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Search Engine

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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What it’s like when Elizabeth Holmes decides to destroy your life 2026-10-29 · 70m
Is your new co-worker secretly North Korean? 2026-10-23 · 46m
One man could slow down AI. He won’t. Why? 2026-10-16 · 58m
Unreliable Narrator 2026-10-09 · 51m
Vladimir Putin's Forkiverse 2026-10-02 · 38m
Search Engine x Better in Person 2026-09-29 · 43m
Bollywood Dreams 2026-09-18 · 65m
Why’s everybody going to Japan? 2026-09-11 · 51m
The Killing of the Gaza Chef 2026-08-28 · 49m
The Chosen One 2026-08-21 · 48m
A road trip through the data center debate 2026-08-11 · 39m
How the Hugging Face hack happened 2026-08-06 · 38m
What’s in your cocaine and the questions Search Engine CAN’T answer 2026-07-24 · 61m
How to pursue excellence … in noodles (unlocked bonus) 2026-07-17 · 48m
Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? Pt. 2 (classic) 2026-07-10 · 71m
Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? Pt. 1 (classic) 2026-07-03 · 53m
A Strange Voyage 2026-06-25 · 61m
Why doesn’t anybody come to my parties? 2026-06-15 · 47m
Why is the pool at Buckingham Palace a secret? (classic) 2026-06-05 · 68m
Why do we have to pay into the new Anti-Weaponization Fund? 2026-05-29 · 40m
Presenting: Family Lore 2026-05-27 · 35m
The many lives of Taiwan 2026-05-22 · 67m
Why are people excited about nuclear power again? 2026-05-08 · 50m
What if the cemetery goes out of business? (classic) 2026-05-01 · 50m
Where’s the best free restaurant bread in America? 2026-04-24 · 39m
The Cost of War 2026-04-17 · 49m
What we got wrong about GLP-1s 2026-04-10 · 46m
The Trial of the Driverless Car 2026-03-26 · 64m
Are you a good driver? 2026-03-23 · 67m
Odd Lots x Search Engine 2026-03-06 · 48m
Mysteries of Claude 2026-02-27 · 49m
Why don’t we eat people? (classic) 2026-02-20 · 58m
How Peptides Conquered the Internet 2026-02-13 · 45m
Are flushable wipes actually flushable? 2026-01-30 · 56m
The Venezuelan Curse (Part 2) 2026-01-20 · 59m
The Venezuelan Curse (Part 1) 2026-01-16 · 66m
The Fediverse Experiment 2026-01-09 · 39m
Heavyweight x Search Engine 2025-12-26 · 36m
A Perfectly Average Anomaly 2025-12-19 · 56m
Unlocked: The State of Search Engine 2025 2025-12-12 · 49m
What's the best phone to do crimes on? (classic) 2025-12-05 · 60m
How to talk (or not talk) politics at family holidays 2025-11-27 · 36m
Colossus 2 2025-11-21 · 43m
Colossus 1 2025-11-21 · 42m
An Anthropology of Gooners 2025-11-12 · 44m
America vs. China 2025-10-31 · 57m
The Rage in the Cage 2025-10-17 · 52m
Cocomelon For Adults 2025-10-10 · 47m
Talk Easy x Search Engine 2025-10-03 · 98m
Is my favorite new TV show this year a ripoff? 2025-09-26 · 47m
The Obituary 2025-09-19 · 53m
How does a rationalist make a baby? 2025-09-05 · 48m
A Dubai Chocolate theory of the internet 2025-08-22 · 39m
Are microplastics really a problem? 2025-08-15 · 46m
What does it feel like to believe in God? (classic) 2025-07-25 · 65m
The Cuddly Killer (classic) 2025-07-18 · 51m
Why'd I take speed for twenty years? - Part 2 (classic) 2025-07-11 · 45m
Why'd I take speed for twenty years? - Part 1 (classic) 2025-07-04 · 56m
The Psychic Question 2025-06-30 · 51m
Wait, should I not be drinking airplane coffee? (classic) 2025-06-20 · 49m
The Test 2025-06-13 · 44m
The Stupid Little Yogurt Question 2025-06-06 · 58m
Search Engine x What We Spend 2025-05-30 · 42m
How to stop being so phone addicted (without self-discipline or meditation) 2025-05-16 · 45m
The Dave and Buster's Anomaly 2025-05-09 · 44m
Why the national debt might finally matter 2025-04-25 · 43m
Why can’t we just turn the empty offices into apartments? (classic) 2025-04-18 · 45m
What are teenagers actually seeing on their phones? 2025-04-11 · 45m
The Russian Cake Switcheroo 2025-04-04 · 39m
Planet Money: The Memecoin Casino 2025-03-28 · 31m
Viruses in the Air 2025-03-21 · 39m
The Puzzle of the All-American BBQ Scrubber 2025-03-14 · 56m
DOGE and the Mystery of the State Department Teslas 2025-03-07 · 46m
Does anyone actually like their job? (classic) 2025-02-28 · 41m
Can you cure picky eating? 2025-02-21 · 38m
What should we do about teens using AI to do their homework? 2025-02-14 · 55m
What happens when a cemetery goes out of business? 2025-02-07 · 49m
What’s it like to fly when you’re fat? 2025-01-24 · 45m
The New Zuckerberg 2025-01-18 · 70m
Is it ok to just work all the time? 2025-01-10 · 63m
Why is the pool at Buckingham Palace a secret? 2024-12-27 · 68m
When do you know it’s time to stop drinking? (classic) 2024-12-20 · 57m
What if ayahuasca made you stop podcasting? 2024-12-13 · 55m
Who buys luggage at the airport luggage store? 2024-12-06 · 47m
What is jawmaxxing? 2024-11-22 · 49m
The White Subaru Hell Loop 2024-11-15 · 47m
Presenting Gone South 2024-11-13 · 9m
How did the first democracy die? 2024-11-08 · 37m
How do you sit quietly in the middle of a storm? 2024-11-01 · 62m
Should we be worried about OpenAI? 2024-10-25 · 53m
Why is it so hard to tax billionaires? (Part 2) 2024-10-18 · 40m
Why is it so hard to tax billionaires? (Part 1) 2024-10-18 · 46m
Death, Sex & Money x Search Engine 2024-10-10 · 45m
The Mystery of the Vape Shop Kratom 2024-10-04 · 61m
Is everyone pretending to understand inflation (or just me)? 2024-09-20 · 50m
A stubborn lunatic’s guide to making great art 2024-09-13 · 53m
Can I microdose veganism? 2024-09-06 · 51m
What's the best phone to do crimes on? 2024-08-16 · 59m
Is there a sane way to follow this election? 2024-08-09 · 58m
The End 2024-08-02 · 53m
The Kidnapping of Ape #8398 2024-07-26 · 38m
Genesis 2024-07-19 · 66m
The Bidding War 2024-07-12 · 48m
Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 2) 2024-06-26 · 70m
Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1) 2024-06-21 · 52m
What does it feel like to believe in God? 2024-06-14 · 64m
How much glue should you put in your pizza? 2024-05-31 · 42m
How do we survive the media apocalypse? (Part 2) 2024-05-22 · 61m
Should this creepy search engine exist? 2024-05-10 · 57m
What do trigger warnings actually do? 2024-05-03 · 56m
Where's my flying car? 2024-04-19 · 52m
Do political yard signs actually do anything? 2024-04-12 · 34m
Why are there so many illegal weed stores in New York City? (Part 2) 2024-04-05 · 65m
Why are there so many illegal weed stores in New York City? (Part 1) 2024-03-29 · 49m
A big announcement from Search Engine plus, "What's in your cocaine?" 2024-03-22 · 14m
How do we survive the media apocalypse? 2024-03-15 · 59m
Who's behind these scammy text messages we've all been getting? 2024-03-08 · 68m
How do you make an addictive video game? 2024-03-01 · 50m
Where did all the roaches go? 2024-02-23 · 39m
What are we gonna do about all these cats? 2024-02-09 · 50m
How do you survive fame? 2024-02-02 · 69m
Why are there so many chicken bones on the street? (Part 2) 2024-01-26 · 32m
Introducing: The Chris Chatman Do-Over, starring Ike Barinholtz 2024-01-23 · 4m
Why are there so many chicken bones on the street? (Part 1) 2024-01-19 · 37m
When do you know it’s time to stop drinking? 2024-01-12 · 57m
Am I the victim of an international sushi scam? (Part 2) 2023-12-15 · 39m
Am I the victim of an international sushi scam? (Part 1) 2023-12-08 · 42m
Who should be in charge of AI? 2023-12-01 · 53m
Why don’t we eat people? 2023-11-17 · 58m
The Bull of Wall Street 2023-11-10 · 48m
Why'd I take speed for twenty years? (Part 2) 2023-11-03 · 45m
Why'd I take speed for twenty years? (Part 1) 2023-10-27 · 55m
Otherworld x Search Engine 2023-10-25 · 67m
Is there a sane way to use the internet? 2023-10-20 · 56m
Heavyweight x Search Engine 2023-10-09 · 39m
The Fond Du Lac Apartment Mystery 2023-10-06 · 53m
Where did the 8 billion dollars go? 2023-09-29 · 64m
Why are we still buying diamonds? 2023-09-22 · 55m
Why’s it so hard to figure out how many people watch Stranger Things? 2023-09-15 · 55m
Does anyone actually like their job? 2023-09-01 · 40m
Why are drug dealers putting fentanyl in everything? (Part 2) 2023-08-18 · 46m
Why are drug dealers putting fentanyl in everything? (Part 1) 2023-08-11 · 35m
Why can’t we just turn the empty offices into apartments? 2023-08-04 · 43m
What's it like to slowly go blind? 2023-07-28 · 54m
What's going on with Elon Musk? 2023-07-21 · 57m
How do I find new music now that I’m old and irrelevant? 2023-07-14 · 42m
Wait, should I not be drinking airplane coffee? 2023-07-07 · 50m
How sad are the monkeys in the zoo? 2023-05-12 · 37m
Introducing: Search Engine 2023-01-13 · 1m
09 The End 2022-12-22 · 52m
Sole Proprietor 2022-09-24 · 4m
08 The Kidnapping of Ape #8398 2022-06-28 · 37m
07 The Drug Trader 2022-05-26 · 31m
06 The Lunatic Who Crashed Crypto 2022-05-13 · 31m
05 Genesis 2022-05-07 · 65m
04 The Skeptic 2022-04-05 · 42m
03 Miguel 2022-03-25 · 15m
02 ConstitutionDAO 2022-03-23 · 49m
01 Welcome to Crypto Island 2022-03-14 · 17m
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