The Cop City Episode
According to its supporters, The Atlanta Public Safety Training Center -- known locally as Cop City -- will be a crucial training ground for law enforcement and fire departments. However, critics clai...
29 Sep 20231h 19min
Listener Mail: Did the government tap your phone? The seedy Reedley Biolab, Fyre Fest and Atlanta Recommendations
A conversation with paranoid family members prompts Saturday Mourning Cartoons to ask whether the government really does tap people's phones. Bro Dude Man searches for more information about the Reedl...
28 Sep 20231h
The Stuff Casinos Don't Want You To Know: Live in Vegas
While casinos work around the clock to create a glitzy, glamorous, spontaneous feeling, it turns out they are some of the most tightly-controlled environments on Earth. Every possible variable is acco...
27 Sep 20231h 6min
CLASSIC: Google, the Pentagon and AI
Google -- or, more properly, Alphabet -- is a huge company, and is at the bleeding edge of numerous technological innovations. So, while it wasn't necessarily a surprise that Uncle Sam wanted Google's...
26 Sep 20231h 2min
Strange News: Armenia Under Attack, A Missing Jet and Murders in LA
Azerbaijan wages war against Armenia -- and from the US to Europe, from Russia to Iran, it seems no one will intervene to protect civilians. The US loses and later recovers an out-of-control fighter j...
25 Sep 202358min
How Hearing Voices Works
Have you ever been convinced you heard a voice -- shout, a whisper, someone speaking directly to you -- only to turn around and realize no one was there? This experience is more common than we might c...
22 Sep 20231h 3min
Listener Mail: Astral Travel, Real Estate as Crime, Voluntary Adrenaline
Sam Hill recounts a disturbing story of Chinese forces buying up family farmland in the United States, prompting a conversation about the multibillion dollar shady practice of international real estat...
21 Sep 202336min
The Underwater Internet
How does the internet get information from across the planet to your house? While many people might guess it's a matter of satellites and synchronous orbits, they'd only be partially correct -- the va...
20 Sep 20231h 4min
