First Contact with Laurie Segall
Hosted by Laurie Segall · iHeartPodcasts
4.2from 170 ratings
- 63
- Episodes
- 32
- Transcribed
- 170
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2019
- First episode
- 425M
- YouTube views
About First Contact with Laurie Segall
Mostly Human is a weekly podcast that explores technology through the most important lens: the human one. Hosted by award-winning tech journalist Laurie Segall, the immersive interview and investigative show tackles some of the defining questions of our time with headline-making tech titans and the people you don't know yet, but should. Mostly Human will leave you with a sense of agency over fear, and a clearer view of how tech can actually work for you.
- Publisher
- iHeartPodcasts
- Category
- news · society & culture · technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 20 Nov 2019
- Latest episode
- 8 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
32 of 63 episodes have a transcript.
8 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Dating and Intimacy in the Age of AI
1 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
How Do We Want AI to Influence Human Creativity?
26 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Just How Big Will YouTube Get?
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Dating and Intimacy in the Age of AI
Published 8 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Building out a profile is part of the beginning of the journey, and that's really hard. And so recently we launched a feature called Friends Take because Who can describe us better than we can describe ourselves, our friends who know us and, by the way, love us? Right. And, you know, the other insight that's leaning into is the fact that dating didn't always feel so isolating. You know, you would be out meeting people when you were with others. This behavior isn't necessarily happening at the scale that it was when I was, you know, in my early 20s. Right. And so Friends Take is a feature where I can ask a friend I trust to fill out a profile prompt on me. […]
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See plansWho has been a guest on First Contact with Laurie Segall
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- Jackie Jantos
- Alex Reben
- Amjad Hanif
- Kurt Wilms
- Samir Chaudry
Reach and audience
Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.
- YouTube views
- 425,359,367
- Score snapshot 21 Mar 2026
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.2 / 5
- 160 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.6 / 5
- 10 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 18 / 100
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- Quality
- 0
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 63
- Engagement
- 27
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Questions about First Contact with Laurie Segall
Who hosts First Contact with Laurie Segall?
Laurie Segall host the show. Published by iHeartPodcasts.
How often do new episodes come out?
The show publishes daily, based on its RSS feed.
Does First Contact with Laurie Segall take guests?
Yes. Guests have been identified in episode analyses.
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