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If you like this episode and want to hear more, please sign up for our premium feed here! https://hyperfixedpod.com/joinIf you would like to join at the $60 yearly level and receive your very own Big Chub Chet's button, you can do so here:https://hyperfixedpod.com/buttonThere are a limited number so get them before they're gone! Casey has been chasing the origin of a very specific piece of ephemera for almost 15 years. He came to us for help.LINKS:Busy Beaver Button MuseumThe Button in Question (Spoilers! don't look until the episode is done!) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

PJ Vogt introduces his new show, Search Engine, where he digs into all kinds of questions, big and small. On this episode: why are drug dealers putting fentanyl in everything?  You can find the concluding episode of the story here.  To find more episodes of Search Engine or to submit a question to the show, go here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

One last thing before we go. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Inspired by @depthsofwikipedia, this week we dive deeper into three of our favorite weird Wikipedia pages. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We'll be back in a few weeks, in the meantime we're introducing a new show from Gimlet called Stolen: Surviving St. Michael's Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Some news: Emmanuel and Alex will be stepping away from making the show. And this iteration of Reply All will be ending in late June. This isn't a decision that was made by any one person. Reply All has always been a super collaborative project which is what we've loved so much about making it. Ultimately, staff who have been working on this show for a long time – in some cases five, six, seven years at this point – are ready to pursue other things. Making this show has been an incredible pleasure. Thank you all so much for listening. We hope you join us for our remaining episodes, including our last one, on June 23rd. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A community of chicken lovers faces an unlikely foe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We'll be back with a new episode next week, but in the meantime, we're featuring an episode of a new show from Gimlet and Crooked Media: Stuck with Damon Young. You can listen to episodes here: https://open.spotify.com/show/42kxHmWquXQBJCxG0rXvu6 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Emmanuel tries a personal experiment. -------- This episode was inspired by the work of Soraya Perry. Check out her work as a filmmaker, musician, and visual artist here: www.sorayaperry.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Alex chats with Habiba Nosheen about her new show, Conviction: The Disappearance of Nuseiba Hasan.  Listen to all the episodes of the show here: https://open.spotify.com/show/2XquJlPU9ibLYZMH0ZzFwA Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week, a Super Tech Support: Gabby is devastated after her art is stolen. Anna takes on the case, and plunges into a part of the internet she'd hope she never have to learn about. Reply All's Lil Wolfie The Inbetweeners Collection Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week we're rebroadcasting a recent favorite. Emmanuel investigates a mysterious recording that has been popping up on toll free numbers for major corporations, police departments, and even federal government agencies for years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week, a listener contacts us about a supernatural occurrence in her Toyota Prius. Alex Goldman investigates. Kim Kelly's new book Fight Like Hell A picture of the photo in question Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week, a Super Tech Support: a listener's Spotify Wrapped is dominated by a mysterious artist she's never heard of and swears she's never listened to. And the songs she supposedly played are even weirder. Emmanuel investigates. ------ Additional material: Peter Slattery's series on spotify scammers: https://onezero.medium.com/cheaters-guide-to-spotify/home Check out Drumkoon's music, including a new genre of music he calls "Venova Fusion" on bandcamp: https://drumkoon.bandcamp.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Today we are sharing an episode made by our colleagues at Science Vs. In the piece, they dive deep on the effects of COVID misinformation spread by the show The Joe Rogan Experience, specifically in one episode featuring Dr. Robert Malone. The Science Vs. team interrogates the question: just what kind of damage can a show do to a society in the midst of a pandemic? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A quick note about our schedule this year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Alex chats with Jonathan Goldstein about his show, Heavyweight. And then, we hear an episode from the show. In 1968, Jonathan's mother-in-law Becky spent one of the best summers of her life with a woman named Barbara. But then they never spoke again. Now, over fifty years later, Becky learns something about Barbara that makes her question whether she ever really knew her at all. Listen to more episodes of Heavyweight, here. Follow Jonathan on Twitter @j_goldstein. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A mystery roils Florida political Twitter: could it be that the governor's new press secretary is running bots against her political opponents? Emmanuel investigates. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Emmanuel chats with Emma Courtland about her show, Crime Show. And then, we hear an episode from the show. When teenager Hillary Transue made a MySpace page poking fun at her vice principal, she never imagined it would land her in a juvenile detention facility—and that to get out, she would need to expose a corruption scheme that ran to the highest echelons of the state's judicial system. Listen to more episodes of Crime Show, here. Follow Emma on Twitter @ecourtland. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week, producer Anna Foley investigates a viral prank plaguing schools across the country. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Emmanuel Dzotsi chats with journalist Jason Rezaian about his new show, 544 Days, which explores Jason's imprisonment by the Iranian government and the struggle to free him. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Reply All team talk to people trying to break out of their mid-pandemic funk. Here is a list of organizations that offer support for anyone feeling distressed, experiencing feelings of depression or anxiety, or thinking about self harm or suicide: https://resources.byspotify.com/ And here is a list of organizations around the world focused on advocacy, research, education, and support for eating disorders: https://www.worldeatingdisordersday.org/get-involved/participating-organisations/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week, Alex Goldman's favorite place on the internet is in danger, thanks to a bunch of robot snipers. Jilgamesh's Twitch Stream Jessica Conditt's reporting at Endadget Valve Employee Handbook Team Fortress 2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Alex Goldman chats with Simone Polanen about her show, Not Past It. And then, the episode: The Paris Hilton Sex Tape. Paris Hilton's sex tape ushered in a new era of celebrity obsession. On June 15, 2004: it went on sale after her ex made a deal with a pornographic distributor. Simone reflects on the scandal, fallout and impact it had on a generation of young women. Listen to more episode of Not Past It, here. You can follow Simone on Twitter, @SimonePolanen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Producer Anna Foley tries to answer a question that's been bothering her for a long time: What makes the TikTok algorithm so good at knowing what she wants to watch? On her quest to find out, her sister asks another, more unexpected, question. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Today, the return of Super Tech Support: Alex discovers a Twitter account that breaks his brain. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

FemmeAndroid tries to do a good deed…but instead finds herself in a battle to save a place she loves.  Some helpful links:  FemmeAndroid's Patreon for her webcomic Bodies. If you or someone you know is feeling depressed or just needing to talk to someone, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255. Find more resources for people outside the U.S. here . One specific resource for trans people is Trans Lifeline - a peer support and crisis hotline run and operated by trans people. To reach Trans Lifeline, call 877-565-8860. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week, with the help of tech reporters Ashley Feinberg and Katie Notopoulos, we venture to one of the darkest places on the internet -- our own search histories. Apply for the Reply All internship Ashley Feinberg's Newsletter, Trashberg Katie Notopoulos' Articles on Buzzfeed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Reply All team takes a look at the Test Kitchen, and what those mistakes mean for the future of the show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An update on the future of The Test Kitchen series and PJ Vogt and Sruthi Pinnamaneni's departure.

Chapter 2, “Glass Office”: Years later, in 2018, a new wave of people of color arrives at Bon Appétit. And when their white bosses don’t understand the problems they’re facing, those people will decide to fix the place themselves. Check out: Jesse Sparks’ portfolio Elyse Inamine’s Instagram Ryan Walker-Hartshorn’s website and Twitter A reported story by Priya Krishna Christina Chaey’s 2016 manifesto following Bon Appétit’s pho video release. And here’s Christina’s Instagram.

In the summer of 2020, Bon Appétit faced an online reckoning. It imploded, seemingly overnight, former employees calling it a racist and toxic workplace. But the story of what actually happened there started ten years earlier. This is Chapter One, “Original Sin,” of our series The Test Kitchen. Here are some recipes to try from the people featured in this week’s story: Yewande Komolafe’s yam and plantain curry with crispy shallots and sheet-pan gochujang chicken.  Sue Li’s caramelized onion galette and creamy turmeric pasta. Rick Martinez’s mole sencillo. Eleanore Park’s ginger-scallion meatballs with lemony farro. Also, you can read Rachel Premack’s breaking story on Bon Appétit from last summer here.

The President is no longer allowed to Tweet. PJ and Alex sit down with their boss to explain what that means, how it happened, and what might happen next. Plus -- an upset listener berates our climate reporter. Click here to listen to How to Save a Planet

Alex Goldman tackles his newest job: prophet of doom. Taylor Moore's podcasts, Rude Tales of Magic and Fun City Emily Atkin's newsletter, Heated John Colpitts' latest album, The Ochre World Want to learn to play drums? Learn from John Colpitts Listen to Song Exploder, a huge inspiration for this episode.

This week — a new technology falls into the wrong hands. This episode originally aired in January, 2016. Pope Brock's book, Charlatan  Penny Lane's documentary, Nuts! 

In the midst of a historic election, Alex, PJ and Emmanuel talk to our listeners.

We will be opening up our phone lines a few times over the next couple days. We are hoping to talk to specific groups of people who have helped shape this incredible election. The first group we want to hear from is Black people in the South. We want to know how you’re feeling. Give us a call today (11/6) at 4pm ET at 917-793-2272. If you don’t get through, leave us a voicemail. We might use the voicemails or calls in a future episode. Please keep an eye on Twitter and Facebook. In the coming days, we'll be posting on social media when we’re opening our phone lines again, and who we're hoping to from. Our Twitter handle is @replyall. Looking forward to talking!

Alex meets a scientist who has built a tool meant to do the impossible -- measure the world's overall happiness and sadness. Plus, Alex volunteers for a risky and strange experiment.

Faced with an impossible choice, one man goes live on instagram. Saidu Tejan Thomas Jr. shares a story from his new podcast, Resistance. Find more episodes of Resistance here: https://open.spotify.com/show/02JzQLXpqTtViFUGQjRkj3?si=PvQrGlB7QEuf0AcgsGklHg&utm_source=copy-link To get more information about the show, follow the show's Instagram page: @resistanceshow. You can also follow Saidu on Twitter @SaiduTTJ.  If you or someone you know is feeling depressed or just needing to talk to someone, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255. Find more resources here: https://afsp.org/suicide-prevention-resources

We're excited to announce that Emmanuel Dzotsi is taking on a new role on the show ... as host! And this week, he brings us a story about a mysterious recording that has been popping up on government hotlines for years. Emmanuel tries to figure out where this recording is coming from and who's putting it there.

Who is Q-Anon? PJ tells the surprising origin story of the Q scam, and the man who now seems to be in control of it. Dale Beran (@DaleBeran) and Mike Rothschild (@rothschildmd) Apply to the Reply All internship here