Long Live the Ray Cat with Emperor X and Matt Kielty
Reporter and Radiolab producer Matthew Kielty and musician Chad Matheny (AKA Emperor X) were both part of a 2014 episode of the 99% Invisible podcast called Ten Thousand Years that asked the same ques...
20 Touko 202458min
TALKING TO THE FUTURE: NUCLEAR SEMIOTICS
How do we warn people 10,000 years in the future about nuclear waste sites that will remain extremely dangerous for longer than human civilization has existed? When language, symbols, and technologies...
13 Touko 20241h 7min
Context Clues: Going Nuclear
For some context for our upcoming series that we have not yet revealed, we will revisit excerpts from our past episodes: Horror Movies pt. 1, The End of the World, and Alien Abductions pt. 1 and 2. We...
6 Touko 202443min
Magical Overthinking with Amanda Montell
Amanda Montell is the host of the podcast Sounds Like A Cult as well as the author of the new book The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality, a collection of personal essays on va...
29 Huhti 20241h 5min
Francine and the Wolves of Wall Street with Sarah Marshall of 'You're Wrong About'
Sarah Marshall joins me to chat about how, in 1968, one unsuspecting young woman’s bustline almost caused a stock market bust when thousands of Wall Street employees became obsessed with watching her ...
22 Huhti 20241h 17min
THE SOCIETY FOR INDECENCY TO NAKED ANIMALS
In the late 1950s, an organization known as SINA started a campaign with the mission of clothing naked animals for the sake of decency. Today we will look at this bizarre moral crusade and its leader,...
1 Huhti 20241h 6min
When Conspiracies Aren't Just Theories with Journalist Tom Risen
Journalist and author Tom Risen is here to tell me about some of the real conspiracies that the CIA and the FBI were involved in from the 50s to the 70s and how, in 1975, one senator finally took thes...
25 Maalis 20241h 16min
Bigfoot's Big Adventure with Author John O'Connor
John O'Connor is the author of The Secret History of Bigfoot: Field Notes on a North American Monster, a cross-country adventure and investigation into the lore around Bigfoot as well as the personali...
18 Maalis 202453min
