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 about nuclear waste sites that will remain extremely da...
23 Helmi 1h 7min
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 will be activated like sleeper cells inside us. For ...
16 Helmi 1h 32min
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.... secretly hypnotize others into giving you anything...
12 Helmi 1min
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 your age, feel like an invention of the 90s, of the 80...
9 Helmi 1h 24min
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 incorrectly identify as cults. His book delves into...
2 Helmi 1h 8min
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, and violent threats have evolved from military weapon...
26 Tammi 1h 19min
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 learn about different clone conspiracies and their o...
19 Tammi 58min
JESUS TOAST
A grilled cheese sandwich, a tortilla, an auto loan company building, a cinnamon roll, and a forkful of spaghetti are just a handful of the places that images of religious figures have miraculously ap...
12 Tammi 1h 7min
