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"'A podcast about the internet' that is actually an unfailingly original exploration of modern life and how to survive it." - The Guardian. Hosted by PJ Vogt and Alex Goldman, from Gimlet.

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#179 Pandemic Be Damned

09.16.2021

The Reply All team talk to people trying to break out of their mid-pandemic funk. Here is a list of organizations that offer support for anyone feeling distressed, experiencing feelings of depression or anxiety, or thinking about self harm or ...

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09.16.2021 #179 Pandemic Be Damned The Reply All team talk to people trying to break out of their mid-pandemic funk. Here is a list of organizations that offer support for anyone feeling distressed, experiencing feelings of depression or anxiety, or thinking about self harm or ...
09.02.2021 #178 I Am Not a Bot This week, Alex Goldman’s favorite place on the internet is in danger, thanks to a bunch of robot snipers. Jilgamesh's Twitch Stream Jessica Conditt's reporting at Endadget Valve Employee Handbook Team Fortress 2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit ...
08.19.2021 Introducing: Not Past It Alex Goldman chats with Simone Polanen about her show, Not Past It. And then, the episode: The Paris Hilton Sex Tape. Paris Hilton’s sex tape ushered in a new era of celebrity obsession. On June 15, 2004: it went on ...
07.22.2021 #177 Gleeks and Gurgles Producer Anna Foley tries to answer a question that’s been bothering her for a long time: What makes the TikTok algorithm so good at knowing what she wants to watch? On her quest to find out, her sister asks another, ...
07.08.2021 #176 Twicarus Today, the return of Super Tech Support: Alex discovers a Twitter account that breaks his brain. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
06.24.2021 #175 This Website Will Self Destruct FemmeAndroid tries to do a good deed…but instead finds herself in a battle to save a place she loves. Some helpful links: FemmeAndroid’s Patreon for her webcomic Bodies. If you or someone you know is feeling depressed or just needing ...
06.10.2021 #174 Search Party This week, with the help of tech reporters Ashley Feinberg and Katie Notopoulos, we venture to one of the darkest places on the internet -- our own search histories. Apply for the Reply All internship Ashley Feinberg's Newsletter, Trashberg Katie ...
04.29.2021 The Test Kitchen Revisited The Reply All team takes a look at the Test Kitchen, and what those mistakes mean for the future of the show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
02.25.2021 A Message from the Staff of Reply All An update on the future of The Test Kitchen series and PJ Vogt and Sruthi Pinnamaneni's departure. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
02.12.2021 #173 The Test Kitchen, Chapter 2 Chapter 2, “Glass Office”: Years later, in 2018, a new wave of people of color arrives at Bon Appétit. And when their white bosses don’t understand the problems they’re facing, those people will decide to fix the place themselves. Check ...
02.04.2021 #172 The Test Kitchen, Chapter 1 Chapter 1, “Original Sin”: In the summer of 2020, Bon Appétit faced an online reckoning. It imploded, seemingly overnight, former employees calling it a racist and toxic workplace. But the story of what actually happened there started ten years earlier. ...
01.14.2021 #171 Account Suspended The President is no longer allowed to Tweet. PJ and Alex sit down with their boss to explain what that means, how it happened, and what might happen next. Plus -- an upset listener berates our climate reporter. Click here ...
12.17.2020 #170 A Song of Impotent Rage Alex Goldman tackles his newest job: prophet of doom. Taylor Moore's podcasts, Rude Tales of Magic and Fun City Emily Atkin's newsletter, Heated John Colpitts' latest album, The Ochre World Want to learn to play drums? Learn from John Colpitts ...
12.03.2020 #86 Man of the People This week — a new technology falls into the wrong hands. This episode originally aired in January, 2016. Pope Brock's book, Charlatan Penny Lane's documentary, Nuts! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
11.12.2020 #169 The Confetti Cannon In the midst of a historic election, Alex, PJ and Emmanuel talk to our listeners. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
10.29.2020 #168 Happiness Calculator vs. Alex Goldman Alex meets a scientist who has built a tool meant to do the impossible -- measure the world's overall happiness and sadness. Plus, Alex volunteers for a risky and strange experiment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
10.22.2020 Introducing: Resistance Faced with an impossible choice, one man goes live on instagram. Saidu Tejan Thomas Jr. shares a story from his new podcast, Resistance. Find more episodes of Resistance here: https://open.spotify.com/show/02JzQLXpqTtViFUGQjRkj3?si=PvQrGlB7QEuf0AcgsGklHg&utm_source=copy-link To get more information about the show, follow the show's ...
10.01.2020 #167 America's Hottest Talkline We're excited to announce that Emmanuel Dzotsi is taking on a new role on the show ... as host! And this week, he brings us a story about a mysterious recording that has been popping up on government hotlines for ...
09.18.2020 #166 Country of Liars Who is Q-Anon? PJ tells the surprising origin story of the Q scam, and the man who now seems to be in control of it. Dale Beran (@DaleBeran) and Mike Rothschild (@rothschildmd) Apply to the Reply All internship here Learn ...
09.03.2020 #115 The Bitcoin Hunter Writer Jia Tolentino has a new case for Super Tech Support: where are all those bitcoin she bought six years ago? This episode originally aired in January 2018. Further reading: Planet Money's bitcoin story Subscribe to our weekly newsletter Learn ...
08.27.2020 #51 Perfect Crime Every night, Catherine Russell puts on a wig, picks up a gun, and defies the logic of Yelp. And then, an epic Yes Yes No spanning an entire galaxy of internet fights. Plus, Alex Goldman reveals a dark, personal secret. ...
08.20.2020 #132 Negative Mount Pleasant A small town in Wisconsin becomes the site of a completely unprecedented experiment. This episode originally aired in December 2018. Further Reading: A Better Mount Pleasant vs Let's Make A Better Mount Pleasant Journalist Larry Tabak's series on Foxconn in ...
08.13.2020 #53 In The Desert Strangers keep coming to Mike and Christina’s house looking for their stolen cell phones. Nobody knows why. We travel to Atlanta to find out what’s going on, in our thorniest Super Tech Support yet. This story originally aired in February ...
07.30.2020 #165 The Mold and The Beautiful This week, a conspiracy theory involving Jeffrey Epstein and a benign, wholesale furniture company, plus, the jam scandal that rocked Los Angeles. Yes Yes no is back, with special guest Jason Mantzoukas. Further Reading: The first tweet in this weeks ...
07.16.2020 #164 Long Distance: The Real Alex Martin Three years after Alex Goldman traveled to India to investigate a scammy call center, he gets a tip that makes him question everything he learned in his first trip. Long Distance Part I Long Distance Part II Akash's YouTube Akash's ...
07.02.2020 #163 Candidate One The story of an election in America where everything went wrong -- bribery, hacking, ballot-stuffing. And the 17 year old kid who tried to save the day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
06.18.2020 #162 The Least You Could Do Black people all across the US are receiving the world's weirdest form of reparations: Venmo payments from white people. Producer Emmanuel Dzotsi investigates. Additional Reading: Noni's petition to reform the film department at UNC: https://www.change.org/p/patricia-parker-racism-within-the-screenwriting-minor?recruiter=17176211&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=tap_basic_share Milly Tamarez' podcast, "All Dick ...
06.04.2020 Programming Note Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
05.14.2020 #161 Brian vs. Brian Just for fun, a guy and his friends record a Christmas song in his Living room. More than three years later, he walks into a grocery store and hears that song playing. Alex investigates. Listen to Brian Dean's version of ...
04.30.2020 The Scaredy Cats Horror Show A new podcast about scary movies for people who are too scared to ever watch them. Each week Alex Goldman, avowed horror fan, screens a scary movie for avowed scaredy cat PJ Vogt. Together, they want to find out if ...
04.09.2020 #59 Good Job, Alex This week, we rebroadcast two of our favorite Super Tech Supports. Alex tries to help a woman track down her purloined website. And PJ helps someone who saw a Tinder profile with a photo of a stranger that was taken ...
03.31.2020 #160 The Attic and Closet Show 2 This week, we call people across the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
03.21.2020 #159 The Attic and Closet Show This week, we open up the phone lines and check in on everybody. If you want to know what we're up to in the coming weeks, check out replyall.online. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
03.05.2020 #158 The Case of the Missing Hit A man in California is haunted by the memory of a pop song from his youth. He can remember the lyrics and the melody. But the song itself has vanished, completely scrubbed from the internet. PJ takes on the Super ...
02.20.2020 #157 Pierre Delecto and the Spooky Adventure This week, we talk to the world’s most obsessive tracker of politicians' secret online lives. And ask for help on a very spooky mission. Further Reading: Ashley's article on James Comey's secret twitter and instagram accounts: https://gizmodo.com/this-is-almost-certainly-james-comey-s-twitter-account-1793843641 Ashley's article on ...
01.30.2020 #156 The Cure for Everything PJ and Alex open up the hotline again to tackle listener problems and mysteries, no job too weird. This time – a Waze vortex, a tribunal for HawtNugz, and a powerful mystery cure that could topple the world into dystopia. ...
01.16.2020 #155 Friendship Village A scandal at Teen Vogue, a mysteriously disappeared TikTok star, and the competing viral dances of Mayor Pete and Mayor Bloomberg. Yes Yes No is back. Tweet #1 Tweet #2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
12.13.2019 #154 The Real Enemy, Part 3 The conclusion of our story — Emmanuel and Sruthi go down to Alabama as tensions in the party reach a boiling point. Additional reading: Eyes on the Prize - definitive documentary series on the civil rights movement. Learn more about ...
12.13.2019 #153 The Real Enemy, Part 2 The second part of our story — the war rages on. A third faction emerges. Emmanuel Dzotsi reports. Additional reading: Doug Jones’ memoir about his work prosecuting the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombings: Bending Toward Justice: The Birmingham Church Bombing ...
12.13.2019 #152 The Real Enemy, Part 1 The Alabama Democrats fight an unlikely foe in a struggle for Alabama’s future: themselves. Emmanuel Dzotsi reports. Additional reading: Video of Sheila Gilbert being rejected from the SDEC Tabitha Isner's concession speech Dixiecrats walk out of the 1948 Democratic Convention ...
11.14.2019 #151 Thank You for Noticing A listener finds a UFO floating in the sky over a leather store, and Alex sets out to find the man who put it there. John R.E.'s Google reviews The UFO above Sav-Mor Leather Behind the Scenes of On the ...
11.01.2019 #150 The Reply All Halloween Scream-A-Thon We celebrate Halloween by opening up the phone lines for your scary stories: Ghosts, Googling how to Seance, and the Mysterious Sax Man of Berkeley. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
10.10.2019 #149 30-50 Feral Hogs A legit question from a rural American. Asher Elbein's piece on feral hogs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
09.26.2019 #148 Bedbugs and Aliens This week, Yes Yes No returns with a raid on Area 51, and the very worst name you can call a New York Times writer. Listen to the 1st episode of Mogul Season 2: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/mogul/z3hwzx/s2-part-1-the-walls-were-sweating Further Reading: The tweet from ...
09.12.2019 #147 The Woman in the Air Conditioner One night, alone in his new apartment, Halen hears something unexpected — a set of footsteps in the dark, and an unfamiliar voice telling him “Moshi, moshi.” Super Tech Support returns, Alex investigates. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit ...
07.25.2019 #146 Summer Hotline This week, PJ and Alex open up the phone lines and try to solve your problems, big and small. Read Joshua Rothman's story on printers here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
07.11.2019 #145 Louder Carlos Maza started posting videos on YouTube, and ran afoul of a guy who reminded him of his high school bullies. He asked YouTube to intervene, and then things got extremely complicated. Further Reading: Carlos Maza's video series Strikethrough Mark ...
06.27.2019 #144 Dark Pattern This week, we discover an invisible maze, designed to trick millions of people out of their money. Justin Elliot’s Twitter Pro Publica’s questionnaire for people who’ve worked at Intuit Intuit CEO’s video response Find a Free File tax product on ...
06.13.2019 #143 Permanent Record This week, the most humiliating, unfortunate and regrettable things on the internet that simply will not come down. Also: the father who scours the internet for lost memories. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
05.23.2019 #142 We Didn't Start The Fire This week, an epic Yes Yes No spanning an entire galaxy of internet fights. Plus, Alex Goldman reveals a dark personal secret. And an update on Sal’s quest to get into college in Canada. See the tweet here. Learn more ...

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#179 Pandemic Be Damned

#178 I Am Not a Bot

Introducing: Not Past It

#177 Gleeks and Gurgles

#176 Twicarus

#175 This Website Will Self Destruct

#174 Search Party

The Test Kitchen Revisited

A Message from the Staff of Reply All

#173 The Test Kitchen, Chapter 2

#172 The Test Kitchen, Chapter 1

#171 Account Suspended

#170 A Song of Impotent Rage

#86 Man of the People

#169 The Confetti Cannon

#168 Happiness Calculator vs. Alex Goldman

Introducing: Resistance

#167 America's Hottest Talkline

#166 Country of Liars

#115 The Bitcoin Hunter

#51 Perfect Crime

#132 Negative Mount Pleasant

#53 In The Desert

#165 The Mold and The Beautiful

#164 Long Distance: The Real Alex Martin

#163 Candidate One

#162 The Least You Could Do

Programming Note

#161 Brian vs. Brian

The Scaredy Cats Horror Show

#59 Good Job, Alex

#160 The Attic and Closet Show 2

#159 The Attic and Closet Show

#158 The Case of the Missing Hit

#157 Pierre Delecto and the Spooky Adventure

#156 The Cure for Everything

#155 Friendship Village

#154 The Real Enemy, Part 3

#153 The Real Enemy, Part 2

#152 The Real Enemy, Part 1

#151 Thank You for Noticing

#150 The Reply All Halloween Scream-A-Thon

#149 30-50 Feral Hogs

#148 Bedbugs and Aliens

#147 The Woman in the Air Conditioner

#146 Summer Hotline

#145 Louder

#144 Dark Pattern

#143 Permanent Record

#142 We Didn't Start The Fire

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