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PJ Vogt

We try to make sense of the world, one question at a time. No question too big, no question too small.

Hosted by PJ Vogt, edited by Sruthi Pinnamaneni. Named one of the best podcasts of all time by Time Magazine

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147 episodes

  1. What it’s like when Elizabeth Holmes decides to destroy your life 1:09:47
  2. Is your new co-worker secretly North Korean? 46:23
  3. One man could slow down AI. He won’t. Why? 57:40
  4. Unreliable Narrator 50:49
  5. Vladimir Putin's Forkiverse 37:47
  6. Search Engine x Better in Person 43:03
  7. Bollywood Dreams 1:05:05
  8. Why’s everybody going to Japan? 50:40
  9. The Killing of the Gaza Chef 49:20
  10. The Chosen One 47:46
  11. A road trip through the data center debate 39:20
  12. How the Hugging Face hack happened 37:58
  13. What’s in your cocaine and the questions Search Engine CAN’T answer 1:01:14
  14. How to pursue excellence … in noodles (unlocked bonus) 47:55
  15. Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? Pt. 2 (classic) 1:10:34
  16. Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? Pt. 1 (classic) 52:40
  17. A Strange Voyage 1:00:38
  18. Why doesn’t anybody come to my parties? 47:22
  19. Why is the pool at Buckingham Palace a secret? (classic) 1:08:20
  20. Why do we have to pay into the new Anti-Weaponization Fund? 40:25
  21. The many lives of Taiwan 1:06:56
  22. Why are people excited about nuclear power again? 49:36
  23. What if the cemetery goes out of business? (classic) 49:32
  24. Where’s the best free restaurant bread in America? 38:54
  25. The Cost of War 48:39
  26. What we got wrong about GLP-1s 46:02
  27. The Trial of the Driverless Car 1:03:40
  28. Are you a good driver? 1:06:47
  29. Mysteries of Claude 48:54
  30. Why don’t we eat people? (classic) 57:32
  31. How Peptides Conquered the Internet 45:05
  32. Are flushable wipes actually flushable? 55:54
  33. The Venezuelan Curse (Part 2) 58:50
  34. The Venezuelan Curse (Part 1) 1:06:18
  35. The Fediverse Experiment 38:38
  36. A Perfectly Average Anomaly 55:49
  37. Unlocked: The State of Search Engine 2025 49:01
  38. What's the best phone to do crimes on? (classic) 59:31
  39. How to talk (or not talk) politics at family holidays 35:38
  40. Colossus 2 43:16
  41. Colossus 1 42:03
  42. An Anthropology of Gooners 43:49
  43. America vs. China 57:00
  44. The Rage in the Cage 52:05
  45. Cocomelon For Adults 46:51
  46. Is my favorite new TV show this year a ripoff? 46:58
  47. The Obituary 53:08
  48. How does a rationalist make a baby? 47:35
  49. A Dubai Chocolate theory of the internet 38:59
  50. Are microplastics really a problem? 46:22