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Search Engine — 148 episodes

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Why’s everybody going to Japan?

2

The Killing of the Gaza Chef

3

The Chosen One

4

A road trip through the data center debate

5

The machines are learning… to do crimes?

6

What’s in your cocaine and the questions Search Engine CAN’T answer

7

How to pursue excellence … in noodles (unlocked bonus)

8

Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? Pt. 2 (classic)

9

Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? Pt. 1 (classic)

10

A Strange Voyage

11

Why doesn’t anybody come to my parties?

12

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

13

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

14

Presenting: Family Lore

15

The many lives of Taiwan

16

Why are people excited about nuclear power again?

17

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

18

Where’s the best free restaurant bread in America?

19

The Cost of War

20

What we got wrong about GLP-1s

21

The Trial of the Driverless Car

22

Are you a good driver?

23

Odd Lots x Search Engine

24

Mysteries of Claude

25

Why don’t we eat people? (classic)

26

How Peptides Conquered the Internet

27

Are flushable wipes actually flushable?

28

The Venezuelan Curse (Part 2)

29

The Venezuelan Curse (Part 1)

30

The Fediverse Experiment

31

Heavyweight x Search Engine

32

A Perfectly Average Anomaly

33

Unlocked: The State of Search Engine 2025

34

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

35

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

36

Colossus 2

37

Colossus 1

38

An Anthropology of Gooners

39

America vs. China

40

The Rage in the Cage

41

Cocomelon For Adults

42

Talk Easy x Search Engine

43

Is my favorite new TV show this year a ripoff?

44

The Obituary

45

How does a rationalist make a baby?

46

A Dubai Chocolate theory of the internet

47

Are microplastics really a problem?

48

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

49

The Cuddly Killer (classic)

50

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

51

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

52

The Psychic Question

53

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

54

The Test

55

The Stupid Little Yogurt Question

56

Search Engine x What We Spend

57

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

58

The Dave and Buster's Anomaly

59

Why the national debt might finally matter

60

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

61

What are teenagers actually seeing on their phones?

62

The Russian Cake Switcheroo

63

Planet Money: The Memecoin Casino

64

Viruses in the Air

65

The Puzzle of the All-American BBQ Scrubber

66

DOGE and the Mystery of the State Department Teslas

67

Does anyone actually like their job? (classic)

68

Can you cure picky eating?

69

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

70

What happens when a cemetery goes out of business?

71

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

72

The New Zuckerberg

73

Is it ok to just work all the time?

74

Why is the pool at Buckingham Palace a secret?

75

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

76

What if ayahuasca made you stop podcasting?

77

Who buys luggage at the airport luggage store?

78

What is jawmaxxing?

79

The White Subaru Hell Loop

80

How did the first democracy die?

81

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

82

Should we be worried about OpenAI?

83

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

84

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

85

Death, Sex & Money x Search Engine

86

The Mystery of the Vape Shop Kratom

87

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

88

A stubborn lunatic’s guide to making great art

89

Can I microdose veganism?

90

What's the best phone to do crimes on?

91

Is there a sane way to follow this election?

92

The End

93

The Kidnapping of Ape #8398

94

Genesis

95

The Bidding War

96

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

97

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

98

What does it feel like to believe in God?

99

How much glue should you put in your pizza?

100

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

101

Should this creepy search engine exist?

102

What do trigger warnings actually do?

103

Where's my flying car?

104

Do political yard signs actually do anything?

105

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

106

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

107

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

108

How do we survive the media apocalypse?

109

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

110

How do you make an addictive video game?

111

Where did all the roaches go?

112

What are we gonna do about all these cats?

113

How do you survive fame?

114

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

115

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

116

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

117

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

118

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

119

Who should be in charge of AI?

120

Why don’t we eat people?

121

The Bull of Wall Street

122

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

123

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

124

Is there a sane way to use the internet?

125

Heavyweight x Search Engine

126

The Fond Du Lac Apartment Mystery

127

Where did the 8 billion dollars go?

128

Why are we still buying diamonds?

129

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

130

Does anyone actually like their job?

131

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

132

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

133

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

134

What's it like to slowly go blind?

135

What's going on with Elon Musk?

136

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

137

Wait, should I not be drinking airplane coffee?

138

How sad are the monkeys in the zoo?

139

Introducing: Search Engine

140

09 The End

141

08 The Kidnapping of Ape #8398

142

07 The Drug Trader

143

06 The Lunatic Who Crashed Crypto

144

05 Genesis

145

04 The Skeptic

146

03 Miguel

147

02 ConstitutionDAO

148

01 Welcome to Crypto Island