What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future
Slate Podcasts
4.4from 290 ratings
- 697
- Episodes
- 277
- Transcribed
- 290
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2017
- First episode
About What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future
Every Friday, Slate’s popular daily news podcast What Next brings you TBD, a clear-eyed look into the future. From fake news to fake meat, algorithms to augmented reality, Lizzie O’Leary is your guide to the tech industry and the world it’s creating for us to live in. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
- Publisher
- Slate Podcasts
- Category
- news · technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 27 Oct 2017
- Latest episode
- 16 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
277 of 697 episodes have a transcript.
16 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
How Hormones Took Over Your Feed
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How Hormones Took Over Your Feed
Published 16 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Doctors are a lot more enthusiastic about hormone therapy. There's now this increasingly growing telehealth infrastructure and doctors and nurse practitioners who are willing to participate in the telehealth infrastructure. And like people are also way more used to just doing a quick Zoom phone call, getting meds and taking them. And it's set up this moment where hormones are almost ubiquitous on the internet. I think, you know, I think back to the experiences of people I have heard in my own life. And there's a went to their traditional provider and said, hey, I think I'd like some hormones because hormones do help, can help with things like brain fog and muscle loss and just feeling a little bit more like yourself. […]
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- Kate Knibbs
- Alex Gibney
- Sherry Turkle
- Scott Singer
- Nate Soares
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.4 / 5
- 234 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.4 / 5
- 56 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 68 / 100
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- Quality
- 96
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 99
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