Podcast
Search Engine
Hosted by PJ Vogt · EN
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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Why is the pool at Buckingham Palace a secret?
Dec 27, 202401:14:18Summary readyAn investigation into a mysterious room. A room that the most famous family in England apparently does not want you to see.Support the show at searchengine.show To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
SummaryWhen do you know it’s time to stop drinking? (re-broadcast)
Dec 20, 202401:03:37Summary readyThis week, a question a podcast has no business trying to answer. We talk to writer A.J. Daulerio about his own story of recovery, and the story of how he found himself opening a very unusual community on the internet.Check out The Small Bow.Support our show: searchengine.show To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
SummaryWhat if ayahuasca made you stop podcasting?
Dec 13, 202401:00:45Summary readyAn anti-woke podcast abruptly announces its end, and in its final episode, a host offers its listeners some surprising news. She had taken ayahuasca, a powerful psychedelic, and it had contributed to her decision to step away. The internet, itself, now looked different. Huh? A conversation with former podcast host Sarah Haider.Support Search Engine at search engine.show To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
SummaryWho buys luggage at the airport luggage store?
Dec 6, 202400:52:47Summary readyIf ever there was a place where every person inside was guaranteed to already have luggage, it would be inside an airport. And yet ... the airport luggage stores persist. Who is going to these places? To answer, we will of course, unpack the story of the entire airport -- how these hellish modern places of security and commerce came to be.Alastair Gordon's Naked Airport.Unclaimed Baggage.Support Search Engine at search engine.show To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
SummaryWhat is jawmaxxing?
Nov 22, 202400:54:51Summary readyThe story of how an alternative theory of dentistry made its way from medicine's fringes to an audience of young men online. This week we try to make sense of jawmaxxing with help from Panic World’s Ryan Broderick.Panic WorldGarbage DayINVCEL - Reply AllSupport the show at searchengine.show! To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
SummaryThe White Subaru Hell Loop
Nov 15, 202400:53:27Summary readyA mortal human being finds himself stuck between two impressive organizations: the DMV, and an internet start-up called Carvana. He has a problem, but each side insists only the other can solve it. Search Engine’s crack automotive team investigates.Support the show at searchengine.show! To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
SummaryHow did the first democracy die?
Nov 8, 202400:43:28Summary readyThe story of the first people who invented democracy, and what it did to them.What's Wrong With Democracy? by Loren J. Samons IISupport the show at searchengine.show! To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
SummaryHow do you sit quietly in the middle of a storm?
Nov 1, 202401:08:34Summary readyWhat if there was an event in the future, the outcome of which you couldn’t personally control, but it was still causing you anguish?This week, we talk to an ordained Zen priest and teacher to get some answers. Rev. angel Kyodo williams helps us learn how you could begin to quiet all the fears in your head that kidnap you from your actual life.Rev's website.Rev's instruction for point meditation.Support Search Engine at searchengine.show! To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
SummaryDeath, Sex & Money x Search Engine
Oct 10, 2024Tap to summarizeThis week, we're sharing an episode of a show we love, Death, Sex & Money. We hope you enjoy it as much as we do. We'll be back with two new episodes of our own next Friday.
Transcribe →Should this creepy search engine exist?
May 10, 2024Tap to summarizeAfter stumbling on a new kind of search engine for faces, we called privacy journalist Kashmir Hill. She’s been reporting on the very sudden and unregulated rise of these facial search engines. Here’s the story of the very first one, the mysterious person who made it, and the copycats it helped spawn.Support the show: searchengine.show
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