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Search Engine — 133 episodes

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1

Why are people excited about nuclear power again?

2

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

3

Where’s the best free restaurant bread in America?

4

The Cost of War

5

What we got wrong about GLP-1s

6

The Trial of the Driverless Car

7

Are you a good driver?

8

Odd Lots x Search Engine

9

Mysteries of Claude

10

Why don’t we eat people? (classic)

11

How Peptides Conquered the Internet

12

Are flushable wipes actually flushable?

13

The Venezuelan Curse (Part 2)

14

The Venezuelan Curse (Part 1)

15

The Fediverse Experiment

16

Heavyweight x Search Engine

17

A Perfectly Average Anomaly

18

Unlocked: The State of Search Engine 2025

19

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

20

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

21

Colossus 2

22

Colossus 1

23

An Anthropology of Gooners

24

America vs. China

25

The Rage in the Cage

26

Cocomelon For Adults

27

Talk Easy x Search Engine

28

Is my favorite new TV show this year a ripoff?

29

The Obituary

30

How does a rationalist make a baby?

31

A Dubai Chocolate theory of the internet

32

Are microplastics really a problem?

33

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

34

The Cuddly Killer (classic)

35

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

36

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

37

The Psychic Question

38

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

39

The Test

40

The Stupid Little Yogurt Question

41

Search Engine x What We Spend

42

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

43

The Dave and Buster's Anomaly

44

Why the national debt might finally matter

45

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

46

What are teenagers actually seeing on their phones?

47

The Russian Cake Switcheroo

48

Planet Money: The Memecoin Casino

49

Viruses in the Air

50

The Puzzle of the All-American BBQ Scrubber

51

DOGE and the Mystery of the State Department Teslas

52

Does anyone actually like their job? (classic)

53

Can you cure picky eating?

54

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

55

What happens when a cemetery goes out of business?

56

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

57

The New Zuckerberg

58

Is it ok to just work all the time?

59

Why is the pool at Buckingham Palace a secret?

60

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

61

What if ayahuasca made you stop podcasting?

62

Who buys luggage at the airport luggage store?

63

What is jawmaxxing?

64

The White Subaru Hell Loop

65

How did the first democracy die?

66

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

67

Should we be worried about OpenAI?

68

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

69

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

70

Death, Sex & Money x Search Engine

71

The Mystery of the Vape Shop Kratom

72

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

73

A stubborn lunatic’s guide to making great art

74

Can I microdose veganism?

75

What's the best phone to do crimes on?

76

Is there a sane way to follow this election?

77

The End

78

The Kidnapping of Ape #8398

79

Genesis

80

The Bidding War

81

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

82

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

83

What does it feel like to believe in God?

84

How much glue should you put in your pizza?

85

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

86

Should this creepy search engine exist?

87

What do trigger warnings actually do?

88

Where's my flying car?

89

Do political yard signs actually do anything?

90

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

91

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

92

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

93

How do we survive the media apocalypse?

94

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

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95

How do you make an addictive video game?

96

Where did all the roaches go?

97

What are we gonna do about all these cats?

98

How do you survive fame?

99

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

100

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

101

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

102

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

103

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

104

Who should be in charge of AI?

105

Why don’t we eat people?

106

The Bull of Wall Street

107

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

108

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

109

Is there a sane way to use the internet?

110

Heavyweight x Search Engine

111

The Fond Du Lac Apartment Mystery

112

Where did the 8 billion dollars go?

113

Why are we still buying diamonds?

114

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

115

Does anyone actually like their job?

116

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

117

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

118

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

119

What's it like to slowly go blind?

120

What's going on with Elon Musk?

121

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

122

Wait, should I not be drinking airplane coffee?

123

How sad are the monkeys in the zoo?

124

Introducing: Search Engine

125

09 The End

126

08 The Kidnapping of Ape #8398

127

07 The Drug Trader

128

06 The Lunatic Who Crashed Crypto

129

05 Genesis

130

04 The Skeptic

131

03 Miguel

132

02 ConstitutionDAO

133

01 Welcome to Crypto Island