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Factually! with Adam Conover
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.
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White Collar Workers are Radicalizing with Noam Scheiber
For nearly two decades, prospects for college graduates have been dwindling. The worth of a degree has suffered greatly, and it’s become increasingly...
Debunking AI’s “Existential Risk” with Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor
Will AI obliterate all of humanity? Will it destroy all of our jobs? There are so many questions swirling around the existential threat that AI poses,...
Ballet isn't dead, movies are.
(In addition to your weekly Factually! episode, this week we're bringing you a monologue from Adam. This short, researched monologue originally aired...
AI, Mergers, and This Week's News Onslaught, with Dylan McKeever and Jason Koebler
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 Jason Koe...
Why the F#!@ Are We Are War with Iran? with Reza Aslan
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 bonus episod...
Joel McHale is Nicer Than We Deserve, with Joel McHale
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 the mass...
Anti-Trans Playbook is Designed to Hurt Women, with Paisley Currah
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? As it tur...
Tech Giants Are Nothing But Middlemen, with Tim Wu
The tech industry no longer serves human needs. According to legal scholar and writer Tim Wu, the tech industry has shifted away from providing servic...
How to Beat the Gamification of Our Lives with C. Thi Nguyen
The scoring mechanics of video games are ostensibly how the player is directed to have fun. Scores put interesting bounds on the experience of play, l...
Is the Trump Regime Crumbling? with Osita Nwanevu
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 kidnapping the...
What Nuclear War Would Actually Look Like with Annie Jacobsen
For decades, the threat of total nuclear annihilation cast a long shadow on everyday life. Nowadays, it almost seems like an old-fashioned kind of fea...
Susan Orlean Shares the Secrets of a Lifetime of Reporting
Susan Orlean is one of the greatest living nonfiction writers. She has an uncanny ability to find stories in mundane, unexpected places, and approach...
You Are Being Robbed of Your Attention with D. Graham Burnett and Peter Schmidt
Would you rather that your attention were a resource freely directed toward your interests, or a measure of how many ads can be propelled into your ey...
The Hidden Plot to Legalize Corruption with David Sirota
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 ordeal has...
An AI Expert Challenges an AI Skeptic, with Ethan Mollick
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 does our...
An AI Safety Expert Explains the Dangers of AI with Steven Adler
Why should we assume that AI is safe? As the technology has grown at an alarming rate, companies like OpenAI have seen wrongful death lawsuits begin t...
Exploring the Depths of Wikipedia with Annie Rauwerda
While it feels like the very concept of an accepted collective reality has crumbled around us, Wikipedia has gradually revealed itself to be our accep...
Plastic Pollution is Killing Us with Judith Enck
Plastic is everywhere. Over the past century, we’ve stuffed our landfills, lined the bottom of the ocean floor, and even managed to get microscopic pa...
Philosophers Explain How a Single Person Can Make a Difference with Alex Madva and Michael Brownstein
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 it’s usel...
We All Feel Like the World's Ending Because It Is (Kind Of) with Lizzie Wade
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—just not...
America’s Secret Technofacist Overlord, with Max Chafkin
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? One of...
Let’s Replace Our Elderly Politicians, with Amanda Litman
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 power into t...
Why Porn Bans Will Destroy the Internet with Siri Dahl and Noelle Perdue
Half the states in the US have passed age verification laws that put pornography under threat. Not only does this compromise a vital industry, it puts...
Everyone Can Screw Us Now Thanks to Trump, with Julie Morgan
Everyone in their right mind already knows the gift: Trump ran on helping working people, then immediately threw working Americans to the wolves in fa...
America is Addicted to Cars, with Sarah Goodyear and Doug Gordon
While we think of automobiles as an integral part of American life, the fact is that they’re just objectively a bad form of transportation. They’re co...
Stand Up Comedy with Tourette's with Benny Feldman
Benny Feldman is one of the funniest new comics working today. He also has Tourette Syndrome, a neurological condition characterized by involuntary vo...
The Ensh*ttification of Everything with Cory Doctorow
The internet is getting shittier. Hell, the whole world is getting shittier. The thing is, it’s no accident—it’s by design. The tech giants who run th...
The Labor Movement Refuses to Be Destroyed By Trump with Julie Su
Trump despises the average worker and has spent the past several months doing everything he can to demolish the labor protections that Americans of pr...
Will A.I. Slop Replace the Internet? with Jason Koebler
A.I. slop is competing for space all across the web, and it’s starting to edge out actual human creators. The internet, once rife with possibility, is...
Being Funny in Deeply Unfunny Times with Gianmarco Soresi
Comedy has changed as an art form. On top of social media fundamentally reconfiguring the expectations of the audience for what the role of a comedian...
What Labubus Say About Our F-d Up Economy
(In addition to your weekly Factually! episode, this week we're bringing you a monologue from Adam. This short, researched monologue originally aired...
Genocide Scholar: I Know It When I See It, with Omer Bartov
The Palestinian people are being killed en masse, they are being starved, and many are dying of preventable disease. More and more people are beginnin...
Why Strength Training Kicks Dieting’s Ass with Casey Johnston
Being in “good shape” doesn’t just mean changing your diet in pursuit of unrealistic standards of thinness; it means challenging your body to be more...
How The Naked Gun Saved Comedy
The world is getting less funny. Not just out there in the geopolitical hellscape of every day life, but at the movie theater as well. While comedy fi...
Vivian Wilson Bullies Adam Conover for 74 Minutes
One of Elon Musk’s most insightful critics is his own daughter. Vivian Wilson came into the limelight last year after her father deadnamed her in an i...
Everything in America is a Pyramid Scheme Now with Bridget Read
Pyramid schemes have been a comedic punchline for ages now, but they’ve never been more relevant. Not only is there still a thriving culture of multi-...
What’s Wrong with Capitalism? with John Cassidy
While we’re certainly in a uniquely bad time for our capitalist society, we’re definitely not the first people to be having the thought, “what if thin...
Zohran Is Teaching the Left How to Win
(In addition to your weekly Factually! episode, this week we're bringing you a monologue from Adam. This short, researched monologue originally aired...
Spotify Is Even Worse Than You Think with Liz Pelly
It’s no secret that Spotify pays artists extremely poorly, but it turns out they don’t treat their customers much better. Author and journalist Liz Pe...
We’re not ready for what’s coming.
(In addition to your weekly Factually! episode, this week we're bringing you a monologue from Adam. This short, researched monologue originally aired...