Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchChat Groups and Wildcat Strikes: How Gig Workers Are Organizing
Season 1 Episode 158
Union membership in America has collapsed from 37% in 1957 to just 10% today, yet labor organizing is experiencing an unexpected revival. The secret?…
3 months ago
You Must Construct Additional Pylons: Inside AI's Infrastructure Wars
Season 1 Episode 157
While software gates came down and open-source AI became accessible to everyone, someone quietly rebuilt the walls—except this time they're made of s…
3 months ago
A Bridgerton Walking Tour of Bath (Interactive Special)
Season 1 Episode 157
A special interactive edition of Clown Cast: a self-guided walking tour of Bath, England, in the footsteps of Bridgerton — a continuation of the show…
3 months ago
Save Scumming Reality: Can AI Cheat the Testing Grind?
Season 1 Episode 156
Nature tests for millions of years. Culture tests for millennia. Both earn our trust through brutal iteration. But what if we could skip the line ent…
3 months ago
Banned at Home, #1 Worldwide: The Corridos Tumbados Explosion
Season 1 Episode 155
The most streamed musical group on the planet sings entirely in Spanish, wears bedazzled cowboy hats, and is banned in 10 Mexican states. Fuser-Rigid…
3 months ago
The Code Your Grandma Wrote: When Cultures Evolve Like Nature
Season 1 Episode 154
What if cultural traditions are just evolution's quality assurance running on a faster clock? The hosts explore how human cultures undergo selection …
3 months ago
Normal Mode: How Your Culture Became the Baseline
Season 1 Episode 153
Why the American/Western perspective feels like neutral reality when it's actually one of the most extreme cultural configurations on Earth. Using vi…
3 months ago
Nature's Quality Assurance: How Evolution Solved Everything
Season 1 Episode 152
Engineers are stuck solving problems that nature solved billions of years ago. This episode explores biomimicry—the science of stealing solutions fro…
3 months ago
Giving Time a Body: How Switzerland Became the Clock Keepers
Season 1 Episode 151
From ancient Egyptian obelisks to mechanical escapements, we trace how humans learned to capture the invisible. But how did one landlocked mountain n…
3 months ago
Banking on Recovery: The Allostatic Load
Season 1 Episode 150
Sequel to episode 126, 'Cool Under Pressure': What happens to your body after the pressure breaks? The moment of stress isn't what destroys people—it…
3 months ago