Encore: Never Gonna Give You Up
Who gets credit for starting a meme? Usually... nobody — they're made too quickly and organically. In the case of one of the most famous bait-and-switch memes of all time, the "Rick Roll," we may be l...
26 Joulu 202543min
Lost Without You
2025 marks 20 years of Google Maps — a tool that many of us would be, quite literally, lost without. We hear from New Orleanians who used Google Maps/Google Earth in its inaugural year to survey the ...
19 Joulu 202533min
Ukraine's expanding drone web
There's a lot of drone warfare footage on the internet from Ukraine and Russia. But over the last year, a surprising change has emerged, via photos from the battlefront posted online. It has become cl...
12 Joulu 202538min
Ruby Tandoh, the World's Best Lasagna,and how the internet is collectively changing what we all want to eat
The internet decides what's for dinner. Ruby Tandoh is the author of the new book, All Consuming: Why We Eat the Way We Eat Now. A stint on the Great British Bake Off when she was in college launched...
5 Joulu 202528min
Episodes we love: Sandwiches of History
In honor of the day-after-Thanksgiving leftover sandwich, we're revisiting our conversation with Barry Enderwick, the man behind the beloved and wildly popular "Sandwiches of History" social media acc...
28 Marras 202535min
Chiveman and a mountain of margarine
Endless Thread serves up two of Reddit's most absurd food sagas. First course: Chivegate, in which a Redditor vows to chop a cup of chives daily until the kitchen confidential subreddit declares perfe...
21 Marras 202526min
Fryders and Alligator Alcatraz tours: When trolls get inventive
Ben and Amory share two stories about some out-of-the-box internet trolling. First, Amory tries to untangle a web of rumors surrounding an unusual dish from New Zealand. Then, Ben takes us aboard Terr...
14 Marras 202531min
Episodes we love: Lofi Girl
This November, we're playing some of our favorite episodes from the past alongside new stuff, so that newer listeners can experience our back catalogue. And LoFi Girl is one that holds up, big time! ...
11 Marras 202538min
