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Search Engine — 139 episodes

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Title
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A Strange Voyage

2

Why doesn’t anybody come to my parties?

3

Why is the pool at Buckingham Palace a secret? (classic)

4

Why do we have to pay into the new Anti-Weaponization Fund?

5

Presenting: Family Lore

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The many lives of Taiwan

7

Why are people excited about nuclear power again?

8

What if the cemetery goes out of business? (classic)

9

Where’s the best free restaurant bread in America?

10

The Cost of War

11

What we got wrong about GLP-1s

12

The Trial of the Driverless Car

13

Are you a good driver?

14

Odd Lots x Search Engine

15

Mysteries of Claude

16

Why don’t we eat people? (classic)

17

How Peptides Conquered the Internet

18

Are flushable wipes actually flushable?

19

The Venezuelan Curse (Part 2)

20

The Venezuelan Curse (Part 1)

21

The Fediverse Experiment

22

Heavyweight x Search Engine

23

A Perfectly Average Anomaly

24

Unlocked: The State of Search Engine 2025

25

What's the best phone to do crimes on? (classic)

26

How to talk (or not talk) politics at family holidays

27

Colossus 2

28

Colossus 1

29

An Anthropology of Gooners

30

America vs. China

31

The Rage in the Cage

32

Cocomelon For Adults

33

Talk Easy x Search Engine

34

Is my favorite new TV show this year a ripoff?

35

The Obituary

36

How does a rationalist make a baby?

37

A Dubai Chocolate theory of the internet

38

Are microplastics really a problem?

39

What does it feel like to believe in God? (classic)

40

The Cuddly Killer (classic)

41

Why'd I take speed for twenty years? - Part 2 (classic)

42

Why'd I take speed for twenty years? - Part 1 (classic)

43

The Psychic Question

44

Wait, should I not be drinking airplane coffee? (classic)

45

The Test

46

The Stupid Little Yogurt Question

47

Search Engine x What We Spend

48

How to stop being so phone addicted (without self-discipline or meditation)

49

The Dave and Buster's Anomaly

50

Why the national debt might finally matter

51

Why can’t we just turn the empty offices into apartments? (classic)

52

What are teenagers actually seeing on their phones?

53

The Russian Cake Switcheroo

54

Planet Money: The Memecoin Casino

55

Viruses in the Air

56

The Puzzle of the All-American BBQ Scrubber

57

DOGE and the Mystery of the State Department Teslas

58

Does anyone actually like their job? (classic)

59

Can you cure picky eating?

60

What should we do about teens using AI to do their homework?

61

What happens when a cemetery goes out of business?

62

What’s it like to fly when you’re fat?

63

The New Zuckerberg

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Is it ok to just work all the time?

65

Why is the pool at Buckingham Palace a secret?

66

When do you know it’s time to stop drinking? (classic)

67

What if ayahuasca made you stop podcasting?

68

Who buys luggage at the airport luggage store?

69

What is jawmaxxing?

70

The White Subaru Hell Loop

71

How did the first democracy die?

72

How do you sit quietly in the middle of a storm?

73

Should we be worried about OpenAI?

74

Why is it so hard to tax billionaires? (Part 2)

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Why is it so hard to tax billionaires? (Part 1)

76

Death, Sex & Money x Search Engine

77

The Mystery of the Vape Shop Kratom

78

Is everyone pretending to understand inflation (or just me)?

79

A stubborn lunatic’s guide to making great art

80

Can I microdose veganism?

81

What's the best phone to do crimes on?

82

Is there a sane way to follow this election?

83

The End

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The Kidnapping of Ape #8398

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Genesis

86

The Bidding War

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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 2)

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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)

89

What does it feel like to believe in God?

90

How much glue should you put in your pizza?

91

How do we survive the media apocalypse? (Part 2)

92

Should this creepy search engine exist?

93

What do trigger warnings actually do?

94

Where's my flying car?

95

Do political yard signs actually do anything?

96

Why are there so many illegal weed stores in New York City? (Part 2)

97

Why are there so many illegal weed stores in New York City? (Part 1)

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A big announcement from Search Engine plus, "What's in your cocaine?"

99

How do we survive the media apocalypse?

100

Who's behind these scammy text messages we've all been getting?

101

How do you make an addictive video game?

102

Where did all the roaches go?

103

What are we gonna do about all these cats?

104

How do you survive fame?

105

Why are there so many chicken bones on the street? (Part 2)

106

Why are there so many chicken bones on the street? (Part 1)

107

When do you know it’s time to stop drinking?

108

Am I the victim of an international sushi scam? (Part 2)

109

Am I the victim of an international sushi scam? (Part 1)

110

Who should be in charge of AI?

111

Why don’t we eat people?

112

The Bull of Wall Street

113

Why'd I take speed for twenty years? (Part 2)

114

Why'd I take speed for twenty years? (Part 1)

115

Is there a sane way to use the internet?

116

Heavyweight x Search Engine

117

The Fond Du Lac Apartment Mystery

118

Where did the 8 billion dollars go?

119

Why are we still buying diamonds?

120

Why’s it so hard to figure out how many people watch Stranger Things?

121

Does anyone actually like their job?

122

Why are drug dealers putting fentanyl in everything? (Part 2)

123

Why are drug dealers putting fentanyl in everything? (Part 1)

124

Why can’t we just turn the empty offices into apartments?

125

What's it like to slowly go blind?

126

What's going on with Elon Musk?

127

How do I find new music now that I’m old and irrelevant?

128

Wait, should I not be drinking airplane coffee?

129

How sad are the monkeys in the zoo?

130

Introducing: Search Engine

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09 The End

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08 The Kidnapping of Ape #8398

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07 The Drug Trader

134

06 The Lunatic Who Crashed Crypto

135

05 Genesis

136

04 The Skeptic

137

03 Miguel

138

02 ConstitutionDAO

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01 Welcome to Crypto Island