Comedian Adam Conover talks to exceptional experts, revealing shocking truths and thought-provoking new perspectives. It’s an investigative comedy podcast for curious people who never stop asking questions.
389 episodes transcribedThe news is relentless in pace as well as issues, isn’t it? This week we’re trying something a bit different: Adam sits with previous guests...
What are we doing in Iran? No, seriously. Why? Call it what you will, but we’ve just gone to war for seemingly no reason whatsoever. In a bon...
Actor and comedian Joel McHale isn’t just one of the nicest people working in entertainment; he’s also got a unique, firsthand perspective on...
Why is it that the anti-trans movement is so ferociously set on upending the livelihood of people who are simply trying to live their lives?...
The tech industry no longer serves human needs. According to legal scholar and writer Tim Wu, the tech industry has shifted away from providi...
The scoring mechanics of video games are ostensibly how the player is directed to have fun. Scores put interesting bounds on the experience o...
After the madness of the past decade, it can feel impossible to tell where we’re at in our political story as a country. Between Trump kidnap...
For decades, the threat of total nuclear annihilation cast a long shadow on everyday life. Nowadays, it almost seems like an old-fashioned ki...
Susan Orlean is one of the greatest living nonfiction writers. She has an uncanny ability to find stories in mundane, unexpected places, and...
Would you rather that your attention were a resource freely directed toward your interests, or a measure of how many ads can be propelled int...
It kind of seems like political corruption should be illegal, doesn’t it? Whether it’s happening on the right or the left, the whole filthy o...
Even if the AI bubble bursts, the technology won’t just disappear. We’re going to live alongside some version of AI, so we have to ask: what...
Why should we assume that AI is safe? As the technology has grown at an alarming rate, companies like OpenAI have seen wrongful death lawsuit...
While it feels like the very concept of an accepted collective reality has crumbled around us, Wikipedia has gradually revealed itself to be...
Plastic is everywhere. Over the past century, we’ve stuffed our landfills, lined the bottom of the ocean floor, and even managed to get micro...
The rumors are true: our world is a dumpster fire, and it feels like it’s growing hotter and stinkier by the day. If it feels hopeless, like...
Do you have the not-so-creeping feeling that the world is ending? You might be right. The world’s ended before, and the world will end again—...
You’ve almost certainly heard Peter Thiel’s name. You very likely even have an opinion about him. But how much do you actually know about him...
Our politicians are too f*#&ing old. We’ve covered the state of our dismal, sleepy, cranky gerontocracy before—but how do we actually get...
Half the states in the US have passed age verification laws that put pornography under threat. Not only does this compromise a vital industry...
