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A podcast about the internet, hosted by PJ Vogt and Alex Goldman.  From Gimlet Media.  Coming soon. 

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What happens when a woman sends a stocky blond stranger to tell her ex she loves him. 

#1 A Stranger Says I Love You

An app called Figure One wants to be Instagram, but for doctors. Why would doctors need their own Instagram? We spy on the secret & disgusting medical internet, plus we speak to one of its residents. 

#2 The Secret, Gruesome Internet For Doctors

Twenty years ago, Ethan Zuckerman did something terrible on the internet. And he's still living with the consequences.

#3 We Know What You Did

In 1996 Jennifer Ringley started Jennicam.org, where she recorded and broadcast her entire life, 24/7. It made her famous. And then, one day, she disappeared from the internet entirely. What'd she figure out about the perils of living publicly before the rest of us did? Alex Goldman tracks her down.

#5 Jennicam

Depending on who you ask, Keith Calder is either a 35-year old film producer, or one of the players in a vast international conspiracy designed to conceal the greatest love story never told.

#6 This Proves Everything

This week we enter the mysterious, Byzantine underworld of domain sales, where people make money speculating on the website naming market. A few years ago, the owners of the popular journalism website longform.org blundered into this world when they innocently tried to procure longform.com. In this episode, we find out about their misadventures, and we hear from the Derek Jeter of URL purchases.

#7 This Website Is For Sale

Sometimes, on his way to work, a feeling of pressure begins thumping in Paul Ford’s chest. His breaths shorten. They speed up. And sometimes, in those moments of extreme anxiety, Paul’s phone talks to him. It tells him everything that’s wrong with him.

#8 Anxiety Box

Yik Yak is a an app that allows users to communicate anonymously with anyone within a 10-mile radius. At Colgate University in upstate New York, the anonymity brought out a particularly vicious strain of racism that shook the school.

#9 The Writing On The Wall

In the early 80's, way before the world wide web existed, the French government shipped a $200 terminal to every home with a phone line, and created a service that for decades ran alongside the internet. It was called The Minitel. Producer Carla Green speaks to reporter Jean-Marc Manach, who, in the early 90's, made a living posing as a woman in sex chat rooms on Minitel.

#10 The French Connection

What happens when a woman sends a stocky blond stranger to tell her ex she loves him. (Updated with a new interview!)

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#1 - An App Sends A Stranger To Say I Love You (Updated)

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Enter Emptiness and Find Your Gift: ויקהל–פקודי -Vayakhel-Pikudei

"G.S." was one of the first friends I made when I moved to Bozeman, Montana many years ago. The story he told me about how bad karma brought him from Devon, England to the C.U.T. bomb shelters in Gardiner, Montana still haunts me. A few years ago we reconnected and he recounted the whole story for me. Also Astronomer Chris Impey explains how Dark Energy will end it all.

Dark Karma

Ali Smith’s novel How to be Both, in which the lives of a 15th-century fresco painter and a 21st-century Cambridge schoolgirl mysteriously intertwine, was shortlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize and the Costa Novel Award, and won the £10,000 Goldsmiths Prize. ‘How to be Both brims with palpable joy,’ one reviewer wrote, ‘not only at language, literature and art’s transformative power, but at the messy business of being human.’ Marion Coutts’s fierce, shocking and beautiful memoir, The Iceberg, tracing the two years between her husband Tom Lubbock’s diagnosis with and death from a brain tumour, was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and the Costa Biography Award. Writing in the Sunday Telegraph, Diana Athill described it as a book that ‘ought to be read by anyone who ever pauses to consider our mortality.’ Meeting one another for the first time, Ali Smith and Marion Coutts talk about how to look at life slantwise, to weigh words, to come to terms with time, and to reconcile grief and grace.

An eye for life

In 1997, John Silveira wrote a joke classified ad in a tiny publication called Backwoods Home Magazine asking if anyone wanted to travel back in time with him. A lot of people took him seriously. What do you do when everyone wants you to fix the worst mistakes they've ever made.

#17 The Time Traveler And The Hitman

Ep. 62 Bart Baker - Ear Biscuits

YouTube’s reigning king of music video parodies, Bart Baker, joins Rhett & Link this week to discuss how he got his start working for Jerry Springer and making videos in the porn industry, what he really thinks of the musicians he parodies, and why he laughs when reading the large amount of hateful comments directed toward him on his channel. Is there more to Bart Baker than the harshly parodic persona he’s built a career on? You be the judge.

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*NOTE: This conversation contains adult themes and language.

Ep. 62 Bart Baker - Ear Biscuits

In 2012, a woman named Lindsey Stone posted a picture she took as a joke to her Facebook page. A month later, she was under attack from all corners of the internet, out of a job, hounded by the press. The internet had targeted her for a public shaming. Jon Ronson, journalist and author of the new book "So You've Been Publicly Shamed", walks us through Lindsey's story and introduces us to the sometimes sketchy world of online reputation management.

#18 Silence And Respect

The financial crisis of September 2008 overshadows one of the most important events in recent New York History: the arrival of Airbnb. And while your host wasn't paying attention back then either, today he is fed up with the commodification of every square inch of the city. But what if the Airbnb economy is also changing the way New York City dreams and makes art? Can it be stopped? Housing Activist Murray Cox gives us a tour of his insideairbnb project, Sociologist Richard Ocejo takes us on a jaunt through Hell Square, and legendary performance artist Penny Arcade shows us around "the big cupcake".

New York After Rent (part 1 of 3)

A show about the internet, hosted by PJ Vogt and Alex Goldman.  From Gimlet.