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The FAIK Files

Perry Carpenter | N2K Networks

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The FAIK Files explores the mysterious and often wacky intersection of AI, technology, and humanity. From cognitive warfare to digital deception, we examine how AI is reshaping our reality through news, research, and real-world examples. Join us for a thought-provoking journey into a world where anything can be faked, truth is increasingly elusive, and human nature meets artificial intelligence head-on.
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American Hysteria

chelsey weber-smith

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American Hysteria explores how fantastical thinking has shaped our culture – moral panics, urban legends, hoaxes, crazes, fringe beliefs, and national misunderstandings. Poet-turned-podcaster Chelsey Weber-Smith tells the strangest stories from American history and examines the forces that create the reality we share, and sometimes, the reality we don't.
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Rolling Stone Music Now

Rolling Stone | Cumulus Podcast Network

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Inside the biggest stories in music, hosted by Rolling Stone senior writer Brian Hiatt. Featuring interviews with top artists, expert insight on new releases and breaking news from the Rolling Stone staff, and much more.
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Digital Folklore

Perry Carpenter & Mason Amadeus | Realm

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Digital Folklore is an immersive audio adventure that takes place inside a fictional universe, but explores the real-world truths behind various expressions of internet culture and how each holds up a mirror to the society from which they emerge. This podcast is great for audio fiction fans who really really want to enjoy interview-based shows, or for listeners who love expert interviews and insights but long for something unique and unexpected. Join Perry Carpenter and Mason Amadeus as they ...
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LA Spinz

JOY 94.9 - LGBTI, LGBTIQA+, LGBTQIA+, LGBT, LGBTQ, LGB, Gay, Lesbian, Trans, Intersex, Queer Podcasts for all our Rainbow Communities

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Your weekly Hollywood entertainment report
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8th Layer Insights

Perry Carpenter | N2K Networks

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Get ready for a deep dive into what cybersecurity professionals often refer to as the "8th Layer" of security: HUMANS. Welcome to 8th Layer Insights (8Li). This podcast is a multidisciplinary exploration into how the complexities of human nature affect security and risk. Author, security researcher, and behavior science enthusiast Perry Carpenter taps experts for their insights and illumination. Topics include cybersecurity, psychology, behavior science, communication, leadership, and more.
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Boys Club

Boys Club

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This is a podcast for the deeply online, where we chat about all things tech, crypto, and pop culture news. Brought to you by Boys Club, a NY-based media and creative studio, and hosted by Deana Burke and Natasha Hoskins. Have questions? So do we.
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Squaring the Strange

Ben Radford, Celestia Ward and Pascual Romero

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Not just another “skeptical” podcast, it’s a show about critical thinking and evidence-based analysis, using science and critical thinking to examine the world around us, from the mysterious and paranormal to the mundane.
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Billboard's Keith Caulfield (Managing Director, Charts and Data Operations) and Katie Atkinson (Executive Digital Director, West Coast) offer weekly Billboard chart breakdowns, discuss the hottest music news and cover the year’s biggest musical events. Casual pop fans, chart junkies and everyone in between are invited to this weekly half-hour discussion.
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Pop Culture Universitea is all about extracting wisdom and life lessons based on what’s going on in pop culture. We learn from the successes and failures of our favorite celebrities. This Tuesday class will teach you EVERYTHING going on in pop culture and leave you with nuggets of wisdom to improve your own life. IT IS A PHD LEVEL CLASS. So be prepare to keep up! Information and inspiration courtesy of all your favorite stars and your host PattyPopCulture.
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Pop Culture After Dark

Creative Central Network

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The co-hosts of Pop Culture After Dark give you their thoughts and unfiltered opinions on everything from Celebrities, Reality TV to YouTube and TikTok Stars. Join them weekly as they say - what everyone is thinking.
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STAY Sustainable

Alec Crawford

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STAY sustainable. A podcast about Sustainability, Technology, Artificial Intelligence, and how it affects you and your world. I am discussing these issues with high-profile guests in these fields to give you important information that goes deeper than other sources. Let's find out answers to questions like "Can AI save the planet?" and "How does environmental, social, and governance investing impact me?" We can build a better, sustainable future together.
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DOM POP

Dom Pop

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A plane headed to the Grammy's is going down, there's only one parachute, which pop star do you save? Join renowned homosexuals Quincy and Hayden every Thursday as they discuss latest trends, releases and throwbacks to some of pop's most dominant moments. Each episode consists of POP culture's latest hits, a trip to the S.P.A. where newly released songs are heralded as 'Smashes, Passes, or Asses', and a culminating deep dive into the album of the week! Ultimately, Dom Pop is a quasi-hour of ...
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The monthly little bit of "something for everyone" podcast with Producer & Host, Guido Piraino. Enjoy a variety of guest interviews including musicians, actors, sports personalities, professionals, and everyday people like you with interesting stories. You will be entertained with a wide variety of content while learning about yourself and others. Key themes include: Self-Help, Health, Education, Resiliency, Leadership, Inclusion, Diversity, Mental Health, Finance, Food, and Life Events.
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The Sufferfest is a comprehensive training resource for time-crunched endurance athletes. Everybody Hurts features interviews with cyclists, athletes, and inspirational figures. The podcast explores the theme of Suffering—not for suffering’s sake, but as a means by which people confront their fears, challenge their limitations, and gain a better understanding of themselves.
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Thank you to Polygon for supporting this show. <3 01:12 Show Agenda and THE NET GALA 06:52 Tariff Tantrums and Market Reactions 17:16 LLAMA 4 Launch Controversy 24:41 Crypto Enforcement Team Disbanded 29:51 Sabrina Carpenter's Fortnite Collaboration 33:03 Gen Z Interns and Government Accounts 39:46 Data Centers in Space 44:30 First All-Female Space…
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'The Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk' was an 1800s true crime memoir about the horrors a runaway nun claimed to have suffered while living among debaucherous and murderous Catholic clergy in a convent-turned-torture chamber, and at the time, it was the second bestselling book in America. But was it really a truthful account of Maria Monk’s life? Or…
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Subscribe to Me, Myself, and AI: https://sloanreview.mit.edu/audio-series/me-myself-and-ai/ Today we're sharing with you an episode of another show we like called Me, Myself, and AI. It's a podcast produced by MIT Sloan Management Review and Boston Consulting Group, where hosts Sam and Shervin interview various folks from all sorts of industries an…
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Spin Doctors have their first album out in 12 years, Face Full of Cake — and it's quite good. Lead singer Chris Barron joins host Brian Hiatt to go deep on the band's Nineties triumphs and mistakes, why he doesn't envy Phish, and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…
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After some current events about dire wolves, dire outbreaks of measles, and dire science denial in the White House, we discuss some true (and some not-so-true) tales of people surviving dire circumstances. People have come back alive from the frigid ice of Antarctica, a shipwreck on the bottom of the sea, and the deep jungles of South America. Othe…
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Welcome back to the FAIK Files! In this episode: Mason fills in for Perry as best he can, with a mix of topics that all fall under the broad umbrella of "functionally useless, but cool". Well... except the last segment; that one is inarguably kind of un-cool. We play a little bit of a 100% AI-generated rendition of Quake 2, and discuss how it works…
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On the new Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, Katie & Keith are chatting all about the return of Ari the Pop Star after an active awards season for Ari the Movie Star, discussing why it made sense for the six new tracks on Brighter Days Ahead to live in the Eternal Sunshine world rather than as a new project. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaph…
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The hottest new (and embarrassing) trend in the billionaire bubble is luxury doomsday shelters, wildly expensive bunkers that the ultra-rich believe will allow them to live extravagantly in a post-apocalyptic world. Join me, Joshua Belhumeur, and Malcolm Critcher of the podcast 'This is Propaganda' as we enter their futuristic world, try to underst…
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It’s Hollywood scoop o’clock! Peter Reynolds brings his sass this week as he uncovers what’s so hot it hurts, and what’s so last season it’s embarrassing. Get ready for this week’s highlights, including: Katy Perry struggling to sell tickets for her upcoming tour, Justin Bieber declaring that he’s been doing a lot of self-reflection and working on …
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Brittany Spanos and Rob Sheffield join host Brian Hiatt for a look at some of the latest developments in pop, from Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco's collaborative album to Lady Gaga's Mayhem Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Rolling Stone | Cumulus Podcast Network
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Welcome back to the FAIK Files! In this week's episode: We explore "Prompt Wars," an asynchronous multiplayer LLM competition where players craft prompts to battle against others in a fascinating game of AI manipulation We dive into Anthropic's latest research on AI cognition and circuit tracing - essentially digital neuroscience for large language…
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Thank you to Polygon for supporting this show. <3 01:55 Upcoming Events: THE NET GALA with Polygon 04:16 Circle IPO Breakdown 10:58 Special Guest: Mattie Fairchild 25:08 Smooth Brain Takes with Mattie 30:26 Elon Musk's X x AI Sale 34:13 College Admission Essay Controversy 41:41 OpenAI's Fundraising 47:47 Las Vegas Visitor Decline 50:08 Morgan Walle…
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On the new Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, Katie & Keith are chatting all about the first two tastes of Miley Cyrus' 'Something Beautiful' album and what we can expect ahead of its arrival in two months. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Billboard
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This is a very special episode I did last year with the podcast You’re Wrong About in which Sarah Marshall and I swapped stories about some of our favorite historical hoaxes and pranks in honor of April Fools Day. Listen to You're Wrong About wherever you get your podcasts Become a Patron to support our show and get ad-free early episodes and bonus…
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Hollywood’s rumor mill is buzzing, and Peter Reynolds is here to dish it out! We’re talking major style moments, star drama, and celebrities that are out before they’re even in. This week’s highlights include: Taylor Swift’s return to Instagram for the first time since wrapping her Eras Tour in Vancouver last December—showing support for her friend…
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A new book, Lollapalooza: The Uncensored Story of Alternative Rock's Wildest Festival, is full of fascinating unearthed stories about the most important festival of the 1990s. Authors Richard Bienstock and Tom Beaujour join host Brian Hiatt to break down some of the book's best moments: Eddie Vedder joining the freak show, Sinead O'Connor freaking …
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First we hit on a few current events, including a new monolith outside of Las Vegas and a "shadow" CDC website fake. Sharon Hill joins us again, this time to discuss her new "Pop Cryptid Spectator" and all the delightful cryptidabelia that inspires it. She's noticed a rise in paranormal thinking when it comes to cryptids, as opposed to the old-scho…
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Welcome back to the FAIK Files! In this episode: Perry cracks open a chaotic grab bag: A couple updates from Perry and the National Cybersecurity Alliance. Plus two new reality-bending image models that raise the bar again — this time with people that really look like people and text that actually looks like text! We sit down with former FBI specia…
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Thank you to Polygon for supporting this show. <3 00:00 Introduction & Show Agenda 04:19 Chat GPT Update and AI Image Generation 12:12 Interview with Mike Demarais from Rainbow Wallet 20:34 Smooth Brain Takes with Mike 28:13 Nikita Beer and Solana 34:43 23andMe Bankruptcy 40:05 Group Chat Mishaps 46:22 Gwyneth Paltrow vs. Meghan Markle 50:44 Celo's…
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Before we celebrate our Billboard Women in Music honorees this Saturday night -- including 2025 Woman of the Year Doechii -- the Billboard charts team put together the Top 100 Women Artists of the 21st Century chart (encompassing women soloists, all-women groups and groups with prominent women’s vocals). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit mega…
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Woody Shticks is a comic stripper and burlesque performer as well as the director, production manager, and co-star of our recent live stage show with You’re Wrong About. For this episode, Woody and I talk about our histories with and philosophies around modern burlesque, and I tell him about the drama surrounding the first burlesque troupe to make …
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Roll camera! Peter Reynolds is back with this week’s most talked-about Hollywood moments. From glam to gossip, we’ve got it all covered. In this week’s highlights, Cardi B’s on-again, off-again husband, Offset, and his entourage got into trouble in L.A. Kim Kardashian made an offer to buy the late O.J. Simpson’s Bible from his estate. Timothée Chal…
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Kirk Hammett, author of the new book The Collection: Kirk Hammett, looks back at his years in Metallica, hanging out with Kurt Cobain and Lou Reed, and much more in an interview with host Brian Hiatt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Rolling Stone | Cumulus Podcast Network
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Welcome back to the FAIK Files! In this episode, we take a look at China's groundbreaking (yet controversial) requirement to label all AI-generated content. We also explore some unsettling experiments that show just how it is to manipulate an AI system's biases and opinions. Plus -- is reliance on AI making us dumber? And our AI Dumpster Fire of th…
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Thank you to Polygon for supporting this show. <3 02:51 NVIDIA's Developer Day Highlights 07:58 Apple's Live Translation Feature 10:41 Google's Acquisition of Wiz 15:38 Rippling vs. Deal: Corporate Espionage 22:06 Solana's Controversial Ad 27:13 Boygenius Relationship Update 30:09 Lipton's Peach Iced Tea Controversy 31:50 Kim K and the Tesla Robot …
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On the new Pop Shop Podcast (listen below), Katie & Keith are chatting about Chappell Roan's cheeky new track "The Giver" and how quickly the rookie pop star made this pop-country pivot, following in the recent bootsteps of Beyoncé, Post Malone and Sabrina Carpenter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Exposed thongs were all the rage in the early 2000s thanks to a handful of massive pop cultural moments, but as the craze reached the mainstream market and trickled down to teens and tweens, the skank-shaming heated up as did the moral panics and political backlash. Millennials, however, were far from the first generation to experience thong drama,…
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Questlove, director of the excellent new documentary Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius), dissects the greatness of Sly Stone, while also going deep on D'Angelo, Michael Jackson, and his own life Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Rolling Stone | Cumulus Podcast Network
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Step behind the velvet rope because Peter Reynolds is serving up the juiciest Hollywood scoop this week! From the silver screen to behind-the-scenes drama, the tea is piping hot. Rumor has it The White Lotus star Sydney Sweeney might be single again, and there’s trouble in paradise for Jennifer Garner, her partner is reportedly not thrilled with so…
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Ben has been on a cruise, and brings back an interesting story on how quickly rumors and conspiracy theories can form in that environment. We pay tribute to Joe Nickell, a truly versatile skeptic and investigator, and go over the Stand Up for Science marches that took place last week. Then we turn to current events wrought by the Trump administrati…
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Welcome back to the FAIK Files! This week, we explore the creative and mischievous ways AI voices can be created and used -- everything from simple voice cloning, to character acting, the legal issues in authenticating voice recording, to the full weaponization of AI voices for scams and information warfare. Interested in trying ElevenLabs? Please …
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Thank you to Polygon for supporting this show. <3 00:00 Introduction to DBH 00:34 Personal Updates 05:01 Tesla News and Market "Insights" 15:27 Cybersecurity Alert: Massjacker 18:44 Mark Zuckerberg's Fashion Statement 25:34 Shoutout to Polygon 26:24 Pokemon NFT Craze 28:44 Nostalgia and Collecting 31:58 IRS and DeFi Regulations 37:31 Robot Dog Art …
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Thongs and the battles waged on their backs will be the focus of our upcoming episode. This collection of excerpts from previous episodes will provide some extra context: Wardrobe Malfunction (2019), Teenage Sex (2019), and The Streaking Craze (2023). Become a Patron to support our show and get early ad-free episodes and bonus content Or subscribe …
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Peter Reynolds is serving up the hottest Hollywood tea with a side of sass, and I am so here for it! Sabrina Carpenter is making sure no one misses out on the Short N’ Sweet era, adding more tour dates—because let’s be real, demand is through the roof. Katy Perry is saying I Kissed the Stratosphere as she joins an all-female crew for an 11-minute s…
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Welcome back to the FAIK Files! To learn more about the upcoming Offensive Cyber Deception Masterclass (delivered in person in Las Vegas, August 2-5, 2025) please visit this link: https://tinyurl.com/5ytpvjv7 On this week's episode, We explore some updates to familiar AI tools like Suno, some new models like Wan2.0, and talk about Perry's upcoming …
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Dumb B!tch Hour is a weekly live chat covering all things tech, crypto, and pop culture news, brought to you by Boys Club, a NY-based media and creative studio. DBH is recorded live on X.com every Wednesday at 12 PM EST, but we also post it here and recommend watching it as a video podcast. On this week's episode: Barack Obama rejection letter ETHD…
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On the new Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, Katie tells Keith all about her night inside the Dolby Theatre for the 97th Academy Awards, where the Wicked duo of Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo opened the show; LISA, Doja Cat and RAYE teamed up for a three-part tribute to the music of James Bond; and Queen Latifah paid joyful tribute to Quincy Jones. And …
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American philosopher Jason Stanley is the author of Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future. For this episode, Jason helps us understand some of the attacks on educational institutes at home and abroad and how authoritarian movements purposefully repress and reject historical truths in favor of a different narrative tha…
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Welcome, star-stalkers! Peter Reynolds is here with your sneak peek into Hollywood’s week in review. We’re talking red carpet hits, headline grabs, and trends hotter than a heat wave. Let’s dive into this week’s highlights. Rihanna and A$AP Rocky celebrated his not guilty verdict with some late-night festivities. Tom Holland’s Spider-Man 4 will tak…
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Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell, author of the great new book Heartbreaker: A Memoir, shares untold stories from his collaborations with Tom Petty and much more in an interview with host Brian Hiatt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Rolling Stone | Cumulus Podcast Network
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First, Ben and Celestia discuss an angler fish and a kayak-curious humpback whale in the news, as well as the measles outbreak, some cryptid legislation in California, and an update on the drone panic. Our main segment guest is Gail De Vos, who discusses the world of furries. Far older than most realize (around for 50 years now!), furries have been…
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Welcome back to the FAIK Files! On this week's episode, We explore the world of AI hallucinations. What causes them? Do they make AI useless, or could they potentially lead to scientific breakthroughs We dive into emerging AI models like Large Behavior Models (LBMs) and how they differ from traditional Large Language Models We examine the ongoing b…
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RIP David Lynch, beloved director and otherworldly weirdo. The You Are Good feelings podcast about movies graciously invited me to talk about one of the most influential films and artists of my lifetime. Talking all things Lynchian with Sarah Marshall and Alex Steed, I tried to summarize this famously baffling plot of this film, mused about the con…
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