Season 2023
Episodes
1 Why Building Ski Lifts Is Incredibly Hard Jan 4, 2023 2 The Massively Complicated Task of Buying Insurance for a Satellite Jan 11, 2023 3 Why Canada’s Teachers Run an Investment Firm in Singapore Jan 18, 2023 4 The Navy’s Obscure, Super-Efficient Swim Stroke Jan 20, 2023 5 The Weirdly Complex Science of Snow Removal Jan 21, 2023 6 Why the IRS Taxes Illegal Income Jan 30, 2023 7 The Corporate Conspiracy Behind California’s Smallest Town Feb 2, 2023 8 How Amish People Get Around Not Using Electricity Feb 5, 2023 9 Why Soda Cans are Shaped Differently in Hawaii Feb 13, 2023 10 Why the US Gov Reshapes the Mississippi River Feb 16, 2023 11 The Genius $250 Toll Road from Minnesota to Minnesota Feb 22, 2023 12 How Science Made You Finally Like Brussels Sprouts Feb 24, 2023 13 Why Every Baseball Stadium Has Different Rules Mar 1, 2023 14 Why It’s Impossible to Build a Crochet Machine Mar 6, 2023 15 Why American Lawns All Look The Same Mar 9, 2023 16 The NY Subway's Weirdly Successful Lost and Found System Mar 16, 2023 17 North Korea’s Bizarre New Propaganda Program Mar 18, 2023 18 How Witness Protection Manages to Keep a 100% Success Rate Mar 23, 2023 19 How Amazon Broke the US Patent Office Mar 28, 2023 20 The Continent-Sized Algae Blob That’s Coming for Florida Mar 31, 2023 21 How To Spot a Really Good Art Forgery Apr 7, 2023 22 The Court That Settles Wikipedia Editor Drama Apr 12, 2023 23 The Material So Classified We Forgot How to Make It Apr 15, 2023 24 This Diabetes Drug Causes Weight Loss (and Chaos) Apr 24, 2023 25 Why You Can Legally Steal From a Sinking Ship Apr 28, 2023 26 The Giant Propaganda Show That’s In Almost Every City May 1, 2023 27 How the White House Reads Every Letter it Gets May 7, 2023 28 How Much Happiness Can Money Buy? May 9, 2023 29 The Super Obvious Ways to Get Around Campaign Finance Laws May 12, 2023 30 Why We're Reaching the Theoretical Limit of Computer Power May 20, 2023 31 Why It Took 13 Years to Engineer The Taco Bell Crunchwrap May 23, 2023 32 The Website Where You Can Order The Bubonic Plague May 26, 2023 33 Dyson’s Disinformation War with Big Paper Towel Jun 5, 2023 34 How Planes Forecast Turbulence Jun 8, 2023 35 Why Tape Storage is Making a Sneaky Comeback Jun 12, 2023 36 How the Fake Meat Industry Saved Dippin’ Dots Jun 16, 2023 37 How the World’s 4 Cryogenics Companies Actually Work Jun 22, 2023 38 The Intense Logistics of Truffles Jun 26, 2023 39 Why the US and China Are Squabbling Over This One Wire Jun 30, 2023 40 How Argentina Accidentally Gave Germans 40% Off Everything Jul 4, 2023 41 We've Made 400 Videos for the Internet. Here are the Worst Ones. Jul 12, 2023 42 Why The US Navy Really Needs This One Forest in Indiana Jul 15, 2023 43 Why This Airline Only Has One Commercial Flight Per Month Jul 18, 2023 44 Trains’ Weirdly Massive Problem with Leaves Jul 21, 2023 45 How Porsche Owns Volkswagen and Volkswagen Owns Porsche Jul 31, 2023 46 Why the US Government Has No Idea How Many Buildings It Owns Aug 4, 2023 47 The Weirdly Lucrative Business of Searching for Old Jeans Aug 8, 2023 48 Chicago’s $10 Billion Street Parking Mistake Aug 10, 2023 49 Why Only 24 Pilots Are Allowed to Land at This Airport Aug 16, 2023 50 The Remote Town Where 13.2% of People are Millionaires Aug 22, 2023 51 How The Pentagon Became The World’s Most Secure Building Aug 29, 2023 52 The Surprisingly Complex Logistics of Product Returns Aug 30, 2023 53 Every Mistake We’ve Ever Made VI: Return of the Jed-lie Aug 31, 2023 54 The 3100-Mile Longest Official Running Race in the World Sep 12, 2023 55 Why It Takes 7+ Years to Shut Down a Nuclear Plant Sep 19, 2023 56 The Only River That Flows Into Both the Atlantic and the Pacific Sep 21, 2023 57 How to Fail a Kitchen Inspection Sep 28, 2023 58 How The President’s Official Vacation Home Works Sep 29, 2023 59 Why Venice’s New €8 Billion Flood Barrier Only Kinda Works Sep 30, 2023 60 The Design Flaw That Made Hyundais Absurdly Easy to Steal Oct 6, 2023 61 Australia’s Huge Mistake of Selling All Their Water Oct 12, 2023 62 How Submarines Survive at 36,201 Feet Below Oct 20, 2023 63 Why China Built an Antenna Bigger Than NYC Oct 25, 2023 64 Why Qatar Airways Flies An Almost-Empty Flight to Adelaide Oct 26, 2023 65 How 70% of Britain’s Cash Went Missing Oct 28, 2023 66 How This Utah Hotel Legally Became a Town Nov 6, 2023 67 Why The US is in 42 Different National Emergencies Nov 15, 2023 68 The 128 Airlines So Dangerous They’re Banned in the EU Nov 17, 2023 69 Why the US Gov Pays $10 Million a Year for This Yacht Nov 21, 2023 70 The Arctic Vault That Protects Data from the Apocalypse Nov 27, 2023 71 NASA’s Year-Long, Totally Fake Mission to Mars Nov 30, 2023 72 The Vault That Holds 5% of the World’s Gold Dec 7, 2023 73 The Controversial Machine That’s Ruining Bowling Dec 12, 2023 74 What Exactly Happens When You Check a Bag Dec 19, 2023 75 The Super-Secure Delivery Service That Only Diplomats Can Use Dec 26, 2023 76 Why China Took the US’ Pandas Dec 28, 2023