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A Recast of ‘Question Everything’

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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Recastable Episodes (69)

1. Question Everything is out now! Aug. 30, 2024
2. The Critic Sept. 12, 2024
3. Drinks for Five: Ira Glass, Zoe Chace, Jonathan Eig, Astead Herndon Sept. 12, 2024
4. The Journalist and the Firefighter Sept. 26, 2024
5. Can Journalism Save a Marriage? Oct. 10, 2024
6. When To Call A Thing What It Is Oct. 24, 2024
7. Special Election-Eve Episode: The Story of a Story Untold Nov. 4, 2024
8. Getting Ready to Interview Trump: An Exercise Nov. 21, 2024
9. Can AI tell us what stories to look out for? A live experiment. Dec. 5, 2024
10. When Hollywood Tells The Truth: with Tom McCarthy, Antonio Campos, Tina Satter, and Tobias Lindholm. Dec. 19, 2024
11. Blindfolded and Arrested on Assignment in Israel Jan. 16, 2025
12. A reporter? A spy? Or something else? Israel arrests its first American journalist. Jan. 31, 2025
13. And The Award Goes To...The Circuit Court Of The Nineteenth Judicial Circuit In and For Okeechobee County, Florida Feb. 13, 2025
14. Not Like Us: How Billionaires Think Feb. 27, 2025
15. The News is Coming from Under the Desk… on TikTok (live from On Air Fest) March 6, 2025
16. A Teen, a Reporter, and a Grand Jury Leak (Over BBQ) March 20, 2025
17. A Rant or a Slant: When Should Reporters Speak From the Heart? March 27, 2025
18. He quit journalism to fight authoritarianism. How’s that going? April 3, 2025
19. The masterpiece Prince documentary Netflix won’t let the public see. April 17, 2025
20. Freedom of the press is great, until you're the target April 24, 2025
21. Pounding Beers in a Shed, and Other Dispatches from the War on Free Speech April 25, 2025
22. Rümeysa Öztürk is Locked Up for an Op-ed: An Urgent Summit with the Student Newspaper that Published It May 1, 2025
23. From the Fringe Web to Real Life: How Seriously Should We Be Taking Conspiracy Theories? May 8, 2025
24. The Hunt for a Journalist’s Killer May 22, 2025
25. The Fight for Your Attention with MSNBC’s Chris Hayes May 29, 2025
26. A Mystery in Marion (Part One) June 5, 2025
27. Who’s Behind the Raids? A Mystery in Marion (Part Two) June 12, 2025
28. Badass Local Journalists on How to Fight Corruption June 26, 2025
29. Brian Can't Stop Fact-checking His Mother-In-Law (from “Proxy with Yowei Shaw”) July 24, 2025
30. A Listener on What Journalists Should do Better Aug. 28, 2025
31. Question Everything Returns, Raring for a Fight Sept. 18, 2025
32. The Epstein Files Sept. 25, 2025
33. Brian Takes on Big Tech Sept. 25, 2025
34. The Film the BBC Wouldn’t Air Oct. 2, 2025
35. Betraying a Friendship to Get a Viral Story Oct. 9, 2025
36. ‘I Believed Sandy Hook Was a Hoax’ Oct. 16, 2025
37. TikTok Stars on the Politicians Begging Them for Exposure Oct. 23, 2025
38. How Trump is Capturing America’s Media – Without a Coup Oct. 30, 2025
39. A Government Whistleblower Trusts a Newsroom, Ends Up in Prison Nov. 6, 2025
40. 'We Don't Hate Journalists Enough': The Story of an F-ed Up Deepfake Nov. 13, 2025
41. How Meta Is Making Billions From Scam Advertising Nov. 20, 2025
42. Call 202-225-3501 To Fix The Internet Nov. 25, 2025
43. Can Satire Save Democracy? w/ The Onion CEO Ben Collins Nov. 27, 2025
44. ‘Let Him Hang Himself’ Dec. 4, 2025
45. The Loophole That Could Keep the Epstein Files Hidden Dec. 11, 2025
46. The Scammers and Smut that Sparked the Modern Internet Dec. 18, 2025
47. When Hollywood Tells The Truth - with the directors of Spotlight, The Staircase, Reality, and The Investigation Dec. 25, 2025
48. Host Brian Reed Confronts his Toughest Critic Jan. 1, 2026
49. When Lies Spread Like Wildfire Jan. 8, 2026
50. How One Tweak to the Internet Led This Guy to a BDSM Dungeon Jan. 15, 2026
51. Inside ICE’s Push to Go Viral Jan. 22, 2026
52. Illinois Governor JB Pritzker on How He Fought ICE’s Messaging War Jan. 29, 2026
53. A Minnesota Dad Takes on ICE Jan. 31, 2026
54. The Dangers of Being a Journalist Feb. 12, 2026
55. Why did ICE Lock Up this Pro-Trump Reporter? (Part One) Feb. 19, 2026
56. A Reporter Fights for His Freedom (Part Two) Feb. 26, 2026
57. The Talented Ms. Goldiee March 5, 2026
58. Are We Captured Yet? Now Trump’s Pals Are Taking Over CNN March 10, 2026
59. Blindfolded and Arrested on Assignment in Israel (Ambie Award-winner for Best Reporting of the Year) March 12, 2026
60. The Case Against Jeremy Loffredo (Ambie Award-winner for Best Reporting of the Year) March 19, 2026
61. A Video So Real It Looks Fake March 26, 2026
62. Meta Knew They Were Addicting Kids. Now They’re Paying for It. April 2, 2026
63. I Was 11 When Instagram Took Over My Life April 9, 2026
64. The Story She Reported, the View She Buried April 16, 2026
65. You Can Bet on Everything Now. What Could Go Wrong? April 23, 2026
66. ICE Jailed a Student for an Op-Ed, Now She’s Left America April 30, 2026
67. Did FEMA Really Build a Secret Lair in a Mountain? May 7, 2026
68. Claude’s Russian Propaganda Problem May 14, 2026
69. Can a Chatbot Convince Conspiracy Theorists of the Truth? May 21, 2026