Halt and Catch Fire creators Chris Cantwell and Chris Rogers
Oil, bionic limbs, and hackers — today we discuss Mad Max, the Santa Barbara oil spill, brain-controlled robot arms, and interview Chris Cantwell and Chris Rogers of Halt and Catch Fire. Find out how...
View ArticleAuthor Kim Stanley Robinson
This week on Verge ESP: Liz and Emily talk about scientific fraud, Game of Thrones's fixation with abusing young women, what to expect from Apple Music (and why the service strengthens the position of...
View ArticleFilmmaker Jennifer Phang
This week on Verge ESP: Emily tells you everything you need to know about "Tom's Diner," as well as the real meaning of Taylor Swift v Apple. Liz, meanwhile, has two things on her mind: rockets and...
View ArticleNeuroscientist Jeffrey Zacks
This week on Verge ESP: Find out about Magic Mike, space telescopes, and why your brain can understand film edits. How long does it take to plan a space telescope? Why is Magic Mike more girl-friendly...
View ArticleThe psychology of spoilers
This week, on Verge ESP: SPOILER ALERT! Liz will spoil the Pluto flyby (it totally worked!); Emily has feelings about Pixels and the videogamification of movies. Plus, social psychologist — and spoiler...
View ArticleHealth, HEALTH, and space whiskey
This week on VergeESP: Emily wants to know why California has so many weird colors, Liz loved the new HEALTH album, and Suntory is sending whiskey to space, and both ladies would like to drink it when...
View ArticleOliver Sacks, Lana Del Rey, and Altered States
This week, Liz and Emily talk about the VMAs, Mr. Robot, Lana Del Rey, and Oliver Sacks. What do all these things have in common? Drugs.
View ArticleGhostbusting Gals, #Brands, NASA, and a History of Autism
Liz and Emily chat about the up-coming Ghostbusters movie, brand activation and personality, NASA logos, and Pluto and its moon Nix. Then, journalist and author Steve Silberman joins the show and talks...
View ArticleWater on Mars, Matt Damon on Mars, and why Liz is so mad
Liz and Emily go to Mars on the ESP spaceship as they talk about NASA’s findings this week and the upcoming movie The Martian. And speaking of sustaining life, the British Medical Journal published an...
View ArticleMartian madness, Song Machines, and The Knick
Emily and Liz follow up on their experiences watching The Martian, talk about Elon Musk's bizarre cult of personality (and his dastardly plans for Mars), try to make sense of some questionable,...
View ArticleDrake memes, Space memes, and guest author Ann Leckie
Memes were everywhere this week, from Drake to a "drunk" comet spewing booze across our solar system. Emily and Liz tackle the plusses and minuses of space giving up clickbait. Emily talks about HBO's...
View ArticleSound & Vision & Personal Fitness Trackers
Hello and welcome to the first Verge ESP episode of 2016! First of all, some good news: we're gonna be weekly this year. Second of all, some bad news: both Lemmy (of Motörhead fame) and David Bowie...
View ArticleI 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleBadly 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...
View ArticleBuy 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...
View ArticleJonathan 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,...
View ArticleThe neuroscience of why music feels good with Valorie Salimpoor
Liz and Emily discuss SXSW, genetic testing, and getting the chills from songs.
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