Listener Mail: An Apartment Collapse, Big Pharma vs. Healthcare; The Rise of DarkBERT
Ziggy writes in with a tragic story of an apartment collapse in Iowa. Ryan wonders about the future of gene editing, big pharma and health care. Specter introduces the guys to a strange 'AI' that uses...
8 Juni 202352min
Silenced: The Radio Murders, with Oz Woloshyn
When a string of brutal murders rocked the Little Haiti neighborhood of Miami, Florida, the community and authorities grew increasingly certain the deaths were ordered from forces across the sea -- al...
7 Juni 202357min
CLASSIC: Was Benjamin Franklin a serial killer?
Today Benjamin Franklin is known as one of the founding fathers of the US, and there’s no doubt that he played a tremendously influential role in the creation of the country. But Franklin, known then ...
6 Juni 202349min
Strange News: AI Debt Collectors, a Toothpaste Heist, and a Mysterious Boat Accident
Canadian police stop a bizarre toothpaste heist. Companies aim to automate debt collection with AI. In Italy, a mysterious boat accident leaves multiple intelligence agents dead. All this and more in ...
5 Juni 202350min
CLASSIC: Ernest Withers: Civil Rights Hero, FBI Spy
55 years ago, the American Civil Rights icon Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. His legacy lives on in recorded speeches, memorials across the country, photographs by lege...
2 Juni 202349min
Listener Mail: Human Expansion, Tipping in America, and Shoutouts
Disco Funk inspires a strange series of thought experiments. Amdroid writes in on the controversy surrounding tipping. An author gives the gang a special shoutout in their upcoming book. All this and ...
1 Juni 202348min
A Conversation with Johnny Drinks
The guys sit down with special guest John Rondi, Sr., the co-creator of the legendary Johnny Drinks, for a wide-ranging conversation about everything from the troubling history of prohibition to JFK a...
31 Maj 20231h 3min
CLASSIC: A Digital Cult? The Strange Story of Bentinho Massaro
One person's cult is another person's inarguable truth, and over millenia many spiritual or cultural belief systems have been called cults. Typically organizations called cults have a few commonal tra...
30 Maj 20231h 6min
