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AI-generated podcasts on history, philosophy, science and business, from The Origin of Things to Founder Failures. Pick a show and press play.

Rise and Fall of Empires
34 episodes
An AI-generated podcast that follows one empire from its rise to its collapse, a chapter each week.
- Empire in Slow Motion: The Rise and Fall of Rome, One Chapter at a Time · 16 min
- Rise and Fall of Rome: A Weekly Journey Through Empire · 14 min
- The Rise and Fall of Rome: The Crisis That Shook an Empire · 16 min
- All 34 episodes
The Origin of Things
34 episodes
An AI-generated podcast on the history and science of one everyday object, such as the paperclip or the zip.
- The Secret Life of the Safety Pin: How a Bent Wire Changed Everything · 20 min
- Why the Ballpoint Pen Took Fifty Years to Work · 15 min
- The Button: Five Thousand Years of Useless Genius · 15 min
- All 34 episodes
Thinkers Across Time
34 episodes
An AI-generated podcast of imagined debates between thinkers from different eras on subjects they never got to discuss.
- When Marx Met Keynes: What If Two Economic Giants Debated Capitalism? · 13 min
- When Locke Met Skinner: Debating Free Will in the Quiet Room · 12 min
- When Machiavelli Meets Confucius: The Leader’s Dilemma · 12 min
- All 34 episodes
Founder Failures: Post-Mortems
32 episodes
In this AI-generated podcast, two founders take apart a business decision that went badly wrong and what it taught them.
- Founders in the Wreckage: Brutally Honest Post Mortems on Startup Fails · 13 min
- How to Burn $1.75 Billion in Six Months: The Quibi Post-Mortem · 15 min
- Brutal Business Blunders: The Real Story Behind New Coke · 15 min
- All 32 episodes
Philosophy in the Ring
28 episodes
An AI-generated podcast that works through big philosophical questions using wrestling metaphors.
- Would You Pull the Lever? Wrestling with the Trolley Problem · 5 min
- What Does It Mean to Be Happy? · 5 min
- What’s the Point: Wrestling with Life’s Biggest Question · 6 min
- All 28 episodes
Timeless Tiffs
28 episodes
In this AI-generated podcast, two critics argue over whether a classic film, album or book still holds up.
- Does Casablanca Still Have It? Two Critics Clash Over Timeless Classics · 5 min
- Does Sgt. Pepper Still Matter Today? Two Critics Debate the Beatles' Legacy · 5 min
- Does Thriller Still Thrill Us? Two Critics Debate the Legacy of a Monumental Album · 5 min
- All 28 episodes
Unsung Witness
28 episodes
An AI-generated podcast about people who were present at major moments in history but never made the headlines.
- The Wolf Who Found the Dead Sea Scrolls: A Forgotten Shepherd’s Story · 5 min
- The Unsung at the Edge of History: Stories from the Sidelines · 7 min
- History's Unsung Witnesses: The Stories Behind the Headlines · 6 min
- All 28 episodes
Breaking Free Chronicles
27 episodes
Each episode of this AI-generated podcast follows one person who left a familiar life behind, and what happened after they did.
- When Greta Garbo Walked Away: The Stories Behind Quiet Exits · 5 min
- When Walking Away Means Saying Yes: The Grace Kelly Story · 7 min
- The Moment They Walked Away: Dave Chappelle and the Fifty-Million-Dollar Decision · 5 min
- All 27 episodes
Breakthrough Chronicles
27 episodes
An AI-generated podcast on the people and rivalries behind medical and astronomical discoveries, such as insulin.
- When Genius Collides: Darwin, Wallace and the Race for Evolution · 5 min
- Rivals, Revelations and the Birth of Oxygen: Science as Human Drama · 6 min
- The Secret of Life: DNA's Race, Rivalry and Revelation · 7 min
- All 27 episodes
Hidden Power Chronicles
27 episodes
Each week this AI-generated podcast traces how one industry quietly grew into a force in the global economy.
- How Gaskets Quietly Built the Modern World · 5 min
- How Filters Took Over: The Hidden Industry That Shapes Everything · 6 min
- The Hidden Gatekeepers: How Valves Quietly Took Over the World · 6 min
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Mystery Unveiled
27 episodes
An AI-generated podcast about scientific mysteries and unexplained phenomena that have stumped researchers for years.
- What Came Before the Big Bang: Chasing the Universe's First Question · 5 min
- What We Can't See: Chasing the Universe's Missing Ninety-Five Percent · 6 min
- When Does Life Begin: Chasing the Mystery of Abiogenesis · 6 min
- All 27 episodes
Philosophy in the Ordinary
27 episodes
Each episode of this AI-generated podcast looks at an everyday situation through a different philosophical perspective.
- Existential Errands: Finding Life’s Meaning in Spam Emails and Grocery Lines · 4 min
- Grocery Line Epiphanies: Philosophy at the Supermarket · 5 min
- Why Small Talk Feels So Big: Grocery Store Philosophy · 6 min
- All 27 episodes
Snapshot Stories Weekly
27 episodes
An AI-generated podcast about iconic photographs, the photographers who took them and the people in the frame.
- Behind the Lens: The Untold Story of 'Migrant Mother' · 6 min
- Behind the Shutter: The Untold Stories of Iconic Photographs · 6 min
- Behind the Lens: The Untold Stories of Iconic Photographs · 6 min
- All 27 episodes
Speech Spotlight Weekly
27 episodes
An AI-generated podcast that revisits iconic speeches from the speaker's side: who was in the room and what the country was going through.
- Backstage at History: The Untold Stories Behind Iconic Speeches · 6 min
- What Really Happened the Day of the Speech: Stories From the Edge of History · 5 min
- History Offstage: The Day Great Speeches Changed Everything · 7 min
- All 27 episodes
Turning Points Debate
27 episodes
Two historians debate a turning point in world history each week in this AI-generated podcast.
- The Debate That Changed Everything: The Scientific Revolution's Double-Edged Legacy · 4 min
- History’s Great Debates: Two Sides, One Turning Point · 6 min
- History's Great Debates: The French Revolution, Liberty or Chaos? · 5 min
- All 27 episodes
Unbelievable Truths Weekly
27 episodes
An AI-generated podcast of true stories that sound too strange to be real, told with a straight face.
- The Day Ivan the Terrible Proposed to Elizabeth I · 5 min
- The Strasbourg Dancing Plague: When a City Couldn't Stop Moving · 5 min
- The Whale That Went Boom: When Oregon Tried to Solve a Problem With Dynamite · 5 min
- All 27 episodes
History Unlocked
26 episodes
An AI-generated podcast of imagined interviews with thinkers, inventors and leaders from history.
- History’s Backstage: The Interviews We Never Got · 4 min
- Galileo on Trial: Seeing the Universe for Yourself · 6 min
- History’s Green Room: Leonardo da Vinci Talks Art, Science and Secrets · 5 min
- All 26 episodes
Paradigm Clash
26 episodes
In this AI-generated podcast, two voices debate contested questions about consciousness, quantum physics and cosmology.
- Black Holes and the Fate of Information: A Debate Beyond the Textbooks · 5 min
- The Great Filter Showdown: Are We Alone or Just Not Listening? · 6 min
- Did We Invent Math or Discover It? · 5 min
- All 26 episodes
Science Simplified Weekly
26 episodes
One scientific idea each week, explained in an AI-generated podcast for anyone from curious kids to physicists.
- Why the Ground Moves: The Secret Life of Tectonic Plates · 5 min
- How DNA Writes the Code of Life · 6 min
- What Happens When the Universe Runs Out of Surprises? · 6 min
- All 26 episodes
Studio Secrets Weekly
26 episodes
An AI-generated podcast on how classic albums were made: the studio sessions, the creative clashes and the happy accidents.
- Studio Legends: The Untold Stories Behind Iconic Albums · 5 min
- Inside the Studio: The Secret History of Legendary Albums · 6 min
- Inside the Studio: The Untold Story of Nirvana's Nevermind · 6 min
- All 26 episodes
Origin Uncovered
25 episodes
An AI-generated podcast about how the world's biggest companies started, with the details their official stories leave out.
- What They Never Told You About Famous Brands: The Untold Company Stories · 5 min
- The Real Stories Behind Famous Brands: What They Never Tell You · 6 min
- The Real Story Behind McDonald's: Who Really Built the Golden Arches? · 6 min
- All 25 episodes
Viral Moments Unveiled
25 episodes
An AI-generated podcast on why certain internet moments go viral and what they show about how people behave online.
- Why Fyre Festival Broke the Internet: The Luxury Mirage That Fooled the World · 5 min
- Why the Distracted Boyfriend Meme Took Over the Internet · 6 min
- Why The Dress Broke the Internet: Blue and Black or White and Gold? · 5 min
- All 25 episodes
Hidden Lives Unveiled
10 episodes
An AI-generated podcast about ordinary people, the struggles they face in private and the moments that never make the news.
- Hidden Guardians: Extraordinary Lives Beyond the Headlines · 5 min
- Hidden in Plain Sight: The Quiet Lives That Shape Our World · 4 min
- Hidden Lives: The Man Who Tends Midnight Mushrooms Every Day Since 1984 · 6 min
- All 10 episodes

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