Search Engine

PJ Vogt

Booking Overview

Narrative explanatory journalism explores unusual questions across technology, culture, science, and society, combining reported stories with interviews featuring writers, reporters, subject-matter experts, and distinctive practitioners. Credible pitches include authors, journalists, researchers, founders, and professionals with unusual firsthand expertise or a compelling perspective on a complex issue; booking is likely high difficulty because the show is selective and favors deeply reported, story-driven conversations.

Metrics

Episodes: 146

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.8/5.0

Estimated listeners: >100k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

YouTube: 3.3k subscribers

Instagram: 4.1k followers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

pjvogt85@gmail.com

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Host

PJ Vogt - Journalist, podcast host, and creator of Search Engine; previously co-hosted the acclaimed Reply All podcast.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high

Typical Credentials:

Reporters, authors, researchers, subject-matter experts, founders, and practitioners with distinctive firsthand knowledge or an unusually insightful perspective on a broader question.

Required Achievements:

Published journalism or books, Recognized expertise in a specialized field, Founded or led a distinctive business or project, Direct firsthand experience with a compelling subject

Recent Guest Discussions

Kelefa Sanneh - Cocaine Adulterants And Questions The Show Could Not Answer.

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Recent Topics

Technology, Science, Society, Journalism

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

Search Engine

The Chosen One

August 21, 2026

A listener asks: whose penis gets the top spot on the Wikipedia page for penis?Our quest for an answer takes us on a surprisingly philosophical journey — where we learn about the cutthroat fight to be number one and the extremely overthink-y debate that precedes the coronation.Wikipedia page for Lane Rasberry.Wikipedia page for penis.Wikipedia page for human penis.Become a premium member!

A road trip through the data center debate

August 11, 2026

The midterms are approaching, and as the discourse heats up, one of big new villains is: a kind of building. Data centers. Reporter Jasmine Sun took a road trip through two swing states to meet the people living at the center of these debates, and to understand where this all might be headed. no data centers in my backyard by Jasmine Sun

The machines are learning… to do crimes?

August 06, 2026

For the first time, an AI model has autonomously hacked a company. This week, an evolving story, a postcard from a strange, frightening moment in the story of our technology.A big week for AI denialism by Casey NewtonIts AI agent spent days hacking a company, but sources say OpenAI did not notice for a week by Deepa Seetharaman, Raphael Satter, and Kenrick CaiCheating behaviour in frontier model evaluations by AI Security InstituteMore On An Internal OpenAI Model Hacking Into HuggingFace by Z...

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