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Patrick Boyd is a member of the Today, Explained production team credited in the episode’s staff acknowledgments.

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25 episodes featuring Patrick Boyd

Today, Explained
Gas stations become battlegrounds over opioid-like products
The episode examines whether concentrated 7-OH should be banned while kratom remains available as regulators weigh dependence, uncertain risks, and possible harm reduction.
Oct 2, 2026 · 28 min
Pardon My Take
Case Keenum sparks Bears upset as Stanford Steve surveys college football
The episode pairs a veteran quarterback’s emotional return with a wide-ranging examination of coaching, quarterback development, and college football’s shifting hierarchy.
Sep 30, 2026 · 3h 8m
Today, Explained
Gambling mechanics reshape shopping and games
The episode shows how auctions, randomized rewards, countdowns, and social pressure can turn ordinary entertainment and commerce into compulsive spending environments for adults and children.
Sep 25, 2026 · 29 min
Today, Explained
Older women claim glamour, ambition and desire on screen
The episode examines how iconic, complicated women are reshaping assumptions about aging, sexuality and acceptable femininity.
Sep 18, 2026 · 27 min
Today, Explained
Farm costs test Republicans’ hold on rural America
Economic pain is forcing a test of whether conservative farmers will punish Republican policies or remain wary of Democrats.
Sep 3, 2026 · 29 min
Today, Explained
Dolly Parton turns nonpartisanship into political influence
The episode examines whether meaningful social advocacy can retain broad appeal without becoming attached to parties, candidates, or partisan language.
Aug 28, 2026 · 29 min
Today, Explained
America’s debt costs are reshaping the fiscal debate
The episode shows why rising interest costs and persistent deficits could constrain household finances and force politically difficult choices within the next decade.
Aug 27, 2026 · 28 min
Today, Explained
Trump ballroom project tests presidential power
The fight over the ballroom could determine how presidents fund construction, alter historic federal sites, and defend executive action in court.
Aug 26, 2026 · 28 min
Today, Explained
Ossoff turns a Trump aide’s unusual access into a national test
The clash over Natalie Harp shows how proximity to Trump can become a political weapon—and a proving ground for John Ossoff’s national ambitions.
Aug 25, 2026 · 28 min
Today, Explained
Medicare for All tests its political moment
The episode examines whether frustration with expensive care can turn renewed support for universal coverage into policy rather than rhetoric.
Aug 24, 2026 · 27 min
Today, Explained
Personality science challenges the introvert label
The episode separates pandemic-era social rustiness from enduring traits and examines whether personality can change through deliberate practice.
Aug 23, 2026 · 28 min
Today, Explained
Why heartbreak became summer’s defining pop sound
The episode connects a country chart breakthrough and a wave of melancholy pop to the cultural meanings audiences attach to music.
Aug 21, 2026 · 27 min
Today, Explained
Cambridge’s Arday scandal tests academia’s DEI politics
The episode examines how disputed biography, institutional incentives, media scrutiny, and racial politics converged around one academic’s rise and death.
Aug 20, 2026 · 25 min
Unexplainable
Babies form memories that later become impossible to retrieve
The episode reframes infant memory around development, showing that forgotten details can still reflect lasting emotional and social foundations.
Aug 19, 2026 · 28 min
Today, Explained
Sophie Cunningham turns WNBA tensions into a political spectacle
The episode shows how a dispute over transgender athletes became a proxy battle over race, gender, sexuality, and the WNBA’s expanding audience.
Aug 19, 2026 · 25 min
Today, Explained
License-plate cameras turn local policing into movement surveillance
Flock’s network can help investigate crimes, but its expanding use raises questions about privacy, oversight, and warrants.
Aug 18, 2026 · 26 min
Today, Explained
Reddit’s human edge faces an AI spam assault
If bots and disguised promotions overwhelm Reddit, the platform could lose the candid conversations and practical knowledge that make it valuable.
Aug 17, 2026 · 27 min
Today, Explained
Babies learn before their memories disappear
The episode reframes infancy as a period that builds emotional, social, and cognitive foundations even without lasting autobiographical memories.
Aug 16, 2026 · 31 min
Today, Explained
Creators chase meaning as the influencer economy tightens
The episode examines whether audiences’ hunger for education and offline life can offer creators an alternative to an increasingly commercial, saturated internet.
Aug 14, 2026 · 28 min
Today, Explained
Testosterone clinics turn perceived benefits into a booming market
Testosterone can deliver powerful short-term changes, but limited evidence, serious side effects, fertility risks, and commercial pressure complicate its growing use.
Aug 12, 2026 · 27 min
Today, Explained
AIPAC turns congressional races into tests of political power
The episode examines how campaign spending, criticism of Israel, and changing public opinion are reshaping Democratic politics.
Aug 11, 2026 · 28 min
Today, Explained
Loomer’s Ukraine reversal tests MAGA’s Russia politics
Laura Loomer’s shift toward backing Ukraine and opposing Vladimir Putin could expose new fractures inside MAGA and affect Donald Trump’s foreign-policy choices.
Aug 10, 2026 · 28 min
Today, Explained
Microdramas expose streaming’s attention crisis
Television is adapting to fragmented attention and abundant online video, raising a harder question about whether simpler entertainment can preserve excellence.
Aug 7, 2026 · 29 min
Today, Explained
A murder trial tests what postpartum psychosis means for responsibility
The case forces a difficult examination of criminal responsibility, maternal mental-health care, and the warning signs that can precede psychiatric crisis.
Aug 6, 2026 · 30 min
Today, Explained
A new Red Scare meets America’s fractured left
The episode tests whether communist organizing is genuinely returning or being inflated into a political threat by examining its history, ideology, and presence within the DSA.
Aug 5, 2026 · 27 min

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