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Ever wonder where the internet stops and IRL begins? Close All Tabs breaks down how digital culture shapes our world through thoughtful insights and irreverent humor. From internet trends to AI slop to the politics of memes, Close All Tabs covers it all. How will AI change our jobs and lives? Is the government watching what I post? Is there life beyond TikTok? Host Morgan Sung pulls from experts, the audience, and history to add context to the trends and depth to the memes. And she’ll wrestle with as many browser tabs as it takes to explain the cultural moment we’re all collectively living. Morgan Sung is a tech journalist whose work covers the range of absurdity and brilliance that is the internet. Her beat has evolved into an exploration of social platforms and how they shape real-world culture. She has written for TechCrunch, NBC News, Mashable, BuzzFeed News and more.  We love listening to shows about technology and culture like Power User with Taylor Lorenz, ICYMI, Wow If True, Hard Fork, There Are No Girls On the Internet, Endless Thread, Uncanny Valley from Wired, It’s Been a Minute, and You’re Wrong About. If you like them too, then trust us–you’ll like Close All Tabs.

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Recastable Episodes (95)

1. From the Dean Scream to Brat Memes Jan. 14, 2025
2. Couch F***** Memes vs The Truth Jan. 14, 2025
3. Stan Wars, The Fandom Menace Jan. 14, 2025
4. Influencer Endorsements Gone Wild Jan. 14, 2025
5. Introducing Close All Tabs Feb. 10, 2025
6. TikTok's Vibe Shift Feb. 26, 2025
7. Children of the Vlog March 5, 2025
8. Waymo Problems March 12, 2025
9. What Happens if the Internet Archive Goes Dark? March 19, 2025
10. The Broligarchy Pt 1: Chronicles of the PayPal Mafia March 26, 2025
11. The Broligarchy Pt 2: Is this Techno-Fascism? April 2, 2025
12. Save or Scroll: Manosphere Mornings, Luigi Sex Tape Rumors, and the Art of the Hard Launch April 9, 2025
13. Twitter on a Vape: Puff, Post, Pollute April 16, 2025
14. How Safe is AI Therapy? April 23, 2025
15. Recession Indicator Memes Are Getting Too Real April 30, 2025
16. The Surveillance Machine, Pt 1: How We Got Here May 7, 2025
17. The Surveillance Machine, Pt 2: No Opt-Out May 14, 2025
18. Why Can’t Hentai Go Legit? May 21, 2025
19. Do You Hear What I Hear? Audio Illusions and Misinformation May 28, 2025
20. The Spotify Effect, Pt 1: Ghosts in the Playlist June 4, 2025
21. Elon's Great Crash-Out / Unmasked in LA June 11, 2025
22. The Spotify Effect, Pt 2: Micro-Genre Madness June 18, 2025
23. Curls, Coils, and Pixels: Researchers Crack the Code on Black Hair Animation June 25, 2025
24. How the Furry Fandom Says Goodbye July 2, 2025
25. Teens Under the Influence (of Chatbots) July 16, 2025
26. OGs of Tech: A Latino Engineer in Silicon Valley July 23, 2025
27. Bonus: A Big Win for the Internet Archive July 28, 2025
28. Save or Scroll: ICE + Influencers, Data Hygiene on Grindr, and Labubu Desserts July 30, 2025
29. Is Algospeak Coming for Us? Aug. 6, 2025
30. Does Gen Z Have A Staring Problem? Aug. 13, 2025
31. Before ChatGPT, There Were 'Shadow Scholars' Aug. 20, 2025
32. Teachers Strike Back Against AI Cheating Aug. 27, 2025
33. From MIT’s TeachLab: The Homework Machine Sept. 3, 2025
34. 23andMe (andGeneticPrivacy) Sept. 10, 2025
35. Groypers, Doxxing and Charlie Kirk’s Death as a S***post Sept. 17, 2025
36. AI Prophets and Spiritual Delusions Sept. 24, 2025
37. In Search of Thock: The Quest for the Perfect Keyboard Oct. 1, 2025
38. The All-Seeing Eyes of Modern Dating Oct. 8, 2025
39. Beyond the AI Hype Machine Oct. 15, 2025
40. Satanic Panic in the Age of the Internet Oct. 22, 2025
41. A Political Reckoning for Twitch? Oct. 29, 2025
42. Alice Bucknell on How Virtual Spaces Help Us Cope With Reality Nov. 5, 2025
43. Where Do Games Go When They Die? Nov. 12, 2025
44. Meet Ukraine’s ‘Geeks of War’ Nov. 19, 2025
45. What Happened to Purple Moon Games for Girls? Dec. 3, 2025
46. One Year Later, The Internet’s Still Talking About Luigi Mangione Dec. 10, 2025
47. Death, Robotaxis, and a Cat Named KitKat Dec. 17, 2025
48. Save or Scroll: OpenAI’s Head of Preparedness, Global RAM Shortage, AI Artists, and a Manosphere Antidote Jan. 7, 2026
49. Are You Allowed to Record ICE? Jan. 14, 2026
50. Your Digital Footprint Reveals More Than You Think Jan. 21, 2026
51. The Real Cost of AI Slop Jan. 28, 2026
52. How the AI Data Center Boom Impacts Black Communities Feb. 4, 2026
53. Love In The Time Of Doom Scrolling Feb. 11, 2026
54. Lessons for U.S. Netizens from Behind China’s Great Firewall Feb. 18, 2026
55. Send Pics? Roblox Wants to Know Your Age Feb. 25, 2026
56. Sex Workers Tried to Warn Us About Age Verification Laws March 4, 2026
57. 'Twitter on a Vape' and The Great E-Waste Crisis March 11, 2026
58. The Fight for Your Right to Repair March 18, 2026
59. To Hack a Tractor: How Farmers Won the Right to Repair March 25, 2026
60. Bee Movie, "We Are Charlie Kirk," and the Enduring Bait-and-Switch Meme April 1, 2026
61. The Secret Lives of Mormon Momfluencers April 8, 2026
62. Save or Scroll: Looksmaxxing, AI Fruit Love Island, BTS Arirang, and Meta Lawsuits April 15, 2026
63. The H-1B Visa Process But Make It a Video Game April 22, 2026
64. Somebody’s Watching Me: The Crackdown on Stalkerware April 29, 2026
65. My Therapist Is a Chatbot (Reload) May 6, 2026
66. How an OnlyFans Model and a Cosplayer Are Fighting Nonconsensual Deepfake Porn May 13, 2026
67. Iran Is Winning The Slopaganda War May 20, 2026
68. Musk v. Altman Was Peak Silicon Valley Theatrics May 27, 2026
69. Escaping the Surveillance Pricing Trap June 3, 2026
70. How To Prove You're Not AI June 10, 2026
71. A Queer History of The Sims June 17, 2026
72. The $55B Deal That Has Sims Players Worried June 24, 2026
73. Meet the Grads Grappling With AI and Their Futures July 1, 2026
74. 'Get The Flock Out': The Fight Over License-Plate Readers Heats Up July 8, 2026
75. Are We Doomed If The Internet Goes Dark? July 15, 2026
76. How the Furry Fandom Says Goodbye (Reload) July 22, 2026
77. The Pink Pill Pipeline and the Online War Against Birth Control July 29, 2026
78. Introducing: Dream Machines from KQED Aug. 3, 2026
79. Why The Ethan Klein Fair Use Lawsuits Are Way More Than Internet Beef Aug. 5, 2026
80. Language, Landscapes and Robot Minds with Annalee Newitz | Dream Machines Aug. 10, 2026
81. The Emily Hart Saga, Part 1: MAGA’s AI Dream Girl Aug. 12, 2026
82. AI Will Create Enormous Wealth — But Who Benefits? with Erik Brynjolfsson | Dream Machines Aug. 17, 2026
83. The Emily Hart Saga, Part 2: The AI Thirst Trap Grift Aug. 19, 2026
84. Could AI Transform How Science Gets Done? with Jungwon Byun | Dream Machines Aug. 24, 2026
85. AI Agents Are Turning Marxist Under Stress Aug. 26, 2026
86. Going Down the AI Music Slop Chute with Camilo Landau | Dream Machines Aug. 31, 2026
87. What Happened to the Quantified Self Movement? Sept. 2, 2026
88. Close All Tabs Presents Snap Judgment: Runaway Car Sept. 9, 2026
89. Save or Scroll: Fake NFL Players, Girly Coding, AI Music Scams and Community Garden Drama Sept. 16, 2026
90. AI, Artists, and the Future of Creative Work from Life, Automated | Close All Tabs Presents Sept. 23, 2026
91. Can We Cool Data Centers With… Pee? Sept. 30, 2026
92. Influencers Are Peddling Peptides, but Is Tanmaxxing Worth the Risk? Oct. 7, 2026
93. Are Chatbots Harming Our Relationships? | Close All Tabs Presents Oct. 14, 2026
94. “Sister, yesss!” What’s Behind the Viral Nun Podcast? Oct. 21, 2026
95. Cursed All Tabs: Portals, Creepy Caves, Jumpscares and Haunted Objects Oct. 28, 2026