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Verge ESP

A weekly TV, Film and Science podcast
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Best Episodes of Verge ESP

Final girls

Sep 9th, 201642m 43s
The end of headphones - 0:35 Horror movies — final girl trope - 3:21 Narrative psychology — how storytelling shapes our understanding of events - 21:44 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Let’s talk finance: drug prices and the money behind online streaming services

Aug 26th, 201645m 18s
0:24 - Wilderness Week 4:22 - Epi-Pen/drug costs 18:11 - Frank Ocean and album releases 32:02 - Halt and Catch Fire Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ryan Lochte, diversity in film, and the microbes among us featuring interview with science writer Ed Yong

Aug 19th, 201651m 12s
0:18 - Ryan Lochte 3:54 - Arrival film 8:57 -Nate Park + Birth of a Nation 23:09 - Interview with Ed Yong Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Stranger Things, a scientist hit list, and more strange things

0:41 - Liz sees Suicide Squad 6:35 - Scientist hit list 10:14 - Flossing revisited 12:52 - Smithsonian misconduct 31:08 - Stranger Things Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ghostbusters, Suicide Squad, and nature documentaries

0:33 - Ghostbusters 8:15 - Flossing 13:07 - Nature documentaries 23:21 - Suicide Squad Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Gotta catch ‘em all!

03:43 - biodiversity 07:32 - Pokémon GO 24:50 - Ohlala Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A Violent Purge

Liz and Emily discuss a disheartening week in national news, The Purge and violence in entertainment, and Beyonce’s very awesome headphones. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Season of the Shark: The Shallows, Game of Thrones, and Jupiter

The Season of the Shark: The Shallows, Game of Thrones, and Jupiter by The Verge Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Alternative weight loss, alternative music, and the best YouTube account ever

Alternative weight loss, alternative music, and the best YouTube account ever by The Verge Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Damaged cases: Former astronauts, Studio Ghibli, and Lemmy

Taylor Swift: 00:50 Space news: 05:06 Astronaut health care: 09:48 Audible: 17:26 Yoshiaki Nishimura: 19:38 Lemmy: 32:24 Recommendations: 38:41 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mars needs Musk

05:23 - Prince 07:50 - Elon Musk 23:19 - X-Men Apocalypse Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Game Of Thrones, algorithms, and Neighbors 2

14:02- Game of Thrones discussion 24:58 - algorithms 35:11 - Neighbors 2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ghostbusters Twitter, Brazil, and other failed states

Ghostbusters Twitter, Brazil, and other failed states by The Verge Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Captain America Civil War, the genetics of education, and other disappointments

Captain America Civil War, the genetics of education, and other disappointments by The Verge Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Microbiomes, Biggest Losers, and other gut-related tragedies/interview with Arielle Duhaime-Ross

Microbiomes, Biggest Losers, and other gut-related tragedies/interview with Arielle Duhaime-Ross by The Verge Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Quantum Break, band reunions, and other forms of time travel

Quantum Break, band reunions, and other forms of time travel by The Verge Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Genomes, Game of Thrones and Gawker

Time passes and the internet evolves — as everything does, really. ocial norms, minimal genomes, and the changing nature of celebrity Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The neuroscience of why music feels good with Valorie Salimpoor

Liz and Emily discuss SXSW, genetic testing, and getting the chills from songs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jonathan Gold on getting to know a city through its food

Share on Facebook Tweet Share Pin This week on Verge ESP: Emily chats with food critic Jonathan Gold about the forthcoming documentary City of Gold, a movie about his approach to LA's food. In fact, we discuss a glut of movies this week, inc

Mermaids, Fad Diets, and #FreeKesha

Mermaids, Fad Diets, and #FreeKesha by The Verge Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Buy the ticket, take the ride featuring interview with Juan Thompson

It's sort of a shame Kanye didn't name his album Waves after all — the same week that The Life of Pablo dropped, the LIGO group said they found gravitational waves. (Waves would also be thematically appropriate for Tidal, which is the only plac

Badly behaved record execs, badly behaved scientists

We rarely go into this thing with a theme in mind, but an unfortunate (and all too common) one just fell in our laps this week: men doing bad things — and getting away with it. First we talk about the repeated reports of sexual harassment comin

The 90s are coming!

Liz and Emily are back on their proper coasts — finally — and from this perspective, it becomes clear the 90s are back. Like, in a very serious way. Is it just part and parcel for the 20-year rehash cycle? Can it be attributed to the fact that

Oscars, Sundance, and the Zika virus

Oscars, Sundance, and the Zika virus by The Verge Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

I love sitting on the sidelines of a scientist fight

Liz has a cold, and Emily is in a cabin somewhere in the mountains of Utah, but the Verge ESP podcast must go on! This week, we're chatting about the return of The X Files to Fox — a show near to Liz's heart and dear to Emily's. Liz has seen th
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