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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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22%The machines are learning… to do crimes?
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29%What’s in your cocaine and the questions Search Engine CAN’T answer
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22%How to pursue excellence … in noodles (unlocked bonus)
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32%Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? Pt. 2 (classic)
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26%Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? Pt. 1 (classic)
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19%A Strange Voyage
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25%Why doesn’t anybody come to my parties?
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25%Why is the pool at Buckingham Palace a secret? (classic)
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21%Why do we have to pay into the new Anti-Weaponization Fund?
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30%Presenting: Family Lore
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22%The many lives of Taiwan
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22%Why are people excited about nuclear power again?
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34%What if the cemetery goes out of business? (classic)
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29%Where’s the best free restaurant bread in America?
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29%The Cost of War
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26%What we got wrong about GLP-1s
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21%The Trial of the Driverless Car
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33%Are you a good driver?
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21%Odd Lots x Search Engine
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29%Mysteries of Claude
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22%Why don’t we eat people? (classic)
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23%How Peptides Conquered the Internet
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34%Are flushable wipes actually flushable?
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21%The Venezuelan Curse (Part 2)
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29%The Venezuelan Curse (Part 1)
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24%The Fediverse Experiment
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27%Heavyweight x Search Engine
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26%A Perfectly Average Anomaly
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30%Unlocked: The State of Search Engine 2025
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31%What's the best phone to do crimes on? (classic)
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29%How to talk (or not talk) politics at family holidays
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20%Colossus 2
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23%Colossus 1
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28%An Anthropology of Gooners
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34%America vs. China
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31%The Rage in the Cage
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27%Cocomelon For Adults
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29%Talk Easy x Search Engine
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28%Is my favorite new TV show this year a ripoff?
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32%The Obituary
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22%How does a rationalist make a baby?
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20%A Dubai Chocolate theory of the internet
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21%Are microplastics really a problem?
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25%What does it feel like to believe in God? (classic)
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31%The Cuddly Killer (classic)
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21%Why'd I take speed for twenty years? - Part 2 (classic)
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27%Why'd I take speed for twenty years? - Part 1 (classic)
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67%The Psychic Question
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26%Wait, should I not be drinking airplane coffee? (classic)
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23%The Test
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23%The Stupid Little Yogurt Question
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27%Search Engine x What We Spend
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36%How to stop being so phone addicted (without self-discipline or meditation)
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30%The Dave and Buster's Anomaly
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32%Why the national debt might finally matter
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20%Why can’t we just turn the empty offices into apartments? (classic)
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33%What are teenagers actually seeing on their phones?
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23%The Russian Cake Switcheroo
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22%Planet Money: The Memecoin Casino
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25%Viruses in the Air
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20%The Puzzle of the All-American BBQ Scrubber
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29%DOGE and the Mystery of the State Department Teslas
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29%Does anyone actually like their job? (classic)
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31%Can you cure picky eating?
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30%What should we do about teens using AI to do their homework?
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34%What happens when a cemetery goes out of business?
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22%What’s it like to fly when you’re fat?
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27%The New Zuckerberg
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32%Is it ok to just work all the time?
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74%Why is the pool at Buckingham Palace a secret?
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22%When do you know it’s time to stop drinking? (classic)
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26%What if ayahuasca made you stop podcasting?
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23%Who buys luggage at the airport luggage store?
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19%What is jawmaxxing?
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24%The White Subaru Hell Loop
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25%How did the first democracy die?
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29%How do you sit quietly in the middle of a storm?
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26%Should we be worried about OpenAI?
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25%Why is it so hard to tax billionaires? (Part 2)
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25%Why is it so hard to tax billionaires? (Part 1)
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23%Death, Sex & Money x Search Engine
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36%The Mystery of the Vape Shop Kratom
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24%Is everyone pretending to understand inflation (or just me)?
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21%A stubborn lunatic’s guide to making great art
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22%Can I microdose veganism?
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20%What's the best phone to do crimes on?
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30%Is there a sane way to follow this election?
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25%The End
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22%The Kidnapping of Ape #8398
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38%Genesis
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24%The Bidding War
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67%Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 2)
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28%Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
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19%What does it feel like to believe in God?
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30%How much glue should you put in your pizza?
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30%How do we survive the media apocalypse? (Part 2)
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33%Should this creepy search engine exist?
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29%What do trigger warnings actually do?
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79%Where's my flying car?
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31%Do political yard signs actually do anything?
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22%Why are there so many illegal weed stores in New York City? (Part 2)
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28%Why are there so many illegal weed stores in New York City? (Part 1)
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30%A big announcement from Search Engine plus, "What's in your cocaine?"
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26%How do we survive the media apocalypse?
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28%Who's behind these scammy text messages we've all been getting?
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24%How do you make an addictive video game?
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32%Where did all the roaches go?
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30%What are we gonna do about all these cats?
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26%How do you survive fame?
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20%Why are there so many chicken bones on the street? (Part 2)
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27%Why are there so many chicken bones on the street? (Part 1)
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21%When do you know it’s time to stop drinking?
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21%Am I the victim of an international sushi scam? (Part 2)
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28%Am I the victim of an international sushi scam? (Part 1)
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23%Who should be in charge of AI?
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20%Why don’t we eat people?
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26%The Bull of Wall Street
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30%Why'd I take speed for twenty years? (Part 2)
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24%Why'd I take speed for twenty years? (Part 1)
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28%Is there a sane way to use the internet?
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30%Heavyweight x Search Engine
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31%The Fond Du Lac Apartment Mystery
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37%Where did the 8 billion dollars go?
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22%Why are we still buying diamonds?
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23%Why’s it so hard to figure out how many people watch Stranger Things?
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22%Does anyone actually like their job?
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30%Why are drug dealers putting fentanyl in everything? (Part 2)
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26%Why are drug dealers putting fentanyl in everything? (Part 1)
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33%Why can’t we just turn the empty offices into apartments?
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32%What's it like to slowly go blind?
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26%What's going on with Elon Musk?
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19%How do I find new music now that I’m old and irrelevant?
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30%Wait, should I not be drinking airplane coffee?
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19%How sad are the monkeys in the zoo?
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23%09 The End
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32%08 The Kidnapping of Ape #8398
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28%07 The Drug Trader
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30%06 The Lunatic Who Crashed Crypto
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25%05 Genesis
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29%04 The Skeptic
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20%03 Miguel
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27%02 ConstitutionDAO
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29%01 Welcome to Crypto Island
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