He’s conquered YouTube, but can he conquer traditional media? And also burgers and snack bars, for some reason. Ben Brock Johnson and Amory Sivertson of Endless Thread join the show to help us fi...
2024-12-04 08:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Ryan and our producer Grant talk about the recent brush with politics sweeping across an unexpected community—or is it?—PerfumeTok.
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Producer Grant Irving talks with writer, performer, and activist Julia Serano for a deeper dive on our episode "Did Tumblr turn kids trans?"
Producer Grant Irving talks with writer, performer...
2024-11-25 22:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Part of the reason Republicans ran away with the 2024 election is because they used misinformation to make millions of people think that the government was trying to forcibly transition their kids....
2024-11-20 08:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Ryan and our producer Grant dig into the election and have some comments about whether or not we can simply create the "liberal Joe Rogan."
2024-11-14 08:05:01 +0000 UTC View Post
From shooting themselves up with boys’ blood to starting their own countries, “techno-optimism” has taken a decidedly dark turn. It turns out Silicon Valley is going through a midlife crisis ...
2024-11-13 08:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
With Donald Trump being brought back into the White House, we might be seeing another decade of QAnon. How did we get here?
With Donald Trump being brought back into the White House, we might...
2024-11-06 15:13:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Panic World producer Grant Irving chats with Callie Hernandez, star of Blair Witch (2016), looking back at the experience working on the seq
Panic World producer Grant Irving chats with Calli...
2024-10-30 12:05:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Tide Pods were the king of the forbidden candies. The items that looked delicious despite being disgusting or poisonous if you actually bit into one. For a few months in 2018, it seemed like t...
2024-10-30 12:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post
The Blair Witch Project stands alone in the kind of panic it caused. No film before or since has quite hit the same fevered pitch, where many people actually thought it was real. What made it so ma...
2024-10-23 12:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Caroline Calloway became internet famous for living a fantasy, at least that's how it appeared on Instagram. Then, she became infamous when the public turned on her. We talk with Caroline about the...
2024-10-16 09:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Why does it feel like this election isn’t really happening? Why does Chappell Roan feel like the biggest story?
Our theory? We live in a Pop Crave world. The tabloid X account is pretty muc...
2024-10-09 09:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Remember earlier this year, when people thought Kate Middleton was dead and or replaced by AI? What was up with that? We’re joined by Ellie Hall, a journalist with a focus on the British Royal Fa...
2024-10-02 09:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Since the advent of smartphones, a simmering and increasingly boiling panic has been about whether too much “screentime” is ruining the nation’s youth. Michael Hobbes joins us to help trace t...
2024-09-25 09:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostIt smelled heinous. It turned blue. And it stunk up Ryan's whole apartment. Enjoy!
2024-09-25 08:38:14 +0000 UTC View Post
With the second and maybe probably last 2024 presidential debate now in our rearview, we’re taking a look back at Americans’ relationship with misinformation. Ryan is joined by reporter Kat Abu...
2024-09-18 09:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to Panic World. For our premiere, we're going back a few years to explore the panic that grew around "Sleepytime Chicken" aka NyQuil Chicken. Along with friend of the pod Katie Notopoulos, ...
2024-09-10 09:45:00 +0000 UTC View Post