Episodes List
Ep.1 Why Building Ski Lifts Is Incredibly Hard
Air Date: 2023-01-04
Ep.2 The Massively Complicated Task of Buying Insurance for a Satellite
Air Date: 2023-01-11
Ep.3 Why Canada’s Teachers Run an Investment Firm in Singapore
Air Date: 2023-01-18
Ep.4 The Navy’s Obscure, Super-Efficient Swim Stroke
Air Date: 2023-01-20
Ep.5 The Weirdly Complex Science of Snow Removal
Air Date: 2023-01-21
Ep.6 Why the IRS Taxes Illegal Income
Air Date: 2023-01-30
Ep.7 The Corporate Conspiracy Behind California’s Smallest Town
Air Date: 2023-02-02
Ep.8 How Amish People Get Around Not Using Electricity
Air Date: 2023-02-05
Ep.9 Why Soda Cans are Shaped Differently in Hawaii
Air Date: 2023-02-13
Ep.10 Why the US Gov Reshapes the Mississippi River
Air Date: 2023-02-16
Ep.11 The Genius $250 Toll Road from Minnesota to Minnesota
Air Date: 2023-02-22
Ep.12 How Science Made You Finally Like Brussels Sprouts
Air Date: 2023-02-24
Ep.13 Why Every Baseball Stadium Has Different Rules
Air Date: 2023-03-01
Ep.14 Why It’s Impossible to Build a Crochet Machine
Air Date: 2023-03-06
Ep.15 Why American Lawns All Look The Same
Air Date: 2023-03-09
Ep.16 The NY Subway's Weirdly Successful Lost and Found System
Air Date: 2023-03-16
Ep.17 North Korea’s Bizarre New Propaganda Program
Air Date: 2023-03-18
Ep.18 How Witness Protection Manages to Keep a 100% Success Rate
Air Date: 2023-03-23
Ep.19 How Amazon Broke the US Patent Office
Air Date: 2023-03-28
Ep.20 The Continent-Sized Algae Blob That’s Coming for Florida
Air Date: 2023-03-31
Ep.21 How To Spot a Really Good Art Forgery
Air Date: 2023-04-07
Ep.22 The Court That Settles Wikipedia Editor Drama
Air Date: 2023-04-12
Ep.23 The Material So Classified We Forgot How to Make It
Air Date: 2023-04-15
Ep.24 This Diabetes Drug Causes Weight Loss (and Chaos)
Air Date: 2023-04-24
Ep.25 Why You Can Legally Steal From a Sinking Ship
Air Date: 2023-04-28
Ep.26 The Giant Propaganda Show That’s In Almost Every City
Air Date: 2023-05-01
Ep.27 How the White House Reads Every Letter it Gets
Air Date: 2023-05-07
Ep.28 How Much Happiness Can Money Buy?
Air Date: 2023-05-09
Ep.29 The Super Obvious Ways to Get Around Campaign Finance Laws
Air Date: 2023-05-12
Ep.30 Why We're Reaching the Theoretical Limit of Computer Power
Air Date: 2023-05-20
Ep.31 Why It Took 13 Years to Engineer The Taco Bell Crunchwrap
Air Date: 2023-05-23
Ep.32 The Website Where You Can Order The Bubonic Plague
Air Date: 2023-05-26
Ep.33 Dyson’s Disinformation War with Big Paper Towel
Air Date: 2023-06-05
Ep.34 How Planes Forecast Turbulence
Air Date: 2023-06-08
Ep.35 Why Tape Storage is Making a Sneaky Comeback
Air Date: 2023-06-12
Ep.36 How the Fake Meat Industry Saved Dippin’ Dots
Air Date: 2023-06-16
Ep.37 How the World’s 4 Cryogenics Companies Actually Work
Air Date: 2023-06-22
Ep.38 The Intense Logistics of Truffles
Air Date: 2023-06-26
Ep.39 Why the US and China Are Squabbling Over This One Wire
Air Date: 2023-06-30
Ep.40 How Argentina Accidentally Gave Germans 40% Off Everything
Air Date: 2023-07-04
Ep.41 We've Made 400 Videos for the Internet. Here are the Worst Ones.
Air Date: 2023-07-12
Ep.42 Why The US Navy Really Needs This One Forest in Indiana
Air Date: 2023-07-15
Ep.43 Why This Airline Only Has One Commercial Flight Per Month
Air Date: 2023-07-18
Ep.44 Trains’ Weirdly Massive Problem with Leaves
Air Date: 2023-07-21
Ep.45 How Porsche Owns Volkswagen and Volkswagen Owns Porsche
Air Date: 2023-07-31
Ep.46 Why the US Government Has No Idea How Many Buildings It Owns
Air Date: 2023-08-04
Ep.47 The Weirdly Lucrative Business of Searching for Old Jeans
Air Date: 2023-08-08
Ep.48 Chicago’s $10 Billion Street Parking Mistake
Air Date: 2023-08-10
Ep.49 Why Only 24 Pilots Are Allowed to Land at This Airport
Air Date: 2023-08-16
Ep.50 The Remote Town Where 13.2% of People are Millionaires
Air Date: 2023-08-22
Ep.51 How The Pentagon Became The World’s Most Secure Building
Air Date: 2023-08-29
Ep.52 The Surprisingly Complex Logistics of Product Returns
Air Date: 2023-08-30
Ep.53 Every Mistake We’ve Ever Made VI: Return of the Jed-lie
Air Date: 2023-08-31
Ep.54 The 3100-Mile Longest Official Running Race in the World
Air Date: 2023-09-12
Ep.55 Why It Takes 7+ Years to Shut Down a Nuclear Plant
Air Date: 2023-09-19
Ep.56 The Only River That Flows Into Both the Atlantic and the Pacific
Air Date: 2023-09-21
Ep.57 How to Fail a Kitchen Inspection
Air Date: 2023-09-28
Ep.58 How The President’s Official Vacation Home Works
Air Date: 2023-09-29
Ep.59 Why Venice’s New €8 Billion Flood Barrier Only Kinda Works
Air Date: 2023-09-30
Ep.60 The Design Flaw That Made Hyundais Absurdly Easy to Steal
Air Date: 2023-10-06
Ep.61 Australia’s Huge Mistake of Selling All Their Water
Air Date: 2023-10-12
Ep.62 How Submarines Survive at 36,201 Feet Below
Air Date: 2023-10-20
Ep.63 Why China Built an Antenna Bigger Than NYC
Air Date: 2023-10-25
Ep.64 Why Qatar Airways Flies An Almost-Empty Flight to Adelaide
Air Date: 2023-10-26
Ep.65 How 70% of Britain’s Cash Went Missing
Air Date: 2023-10-28
Ep.66 How This Utah Hotel Legally Became a Town
Air Date: 2023-11-06
Ep.67 Why The US is in 42 Different National Emergencies
Air Date: 2023-11-15
Ep.68 The 128 Airlines So Dangerous They’re Banned in the EU
Air Date: 2023-11-17
Ep.69 Why the US Gov Pays $10 Million a Year for This Yacht
Air Date: 2023-11-21
Ep.70 The Arctic Vault That Protects Data from the Apocalypse
Air Date: 2023-11-27
Ep.71 NASA’s Year-Long, Totally Fake Mission to Mars
Air Date: 2023-11-30
Ep.72 The Vault That Holds 5% of the World’s Gold
Air Date: 2023-12-07
Ep.73 The Controversial Machine That’s Ruining Bowling
Air Date: 2023-12-12
Ep.74 What Exactly Happens When You Check a Bag
Air Date: 2023-12-19
Ep.75 The Super-Secure Delivery Service That Only Diplomats Can Use
Air Date: 2023-12-26
