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When do you know it’s time to stop drinking? (classic)
Dec 20, 2024This week, a question a podcast has no business trying to answer. We talk to writer A.J. Daulerio about his own story of recovery, and the story of how he found himself opening a very unusual communit...
What if ayahuasca made you stop podcasting?
Dec 13, 2024An anti-woke podcast abruptly announces its end, and in its final episode, a host offers its listeners some surprising news. She had taken ayahuasca, a powerful psychedelic, and it had contributed to ...
Who buys luggage at the airport luggage store?
Dec 06, 2024If ever there was a place where every person inside was guaranteed to already have luggage, it would be inside an airport. And yet ... the airport luggage stores persist. Who is going to these places?...
What is jawmaxxing?
Nov 22, 2024The story of how an alternative theory of dentistry made its way from medicine's fringes to an audience of young men online. This week we try to make sense of jawmaxxing with help from Panic World’s R...
The White Subaru Hell Loop
Nov 15, 2024A mortal human being finds himself stuck between two impressive organizations: the DMV, and an internet start-up called Carvana. He has a problem, but each side insists only the other can solve it. Se...
How did the first democracy die?
Nov 08, 2024The story of the first people who invented democracy, and what it did to them. What's Wrong With Democracy? by Loren J. Samons II Support the show at searchengine.show! To learn more about listener ...
How do you sit quietly in the middle of a storm?
Nov 01, 2024What if there was an event in the future, the outcome of which you couldn’t personally control, but it was still causing you anguish? This week, we talk to an ordained Zen priest and teacher to get so...
Should we be worried about OpenAI?
Oct 25, 2024A year ago, we saw a stand-off between OpenAI's non-profit board and its leader, Sam Altman. Since then, the board has been reshuffled, Altman has consolidated power, and under his leadership, some st...
Why is it so hard to tax billionaires? (Part 2)
Oct 18, 2024We reveal the one weird trick some billionaires use to pay less in federal income taxes than you do. And we explain the consequences faced by the person who leaked the tax returns of billionaires like...
Why is it so hard to tax billionaires? (Part 1)
Oct 18, 2024A rogue IRS contractor leaks the private tax returns of the country’s wealthiest citizens to a reporter. That reporter, ProPublica’s Jesse Eisinger, learns that some of our billionaires are paying as ...