Best Apollo The Original Podcasts (2025)

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Covid and Ivermectin Whistleblower Rings the Bell of Lies 1:59:35

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California Department of Public Health Whistleblower Exposes the Lie 🏆 Subscribe to my channel: https://bit.ly/4926kPy 🎁 Become a member and support my work: https://bit.ly/4iK6DTx 🕰️ Time codes for your convenience: 00:00:01 Intro 00:02:51 Smear campaign against Ivermectin 00:20:05 Xavier Becerra admitted what? 00:53:23 What's next? 01:11:24 Jesus…

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Imperfect Paradise: Health workers say ICE agents at hospitals are compromising patient care 28:16

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Amid the Trump administration's crackdown on immigration, there’s been an uptick in ICE presence in hospitals across the country. At Adventist Health White Memorial hospital in Boyle Heights, doctors say that hospital administrators have even allowed immigration agents to interfere with patients’ medical care. LAist correspondent Jill Replogle has …

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Carl Benedikt Frey, "How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations" (Princeton UP, 2025) 54:29

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In How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations (Princeton University Press, 2025), Carl Benedikt Frey challenges the conventional belief that economic and technological progress is inevitable. For most of human history, stagnation was the norm, and even today progress and prosperity in the world's largest, most advanced econo…

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The Running Man (2025) 2:10:50

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America’s Got Tumult Glen Powell (Twisters) follows in the footsteps of Arnold Schwarzenegger by continuing the weird flex he began on a lethal reality show called The Running Man. Will TV producer Josh Brolin (Avengers: Endgame) cancel his star contestant before he sparks a political uprising with prepper Michael Cera (Arrested Development)? And d…

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General Meeting 4 - Cass Paige & Grace Jarvis 1:14:01

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This is the fourth official General Meeting of Cass Paige & Grace Jarvis, best mates who live in different countries, and have therefore to collate and notate all everything we want to say to each other while hamstrung by timezones. We recorded the day after Halloween while I was in Glasgow looking after my sickly boyfriend and waiting to see if I …

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188: Oops, Our Fatal Flaws Are Showing! We Revisit SEA OF MONSTERS Ch 13-15 1:32:16

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It's time for the fatal flaw episode! This was one of our favorite re-listens to date. It's full of lots of deep conversations and analysis, Spongebob references, and silly debates about Thalia's time as a tree. We spend a long time discussing the sirens, both in our old episode and in our new content. We revisit our discussion about our fatal flaw…

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Imperfect Paradise: California's new free public preschool program for 4-year-olds 31:40

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All four-year-olds in the state of California now have access to a free preschool program in their local school district. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a plan to expand the state’s transitional kindergarten, or TK, program in May 2021, as part of a broader move to create the largest free early education program in the U.S. So what does transitional kind…

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Facing Infinity: Black Holes and Our Place on Earth 55:54

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Humanity’s relationship with black holes began in 1783 in a small English village, when clergyman John Michell posed a startling question: What if there are objects in space that are so large and heavy that not even light can escape them? Almost 250 years later, in April 2019, scientists presented the first picture of a black hole. Profoundly inspi…

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Craig Hogan, "The Unlikely Primeval Sky" (American Scientist, November-December) 30:27

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Of all the patterns that could possibly be preserved in the post–Big Bang radiation, the one we see is surprisingly smooth on large angular scales. Sitting by a campfire on a dark night, looking up at the Milky Way, a curious child asks, “What does the sky tell us? Where does it all come from? Does space go on forever?” A caring adult might share a…

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Predator: Badlands 1:40:41

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Get to da Yowcha! The Predator has left behind his typical prey on Earth to hunt a new trophy in the Badlands of the deadliest planet in the universe. But after eight movies, is the masked alien at last ready to be the hero of his own franchise, and beat a band of Weyland-Yutani robots to a massive, unkillable monster? And are Elle Fanning (Super 8…

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27 - Catapulting Pumpkins at Osama Bin Laden with Eamon Hegarty & Nicholas Rohrman (So Far So Good) 1:50:46

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This week on The Agonies Grace chats to Chicago-based sketch comedy duo So Far So Good. They chat about white man blindness, cartoon American college behaviour, filming sketches out in the world, stubbornly defending regional slang & the epidemic of clowns. Follow So Far So Good at @sofarsogoodcomedy on TikTok & Instagram, @sofarsogoodshow on Twitt…

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Eduardo Mercado III, "Why Whales Sing" (JHU Press, 2025) 1:05:37

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With breathtaking complexity and haunting beauty, the songs of whales have long fascinated scientists. Whales are the only mammals that can sing continuously for ten hours or more, changing the unique songs they sing every year. In Why Whales Sing (JHU Press, 2025), bioacoustician and cognitive scientist Eduardo Mercado transforms our understanding…

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187: Still Confused About Hydras, We Revisit SEA OF MONSTERS Ch 10-12 1:37:38

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Our takes in this episode were frankly, all correct. While many things may have changed, we still have the same adoration for the Sea of Monsters. We listen to our past selves crash out over the anatomy of a hydra. We talk about Clarisse, and if there should be the dead army of confederate soldiers on the show. Percy gets turned into a guinea pig, …

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Imperfect Paradise: Who pays for the 2028 Olympics? LA taxpayers may be on the hook 29:57

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In less than a thousand days, Los Angeles will be hosting the summer Olympics. Many cities worldwide have been put into debt by the games, so what could they mean for Los Angeles? LAist reporter Libby Rainey joins Imperfect Paradise to look back at the history of the games when LA last hosted them, the financial outlook for the city, and what role …

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James Trefil and Shobita Satyapal, "Supermassive: Black Holes at the Beginning and End of the Universe" (Smithsonian Books, 2025) 1:01:42

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Black holes, demystified: follow along the quest to understand the history and influence of one of space science's most fascinating and confounding phenomena Led by physicist James Trefil and astrophysicist Shobita Satyapal, Supermassive: Black Holes at the Beginning and End of the Universe (Smithsonian Books, 2025) traverses the incredible history…

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Marcus Chown, "A Crack in Everything: How Black Holes Came in from the Cold and Took Cosmic Centre Stage" (Apollo, 2025) 1:17:58

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What is space? What is time? Where did the universe come from? The answers to mankind's most enduring questions may lie in science's greatest enigma: black holes. A black hole is a region of space where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape. This can occur when a star approaches the end of its life. Unable to generate enough…

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Liam Graham, "Physics Fixes All the Facts" (Springer Nature, 2025) 46:53

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Complex systems seem to magically emerge from the interactions of their parts. A whirlpool emerges from water molecules. A living cell from organic molecules. You emerge from the cells of your body. Not since chaos has a concept from physics spread like wildfire to other disciplines. Emergence can be found from chemistry to economics; from psycholo…

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Predator: Killer of Killers 1:32:31

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The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly Motherf*ckers Before the Predator conducts his 2025 theatrical hunt in the Badlands, his animated counterparts are hosting a contest on Hulu where the winner is proclaimed Killer of Killers. How much competition will a Viking mother, an exiled Japanese brother, and an aspiring WWII pilot be for the homicidal aliens o…

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26 - Dissociating at The Apollo with David Correos & AJ 1:35:17

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A pretty chaotic episode this week with David Correos and AJ from Cult Popture. Every element of technology at one point shuts down, Christopher Macarthur-Boyd wanders in toward the end and creates a musical tag and David starts drinking a mysterious brown and pink goo with lumps in it from an unlabelled two litre soft drink bottle. Follow David at…

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186: The Spongebob Origin, We Revisit SEA OF MONSTERS Ch 7-9 1:25:17

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This episode uncovers the beginnings of our Spongebob is Percy Jackson lore. Percy meets Hermes, gets his quest, and discovers Luke's new evil lair. We miss how dramatic Luke was as a villain, and theorize about how that will play out in the show. We still are not fans of cruise ships. Some things never change... Timestamps: Old episode begins: 3:4…

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Imperfect Paradise: Why the site of the largest methane leak in US history still hasn’t been shut down 30:50

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Regulations on gas storage facilities have been tightened since the detection of the Aliso Canyon leak, which started in 2015 and lasted nearly four months. But residents remain worried about long term health effects following the leak. LAist Climate and Environment Reporter Erin Stone discusses the 10-year anniversary of the disaster and what’s st…

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Vlatko Vedral, "Portals to a New Reality: Five Pathways to the Future of Physics" (Basic Books, 2025) 1:14:30

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For the last century, physics has been treading along the paths set by the same two theories--quantum theory and general relativity--and, let's face it, it's getting pretty boring. Most scientists are simply chasing decimal points in laboratories, unable to explore the theories at large scales, where serious discrepancies could emerge. The situatio…

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NoneOtherThan Nigel Music and Talk Podcast w Melba Moore 1:04:29

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NoneOtherThan Nigel: Music and Talk Podcast Presents an Exclusive Interview with Broadway Legend Melba Moore Washington, DC - The NoneOtherThan Nigel: Music and Talk Podcast is thrilled to announce a captivating new episode featuring the iconic and trailblazing entertainer Melba Moore. Hosted by Nigel, this episode offers an i…

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Marvel Zombies 1:52:12

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What If…. Stan Lee was replaced by George Romero? Now Playing Podcast has been overrun by Marvel Zombies just in time for Halloween, and somehow it’s all up to Jersey brat Kamala Khan (aka Ms Marvel) to save the day. Can she transmit an S.O.S. to allies in space before Shang-Chi, Red Guardian, Spider-Man, Thor, Riri “Ironheart” Williams, and dozens…

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Brian Potter, "The Origins of Efficiency" (Stripe Press, 2025) 51:26

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Efficiency is the engine that powers human civilization. It's the reason rates of famine have fallen precipitously, literacy has risen, and humans are living longer, healthier lives compared to preindustrial times. But where do improvements in production efficiency come from? In The Origins of Efficiency (Stripe Press, 2025), Brian Potter argues th…

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Rick A López, "Rooted in Place: Botany, Indigeneity, and Art in the Construction of Mexican Nature, 1570-1914" (U Arizona Press, 2025) 50:26

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Since the first moment of conquest, colonizers and the colonized alike in Mexico confronted questions about what it meant to be from this place, what natural resources it offered, and who had the right to control those resources and on what basis. Focusing on the ways people, environment, and policies have been affected by political boundaries, in …

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25 - The Court of Twitter In Exile with Danielle Weisberg 1:53:05

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Not to give the freaks too much hope, but sometimes parasocial friendships from the internet do work out. Grace and Danielle discuss their favourite examples of illustrated animal real estate, being members of the court of Twitter In Exile, their desire to see a cultural return to wires and living inside an ecological & political molotov cocktail. …

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Whistleblower EXPOSES BABY DEATHS during Covid in her Hospital 1:41:57

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Whistleblower EXPOSES BABY DEATHS during Covid in her Hospital 🏆 Subscribe to my channel: https://bit.ly/4926kPy 🎁 Become a member and support my work: https://bit.ly/4iK6DTx 🕰️ Time codes for your convenience: 00:00:01 Intro 00:03:47 50x more delivered dead babies than usual 00:14:50 Her mom was murdered in a hospital 00:28:48 Another woman murder…

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185: This Is Why We're The Unhinged Podcast, We Revisit SEA OF MONSTERS Ch 4-6 1:31:57

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We’re back with another relisten, for Sea of Monsters Ch 4-6! This week, Erin apologizes for everything she’s ever said about Chiron. We bring back nuance in 2025, which is in character for discussing PJO. Topics include our thoughts on CGI Tyson, casting (or lack thereof, cough cough, Silena), and Taylor Swift’s apparently controversial album. A t…

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Roger Moorhouse, "Wolfpack: Hitler’s U-Boat War 1939-45" (HarperCollins, 2025) 1:05:15

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Winston Churchill famously remarked that the threat of the German U-Boats was the only thing that had “really frightened” him during World War Two. The U-Boats certainly claimed a bitter harvest among Allied shipping: nearly 3,000 ships were sunk, for a total tonnage of over 14 million tonnes, nearly 70% of Allied shipping losses in all theatres of…

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Harry Cliff, "Space Oddities: The Mysterious Anomalies Challenging Our Understanding of the Universe" (Doubleday, 2024) 1:06:13

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Nothing captivates the human imagination like the vast unknowns of space. Ancient petroglyphs present renderings of the heavens, proof that we have been gazing up at the stars with wonder for thousands of years. Since then, mankind has systematically expanded our cosmic possibilities. What were once flights of fancy and dreams of science fiction wr…

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Imperfect Paradise: How becoming a US citizen just got harder under the Trump administration and what it means for Angelenos 21:51

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The Trump administration’s immigration policies have resulted in raids and protests in Southern California and across the country, and the administration has also moved to tighten who gets citizenship. Recently, the federal government pushed out new guidelines for naturalization. The situation has raised fundamental questions around what it means t…

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Alice Lovejoy, "Tales of Militant Chemistry: The Film Factory in a Century of War" (U California Press, 2025) 45:50

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The history of film calls to mind unforgettable photographs, famous directors, and the glitz and hustle of the media business. But there is another tale to tell that connects film as a material to the twentieth century's history of war, destruction, and cruelty. This story comes into focus during World War II at the factories of Tennessee Eastman, …

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Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning 2:01:22

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The Enemy of The Entity Is My Friend Brock, Arnie, and Stuart are at last ready to have The Final Reckoning with the eighth Mission: Impossible film, as well as its daredevil star, Tom Cruise. Does the world still need Ethan Hunt to dangle from dogfighting airplanes, dive solo into deep-sea submarine wrecks, or impersonate others in lookalike masks…

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24 - Accursed by Fungus with Eli Matthewson & Becky Umbers 1:01:02

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This week on the podcast Grace chats to New Zealand comedians: Eli Matthewson & Becky Umbers. We get into the many fungi of the human body, worms (again) and the cinnamon rolls Grace made beforehand. Follow Eli at @elimatthewson on Instagram and @elimatthewson39 on TikTok. Subscribe to his YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@elimatthewson. Li…

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Jeffrey D. Sharon, "The Great Balancing Act: An Insider's Guide to the Human Vestibular System" (Columbia UP, 2025) 1:07:34

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What's the secret to keeping your balance? The ear does more than hear: it helps us stay stable by perceiving movements and gravity. Elegant sensors deep within the skull detect every twist, turn, and tumble, powering swift reflexes that keep vision and balance steady. This is the vestibular system. It's primordial and ubiquitous: every animal has …

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184: A Trip Down Memory Lane, We Revisit SEA OF MONSTERS Ch 1-3 1:24:43

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We are SO excited to be re-reading (or re-listening?) to our Sea of Monsters episodes with you all to prepare for Season 2 of the Disney+ show! This episode includes over 30 minutes of new content and reactions interspersed with our original audio from Episode 10: What's Up With Dodgeball? We discuss chapters 1-3 of Sea of Monsters and pinpoint the…

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David Bressoud, "Calculus Reordered: A History of the Big Ideas" (Princeton UP, 2019) 1:27:28

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Calculus Reordered: A History of the Big Ideas (Princeton UP, 2019) takes readers on a remarkable journey through hundreds of years to tell the story of how calculus evolved into the subject we know today. David Bressoud explains why calculus is credited to seventeenth-century figures Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz, and how its current structur…

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Imperfect Paradise: Prop 50: Is California’s redistricting push a threat to democracy or a defense of it? 31:03

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Proposition 50 is part of a nationwide battle over control of the U.S. House of Representatives, and Californians are being asked to take a side: Should the state be temporarily allowed to redraw congressional maps to counter the Trump administration and redistricting in Texas? LAist Civics & Democracy Correspondent Frank Stoltze and Civics & Democ…