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Emmanuel has a new show out, Big Lives, and we're excited to share a preview of it! Alongside acclaimed journalist Kai Wright, Emmanuel digs into the BBC archive to examine the sensational stories, messy feelings, and enlightening questions surrounding the icons who have shaped our culture. From musical trailblazers like David Bowie, Amy Winehouse and Tina Turner to stars of the screen like Richard Pryor, Meg Ryan and Jane Fonda, Emmanuel and Kai see these icons in a new light and learn how each legend set the stage for our contemporary cultural landscape. In this preview, they unspool the emotional arc behind George Michael, from teen heartthrob to grieving partner to gay icon. If you like what you hear, find Big Lives wherever you get podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

If you like this episode and want to hear more, please sign up for our premium feed here! https://hyperfixedpod.com/joinIf you would like to join at the $60 yearly level and receive your very own Big Chub Chet's button, you can do so here:https://hyperfixedpod.com/buttonThere are a limited number so get them before they're gone! Casey has been chasing the origin of a very specific piece of ephemera for almost 15 years. He came to us for help.LINKS:Busy Beaver Button MuseumThe Button in Question (Spoilers! don't look until the episode is done!) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Inspired by @depthsofwikipedia, this week we dive deeper into three of our favorite weird Wikipedia pages. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We'll be back in a few weeks, in the meantime we're introducing a new show from Gimlet called Stolen: Surviving St. Michael's Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Some news: Emmanuel and Alex will be stepping away from making the show. And this iteration of Reply All will be ending in late June. This isn’t a decision that was made by any one person. Reply All has always been a super collaborative project which is what we’ve loved so much about making it. Ultimately, staff who have been working on this show for a long time – in some cases five, six, seven years at this point – are ready to pursue other things. Making this show has been an incredible pleasure. Thank you all so much for listening. We hope you join us for our remaining episodes, including our last one, on June 23rd. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A community of chicken lovers faces an unlikely foe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We'll be back with a new episode next week, but in the meantime, we're featuring an episode of a new show from Gimlet and Crooked Media: Stuck with Damon Young. You can listen to episodes here: https://open.spotify.com/show/42kxHmWquXQBJCxG0rXvu6 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Emmanuel tries a personal experiment. -------- This episode was inspired by the work of Soraya Perry. Check out her work as a filmmaker, musician, and visual artist here: www.sorayaperry.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Alex chats with Habiba Nosheen about her new show, Conviction: The Disappearance of Nuseiba Hasan. Listen to all the episodes of the show here: https://open.spotify.com/show/2XquJlPU9ibLYZMH0ZzFwA Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week, a Super Tech Support: Gabby is devastated after her art is stolen. Anna takes on the case, and plunges into a part of the internet she’d hope she never have to learn about. Reply All's Lil Wolfie The Inbetweeners Collection Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week we're rebroadcasting a recent favorite. Emmanuel investigates a mysterious recording that has been popping up on toll free numbers for major corporations, police departments, and even federal government agencies for years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week, a listener contacts us about a supernatural occurrence in her Toyota Prius. Alex Goldman investigates. Kim Kelly's new book Fight Like Hell A picture of the photo in question Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week, a Super Tech Support: a listener’s Spotify Wrapped is dominated by a mysterious artist she's never heard of and swears she's never listened to. And the songs she supposedly played are even weirder. Emmanuel investigates. ------ Additional material: Peter Slattery's series on spotify scammers: https://onezero.medium.com/cheaters-guide-to-spotify/home Check out Drumkoon's music, including a new genre of music he calls "Venova Fusion" on bandcamp: https://drumkoon.bandcamp.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Today we are sharing an episode made by our colleagues at Science Vs. In the piece, they dive deep on the effects of COVID misinformation spread by the show The Joe Rogan Experience, specifically in one episode featuring Dr. Robert Malone. The Science Vs. team interrogates the question: just what kind of damage can a show do to a society in the midst of a pandemic? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A quick note about our schedule this year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Alex chats with Jonathan Goldstein about his show, Heavyweight. And then, we hear an episode from the show. In 1968, Jonathan’s mother-in-law Becky spent one of the best summers of her life with a woman named Barbara. But then they never spoke again. Now, over fifty years later, Becky learns something about Barbara that makes her question whether she ever really knew her at all. Listen to more episodes of Heavyweight, here. Follow Jonathan on Twitter @j_goldstein. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A mystery roils Florida political Twitter: could it be that the governor’s new press secretary is running bots against her political opponents? Emmanuel investigates. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Emmanuel chats with Emma Courtland about her show, Crime Show. And then, we hear an episode from the show. When teenager Hillary Transue made a MySpace page poking fun at her vice principal, she never imagined it would land her in a juvenile detention facility—and that to get out, she would need to expose a corruption scheme that ran to the highest echelons of the state's judicial system. Listen to more episodes of Crime Show, here. Follow Emma on Twitter @ecourtland. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week, producer Anna Foley investigates a viral prank plaguing schools across the country. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices