Episodes

• 2021

• #174 Search Party

  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
  June 10, 2021

  38 min

• The Test Kitchen Revisited

  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
  April 29, 2021

  21 min

• A Message from the Staff of Reply All

  An update on the future of The Test Kitchen series and PJ Vogt and Sruthi Pinnamaneni's departure.
  February 25, 2021

  3 min

• #173 The Test Kitchen, Chapter 2

  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.
  February 12, 2021

  53 min

• #172 The Test Kitchen, Chapter 1

  Chapter 1, “Original Sin”: 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. 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.
  February 4, 2021

  63 min

• #171 Account Suspended

  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
  January 14, 2021

  45 min
• 2020

• #170 A Song of Impotent Rage

  Alex Goldman tackles his newest job: prophet of doom. Taylor Moore's podcast, Rude Tales of Magic 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.
  December 17, 2020

  40 min

• #86 Man of the People

  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! 
  December 3, 2020

  46 min

• #169 The Confetti Cannon

  In the midst of a historic election, Alex, PJ and Emmanuel talk to our listeners.
  November 12, 2020

  58 min

• #168 Happiness Calculator vs. Alex Goldman

  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.
  October 29, 2020

  39 min

• Introducing: Resistance

  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. 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.
  October 22, 2020

  48 min

• #167 America's Hottest Talkline

  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.
  October 1, 2020

  64 min

• #166 Country of Liars

  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
  September 18, 2020

  61 min

• #115 The Bitcoin Hunter

  Writer Jia Tolentino has a new case for Super Tech Support: where are all those bitcoin she bought six years ago? This episode originally aired in January 2018. Further reading: Planet Money's bitcoin story Subscribe to our weekly newsletter
  September 3, 2020

  33 min

• #51 Perfect Crime

  Every night, Catherine Russell puts on a wig, picks up a gun, and defies the logic of Yelp. And then, an epic Yes Yes No spanning an entire galaxy of internet fights. Plus, Alex Goldman reveals a dark, personal secret. Perfect Crime and We Didn't Start The Fire originally ran in January 2016 and May 2019, respectively. Tweet from the episode: Showering is classist now. People mad at aperol. Uber strike. Wiccan life. Gamer blocked his elf wife. We didn’t start the— LxDx (@wokestbloke) May 10, 2019
  August 27, 2020

  59 min

• #132 Negative Mount Pleasant

  A small town in Wisconsin becomes the site of a completely unprecedented experiment.  This episode originally aired in December 2018. Further Reading: A Better Mount Pleasant vs Let's Make A Better Mount Pleasant Journalist Larry Tabak's series on Foxconn in Wisconsin Economist David Merriman's paper on the type of financing used by Mount Pleasant Journalist Brian Merchant's book which includes a visit to Foxconn campus in China
  August 20, 2020

  64 min

• #53 In The Desert

  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. This story originally aired in February 2016. Further Reading Kashmir Hill's story about Mike and Christina.
  August 13, 2020

  35 min

• #165 The Mold and The Beautiful

  This week, a conspiracy theory involving Jeffrey Epstein and a benign, wholesale furniture company, plus, the jam scandal that rocked Los Angeles. Yes Yes no is back, with special guest Jason Mantzoukas. Further Reading: The first tweet in this weeks YYN The second tweet The picture that goes along with the second tweet (warning... it's gross).
  July 30, 2020

  51 min

• #164 Long Distance: The Real Alex Martin

  Three years after Alex Goldman traveled to India to investigate a scammy call center, he gets a tip that makes him question everything he learned in his first trip. Akash's YouTube Akash's podcast episode
  July 16, 2020

  36 min

• #163 Candidate One

  The story of an election in America where everything went wrong -- bribery, hacking, ballot-stuffing. And the 17 year old kid who tried to save the day.
  July 2, 2020

  50 min