On The WIRED Podcast this week...
👃 Their noses paid the bills. Then Covid took their sense of smell
💵 Shame, suicide and the dodgy loan apps plaguing Google’s Play Store
🔵 Blue Monday isn't a thing. The data shows April could be way tougher
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James Temperton
I host the WIRED Podcast and run the website. If I bring a story onto the show it tends to be about scammers or the scourge of disinformation on Facebook. I am an unapologetically harsh judge of the weekly podcast facts.
Favourite fact: Horses produce approximately ten gallons of saliva a day
Victoria Turk
I’m WIRED’s longform features editor. You’ll find me on the WIRED podcast going deep on everything from train ticketing to psychedelic drugs. I always appreciate a good animal fact.
Favourite fact: Honeybees say ‘whoop!’ when they’re surprised or bump into one another
Amit Katwala
I’m WIRED’s culture editor – my stories usually involve some sort of “messy collision” between science and society, the business and technology of entertainment, or just people doing weird stuff on the internet.
Favourite fact: George Bush Sr once vomited on the Japanese Prime Minister
Matt Burgess
I produce and edit the WIRED podcast. In one of my other lives I also edit security stories for WIRED. I’m probably talking about how people should do better with their online privacy.
Favourite fact: The Guinness book of world records once held its own world record. It was the world’s best-selling copyrighted book
Natasha Bernal
I’m WIRED’s business editor. If I'm on the WIRED podcast, it means companies are probably doing something wrong, something funny, or a bit of both.
Favourite fact: The official sport of Maryland is jousting
Matt Reynolds
I’m WIRED’s science editor. I like to come on the podcast and make everyone’s lives difficult by explaining why something that seems really simple is actually really complicated. I also like stories about food and weird animals (bonus points for weird animals that are also food).
Favourite fact: Queen Cleopatra lived closer in time to the invention of the iPhone than the building of the Great Pyramid of Giza
