Sep 30, 20266 min
When teenager Robin Murphy goes missing, her friends and co-workers organize a search. Award-winning investigative journalist and longtime Rolling Stone Magazine contributor Paul Solotaroff hosts the next entry in the...
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Absolute, Season 1: Taser Incorporated is at once a tale as old as time - a true believer learns the hard way that the costs of lofty ambition and hubris just might outweigh even the most optimistic upside - and a thoroughly modern story of technology overtaking the very people it is meant to serve. In this case: the ubiquitous electric gun carried by cops everywhere and inspiring comedic shenanigans in movies like The Hangover.Host and documentarian Nick Berardini has been obsessed with this story for his entire adult life. With Absolute, Season 1: Taser Incorporated , he left no stone unturned. Taser, Inc., now known as Axon, the 800-pound gorilla in the paramilitary police equipment industry, is led by its charismatic CEO and co-founder, Rick Smith. Fueled by a self-described religious dedication, Smith’s Star Trek obsession, and an ambitious vision of a world without gun violence, Rick leads Taser, Inc. to be the key tech supplier to virtually every police force in America. Bu
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Absolute, Season 1: Taser Incorporated is at once a tale as old as time - a true believer learns the hard way that the costs of lofty ambition and hubris just might outweigh even the most optimistic upside - and a thoroughly modern story of technology overtaking the very people it is meant to serve.
What has Absolute covered recently?
Recent episodes include "Introducing - The Devil's Quarry II: Preview" (30 September 2026, 6 minutes), "Introducing - The Devil's Quarry II" (23 September 2026, 3 minutes), and "Introducing - Bone Valley Season 5 | The Devil's Quarry: Preview" (10 June 2026, 8 minutes).
How often does Absolute publish?
Absolute publishes roughly monthly, with episodes averaging 19 minutes across 7 episodes.
How hard is it to get booked on Absolute?
Booking probability for Absolute is 17%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Absolute requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Absolute's contact route on record: verified email.
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Absolute is a society podcast with 7 episodes published.
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Sep 23, 20263 minIf Season 1 of The Devil’s Quarry was a horror story, Season 2 is a ghost story. More than 30 years after 17-year-old Robin Murphy vanished from Carmel, New York, investigative journalist Paul Solotaroff and...
Jun 10, 20268 minIn the woods outside Carmel, New York, a hunter finds the bones of a twelve-year-old girl. She had been missing. The people meant to protect her had looked the other way. Police set their sights on two teenage drug...
Jun 3, 20263 minIn the woods outside Carmel, New York, a hunter finds the bones of a twelve-year-old girl. She had been missing. The people meant to protect her had looked the other way. Police set their sights on two teenage drug...
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Sep 17, 202512 minS0<p>In Bone Valley Season 3 | GRAVES COUNTY, Maggie Freleng takes us to a small town in Graves County, Kentucky, where a terrible discovery on the front lawn of a middle school invites a string of amateur and...
Sep 10, 20253 minS0<p>In Season 1 of Bone Valley, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gilbert King tells a story of a man, Leo Schofield, fighting to prove his innocence in the case of his wife Michelle’s murder.</p> <p>In Season 2, “JEREMY”...
Jul 23, 20253 minS0<p>In Season 1 of Bone Valley, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gilbert King tells a story of a man, Leo Schofield, fighting to prove his innocence in the case of his wife Michelle’s murder.</p> <p>In Season 2, “JEREMY”...
Jun 18, 202548 minS1<p>CEO Rick Smith started with a mission, but what if this mission was a lie? We go back to the beginning because now the blueprint of the past will impact everyone. Whatever Rick Smith learned back then is helping him...
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Taser Incorporated | Episode 5 - NFW
Jun 11, 202542 minS1<p>A couple of lawyers seek to prove that CEO Rick Smith hid the truth from cops for years. And when lawsuits threaten to destroy the company, Rick has one way out – sell out the very customers who made him a...
Jun 4, 202541 minS1<p>Matt Masters investigates - what happened to his son? Who is to blame here? The answers lead him down a rabbit hole that will change everything.</p> <p>Absolute, Season 1: Taser Incorporated is a production of Lava...
May 28, 202528 minS1<p>Bryce Masters is in a deep coma. Why? The doctor is sure he knows the reason, but Matt Masters doesn’t know what to believe. Years earlier in Oakland, Officer Mike Leonisio is also hearing news that is hard to...
May 21, 202541 minS1<p>Shooting a 15 year old boy just makes Matt Masters want to be a better cop. So he joins Kansas City’s most elite Swat team unit, the first unit in the department to be trained on the taser. Matt has no idea that the...
May 21, 202535 minS1<p>Rick Smith wants to make violence obsolete via technology - he has a vision of this ideal world and he is working to build it, one taser at a time. Meanwhile, police departments have been searching for a non-lethal...
May 14, 20254 minS1<p>Absolute, Season 1: Taser Incorporated is at once a tale as old as time - a true believer learns the hard way that the costs of lofty ambition and hubris just might outweigh even the most optimistic upside - and a...
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