2022
What Next TBD: The COVAX Fantasy
Episode • Feb 20, 2022
What Next TBD: "Rampant Racism" at Tesla
Episode • Feb 18, 2022
How To: Beat Hackers at Their Own Game
Episode • Feb 15, 2022
What Next TBD: The Rise of a Fast Fashion Juggernaut
Episode • Feb 13, 2022
What Next TBD: How Safe is the Metaverse?
Episode • Feb 11, 2022
What Next TBD: The Code That Runs Your Life
Episode • Feb 6, 2022
What Next TBD: Spotify’s Joe Rogan Mess
Episode • Feb 4, 2022
What Next TBD: The Downfall of One of the World's Biggest Brains
Episode • Jan 28, 2022
What Next TBD: Why Does Matt Damon Want Me to Buy Crypto?
Episode • Jan 21, 2022
What Next TBD: Where Are The Little Kids' Vaccines?
Episode • Jan 14, 2022
What Next TBD: The Aftermath of Elizabeth Holmes
Episode • Jan 7, 2022
What Next TBD: The Carbon Capture Fantasy
Episode • Dec 17, 2021
What Next TBD: Who Online Justice Leaves Behind
Episode • Dec 10, 2021
What Next TBD: Did @jack Ruin Twitter?
Episode • Dec 3, 2021
What Next TBD: Best of 2021 | Inside the Subreddit That Blew Up GameStop
Episode • Nov 26, 2021
What Next TBD: Space Junk! (And Space Wars?)
Episode • Nov 19, 2021
What Next TBD: The Kid-Vaccine Holdouts
Episode • Nov 12, 2021
What Next TBD: How Schools Surveil Your Kids
Episode • Nov 5, 2021
What Next TBD: Why Are Bots Buying Sneakers?
Episode • Oct 29, 2021
What Next TBD: Honey, I Sold the House to Zillow
Episode • Oct 22, 2021
What Next TBD: The Return of Hacktivism
Episode • Oct 15, 2021
What Next TBD: Will the Facebook Whistleblower Make a Difference?
Episode • Oct 8, 2021
What Next TBD: What Instagram Does to Teens
Episode • Oct 1, 2021
What Next TBD: Are We Getting COVID Testing All Wrong?
Episode • Sep 24, 2021
What Next TBD: China vs. Video Games
Episode • Sep 17, 2021
What Next: TBD: Will Booster Shots Make a Difference?
Episode • Aug 21, 2021
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Episode • May 27, 2020
Introducing Cautionary Tales
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S2E10: New Media, Old Story
Episode • Sep 4, 2019
S2E9: A Brief History Of Timekeeping
Episode • Aug 28, 2019
S2E8: Salvation In The Air
Episode • Aug 21, 2019
S2E7: A Bug In The System
Episode • Aug 14, 2019
S2E6: Dots, Dashes, and Dating Apps
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S2E5: Mars on Earth
Episode • Jul 31, 2019
S2E4: Meat and Potatoes
Episode • Jul 24, 2019
S2E3: Unreliable Evidence
Episode • Jul 17, 2019
S2E2: Second Wind
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S2E1: A Familiar Tune
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Season 2 Trailer
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S1E10: Infinite Scroll
Episode • Nov 7, 2018
S1E9: A Little Less Conversation
Episode • Oct 31, 2018
S1E8: VR or It Didn’t Happen
Episode • Oct 24, 2018
S1E7: A Clock in the Sky
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S1E6: From Zero to Selfie
Episode • Oct 10, 2018
S1E5: Human Insecurity
Episode • Oct 3, 2018
S1E4: The Fault In Our Cars
Episode • Sep 26, 2018
S1E3: Fork Fashions and Toilet Trends
Episode • Sep 19, 2018
S1E2: The Body Electric
Episode • Sep 12, 2018
S1E1: The Box That A.I. Lives In
Episode • Sep 5, 2018
Season 1 Trailer
Episode • Aug 6, 2018
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