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Latest Episodes

Adam Conover Talks the Hollywood Strike
July 24, 2023

Its a brutally hot summer, a great time to cool off in an air conditioned movie theater or to catch up on some of those TV shows youve had on your list forever. But did you know the people who make the fine entertainment you know and love are on strike?

[Bonus] Introducing CYBER, a Hacking Podcast by Motherboard
January 23, 2019

Motherboard has launched a new podcast, called CYBER. It's available on Apple Podcasts and on whatever app you listen to. Hacking. Hackers. Disinformation campaigns. Encryption. The Cyber. This stuff gets complicated really fast, but Motherboard...

NASA Turns 60
September 30, 2018

NASA turns 60 this week. We're joined by Former NASA chief technologist Mason Peck joins us to discuss the agency’s history of spaceflight milestones, which include landing humans on the Moon (six times!), putting rovers on Mars, sending probes to...

[BONUS] Introducing Queerly Beloved
September 12, 2018

If you've been enjoying Radio Motherboard, we think you'll also love our newest VICE podcast, Queerly Beloved. Queerly Beloved ​is a new podcast series from Broadly. Co-hosted by Broadly editor Sarah Burke and Fran Tirado of the popular que...

Motherboard's New Crossword Puzzle: Solve the Internet
June 12, 2018

Radio Motherboard talks to Caleb Madison and Marley Randazzo about Solve the Internet, Motherboard's new internet-themed weekly crossword puzzle.

Sex Workers Lobby Congress Against a Terrible Internet Law
June 07, 2018

Radio Motherboard talks to Liara Roux, a sex worker who was part of the first ever organized effort by her industry to lobby Congress. We talk about SESTA/FOSTA, a law that puts sex workers in danger and has fundamentally changed the internet.

PewDiePie, Alinity, and the Burden of Being a Female Streamer
June 05, 2018

Radio Motherboard breaks down the harassment that has been leveled against Twitch streamer Alinity and other women online, as well as the phenomenon of YouTube's "Twitch Fails" videos.

Elon Musk, Then and Now
May 31, 2018

Radio Motherboard pulls a 2015 interview with Elon Musk's biographer Ashlee Vance, and talks about how perceptions about Musk and his companies have changed.

Facebook’s Reckoning with American Nazis
May 29, 2018

After a white supremacist killed a protester in Charlottesville in 2017, Facebook pushed to re-educate its moderators about hate speech groups in the US, and spell out the distinction from nationalism and separatism, documents obtained by Motherboard s...

Amplifying the Alt-Right
May 24, 2018

Whitney Phillips, the author of a new report called "The Oxygen of Amplification," talks about what she learned by talking to more than 50 journalists who covered the alt-right and white supremacists during the 2016 election cycle.