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Galaxy Brain

The internet has warped public life: Politicians behave like influencers, the economy resembles a casino, and people can no longer agree upon a consensus reality. New conspiracy theories, memes, and main characters seem to pop up every day. A constant war is on for your attention, and it’s easy to feel lost. Each week, Galaxy Brain and its host Charlie Warzel invite you into conversations to make sense of the online fire hose. Is AI destroying our ability to think? Do your grandparents have a screen-time problem? Galaxy Brain looks beyond the algorithm and anchors you to the real—however strange it may be.

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Are Your Parents Addicted to Their Screens?

Dec 26, 2025·—

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Are your parents addicted to their phone? In this episode of Galaxy Brain, Charlie Warzel explores how technology is affecting an older generation of adults. Instead of a phone-based childhood, Warzel suggests, we may...

Bonus Episode: Reacting to the Epstein Files’ Release

Dec 20, 2025·—

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Late on the Friday before Christmas—just hours before a deadline mandated by Congress, the Department of Justice released part of the trove of documents known colloquially as the Epstein files. The contents are, at...

Prediction Markets and the ‘Suckerifcation’ Crisis With Max Read

Dec 19, 2025·—

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In this episode of Galaxy Brain, Charlie Warzel explores the burgeoning industry of prediction markets. These platforms let people wager on everything from elections and award shows to the most trivial internet...

How YouTube Ate Podcasts and TV, With Rachel Martin, Ashley Carman, and Derek Thompson

Dec 12, 2025·—

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In this episode of Galaxy Brain, Charlie Warzel turns the camera on himself to ask a simple question: Why are you seeing his face? Using YouTube’s takeover of podcasts as a starting point, he explores how video has...

When Chatbots Break Our Minds, With Kashmir Hill

Dec 5, 2025·—

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In this episode of Galaxy Brain, Charlie Warzel explores the strange, unsettling relationships some people are having with AI chatbots, as well as what happens when those relationships go off the rails. His guest is...

America’s Slide Toward Simulated Democracy with Eliot Higgins

Nov 28, 2025·—

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In this episode of “Galaxy Brain,” Charlie Warzel sits down with Eliot Higgins, founder of the open-source investigative collective Bellingcat, to examine how our public sphere slid from healthy debate into what Higgins...

Are Sports the Most Valuable Commodity in the World? with Pablo Torre

Nov 21, 2025·—

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Are sports the most valuable commodity in the world? On this episode of Galaxy Brain, Charlie Warzel is joined by Pablo Torre, a longtime journalist and the host of the podcast and YouTube show Pablo Torre Finds Out...

The Internet Is a Misery Machine with Hank Green

Nov 14, 2025·—

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In this inaugural episode of Galaxy Brain, Charlie Warzel examines the state of the internet as it stands now in November 2025 with Hank Green, a true citizen of the internet—somebody who has made a living riding the...

Introducing: Galaxy Brain with Charlie Warzel

Nov 4, 2025·—

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