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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - He Reads the Epstein Files So You Don’t Have To
Another 3 million pages of the Epstein files were released last Friday, with more big names named, more redactions, and more information that should have been redacted left unredacted.
Guest: David Enrich, deputy investigations editor at the New York Times.
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Planet Money - Riding with the repo man (update)
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A record number of Americans with poor or just okay credit are behind on their car payments. And once last year’s numbers are tallied, an estimated 3 million cars will have been repossessed in 2025. That would be on par with how bad it got during the Great Recession. What’s going on? And why now?
Today on the show, we focus on the micro part of the story to answer the macro question. First, we hear a favorite story of ours from 2019. We follow the lifecycle of a delinquent car loan from three different perspectives: the salesman, the driver, and the repo man. Then we’ll hear an update from them in 2026 as we try to find out why so many Americans are behind on their car payments.
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A record number of Americans with poor or just okay credit are behind on their car payments. And once last year’s numbers are tallied, an estimated 3 million cars will have been repossessed in 2025. That would be on par with how bad it got during the Great Recession. What’s going on? And why now?
Today on the show, we focus on the micro part of the story to answer the macro question. First, we hear a favorite story of ours from 2019. We follow the lifecycle of a delinquent car loan from three different perspectives: the salesman, the driver, and the repo man. Then we’ll hear an update from them in 2026 as we try to find out why so many Americans are behind on their car payments.
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This episode is hosted by Kenny Malone and Preeti Varathan. It was originally produced by Darian Woods and edited by Bryant Urstadt. Our update was reported by Vito Emanuel and produced by Sam Yellowhorse Kesler, and edited by Planet Money’s executive producer, Alex Goldmark.
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The Best One Yet - 🚀 “$XXX” — SpaceX’s sugardaddy deal. Zebra’s Super Bowl stock. Pepsi’s price cut. +Minivan Millennial Dad.
One company is tracking every football at the Super Bowl… And it’s a publicly-traded stock.
Elon Musk is merging SpaceX and Xai… It’s a sugardaddy acquisition.
Pepsi is cutting prices on Dorito’s and all snacks by 15%... It’s inspired by Greek mythology.
Plus, the surprise car trend? Minivans… Driven by 40-year-old Millennial dads.
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Ologies with Alie Ward - Genealogy (FAMILY TREES) Encore with Stephen Hands
Histories, mysteries, memories and families: it’s time to clamber up our ancestral trees. Author and genealogist Stephen Hanks -- who teaches genealogy classes in Portland, Oregon and has contributed to PBS genealogy documentaries -- sits down to chat in this encore episode about what ignited a passion for learning about his own history. Also: how to find your family through census records, county archives, death certificates and more, plus which DNA tests he’s taken, our most recent common ancestor, and how America can try to heal from its past. Also: capes, detectives and hairy fanny packs.
Stephen Hanks books: “1619 -- Twenty Africans,” and “Akee Tree”
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Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2862: Randomness
Episode: 2862 Randomness out of Nothingness. Today, let's talk about how to pick random numbers out of thin air.
Global News Podcast - BBC on frontline of Colombia’s drugs crackdown
Our correspondent Orla Guerin travels alongside Colombia's Jungle Commandos - an elite police force - as they seek to eradicate cocaine production in the Colombian Amazon and Andes. The defence minister told the BBC that they destroy cocaine factories "every forty minutes". Meanwhile in Washington, following months of tension, Colombia's President Gustavo Petro met President Trump for the first time to discuss efforts to combat drug trafficking and increase trade.
Also: Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of the late Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi, is shot dead. Could Russia be readmitted to international football tournaments by Fifa? As Spain plans to legalise half a million undocumented migrants, we hear from a charity helping them. Why the people of Florida have been collecting frozen iguanas and British comedian John Bishop's real life story which inspired a Hollywood film - Is This Thing On?
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It Could Happen Here - Panama 1989 to Venezuela 2026: What History Can Teach Us Pt. 2
Andrew and James continue their discussion of what happened in Panama in 1989 and why people are comparing these events to what is happening in Venezuela.
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Emperors In the Jungle: The Hidden History of the U.S. in Panama by John Lindsay-Poland
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David Roth returns to talk about the newest avalanche of Epstein files and what they tell us about the depravity of our elites and the West as a whole. We run through a gauntlet of incriminating emails with Larry Summers, Peter Mandelson, Peter Attia, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and more. Then, to lighten the mood, we talk about a profile of Woah Nancy and her poor staffers, plus a tip about Marie Concentrationcamp Perez.
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The World in Brief from The Economist - America shoots down Iranian drone; tech stocks fall on news of AI tool, and more
America’s navy shot down an Iranian drone that it said “aggressively approached” the USS Abraham Lincoln, an aircraft-carrier in the Arabian Sea, with “unclear intent”.
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