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 transcribedDo we really own the devices we buy? ‘The Right to Repair’ author Aaron Perzanowki joins Adam to explain how companies are using their power...
Instead of debunking religious beliefs, what if we investigated where religion comes from, and why it’s virtually universal across human cult...
The IPCC Report is one of the biggest, most important scientific projects ever undertaken by humankind, bringing together thousands of scient...
We’ve known about climate chance since the 80s. So why has action been so slow? Journalist and author of Fire and Flood, Eugene Linden, joins...
The 1960’s are often depicted as the the golden age of air travel, but the reality for the stewardesses who worked the skies was far from gil...
The early Internet was open, exciting, and deeply optimistic. So how did we end up, just a few decades later, with one that’s closed, exploit...
Why do we have such a cultural aversion to human poop, when it’s so fascinating and useful? Stay with us: in this episode, science journalist...
Around the world and for most of history, human societies have been dominated by men. Why? Professor and author of the forthcoming “The Great...
China is now one of the world’s most powerful nations. But how did its unique and formidable language shape its rise? Jing Tsu, the author of...
Why is housing so expensive, when other human needs like food are relatively cheap? Brookings Senior Fellow and author of Fixer-Upper, Jenny...
The American conversation about reparations is sadly narrow. But what if reparations could address not just the sins of the past, but the inj...
Despite how much our media talks about China, most Americans don't really know all that much about it. What is China’s view of itself and its...
What would our world look like if we paid more attention to the knowledge indigenous communities have discovered about the world around us? O...
As we head into the third year of the pandemic, US workers are organizing and unionizing like it’s the early days of the Industrial Revolutio...
We spend more time in digital, virtual spaces than ever. But are those places really real? If they are, does that mean we could be living in...
Playing games is a fundamental human activity. But despite their ubiquity, they’ve never gotten the serious study from scholars they deserve....
Our abusive, for-profit healthcare system has left Americans swimming in harmful medical debt. On this week’s episode, Adam meets someone who...
A deeply embedded idea in our culture is the sexist notion that men are the “default” human, and women the unknowable “other". Nowhere is thi...
The NRA has been unbelievably successful in achieving its goals. Now, it's falling apart. How is that possible? On the show today is National...
This week on Factually we’re re-releasing one of our favorite episodes. Entomologist and professor Akito Kawahara joins Adam to discuss why i...
