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.
395 episodes transcribedThe video game industry is in a state of chaos. Layoffs, buyouts, studio closures, mergers—the entire industry seems plagued. Except for Nint...
It’s easy to feel powerless with everything going on, but there are normal people out there every day banding together to change the world fo...
Trump’s assault on immigrants is ongoing. ICE continues to raid neighborhoods, kidnap people, and commit the occasional murder. Time and agai...
For nearly two decades, prospects for college graduates have been dwindling. The worth of a degree has suffered greatly, and it’s become incr...
Will AI obliterate all of humanity? Will it destroy all of our jobs? There are so many questions swirling around the existential threat that...
(In addition to your weekly Factually! episode, this week we're bringing you a monologue from Adam. This short, researched monologue original...
The 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...
