Podcast Episodes

The Spooky Side of Pokémon with Guide to the Unknown

The extended media universe of Pokémon has been an obsession for young people since the late 1990s, and for this goofball episode my friends from the…

4 months ago

The Corporate Takeover of Caring with Dr. Mara Einstein

Have you ever been suspicious of a corporation showcasing their commitment to the environment, to marginalized groups of people, or to those sufferin…

4 months, 1 week ago

BUGS!!!!!! with Akilah Hughes

We have had many media panics about swarms and hordes, about infestations and plagues of dangerous insects and arachnids that promise to rain destruc…

4 months, 2 weeks ago

Talking to the Future: Nuclear Semiotics (rerun)

[We are taking a break this week so please enjoy a re-release of one of our favorite episodes!] How do we warn people 10,000 years in the future abou…

4 months, 4 weeks ago

JINGLES pt. 2 with Sarah Marshall of 'You're Wrong About'

If you thought the first part of our series was catchy, wait til we enter the modern era where all the jingles that played throughout our lifetimes w…

5 months ago

Introducing Mind Games

We’re excited to share a preview of a new podcast we think you’d enjoy: Mind Games.

What if you could hypnotize yourself into a better you? Or.... s…

5 months, 1 week ago

JINGLES pt. 1 with Sarah Marshall of 'You're Wrong About'

We all contain within us the many cheesy tunes of catchy capitalism that marked our childhoods, those hyper-memorable earworms that, depending on you…

5 months, 1 week ago

A Cult by Any Other Name with Joseph Laycock

Joseph Laycock is the author ofThe Penguin Book of Cults, and for this episode we discuss how our culture thinks of and reacts to what we oftentimes …

5 months, 2 weeks ago

The Art of (Psychological) War with Annalee Newitz

Annalee Newitz is the author of Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind, which traces the way disinformation, propaganda, an…

5 months, 3 weeks ago

Celebrity Clone Conspiracies with 'No Such Thing' Podcast

For this collaboration with the podcast No Such Thing, we covered the tales of nefarious forces secretly replacing famous people with clones. We’ll l…

6 months ago