Front Burner Presents: The Making of Musk, Episode 3
What does Musk, father of 14, expect from his quote, “legion” of children? In episode 3 of Understood: The Making of Musk, host, Jacob Silverman unravels Musk’s quest for genetic optimization, includi...
1 Jan 50min
Front Burner Presents: The Making of Musk, Episode 2
Where did Elon Musk’s epic ambitions begin? In search of clues, the latest season of Understood: The Making of Musk returns to his sheltered youth in apartheid South Africa, a world engineered for whi...
31 Dec 202548min
The books that explained 2025 (Part 2)
Today we’re joined by lawyer and author Bryan Stevenson for a conversation about the historical Mother Emanuel AME church, and what it means to tell the story of American history through a single inst...
30 Dec 202538min
The books that explained 2025
Some of our favourite guests of the year return to talk about books that helped meaningfully explain 2025. We talk about the evergreen appeal of Plato as well as Jewish identity with former Yale fasci...
29 Dec 202537min
Go inside the tangled web of the Satanic Panic from Jaws to Patrick Swayze
In the 1980s and 90s, Satan and his followers were accused of brainwashing children, sacrificing babies, and infiltrating North American society on a massive scale — yet these thousands of alleged Sat...
26 Dec 202539min
The true story behind the Norval Morrisseau art fraud
Forged is a six-part series from CBC in Canada and ABC Australia. Host Adrian Stimson, an artist from the Siksika Nation, travels from Thunder Bay to the Northern Territory of Australia, to reveal wha...
25 Dec 202527min
The stories that shaped our year
Today we're bringing you a 2025 Front Burner wrap up, answering audience questions and bringing you behind the scenes of the making of some of our most popular episodes of 2025.For transcripts of Fron...
24 Dec 202533min
The year in sports scandal with Pablo Torre
In 2025 news of the biggest, most sensational sports scandals was broken not by ESPN or Sports Illustrated, but by a podcaster named Pablo Torre on his show Pablo Torre Finds Out.It was Pablo who inve...
23 Dec 202532min
