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Season 1 Episode 361
What happens when the most successful thing in a system destroys the system that made it? From cancer cells breaking their cooperation rules to invas…
6 hours ago
X-Ray Lottery: How Technology Broke the Trading Card Market
Season 1 Episode 360
Sealed Pokémon packs from the '90s sell for five thousand dollars—but only because you can't see inside. What happens when collectors discover CT sca…
16 hours ago
The Soda That Got Its Soul Banned
Season 1 Episode 359
Sassafras albidum smells exactly like root beer—bark, roots, twigs, leaves—and for 300 years it was more valuable than lumber or furs. But in 1960, t…
19 hours ago
The Spirit You Can't Buy: Why Meta's Metaverse Failed
Season 1 Episode 358
Meta burned through $88 billion in Reality Labs (Q1 2021–Q2 2026) building the metaverse—only to peak at 300,000 monthly active users. This is the st…
23 hours ago
Genius Loci: What Fandom Loses When Third Spaces Close
Season 1 Episode 357
GameStop nearly halved its U.S. store count in two years. Specialty game shops, hobby retailers, and tabletop venues are vanishing worldwide—taking w…
1 day, 6 hours ago
The Sticky Ball Problem: Why Healthcare Can't Be Unbundled
Season 1 Episode 356
American healthcare wasn't designed—it was an accident. In 1942, FDR froze wages during WWII, so employers started offering health benefits to compet…
2 days, 6 hours ago
The Aura Shortage: Why Real Just Got Expensive
Season 1 Episode 355
When 35% of new websites are AI-generated and bots outnumber humans online, authenticity becomes the scarcest resource. Host A and Host B explore Wal…
2 days, 18 hours ago
Wisdom and Madness: The Crowd's Secret Toggle
Season 1 Episode 354
In 1907, Francis Galton rigged an experiment to prove crowds were stupid by having 787 people guess an ox's weight. The crowd was nearly perfect. But…
3 days, 6 hours ago
The Suppression Paradox: Why Banning Makes Ideas Stronger
Season 1 Episode 353
When institutions try to eradicate an idea through banning, censorship, or suppression, they often accidentally make it immortal. A landmark 2025 stu…
3 days, 23 hours ago
Debunking Kills the Body: The Architecture of Immortal Ideas
Season 1 Episode 352
Why do urban legends and conspiracy theories persist indefinitely without anyone maintaining them? Host A and Host B explore what makes certain ideas…
4 days, 6 hours ago