Sources & Methods
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Recent episodes
| Episode | Published | Length | Ad time | Breaks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI hacks are already here / U.S.-China race dynamics / Global guardrails | 30:49 | 3:54 | 4 | |
| How Sept. 11 reshaped national security | 1:05:53 | 4:17 | 4 | |
| Trump's oil deal / A year of boat strikes / Could Iran become a forever war? | 30:57 | 4:54 | 5 | |
| Six months of Iran war / Gains and losses / CIA Chief in Moscow | 36:28 | 3:48 | 6 | |
| South Korea military drills / Pivot to Asia? / USS Lincoln | 32:07 | 4:26 | 5 | |
| Trump’s AF1 ruse / Military at the polls? / Civilian casualties abroad | 34:18 | 5:28 | 6 | |
| Did Iran hack U.S. water systems? / Cyberwarfare abroad / Ukraine’s air defense gap | 37:32 | 6:07 | 6 | |
| A trip to the world’s frayed edges with Hannah Lucinda Smith’s 'Hinterlands' | 29:18 | 2:42 | 3 | |
| Trump's options dwindle / Inside Iran / U.S. arsenal depleted? | 32:17 | 4:49 | 6 | |
| Ukraine’s leadership shakeup / View from Moscow / Is Russia a friend or foe? | 32:37 | 0:42 | 2 | |
| Hormuz blockade / Trump’s mixed messages / Who is Jay Clayton? | 36:25 | 3:54 | 5 | |
| Iran ceasefire over? / NATO drama / Khamenei funeral | 31:40 | 4:38 | 6 | |
| Ukraine latest / Limits of military might / Can major powers regain dominance? | 35:15 | 4:39 | 6 | |
| How far should the government go to protect America? | 37:33 | 4:08 | 4 | |
| Starmer’s successor / Reset on UK-US relationship? / Strait latest | 30:35 | 3:34 | 4 | |
| Iran “deal” / Winners and losers / Regional impact | 38:04 | 4:24 | 5 | |
| Hegseth blocks promotions / National Guard surge / Downed Apache | 33:29 | 2:08 | 5 | |
| Trump, Netanyahu at odds / Elusive Iran deal | 30:10 | 2:40 | 6 | |
| The broken promises of the 1979 Iranian Revolution | 28:44 | 3:32 | 4 | |
| U.S., Iran trade strikes / Trump 'won't rush' / Obama nuclear deal 2.0? | 33:07 | 3:08 | 5 | |
| Trump counterterror plan: cartels, left-wing violence / San Diego and the far right | 37:28 | 5:00 | 5 | |
| Beijing Summit / Trump and Xi as allies, rivals and frenemies | 34:38 | 5:14 | 6 | |
| 2084: A cautionary tale about the future of war and a changing planet | 26:29 | 3:27 | 4 | |
| Hormuz whiplash / Russia, Ukraine shred ceasefires / Modern warfare | 33:37 | 4:28 | 5 | |
| Press gala shooter / Political violence / Iran war price tag | 36:07 | 3:10 | 4 |
Ad load varies by listener. Most podcast advertising is dynamically inserted, so figures reflect ad load as observed by YAPP's processing pipeline at the time each episode was fetched, not what any individual listener hears. Methodology
Listening to Sources & Methods with YAPP
Sources & Methods runs 4.5 ad breaks in a typical episode, so there is a fair amount between you and what you came for. Across the episodes we have processed, that comes to about 3.6 minutes per episode, or 6.7 minutes for every hour of listening.
YAPP maps each episode before you play it, so you get the show and not the rest of it. Because the ads are stitched in per listener, YAPP matches what you are actually hearing rather than replaying a fixed set of timestamps.
How these numbers are measured
YAPP transcribes each episode, classifies advertising segments, and refines their boundaries using audio fingerprinting. Figures cover the 47 episodes of this show that YAPP has processed. Because most podcast ads are dynamically inserted and vary by listener, these figures reflect what our pipeline observed rather than what every listener hears. Full methodology
Boundaries for 9% of detected segments were refined by audio fingerprinting; the rest rest on transcript timing and are less precise.
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