Welcome to Holland and the Beirut Backlash
Imagine planning a once-in-a-lifetime vacation to Italy. You have the guidebooks, you’ve learned the phrases, and you’ve spent months anticipating the Coliseum. But when the plane lands, the flight at...
16 Maalis 20min
The Empty Terminal: Wikipedia and the Architecture of the Digital Void
Imagine you are packing for a trip to Poland and you look up Solidarity Szczecin-Goleniów Airport on the world's largest online encyclopedia, only to hit a total digital dead end. In this episode of p...
16 Maalis 21min
When Bulletproof Vests Can't Stop Love
Imagine surviving six consecutive government-mandated murder attempts and making your fortune selling bulletproof vests, only to be killed by a cigarette lighter because you fell in love. In this epis...
16 Maalis 23min
When dissent was a federal crime
Imagine waking up, checking the news, and posting a critical comment about a government decision, only to have federal agents knock on your door a few hours later. You aren't facing a fine or a slap o...
16 Maalis 18min
The Earthquake Effect: Total War and the Architecture of National Survival
Imagine a conflict that doesn't just happen on a battlefield, but inside your kitchen, your factory, and your child’s school. In this episode of pplpod, we conduct a structural archaeology of Total Wa...
16 Maalis 22min
Whiskeytowns Raw Definitive Version of Yesterdays News
Imagine opening a dusty box in your attic labeled "throwaway," only to find it contains the most visceral memories of your youth. In the digital age, this box is a Wikipedia "stub"—a page flagged by b...
16 Maalis 15min
White Russia from Civil War to Cocktails
Imagine typing a two-word phrase into your search bar, hoping to uncover the brutal history of an early 20th-century conflict, only to be met with a picture of a goat, a 1980s prog-rock album, or a cr...
16 Maalis 18min
Whitey Bulger Controlled the FBI
Imagine trying to build a criminal empire from scratch, where your biggest rivals aren't just eliminated by your own crew, but by the very federal agents sworn to hunt you down. In this episode of ppl...
16 Maalis 21min
