Long Shadow Podcast Transcripts
Long Lead & PRX · 33 episodes with transcripts
Through a series of riveting, complex narratives, LONG SHADOW makes sense of what people know — and what they thought they knew — about the most pivotal moments in U.S. history, including Waco, Columbine, Y2K, 9/11, COVID-19, January 6, and beyond.
Spoken has transcripts of 33 Long Shadow episodes, with the speakers named. The newest listed here is from June 24, 2025.
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Latest Long Shadow transcripts
The End of the World as We Know It
June 24, 2025
Tim Berners-Lee (0:05)
We're supposed to learn from our own mistakes, but other people's errors can be instructive too. From efforts to control the weather that went disastrously awry, to the untimely death of the Segway boss, history is a treasure trove of mishaps and meltdowns that can teach us all. I'm Tim Harford, host of Cautionary…
Garrett Graff (0:39)
When was the last time you felt good about the Internet? The online landscape today is a harrowing one. People screaming at each other on social media, violent videos going viral, cyberbullying, racism, misogyny. It's hard to say for sure where the web started to turn sour. But a case can be made that the last good…
SPEAKER_3 (1:06)
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