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Panic World

Garbage Media

A weekly podcast, hosted by Ryan Broderick, about how the internet warps our minds, our culture — and reality.

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The family influencers who will do anything for views

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The internet is freaking out about Rocky Horror Picture Show again

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How Bronies won the internet

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When the internet convinces you you're being followed

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Why are we addicted to disgusting food videos

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BONUS PREVIEW: "Primetime" gets it

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Why "To Catch A Predator" videos feel so gross

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The original looksmaxxer who created our hell world

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We're going independent

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Charlie Kirk didn't matter

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BONUS PREVIEW: Is social media actually "dead" now?

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The sicko who invented prediction markets

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Bad things happen when we let robots decide what’s good

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Our autopsy of the DNC autopsy

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BONUS PREVIEW: Enhanced masculinity crisis

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The Onion's big plans for InfoWars

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We went to the UFC fight at the White House lol

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This celebrity murder case feels like fan fiction

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BONUS PREVIEW: This is the dot-com crash all over again [Part 2]

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BONUS: How the internet destroyed TV (and itself) [Part 1]

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Fauxbituaries (Hyperfixed)

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New York hipsters and the antichrist

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Revisiting "Her" in the age of AI relationships

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Why AI cat videos are becoming the internet’s newest weird obsession

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How trad wives took over the internet — from 4chan to TikTok

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You're one post away from becoming the internet's main character

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PREVIEW BONUS: Clavicular's crash out and the death of clipping

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When sex is "optimized"

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Why the internet's grossest influencer is more powerful than you think

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The internet sucks, and Congress might make it worse

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Cicada 3301: The internet puzzle that might’ve been a psyop

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Boomer brain rot started long before Facebook

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BONUS: The Oscars snubbed "The Secret Agent"

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The people who think every celebrity is secretly trans

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How Epstein weaponized the internet

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Who killed cool?

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How being straight became gay

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Are we all going to end up in AI relationships?

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BONUS: How Epstein broke the internet — and our lives

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lonelygirl15 and when lies could be fun

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BONUS: Abolish ICE

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Meet the guy trying to release the Epstein files

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The myth of the Antifa super soldier

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We were at ICE’s invasion in Minneapolis

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Why we always blame video games

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BONUS: Kitchencels solves the male loneliness crisis

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The worst things on the internet this year

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The age of the lolcow

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Did Russiagate matter?

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Our favorite middle school conspiracies

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Is the future of politics "influencers"?

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Is cancel culture canceled?

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How to deal with rage bait

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When the internet convinces you you're sick

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Why Democrats keep losing the internet

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The wild world wide web of witches

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BONUS: One or two hot takes on One Battle After Another

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The big dumb weather conspiracy

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BONUS: How Eddington and Weapons hold a mirror up to our Panic World

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The no fap movement and why the boys aren't all right

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Charlie Kirk was killed by a meme

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You might be listening to AI music

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BONUS: The new age of terror

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Mobile game ads: The worst online slop

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BONUS: The secret plan to outlaw porn in the US (is working)

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Does Mark Zuckerberg Care Anymore? (How Is This Better?)

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Is the ghost of Epstein breaking MAGA?

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Investigating a cult inspired by a cartoon mouse (w/ PJ Vogt)

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BONUS: Sydney Sweeney and rage bait

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Why eating disorder content is all over the internet

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The cult using Minecraft to recruit

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Why Slenderman became a moral panic

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What happened to JK Rowling?

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The plot to ruin the new Superman movie

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Some big news in Panic World

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We are living in a casino

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Why were cops fainting from fentanyl?

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Your conspiracy families

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The man behind Trump's Salvadoran gulags

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What happened to Kanye?

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BONUS: AI therapy slop

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How long will Trump's base support him?

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The effects of true crime brain rot

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That time a 4chan user got thrown in a Taliban prison

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Netflix's "Adolescence" and the masculinity crisis

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Has China already won the internet?

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My friend's dad is a Holocaust denier now

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Here's who killed the #MeToo movement (with Kat Tenbarge)

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Who turned Gen Z fascist? (With Felix Biederman)

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Who orders hitmen online? (With Carl Miller)

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You’re panicking wrong about AI (with Casey Newton)

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Here's why everyone's fighting about delivery apps (with Allegra Rosenberg)

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BONUS: One month of DOGE shit

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Is dating worse than ever? (With Magdalene Taylor)

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The secret plan to outlaw porn in the US (with Junlper)

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What Area 51 can teach us about the drones in NJ (with Dylan Thuras)

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Are online "suicide games" real? (With Alex Goldman)

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How bin Laden killed TikTok (with Rachel Gilmore)

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BONUS: Meta doesn't care anymore

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How Facebook caused January 6th (with Charlie Warzel)

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BONUS: Does the left really need a Kyle Rittenhouse?

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The Top 10 Panics of 2024 (with Katie Notopoulos, Luke Bailey, & Adam Bumas)

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Did gender influencers doom Gen Z? (With Rebecca Jennings & Luke Winkie)

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The rise and (maybe) fall of Mr. Beast (with Ben Brock Johnson & Amory Sivertson)

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BONUS: The right-wing pivot of Perfume TikTok

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Did Tumblr turn kids trans? (With Vera Drew)

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BONUS: The Joe Rogan we need isn't so easy to create

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Silicon Valley’s midlife crisis (with Taylor Lorenz)

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How QAnon changed American politics forever (with Travis View)

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Was the Tide Pod Challenge ever real? (With PJ Vogt)

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The Blair Witch: The first viral hoax (with David Sims)

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The women the internet loves to hate (with Caroline Calloway)

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Chappell Roan and the Pop Crave election (with Akilah Hughes)

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Whatever happened to Kate Middleton? (With Ellie Hall)

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Are kids' brains being rotted by screens? (With Michael Hobbes)

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The right-wing meltdown over Haitian immigrants (with Kat Abughazaleh)

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NyQuil Chicken (with Katie Notopoulos)

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