Loading…
Hosted by Dexter Thomas · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 30 episodes
Established thought leaders with verified media credentials.
technology for people who think they aren't nerds
Dexter Thomas hosts what's this button do?, a society show with 30 episodes published.
First, it was a meme with weird AI-generated cockroach pictures. Then, it became a youth movement that is genuinely freaking out the Indian political establishment. So how far can the Cockroach Janata Party take it? For
If you're Chinese, ChatGPT has probably offered to 'steadily catch' you at least once. But what why does it keep saying that? And why is 我会稳稳地接住你 a meme (instead of making people mad)... and by the way, will Chinese coll
has your school told you how bad this hack really was? My guest Ian Linkletter called this the 'Biggest Privacy Disaster in History', and he stands by that. He's been warning about Canvas/Instructure for years. We get in
If you're Chinese, ChatGPT has probably offered to 'steadily catch' you at least once. But what why does it keep saying that? And why is 我会稳稳地接住你 a meme (instead of making people mad)... and by the way, will Chinese coll
I'm talking about the US military here (which is also the nation's largest employer, period). Dan Ming has been covering our military for a while, and he's got some insight here: back in 2021, he spoke to Sgt First Class
David Z Morris has been covering cryptocurrency for over a decade. And now that Trump has announced a ‘crypto reserve’, you’d think he’d be excited. But a lot of crypto experts think it’s all a pretty bad idea, and David
NOTE: at 31:30 we're talking about an AI-generated video of Trump sucking Elon's toes. Someone was playing it on TVs at HUD. Greg Walters, News Editor at Crooked Media, joined the stream to talk about DOGE, and why despi
three quick facts: 1. Canada *does* have a fentanyl problem. 2. But less than 1% of the fent coming into the U.S. is from there. 3. And Mexican migrants aren't bringing it in, either. I talked with Manisha Krishnan, who'
Angad Singh interviewed one of the 4.9 million people who Canada might now be asking to 'go home', now that Trudeau is out. His piece is on YouTube, and you can watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5vRl23p0Zw
This one was recorded just after the Olympics. I was talking about having b-boys and b-girls in the Olympics and how that was kiinida complicated now and then our guest, documentary filmmaker Mustafa Mirza comes in with
warning: you’re about to listen to two journalists talk about the news. But the news sucks! you say — so why should we care? Well, this $250 million deal might have just made it worse. Counterintuitive, but Matt Pearce (
Chaos Town has been documenting the wildest parts of Portland for a year now. From stripper yoga to the 'penis bush lady' to sideshows – and now, the best look at what is truly happening in Portland's $4m graffiti war. i
Prisons are constantly going on lockdown because of staff shortages, which means that prisoners can't use the phones. This makes tablet computers sold to incarcerated people are all the more crucial to let their loved on
How do you make a documentary about Gaza … when they won't let you into Gaza? A mix of OSINT, protests, and Whatsapp calls with a journalist trapped in Rafah. Seb Walker (former DC Bureau Chief of VICE News) hosted a doc
The campus protests are a recent news obsession in the US. But did you hear when a couple students (and former Israel Defense Force members) allegedly sprayed a chemical that sent a number of protesters to the hospital?
As respected sports shows like HBO’s Real Sports die, and ESPN and Sports Illustrated are continually gutted, a new form of sports coverage is rising: shows run by the athletes themselves. Is this a bad thing? Not necess
Krishna Andavolu and his show Weediquette on VICE helped pioneer not only a new generation of weed reporting, but also helped shift attitudes toward marijuana policy, legislation, and culture. He jumped on the stream to
It's been a weird few weeks on the Internet. I brought on Jason Koebler, cofounder of 404 Media (and former EIC of Motherboard, VICE's tech vertical), to talk about it. The topics are all from 404media.co . Here are the
the 'uncommitted' vote in Michigan is starting to surprise people, including the organizers of the movement itself. I brought on Evan (former VICE News, CNN, and other places), currently at NOTUS.org, to talk about his r
There's a lot going on in videogames. People upset about about the 'black guy haircut', 8000+ layoffs, and Nintendo is suing people with potentially awful repercussions. So let's get into it. Trone Dowd is a freelance jo
David Sacks
member of the TSSAA Sports Medicine Advisory Committee · Silicon Valley
1 appearance on this show
Matt Pearce
Superintendent · South African Sports Broadcaster
1 appearance on this show
Jason Koebler
Editor-In-Chief · 404 Media
1 appearance on this show
Zeyi Yang
WIRED
2 appearances on this show
Greg Walters
Crooked Media
1 appearance on this show
Joshua Hersh
Columbia Journalism Review
1 appearance on this show
Evan McMorris-Santoro
NOTUS.org
1 appearance on this show
Sponsor detection runs nightly. Check back soon.
No public pitch examples yet for this show.
Generate your own personalised pitchShows with the most semantically similar episode content. Pitch one, pitch all; producers cluster.
To pitch what's this button do?, visit https://dexdigi.captivate.fm for contact information, then craft a tight one-paragraph hook that ties your expertise to a gap in their recent society coverage.
what's this button do? is hosted by Dexter Thomas. The show is categorised under society (culture) and has published 30 episodes.
what's this button do? has published 30 episodes.
what's this button do? regularly covers society, culture, news. It sits in the society category, with a culture focus.
what's this button do? is accessible for guests with genuine society expertise. A personalised, episode-aware pitch will still outperform a generic one every time.
what's this button do? hasn't explicitly signalled guest openness in recent episodes. That doesn't rule out pitching. your hook just needs to be especially compelling and relevant to their recent content.
Episodes of what's this button do? average 46 minutes. a focused format where a clear narrative arc and tight preparation matter most.
Our data rates what's this button do?'s guest bar at 80/100 (Premium tier). Established thought leaders with verified media credentials. Sign in to PitchCentric to see how your own Pod Score compares against this show.
Methodology. Booking Probability™ blends Listen Score, 30-day Virality, open-to-guests detection, and Apple ratings. Data refreshed every 60 minutes. Listen Score and Booking Probability are calculated by PitchCentric. Last enriched 3 days ago.