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Funny You Should Mention: Raanan Hershberg
69 hours 27 mins; April 03, 2026
Are You There God? It’s Me, Mark Oppenheimer
46 mins; April 02, 2026
Tyler Goodspeed: Why "Pattern-Seeking Mammals" Blame Bankers Instead of Locusts
43 mins; April 01, 2026
Why Brazil Stopped Its Bolsonaro and We Didn't Stop Ours
33 mins; March 31, 2026
Why Brazil Stopped Its Bolsonaro and We Didn't Stop Ours
33 mins; March 31, 2026
Zack Beauchamp: "You Kind of Have to Pick a Lane to Be an Effective Autocrat"
29 mins; March 30, 2026
Magic Shops, $200 Million Horse Ads, and the Ghost of Nibbles the Goat
13 mins; March 28, 2026
Julia Minson: You're Probably 50% Wrong
42 mins; March 27, 2026
Not Even Mad: Yascha Mounk & Colin Cole
69 hours 28 mins; March 26, 2026
Ben Ritz on Slopulism and the Democrats' 2024 Lesson
32 mins; March 25, 2026
Larry Charles: "I Am Willing To Die To Get This Scene"
29 mins; March 24, 2026
Larry Charles: "I Finally Had to Fire the Kid"
29 mins; March 23, 2026
The Myth of the Iranian Moderate & The "Undecided" War
17 mins; March 21, 2026
Derrick Stroup: "I Sound Like a Bowl of Gravy and You Sound Like a Traffic Cone"
59 mins; March 20, 2026
Is That Bulls*it: Does The Body Keep the Score - in Your Hips
31 mins; March 19, 2026
Molly Worthen: "Charisma Is a Tool of the Weak"
41 mins; March 18, 2026
Mickey Bergman: "Even Maduro Has a Soft Spot"
31 mins; March 17, 2026
Mickey Bergman: The Psychology of the Hostage Deal
42 mins; March 16, 2026
Chris Cillizza: Male Friendships, Political Posturing, and the Death of Shared Sacrifice
39 mins; March 14, 2026
Geeta Gandbhir: "She Weaponized Her Privilege"
34 mins; March 13, 2026
Not Even Mad: Jeff Nussbaum & Dan Rothschild
58 mins; March 12, 2026
Aaron Tracy and Roald Dahl's Dangerous Double Life
40 mins; March 11, 2026
Nir Eyal: "Your Brain Is Already Lying To You"
37 mins; March 10, 2026
Elizabeth Tsurkov: Surviving 900 Days as a Hostage
41 mins; March 09, 2026
Mike Pesca on Lifelong: The Bliss Molecule and the Psychology of Weight Loss
40 mins; March 07, 2026
Funny You Should Mention: Jena Friedman
52 mins; March 06, 2026
Jamie Denbo: Why I Walked Away From Grey's Anatomy
43 mins; March 05, 2026
Brian Platzer: A Story that Literally Couldn't be Told
30 mins; March 04, 2026
Gina Gershon: "They Treat You Differently With Boobs"
38 mins; March 03, 2026
Eli Lake: "It Could Be An Epic Historic Geopolitical Mitzvah"
45 mins; March 02, 2026
John Fugelsang & Corey Brettschneider: "Stochastic Self-Censorship"
31 mins; February 28, 2026
James Kimmel Jr. : "Revenge Is Dopamine With a Law Degree"
45 mins; February 27, 2026
Not Even Mad: Austin Berg & Andrew Egger
53 mins; February 26, 2026
C. Thi Nguyen: "Beliefs Are Tools, Not Truths"
39 mins; February 25, 2026
Kenji Yoshino & David Glasgow: "Go Where the Pain Is"
27 mins; February 24, 2026
Kenji Yoshino & David Glasgow: Saving DEI
30 mins; February 23, 2026
Is Anyone Not A Fan Of Eileen Gu?
38 mins; February 21, 2026
Alex Roarty: "The Status Quo Sucks Right Now"
39 mins; February 20, 2026
Kat and Mike's Museum of Bad Ideas
41 mins; February 19, 2026
Congress, the Potency Problem, and How To!
47 mins; February 18, 2026
Charles Duhigg: "You can mobilize till you're blue in the face."
39 mins; February 17, 2026
The Scalpel And The Chainsaw
34 mins; February 14, 2026
Ben Terris: "Visiting A Parallel Universe"
39 mins; February 13, 2026
Not Even Mad: Joe Nocera & Jonah Goldberg
59 mins; February 12, 2026
Is That BS: Compostable Dog Poop Bags
25 mins; February 11, 2026
Autocracy Watch with Yascha Mounk
31 mins; February 10, 2026
Aaron Magid on King Abdullah, "The Most American King"
34 mins; February 09, 2026
Chris Cillizza on Trump's "Unconstitutional" Election Riff
23 mins; February 07, 2026
Funny You Should Mention: Geoffrey Asmus
45 mins; February 06, 2026
Jonathan Cohen: "Add Friction" to the Super Bowl of Gambling
34 mins; February 05, 2026
Conor Heffernan on Why "Ego Is A Transhistorical Phenomenon"
38 mins; February 04, 2026
The Epstein Files Are a Distraction From… the Epstein Files
29 mins; February 03, 2026
David Greene: "Obsession Is a Window Into the Human Soul"
29 mins; February 02, 2026
Charlie Sykes on the "Little Platoons" that Humbled Trump
27 mins; January 31, 2026
Paul D. Miller: "International Law Is Not the Same Thing as Justice"
42 mins; January 30, 2026
Not Even Mad: Ruy Teixeira and Jesse Adams
57 mins; January 29, 2026
"Chaos Isn't Enforcement": Minnesota Exposes ICE's Political Miscalculation
33 mins; January 28, 2026
Thomas Goetz: "Medicine works by helping some people a lot and most people not at all."
30 mins; January 27, 2026
Elliot Williams: "We'll get the girls from Annie to even things out"
43 mins; January 26, 2026
Michelle Tafoya on the "Complete and Utter Ambush"
30 mins; January 24, 2026
Kenneth Vogel on the "Sh*tbag Business"
47 mins; January 23, 2026
Jason Guriel: Why Culture Got Nicer—and Much Less Useful
36 mins; January 22, 2026
Trump Weaves His Way Through Davos
37 mins; January 21, 2026
Chuck Klosterman: Football Isn't a Game—It's the Last American Monoculture
28 mins; January 20, 2026
Jeremy Hobson on the "Rally Around the Flag" Risk in Iran
28 mins; January 17, 2026
Funny You Should Mention: Liza Treyger
76 hours 35 mins; January 16, 2026
Charles Duhigg: "Looping for Understanding" and Other Supercommunicator Tricks
40 mins; January 15, 2026
David McCloskey on Why Real-World Spying is "Too Crazy for Fiction"
42 mins; January 14, 2026
Reese Gorman on Congress's Vanishing Backbone — and Dexter Filkins' Rubio "Zig and Zag" Portrait
38 mins; January 13, 2026
Séamus McElearney on the End of Omertà as a Business Model
33 mins; January 12, 2026
Fact-Checking the Maduro Raid—and the Art of Fucking Around
47 mins; January 10, 2026
Ezekiel Emanuel: "Don't Be a Schmuck"—and Yes, Eat Your Ice Cream.
33 mins; January 09, 2026
Not Even Mad: Michael A. Cohen & Charles Fain Lehman
49 mins; January 08, 2026
Brad Meltzer on Plot Twists, Product Placement, and Violating Rules on Purpose
47 mins; January 07, 2026
Andy Mills: "Acceleration Is Salvation" — and Why AI Might Be the Last Invention.
44 mins; January 06, 2026
Quico Toro: Venezuela was never a one-man show
36 mins; January 05, 2026
Dan Soder & Moshe Kasher: A Lighthouse for the Mentally Ill
34 mins; January 03, 2026
Rosebud Baker: We're Raising Her Autistic
62 hours 56 mins; January 02, 2026
Robby Hoffman: Zero Personality Disorder
68 hours 1 min; January 01, 2026
Chris Turner: Possession is 9/10 of the Word
63 hours 11 mins; December 31, 2025
Michelle Buteau: An Achievable Beyonce
48 mins; December 30, 2025
T.J. Miller: You'll Do Better in Toledo
49 mins; December 29, 2025
Sarah Silverman & Kyle Kinane: Comedy, Cancel Culture, and Conspiracies
36 mins; December 27, 2025
Alex Edelman: "The Hardest Thing to Talk About in a Joke is Israel."
57 mins; December 26, 2025
Roy Wood Jr.: "People Just Want to Feel Good."
62 hours 19 mins; December 25, 2025
Django Gold: The Comedian Who Wants to Dim Your Shine
58 mins; December 24, 2025
Thomas Chatterton Williams: Why the Summer of 2020 Wasn't Inevitable
39 mins; December 23, 2025
Quico Toro: "Charlatans Burrow Into Your Life and Don't Leave."
36 mins; December 22, 2025
Rob Reiner: "I Just Viewed My Child in Pain"
35 mins; December 20, 2025
Jay Jurden: High Profundities Per Minute
51 mins; December 19, 2025
Nicholas Wright: When Ancient Brains Meet Modern War
41 mins; December 18, 2025
James Clyburn: "The World Would Much Rather See a Sermon Than Hear One."
42 mins; December 17, 2025
Mikhail Zygar: From Glasnost Whiplash to Social-Media Smog
41 mins; December 16, 2025
Chris Dalla Riva: "Billboard's become a Christmas chart."
39 mins; December 15, 2025
Finding the Next Terry Gross with Daniel Oppenheimer
40 mins; December 13, 2025
Shadi Hamid: The Left Should Learn to Love American Power
42 mins; December 12, 2025
Not Even Mad: Anthony Weiner & John Ketcham
63 hours 30 mins; December 11, 2025
Holiday Suicides: Is That BS? with Sadie Dingfelder
27 mins; December 10, 2025
Mark Rowlands on Memory and the Stories We Tell Ourselves
26 mins; December 09, 2025
Daniel Zoughbie: The Mightiest Turns an Enemy into a Friend
34 mins; December 08, 2025