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Welcome to Machine Gods

The official podcast of the singularity. News, analysis, and interviews with the people who are building the AI future. New episodes twice weekly starting the week of October 19th, wherever you get your podcasts and at youtube.com/@machinegodspod

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Housing in the US: Mortgage rates hit 7% and renters feel squeezed

If you're looking for a house to purchase or a place to rent, you're probably feeling squeezed. Mortgage rates have hit seven percent - and a new study shows that renters across the economic spectrum are having trouble paying rent. What's happening in the housing market?

Housing in the US: Mortgage rates hit 7% and renters feel squeezed

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Middlegarchs are the new Oligarchs

Wanna know who is really in the top 1%? And how they use their influence? It may not be who you think.

Middlegarchs are the new Oligarchs

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Learn Something New

Tips, tricks, insights, and inspiration.

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Planet Money

The economy explained.

Should we all be getting tariff refunds right now?

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The Indicator from Planet Money

Your friendly economic sidekick.

SNAP strains, youth baseball's class divide, and Meta's bug bounty

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Short Wave

New science discoveries and everyday mysteries in 15 minutes.

One of the toughest parts of ADHD is left out of the diagnosis

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TED Radio Hour

Tackling big questions with the world's greatest thinkers.

The shocking power of tiny things

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Life Kit

Tools to help you get it together.

It's fall. Let's get cozy!

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Body Electric

Our bodies are adapting and changing to meet the demands of the Information Age.

Big update: The Body Electric book is out!

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Your Turn with Allison Aubrey

A new roadmap for midlife

Your Turn with Allison Aubrey

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Road to Rickwood

Road to Rickwood explores Birmingham's civil rights history through the lens of a baseball field

Introducing the American Storytelling collection

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Inheriting

Inheriting explores how one event in history can ripple through generations of a family.

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Track Change

The soundtrack to rebuilding a life after incarceration.

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Landslide

Revisiting America's closest presidential primary race and how its partisan rifts still divide us.

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Bright Lit Place

The decades-long fight over land, water and the will power to save what's left of the Everglades.

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New and Notable

Welcome to Machine Gods

Housing in the US: Mortgage rates hit 7% and renters feel squeezed

Middlegarchs are the new Oligarchs

Daily News

NPR News Now

8pm ET, October 10 | The latest headlines from NPR

Up First from NPR

Hurricane Isaias Floods the Panhandle, A Russian Oil Deal, ICE Shooting in New York

The Sunday Story

Fox News wanted war images in Ukraine - their journalists died

Consider This from NPR

'We belong in that room:' April Ryan on covering the White House (NPR+)

The NPR Politics Podcast

It's a great time to spy on America

Trump's Terms

Trump wants to turn one of his Florida golf clubs into a Camp David-style retreat

State of the World from NPR

The roots of the Mexican music known as fandango

Here & Now Anytime

Is universal child care working in New Mexico?

1A

The News Roundup For October 9, 2026

Morning Edition

All Things Considered

Weekend Edition Saturday

Weekend Edition Sunday

Sources & Methods

German spymaster / U.K. drone fears / Musk on Pentagon project?

NPR's Newsmakers

Tucker Carlson on his MAGA split and Trump’s ‘nihilism’

Machine Gods

Welcome to Machine Gods

Culture and Entertainment

How To Do Everything

Burritos and Handshakes

Wild Card with Rachel Martin

Pádraig Ó Tuama

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

We celebrate a bomb and dig deep with Margo Price

Fresh Air

A John Prine Appreciation

Pop Culture Happy Hour

The Social Reckoning and What’s Making Us Happy

Code Switch

How Hollywood stole the zombie from Haiti

The Best of Car Talk

#2681: Roasting Marshmallows Over an Open Car Fire

NPR's Book of the Day

Lois Lowry on 'Building 903,' 'The Giver' and relationships between the old and young

It's Been a Minute

The Palestinians telling their own stories

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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StoryCorps

Not in the Job Description

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Tiny Desk

Alt.Latino

Tim, The Beatles, and all of Brazil

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Interview: Troye Sivan is leaning into loneliness

All Songs Considered

How The Beatles made 'Rubber Soul' and broke up with their past

From the Top

Musical Jackpot

Jazz Night In America

Mountain Stage

Sam Weber on Mountain Stage

World Cafe Words and Music Podcast

World Cafe: Selena

Louder Than A Riot

Featuring “We Keep Us Safe” from NPR’s Embedded Podcast

Learn Something New

Planet Money

Should we all be getting tariff refunds right now?

The Indicator from Planet Money

SNAP strains, youth baseball's class divide, and Meta's bug bounty

Short Wave

One of the toughest parts of ADHD is left out of the diagnosis