Season 2023

2

EP 2

The Massively Complicated Task of Buying Insurance for a Satellite

Jan 11, 2023

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3

EP 3

Why Canada’s Teachers Run an Investment Firm in Singapore

Jan 18, 2023

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4

EP 4

The Navy’s Obscure, Super-Efficient Swim Stroke

Jan 20, 2023

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5

EP 5

The Weirdly Complex Science of Snow Removal

Jan 21, 2023

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6

EP 6

Why the IRS Taxes Illegal Income

Jan 30, 2023

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7

EP 7

The Corporate Conspiracy Behind California’s Smallest Town

Feb 2, 2023

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8

EP 8

How Amish People Get Around Not Using Electricity

Feb 5, 2023

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9

EP 9

Why Soda Cans are Shaped Differently in Hawaii

Feb 13, 2023

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10

EP 10

Why the US Gov Reshapes the Mississippi River

Feb 16, 2023

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11

EP 11

The Genius $250 Toll Road from Minnesota to Minnesota

Feb 22, 2023

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12

EP 12

How Science Made You Finally Like Brussels Sprouts

Feb 24, 2023

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13

EP 13

Why Every Baseball Stadium Has Different Rules

Mar 1, 2023

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14

EP 14

Why It’s Impossible to Build a Crochet Machine

Mar 6, 2023

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15

EP 15

Why American Lawns All Look The Same

Mar 9, 2023

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16

EP 16

The NY Subway's Weirdly Successful Lost and Found System

Mar 16, 2023

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17

EP 17

North Korea’s Bizarre New Propaganda Program

Mar 18, 2023

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18

EP 18

How Witness Protection Manages to Keep a 100% Success Rate

Mar 23, 2023

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19

EP 19

How Amazon Broke the US Patent Office

Mar 28, 2023

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20

EP 20

The Continent-Sized Algae Blob That’s Coming for Florida

Mar 31, 2023

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21

EP 21

How To Spot a Really Good Art Forgery

Apr 7, 2023

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22

EP 22

The Court That Settles Wikipedia Editor Drama

Apr 12, 2023

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23

EP 23

The Material So Classified We Forgot How to Make It

Apr 15, 2023

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24

EP 24

This Diabetes Drug Causes Weight Loss (and Chaos)

Apr 24, 2023

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25

EP 25

Why You Can Legally Steal From a Sinking Ship

Apr 28, 2023

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26

EP 26

The Giant Propaganda Show That’s In Almost Every City

May 1, 2023

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27

EP 27

How the White House Reads Every Letter it Gets

May 7, 2023

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28

EP 28

How Much Happiness Can Money Buy?

May 9, 2023

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29

EP 29

The Super Obvious Ways to Get Around Campaign Finance Laws

May 12, 2023

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30

EP 30

Why We're Reaching the Theoretical Limit of Computer Power

May 20, 2023

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31

EP 31

Why It Took 13 Years to Engineer The Taco Bell Crunchwrap

May 23, 2023

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32

EP 32

The Website Where You Can Order The Bubonic Plague

May 26, 2023

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33

EP 33

Dyson’s Disinformation War with Big Paper Towel

Jun 5, 2023

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34

EP 34

How Planes Forecast Turbulence

Jun 8, 2023

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35

EP 35

Why Tape Storage is Making a Sneaky Comeback

Jun 12, 2023

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36

EP 36

How the Fake Meat Industry Saved Dippin’ Dots

Jun 16, 2023

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37

EP 37

How the World’s 4 Cryogenics Companies Actually Work

Jun 22, 2023

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38

EP 38

The Intense Logistics of Truffles

Jun 26, 2023

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39

EP 39

Why the US and China Are Squabbling Over This One Wire

Jun 30, 2023

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40

EP 40

How Argentina Accidentally Gave Germans 40% Off Everything

Jul 4, 2023

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41

EP 41

We've Made 400 Videos for the Internet. Here are the Worst Ones.

Jul 12, 2023

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42

EP 42

Why The US Navy Really Needs This One Forest in Indiana

Jul 15, 2023

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43

EP 43

Why This Airline Only Has One Commercial Flight Per Month

Jul 18, 2023

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44

EP 44

Trains’ Weirdly Massive Problem with Leaves

Jul 21, 2023

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45

EP 45

How Porsche Owns Volkswagen and Volkswagen Owns Porsche

Jul 31, 2023

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46

EP 46

Why the US Government Has No Idea How Many Buildings It Owns

Aug 4, 2023

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47

EP 47

The Weirdly Lucrative Business of Searching for Old Jeans

Aug 8, 2023

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48

EP 48

Chicago’s $10 Billion Street Parking Mistake

Aug 10, 2023

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49

EP 49

Why Only 24 Pilots Are Allowed to Land at This Airport

Aug 16, 2023

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50

EP 50

The Remote Town Where 13.2% of People are Millionaires

Aug 22, 2023

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51

EP 51

How The Pentagon Became The World’s Most Secure Building

Aug 29, 2023

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52

EP 52

The Surprisingly Complex Logistics of Product Returns

Aug 30, 2023

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53

EP 53

Every Mistake We’ve Ever Made VI: Return of the Jed-lie

Aug 31, 2023

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54

EP 54

The 3100-Mile Longest Official Running Race in the World

Sep 12, 2023

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55

EP 55

Why It Takes 7+ Years to Shut Down a Nuclear Plant

Sep 19, 2023

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56

EP 56

The Only River That Flows Into Both the Atlantic and the Pacific

Sep 21, 2023

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57

EP 57

How to Fail a Kitchen Inspection

Sep 28, 2023

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58

EP 58

How The President’s Official Vacation Home Works

Sep 29, 2023

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59

EP 59

Why Venice’s New €8 Billion Flood Barrier Only Kinda Works

Sep 30, 2023

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60

EP 60

The Design Flaw That Made Hyundais Absurdly Easy to Steal

Oct 6, 2023

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61

EP 61

Australia’s Huge Mistake of Selling All Their Water

Oct 12, 2023

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62

EP 62

How Submarines Survive at 36,201 Feet Below

Oct 20, 2023

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63

EP 63

Why China Built an Antenna Bigger Than NYC

Oct 25, 2023

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64

EP 64

Why Qatar Airways Flies An Almost-Empty Flight to Adelaide

Oct 26, 2023

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65

EP 65

How 70% of Britain’s Cash Went Missing

Oct 28, 2023

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66

EP 66

How This Utah Hotel Legally Became a Town

Nov 6, 2023

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67

EP 67

Why The US is in 42 Different National Emergencies

Nov 15, 2023

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68

EP 68

The 128 Airlines So Dangerous They’re Banned in the EU

Nov 17, 2023

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69

EP 69

Why the US Gov Pays $10 Million a Year for This Yacht

Nov 21, 2023

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70

EP 70

The Arctic Vault That Protects Data from the Apocalypse

Nov 27, 2023

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71

EP 71

NASA’s Year-Long, Totally Fake Mission to Mars

Nov 30, 2023

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72

EP 72

The Vault That Holds 5% of the World’s Gold

Dec 7, 2023

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73

EP 73

The Controversial Machine That’s Ruining Bowling

Dec 12, 2023

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74

EP 74

What Exactly Happens When You Check a Bag

Dec 19, 2023

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75

EP 75

The Super-Secure Delivery Service That Only Diplomats Can Use

Dec 26, 2023

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