Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHow do I find new music now that I’m old and irrelevant?
We enlist a very overqualified person to answer this question, writer Kelefa Sanneh, author of Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genr…
2 years, 6 months ago
Wait, should I not be drinking airplane coffee?
Queer Eye’s Antoni Porowski has heard a disgusting rumor — that the coffee on airplanes is unsafe to drink because the onboard water tanks are only c…
2 years, 6 months ago
How sad are the monkeys in the zoo?
To answer this question, we’ll unpack a scientific battle centuries in the making, one that involves a serial killer elephant and a suicidal dog. We’…
2 years, 8 months ago
Introducing: Search Engine
No question too big, no question too small. A new show that’ll be out soon. You can hear it here, on this feed. The one you're on now. Question you'd…
3 years ago
09 The End
A trip to Greenland, a chance encounter with Coolio, and the end of the world.
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3 years ago
Sole Proprietor
Is it going to be OK?
(Here's a link to that Bad Bets trailer I mentioned.)
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3 years, 3 months ago
08 The Kidnapping of Ape #8398
An art heist in the crypto world plunges us headfirst into another mystery — why did so many celebrities suddenly start selling us on NFTs last year?…
3 years, 6 months ago
07 The Drug Trader
This week we follow a dollar underground. For notes, further reading, or to support this project visit pjvogt.com.
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3 years, 7 months ago
06 The Lunatic Who Crashed Crypto
This week, a story of about how crypto just imploded due to one risky, financial product. And the fight-loving, Twitter-addicted founder who invented…
3 years, 8 months ago
05 Genesis
This week: Bitcoin. We trace it from its humble origins in a .PDF to the movement it has spawned, all over three days at an enormous Bitcoin conferen…
3 years, 8 months ago