Your Cover's Blown

How do Spotify's algorithms shape our listening habits? How much AI-generated PFC has secretly been snuck into our daily diet, and what's the real cost of the perfect playlist? This week we're putting on our headphones and listening properly for once, in a dark room. The streaming figures are in, but those 0.001 pennies aren't adding up.

This week's book: Mood Machine by Liz Pelly (2025)

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What happens if AI reaches the level of super intelligence? Very bad things! At least according to Eliezer Yudkowsky, and this is the premise of his book. The hominid god looks down kindly on this latest episode of Your Cover's Blown.

This week's book: If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies by Eliezer Yudkowsky (2025)

Anthony Bourdain was a famous chef and travel writer. We're returning to where it all began with his tell all memoir Kitchen Confidential. Welcome to Your Cover's Blown, the podcast where we order fish on Mondays.

This week's book: Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain (2000)

Chris Voss was an FBI negotiator and his book contains many practical examples of applying the techniques he learned in everyday life. The downward inflecting DJ voice, mirroring and many other techniques will be studied. All this and more in the first episode of Your Cover's Blown, a reverse yes-ladder of a podcast that will have you uncontrollably exclaiming "That's right!" before the hour is through.

This week's book: Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss (2016)