What's Playing Through My Headphones
Freakonomics
Uncovering the hidden side of everything and how human behaviour impacts economics.
| Name | Date | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Is the U.S. Really Less Corrupt Than China? (Update) | 26 Sept 2025 | 58m | |
| 647. China Is Run by Engineers. America Is Run by Lawyers. | 19 Sept 2025 | 1h 2m | |
| 646. An Air Traffic Controller Walks Into a Radio Studio ... | 12 Sept 2025 | 1h 6m | |
| 645. Is the Air Traffic Control System Broken? | 05 Sept 2025 | 1h 7m |
99% Invisible
Discussing the unnoticed design in the world around us.
Acquired
Mergers and acquisitions in the tech industry.
| Name | Date | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meta | 28 Oct 2024 | 6h 19m | |
| Starbucks (with Howard Schultz) | 04 Jun 2024 | 3h 13m | |
| Amazon Web Services | 06 Sept 2022 | 2h 43m |
Planet Money
Economics and its effect on the global economy.
| Name | Date | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What AI data centers are doing to your electric bill | 20 Dec 2025 | 32m | |
| When Chicago pawned its parking meters | 12 Dec 2025 | 31m | |
| Strange threadfellows: How the U.S. military shaped what we all wear | 10 Dec 2025 | 36m | |
| How Russia’s shadow fleet is sailing around oil sanctions | 17 Oct 2025 | 32m | |
| How Jane Street’s secret billion-dollar trade unraveled | 24 Sept 2025 | 29m | |
| ZIP Codes! | 08 Jan 2025 | 32m | |
| How useful, really, are the steps you can take after a data breach? | 02 Dec 2024 | 23m | |
| Why do hospitals keep running out of generic drugs? | 25 Oct 2024 | 30m | |
| The flight attendants of CHAOS | 04 Oct 2023 | 29m |
Founders
Learn from history's greatest entrepreneurs.
| Name | Date | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|
| #399 How Elon Works | 25 Aug 2025 | 1h 33m |
Search Engine
“We try to make sense of the world, one question at a time. No question too big, no question too small.”
| Name | Date | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What's the best phone to do crimes on? (classic) | 05 Dec 2025 | 1h 1m | |
| Why is the pool at Buckingham Palace a secret? | 27 Dec 2024 | 1h 11m | |
| Who buys luggage at the airport luggage store? | 06 Dec 2024 | 52m |
Start Here
A brief overview of the top news stories of the day.
Business Wars
Stories of iconic business rivalries.
| Name | Date | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Can Southwest Airlines Survive? | Excess Baggage | 20 Aug 2025 | 42m | |
| Can Southwest Airlines Survive? | Hard Landing | 13 Aug 2025 | 40m |
The Indicator from Planet Money
Discussing a single economic indicator in depth.
How I Built This with Guy Raz
Stories from entrepreneurs about how they built their businesses.
The Journal.
In-depth coverage and news about money, business, and power.
| Name | Date | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Can $60 Billion Boost Disney's Theme Park Magic? | 28 Jan 2026 | 20m | |
| Inside the Black Market for High School Football Players | 16 Jan 2026 | 23m | |
| The Bank Collapse Behind Iran's Protests | 15 Jan 2026 | 19m | |
| A Son Blames ChatGPT for His Father's Murder-Suicide | 09 Jan 2026 | 23m | |
| China's Cheap Goods Are Europe's Problem Now | 07 Jan 2026 | 20m |
Design Details
The process of design, from conception to completion.
Odd Lots
Exploring the most interesting topics in finance, markets and economics.
| Name | Date | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What Ben McKenzie Learned When He Started Investigating Crypto | 29 Jun 2023 | 50m | |
| This Is How Finance and Banking Worked Before Computers | 22 Jun 2023 | 49m | |
| Steve Eisman on Banks, AI and His Next Big Bet | 16 Jun 2023 | 57m | |
| This Is What Happens When Governments Build Software | 12 Jun 2023 | 1h 5m | |
| Slack Founder Stewart Butterfield on AI, Software, and the End of the Tech Boom | 25 May 2023 | 45m | |
| We're In the Midst of Trucking Bloodbath 2.0 | 19 May 2023 | 48m | |
| Why Corporate America Still Runs on Ancient Software That Breaks | 26 Jan 2023 | 47m | |
| Ex-Logger Aims to Beat Elon Musk in Electric Trucks | 16 Jan 2023 | 52m | |
| What Truckers Already Know About the Future of Electronic Worker Surveillance | 09 Jan 2023 | 40m | |
| Flexport CEO Says a ‘Great Recession’ Is Here for Global Shipping | 05 Jan 2023 | 40m | |
| A Midwest Drought Is Creating a Supply Chain Crisis on the Mississippi River | 31 Oct 2022 | 49m | |
| This Is The Legal Mess Now Facing the Trucking Industry | 28 Oct 2022 | 39m | |
| This Is What Actually Determines the Price of A Gallon of Gas | 19 Aug 2022 | 35m | |
| This Is the Case for Building a More Robust Power Grid | 18 Aug 2022 | 50m | |
| Just How Bad Will the Energy Crisis Be in Europe This Winter? | 15 Aug 2022 | 59m | |
| Ryan Petersen on How Global Supply Chains Have Gotten Even Worse | 14 Oct 2021 | 48m | |
| How the World's Companies Wound Up in a Deepening Supply Chain Nightmare | 17 May 2021 | 49m | |
| Why the Cost of Shipping Goods From China Is Suddenly Soaring | 18 Jan 2021 | 46m |