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Reply All is a group of very talented storytellers working at the intersection of tech and society. I love everything they do and have been listening to PJ and Alex since before Reply All (before starting Reply All, they had a podcast called TL;DR that was a spinoff from WNYC's On the Media).

The stories they tell should be of interest to the HN crowd, I'd highly recommend everyone give them a try.

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I don't have the link right now but the one where they track down a scam callcenter all the way to India is also pretty impressive

There's a special place in hell for the people who work at those fake call centers in India and take advantage of elderly people. They confused my 80-year-old dad, who is slowing down noticeably, about a year ago. Luckily he gave them his debit-card number, and Wells Fargo was great about canceling the charge, but it still involved a lot of time and anxiety. I hope whomever scammed my dad gets scammed himself, when he's older.

I loved the Missing Hit episode of Reply All and need to make a point of seeking out this podcast more. The only episodes I've heard, I've loved. There's another good one that must be at least a year old now about scammy products on Amazon.

Here it is! https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/6nh3wk

I've listened to Reply All since the beginning, and you are right, it definitely appeals to the HN crowd.

Also yes, yes, no is hilarious and sometimes even I learn stuff from those segments, because they go really deep on the memes.

I highly recommend Reply All.

One word of warning, they do sometimes get stuff wrong in ways that are frustrating as an expert. It's usually a minor error but one that feels very out of place. Sometimes it's a tech error, sometimes it's a story about a company where you actually know the founders.

So be prepared to accept that. They are however really receptive to feedback.

Do you know if TL;DR exists in RSS feed form so I can go listen to the old episodes in a podcast player?

Here is the URL from Apple’s directory but you can probably also find it somewhere on WNYC’s site.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tldr/id709617583

What happened to TL;DR? I had listened to it as a podcast, then they had some kind of scandal. They disappeared, and reappeared in a form I found less interesting. I stopped listening at that point, but it sounds as if it has come back. What happened?

In short, TLDR made an episode criticizing somebody without inviting that person to comment for the show. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivek_Wadhwa#Withdrawal_from_t... has links.

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