Where is the 10,000 word feature on Nick and Vanessa Lachey's dominance of romance reality TV?

damn — can hardly believe this, the The New Yorker says THINK TWICE: MICHAEL JACKSON was the best podcast of 2023 newyorker.com/culture/2023-i…

I'm saying this with love and an acknowledgment that this could happen to me too but the deal is that our financial advice columnist gave $50,000 to a scammer in cash out on the streets. thecut.com/article/amazon…

psyched to be premiering our new show, cohosted by me and Arielle Pardes, at tribeca this year alongside so much other great stuff stayed tuned for BACKFIRED: THE VAPING WARS aka the story of JUUL and the insane black-market vaping industry that sprouted in its wake

cover design by the great Teddy Blanks as per usual i love it bc it reminds me of the video for justin bieber "sorry"

come to the premiere of our new podcast about the vaping industry. juul was only the beginning! interview subjects include an exotic animal dealer turned vape entrepreneur, a sheriff's deputy who busts smoke shops selling elfbars in NYC, and also my own personal mother

Our June recommendations: - Backfired (Leon Neyfakh / Arielle Pardes) - Good on Paper (Jerusalem) - Animal (The New York Times) podcastreview.org/list/june-2024…

our Audible original Backfired: The Vaping Wars is out today and it's getting some great attention. Congrats to the entire team at Prologue Projects Leon Neyfakh Arielle Pardes Kim Gittleson Sam Lee Dustin DeSoto Katherine Sullivan Arlene Arevelo, Francis Carr and Erica Huang.

will be on The Brian Lehrer Show and A Daily Politics Podcast with my BACKFIRED co-host Arielle Pardes later this morning talking about vaping (is it fine?) + representing the all-star team (SAM & KIM & ANDREW & DUSTIN & KATHERINE & ARLENE) that made this heater of a podcast

A year and change since starting this project, Arielle Pardes and I don’t have all the answers. But the podcast we’ve made reflects an earnest and intense reckoning with how to think about the problem of nicotine in 2024.

truly cannot wait to listen to this, we desperately need more thoughtful journalism about drugs and moral panics and markets, go Arielle Pardes go

guardian says BACKFIRED: THE VAPING WARS is one of the best podcasts of the week... seems right to me theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/a…

want a taste of BACKFIRED: THE VAPING WARS? here's an episode of NPR's Planet Money focused on how the U.S. government has tried and failed to regulate e-cigarettes. welcome to loophole city! npr.org/2024/06/21/119…

This essay is honesty very good. Or, in slang terms: Well, yes! theatlantic.com/family/archive…

A smart and timely piece from Louise Matsakis in WIRED 👇 And, if you want to learn more about what's happened to the vaping industry post-JUUL, may I recommend seven hours of thoughtfully reported podcast content? audible.com/Backfired

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got to go ***LIVE*** on WGN TV News with Arielle Pardes to talk about BACKFIRED: THE VAPING WARS. if you haven't yet listened to the show get familiar! youtube.com/watch?v=KDEwxk…

…….at some point you gotta audit the marketing budget

Today on The Gist, Is vaping bad for you? If you don't know the answer to that question it means the wars were never really settled. Luckily Leon Neyfakh and Arielle Pardes the reporters behind the podcast Backfired: The Vaping Wars are here with answers. open.spotify.com/episode/3R0Und…