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Is the AI bubble too big to burst?
There are no salary caps when it comes to securing the future brains of AI researchers. Mark Zuckerberg recently paid a 24 year old $250 million to c…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
The people have spoken and they love mud
Today Matt and Kara are answering your questions, mostly about Trump and mud. They talk about whether Trump could serve a third term, if the rest of …
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Sizing up the Gaza rebuild
On October 8, US President Donald Trump announced that Israel and Hamas had reached an agreement and signed the first phase of the deal. The ceasefir…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
The balloon that started the US Air Force
So, Matt has found a shiny new rabbit hole to get lost in and this time it's balloons. More specifically spy balloons. This is a story about a man wi…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
What happens if Trump takes over the Federal Reserve?
US President Donald Trump has set his sights on the Federal Reserve, his unprecedented threat to fire the Fed Chair Jerome Powell and replace him wit…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
The time the US Navy teamed up with the Mafia
Yes you read that right. It's a wild story from the latest series of No One Saw it Coming, a show about people, objects, and accidents that changed t…
3 months ago
Weighing up Ozempic
This episode originally aired in September 2023.
For a century, society has bullied and shamed people into trying to lose weight, without much result.…
3 months ago
The Montana Mountain King and a conspiracy to clone
Last year, environment reporter Peter de Kruijff stumbled on the case of 81-year-old rancher Arthur “Jack” Schubarth, who was sentenced to six months…
3 months, 1 week ago
How dodgy data sent China's economy off course
This episode originally aired in August 2023.
How do you plan for a country when you don’t even know how many people live there? That’s the problem Ch…
3 months, 1 week ago
Florida Man Invades Venezuela
While working on last Thursday’s episode, Matt had the very sad but familiar experience of cutting one of his favourite parts out of the script.
It’s …
3 months, 2 weeks ago