Panic World

Ryan Broderick

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Booking Overview

A weekly interview-led cultural commentary podcast focused on how technology and the internet reshape culture, politics, media, and public life, with recurring guests including journalists, comedians, political strategists, and other public-facing experts. Credible pitches include internet-culture writers, technology and media critics, political campaign professionals, researchers, and creators with informed perspectives on digital life; booking difficulty is medium because guests generally need established expertise or public visibility.

Metrics

Episodes: 107

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.6/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

YouTube: 3.9k subscribers

Instagram: 1.2k followers

Contact Information

ryan@garbageday.email

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Host

Ryan Broderick - Journalist and writer known for analyzing internet culture, online communities, technology, and the way digital platforms shape public life.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium
Typical Credentials:  
Established journalists, writers, political strategists, comedians, actors, researchers, and technology or media professionals with direct expertise and a substantive public perspective on internet culture, politics, or digital life.
Required Achievements:  
Published journalism or analysis, Leadership roles in political campaigns or technology and media organizations, Established creative careers in comedy, acting, or cultural commentary, Recognized newsletters, podcasts, or other public-facing work

Recent Guest Discussions

Charlie Warzel - Prediction Markets, Technology Platforms, Politics, And The Social Consequences Of Online Systems.

Wyatt Cenac - Artificial Intelligence, Technology’s Influence On Culture, Taste, Nostalgia, And The Decline Of Human Creativity In Media.

Rob Flaherty - The 2024 Democratic Campaign, Political Messaging, Campaign Strategy, Branding, And The Democratic Party’s Election Performance.

Recent Topics

Internet Culture, Technology, Politics, Artificial Intelligence

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Panic World
:

The sicko who invented prediction markets

July 22, 2026

Where did prediction markets come from, and why are they more popular than ever? Charlie Warzel joins the pod once again to discuss the proliferation of these strange companies like Kalshi and Polymarket that allow you to bet on nearly anything — monetizing the good, and mostly bad things. We go into the early 2000s background of these platforms, led by Robin Hanson, an economist and self-described “Jungian ENTP” who originally got involved with prediction markets through his “Policy Analys...

Bad things happen when we let robots decide what’s good

July 15, 2026

Why does culture feel so much less... human than it used to? Wyatt Cenac joins Ryan to discuss the “crisis of taste” — or how, in the past 10-15 years, tech companies have flipped media on its head. People used to spend more time making things and shaping culture, and then tech responded to that culture. Now tech is using AI to try to manufacture culture so you don’t need to develop your own taste because our tech overlords will tell you what taste to have. Ryan & Wyatt reflect on why nost...

Our autopsy of the DNC autopsy

July 08, 2026

Why did the Democrats lose so badly in 2024? Rob Flaherty joins us to dissect the "DNC autopsy" — the formerly internal report about what went wrong in 2024 — about which he gave his own thoughts on The Bulwark in May. Rob was the deputy campaign manager for Kamala Harris and also formerly a digital strategist for Joe Biden. Rob distills his analysis of what happened in 2024, and then Ryan & Grant present Panic World’s own version of the DNC autopsy and get Rob’s response, a...

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