Question Everything
By Brian Reed
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talk&listener
Jun 17, 2026
great podcast about journalism and related topics!
Mar 27, 2026
Description
Question Everything is a weekly investigation into how the truth gets buried, distorted, and denied -- and the ways people are fighting to make it matter again.
Hosted by Brian Reed, of S-Town and This American Life.
Winner of the Webby Award, Ambie Award, and a Signal Special Achievement Award for pushing "the boundaries of the medium."
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How a Tiny Newsroom Helped Bring Down Hungary’s Authoritarian Leader
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Jun 11, 2026 |
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From Drilled: Carbon Cowboys
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Jun 04, 2026 |
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‘Kick Him Off The Bench.’ A Judge in Trump’s Pulitzer Case Gets a Prize
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May 28, 2026 |
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Can a Chatbot Convince Conspiracy Theorists of the Truth?
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May 21, 2026 |
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Claude’s Russian Propaganda Problem
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May 14, 2026 |
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Did FEMA Really Build a Secret Lair in a Mountain?
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May 07, 2026 |
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ICE Jailed a Student for an Op-Ed, Now She’s Left America
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Apr 30, 2026 |
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You Can Bet on Everything Now. What Could Go Wrong?
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Apr 23, 2026 |
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The Story She Reported, the View She Buried
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Apr 16, 2026 |
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I Was 11 When Instagram Took Over My Life
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Apr 09, 2026 |
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Meta Knew They Were Addicting Kids. Now They’re Paying for It.
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Apr 02, 2026 |
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A Video So Real It Looks Fake
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Mar 26, 2026 |
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The Case Against Jeremy Loffredo (Ambie Award-winner for Best Reporting of the Year)
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Mar 19, 2026 |
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Blindfolded and Arrested on Assignment in Israel (Ambie Award-winner for Best Reporting of the Year)
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Mar 12, 2026 |
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Are We Captured Yet? Now Trump’s Pals Are Taking Over CNN
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Mar 10, 2026 |
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The Talented Ms. Goldiee
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Mar 05, 2026 |
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A Reporter Fights for His Freedom (Part Two)
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Feb 26, 2026 |
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Why did ICE Lock Up this Pro-Trump Reporter? (Part One)
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Feb 19, 2026 |
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The Dangers of Being a Journalist
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Feb 12, 2026 |
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A Minnesota Dad Takes on ICE
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Jan 31, 2026 |
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Illinois Governor JB Pritzker on How He Fought ICE’s Messaging War
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Jan 29, 2026 |
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Inside ICE’s Push to Go Viral
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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How One Tweak to the Internet Led This Guy to a BDSM Dungeon
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Jan 15, 2026 |
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When Lies Spread Like Wildfire
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Jan 08, 2026 |
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Host Brian Reed Confronts his Toughest Critic
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Jan 01, 2026 |
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When Hollywood Tells The Truth - with the directors of Spotlight, The Staircase, Reality, and The Investigation
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Dec 25, 2025 |
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The Scammers and Smut that Sparked the Modern Internet
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Dec 18, 2025 |
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The Loophole That Could Keep the Epstein Files Hidden
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Dec 11, 2025 |
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‘Let Him Hang Himself’
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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Can Satire Save Democracy? w/ The Onion CEO Ben Collins
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Nov 27, 2025 |
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Call 202-225-3501 To Fix The Internet
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Nov 25, 2025 |
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How Meta Is Making Billions From Scam Advertising
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Nov 20, 2025 |
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'We Don't Hate Journalists Enough': The Story of an F-ed Up Deepfake
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Nov 13, 2025 |
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A Government Whistleblower Trusts a Newsroom, Ends Up in Prison
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Nov 06, 2025 |
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How Trump is Capturing America’s Media – Without a Coup
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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TikTok Stars on the Politicians Begging Them for Exposure
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Oct 23, 2025 |
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‘I Believed Sandy Hook Was a Hoax’
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Oct 16, 2025 |
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Betraying a Friendship to Get a Viral Story
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Oct 09, 2025 |
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The Film the BBC Wouldn’t Air
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Oct 02, 2025 |
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The Epstein Files
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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Brian Takes on Big Tech
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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Question Everything Returns, Raring for a Fight
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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A Listener on What Journalists Should do Better
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Aug 28, 2025 |
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Brian Can't Stop Fact-checking His Mother-In-Law (from “Proxy with Yowei Shaw”)
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Jul 24, 2025 |
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Badass Local Journalists on How to Fight Corruption
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Jun 26, 2025 |
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Who’s Behind the Raids? A Mystery in Marion (Part Two)
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Jun 12, 2025 |
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A Mystery in Marion (Part One)
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Jun 05, 2025 |
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The Fight for Your Attention with MSNBC’s Chris Hayes
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May 29, 2025 |
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The Hunt for a Journalist’s Killer
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May 22, 2025 |
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From the Fringe Web to Real Life: How Seriously Should We Be Taking Conspiracy Theories?
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May 08, 2025 |
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Rümeysa Öztürk is Locked Up for an Op-ed: An Urgent Summit with the Student Newspaper that Published It
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May 01, 2025 |
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Pounding Beers in a Shed, and Other Dispatches from the War on Free Speech
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Apr 25, 2025 |
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Freedom of the press is great, until you're the target
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Apr 24, 2025 |
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The masterpiece Prince documentary Netflix won’t let the public see.
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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He quit journalism to fight authoritarianism. How’s that going?
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Apr 03, 2025 |
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A Rant or a Slant: When Should Reporters Speak From the Heart?
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Mar 27, 2025 |
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A Teen, a Reporter, and a Grand Jury Leak (Over BBQ)
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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The News is Coming from Under the Desk… on TikTok (live from On Air Fest)
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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Not Like Us: How Billionaires Think
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Feb 27, 2025 |
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And The Award Goes To...The Circuit Court Of The Nineteenth Judicial Circuit In and For Okeechobee County, Florida
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Feb 13, 2025 |
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A reporter? A spy? Or something else? Israel arrests its first American journalist.
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Jan 31, 2025 |
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Blindfolded and Arrested on Assignment in Israel
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Jan 16, 2025 |
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When Hollywood Tells The Truth: with Tom McCarthy, Antonio Campos, Tina Satter, and Tobias Lindholm.
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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Can AI tell us what stories to look out for? A live experiment.
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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Getting Ready to Interview Trump: An Exercise
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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Special Election-Eve Episode: The Story of a Story Untold
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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When To Call A Thing What It Is
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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Can Journalism Save a Marriage?
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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The Journalist and the Firefighter
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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Drinks for Five: Ira Glass, Zoe Chace, Jonathan Eig, Astead Herndon
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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The Critic
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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Question Everything is out now!
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Aug 30, 2024 |