Reply All (podcast)
Reply All | |
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Presentation | |
Hosted by | PJ Vogt and Alex Goldman |
Genre | technology, human interest |
Updates | weekly |
Publication | |
Original release | 2014 – present |
Ratings | 500,000[1] |
Provider | Gimlet Media |
Website |
gimletmedia |
Reply All is an American podcast from Gimlet Media,[2] hosted by PJ Vogt and Alex Goldman.[3]
It features stories about how people shape the internet, and how the internet shapes people.[4] Vogt and Goldman previously hosted the technology and culture podcast TLDR for WNYC.
Reply All premiered November 24, 2014.[5] It was a 2016 Webby Nominee for Best Podcast.[6]
"Yes, Yes, No" is a regular segment where Vogt and Goldman explain internet-slang based tweets to Gimlet CEO Alex Blumberg.
Producers include Phia Bennin, Tim Howard, Damiano Marchetti, and Sruthi Pinnamaneni.[7]
Episodes
# | Title | Date[8][9] |
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1 | "An App Sends A Stranger To Say “I Love You”" | November 24, 2014 |
Using the internet to reach someone in real life. | ||
2 | "The Secret, Gruesome Internet For Doctors" | November 24, 2014 |
An app called Figure One wants to be Instagram, but for doctors. | ||
3 | "We Know What You Did" | December 3, 2014 |
Twenty years ago, Ethan Zuckerman did something terrible on the internet. And he’s still living with the consequences. | ||
4 | "Follow the Money" | December 10, 2014 |
Writer Chiara Atik has a hobby -- spying on the financial transactions of friends and strangers. She thinks that Venmo, more than any other social media site, is the place you can find actual, accidental truth online. This week we investigate that claim. | ||
5 | "Jennicam" | December 17, 2014 |
In 1996 Jennifer Ringley started Jennicam.org, where she recorded and broadcast her entire life, 24/7. It made her famous. And then, one day, she disappeared from the internet entirely. What'd she figure out about the perils of living publicly before the rest of us did? Alex Goldman tracks her down. | ||
6 | "This Proves Everything" | December 23, 2014 |
Depending on who you ask, Keith Calder is either a 35-year old film producer, or one of the players in a vast international conspiracy designed to conceal the greatest love story never told. | ||
7 | "This Website is For Sale" | December 31, 2014 |
This week we enter the mysterious, Byzantine underworld of domain sales, where people make money speculating on the website naming market. A few years ago, the owners of the popular journalism website longform.org blundered into this world when they innocently tried to procure longform.com. In this episode, we find out about their misadventures, and we hear from the Derek Jeter of URL purchases. | ||
8 | "Anxiety Box" | January 7, 2015 |
Sometimes, on his way to work, a feeling of pressure begins thumping in Paul Ford’s chest. His breaths shorten. They speed up. And sometimes, in those moments of extreme anxiety, Paul’s phone talks to him. It tells him everything that’s wrong with him. | ||
9 | "The Writing on the Wall" | January 14, 2015 |
Yik Yak is a an app that allows users to communicate anonymously with anyone within a 10-mile radius. At Colgate University in upstate New York, the anonymity brought out a particularly vicious strain of racism that shook the school. | ||
10 | "The French Connection" | January 21, 2015 |
In the early 80's, way before the world wide web existed, the French government shipped a $200 terminal to every home with a phone line, and created a service that for decades ran alongside the internet. It was called The Minitel. Producer Carla Green speaks to reporter Jean-Marc Manach, who, in the early 90's, made a living posing as a woman in sex chat rooms on Minitel. | ||
11 | "Did Errol Morris’ Brother Invent Email?" | January 28, 2015 |
There was a lot that Errol Morris never knew about his brilliant, distant older brother Noel. Decades after Noel's death, Errol read an internet comment that said his brother had invented email. So he launched an investigation to find out if it was true. | ||
12 | "Back End Trouble" | February 4, 2015 |
The entire internet decides to look at one famous butt at the same time. One man has to ensure that the website hosting the Kim Kardashian butt pictures doesn't crash. | ||
13 | "Love is Lies" | February 19, 2015 |
A woman starts dating again at 60 after her marriage falls apart. We follow her into a world of millionaire import/export moguls and fifteen-year old internet scammers. | ||
14 | "The Art of Making and Fixing Mistakes" | February 26, 2015 |
A social media mistake for the record books, and a quiet saint of Wikipedia. | ||
15 | "I’ve Killed People and I Have Hostages" | March 4, 2015 |
Blair Myhand is a police officer in the sleepy, 42,000 person town of Apex, NC. One night, he received an unusually disturbing phone call where a person claimed to be holding a woman hostage after murdering several people. Myhand assembled his team, and went to the house, but what they ended up finding was much more bizarre | ||
16 | "Why Is Mason Reese Crying?" | March 18, 2015 |
For Jonathan Goldstein, YouTube offers endless nostalgia, but he always finds himself returning to the same subject - a precocious child actor from the early 70’s named Mason Reese. And then a few months ago, new clips of Reese began popping up on YouTube. What's more, they appeared to be uploaded by Reese himself. Jonathan sets out to discover why - and why now, after 40 years | ||
17 | "The Time Traveler and the Hitman" | March 25, 2015 |
In 1997, John Silveira wrote a joke classified ad in a tiny publication called Backwoods Home Magazine asking if anyone wanted to travel back in time with him. A lot of people took him seriously. What do you do when everyone wants you to fix the worst mistakes they've ever made. | ||
18 | "Silence and Respect" | April 1, 2015 |
In 2012, a woman named Lindsey Stone posted a picture she took as a joke to her Facebook page. A month later, she was under attack from all corners of the internet, out of a job, hounded by the press. The internet had targeted her for a public shaming. Jon Ronson, journalist and author of the new book "So You've Been Publicly Shamed", walks us through Lindsey's story and introduces us to the sometimes sketchy world of online reputation management. | ||
19 | "Underdog" | April 8, 2015 |
Marnie the Dog is one of the most famous dogs on Instagram. Two years ago, she was near death at an animal shelter in Connecticut, now she has 1.2 million followers and hangs out with human celebrities.This week, we investigate the formula for internet dog fame, and look at how having a famous dog will completely upend your life. | ||
20 | "I Want To Break Free" | April 15, 2015 |
Yes Yes No returns, and the story of two people who created a company designed to ghostwrite people’s emotionally difficult emails. | ||
21 | "Hack the Police" | April 22, 2015 |
When Higinio Ochoa got out of prison for hacking in September of 2014, one of the terms of his parole was that he is not allowed to use any internet connected device. We went to his home in Austin to find out how he got caught and what it's like - in 2015 - to go from living online to not having any internet access. | ||
22 | "Bonus: The Man Who Refused To Email" | May 4, 2015 |
PJ talks to Buzzfeed San Francisco Bureau chief Mat Honan about his decision to abandon personal email entirely, and his agonizing fear that it makes him seem like a douche. | ||
23 | "Exit & Return, Part I" | May 7, 2015 |
Shulem Deen was a 22-year old and ultra-religious, a Hasidic Jewish person, when he bought a computer and signed up for America Online in 1996. Until then he'd never had a real conversation with someone outside his community. Sruthi Pinnamaneni tells the story of how the internet ruined his life and how it might save it. | ||
24 | "Exit & Return, Part II" | May 14, 2015 |
Sruthi Pinnamaneni tells the story of how the Hasidic community has tried to block off a corner of the internet for itself, and how this new, informal Hasidic internet might offer Shulem a way back. | ||
25 | "Favor Atender" | May 20, 2015 |
In the United States, the idea of having a conversation with the President is pretty outlandish. But in Latin America, it's a regular occurrence. The most accessible president on Latin American social media is Ecuador's Rafael Correa. But what's it like to get the attention of a head of state when you may not exactly want it? | ||
26 | "Craigslist, Horsley’s List" | May 27, 2015 |
Craigslist is the internet’s classifieds section, but it’s also one of its more shadowy corners, where the ads are anonymous and ephemeral. So we found ourselves wondering - what would we find if we replied to a couple? This week, we track down the people behind two intriguing ads. Neal Horsley was an anti-abortion activist who created a website called "The Nuremberg Files," a website that listed the names and addresses of abortion providers around the country. He died last month, but the legacy of his website lives on. We talked to Jennifer Boulanger, a woman who works at a number of abortion clinics, and whose name ended up on Horsley's website in the 90's. | ||
27 | "The Fever" | June 4, 2015 |
This week, producer Stephanie Foo tells a story about dating online that is unlike any we've ever heard before. | ||
28 | "Shipped to Timbuktu" | June 18, 2015 |
An email to the wrong address sends us hurtling into the world of professional cookie advisers. | ||
29 | "The Takeover" | June 25, 2015 |
Thomas Oscar is an Australian teenager who tried to make the most boring Facebook group possible – a group where members pretend to be corporate drones in a non-existent office. | ||
30 | "The Man in the FBI Hat" | July 1, 2015 |
When successful internet entrepreneur Robert Hoquim died, the people who knew him found out they actually didn't know him at all. | ||
31 | "Bonus: The Reddit Implosion Explainer" | July 9, 2015 |
Our entire episode this week is a Yes Yes No about the recent (and massive) dustup on Reddit. | ||
32 | "The Evilest Technology On Earth :-)" | July 15, 2015 |
On July 5th, a hacker leaked hundreds of gigabytes of information stolen from a company that sells surveillance software to some of the most oppressive regimes in the world. We look into what journalists have found so far. | ||
33 | "@ISIS" | July 22, 2015 |
Rukmini Callimachi covers Islamic terrorism for the NY Times, and she seems to have access that other reporters just don't have. Part of the way she gets that access is by communicating with Islamic extremists online. She talks to PJ about how she communicates with her sources. | ||
34 | "DMV Nation" | August 6, 2015 |
Even though technology evolves at a rapid clip, US government agencies seem trapped about a decade in the past. PJ talks to technologist Clay Johnson about why the government is so unable to adapt, and what it would look like if it could keep pace with the rest of the world. | ||
35 | "One Strike" | August 12, 2015 |
Preston has posted the same ad to Craigslist over 300 times. He speaks to Sylvie Douglis about why he keeps posting. Barry Crimmins is an influential comedian, and a survivor of sexual abuse. In the mid-90's he embarked on a one-man crusade to stop child pornographers who were operating with impunity on America Online. | ||
36 | "Today’s the Day" | August 27, 2015 |
PJ and Alex go outside. | ||
37 | "Taking Power" | September 3, 2015 |
Chris complained about his cable company on Twitter. He was surprised to get a phone call demanding he delete the tweets or else be banned from the service. PJ looks into the story, and things get much stranger. | ||
38 | "Undo, Undo, Undo" | September 9, 2015 |
Yes Yes No with Alix Spiegel and Lulu Miller of NPR's Invisibilia, and we discuss the one message you've sent across the internet you wish you could take back. | ||
39 | "Reply All Exploder" | September 16, 2015 |
Host Hrishikesh Hirway interviews the mysterious Breakmaster Cylinder about coming up with our theme song. Then, we air one of our very favorite episodes of Song Exploder, an interview with Phil Elverum of the Microphones about his song "I Want Wind to Blow" | ||
40 | "The Flower Child" | September 24, 2015 |
Ripoff Report is one of the original complaint websites. It’s basically the work of one person, a man whom the internet describes as a kind of mythical villain, a Keyser Söze who wields power from behind his janky website. Sruthi Pinnamaneni visits his bunker. | ||
41 | "What It Looks Like" | October 7, 2015 |
Jamie Keiles is a writer who decided to photograph something that’s practically invisible. Her story plus a new Yes Yes No. | ||
42 | "Blind Spot" | October 14, 2015 |
Hope is a photographer. One day her body begins to betray her. It starts with her eyes. | ||
43 | "The Law That Sticks" | October 28, 2015 |
The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act is a law. It's been on the books for almost 30 years. And it makes totally mundane online behavior illegal. | ||
44 | "Shine On You Crazy Goldman" | November 5, 2015 |
A website for people who are way too high. Plus, could LSD unlock our better selves? Does PJ even have a better self? We investigate. | ||
45 | "The Rainbow Pug" | November 12, 2015 |
This week, Jade Davis loses her dog on the internet, and we go looking for it. | ||
46 | "Yik Yak Returns" | November 18, 2015 |
Yik Yak is an app that allows users to communicate anonymously with anyone within a 10-mile radius. In the first part of this week's show, we revisit a story we did in January, about how the app brought out a particularly vicious strain of racism at Colgate University. And in the second half of the show - The past month has seen a flood of similar stories at colleges like University of Missouri, Yale, and Georgetown. So we go beyond Colgate and talk to Jamil Smith of the Intersection podcast to try to understand Colgate in the context of these recent events. | ||
47 | "Quit Already!" | December 3, 2015 |
Everybody has that one Facebook friend who just won’t stop posting their political opinions. This week, we talk to one of those Facebook friends, someone whose opinions got her into an enormous mess. | ||
48 | "I Love You, I Loathe You" | December 9, 2015 |
On this week's episode, a new Yes Yes No, and we revisit our "Undo, Undo, Undo" segment to find out listeners most cringeworthy accidental messages. | ||
49 | "Past, Present, Future" | December 16, 2015 |
This week, updates on some of the stories we've done over the past year, some bonuses and surprises, and the most beautiful song ever written about ping pong balls and a clarinet. | ||
50 | "The Cathedral" | January 7, 2016 |
Amy and Ryan Green’s one-year-old son is diagnosed with cancer and begins an agonizing period of treatment. And then, one night in the hospital, Ryan has a strange epiphany: this whole terrible ordeal should be a video game. | ||
51 | "Perfect Crime" | January 14, 2016 |
Every night, Catherine Russell puts on a wig, picks up a gun, and ignores her critics. | ||
52 | "Raising the Bar" | January 22, 2016 |
Leslie Miley went from being a college dropout to Twitter's only black engineer in a leadership position. So why did he quit? Also a brand new Yes Yes No. | ||
53 | "In The Desert" | February 4, 2016 |
Strangers keep coming to Mike and Christina’s house looking for their stolen cell phones. Nobody knows why. We travel to Atlanta to find out what’s going on, in our thorniest Super Tech Support yet. | ||
54 | "Apologies to Dr. Rosalind Franklin" | February 10, 2016 |
This week, we fix an embarrassing oversight. | ||
55 | "The Line" | February 18, 2016 |
This week we have a story about a big group of people with the same questions. Difficult, complicated, heartbreaking ones. These people all have one thing in common — they’re Mormons. Reporter Karen Duffin tells their story. | ||
56 | "Zardulu" | February 25, 2016 |
The rats are not what they seem. Also a new Yes Yes No. | ||
57 | "Milk Wanted" | March 9, 2016 |
There are parents in the US desperate for breast milk and others who have too much milk and end up pouring it down the sink. Reply All Producer Phia Bennin wades into the world of breast milk markets, and discovers a breast milk paradise, shady breastmilk scammers, and the surprising history of breast milk in the United States. | ||
58 | "Earth Pony" | March 17, 2016 |
This week we learn the truth behind Carl Diggler, the internet's most successful election forecaster. And a special Yes Yes No featuring comedian/actor/podcaster Jason Mantzoukas. | ||
59 | "Good Job, Alex" | March 23, 2016 |
This week, Alex tries to solve a problem and PJ insults him. Also the return of Email Debt Forgiveness Day. | ||
60 | "A Simple Question" | March 31, 2016 |
This week, PJ helps a listener named Matt ask a very large company a very simple question. Are you telling me the truth? | ||
61 | "Baby King" | April 14, 2016 |
This week, Alex stumbles upon the weirdest gifs ever made, and goes hunting for their creators. Also, a new Yes Yes No. | ||
62 | "Decoders" | April 21, 2016 |
Reporter Rukmini Callimachi is always looking for new ways to eavesdrop on ISIS operatives online. Recently, she got a new look into how ISIS members might be using the internet to coordinate their attacks. Plus, a new Yes, Yes, No. | ||
63 | "1000 Brimes" | April 27, 2016 |
Email Debt Forgiveness Day is April 30th. It’s the day when people around the world will send the emails they’ve been putting off, without guilt and without consequence (hopefully). To observe the holiday, we talk to three people with plans to send delinquent messages. | ||
64 | "On The Inside" | May 12, 2016 |
For years, Paul Modrowski has been writing a blog from inside a maximum security prison. Only thing is, he was arrested when he was 18 and has never seen the internet. Sruthi Pinnamaneni reaches out to him with one small question that alters the course of her next year. | ||
65 | "On the Inside, Part II" | May 19, 2016 |
Blogger Paul Modrowski is in prison for a murder he claims that he didn't commit. Producer Sruthi Pinnamaneni looks at Paul's life before his conviction, and the crime that landed him behind bars. | ||
66 | "On the Inside, Part III" | May 26, 2016 |
Blogger Paul Modrowski is in prison for a murder he claims he didn't commit. Producer Sruthi Pinnamaneni looks at his trial, and speaks to the one person who witnessed the murder. | ||
67 | "On the Inside, Part IV" | June 9, 2016 |
Paul Modrowski is in prison for a murder he claims he didn't commit, and he says he’s been misunderstood because of his autism. Sruthi meets Paul in prison and explains what she thinks really happened the night of Dean Fawcett’s murder. | ||
68 | "Vampire Rules" | June 9, 2016 |
It’s an old story. Two people date, they break up, they both go on Tinder. And on Tinder, one of them stumbles across an incredibly creepy photo, taken inside the apartment they used to share. | ||
69 | "Disappeared" | July 7, 2016 |
This week a man decides to sabotage the entire internet. Plus, PJ discovers the secret code he’s accidentally been speaking, and learns about the people who created it. | ||
70 | "Stolen Valor" | July 15, 2016 |
PJ dives into the world of military impostors and the vigilantes who hunt them. Plus, a dispatch from Dallas. | ||
71 | "The Picture Taker" | July 27, 2016 |
Rachel was a faithful user of a photo storage website called Picturelife, until one day all of her photos disappeared. As she investigated, she realized that every Picturelife user was having the same problem. Alex tries to find out if there's any hope of getting her photos back. | ||
72 | "Dead is Paul" | August 3, 2016 |
This week, a Yes Yes No about gorillas, conspiracy theories, and glitter. | ||
73 | "Sandbox" | August 11, 2016 |
One twin decides to plug her internal organs directly into the internet so the other twin can monitor her. Plus, PJ and Alex talk to a listener whose heart was broken by last week's episode. | ||
74 | "Making Friends" | August 24, 2016 |
This week, a story about people who start hearing voices in their heads. But, instead of trying to get rid of the voices, they try to make more. | ||
75 | "Boy Wonder" | August 31, 2016 |
Barry develops a small but very inconvenient health problem, which becomes so persistent and pernicious that it feels as if someone put a curse on him. Sruthi Pinnamaneni goes deep on a decades-long medical mystery. | ||
76 | "Lost in a Cab" | September 7, 2016 |
Liz lost her camera in a cab, so she went to the New York City Taxi website to submit it to their lost and found database. At least, that's what she thought she did. Alex investigates and finds a big business behind the success of a suspicious little website. | ||
77 | "The Grand Tapestry Of Pepe" | September 21, 2016 |
Forty servers full of lost photos, a secret plan, and an unexpected rescue. Also, a Yes Yes No about a frog. | ||
78 | "Very Quickly to the Drill" | September 29, 2016 |
Alex and PJ chase down the strangest tips from our Weird Ads hotline, and at the bottom of the rabbit hole they find the Mother of All AdWords Scams. | ||
79 | "Boy in Photo" | October 13, 2016 |
To reach a port, we must set sail. | ||
80 | "Flash" | October 26, 2016 |
This week, a bitter Yes Yes No rivalry, and the return of 10 Minutes on Craigslist. Someone has gone missing. Further Reading The original tweet. | ||
81 | "In the Tall Grass" | November 3, 2016 |
One man tries to unite America. One Frog threatens to tear it apart. | ||
82 | "Hello?" | November 17, 2016 |
Alex and PJ take calls from anyone, about anything, for 48 hours straight. | ||
83 | "Voyage Into Pizzagate" | December 8, 2016 |
A conspiracy theory, a pizza related map, and a website fighting for its very soul. | ||
84 | "Past, Present, Future 2" | December 22, 2016 |
This week, updates on some of the stories we’ve done over the past year, some bonuses and surprises, some breakbeats, a motorcycle ride, and we take a glimpse into the future. | ||
85 | "The Reversal" | January 12, 2017 |
For years, Dr. Richard Bedlack has hunted for a cure for ALS, a fatal degenerative disease. And then one day he builds a website called ALS Untangled. That’s when strange things start to happen. | ||
86 | "Man of the People" | January 19, 2017 |
This week — a new technology falls into the wrong hands. | ||
87 | "Storming the Castle" | February 2, 2017 |
This week: Alex meets his hero, the thorn in the side of Dick Dale, GG Allin, and Alex Trebek. | ||
88 | "Second Language" | February 9, 2017 |
A new Yes Yes No, plus Sruthi meets her first fully-functional cyborg. | ||
89 | "Worldstar" | February 23, 2017 |
The unlikely rise of Lee O'Denat, the founder of WorldStarHipHop. Also, we reopen a cold case. | ||
90 | "Matt Lieber Goes To Dinner" | March 2, 2017 |
This week, one man has been warning the world about an impending disaster for years, but no one will listen. Also, Alex makes a dumb decision. | ||
91 | "The Russian Passenger" | March 2, 2017 |
Somewhere in Russia, a man calls for a car. Somewhere in New York City, a stranger's phone buzzes. | ||
92 | "Favor Atender: The Return" | March 23, 2017 |
The most accessible president on Latin American social media is Ecuador’s Rafael Correa. But what’s it like to get the attention of a head of state when you may not exactly want it? | ||
93 | "Beware All" | April 6, 2017 |
This week, we discover who was actually behind the hack of Alex Blumberg’s Uber account. | ||
94 | "Obfuscation" | April 12, 2017 |
This week, we debut a new segment designed to help you calibrate your anger in a changing world. Plus, how to cloak yourself from all the people who are now allowed to see your internet browsing history. | ||
95 | "The Silence in the Sky" | April 27, 2017 |
A group of elite scientists prepare for the last conversation humans might ever have. Plus, we meet a corporate attorney who mediates family Thanksgivings. | ||
96 | "The Secret Life of Alex Goldman" | May 3, 2017 |
Alex agreed to let PJ hack his phone, giving him 24/7 uninterrupted surveillance over his life. This week, everything you can learn about someone who completely surrenders their privacy. | ||
97 | "What Kind of Idiot Gets Phished" | May 18, 2017 |
Phia wonders what kind of person falls for phishing attacks. Is it only insanely gullible luddites, or can smart, tech savvy people get phished, too? To find out, she conducts an experiment on her poor, unsuspecting coworkers. | ||
98 | "Fog of Covfefe" | June 8, 2017 |
The last person on earth who has not heard about covfefe walks into a studio, and a strange journey begins. | ||
99 | "Black Hole, New Jersey" | June 15, 2017 |
A mysterious thief has been using the internet to steal a bizarre array of items – watches, scooter parts, clown costumes. This week, Alex heads straight towards his hideout. | ||
100 | "Friends and Blasphemers" | June 29, 2017 |
An online diary used by American teenagers finds a strange and terrifying enemy. | ||
101 | "Minka" | July 13, 2017 |
A man takes on an impossible job: fixing the place you go before you die. | ||
102 | "Long Distance" | July 27, 2017 |
This week, a telephone scammer makes a terrible mistake. He calls Alex Goldman. |
References
- ↑ "How Gimlet hopes to win the podcasting arms race". Reddit.com. Retrieved June 2, 2015.
- ↑ Olukotun, Deji (14 February 2015). "ReplyAll and the Battle for Storytelling About the Net". Huffington Post. Retrieved 26 February 2015.
- ↑ "About Reply All". Retrieved 16 February 2015.
- ↑ Cyrus Farivar (January 10, 2015). "Why I love Reply All and you should too". Ars Technica. Retrieved June 2, 2015.
- ↑ Episode #1 - An App Sends a Stranger to Say "I Love You" - Gimlet Media (November 24, 2014)
- ↑ "Reply All | The Webby Awards". Retrieved 2016-07-11.
- ↑ Landers, Kim (May 16, 2016). "Co-host of popular podcast Reply All in Melbourne this week for forum". Retrieved July 10, 2016.
- ↑ Original Release Date
- ↑ Reply All episodes
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