December 5, 2024
Casey Wants to Believe
Reply All
If you like this episode and want to hear more, please sign up for our premium feed here! https://hyperfixedpod.com/join
June 23, 2022
#189 Goodbye All
One last thing before we go.
June 9, 2022
#188 Into the Depths
Inspired by @depthsofwikipedia, this week we dive deeper into three of our favorite weird Wikipedia pages.
May 26, 2022
Introducing: Stolen - Surviving St. Michael's
We'll be back in a few weeks in the meantime today we're introducing a new show from Gimlet called Stolen: Surviving St. Michael's
May 19, 2022
A Message About the Future of the Show
Some news: Emmanuel and Alex will be stepping away from making the show. And this iteration of Reply All will be ending in late June.
May 12, 2022
#187 Flying the Coop
A community of chicken lovers faces an unlikely foe.
May 5, 2022
Introducing: Stuck with Damon Young
We'll be back with a new episode next week, but in the meantime, we're featuring an episode of a new show from Gimlet and Crooked Media: Stuck with Damon Young.
April 21, 2022
#186 The Contact List
Emmanuel tries a personal experiment.
April 14, 2022
Introducing: Conviction - The Disappearance of Nuseiba Hasan
Alex chats with Habiba Nosheen about her new show, Conviction: The Disappearance of Nuseiba Hasan.
April 7, 2022
#185 The Rainbow Chain
This week, a Super Tech Support: Gabby is devastated after her art is stolen. Anna takes on the case, and plunges into a part of the internet she’d hope she never have to learn about.
March 24, 2022
#167 America's Hottest Talkline
This week we're rebroadcasting a recent favorite. Emmanuel investigates a mysterious recording that has been popping up on toll free numbers for major corporations, police departments, and even federal government agencies for years.
March 17, 2022
#184 Alex Goldman, Demon Hunter
This week, a listener contacts us about a supernatural occurrence in her Toyota Prius. Alex Goldman investigates.
March 10, 2022
#183 The Venova King
This week, a Super Tech Support: a listener’s Spotify Wrapped is dominated by a mysterious artist she’s never heard of and swears she’s never listened to. And the songs she supposedly played are even weirder. Emmanuel investigates.
February 11, 2022
Presenting: Science Vs. Joe Rogan: The Malone Interview
Today we are sharing an episode made by our colleagues at Science Vs. In the piece, they dive deep on the effects of COVID misinformation spread by the show The Joe Rogan Experience, specifically in one episode featuring Dr. Robert Malone. The Science Vs. team interrogates the question: just what kind of damage can a show do to a society in the midst of a pandemic?
January 20, 2022
Programming Note
A quick note about our schedule this year.
December 23, 2021
Featuring: Heavyweight
Alex chats with Jonathan Goldstein about his show, Heavyweight. And then, we hear an episode from the show.
December 16, 2021
#182 State of Panic
A mystery roils Florida political Twitter: could it be that the governor’s new press secretary is running bots against her political opponents? Emmanuel investigates.
November 18, 2021
Introducing: Crime Show
Emmanuel chats with Emma Courtland about her show, Crime Show. And then, we hear an episode from the show.
October 28, 2021
#181 Absolutely Devious Lick
This week, producer Anna Foley investigates a viral prank plaguing schools across the country.
October 14, 2021
#180 Who's Going?
🚨Adrian's Kickback🚨
September 30, 2021
Introducing: 544 Days
Emmanuel Dzotsi chats with journalist Jason Rezaian about his new show, 544 Days, which explores Jason's imprisonment by the Iranian government and the struggle to free him.
September 16, 2021
#179 Pandemic Be Damned
The Reply All Team talk to people trying to break out of their mid-pandemic funk.
September 2, 2021
#178 I Am Not a Bot
This week, Alex's favorite place on the Internet is in danger... thanks to a bunch of robot snipers.
August 19, 2021
Introducing: Not Past It
Alex Goldman chats with Simone Polanen about her show, Not Past It. And then... Paris Hilton’s sex tape ushered in a new era of celebrity obsession. On June 15, 2004: it went on sale after her ex made a deal with a pornographic distributor. Simone reflects on the scandal, fallout and impact it had on a generation of young women.
July 22, 2021
#177 Gleeks and Gurgles
Producer Anna Foley tries to answer a question that’s been bothering her for a long time: What makes the TikTok algorithm so good at knowing what she wants to watch? On her quest to find out, her sister asks another, more unexpected, question.
July 8, 2021
#176 Twicarus
Today, the return of Super Tech Support: Alex discovers a Twitter account that breaks his brain.
June 24, 2021
#175 This Website Will Self Destruct
FemmeAndroid tries to do a good deed…but instead finds herself in a battle to save a place she loves.
June 10, 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.
April 29, 2021
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.
February 25, 2021
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 12, 2021
#173 The Test Kitchen, Chapter 2
Chapter 2, “Glass Office”: Years later, in 2018, a new wave of people of color arrives at Bon Appetit. And when their white bosses don't understand the problems they're facing, those people will decide to fix the place themselves.
February 4, 2021
#172 The Test Kitchen, Chapter 1
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. This is Chapter One, “Original Sin,” of our series The Test Kitchen.
January 14, 2021
#171 Account Suspended
This week, we talk to Alex about the chaos on the internet after the January 6th attack on the Capitol. Also, Alex Blumberg Yells at Alex Goldman
December 17, 2020
#170 A Song of Impotent Rage
Alex Goldman tackles his newest job: prophet of doom.
December 3, 2020
#86 Man of the People
This week — a new technology falls into the wrong hands.
November 12, 2020
#169 The Confetti Cannon
In the midst of a historic election, Alex, PJ and Emmanuel talk to our listeners.
November 6, 2020
We're Taking Your Calls Today
We will be opening up our phone lines a few times over the next couple days. We are hoping to talk to specific groups of people who have helped shape this incredible election.
October 29, 2020
#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 22, 2020
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.
October 1, 2020
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.
September 18, 2020
#166 Country of Liars
This week, PJ looks into a theory circling the internet about who might be behind QAnon. The investigation takes him back to the beginning of the QAnon scam, and to the message board trolls who started it.
September 3, 2020
#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?
August 27, 2020
#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.
August 20, 2020
#132 Negative Mount Pleasant
A small town in Wisconsin becomes the site of a completely unprecedented experiment.
August 13, 2020
#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.
July 30, 2020
#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.
July 16, 2020
#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.
July 2, 2020
#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.
June 18, 2020
#162 The Least You Could Do
Black people all across the US are receiving the world's weirdest form of reparations: Venmo payments from white people. Producer Emmanuel Dzotsi investigates.
June 4, 2020
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 14, 2020
#161 Brian vs. Brian
Just for fun, a guy and his friends record a Christmas song in his living room. More than three years later, he walks into a grocery store and hears that song playing. Alex investigates.
April 30, 2020
The Scaredy Cats Horror Show
A new podcast about scary movies for people who are too scared to ever watch them. Each week Alex Goldman, avowed horror fan, screens a scary movie for avowed scaredy cat PJ Vogt. Together, they want to find out if it’s possible to become a person who enjoys fear. This week, The Exorcist.
April 9, 2020
#59 Good Job, Alex
This week, we revisit two Super Tech Supports. In one, Alex tries to solve a problem and PJ makes fun of him. The second is 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.
March 30, 2020
#160 The Attic and Closet Show 2
This week, we call people across the world.
March 20, 2020
#159 The Attic and Closet Show
This week, we open up the phone lines and check in on everybody.
March 17, 2020
Announcement! We’re taking calls and broadcasting live this week
We are opening the phone lines today at 3PM eastern time and broadcasting live. To tune in or for the number to call, visit here.
March 5, 2020
#158 The Case of the Missing Hit
A man in California is haunted by the memory of a pop song from his youth. He can remember the lyrics and the melody. But the song itself has vanished, completely scrubbed from the internet. PJ takes on the Super Tech Support case.
February 20, 2020
#157 Pierre Delecto and the Spooky Adventure
This week, we talk to the world’s most obsessive tracker of politicians' secret online lives. And ask for help on a very spooky mission.
January 30, 2020
#156 The Cure for Everything
PJ and Alex open up the hotline again to tackle listener problems and mysteries, no job too weird. This time – a Waze vortex, a tribunal for HawtNugz, and a powerful mystery cure that could topple the world into dystopia.
January 16, 2020
#155 Friendship Village
A scandal at Teen Vogue, a mysteriously disappeared TikTok star, and the competing viral dances of Mayor Pete and Mayor Bloomberg. Yes Yes No is back.
December 12, 2019
#154 The Real Enemy, Part 3
The conclusion of our story — Emmanuel and Sruthi go down to Alabama as tensions in the party reach a boiling point.
#153 The Real Enemy, Part 2
The second part of our story — the war rages on. A third faction emerges.
#152 The Real Enemy, Part 1
The Alabama Democrats fight an unlikely foe in a struggle for Alabama’s future: themselves. Emmanuel Dzotsi reports.
November 14, 2019
#151 Thank You for Noticing
A listener finds a UFO floating in the sky over a leather store, and Alex sets out to find the man who put it there.
November 1, 2019
#150 The Reply All Halloween Scream-A-Thon
We celebrate Halloween by opening up the phone lines for your scary stories: Ghosts, Googling how to Seance, and the Mysterious Sax Man of Berkeley.
October 10, 2019
#149 30-50 Feral Hogs
A legit question from a rural American.
September 26, 2019
#148 Bedbugs and Aliens
This week, Yes Yes No returns. A raid on Area 51 and the very worst name you can call a New York Times writer.
September 12, 2019
#147 The Woman in the Air Conditioner
Halen had just moved in to his apartment when one night he hears footsteps coming into his room. Alex investigates.
August 29, 2019
#130 The Snapchat Thief
This week, a Super Tech Support: after Lizzie's Snapchat gets hacked, things start getting really creepy. Alex investigates.
August 22, 2019
#96 The Secret Life of Alex Goldman
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.
August 15, 2019
#127 The Crime Machine, Part I
New York City cops are in a fight against their own police department. They say it’s under the control of a broken computer system that punishes cops who refuse to engage in racist, corrupt policing. The story of their fight, and the story of the grouchy idealist who originally built the machine they’re fighting.
#128 The Crime Machine, Part II
August 8, 2019
#120 INVCEL
How a shy, queer Canadian woman accidentally invented one of the internet’s most toxic male communities.
July 25, 2019
#146 Summer Hotline
This week, PJ and Alex open up the phone lines and try to solve your problems, big and small.
July 11, 2019
#145 Louder
Carlos Maza started posting videos on YouTube, and ran afoul of a guy who reminded him of his high school bullies. He asked YouTube to intervene, and then things got extremely complicated.
June 27, 2019
#144 Dark Pattern
This week, we discover an invisible maze, designed to trick millions of people out of their money.
June 13, 2019
#143 Permanent Record
This week, the most humiliating, unfortunate and regrettable things on the internet that simply will not come down. Also: the father who scours the internet for lost memories.
May 23, 2019
#142 We Didn't Start The Fire
This week, an epic Yes Yes No spanning an entire galaxy of internet fights. Plus, Alex Goldman reveals a dark, personal secret. And an update on Sal’s quest to get into college in Canada.
May 9, 2019
#41 What It Looks Like
Jamie Keiles is a writer who decided to photograph something that’s usually invisible. Plus, PJ discovers the secret code he’s accidentally been speaking, and learns about the people who created it.
April 25, 2019
#141 Adam Pisces and the $2 Coke
This week, a flood of mysterious orders plague Domino’s Pizza stores across America. Who is Adam Pisces, and why is he ordering so many cokes?
April 11, 2019
#140 The Roman Mars Mazda Virus
Ben loves podcasts, but he has a problem. When he tries to listen to one podcast in particular, his car stereo completely breaks. This week, Super Tech Support takes on one of its strangest cases — Roman Mars versus a 2016 Mazda sedan.
March 28, 2019
#139 The Reply All Hotline
This week, PJ and Alex open up the phone lines and try to solve your problems, big and small. Don’t type like my brother.
March 14, 2019
#138 The Great Momo Panic
We investigate the mystery of why parents across the world became convinced that a half-bird/half-woman monster was going to harm their kids over the internet.
February 28, 2019
#137 Fool's Trade
Yes Yes No returns and Alex Blumberg takes us on a journey from secret celebrity love letters to the biggest, strangest rock band you’ve never heard of. Also, basketball.
February 14, 2019
#136 The Founder
The story of a person who wanted to change the world using the internet — by committing crimes on an unprecedented global scale.
January 31, 2019
#135 Robocall: Bang Bang
This week, Alex investigates the rise of one of the most hated businesses: Robocalls. And Damiano tries to figure out if a robocaller is tracking his every move.
January 17, 2019
#134 The Year of the Wallop
New Year! Alex Goldman’s audacious plan to get punched in the face, plus special guest Jason Mantzoukas returns for a very Azkaban Yes Yes No.
December 20, 2018
#133 Reply All's 2018 Year End Extravaganza
In our final episode of the year, we revisit some stories, talk to old friends, and hear from the most remote places on the planet.
December 6, 2018
November 15, 2018
#131 Surefire Investigations
This week, the return of YYN: from a deranged mascot to the top of the FBI
November 8, 2018
This week, a new Super Tech Support: after Lizzie's Snapchat gets hacked, things start getting really creepy. Alex investigates.
October 25, 2018
#129 Autumn
A 13-year-old girl builds a tiny world that she has complete, perfect control over. And then one day, that world forces her to make an impossible decision.
October 12, 2018
September 13, 2018
#126 Alex Jones Dramageddon
We're back this week with a Yes Yes No. Alex takes PJ and Alex Blumberg through Alex Jones's visit to the Senate. And producer Anna Foley helps us unpack the scandal that's engulfed Beauty YouTube.
July 26, 2018
#125 All My Pets
Taylor Nicole Dean was a self-described shut-in, a teenager who lived in her parents' home, surrounded by exotic pets. And then she started making videos on YouTube.
July 12, 2018
#124 The Magic Store
Sruthi asks a question “why does it seem like Amazon has suddenly gotten a lot sketchier?“ Alex investigates.
June 21, 2018
#123 An Ad for the Worst Day of Your Life
Matt’s wife died a decade ago. Now, everywhere he goes on the internet, he can’t escape advertisements for clickbait sites with her picture on it. This week, Super Tech Support tries to help out.
June 7, 2018
#122 The QAnon Code ⚡️⚡️
This week, to celebrate Alex Goldman’s return from paternity leave, a Yes Yes No extravaganza. Alex takes PJ and Alex Blumberg through the internet’s most encompassing conspiracy theory to date, and then Gene Demby joins us to help unpack a very different kind of conspiracy.
May 17, 2018
#121 Pain Funnel
An ambitious plan to help people goes off the rails, and a man from Florida tries to fix things the only way he knows how: with prank phone calls.
May 10, 2018
April 20, 2018
#119 No More Safe Harbor
Last month, the government shut down backpage.com, a site where people advertised sex with children. We talk to a group of people who say that was a huge mistake.
March 15, 2018
#118 A Pirate In Search of a Judge
One day, Cayden received an email from their internet provider that said "stop pirating TV shows or we'll cut off your internet!" Cayden had no idea what they were talking about. So Alex decided to investigate.
March 1, 2018
#117 The World's Most Expensive Free Watch
This week, the story of a man who made the extremely dubious decision to order a watch that he found in an Instagram ad. We explore the strange world that watch came from.
February 15, 2018
#116 Trust the Process
This week, we meet a dominatrix who dominates computers, instead of just people. Plus, the story of a man who hatches a plot to destroy a beloved NBA team, using the best advantage he has — the fact that he’s their general manager.
January 25, 2018
January 18, 2018
#114 Apocalypse Soon
This week: Yes Yes No returns and takes us to the brink of apocalypse.
December 21, 2017
#113 Reply All's Year End Extravaganza
Our finale for the year! We solve some unsolved mysteries, call up some of our favorite people, and answer questions about stories listeners are still wondering about. Plus many weird surprises.
December 15, 2017
#112 The Prophet
After Andrea is attacked by a stranger in Mexico City, she just wants to figure out who the guy was. Investigating this question drops her right into the middle of one of Mexico’s biggest conspiracies.
December 7, 2017
#111 Return of the Russian Passenger
After a secret breaks in the news, Reply All re-examines how Alex Blumberg's Uber account was hacked. This episode is a follow up to #91 The Russian Passenger and #93 Beware All.
November 30, 2017
Presenting: Heavyweight
November 16, 2017
#110 The Antifa Supersoldier Spectacular
The return of YYN: The horrifying specter of November 4th and a very disturbing ice cream recipe.
November 2, 2017
#109 Is Facebook Spying on You?
This year we’ve gotten one question from listeners more than any other: is Facebook eavesdropping on my conversations and showing me ads based on the things that I say? This week, Alex investigates.
October 19, 2017
#108 The Skip Tracer, Part II
Continued: Sruthi Pinnamaneni follows the world's best bounty hunter on a peculiar case.
#107 The Skip Tracer, Part I
Sruthi Pinnamaneni follows the world's best bounty hunter on a peculiar case.
September 28, 2017
#106 Is That You, KD?
This week, we help Alex Blumberg understand why a Google engineer ended up complimenting the KKK, and then Yes Yes No turns bizarro.
September 21, 2017
#105 At World's End
Phia helps a listener track down a mythical, vanished video game.
September 7, 2017
#104 The Case of the Phantom Caller
A woman in New Jersey is getting strange phone calls to her office from unknown numbers. Every time she picks up, she finds herself eavesdropping on the life of a different stranger. Unsure what else to do, she calls in Super Tech Support.
August 3, 2017
#103 Long Distance, Part II
This week, Alex and Damiano take a trip. This is the conclusion of last week's episode, Long Distance.
July 27, 2017
#102 Long Distance
This week, a telephone scammer makes a terrible mistake. He calls Alex Goldman.
July 13, 2017
#101 Minka
A man takes on an impossible job: fixing the place you go before you die.
June 29, 2017
#100 Friends and Blasphemers
An online diary used by American teenagers finds a strange and terrifying enemy.
June 15, 2017
#99 Black Hole, New Jersey
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.
June 8, 2017
#98 Fog of Covfefe
The last person on earth who has not heard about covfefe walks into a studio, and a strange journey begins.
May 18, 2017
#97 What Kind Of Idiot Gets Phished?
This week, 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.
May 4, 2017
April 27, 2017
#95 The Silence in the Sky
A group of elite scientists prepare for the last conversation humans might ever have. Plus, we meet a corporate attorney who mediates family Thanksgivings.
April 12, 2017
#94 Obfuscation
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.
April 6, 2017
#93 Beware All
This week, we discover who was actually behind the hack of Alex Blumberg's Uber account. This episode picks up where Episode 91, The Russian Passenger, left off.
March 23, 2017
#92 Favor Atender: The Return
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?
March 16, 2017
#91 The Russian Passenger
Somewhere in Russia, a man calls for a car. Somewhere in New York City, a stranger's phone buzzes.
March 2, 2017
#90 Matt Lieber Goes to Dinner
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.
February 23, 2017
#89 Worldstar
The unlikely rise of Lee O'Denat, the founder of Worldstar Hip Hop. Also, we reopen a cold case.
February 9, 2017
#88 Second Language
A new Yes Yes No, plus Sruthi meets her first fully-functional cyborg.
February 2, 2017
#87 Storming the Castle
This week: Alex meets his hero, the thorn in the side of Dick Dale, GG Allin, and Alex Trebek.
January 18, 2017
This week — a new technology falls into the wrong hands. Pope Brock's book, Charlatan Penny Lane's documentary, Nuts!
#85 The Reversal
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. Reported by Peter Andrey Smith and Reply All producer Sruthi Pinnamaneni.
December 22, 2016
#84 Past, Present, Future 2
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.
December 14, 2016
#47 Quit Already (REBROADCAST)
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.
December 8, 2016
#83 Voyage Into Pizzagate
A conspiracy theory, a pizza related map, and a website fighting for its very soul.
November 17, 2016
#82 Hello?
Alex and PJ take calls from anyone, about anything, for 48 hours straight.
November 3, 2016
#81 In the Tall Grass
One man tries to unite America. One Frog threatens to tear it apart.
October 27, 2016
#80 Flash!
This week, a bitter Yes Yes No rivalry, and the return of 10 Minutes on Craigslist. Someone has gone missing.
October 19, 2016
#29 The Takeover (REBROADCAST)
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.
October 13, 2016
#79 Boy in Photo
Who was Wayne?
September 29, 2016
#78 Very Quickly to the Drill
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.
September 21, 2016
#77 The Grand Tapestry Of Pepe
Forty servers full of lost photos, a secret plan, and an unexpected rescue. Also, a Yes Yes No about a frog.
September 8, 2016
#76 Lost in a Cab
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.
September 1, 2016
#75 Boy Wonder
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.
August 24, 2016
#74 Making Friends
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. Reporter Laura Klivans has the story.
August 11, 2016
#73 Sandbox
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.
August 4, 2016
#72 Dead is Paul
This week, a Yes Yes No about gorillas, conspiracy theories, and glitter.
July 27, 2016
#71 The Picture Taker
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. Also, a preview of the new Gimlet show, Science Vs!
July 14, 2016
#70 Stolen Valor
PJ dives into the world of military impostors and the vigilantes who hunt them. Plus, a dispatch from Dallas.
July 7, 2016
#69 Disappeared
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.
June 15, 2016
#68 Vampire Rules
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. Plus, a new Yes Yes No
June 9, 2016
#67 On the Inside, Part IV
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. This week, Sruthi brings you the conclusion of our story.
May 26, 2016
#66 On the Inside, Part III
Blogger Paul Modrowski is in prison for a murder he claims he didn't commit. This week, producer Sruthi Pinnamaneni looks at his trial, and speaks to the one person who witnessed the murder.
May 19, 2016
#65 On the Inside, Part II
Blogger Paul Modrowski is in prison for a murder he claims that he didn't commit. This week, producer Sruthi Pinnamaneni looks at Paul's life before his conviction, and the crime that landed him behind bars.
May 12, 2016
#64 On the Inside
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.
April 27, 2016
#63 1000 Brimes
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.
April 21, 2016
#62 Decoders
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.
April 14, 2016
#61 Baby King
This week, Alex stumbles upon the weirdest gifs ever made, and goes hunting for their creators. Also, a new Yes Yes No.
March 31, 2016
#60 A Simple Question
This week, PJ tries to help a listener named Matt ask a very large company a very simple question. Are you telling me the truth?
March 23, 2016
This week, Alex tries to solve a problem and PJ makes fun of him. Also the return of Email Debt Forgiveness Day. If you’re thinking about sending an email, or if you receive an email for Email Debt Forgiveness day, tell us about it by emailing replyall@gimletmedia.com. We might end up contacting you to appear on the show! Together, we can all make our inboxes less stressful for another year.
March 17, 2016
#58 Earth Pony
This week we learn the truth behind Carl Diggler, the internet's most successful election forecaster. And a special Yes Yes No featuring comedian Jason Mantzoukas.
March 9, 2016
#57 Milk Wanted
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.
February 25, 2016
#56 Zardulu
The rats are not what they seem. Also a new Yes Yes No.
February 18, 2016
#55 The Line
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.
February 10, 2016
#54 Apologies to Dr. Rosalind Franklin
This week, we fix an embarrassing oversight.
February 4, 2016
January 27, 2016
PSA: Hidden Trove
Hi. We're off this week, but we have a little secret: We actually used to have another podcast about the internet for 38 episodes, called TLDR. So If you've already listened to all of Reply All, why not give TLDR a try? You can subscribe on iTunes or any other podcatcher, and here are links to some of our favorite episodes:
January 21, 2016
#52 Raising The Bar
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. Twitter declined to comment specifically on leslie’s story, or to talk to us for this piece. A spokesperson sent us the following statement:
January 14, 2016
Every night, Catherine Russell puts on a wig, picks up a gun, and defies the logic of Yelp.
January 7, 2016
#50 The Cathedral
Amy and Ryan Green’s one-year-old son is diagnosed with cancer and begins an agonizing period of treatment.
December 15, 2015
#49 Past, Present, Future
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.
December 6, 2015
#48 I Love You, I Loathe You
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.
November 29, 2015
#47 Quit Already!
November 14, 2015
#46 Yik Yak Returns
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, Y...
November 9, 2015
#45 The Rainbow Pug
This week, Jade Davis loses her dog on the internet, and we go looking for it.
November 2, 2015
#44 Shine On You Crazy Goldman
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.
October 25, 2015
#43 The Law That Sticks
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.
October 11, 2015
#42 Blind Spot
Hope is a photographer. One day her body begins to betray her. It starts with her eyes.
October 4, 2015
Jamie Keiles is a writer who decided to photograph something that’s usually invisible. Her story plus a new Yes Yes No.
September 21, 2015
#40 The Flower Child
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. Reply All producer Sruthi Pinnamaneni visits his bunker.
September 16, 2015
#39 Reply All Exploder
This week, one of our favorite podcasts, Song Exploder, takes over Reply All. 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"
September 6, 2015
#38 Undo, Undo, Undo
On this week's episode of Reply All, we do a 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.
August 31, 2015
#37 Taking Power
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. Also, a new Yes Yes No.
August 24, 2015
#36 Today's The Day
On this week's episode of Reply All, PJ and Alex go outside.
August 9, 2015
#35 One Strike
This week, 10 Minutes On Craigslist is back! Preston has posted the same ad to Craigslist over 300 times. He speaks to Sylvie Douglis about why he keeps posting.
August 3, 2015
#34 DMV Nation
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. If you want to become a gimlet member, you can go here: http://gimletprod.staging.wpengine.com/join. A year membership will g...
July 29, 2015
#6 This Proves Everything + The Best Hold Music in the World
Keith Calder is known in some circles for his work as an independent film producer. In other, much bigger circles, Keith's known for having the same last name as Eleanor Calder. She's a model who dates One Direction's Louis Tomlinson. Hundreds of thousands of 1D fans maintain that Eleanor is a fake girlfriend, and that Louis is actually secretly dating his bandmate Harry. In today's episode, we tal...
July 19, 2015
#33 @ISIS
Rukmini Callimachi is a foreign correspondent for The New York Times covering Islamic extremism, including Al Qaeda and ISIS. She seems to have access that other reporters just don't have. Part of the way she gets that access is by communicating with extremists online. She talks to PJ about how she communicates with her sources. Also - we debut a new segment that were calling "Super Tech Support." ...
July 12, 2015
#32 The Evilest Technology On Earth :-)
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. Also, a new Yes Yes No.
July 9, 2015
#31 BONUS: The Reddit Implosion Explainer
We meant to take a week off, but we just couldn't help ourselves. Our entire episode this week is a Yes Yes No about the recent (and massive) dustup on Reddit.
June 28, 2015
#30 The Man In The FBI Hat
When successful internet entrepreneur Robert Hoquim died, the people who knew him found out they actually didn't know him at all. Come see us at Cast Party on July 28th! Get tickets to see us perform live via simulcast at your local movie theater at http://www.castparty.org!
June 22, 2015
#29 The Takeover
June 14, 2015
#28 Shipped to Timbuktu
An email to the wrong address sends us hurtling into the world of professional cookie advisors. Plus, a new Yes, Yes, No. This is a rebroadcast of a story.
June 1, 2015
#27 The Fever
This week, producer Stephanie Foo tells a story about dating online that is unlike any we've ever heard before.
May 23, 2015
#26 Craigslist, Horsley's List
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. And in the second half of the show - Neal Horsley was an anti-abortion activist who created a website called "The Nure...
May 17, 2015
#25 Favor Atender
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? This story was originally reported by Silvia Vinas of the radio show Radi...
May 11, 2015
#24 Exit & Return, Part II
This week, we conclude Shulem Deen’s story. In part I, we heard how the internet led him on a path where he ended up being exiled from his community and separated from his family. In part II, 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. The Facts...
May 4, 2015
#23 Exit & Return, Part I
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.
#22 BONUS: The Man Who Refused To Email
A special bonus Email Debt Forgiveness Day themed episide! First, 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. Then we listen to some of the voicemails people left us on our Email Debt Forgiveness Day hotline. Thanks for participating in the inaugural email debt forgivene...
April 26, 2015
#5.5 Jennicam Revisited
In 1996, 19-year-old Jennifer Ringley started the JenniCam, a 24-hour online chronicle of her life. Seven years later, she disappeared entirely from the internet. But why? Also, PJ and Alex discuss how even in the past five months, the landscape of "lifecasting" has changed. And PJ puts Alex on Meerkat and he gets very uncomfortable. Don't forget! Tomorrow is Email Debt Forgiveness Day! Leave us a ...
April 19, 2015
#21 Hack The Police
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. Next week we celebrate Email Debt Forgiveness Day! Leave us a voicemail at (917) 47...
April 12, 2015
#20 I Want To Break Free
Yes Yes No returns, and the story of two people who created a company designed to ghostwrite people’s emotionally difficult emails. Don’t forget to participate in
April 3, 2015
#19 Underdog
Marnie the Dog is one of the most famous dogs on Instagram. Two years ago, she was near death at an animal shelter in Conneticut, 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. Don't forget to participate in Email Debt Forgiveness Day! Leave us a ...
March 28, 2015
#18 Silence And Respect
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 sometime...
March 21, 2015
#17 The Time Traveler And The Hitman
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.
March 14, 2015
#16 Why Is Mason Reese Crying?
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. This is a rebroadca...
February 27, 2015
#15 I've Killed People And I Have Hostages
Blair Myhand is a police officer in the sleepy, 40,000 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.
February 20, 2015
#14 The Art of Making and Fixing Mistakes
A social media mistake for the record books, and a quiet saint of Wikipedia. Our theme song and scoring is from Breakmaster Cylinder. Ad music is by Build Buildings.
February 14, 2015
#13 Love is Lies
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. Our theme song and scoring is from Breakmaster Cylinder. Ad music is by Build Buildings.
February 7, 2015
#1 - An App Sends A Stranger To Say I Love You (Updated)
Sam was at a bookstore when a man he'd never met stopped him to say "I love you." The strange tale of how a woman in Washington DC who tells her ex in California that she loves him through stocky blond man who neither of them have ever met.
January 31, 2015
#12 Back End Trouble
The entire internet decides to look at one famous butt at the same time. One man has to ensure that the website hosting Kardashian butt pictures doesn't crash. The sheer terror and joy of solving that problem. (Plus, a new Yes/Yes/No.)
January 23, 2015
#11 Did Errol Morris' Brother Invent Email?
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.
January 17, 2015
#10 The French Connection
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.
January 9, 2015
#9 The Writing On The Wall
Yik Yak is 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.
January 8, 2015
#8 Anxiety Box
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. If you're new to the show, you can check out some of our favorite episodes here.
December 28, 2014
#7 This Website Is For Sale
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.
December 20, 2014
#6 This Proves Everything
December 14, 2014
#5 Jennicam
In 1996, 19-year-old Jennifer Ringley started the Jennicam, a 24-hour online chronicle of her life. Seven years later, she disappeared entirely from the internet. But why?
December 7, 2014
#4 Follow The Money
Writer Chiara Atik has a hobby -- spying on the financial transactions of friends and strangers.
December 3, 2014
#3 We Know What You Did
Twenty years ago, Ethan Zuckerman did something terrible on the internet. And he's still living with the consequences.
November 24, 2014
#2 The Secret, Gruesome Internet For Doctors
An app called Figure One wants to be Instagram, but for doctors. Why would doctors need their own Instagram? Because no normal person would want to see the gruesome photos which doctors post, fave, and comment on. We spy on the secret medical internet, and talk to a resident who actually belongs there.
#1 A Stranger Says I Love You
November 6, 2014
Reply All Mic Test
A podcast about the internet, hosted by PJ Vogt and Alex Goldman. From Gimlet Media. Coming soon.
We've updated our Terms of Service. Learn More
This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. Learn More