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What Next: TBD | So Long, Elon
Jun 1 • 32m
ICYMI: Will MomTok Actually Change Mormonism?
May 31 • 50m
What Next: TBD | The Drone Wars
May 30 • 28m
TBD | Crypto's Big Win
May 25 • 32m
What Next: TBD | Inside OpenAI's Empire
May 23 • 41m
Blinded by the Headlights
May 21 • 46m
What Next: TBD | You’ve Been Deepfaked
May 18 • 31m
This Influencer Baby Name Is a Tragedeigh
May 17 • 35m
What Next: TBD | The Newarkification of Flying
May 16 • 33m
TBD | Online and Pregnant
May 11 • 37m
ICYMI | The Battle Over Tattle
May 10 • 35m
SCOTUS, Meet The Broligarchs
May 10 • 1h 8m
What Next: TBD | Chatbots All The Way Down
May 9 • 29m
What Next: TBD | How Elon Wields Power
May 4 • 37m
What Next: TBD | Marc Andreessen’s New Deal
May 2 • 28m
ICYMI: This Book Drama Gets Hotter in the DMs
Apr 30 • 34m
What Next: TBD | Death of the Weather Forecast?
Apr 27 • 29m
What Next: TBD | The Immigration Data Dragnet
Apr 25 • 31m
What Next: TBD | The Baby Monitor Trap
Apr 20 • 31m
What Next: TBD | The U.S. vs Meta
Apr 18 • 27m
ICYMI | Did Remi Bader Lie To Her Followers?
Apr 16 • 31m
ICYMI | Getting Fired for Going Viral
Apr 9 • 31m
What Next: TBD | Where DOGE Is Taking Us
Apr 4 • 31m
How To! | Replace Your Tesla
Apr 1 • 42m
What Next: TBD | This Is Your Brain On Ketamine
Mar 30 • 28m
What Next: TBD | We Made a Memecoin
Mar 28 • 33m
What Next TBD | Bezos 2.0
Mar 23 • 32m
ICYMI | The Manosphere That Made Adolescence
Mar 22 • 38m
ICYMI | Are New York City Influencers Boring?
Mar 19 • 43m
What Next TBD | Will Tesla Survive Elon Musk?
Mar 14 • 29m
ICYMI: The Meghan in Montecito Rebrand
Mar 5 • 43m
What Next TBD | Cracking the Egg Crisis
Mar 2 • 25m
Slate Money | Trump Math & Techno-Fascism
Mar 1 • 53m
ICYMI: And The Oscar Goes To…Club Chalamet
Mar 1 • 39m
What Next TBD | The DOGE Resistance
Feb 28 • 30m
ICYMI: Ethan Klein’s Attack on Fauxmoi
Feb 26 • 36m
What Next TBD | $Trump
Feb 23 • 28m
ICYMI: Welcome to the TikTok Pharmacy
Feb 22 • 53m
What Next TBD | Elon's Endgame
Feb 21 • 36m
What Next TBD | Can You Pay Attention, Please?
Feb 16 • 30m
ICYMI: The Brilliance of “Montoya, Por Favor”
Feb 12 • 40m
ICYMI: The TikTokification of Sports
Feb 8 • 35m
What Next TBD | Is Elon Musk Unstoppable?
Feb 7 • 30m
ICYMI: Will Memes Save 2025?
Feb 5 • 49m
What Next TBD | The DeepSeek Panic
Feb 2 • 28m
ICYMI: So You’ve Fallen For A Smear Campaign
Feb 1 • 37m
What Next TBD | RFK Jr. Is a Feature, Not a Bug
Jan 31 • 30m
ICYMI: Social Media Has Become A Minefield
Jan 29 • 38m
What Next TBD | The A.I. Will See You Now
Jan 26 • 26m
Slate Money | Trump’s TikTok Backtrack
Jan 25 • 52m
ICYMI: TikTok Is Back…Are We?
Jan 25 • 37m
What Next TBD | Department of Government Elon
Jan 24 • 26m
ICYMI: Rawdogging, Brainrot, and Brat
Jan 22 • 32m
What Next TBD | Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta-Morphosis
Jan 17 • 29m
ICYMI: We Have Some News
Jan 15 • 50m
What Next TBD | Why Tech Is Bending the Knee
Jan 12 • 29m
Amicus | TikTok Is Cooked, Trump Is Sentenced
Jan 11 • 1h 2m
ICYMI: Should I Join Bluesky?
Jan 8 • 49m
What Next TBD | Musk vs. MAGA
Jan 3 • 29m
What Next TBD | The Cost of Suicide Prevention Software
Dec 29, 2024 • 30m
ICYMI: Goodbye to All That 2024 Internet
Dec 28, 2024 • 53m
ICYMI Encore: Who TF Did Reesa Teesa Marry?
Dec 25, 2024 • 56m
What Next TBD | Influencer vs. Influencer
Dec 22, 2024 • 33m
ICYMI: Our Top Internet Moments of 2024
Dec 21, 2024 • 55m
What Next TBD | Drones!??!!!?!!!
Dec 20, 2024 • 25m
ICYMI: The 2024 ICYMI Fancam Awards
Dec 18, 2024 • 54m
What Next TBD | The Surveillance State Trump Is Inheriting
Dec 15, 2024 • 28m
Slate Money: Why Netflix is Reducing Parental Leave
Dec 14, 2024 • 49m
ICYMI: 3 Internet Stories We Missed In 2024
Dec 14, 2024 • 33m
What Next TBD | Elon Musk and Trump’s Shadow Transition Team
Dec 13, 2024 • 30m
ICYMI: Our Favorite TikTok Songs and Sounds of 2024
Dec 11, 2024 • 44m
Slate Money Talks: The Synapse Scandal
Dec 10, 2024 • 38m
What Next TBD | Spotify Trapped
Dec 8, 2024 • 29m
ICYMI: The Internet’s Favorite Moments in Women’s Sports
Dec 7, 2024 • 49m
What Next TBD | The Influencer Administration
Dec 6, 2024 • 32m
ICYMI: Should I Block My Boyfriend’s Aunt on Instagram?
Dec 4, 2024 • 47m
What Next: TBD | When Your Flight’s GPS Gets Spoofed
Dec 1, 2024 • 29m
ICYMI: Max Read on Gawker, “Sculder” Fanfiction, and Slack Rules
Nov 30, 2024 • 42m
What Next TBD | The Post-Election Social Media Wars
Nov 29, 2024 • 30m
ICYMI: Our 2024 ICYMI Friendsgiving Spectacular
Nov 27, 2024 • 49m
What Next: TBD | Is Sickle Cell Anemia…Cured?
Nov 24, 2024 • 35m
Slate Money: Is Bluesky the New Old Twitter?
Nov 23, 2024 • 45m
ICYMI: Should I Buy A Purse Kindle?
Nov 23, 2024 • 41m
What Next TBD: What's Google Without Chrome?
Nov 22, 2024 • 26m
Care & Feeding | Are Your Kids Safe on Roblox?
Nov 21, 2024 • 43m
ICYMI: Princess Treatment, the 4B Movement, and "Women in Male Fields"
Nov 20, 2024 • 45m
What Next TBD: The X-odus
Nov 17, 2024 • 28m
Slate Money: What the D.O.G.E?
Nov 16, 2024 • 48m
ICYMI: Is ChatGPT Your Therapist?
Nov 16, 2024 • 42m
What Next TBD: The Manosphere That Delivered Trump Back to Power
Nov 15, 2024 • 24m
ICYMI | Who’s Turning on Moo Deng?
Nov 13, 2024 • 38m
What Next TBD: The Polls Weren’t Wrong
Nov 10, 2024 • 29m
ICYMI: The Fashion Expert Twitter Loves to Hate
Nov 9, 2024 • 45m
What Next TBD: Elon Wins
Nov 8, 2024 • 28m
ICYMI: Bodega Cats and Cussing Out Your Boss
Nov 6, 2024 • 38m
What Next TBD: u up? Go vote.
Nov 3, 2024 • 25m
ICYMI: The Internet’s Favorite Fictional Presidents
Nov 2, 2024 • 47m
What Next TBD: What Elon Wants From Trump
Nov 1, 2024 • 32m
A Word | Star Man: Merlin’s Tour of the Universe
Nov 1, 2024 • 42m
ICYMI: The Breakup Reddit Can’t Stop Talking About
Oct 30, 2024 • 55m
What Next TBD: Facebook for the Dead
Oct 27, 2024 • 26m
ICYMI: How to Thrive as a Party of One
Oct 26, 2024 • 50m
What Next TBD: Can TikTok Sway this Election?
Oct 25, 2024 • 27m
Victoria’s Secret Is Your Grandma’s Fashion Show
Oct 23, 2024 • 55m
What Next TBD: How Secure Is Our Election?
Oct 20, 2024 • 36m
How a K-Pop Star’s Comeback Was Canceled
Oct 19, 2024 • 47m
What Next TBD | The Elon-Trump Alliance
Oct 18, 2024 • 23m
ICYMI: 24 Hours of the Strangest Online Fad Diet
Oct 16, 2024 • 37m
What Next: Gambling on Elections, What Could Go Wrong?
Oct 15, 2024 • 29m
What Next: An Extremely Online Hurricane Season
Oct 14, 2024 • 31m
What Next TBD | 23andMe...And a Looming Data Disaster
Oct 13, 2024 • 29m
ICYMI: Hoda Kotb and the Joy of No Context Social Media Accounts
Oct 12, 2024 • 46m
What Next TBD: Trump’s Crypto Gurus
Oct 11, 2024 • 26m
ICYMI: The Most Famous Rug in Ohio
Oct 9, 2024 • 48m
What Next TBD | A.I. Goes Nuclear
Oct 6, 2024 • 30m
ICYMI: How Reddit Turned HBO’s Industry Into Appointment TV
Oct 5, 2024 • 45m
What Next TBD: Helene Proves Nowhere is Safe
Oct 4, 2024 • 27m
ICYMI: Revisiting the Internet’s Hottest—and Messiest—Club
Oct 2, 2024 • 52m
What Next TBD: American Life is a Highway
Sep 29, 2024 • 26m
ICYMI: How ShxtsNGigs Let Their Audience Down
Sep 28, 2024 • 46m
What Next TBD: Big Tech Fears Her
Sep 27, 2024 • 34m
ICYMI: Moo Deng Is The New Grumpy Cat
Sep 25, 2024 • 42m
How To!: Grow Your Podcast
Sep 24, 2024 • 48m
What Next: What Was The Point of Israel’s Pager Attack?
Sep 23, 2024 • 32m
What Next TBD: Trump Called. Laura Loomer Answered.
Sep 22, 2024 • 29m
ICYMI: “Celebrity Number Six” Was Found, But Not Forgotten
Sep 21, 2024 • 36m
What Next TBD: Can Instagram Really Keep Kids Safe?
Sep 20, 2024 • 33m
ICYMI: Shannon Sharpe, Henry Danger, and Crashing Out
Sep 18, 2024 • 40m
How To!: Rethink Screen Time
Sep 17, 2024 • 47m
What Next TBD: Is Boeing Lost in Space?
Sep 15, 2024 • 27m
ICYMI: The Costco Guys Bring the Boom
Sep 14, 2024 • 36m
Slate Money | Fasten Your Seatbelt, Boeing
Sep 14, 2024 • 55m
What Next TBD | TikTok Goes to Court
Sep 13, 2024 • 29m
ICYMI: We May Have A New Bad Art Friend
Sep 11, 2024 • 56m
Hear Me Out: Podcasting Is Dead
Sep 10, 2024 • 46m
TBD | The Misguided Buzz About Mosquitoes
Sep 8, 2024 • 27m
ICYMI: Land Ho: Our Top Moments from the Ultimate World Cruise
Sep 7, 2024 • 50m
What Next TBD: US v. Google… Again
Sep 6, 2024 • 26m
ICYMI: The Internet History of Charli XCX
Sep 4, 2024 • 55m
What Next: Why Shein and Temu Are At War
Sep 3, 2024 • 29m
What Next TBD: Telegram's CEO Just Got Arrested. Huh?
Sep 1, 2024 • 31m
ICYMI: Skibidi Toilet Is An iPad Kid’s Fever Dream
Aug 31, 2024 • 39m
What Next TBD: Back To School… Without Phones
Aug 30, 2024 • 33m
ICYMI: The Internet History of Kamala Harris
Aug 28, 2024 • 47m
What Next TBD: Who’s Going to Regulate AI?
Aug 25, 2024 • 25m
ICYMI | Is Ballerina Farm A Victim?
Aug 24, 2024 • 39m
What Next TBD: Crypto Courts the 2024 Vote
Aug 23, 2024 • 29m
ICYMI: Allison Raskin on Leaving Buzzfeed and Friendship Breakups
Aug 21, 2024 • 42m
What Next TBD: The Rise of Off-Brand Ozempic
Aug 18, 2024 • 25m
What Next TBD: Elon Musk’s Bully Pulpit
Aug 16, 2024 • 28m
ICYMI: Justin Baldoni Is Not Very Demure
Aug 14, 2024 • 44m
What Next: How Boeing Stranded Two Astronauts
Aug 13, 2024 • 27m
What Next TBD: Tesla’s Out of Juice. But Are EVs?
Aug 11, 2024 • 29m
What Next TBD: Google’s a Monopoly. What About The Rest?
Aug 9, 2024 • 26m
ICYMI: Encore: Why YouTube Loves Video Essays
Aug 7, 2024 • 36m
What Next TBD: If They Can Get Sydney Sweeney They Can Get You
Aug 4, 2024 • 29m
What Next TBD: Why Are More Young People Getting Cancer?
Aug 2, 2024 • 29m
ICYMI: Cody Ko Has Become the Misogyny He Mocks
Jul 31, 2024 • 51m
What Next TBD: The Panopticon Olympics
Jul 28, 2024 • 32m
ICYMI: The Boys Are Not All Right
Jul 27, 2024 • 41m
What Next TBD: Is Silicon Valley Trump-Vance Country?
Jul 26, 2024 • 27m
ICYMI: The Day MTV News Went Down
Jul 24, 2024 • 40m
What Next TBD: The Conspiracy Theory Election
Jul 21, 2024 • 27m
ICYMI: What Next: TBD: The Blu-Ray-naissance Is Here. Sort of.
Jul 20, 2024 • 26m
Slate Money: Did Y2K Finally Happen?
Jul 20, 2024 • 1h 1m
What Next TBD: America’s Tech Trustbuster
Jul 19, 2024 • 36m
Hear Me Out: AI’s Threat to Democracy Flopped
Jul 16, 2024 • 36m
What Next TBD: The New World of DIY Medical Tests
Jul 14, 2024 • 25m
ICYMI: The “Hawk Tuah Girl” Is the New Scott Disick
Jul 13, 2024 • 38m
What Next TBD: Boeing Pleads Guilty
Jul 12, 2024 • 28m
ICYMI: Baggu’s Horse Bag Controversy
Jul 10, 2024 • 38m
What Next TBD: The Blu-Ray-naissance Is Here. Sort of.
Jul 7, 2024 • 22m
ICYMI: How “Bye Sister” Changed Internet Culture Forever
Jul 6, 2024 • 38m
What Next TBD: Elon Says Have More Babies
Jul 5, 2024 • 23m
ICYMI: The Internet History of Ayo Edebiri
Jul 3, 2024 • 45m
What Next TBD: Why Are IUDs Still a Mystery?
Jun 30, 2024 • 25m
ICYMI: Rachelle Hampton Logs Off
Jun 29, 2024 • 36m
What Next TBD: Why Extreme Weather Keeps Surprising You
Jun 28, 2024 • 30m
ICYMI: Finding Queer Friendship Online
Jun 26, 2024 • 30m
Death, Sex & Money: Kara Swisher and Orna Guralnik on How to Get People Talking
Jun 25, 2024 • 1h 14m
What Next TBD: Is Your Phone Tracking Your Driving?
Jun 23, 2024 • 25m
ICYMI: John Green, Tall Love and the Star Wars Hotel
Jun 22, 2024 • 26m
What Next TBD: Amazon Wants Your Handprint
Jun 21, 2024 • 23m
What Next TBD: The FBI Made a Phone Network. It Was A Trap.
Jun 16, 2024 • 33m
ICYMI: The Icarian Journey of Ashley Madison
Jun 15, 2024 • 41m
Slate Money: Is Tesla Even a Good Car Company?
Jun 15, 2024 • 44m
What Next TBD: Apple Goes Intelligent
Jun 14, 2024 • 24m
ICYMI: Netflix’s TikTok Dance Cult Documentary is Missing Something
Jun 12, 2024 • 57m
What Next TBD: Fee’d Up: A Musician’s Take on Ticketmaster
Jun 9, 2024 • 23m
ICYMI: Inside the Unsolved 2014 Attack on a Furry Convention
Jun 8, 2024 • 36m
What Next TBD: The Secret Semiconductor War
Jun 7, 2024 • 23m
ICYMI: TikTok’s Current Main Character is a Familiar Face
Jun 5, 2024 • 53m
What Next TBD: Would You Buy Poop On the Internet?
Jun 2, 2024 • 23m
Slate Money: Nobody’s Gonna Stop Nvidia
Jun 1, 2024 • 54m
What Next TBD: He’s Suing Big Tech Over Uvalde
May 31, 2024 • 26m
ICYMI: Encore: TikTok Shop Is a Dystopian Mall Kiosk
May 29, 2024 • 41m
What Next TBD: Why Hospitals Keep Getting Hacked
May 26, 2024 • 23m
What Next TBD: Scarlett Johansson vs OpenAI
May 24, 2024 • 26m
Well, Now: How Social Media Hurts Youth Mental Health
May 22, 2024 • 41m
What Next TBD: The Dark Side of GoFundMe
May 19, 2024 • 32m
ICYMI: Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show Makes Reality TV Great Again
May 18, 2024 • 48m
Slate Money: Biden Zaps Chinese EVs
May 18, 2024 • 54m
What Next TBD: Too Stonks Too Furious
May 17, 2024 • 24m
What Next TBD: Would You Choose Your Child’s Sex?
May 12, 2024 • 28m
ICYMI: Never Post: Everyone is a Journalish
May 11, 2024 • 1h 2m
What Next TBD: Meet the Trump Campaign’s A.I. Guy
May 10, 2024 • 21m
ICYMI: How Kate Middleton’s Disappearance Redefined Monoculture
May 8, 2024 • 52m
What Next TBD: Can California Save Journalism?
May 5, 2024 • 23m
ICYMI: How Challengers Took Over the Internet
May 4, 2024 • 39m
What Next TBD: Bird Flu—It’s in Milk?
May 3, 2024 • 25m
What Next: Biden’s Climate Report Card
May 1, 2024 • 24m
ICYMI: The End of Foxtrot and Outdoor Voices
May 1, 2024 • 44m
ICYMI: The “TikTok Voice” of Our Generation
Apr 27, 2024 • 44m
What Next TBD: So ... Is TikTok Banned?
Apr 26, 2024 • 22m
ICYMI: Is Roblox Coming for TikTok?
Apr 24, 2024 • 39m
What Next TBD: The Internet Archive Endangered
Apr 21, 2024 • 23m
ICYMI: How a Chinese Glycine Manufacturer Took Over TikTok
Apr 20, 2024 • 47m
Slate Money: Tesla’s Toxic Relationship With Musk
Apr 20, 2024 • 52m
What Next TBD: What’s Driving Tesla’s Layoffs?
Apr 19, 2024 • 23m
ICYMI: Ann Maddox on Scandoval, Reddit and Grief
Apr 17, 2024 • 35m
Money Talks: Felix Wins His Crypto Bet
Apr 16, 2024 • 35m
What Next TBD: Is America Ready for Legal Psychedelics?
Apr 14, 2024 • 26m
Slate Money: Why America’s Internet Sucks
Apr 13, 2024 • 54m
What Next TBD: Does Google Suck Now?
Apr 12, 2024 • 26m
What Next: How the Government Botched Financial Aid
Apr 10, 2024 • 27m
ICYMI: What Next: TBD: Google’s Scam Obituary Problem
Apr 10, 2024 • 28m
What Next TBD: America Needs More Power
Apr 7, 2024 • 29m
Slate Money: EVs Need a Charge-Up
Apr 6, 2024 • 40m
What Next TBD: Truth Social’s Rocky Week
Apr 5, 2024 • 27m
ICYMI: Rebecca Jennings on NYT Connections and Selling Out
Apr 3, 2024 • 37m
Slate Money: How to Escape the Invisible Factory
Apr 2, 2024 • 39m
What Next TBD: The Psychological Toll of Mars
Mar 31, 2024 • 24m
ICYMI: To Ban or Not to Ban TikTok
Mar 30, 2024 • 49m
What Next TBD: Can Boeing Pull Out of This Tailspin?
Mar 29, 2024 • 30m
ICYMI: Is Nara Smith Actually a Tradwife?
Mar 27, 2024 • 42m
What Next TBD: The Next Round of the Union Fight
Mar 24, 2024 • 21m
ICYMI: Fybrefest, Fake Deaths and Acrylic vs. Wool
Mar 23, 2024 • 38m
Slate Money: Is Apple’s Monopoly Good for Us?
Mar 23, 2024 • 53m
What Next TBD: Reddit’s IPO Gamble
Mar 22, 2024 • 27m
ICYMI: Anatomy of a Vasectomy
Mar 20, 2024 • 43m
What Next TBD: When Private Equity Gets in to Health Care
Mar 17, 2024 • 29m
ICYMI: Reddit is the Real Host of “Love is Blind”
Mar 16, 2024 • 43m
Slate Money: Work is Mid 🤷♀️
Mar 16, 2024 • 48m
Amicus: Who Gets to Lie Online?
Mar 16, 2024 • 44m
What Next TBD: Is TikTok Cooked This Time?
Mar 15, 2024 • 26m
ICYMI: An ICYMI Birthday Spectacular
Mar 13, 2024 • 40m
Death, Sex & Money: Who's Driving Your Uber?
Mar 12, 2024 • 32m
What Next TBD: Instagram’s Pedophile Problem
Mar 10, 2024 • 33m
ICYMI: Protecting Child Influencers From Their Parents
Mar 9, 2024 • 39m
Slate Money: Are Wallets Obsolete?
Mar 9, 2024 • 44m
What Next TBD: Why TikTok Went Silent
Mar 8, 2024 • 22m
ICYMI: An Entirely Objective Ranking of the Brit Crew
Mar 6, 2024 • 45m
What Next TBD: Google’s Scam Obituary Problem
Mar 3, 2024 • 28m
Slate Money: Musk vs. the AI Overlords
Mar 2, 2024 • 47m
ICYMI: Rachel Karten on Snark Subreddits and Ryan Sheckler
Mar 2, 2024 • 35m
What Next TBD: The Supreme Court Takes on Content Moderation
Mar 1, 2024 • 29m
ICYMI: The Greatest Love Story Ever Told…Through TikToks
Feb 28, 2024 • 43m
What Next TBD: Alabama’s IVF Mess
Feb 25, 2024 • 28m
ICYMI: Who TF Did Reesa Teesa Marry?
Feb 24, 2024 • 53m
Slate Money: Is Capital One’s Discover Deal Doomed?
Feb 24, 2024 • 42m
What Next TBD: The Coasts are Sinking
Feb 23, 2024 • 20m
What Next: Why a Hi-Tech Gun Safety Tool Isn’t Working
Feb 21, 2024 • 24m
ICYMI: Inside the Internet’s Hottest—and Messiest—Club
Feb 21, 2024 • 48m
What Next TBD: Apple Vision Pro: The Ultimate Surveillance Device?
Feb 18, 2024 • 28m
ICYMI: The Turbulence of Air Force Taylor
Feb 17, 2024 • 46m
A Word: Ghost in the Medical Machine
Feb 16, 2024 • 26m
What Next TBD: Warfare Enters the A.I. Era
Feb 16, 2024 • 28m
ICYMI: The State of Dating Apps
Feb 14, 2024 • 40m
Decoder Ring: Why Do So Many Coffee Shops Look the Same?
Feb 14, 2024 • 33m
What Next TBD: Breaking Up with Dating Apps
Feb 11, 2024 • 25m
What Next TBD: The NFL’s Concussion Settlement Farce
Feb 9, 2024 • 29m
ICYMI: Was TikTok Silent or Silenced?
Feb 7, 2024 • 34m
What Next TBD: Streaming Is Cable Now
Feb 4, 2024 • 30m
ICYMI: Paloma Diamond Is TikTok’s Favorite Oscar Loser
Feb 3, 2024 • 32m
Slate Money: Why Musk Lost $56 Billion
Feb 3, 2024 • 44m
What Next TBD: The Taylor Swift Deepfake Saga
Feb 2, 2024 • 26m
ICYMI: Nicki Minaj’s 72-Hour Spiral
Jan 31, 2024 • 39m
What Next TBD: Why Is Everybody Sick?
Jan 28, 2024 • 23m
ICYMI: Why YouTube Loves Video Essays
Jan 27, 2024 • 32m
What Next TBD: Are You Ready for the A.I. Election?
Jan 26, 2024 • 26m
ICYMI: The TikTok Joy of Mychal the Librarian
Jan 24, 2024 • 32m
What Next TBD: Have Algorithms Ruined Our Culture?
Jan 21, 2024 • 36m
ICYMI: Stanley, Josh and Tunnel Girl
Jan 20, 2024 • 36m
What Next TBD: The Great British Library Hack
Jan 19, 2024 • 27m
ICYMI: Harry Potter Fanfiction and Battling TikTok Haters
Jan 17, 2024 • 31m
What Next TBD: Is Your Car Tracking You?
Jan 14, 2024 • 22m
Slate Money: Apple Maps is Finally Good
Jan 13, 2024 • 49m
ICYMI: Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s Influencer Era
Jan 13, 2024 • 39m
What Next TBD: Boeing’s Max Mess
Jan 12, 2024 • 35m
ICYMI: The Nine-Month Cruise Heard Round the World
Jan 10, 2024 • 46m
What Next TBD: Tesla's Cybertruck Problem
Jan 7, 2024 • 24m
ICYMI: The Internet History of Tate McRae
Jan 6, 2024 • 36m
What Next TBD: Why the New York Times Sued OpenAI
Jan 5, 2024 • 28m
ICYMI: Should We Quit Romance Novels?
Jan 3, 2024 • 31m
What Next TBD: Who’s Afraid of A.I.? | 2023 In Review
Dec 31, 2023 • 33m
ICYMI: Outward: PragerU’s Transphobic Twitter Takeover
Dec 30, 2023 • 31m
Slate Money: America’s Boring Superweapon
Dec 30, 2023 • 52m
What Next TBD: America’s Killer Car Problem | 2023 In Review
Dec 29, 2023 • 36m
ICYMI: Decoder Ring: The Forgotten Video Game About Slavery
Dec 27, 2023 • 48m
ICYMI: Goodbye to All That 2023 Internet
Dec 23, 2023 • 38m
What Next TBD: Can Hybrid Cars Save Us?
Dec 22, 2023 • 27m
ICYMI: The Celebrity Breakups That Wrecked Us In 2023
Dec 20, 2023 • 43m
What Next TBD: The Case Against CLEAR
Dec 17, 2023 • 25m
ICYMI: Our Top Internet Moments of the Year (Part 2)
Dec 16, 2023 • 46m
What Next TBD: Shein’s Newest Offering? An IPO
Dec 15, 2023 • 27m
ICYMI: Our Top Internet Moments of the Year (Part 1)
Dec 13, 2023 • 53m
What Next TBD: Musk's War on Free Speech
Dec 10, 2023 • 31m
Slate Money: The War on Self-Checkouts
Dec 9, 2023 • 51m
ICYMI: The Internet’s Biggest Sports Moments of 2023
Dec 9, 2023 • 37m
What Next TBD: Spotify Unwrapped
Dec 8, 2023 • 27m
ICYMI: The Year of Concerts and Being Outside
Dec 6, 2023 • 43m
What Next TBD: They See You When You’re Shopping
Dec 3, 2023 • 31m
ICYMI: Buying A Car on YouTube
Dec 2, 2023 • 36m
What Next TBD: A Moral War for A.I.
Dec 1, 2023 • 34m
Outward: PragerU’s Transphobic Twitter Takeover
Nov 29, 2023 • 30m
ICYMI: Colleen Ballinger’s Inevitable Return
Nov 29, 2023 • 53m
What Next: The Race (Back) to the Moon
Nov 26, 2023 • 24m
ICYMI: The Waves: The Bravo Cinematic Universe
Nov 25, 2023 • 40m
Slate Money: The Big Crazy at OpenAI
Nov 25, 2023 • 52m
What Next TBD: Where Scams Are Born
Nov 24, 2023 • 29m
ICYMI: Our 2023 ICYMI Friendsgiving Spectacular
Nov 22, 2023 • 53m
What Next TBD: Inside OpenAI's Implosion
Nov 21, 2023 • 31m
Slate Money: Movies | Dumb Money
Nov 20, 2023 • 48m
What Next TBD: Bedbugs Are Back, Baby!
Nov 19, 2023 • 25m
Slate Money: How Salt Built America
Nov 18, 2023 • 1h 2m
ICYMI: The Year in Celebrity Memoirs
Nov 18, 2023 • 47m
What Next TBD: How Deepfake Porn Infected a School
Nov 17, 2023 • 24m
Decoder Ring: The Forgotten Video Game About Slavery
Nov 15, 2023 • 47m
ICYMI: The Internet Used to be a Haven for People with Autism
Nov 15, 2023 • 44m
Slate Money: Travel | Jet-setting Like A Journalist
Nov 13, 2023 • 33m
What Next TBD: Will A.I. Take My Job?
Nov 12, 2023 • 21m
ICYMI: Restaurant Wars: Keith Lee vs. Atlanta
Nov 11, 2023 • 53m
What Next TBD: Tesla vs. the Swedes
Nov 10, 2023 • 26m
ICYMI: Endless Thread: The expanding universe of Lofi Girl
Nov 8, 2023 • 40m
Slate Money: Movies | The Insider
Nov 6, 2023 • 52m
Slate Money: The Crypto Crimes of Sam Bankman-Fried
Nov 4, 2023 • 1h 0m
What Next TBD: Sam Bankman-Fraud
Nov 4, 2023 • 30m
What Next TBD: Biden Goes After AI
Nov 3, 2023 • 31m
What Next: How to Catch an Insurrectionist
Nov 1, 2023 • 25m
ICYMI: How First-Gen Kids Are Healing Online
Nov 1, 2023 • 49m
Slate Money: Why Dimes Shouldn’t Exist
Oct 28, 2023 • 49m
ICYMI: How DJ Envy Got Got
Oct 28, 2023 • 44m
What Next TBD: SBF Takes the Stand
Oct 28, 2023 • 25m
What Next TBD: Self-Driving Cars Crash Into Reality
Oct 27, 2023 • 29m
How To!: Let Go of Kid Clutter
Oct 24, 2023 • 38m
Slate Money | Movies: BlackBerry
Oct 23, 2023 • 39m
Political Gabfest Reads: How to Survive Working for Amazon
Oct 21, 2023 • 31m
ICYMI: Why Bella Hadid Said This Editor “Slayed”
Oct 21, 2023 • 46m
What Next TBD: Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard Takeover
Oct 21, 2023 • 27m
What Next TBD: Inside Hamas' Social Media Strategy
Oct 20, 2023 • 27m
ICYMI: How a Pesto Recipe Devolved Into Delightful Chaos
Oct 18, 2023 • 40m
What Next TBD: The $30,000 Zelle Scam
Oct 14, 2023 • 25m
ICYMI: Live, Laugh, LinkedIn
Oct 14, 2023 • 47m
Slate Money: SBF (Sweaters, Birkenstock, FTX)
Oct 14, 2023 • 55m
What Next TBD: The Israel-Hamas War Instantly Broke X
Oct 13, 2023 • 33m
ICYMI: How a Substack Revived the Dracula Fandom
Oct 11, 2023 • 34m
What Next TBD: The Man Who Turned You Into Data
Oct 7, 2023 • 27m
ICYMI: Stop Snitching on Main
Oct 7, 2023 • 51m
Slate Money: Is Ozempic Eating Into Snack Profits?
Oct 7, 2023 • 37m
What Next TBD: Sam Bankman-Fried—and Crypto—on Trial
Oct 6, 2023 • 32m
ICYMI: Nostalgia is the Internet’s Favorite Currency
Oct 4, 2023 • 44m
What Next TBD: Inside Crypto's House of Cards
Oct 1, 2023 • 31m
ICYMI: Where Did Bobbi Althoff Come From?
Sep 30, 2023 • 46m
What Next TBD: Who Will Pay For A COVID Vaccine?
Sep 30, 2023 • 31m
What Next TBD: Is Amazon a Monopoly?
Sep 29, 2023 • 28m
ICYMI: The Summer of Suits
Sep 27, 2023 • 40m
Slate Money: AI Facial Recognition's Creepy Evolution
Sep 23, 2023 • 55m
ICYMI: Is “Algospeak” D@ngerous?
Sep 23, 2023 • 40m
What Next TBD: What Instacart’s IPO Means for Tech
Sep 23, 2023 • 26m
What Next TBD: Did AirBnB Need to Go?
Sep 22, 2023 • 24m
ICYMI: Inside the MLM to Life Coach Pipeline
Sep 20, 2023 • 41m
Slate Money | Criminals: TheraNOPE
Sep 18, 2023 • 41m
What Next TBD: Can Politicians Keep Kids Safe Online?
Sep 16, 2023 • 30m
ICYMI: AI-Generated Books are Tarnishing Authors’ Reputations
Sep 16, 2023 • 49m
What Next TBD: Google Makes Its Case
Sep 15, 2023 • 32m
Mom & Dad: If You’re Tracking Your Kids, Should You Tell Them?
Sep 14, 2023 • 40m
ICYMI: The Orwellian World of Vintage Fast-Food Training Videos
Sep 13, 2023 • 41m
What Next TBD: Bad Air, Worse Vibes
Sep 9, 2023 • 21m
Slate Money: Optimal Illusions
Sep 9, 2023 • 41m
ICYMI: Are Green Powders a Pyramid Scheme?
Sep 9, 2023 • 52m
What Next TBD: Tech Disrupts the School Bus
Sep 8, 2023 • 27m
The Waves: The Bama Rush to Trad Wife Pipeline
Sep 7, 2023 • 41m
ICYMI: The Waves: How Drake Betrayed Megan Thee Stallion
Sep 6, 2023 • 48m
Slate Money | Criminals Series: The $5 Billion Fraud
Sep 4, 2023 • 41m
What Next TBD: Social Media’s Pivot from News
Sep 3, 2023 • 28m
Future Tense Fiction: Welcome to the A.I. Haunted House
Sep 2, 2023 • 1h 4m
Slate Money: You Better Not Be Working
Sep 2, 2023 • 52m
ICYMI: TikTok Shop is a Dystopian Mall Kiosk
Sep 2, 2023 • 40m
What Next TBD: Is LinkedIn...Cool Now?
Sep 1, 2023 • 26m
Mom & Dad: Lessons From a Racist Instagram and the Teens It Hurt
Aug 31, 2023 • 40m
ICYMI: BookTok’s Horny Hockey Drama and the End of Internet Thirst
Aug 30, 2023 • 37m
What Next TBD: The Cost of "Sustainable" Pet Food
Aug 27, 2023 • 27m
Slate Money: Twelve Ways to Help Fix the World
Aug 26, 2023 • 49m
ICYMI: Addison Rae is the Newest Pop Princess
Aug 26, 2023 • 43m
What Next TBD: TikTok's Shady Deal with the U.S.
Aug 25, 2023 • 27m
ICYMI: How to Make Millions Playing Dungeons & Dragons
Aug 23, 2023 • 39m
What Next TBD: Digital Life After Death
Aug 20, 2023 • 26m
ICYMI: The Child Content Creator Crash is Coming
Aug 19, 2023 • 39m
What Next TBD: How Crypto Fails Sex Workers
Aug 18, 2023 • 25m
ICYMI: You Just Missed This Year’s Most Important Episode of Reality TV
Aug 16, 2023 • 46m
Mom & Dad: Screen Time Without Guilt
Aug 14, 2023 • 23m
What Next TBD: Tech's Mask Off Moment
Aug 13, 2023 • 29m
ICYMI: What NewJeans Tells Us About the Future of K-Pop
Aug 12, 2023 • 39m
Slate Money: ESPN Bets on Sports Betting
Aug 12, 2023 • 47m
What Next TBD: Can Smart Guns Save Lives?
Aug 11, 2023 • 29m
ICYMI: Will Doja Cat Ever Be Canceled?
Aug 9, 2023 • 33m
What Next TBD: Another Summer of COVID
Aug 6, 2023 • 28m
ICYMI: Decoder Ring: What’s Really Going On Inside a Mosh Pit?
Aug 5, 2023 • 34m
What Next TBD: Tesla's Big Lie
Aug 4, 2023 • 29m
Decoder Ring: The Quest for a Homemade Hovercraft
Aug 3, 2023 • 42m
ICYMI: And the Grammy Goes to…Artificial Intelligence?
Aug 2, 2023 • 34m
What Next: Congress Wants to Know: Do Aliens Exist?
Jul 31, 2023 • 29m
What Next TBD: America’s Downtown Ghost Towns
Jul 30, 2023 • 32m
Future Tense Fiction: Could a Robot Be Your Dog’s Best Friend?
Jul 29, 2023 • 1h 6m
Slate Money: Will The UPS Union Deal Deliver?
Jul 29, 2023 • 57m
ICYMI: The Girls Are Not All Right
Jul 29, 2023 • 47m
What Next TBD: Washington vs. A.I.
Jul 28, 2023 • 27m
ICYMI: The Curious Case of Carlee Russell
Jul 26, 2023 • 47m
What Next TBD: Why Tech Lays Women Off First
Jul 23, 2023 • 30m
ICYMI: The Day AO3 Went Down
Jul 22, 2023 • 38m
What Next TBD: America’s $5 Trillion Grid Problem
Jul 21, 2023 • 27m
ICYMI: Take a Tour in the Shein Propaganda Factory
Jul 19, 2023 • 48m
What Next: How Hollywood Shot Itself in the Foot
Jul 18, 2023 • 32m
What Next TBD: America’s Killer Car Problem
Jul 16, 2023 • 35m
Slate Money: Trouble in the House of Mouse
Jul 15, 2023 • 1h 4m
ICYMI: Did Fancams Determine This Year’s Emmy Nominations?
Jul 15, 2023 • 45m
What Next TBD: Will UPS Workers Join "Hot Strike Summer?"
Jul 14, 2023 • 32m
ICYMI: Has Black Twitter Found A New Home?
Jul 12, 2023 • 51m
How To!: Hack Any Bureaucracy
Jul 11, 2023 • 45m
What Next TBD: Is Your Son Watching Andrew Tate?
Jul 9, 2023 • 36m
Slate Money: Can Threads Take Down Twitter?
Jul 8, 2023 • 54m
ICYMI: How Reddit Turned On Its Creator
Jul 8, 2023 • 38m
What Next TBD: Threads vs. Twitter
Jul 7, 2023 • 27m
ICYMI: What Next: TBD: The Trouble With TikTok Songs
Jul 5, 2023 • 23m
What Next TBD: Turning Your Face Into Your Ticket
Jul 2, 2023 • 23m
ICYMI: The Subreddit Teeming with Crime, Complaints and Candles
Jul 1, 2023 • 44m
What Next TBD: The Never-Ending Cancer Drug Shortage
Jun 30, 2023 • 34m
ICYMI: Finding Queer Love Online
Jun 28, 2023 • 36m
What Next TBD: Can Ozempic Cure Addiction?
Jun 25, 2023 • 29m
Future Tense Fiction: Who Gets to Escape the Climate Crisis?
Jun 24, 2023 • 1h 14m
ICYMI: Why the Internet Couldn’t Get Enough of the Missing Submarine
Jun 24, 2023 • 38m
What Next TBD: The U.S. vs Amazon Prime
Jun 23, 2023 • 25m
ICYMI: The Super Bowl of Private Chef TikTok
Jun 21, 2023 • 39m
What Next TBD: The George Soros Succession
Jun 18, 2023 • 27m
ICYMI: Was the MirandaSings Controversy Inevitable?
Jun 17, 2023 • 50m
What Next TBD: Reddit’s Rolling Blackouts
Jun 16, 2023 • 26m
ICYMI: The TikTok Comedian Caught In A Ticketmaster Controversy
Jun 14, 2023 • 47m
What Next TBD: Are You Ready For A.I. Generated Actors?
Jun 11, 2023 • 32m
Slate Money: The SEC’s Crypto Crackdown
Jun 10, 2023 • 56m
ICYMI: Why “The Ultimatum: Queer Love” Ultimately Fails
Jun 10, 2023 • 45m
What Next TBD: Is Crypto Toast?
Jun 9, 2023 • 33m
ICYMI: The Short-Lived, Very Controversial Healy-Swift Affair
Jun 7, 2023 • 38m
What Next TBD: Tech’s Newest Trillion Dollar Company
Jun 4, 2023 • 23m
ICYMI: Meet NPR’s TikTok Boy
Jun 3, 2023 • 42m
Money: The Economic Tale of the Writers Strike
Jun 3, 2023 • 54m
What Next TBD: When Your Childhood Was Their Content
Jun 2, 2023 • 27m
ICYMI: The Only People Who Made Money From Tumblr
May 31, 2023 • 34m
What Next: TBD | The Trouble With TikTok Songs
May 28, 2023 • 21m
ICYMI -- How To: Succeed at Social Media
May 27, 2023 • 38m
Future Tense Fiction: When Robots Go to War
May 27, 2023 • 1h 1m
What Next: TBD | Tweetering on the Glass Cliff
May 26, 2023 • 23m
ICYMI: Is Ice Spice an Industry Plant?
May 24, 2023 • 41m
What Next: TBD | A Tipping Point for Digital Tipping
May 21, 2023 • 31m
ICYMI: The Internet’s Biggest Secret
May 20, 2023 • 36m
What Next TBD: Why Sports Are All in on Betting
May 19, 2023 • 27m
ICYMI: Quiet Luxury is TikTok’s Latest Nonsensical Fashion Trend
May 17, 2023 • 37m
Hi-Phi Nation: Rise of the Music Machines
May 16, 2023 • 53m
What Next TBD: Space After NASA
May 14, 2023 • 33m
ICYMI: Why Tarte Cosmetics is Being Accused of Racism (Again)
May 13, 2023 • 47m
What Next TBD: Who’s Afraid of A.I.?
May 12, 2023 • 32m
ICYMI: We’re Sorry
May 10, 2023 • 40m
Hi-Phi Nation: Effective Altruism and its Critics
May 9, 2023 • 1h 1m
Slate Money: Succession S4 Ep7: Two Indias (And Two Episode Directors)
May 8, 2023 • 1h 8m
What Next TBD: What's Going on at Meta?
May 7, 2023 • 32m
Slate Money: Why The First Republic Failure Is Different
May 6, 2023 • 49m
ICYMI: Inside the Nexus of Wellness Culture
May 6, 2023 • 40m
What Next TBD: What the Writers' Strike Is Really About
May 5, 2023 • 30m
ICYMI: Should Influencers Unionize?
May 3, 2023 • 40m
Hi-Phi Nation: The Problem with Gig Work
May 2, 2023 • 54m
Slate Money: Succession S4 Ep6: Living+
May 1, 2023 • 57m
What Next TBD: Is Your Uber Drivers' Pay Rigged?
Apr 30, 2023 • 24m
Slate Money: “Traffic”: Ben Smith and the Death of the Social Web
Apr 29, 2023 • 48m
ICYMI: Should We All Be Pirating More?
Apr 29, 2023 • 40m
Future Tense Fiction: Live. Love. Die. Repeat?
Apr 29, 2023 • 54m
ICYMI: We’ve Learned Nothing From West Elm Caleb
Apr 26, 2023 • 41m
How To!: Face the A.I. Revolution
Apr 25, 2023 • 40m
Hi-Phi Nation: Love in the Time of Replika
Apr 25, 2023 • 53m
Slate Money: Succession S4 Ep5: Bleed The Swede
Apr 24, 2023 • 47m
What Next TBD: "Crap Apps": Why Weather Apps Suck
Apr 23, 2023 • 24m
Slate Money: Elon’s Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly
Apr 22, 2023 • 55m
Amicus: Justice Roberts’ Unfunny Cyber Stalking Jokes
Apr 22, 2023 • 1h 1m
ICYMI: Has TikTok Ruined Live Music?
Apr 22, 2023 • 43m
What Next TBD: Will A.I. Close Off the Internet?
Apr 21, 2023 • 25m
ICYMI: How the Internet Broke Netflix’s “Love is Blind”
Apr 19, 2023 • 50m
Slate Money: Succession S4 Ep4: Succession!
Apr 17, 2023 • 1h 2m
What Next TBD: Will Banning Social Media Help Kids?
Apr 16, 2023 • 32m
ICYMI: Meet the Internet’s Princess
Apr 15, 2023 • 44m
Slate Money: The China Problem
Apr 15, 2023 • 52m
What Next TBD: How Gamers Leaked Classified Pentagon Docs
Apr 14, 2023 • 33m
ICYMI: The Free Trial Period of Social Media Is Over
Apr 12, 2023 • 46m
Hi-Phi Nation: The Digital Future of Grief
Apr 11, 2023 • 57m
Slate Money: Succession S4 Ep3: Logan F---s Off
Apr 10, 2023 • 1h 4m
What Next TBD: Why Flying Is So Bad Now
Apr 9, 2023 • 34m
Slate Money: How to Win at Roulette
Apr 8, 2023 • 49m
ICYMI: Blac Chyna and the New Plastic Surgery Era
Apr 8, 2023 • 49m
What Next TBD: Wait, TikTok Has a Sister App?
Apr 7, 2023 • 30m
Hi-Phi Nation: Ethics and the Future - Trailer
Apr 6, 2023 • 1m
ICYMI: Buying Concert Tickets Online is Still a Hellscape
Apr 5, 2023 • 46m
How To Succeed at Social Media
Apr 4, 2023 • 41m
Slate Money: Succession S4 Ep2: F---ing Pirates
Apr 3, 2023 • 1h 4m
What Next TBD: Seeking Asylum Via App
Apr 2, 2023 • 39m
ICYMI: Succession’s Kendall Roy is the Internet’s Girlboss
Apr 1, 2023 • 45m
Slate Money: The Layoff Dopamine Hit
Apr 1, 2023 • 1h 0m
What Next TBD: When A.I. Denies Your Health Care
Mar 31, 2023 • 32m
ICYMI: Live from Copenhagen
Mar 29, 2023 • 49m
How To!: Bounce Back From a Layoff
Mar 28, 2023 • 40m
Slate Money: Succession S4 Ep1: High-Calorie Infosnacks
Mar 27, 2023 • 1h 1m
What Next TBD: Tesla’s Full Self-Driving Woes
Mar 26, 2023 • 35m
ICYMI: Gwyneth Paltrow and the Ozempic Craze
Mar 25, 2023 • 44m
Future Tense Fiction: Can a Pandemic Story Have a Happy Ending?
Mar 25, 2023 • 1h 19m
Slate Money: Too Big, To Fail, Too Furious
Mar 25, 2023 • 1h 9m
What Next TBD: The Case Against TikTok
Mar 24, 2023 • 38m
ICYMI: Encore: Someone’s Selling Human Bones on TikTok?
Mar 22, 2023 • 36m
What Next TBD: When A.I. Steals Your Voice
Mar 19, 2023 • 28m
ICYMI: Pedro Pascal Is the Internet’s Daddy
Mar 18, 2023 • 45m
Slate Money: Normal Bank Failure
Mar 18, 2023 • 57m
Future Tense Fiction: Coming March 25
Mar 18, 2023 • 2m
Gabfest Reads: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Semiconductors?
Mar 18, 2023 • 39m
What Next TBD: Where Is Silicon Valley Going to Bank Now?
Mar 17, 2023 • 31m
ICYMI: Dear Prudence: Sister Wants Me to Be Her Surrogate. Help!
Mar 15, 2023 • 41m
What Next: Why Silicon Valley Bank Collapsed
Mar 15, 2023 • 32m
What Next TBD: Would You Let A.I. Date For You?
Mar 12, 2023 • 32m
ICYMI: Vanderpump Rules’ War of the Roses
Mar 11, 2023 • 45m
Slate Money: The Banks Special
Mar 11, 2023 • 48m
What Next TBD: When Meta Tells Law Enforcement About Your Abortion
Mar 10, 2023 • 28m
ICYMI: The Internet Should Be Fun
Mar 8, 2023 • 42m
What Next TBD: The Hollywood Weight Loss Wonder Drug
Mar 5, 2023 • 34m
ICYMI: The Internet Hates Hogwarts Legacy
Mar 4, 2023 • 44m
Slate Money: Microchips and Child Care
Mar 4, 2023 • 48m
What Next TBD: What Would Convince a Lab Leak Skeptic?
Mar 3, 2023 • 35m
ICYMI: Selena Gomez Loves Logging Off
Mar 1, 2023 • 43m
What Next TBD: Is a 25-Year-Old’s Brain Mature?
Feb 26, 2023 • 27m
ICYMI: North West Is TikTok’s New Queen
Feb 25, 2023 • 39m
Amicus: SCOTUS on the Internet: “It’s Complicated”
Feb 25, 2023 • 55m
What Next TBD: Why A.I. Says the Darndest Things
Feb 24, 2023 • 31m
ICYMI: Tumblr Revived the Welcome to Night Vale Fandom
Feb 22, 2023 • 42m
What Next TBD: The Baby-Sleep Industrial Complex
Feb 19, 2023 • 34m
ICYMI: The Influencer Even Skeptics Love
Feb 18, 2023 • 42m
What Next TBD: What Made the Balloon Drama Pop Off?
Feb 17, 2023 • 38m
ICYMI: The Internet’s Black Emo Renaissance
Feb 15, 2023 • 43m
What Next TBD: Contraband Tech Behind Bars
Feb 12, 2023 • 34m
ICYMI: Is Weight Lifting a Diet Culture Escape Hatch?
Feb 11, 2023 • 45m
Slate Money: Will A.I. Kill the Internet?
Feb 11, 2023 • 54m
What Next TBD: Why Ban TikTok?
Feb 10, 2023 • 30m
ICYMI: How a 9-Year-Old Took Over TikTok
Feb 8, 2023 • 41m
What Next TBD: Did a Twentysomething Con America’s Biggest Bank?
Feb 5, 2023 • 35m
What Next TBD: How COVID Changes Our Immune Systems
Feb 3, 2023 • 31m
ICYMI: Has the Internet Made Parenting Easier?
Feb 1, 2023 • 42m
What Next TBD: Did A.I. Write This Headline?
Jan 29, 2023 • 37m
ICYMI: TikTok Isn’t For Creators Anymore
Jan 28, 2023 • 40m
Slate Money: Chip War
Jan 28, 2023 • 50m
What Next TBD: Will Google Get Broken Up?
Jan 27, 2023 • 30m
ICYMI: American Girl’s Addy Is More Than a Slave
Jan 25, 2023 • 41m
What Next TBD: Does Meta Even Care When Its Users Get Hacked?
Jan 22, 2023 • 32m
Slate Money: It’s Not TV
Jan 21, 2023 • 57m
ICYMI: The Internet Won’t Let Austin Butler Forget Vanessa Hudgens
Jan 21, 2023 • 40m
What Next TBD: An Antivax Dog Whistle Goes Viral
Jan 20, 2023 • 32m
ICYMI: MrBeast Dethroned a Child to Become the Most Successful YouTuber
Jan 18, 2023 • 40m
What Next TBD: Tesla’s No Good, Very Bad Year
Jan 15, 2023 • 34m
ICYMI: RuPaul’s Drag Race Has Finally Logged On
Jan 14, 2023 • 40m
What Next TBD: Why the Feds Want to Kill Noncompetes
Jan 13, 2023 • 25m
ICYMI: Who Is Alix Earle And Why Are People Mad at Her?
Jan 11, 2023 • 38m
What Next TBD: How War in Taiwan Could Short-Circuit U.S. Tech
Jan 8, 2023 • 28m
ICYMI: The Untalented Mr. Ripley
Jan 7, 2023 • 41m
Slate Money: Burning Platforms
Jan 7, 2023 • 44m
What Next TBD: Will Southwest Be Held Accountable?
Jan 6, 2023 • 31m
ICYMI: Fans Ran the World Last Year
Jan 4, 2023 • 42m
ICYMI: Encore: We Talked to BYU’s Black Menaces
Dec 28, 2022 • 30m
ICYMI: Encore: All Hail the Liver King
Dec 24, 2022 • 41m
What Next TBD: One Year - 1942: The Most Hated Man in America
Dec 23, 2022 • 48m
ICYMI: Decoder Ring: The New Age Hit Machine
Dec 21, 2022 • 31m
What Next TBD: Are You Ready For Lab-Grown Meat?
Dec 18, 2022 • 34m
ICYMI: Who Gets to Complain About Their Job Online?
Dec 17, 2022 • 43m
Slate Money: Should You Care About the Dot Plot?
Dec 17, 2022 • 53m
What Next TBD: SBF's Worst Week Yet
Dec 16, 2022 • 40m
What Next TBD: San Francisco’s Self-Driving Mess
Dec 11, 2022 • 31m
Slate Money: The NYT Strike: End of the Wordle Streak
Dec 10, 2022 • 51m
ICYMI: Goodbye to All That 2022 Internet
Dec 10, 2022 • 40m
What Next TBD: Let’s Talk, Chatbots
Dec 9, 2022 • 34m
ICYMI:What Is a Kevsexual?
Dec 7, 2022 • 40m
What Next TBD: Big Tech’s Boogeymen In Washington
Dec 4, 2022 • 40m
ICYMI: Online for the Holidays
Dec 3, 2022 • 34m
A Word: Bot Battling in the Age of Elon
Dec 2, 2022 • 25m
What Next TBD: Twitter's Vulnerabilities, Exposed
Dec 2, 2022 • 32m
ICYMI: Goncharov, Tumblr’s Fake Scorsese Film
Nov 30, 2022 • 41m
What Next TBD: The Trap of Buy Now, Pay Later
Nov 27, 2022 • 34m
ICYMI: Decoder Ring: The Truth About #TheDress
Nov 26, 2022 • 39m
Political Gabfest: What If Twitter Dies?
Nov 24, 2022 • 1h 3m
ICYMI: An ICYMI Friendsgiving with Normal Gossip
Nov 23, 2022 • 38m
What Next TBD: The End of the Tech Boom
Nov 20, 2022 • 31m
ICYMI: What's Going to Happen to Twitter?
Nov 19, 2022 • 42m
What Next TBD: The Case Against Climate Reparations
Nov 18, 2022 • 33m
ICYMI: Who’s Invited to the Cookout?
Nov 16, 2022 • 41m
Decoder Ring: The Truth About #TheDress
Nov 15, 2022 • 38m
What Next TBD: Is This The Cryptocalypse?
Nov 13, 2022 • 33m
ICYMI: The Internet Wouldn’t Exist Without Sex
Nov 12, 2022 • 47m
What Next TBD: Senator Chris Murphy on Elon's Acquisition of Twitter
Nov 11, 2022 • 22m
ICYMI: A Man Ate Rotisserie Chicken for 40 Days Straight
Nov 9, 2022 • 44m
What Next TBD: Why Are So Many Little Kids Sick Right Now?
Nov 6, 2022 • 28m
ICYMI: How Are the Midterms Affecting Social Media?
Nov 5, 2022 • 37m
What Next TBD: So How’s It Going, Elon?
Nov 4, 2022 • 31m
ICYMI: Did Deplatforming Andrew Tate Work?
Nov 2, 2022 • 38m
What Next TBD: Big Brother, Big Tech and China
Oct 30, 2022 • 42m
Slate Money: Memelord Takeover
Oct 29, 2022 • 55m
ICYMI: Inside the Online Life of a Health & Wellness Reporter
Oct 29, 2022 • 37m
What Next TBD: Twitter Is Dead; Long Live Twitter
Oct 28, 2022 • 42m
ICYMI: How a Lesbian Emu Influencer Got Milkshake Ducked
Oct 26, 2022 • 38m
What Next TBD: Can We Make an Alzheimer’s Drug That Works?
Oct 23, 2022 • 30m
ICYMI: What’s It Like Being a Twitch Streamer?
Oct 22, 2022 • 39m
What Next TBD: When An Algorithm Raises Your Rent
Oct 21, 2022 • 34m
ICYMI: What’s the Deal With Broadway’s 1776?
Oct 19, 2022 • 37m
What Next TBD: Are You Ready to Be Composted When You Die?
Oct 16, 2022 • 32m
ICYMI: What Makes Online Advice Good?
Oct 15, 2022 • 39m
Slate Money: We Can’t Quit Elon
Oct 15, 2022 • 48m
A Word: How Tech Can Help—or Harm—Racial Justice
Oct 14, 2022 • 30m
What Next TBD: The Next Amazon Union Fight
Oct 14, 2022 • 31m
ICYMI: The Internet Is an Invisible Force
Oct 12, 2022 • 36m
What Next TBD: When Your Church Surveils Your Phone
Oct 9, 2022 • 24m
ICYMI: The Bling Ring Wasn’t Possible Without the Internet
Oct 8, 2022 • 35m
ICYMI: Why an Orthodox Jewish Boys Choir Is Going Viral
Oct 5, 2022 • 34m
What Next TBD: The Philosopher With Silicon Valley's Ear
Oct 2, 2022 • 58m
ICYMI: BuzzFeed Set the Try Guys Up to Fail
Oct 1, 2022 • 41m
What Next TBD: When Climate Change Makes You Sell Your House
Sep 30, 2022 • 28m
ICYMI: Jojo Siwa Did What on TikTok?
Sep 28, 2022 • 37m
What Next TBD: Can Nuclear Power Be Green?
Sep 25, 2022 • 26m
ICYMI: Serial Didn’t Free Adnan Syed
Sep 24, 2022 • 40m
What Next TBD: The Fight Over Online Speech Headed to the Supreme Court
Sep 23, 2022 • 33m
ICYMI: It’s OK to Criticize the Dead
Sep 21, 2022 • 32m
What Next TBD: The Hidden Abuse Behind Those Spam Texts You're Getting
Sep 18, 2022 • 31m
ICYMI: Where AI Art Can Go Wrong
Sep 17, 2022 • 31m
What Next TBD: How Big Internet Keeps Small Communities Disconnected
Sep 16, 2022 • 27m
ICYMI: Harry Styles Knows Exactly What He’s Doing
Sep 14, 2022 • 35m
What Next TBD: The Chaos That Made YouTube a Juggernaut
Sep 11, 2022 • 35m
ICYMI: Everyone Wants to Be a Food Influencer…or Do They?
Sep 10, 2022 • 30m
What Next TBD: Can A.I. Make Great Art?
Sep 9, 2022 • 29m
ICYMI: A Texas Church Did What With Hamilton?
Sep 7, 2022 • 33m
How To!: Have a Healthier News Diet
Sep 6, 2022 • 37m
What Next TBD: The Summer Vaccine of the Future
Sep 4, 2022 • 20m
ICYMI: Encore: Is BYU Virginity Club Real? An ICYMI Investigation.
Sep 3, 2022 • 38m
ICYMI: Encore: Who Weekly? Explains Bennifer 3.0
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Jul 29, 2022 • 30m
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Jul 13, 2022 • 34m
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Jul 9, 2022 • 32m
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Jul 3, 2022 • 25m
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Jul 1, 2022 • 30m
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Jun 29, 2022 • 29m
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Jun 26, 2022 • 22m
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Jun 25, 2022 • 33m
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Jun 24, 2022 • 25m
ICYMI: Why Can’t Lesbians Escape Men on Dating Apps?
Jun 22, 2022 • 36m
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Jun 18, 2022 • 32m
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Jun 15, 2022 • 32m
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Jun 12, 2022 • 28m
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Jun 10, 2022 • 26m
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Jun 10, 2022 • 33m
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Jun 8, 2022 • 28m
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Jun 5, 2022 • 28m
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Jun 4, 2022 • 28m
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Jun 3, 2022 • 25m
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Jun 3, 2022 • 23m
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May 29, 2022 • 20m
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May 25, 2022 • 30m
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May 21, 2022 • 31m
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May 20, 2022 • 21m
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May 15, 2022 • 21m
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May 14, 2022 • 29m
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May 13, 2022 • 20m
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Feb 18, 2022 • 23m
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