All Episodes
Journos — 82 episodes
We Compete in the Olympics of Fast Food and Teeth
Miracles of the First Millennial Saint
The Foundation of the Internet Is in Danger ... and That May Be a Good Thing
Dry January is the Most Selfish Holiday
”What Is Consciousness?” with Janet Varney
AI: Miracle Tech or Just Another Pair of Chopsticks Lodged in Your Brain?
Bad News? Simulated Universe. Good News? Simulated Universe! w/Dr. Melvin Vopson
No, Your Candy Isn’t Poisoned ... But Climate Change Is Coming for Your Beer
That Time Fake Aliens Invaded Mexico and Real Rats Invaded D.C.
We Nearly All Died Out, But We Survived ... to Create Barbie!
Trying *This* in a Small Town
Are We Living in ... Medieval Times? w/Jake ”The Knight” Bowman
Setting the Doomsday Clock w/John Mecklin
Elon Musk’s Neuralink Broke a Lot of Animals to Get Ready for Human Trials, w/Valerie Demicheva
Prince Harry & Meghan vs Florida Man
A Classic Orgasm Mystery
A Death *in* San Francisco Becomes the Death *of* San Francisco w/Joe Eskenazi
Raccoons Are the Real AI Threat, w/Suzanne MacDonald
Step Inside and SEE ... the Dog with the HUMAN FACE!
A.I. Is Devouring Artists w/Ted Rall
Plumbing the Depths of the Teenage Mind w/Denis Barron, MFT
Pay No Attention to the Story About that Blown-Up Russian Gas Pipeline!
Suddenly, Everyone Pretends to Care About Reindeer Penis
Is There a Right Way to Grow Up? with Janet Varney
Fridays: America’s Dumping Ground for Bad News, Nachos
Civil F***ing Discourse, feat. Mark Gagliardi & Hal Lublin of We Got This!
From Stone Carving to ChatGPT: 11,000 Years of Content
”Killer Robots!” w/ Will Jarrett
What’s the Best Way to Brew Meat?
The Dirty Truth About Clickbait
Is the Covid Story Ever REALLY Over? w/ Dr. Bob Wachter
Tomatoes on Our Highways, Mammoths in Our Midst
Is ”Serial” Guilty ... of Bad Journalism? w/Rebecca Lavoie & Janet Varney
The Vikings are at the Doorbell
Make America Wolves Again
Defacing the Mona Lisa and DALL•E’s Horrifying Netherworld of AI-Driven Art
It’s Psychedelic Wedding Season, Y’all w/Jenni Avins
What Happens in Your Face, Stays in Your Face
The Truth About “Soylent Green” w/ Dana Gould
Kinky Dolphins, Bodies in Barrels, and Seeing What We Want to See
Who Are Cities For, Anyway?
A Visit to Elon Musk’s New Mall of America
AriZona Iced Tea Defies Inflation & Hijacks Evolution
Can We Still Trust Science When it’s Calling Black Holes ”Hairy”?
Bugs in the System: Cancer-Sniffing Worms, Hackers, and the New Cold War
Would You Become a Yacht Pirate for Ukraine?
What Shipwrecks Can Teach Us About Hot Cars, Fast Ice, and Human Progress
What Jesus’ Foreskin Foretold About the Skincare Industry
Storytelling: Corporations Want to Replace Daydreams with Good Clean Algorithms
A Ukraine State of Mind w/Valerie Demicheva
Earworms of Mass Destruction
Let’s Talk About Why That Adorable Jim from ”The Office” Is Spying on Us
A No-Fly List for Jerks, Sex Jets, and Other Mysteries of Modern Air Travel
Will the Next Civil War Be Livestreamed? w/Ronald Weaver II
Spoiler Alerts! Wordle, Chinese Censorship, and the Zen of Knowing the End in Advance
Why Are Politicians Still Embarrassed About Weed? w/Chris Roberts
”Let’s Go Brandon” Is Gonna Be America’s Hottest New Money-Making Mind-Virus
The Great Los Angeles Train Kerfuffle
”The World’s Deadliest Podcast”
Piñatas and Two-Steppin’: Companies Dodge Responsibility, Festively
12 Days of JOURNOS, Day 12: Should Society Invest in Brains or Farts?
12 Days of JOURNOS, Day 11: Elizabeth Holmes vs. NFTs
12 Days of JOURNOS, Day 10: Let’s Count to a Trillion
12 Days of JOURNOS, Day Nine: Bugs, Blood & Other Future Menu Items
12 Days of JOURNOS, Day Eight: The Color Conspiracy of 2022
12 Days of JOURNOS, Day Seven: Nature, ah, Finds a Way
12 Days of JOURNOS, Day Six: Real-Life Ninjas and Our National Security
12 Days of JOURNOS, Day Five: The Mental-Health Olympics
12 Days of JOURNOS, Day Four: Is Clickbait Bad?
12 Days of JOURNOS, Day Three: Get on the Influencer Bus
12 Days of JOURNOS, Day Two: The Great Rooster Virility Crisis
12 Days of JOURNOS, Day One: Oh a Sarcasm Detector I’m So Sure
”Don’t Look Up” Reviewed + Asteroid Mining and a Great End-of-the-World Chicken Recipe
It‘s the JOURNOS Holiday Spectacular, Charlie Brown! Stories of Oil Scandal, Helium Shortage, and American Consumer Theater
Audio Short: Let the Music Save You! AI Will Build You the Secret Playlist of Your Soul
What Could Go Wrong? The Big Business of Exploiting Space, Sea, and Tortoises
Audio Short: What Fixing Your iPhone Means for !!FREEDOM!!
A Trip to Toronto — the Nexus of Identity, Baseball, and Sexual Exhibitionism
Future Cities and the Inevitable Doomsday Yacht (with a Good Wine Selection)
An Inside Look at the Yogurt Cup Mafia and the McFlurry Racket
Audio Short: Havana Syndrome, TikTok Tics, and When Mass Hysteria Goes to War
Unfriending the Metaverse