A ruthless (and ruthlessly efficient) industry is using digital tools to supercharge one of the worldâs oldest behaviors. We look at how the industry works, and ask the scam-fighters what theyâre doing about it.
Disgust is a strong emotion, one designed by evolution to protect us from danger and diseases. But disgust also spills into other areas of our lives, influencing our morals, our intuitions about right and wrong, even our politics. We talk with psychologist David Pizarro about how disgust is used to persuade and divide us, and why it remains such a potent force in public life today. Then, in our latest installment of âYour Questions Answered,â Huggy Rao returns to respond to listenersâ thoughts and questions about why big ideas fail.
This week Ilana Glazer joins Matt and Bowen to discuss Tayla Swiff's new album, Long Island as the prototypical suburb, entering the Dunstaissance, when Ilana met RuPaul, her sisterhood with Abbi Jacobson, and Susie Essman as her comedy mother.
We've watched all the nominees in the major categories for the Oscars including Sinners, One Battle After Another, Hamnet, and Marty Supreme. So we’ve got opinions about what will win and what should win. (And yes, we’ll talk about Timothée Chalamet.)For a list of our favorite Oscar nominated films, check out our list at Letterboxd — at letterboxd.com/nprpopculture.To manage podcast ad preferences, review the links below:See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
If a species is horrible enough, do we have the right to kill it forever? Seventy years ago, a nightmare parasite feasted on the live flesh of warm-blooded creatures in North America: the screwworm. That is, until a young scientist named Edward F. Knipling discovered a crucial screwworm weakness and hatched a sweeping project to wipe them out. Kniplingâs seemingly zany plan to spray screwworms out of planes all over the continentâ with US taxpayer moneyâ succeeded, becoming one of humanityâs biggest environmental interventions ever. Today, screwworms have been gone so long that none of us in North America even remember them. But now, theyâre coming back. And theyâre forcing us to ask: in an era of climate change and rapid mass extinctionâ should we kill off a species on purpose? Special thanks to James P. Collins, Max Scott, Amy Murillo, Daniel Griffin, Phil Kaufman, Katie Barnhill, Arthur Caplan, Ron Sandler, Yasha Rohwer, Aaron Keefe, Gwendolyn Bogard, Maria Sabate, Meredith Asbury, and Joanne Padrón Carney
Born into staggering wealth, Doris Duke lived a life that dazzled the public and confounded those closest to her. She was pursued by society figures, fortune hunters, and even a dictator or two. But in her final years, the real drama unfolded behind closed doors. As Doris’s health declined, a bitter power struggle erupted for control of her fortune, her legacy and her trust. At the center of it all was her controversial butler, Bernard Lafferty, whose intense devotion to Doris raised as many questions as it answered – and whose relentless battle for her millions would end up costing him dearly. Audible subscribers can listen to all episodes of Scamfluencers ad-free right now. Join Audible today by downloading the Audible app. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Punk rock really needs about 10 episodes to do it justice, but we'll try and tackle anyway. Learn all about this movement right now in this classic episode.
Two lawyers who work for ICE step forward and lift the curtain on what is really happening inside our immigration system right now. Prologue: Two lawyers dive into the details of what they’ve witnessed behind the scenes in different parts of the immigration system. (2 minutes) Act One: Former ICE attorney Ryan Schwank explains the chaos and dysfunction he observed at an ICE training academy, which led him to whistleblow to Congress two weeks ago. (12 minutes) Act Two: A federal judge orders the government to immediately release a bunch of people from detention. Days pass, and the government doesn’t comply. So the judge calls a hearing to figure out what’s going on. The lawyer's response is not what he or anybody expected. (25 minutes)
Meggan Watterson joins Glennon and Abby for an urgent, unfiltered conversation about how to stay human in infuriating times. They discuss sacred rage as a form of love, why trusting our inner knowing matters more than ever, and what it means to stop waiting for institutions—or men—to tell us we’re worthy. They also unpack the moment we’re in—from the Epstein files and Deepak Chopra’s presence in them to the misogyny behind the U.S. Men’s Hockey Team’s comments about the women’s team—and ask what women do when the systems meant to protect people fail. Plus: Meggan shares the historical acts of resistance inspiring her right now, the story of Mary Magdalene and believing women (and ourselves), and the question guiding her days: How do women pray when the world is on fire? For more We Can Do Hard Things with Meggan Watterson, check out: Women’s Voices So Dangerous They Buried Them About Meggan: Meggan Watterson is the author of The Girl Who Baptized Herself and the Wall Street Journal bestselling Mary Magdalene Revealed. She is a feminist theologian with a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School and a Master of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary at Columbia University. She leads a global online spiritual community, The House of Mary Magdalene, to study the scripture left out of the Christian canon like The Gospel of Mary and The Acts of Paul and Thecla. Follow We Can Do Hard Things on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/wecandohardthings TikTok — https://www.tiktok.com/@wecandohardthingsshow
James Lindsay's "woke right" concept claims far-right ideology loops back to radical leftism—collectivism, racialized worldviews, totalitarianism. After witnessing unprecedented right-wing radicalization since COVID (topics once completely taboo now normalized), I investigate whether this threat is genuine or overblown. As someone inside digital right circles who's shifted from being called "right-wing nutjob" to "Jew lover" and "white traitor," I explore whether conservatism's ideological pregnancy will birth freedom or just another tyranny. -- Start resisting financial tyranny with Zcash or Zashi wallet today: https://z.cash or for Apple store https://apps.apple.com/us/app/zodl-zcash-wallet/id1672392439 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
