Previous episodes
One choice for each day. Nothing to catch up on — browse if you like, or wait for tomorrow.
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August 21, 2026
Freakonomics Radio · Stephen Dubner · 48 min
A quietly unsettling look at how much of medicine rests on numbers nobody re-checked. Not a conspiracy story — a story about how evidence actually accumulates, and how slowly it gets corrected.
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August 20, 2026
Acquired · Ben Gilbert & David Rosenthal · 3 hr 12 min
The story of the single most important company most people cannot name, told with the patience of a long book and the clarity of a great lecture. By the end you understand not just a business but the physical substrate of modern life.
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August 19, 2026
Search Engine · PJ Vogt · 1 hr 2 min
PJ Vogt takes a question most reporting answers with a statistic and follows it all the way down to the economics, the chemistry and the human decisions underneath. Curiosity done properly, without a single moment of outrage-farming.
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August 18, 2026
EconTalk · Michael Munger · 1 hr 8 min
Two economists who normally argue about markets sit with an uncomfortable question: what does economics get wrong when it treats a moral catastrophe as an efficiency problem? The conversation is patient, self-questioning, and never reaches for a slogan.
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August 17, 2026
The Ezra Klein Show · Nilay Patel · 1 hr 12 min
Two people who have spent their careers inside the attention economy talk honestly about what it has cost. It is not a lecture about screen time; it is a conversation about what happens to a culture when everything is optimised for a click.
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August 16, 2026
Decoder with Nilay Patel · Brian Chesky · 1 hr 6 min
A slogan got loose on the internet and this is the conversation where someone is actually pressed on what it means. Chesky is unusually specific about how he runs things, and the interviewer does not let vague answers pass. Useful whether you agree with him or not.
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August 15, 2026
Move Your DNA with Katy Bowman · Katy Bowman · 44 min
A biomechanist takes the most unglamorous subject imaginable and uses it to explain something larger: how the shape of a body records decades of small habits. No supplements, no protocols, no hype. Just careful thinking about how we live in our own feet.
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August 14, 2026
Planet Money · Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon (archival) · 24 min
Two men made a public bet about whether the world was running out of resources, and the story of who won is far less interesting than why the argument never ended. Twenty-four minutes that reframe every doom forecast you will read this year.
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August 13, 2026
Dwarkesh Podcast · Sarah C. M. Paine · 2 hr 12 min
A naval historian teaching, not performing. Paine explains how strategy actually fails: not through a single bad battle but through a chain of reasonable-sounding decisions. It is the rare long conversation where the length is the point.
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August 12, 2026
In Our Time · Sanjeev Gupta, Rebecca Bell, Saskia Goes · 52 min
A calm academic conversation about how an idea considered ridiculous became the foundation of modern earth science. No music, no drama, just three scholars taking their time. It is a small lesson in how consensus actually changes.
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August 11, 2026
Radiolab · Jonah Lehrer, Karim Nader, Oliver Sacks · 58 min
An hour that quietly dismantles the idea that memory is a recording. Every time you remember something you rebuild it, and the rebuilding changes it. The reporting is careful, the storytelling is patient, and the conclusion stays with you long after the episode ends.
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August 10, 2026
Articles of Interest · Avery Trufelman · 23 min
A short episode about a detail so ordinary you have never once questioned it, and by the end it has become a story about who is trusted to carry things. The best kind of small idea: it stays with you longer than most long ones.
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