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.
298 episodes transcribedEver since he was diagnosed as a kid, Adam has wondered if ADHD is a serious psychological condition, or a false diagnosis pushed by an overz...
Everywhere you look, some pundit is claiming that AI is soon to replace humanity. But is that really inevitable - or are we choosing to make...
Journalist Jesse Eisinger joins Adam to explain how he and his colleagues at ProPublica exposed how little billionaires pay in taxes – often,...
LA Times reporter Johana Bhuiyan joins Adam to explain how Ring built a private surveillance empire by promising kickbacks to an unlikely acc...
Seashells may seem like a small topic for a book, or a podcast. But when we look into them deeply, we find that they reveal startling truths...
What are our moral obligations to nature, and the wild animals that live in it? Should we vaccinate them? Should we feed them when they're st...
Tesla and other automakers have convinced the public that fully automated vehicles are just around the corner. But what if … they aren’t? Dr....
As nature lovers, we prize the idea of places untouched by human influence. But new research shows that such places were few and far between...
Despite their limited representation in the media, Native Americans have had a profound influence on American comedy. So why isn't Charlie Hi...
Quantum mechanics is over a century old, yet most of us still struggle to truly understand it. This week theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli...
We know that not all American trust science. But why, exactly, should they, when scientists are fallible humans, just like the rest of us? Ac...
This week Adam welcomes an author whose book blew his mind more than perhaps any other. Americans are typically taught that prior to the arri...
If you love video games, working in game development sounds like a dream job — especially since the industry now grosses more than movies and...
Voting rights are under assault around the country. And while we tend to see “democracy" as a big, abstract noun, it’s the smallest, most mun...
It had to happen eventually: We’re doing an episode about crypto. This week artist and technologist Everest Pipkin joins Adam to discuss Bitc...
Facebook pushes dangerous misinformation to billions of people every day. So why can’t it… stop? This week, MIT Technology Review’s Senior AI...
It's Factually's 100th episode! To celebrate, Adam is joined by Full Frontal host Sam Bee to discuss the art of combining fact with farce. Th...
There are a lot of causes of the declining global birth rate – education, freedom, and even the decline of subsistence agriculture. But what...
Clothes today cost a fraction of what they cost our grandparents — but why, and at what cost? Journalist and author Dana Thomas joins Adam to...
We’re flooded with misinformation, and new research shows that cliches about “thinking critically” and “doing your own research” are counterp...
