Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast
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Recent episodes
| Episode | Published | Length | Ad time | Breaks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ‘End Times Fascism’ with Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor | 57:11 | 4:10 | 4 | |
| Will The Sports Bubble Pop? With Pablo Torre | 55:38 | 5:59 | 4 | |
| ’The Nerd Reich’ with Gil Durán | 58:00 | 4:46 | 4 | |
| The AI End Game: Boom to Bust? with Ed Zitron | 59:05 | 3:23 | 4 | |
| How to Stop Dictators with Zack Beauchamp | 1:11:13 | 5:00 | 4 | |
| Where Do EVs Go From Here? with Patrick George | 58:00 | 4:29 | 6 | |
| The Betting Craze with Bobby Allyn | 53:35 | 0:03 | 1 | |
| Soccer as a ‘Universal Language’ with Ayman Mohyeldin | 1:02:12 | 3:57 | 5 | |
| Strict Scrutiny x WITHpod SCOTUS Review Crossover | 1:03:11 | 6:34 | 5 | |
| Andrew Tate’s “Empire of Abuse” with Heidi Blake | 47:15 | 5:19 | 5 | |
| The ‘Hellish Cauldron’ of American Politics with Alex Wagner | 51:20 | 3:49 | 6 | |
| The AI End Game: Is AI Alive? with Michael Pollan | 52:56 | 3:17 | 6 | |
| The AI End Game: Boom to Bust? | 59:10 | 4:16 | 6 | |
| The AI End Game: Is Your Chatbot Conscious? | 57:03 | 5:39 | 4 | |
| The AI End Game: The Ethics of AI with Timnit Gebru | 59:10 | 5:50 | 4 | |
| AI and the Public Good with Ezra Klein | 32:16 | 1:27 | 2 | |
| The AI End Game: Two-Year-Olds vs. AI with Alison Gopnik | 1:00:25 | 4:47 | 5 | |
| The AI End Game: How Work is Changing with Ethan Mollick | 52:07 | 4:32 | 4 | |
| The AI End Game: Who’s Leading the Way? with Derek Thompson | 1:05:41 | 4:24 | 4 | |
| 'Here Where We Live is Our Country' with Molly Crabapple | 1:02:04 | 4:38 | 5 | |
| All In America with NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani | 49:45 | 5:51 | 4 | |
| Crypto and The Golden Age of Scams with Ben McKenzie | 55:33 | 4:25 | 4 | |
| Will Trump & Co. Go After Cuba Next? with Jon Lee Anderson | 55:14 | 4:20 | 5 | |
| Fossil Fuels: A ‘Weapon of War’ with Antonia Juhasz | 54:10 | 0:09 | 2 | |
| The WNBA's "BIG Deal" with Tamika Tremaglio | 55:37 | 4:19 | 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 Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast with YAPP
Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast runs 4.6 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 4.1 minutes per episode, or 4.3 minutes for every hour of listening.
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How these numbers are measured
YAPP transcribes each episode, classifies advertising segments, and refines their boundaries using audio fingerprinting. Figures cover the 32 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 4% of detected segments were refined by audio fingerprinting; the rest rest on transcript timing and are less precise.
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