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The Girls: “If it was your daughter”

The Girls: “This isn’t ringing alarms to y’all?”

The Girls: “I need to tell you something”

The Network: Pivoting as mifepristone access shifts

Alternate Realities: Double or Nothing

Repairing relationships with family members lost to conspiracy theories requires abandoning confrontational debates in favor of "third-party processing." Direct challenges to irrational beliefs often trigger defensive reactions, reinforcing the very echo chambers they aim to dismantle. Instead, fostering connection inv...

The Harvard Plan: The Endless Frontier

The Harvard Plan: Jay & Alan

The Harvard Plan: And so it begins…

Alternate Realities: A Question for Listeners

The challenge of reconnecting with loved ones lost to deep-seated conspiracy theories remains a pervasive struggle for many families. Following a personal account of a father who wagered $10,000 on ten specific conspiratorial predictions for 2024—including the imposition of martial law in the U.S.—hundreds of listeners...

Congress has voted to eliminate government funding for public media

The Network: Breaking Bread

The Network: Déjà vu

The Network: Saint-o-tec

Introducing "The Network" from NPR and Futuro Media

Alternate Realities: Facing the Facts

A year-long bet between a son and his father concludes with the father failing to prove any of his ten conspiracy-based predictions, including claims of treason convictions for political figures and the imposition of martial law. Despite the objective failure of these forecasts, the father maintains his convictions, at...

Alternate Realities: Down the Rabbit Hole

Zach Mack investigates the roots of his father’s deep-seated belief in conspiracy theories, attempting to bridge a growing ideological divide through a year-long wager. By interviewing his father’s long-time friends and experts in political science and religious extremism, Mack uncovers how these beliefs serve as emoti...

Alternate Realities: A Strange Bet

A reporter investigates the growing ideological divide within his family as his father becomes increasingly radicalized by online conspiracy theories. Driven by prophetic content from figures like Julie Green, the father anticipates apocalyptic events including EMP-induced blackouts, the collapse of a globalist cabal, ...

Introducing Alternate Realities from NPR

Zach Mack investigates the radicalization of his father through a high-stakes $10,000 wager centered on ten specific conspiracy theories. The experiment tracks a year-long period to determine if objective reality and financial consequences can pull a person out of an online "rabbit hole." Key predictions under scrutiny...

Five Fingers Crush The Land from NPR's Throughline

The Black Gate: Arresting Your Brothers and Sisters