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How We Got Here with NLW
by Nathaniel Whittemore
Today: #55 in Society & Culture on our combined chart.
Today: #96 in Society & Culture, United Kingdom on our combined chart.
Today: #64 in Society & Culture, Canada on our combined chart.
Today: #91 in Society & Culture, Australia on our combined chart.
Today: #166 in Society & Culture, Brazil on our combined chart.
Today: #72 in Society & Culture, New Zealand on our combined chart.
Today: #71 in Society & Culture, India on our combined chart.
Today: #147 in Society & Culture, South Africa on our combined chart.
Chart positions today · United States
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Ranking history · United States
Latest daily rankings: Oct 27. New rankings will appear after the next update.
History builds daily. We started tracking this show on the Society & Culture chart recently, so the trend line appears after a second day of data.
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| Date | Combined Rank | Apple Podcasts | Castbox |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 27 | #55 | #26 | #43 |
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About the show
For people who want to understand everything. Every week, NLW takes something about right now that doesn’t seem to make sense and explains, in about an hour, how we got here. Why tech went from America’s most trusted industry to one of its least. Why every phone has a sportsbook on it. Why so many people you know are on GLP-1s. Why we’ve been scared of AI for as long as we’ve had computers. The answers run through economics, politics, culture and technology, and they’re almost always more interesting than the version you’ve been told.