The Rosenberg Podcast explores strange stories, mysteries, technology, psychology, culture, science and the occasional rabbit hole worth following.
Jack McLennan Disappearance, Malta Ghost & Cold War Spy Satellite Breakup
The disappearance of Jack McLennan remains one of Australia’s strangest unsolved missing-person cases. The 27-year-old vanished from Ficks Crossing in Queensland in October 2024, leaving behind scattered belongings, missing clothing and ...
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A Body in a Suitcase, Pentagon UFOs & the Tylenol Mystery
A woman’s body turns up at a Wichita fire station inside a suitcase. The Pentagon releases footage of six mysterious spherical objects over the Middle East. An amateur astronomer may have spotted an enormous ancient impact crater on Goog...
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Can Ozempic Make You Live Longer? AI Jedi Mind Tricks & Other Strange Things
Can Ozempic Make You Live Longer? AI Jedi Mind Tricks & Other Strange Things | Episode 6What do longevity drugs, accidental inventions, ancient discoveries, strange plants, dinosaurs, and gullible artificial intelligence have in common?A...
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The Drug in Your Mug
There's a cup sitting on my desk.It seems ordinary. But inside that cup is a history of religion, information, commerce, empire, labor—and one of the most widely consumed psychoactive drugs on Earth.Long before coffee became the fuel of ...
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Creative Destruction: Why Progress Feels So Terrifying
What happens when the future destroys the past?The automobile replaced the horse economy.Streaming wiped out video rental stores. The internet transformed newspapers. And now artificial intelligence may be reshaping the world all over ag...
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The Strange History of LSD
In 1938, a Swiss chemist named Albert Hofmann created a compound called LSD-25.Nobody thought much about it.The company shelved it, and it sat there for years.Then something strange happened.Hofmann couldn't stop thinking about it.What f...
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Why People Hated the Printing Press
Today we think of the printing press as one of humanity's greatest inventions.But when it first appeared, many people feared it.Some worried about misinformation. Others feared job loss. Some believed it threatened society itself.In this...
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When the News Became a Business: How Newspapers Invented the Attention Economy
Most people think the attention economy began with social media.It didn't.In this first episode of Rosenberg, we explore how newspapers transformed from political tools into commercial businesses competing for attention. Along the way, w...
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