Podcast Episodes

What Next: TBD | Rebroadcast: Dupes!

Note: This episode was originally published on July 27, 2025. 

There’s an entire economy devoted to seeing what products are trending—clothing, skin care, even Greek Islands—and delivering you a chea…

Published on 2 weeks, 1 day ago

ICYMI | Why Are So Many Celebrities Joining Substack?

On today’s episode host Kate Lindsay is joined by I

Published on 2 weeks, 3 days ago

Hang Up | Apple’s Soccer Shakeup

Hosts Alex Kirshner, Lindsay Gibbs, and Ben Lindbergh speak with the Athletic’s Paul Tenorio on why Apple TV and MLS revised their deal and removed the paywall for viewers. They’re then joined by Mas…

Published on 2 weeks, 4 days ago

The Surveillance Interstate

Tracking a license plate across the country has never been easier, which is good news if your car has been stolen, but in an era of ICE and Border Patrol raids, these warrantless searches feel increa…

Published on 2 weeks, 6 days ago

ICYMI | AI Is Changing How We Have Sex

On today’s episode host Kate Lindsay is joined by porn historian Noelle Perdue, author of the Porn World newsletter. OpenAI announced that they’d allow adult users to have erotic conversations with C…

Published on 3 weeks ago

What Next: TBD | Crypto Keeps Criming

Trump promised to stop the “persecution” of the cryptocurrency industry. He did call off the SEC investigations that began under Biden, and pardoned Binance cofounder and ex-CEO Changpeng Zhao. But i…

Published on 3 weeks, 1 day ago

ICYMI | The Two Internet Villains Staging a Comeback

On today’s episode host Kate Lindsay is joined by New York Magazine feature writer, Rebecca Jennings, to discuss the two internet villains currently trying to get back in the internet’s good graces. …

Published on 3 weeks, 3 days ago

How Meta Profits Off Fraud

The parent company of Facebook and Instagram, Meta, doesn’t (just) have a scam problem—with 10 percent of its revenue coming from scam ads, and a third of all successful scams in America using a Meta…

Published on 3 weeks, 6 days ago

ICYMI | Yes, Having a Boyfriend Is Embarrassing

On today’s episode host Kate Lindsay is joined by writer and content creator Josh Lora, who also goes by TellTheBees. Josh’s Substack essay, Boyfriendland, was cited in the viral Vogue article writte…

Published on 4 weeks ago

What Next: TBD | Data Centers on the Ballot

They don’t cut cleanly along party lines, but data centers, and where they get built, became an election issue in Virginia. With so many more data centers to build, are we looking at a new trend? 

Gu…

Published on 4 weeks, 1 day ago