debunks and contextualizes sooo many common misperceptions about major cultural, historical, and political things. the host(s) are fun and not experts on the subjects (they bring on experts) so it doesn’t feel overly formal or “boring” either.
and there’s so many episodes that you’ll never run out of options! the eps on the 2000 election, CSI junk science, movie rating system, and flight 571 have been the most interesting to me so far