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Back to SearchSomebody's Gotta Throw the Party
Season 1 Episode 363
Loneliness is killing Americans—the Surgeon General warns it's as deadly as smoking a pack a day, and 42% of Americans now feel lonely weekly. With t…
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Power Steering for Systems: How AI Lowers the Floor
Season 1 Episode 362
A non-technical person moved two website domains through APIs using only plain English to an AI agent, which handled registrations, DNS transfers, EP…
9 hours ago
The Winner Eats the Game
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…
14 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…
1 day 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…
1 day, 4 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…
1 day, 7 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, 14 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, 14 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…
3 days, 2 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, 14 hours ago