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This week, we're sharing an episode of a show we love, Death, Sex & Money. We hope you enjoy it as much as we do. We'll be back with two new episodes of our own next Friday. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy [https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices [https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices]

This week we have for you ... not a whodunnit, but a what did I do? A listener tries a substance he doesn’t know much about and not long after, his life begins to change. Afterwards, he wonders — what was that, and why was it so easy to get? Search Engine investigates.  Support the show over at searchengine.show [searchengine.show]! To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy [https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices [https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices]

The single issue that might decide the upcoming presidential election also happens to be: very confusing. Political economist Mark Blyth [https://x.com/mkblyth?lang=en] helps us understand: how inflation starts, how inflation is stopped, and shares his theory about why the powers-that-be may be just as confused about inflation as we are. Support the show: searchengine.show [https://www.searchengine.show/] To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy [https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices [https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices]

25 years ago, The Sopranos, the best television show ever created, premiered. This week, a new documentary called Wise Guy [https://www.hbo.com/movies/wise-guy-david-chase-and-the-sopranos] asks the question: how did a show considered so risky & uncommercial even get made? We’re interviewing Wise Guy director Alex Gibney about that question, and about how stubborn lunatics like him and David Chase got to make the projects they wanted to make. Incognito Mode [http://searchengine.show/], our ad-free, no-rerun, bonus episode feed. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy [https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices [https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices]

If you care about animals, but don't want to stop eating them... what's the least you could do while doing the most good? That question, posed to The Atlantic's Annie Lowrey, leads us to a pair of true crime stories about animals. Turkeys plummeting wildly from the sky and a private investigation involving a small brown cow. Links to Annie Lowrey's Reporting Tossing a Bird That Does Not Fly Out of a Plane [https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/11/yellville-turkey-trot/576184/] The Truth About Organic Milk [https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/04/alexandre-farms-treatment-of-animals/677980/] Links to Live Events Brooklyn Live Event with Freakonomics [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-questionable-evening-with-stephen-dubner-and-pj-vogt-tickets-1002544747327] - Thursday, September 26th Amsterdam Live Event with Podimo [https://podimo.com/nl/searchengine] - Thursday, October 3rd To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy [https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices [https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices]