Pretendians: Indigenous Identity Fraud with Robert Jago and Angel Ellis
For this episode, the hosts of the new podcast Pretendians, Robert Jago and Angel Ellis, explain Indigenous Identity Fraud, the phenomenon of scam artists pretending to be indigenous in order to recei...
17 Jun 202453min
A Terrorist Attack on the Furries with Nicky Woolf
Fur and Loathing is a new investigative podcast from Nicky Woolf about an unsolved 2014 chlorine gas attack on the world’s largest Furry convention, an assumed safe place for those who create animal a...
10 Jun 202452min
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 Mai 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 Mai 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 Mai 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 Apr 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 Apr 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 Apr 20241h 6min
