An autopsy on a dead link, and the anthropology of trying to find transgender health care at Kaiser Permanente in Los Angeles. Elsewhere: Icarus and Cass receive a call to adventure. Cycle 1 Finale. Learn more at http://bellwether.show. Please

03_SERVICE PROVIDER

Oct 4th, 2021 36m 23s

A law that was supposed to stop sex trafficking is making life more dangerous for the people it’s supposed to protect. It’s also collapsing the entire internet. Elsewhere: Icarus and Cass call on a spurned lover, who reveals that there's more t

02_SAFE SPACE

Sep 28th, 2021 47m 24s

After a deadly fire at an Oakland arts space called The Ghost Ship, cities across America responded by cracking down on unofficial live-work spaces. Alt-right internet trolls took notice, and launched a culture war, pitting local governments ab

01_AUTOPILOT OFF REDUX

1 Sep 28th, 2021 34m 22s

In 2018, Elaine Herzberg became the first pedestrian to be killed by a self-driving car. But who is to blame? We prosecute the person who was behind the wheel at our own peril. Elsewhere: short-term cryo has put Cass and Icarus in a relationshi

00_README (start here)

Sep 20th, 2021 12m 35s

BELLWETHER is a podcast of speculative journalism: true stories of the world as it is, presented through the lens of what it might become. Host Sam Greenspan presents original reporting about collisions with technology—and all framed within a s

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BELLWETHER Visual Trailer :: Coming 9.27.21

Sep 9th, 2021 1m 37s

Coming September 27, 2021: BELLWETHER, a new podcast of speculative journalism From award-winning radiomaker Sam Greenspan Listen for free at http://bellwether.show & anywhere you find podcasts -- BELLWETHER VISUAL TRAILER DANCE FILM Dire

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Sep 1st, 2021 9s

(a placeholder, more BELLWETHER news imminent)

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::shakes off dust::

Sep 1st, 2021 9s

Pardon the interruption, just waking up this long-too-dormant feed. Big BELLWETHER announcement coming on 9/9/21. Watch this space. -SG

BELLWETHERbacker: Claire Vaye Watkins, author of Gold Fame Citrus

Aug 12th, 2019 4m 4s

"I'm backing the Bellwether Kickstarter because I think it's revolutionary to dream together, and I need that kind of spirit in my life." Claire Vaye Watkins, author of Gold Fame Citrus and Battleborn, on how she got involved with Bellwether.

BELLWETHERbacker: Robert Smith, NPR's Planet Money

Jul 30th, 2019 3m 41s

"I see Bellwether as this structure that allows us to deal with what would otherwise be dreams or nightmares or uncertainties that feel like a mess. It's not a mess—if you have the right equation." NPR's Robert Smith on why he's backing Bellwet

01_AUTOPILOT OFF

Jul 15th, 2019 34m 43s

For the first time in human history, a self-driving car killed a pedestrian. But who’s really at fault? If the person behind the wheel takes the fall, suddenly we are living in a world where one can go to jail for the crimes of an AI. This non-

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00_MANIFESTO

Jul 6th, 2019 1m 56s

A podcast of speculative journalism—stories of the world as it is through the lens of what it might become. From Sam Greenspan. Learn more: http://bellwether.show