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We Know the Photo. We Never Knew His Name. Not This Time
Season 2 Episode 154
Artemis crew splashdown is at 8:07 Eastern tomorrow and before they come home there is one thing worth sitting with. The Earthrise photograph from Ap…
4 months, 4 weeks ago
Athletes Can't Leave the Arena Anymore. It Follows Them Home
Season 2 Episode 154
Athlete social media pressure has changed what it means to be a professional. It used to stop at the rink doors. Now there are dedicated accounts tra…
4 months, 4 weeks ago
The Last Year Nobody Had Their Phone Out at a Concert
Season 2 Episode 154
2011 was the last normal year. That's not nostalgia. That's what historians who study decades for a living actually call it. Go find concert footage …
4 months, 4 weeks ago
You're Not Imagining It. Movies Have Gotten Longer
Season 2 Episode 154
Movies getting longer is not a feeling. A researcher named Steven Follows checked the runtimes of 36,000 theatrically released films from 1980 to 202…
4 months, 4 weeks ago
To Be or Not to Be. Also, What Are We Drinking?
Season 2 Episode 154
Riz Ahmed's Hamlet sets Shakespeare's tragedy inside London's South Asian community, keeps the original language almost entirely intact, and puts the…
4 months, 4 weeks ago
NEW - Nobody Expects Much Anymore. That's Exactly the Problem
Season 2 Episode 153
Above and beyond customer service has gotten so rare that when it happens, people put it on the internet and send a stranger a hundred thousand dolla…
4 months, 4 weeks ago
NEW - Smart Speakers: The MP Who Said Never. Then Did It Anyway
Season 2 Episode 153
Customer service above and beyond has a hundred-thousand-dollar price tag on it tonight, and so does crossing a conservative floor to the Liberals. B…
4 months, 4 weeks ago
SHIFTHEADS: Dan McTeague Has Never Seen Diesel Fall This Far This Fast
Season 2 Episode 153
Gas prices dropping thirteen cents a liter in one day is news. Diesel falling twenty-eight cents a liter is something Dan McTeague says he has genuin…
4 months, 4 weeks ago
NEW - Over and Above Service: The Guy Who Picks Up His Own Phone
Season 2 Episode 153
Customer service at a small business hits different when the number on the bottle goes straight to the guy who makes the product. No hold music. No c…
4 months, 4 weeks ago
The World Is Getting Better by Every Measure. So Why Do We All Feel Like This?
Season 2 Episode 153
Conspiracy theories don't start with a villain. They start with a feeling, the specific uncomfortable feeling that somebody must be in charge of how …
4 months, 4 weeks ago