David Roth

The City Lives In The Earth Room

Every few months, when the spirit moves us or just when we find ourselves in the neighborhood, we like to…

7 days ago

Google’s Got Nothing But Wrong Answers

When Google's new Gemini AI program responded to the search query "how many rocks should I eat each day?" with…

4 weeks ago

Staying On Paul Schrader’s Good Side, With Stephen Rodrick

At some level, I imagine that a person would have to be a good hang to write a good magazine…

1 month ago

Harrison Butker Overestimates His Range

As a general rule, something has to go extremely wrong for an NFL kicker to drive a week of discourse.…

2 months ago

Make Gambling Embarrassing Again, With Justin Halpern

For all the ways in which sports gambling is dangerous, distasteful, and a threat to even the most cosmetic and…

3 months ago

Subtraction By Subtraction, With Ray Ratto

There are limits, even for podcasts as a cultural product and even for this podcast as an example of that…

3 months ago

Truth In Sandwich Advertising, With Rohan Nadkarni

It is for the best that podcasting is not a visual medium, and the filmed podcasts that pad out the…

4 months ago

The Future Doesn’t Work, With Ed Zitron

It's complicated. On the one hand, I feel like we have been getting upset by the same stuff every week…

4 months ago

A Bloody Footprint By The Toilet

There is a very particular and mostly very pleasant energy to a pre-vacation podcast. I wouldn’t ordinarily use this word…

4 months ago

How Will The Golden Age Of “Making It Worse” End?

One of the more poignant and ridiculous and enduringly popular contemporary American insanities is the belief that one person—it's almost…

5 months ago

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