Throughline
NPR · Society & Culture
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Recent episodes
| Episode | Published | Length | Ad time | Breaks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| How two swing states changed American voting | 55:19 | 5:08 | 5 | |
| How baseball got its beat | 36:01 | 3:54 | 4 | |
| Is it time for a Luddite Renaissance? | 19:19 | 2:34 | 3 | |
| Why American public schools are still broken | 41:36 | 4:46 | 5 | |
| The SAT's 100-year grip on higher ed | 20:56 | 1:59 | 3 | |
| The pillage that fueled America's tech booms | 57:00 | 4:42 | 5 | |
| How Korean culture went global | 52:43 | 4:41 | 5 | |
| The blatant betrayal that erased the Tupperware queen from history | 53:52 | 4:39 | 5 | |
| Lies, theft, and cover-up: the history of Monopoly you've never heard | 54:44 | 5:05 | 5 | |
| The song that fueled protests and a legacy of hope | 22:00 | 2:50 | 4 | |
| The lightbulb conspiracy is both real and everywhere | 36:43 | 5:53 | 5 | |
| The architect of modern China | 37:35 | 0:04 | 1 | |
| The Chinafication of Walmart | 17:19 | 0:23 | 2 | |
| Route 66 and the quest to connect America | 55:13 | 5:44 | 5 | |
| How wheelchairs, a river, and a spaceship challenged the status quo | 22:35 | 2:38 | 3 | |
| The ongoing battle over asylum in America | 58:21 | 4:32 | 5 | |
| The story of July 4th is messier than you remember | 39:01 | 4:51 | 6 | |
| The genius and murkiness of the Constitution | 24:03 | 2:58 | 4 | |
| From Hormuz to Suez: the chokepoints of global power | 55:00 | 4:48 | 5 | |
| Prosperity gospel and the American dream | 17:35 | 2:20 | 4 | |
| How the Supreme Court claimed supreme power | 58:30 | 4:36 | 6 | |
| Captain America and the nation's conscience | 15:16 | 2:31 | 4 | |
| The shifting line between free speech and a criminal threat | 40:46 | 4:38 | 5 | |
| The uncensored war | 20:41 | 3:41 | 4 | |
| The World Cup was supposed to bring world peace | 57:39 | 6:02 | 5 |
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 Throughline with YAPP
Throughline 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 3.8 minutes per episode, or 6.1 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 57 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 6% of detected segments were refined by audio fingerprinting; the rest rest on transcript timing and are less precise.
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