All Episodes 2015 - 2024

Season Premiere

2015x01 The Downvote Predicament

• 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z — 10m

2015x02 How To Make a Flag (in 60 seconds)

• 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z — 10m

2015x03 The Monty Hall Problem

• 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z — 10m

2015x04 How to Start a Country (in 60 seconds)

• 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z — 10m

Season Premiere

2016x01 Why QWERTY?

• 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z — 10m

2016x02 The Reddit Filter

• 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z — 10m

2016x03 How Do HEX Color Codes Work? (in 60 seconds)

• 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z — 10m

2016x04 How to Make a Flag (New)

• 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z — 10m

2016x05 Skeuomorphism - Leather on your iPhone

• 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z — 10m

2016x06 Why are flags so similar?

• 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z — 10m

2016x07 Why Monopoly Doesn't Suck

• 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z — 10m

2016x08 Why YouTube Comments Suck (and Reddit comments don't)

• 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z — 10m

Season Premiere

2017x01 Kim Jong-Un: A Brilliant Leader

• 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z — 10m

2017x02 Your Memories are False

• 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z — 10m

2017x03 How Not to Make Mobile Games

• 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z — 10m

2017x04 The App Store Race to the Bottom

• 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z — 10m

2017x05 The Problem with Foreign Aid

• 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z — 10m

2017x06 Nudging: The Future of Advertising

• 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z — 10m

2017x07 How Lies Become True On the Internet - Circular Sourcing

• 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z — 10m

2017x08 The College Board Monopoly on Education

• 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z — 10m

2017x09 The Death of Malls?

• 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z — 10m

2017x10 The Grand Theory of Apple

• 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z — 10m

2017x11 What Makes Black Mirror So Good?

• 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z — 10m

Season Premiere

2018x01 The Biology of Business

• 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z — 10m

2018x02 How To Do Politics

• 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z — 10m

2018x03 Apple's Money Problem (& Why It Won't Buy Netflix)

• 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z — 10m

2018x04 How Cruise Ships Work

• 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z — 10m

2018x05 Not Everyone Should Code

• 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z — 10m

2018x06 Kim Jong-Un's New Strategy: Explained

• 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z — 10m

2018x07 Apple is (kind of) a Game Company

• 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z — 10m

2018x08 Why Bing Isn't a Failure (& the Future of the Internet)

• 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z — 10m

2018x09 How to Make a Blockbuster Movie

• 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z — 10m

2018x10 Subscription Affliction - Everything is $10/month

• 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z — 10m

2018x11 The Grand Theory of Amazon

• 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z — 10m

2018x12 The Economics of Uber

• 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z — 10m

2018x13 Apple Glasses Are Coming - Here's Why

• 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z — 10m

2018x14 The Challenge of Creative Work

• 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z — 10m

2018x15 Self-Driving Cars Won’t Save Cities - Here’s What Will

• 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z — 10m

2018x16 Dubai's Plan to Outlive Oil

• 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z — 10m

2018x17 Why Amazon is Worth $1 Trillion

• 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z — 10m

2018x18 How to Save the Online Economy

• 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z — 10m

2018x19 Why China Ended its One-Child Policy

• 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z — 10m

2018x20 Why Scooter Startups Are Worth Billions

• 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z — 10m

2018x21 How Container Ships Work

• 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z — 10m

2018x22 The Case Against Patents - Amazon’s 1-Click “Invention”

• 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z — 10m

2018x23 How to Fix the Patent System

• 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z — 10m

2018x24 Why 50 Million Chinese Homes are Empty

• 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z — 10m

Season Premiere

2019x01 Why Apple Fails in India (& Why it Matters)

• 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z — 10m

2019x02 Why China Cares So Much About Space

• 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z — 10m

2019x03 The Most Overvalued Startup in the World?

• 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z — 10m

2019x04 How Somalia’s Pirates Make Money

• 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z — 10m

2019x05 China's War on Pollution

• 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z — 10m

2019x06 The True Cost of the iPhone

• 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z — 10m

2019x07 Why China Doesn’t Want Your Trash Anymore

• 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z — 10m

2019x08 Why Israel is a Tech Capital of the World

• 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z — 10m

2019x09 Is Amazon Too Big?

• 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z — 10m

2019x10 Why China is Building the World’s Biggest City

• 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z — 10m

2019x11 Can You Trust Apple? Facebook? Google?

• 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z — 10m

2019x12 What To Do When Your Country is Drowning

• 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z — 10m

2019x13 Huawei: The Big Picture

• 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z — 10m

2019x14 Why the $5 Footlong Failed: How Franchising Works

• 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z — 10m

2019x15 Will Apple Ever Leave China?

• 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z — 10m

2019x16 Why Facebook is Building a City

• 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z — 10m

2019x17 Why In-N-Out Isn't Coming to a City Near You

• 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z — 10m

2019x18 Why So Many Chinese Students Come to America

• 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z — 10m

2019x19 How Hong Kong Built the World's Best Transit

• 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z — 10m

2019x20 Zimbabwe’s Currency Crisis: the worthless $100 trillion bill

• 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z — 10m

2019x21 Why Costco is Cheaper than Amazon

• 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z — 10m

2019x22 The Economics of K-Pop

• 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z — 10m

2019x23 Why India Banned 86% of its Currency

• 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z — 10m

2019x24 Why Kazakhstan is Changing Alphabets

• 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z — 10m

2019x25 Why a Third of China’s Pigs Are Dying

• 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z — 10m

Season Premiere

2020x01 How North Korea Makes Money

• 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z — 10m

2020x02 How IKEA Became Sweden’s National Brand

• 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z — 10m

2020x03 Clean, Green, & Unseen: How Singapore sanitized gambling

• 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z — 10m

2020x04 China’s Plan to Reincarnate the Dalai Lama

• 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z — 10m

2020x05 The Politics of Coronavirus

• 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z — 10m

2020x06 Why Trader Joe’s is So Ridiculously Cheap

• 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z — 10m

2020x07 How Singapore Solved Housing

• 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z — 10m

2020x08 Where is Kim Jong-Un?

• 2020-05-22T04:00:00Z — 10m

2020x09 The Hong Kong Passport Question

• 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z — 10m

2020x10 The End of the SAT?

• 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z — 10m

2020x11 Where Billionaires Hide From Coronavirus

• 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z — 10m

2020x12 The TikTok Ban

• 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z — 10m

2020x13 How Singapore Stays Neutral

• 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z — 10m

2020x14 The Insane Story of Dennis Rodman in North Korea

• 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z — 10m

2020x15 The TikTok "Sale"

• 2020-09-26T04:00:00Z — 10m

2020x16 Why Uber Failed in China

• 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z — 10m

2020x17 How McDonald's Really Makes Money

• 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z — 10m

2020x18 Why Thailand's Geography Breeds Instability

• 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z — 10m

2020x19 The Economics of LEGO

• 2020-12-04T05:00:00Z — 10m

2020x20 The Hardest Test in China

• 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z — 10m

Season Premiere

2021x01 What is Tencent?

• 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z — 10m

2021x02 Why Starbucks is Actually a Bank

• 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z — 10m

2021x03 Why Statues are North Korea’s Biggest Export

• 2021-02-13T05:00:00Z — 10m

2021x04 Demography — China's Reckoning (Part 1)

• 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z — 10m

2021x05 Housing — China's Reckoning (Part 2)

• 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z — 10m

2021x06 How MrBeast Opened a Burger Chain

• 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z — 10m

2021x07 Water — China's Reckoning (Part 3)

• 2021-04-24T04:00:00Z — 10m

2021x08 National Insecurity — China's Reckoning (Part 4)

• 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z — 10m

2021x09 Why the World is Running Out of Computers

• 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z — 10m

2021x10 How Singapore Solved Healthcare

• 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z — 10m

2021x11 Singapore: The World's Only Successful Dictatorship?

• 2021-07-03T04:00:00Z — 10m

2021x12 Why China's Digital Currency Doesn't Matter

• 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z — 10m

2021x13 Why the US Doesn't Support Taiwanese Independence

• 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z — 10m

2021x14 The Myth of Hong Kong Capitalism

• 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z — 10m

2021x15 India's Privately Owned City

• 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z — 10m

2021x16 Why Oil Doesn’t Corrupt Norway

• 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z — 10m

2021x17 Japan's Pacifist Paradox (Part 1)

• 2021-10-16T04:00:00Z — 10m

2021x18 Why Japan Has No Military

• 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z — 10m

2021x19 Who Pays for U.S. Bases in Japan?

• 2021-11-21T05:00:00Z — 10m

2021x20 How Australia Stole This Tiny Country's Oil

• 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z — 10m

2021x21 The Truth About China in Africa

• 2021-12-18T05:00:00Z — 10m

Season Premiere

2022x01 Why Repressive Qatar Broadcasts Progressive TV

• 2022-01-08T05:00:00Z — 10m

2022x02 The Myth of Chinese Efficiency

• 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z — 10m

2022x03 Why Sanctions Don't Work Against North Korea

• 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z — 10m

2022x04 Why This is the World's Pirate Capital

• 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z — 10m

2022x05 The Chinese Student Crisis

• 2022-03-12T05:00:00Z — 10m

2022x06 Why 30% of Sailors are Filipino

• 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z — 10m

2022x07 Why Corruption is China's Secret Weapon

• 2022-05-07T04:00:00Z — 10m

2022x08 Why Taiwan is NOT Ukraine

• 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z — 10m

2022x09 Why Sri Lanka is Collapsing: the Coming Global Food Crisis

• 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z — 10m

2022x10 Could China Survive the Sanctions Against Russia?

• 2022-06-25T04:00:00Z — 10m

2022x11 How Coup d’états REALLY Work

• 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z — 10m

2022x12 Why Foreign Aid Doesn't Work

• 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z — 10m

2022x13 Is China Really Socialist?

• 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z — 10m

2022x14 America's Missile Defense Problem

• 2022-10-01T04:00:00Z — 10m

2022x15 How the Chinese Communist Party Works

• 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z — 10m

2022x16 America's Dangerous Obsession With Invincibility

• 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z — 10m

2022x17 Why Haiti is in a Constant State of Emergency

• 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z — 10m

2022x18 The REAL Reason Ticket Fees Exist

• 2022-12-24T05:00:00Z — 10m

Season Premiere

2023x01 Why Japan is Giving Away 8 Million Free Houses

• 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z — 10m

2023x02 $7 Billion Disaster — Why Target Failed in Canada

• 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z — 10m

2023x03 How Bad Economics Destroyed Venezuela

• 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z — 10m