The 10 Best The Last Days of August Podcast Episodes
1) The Butterfly Effect Ep. 1: A Nondescript Building in Montreal
Join bestselling author Jon Ronson as he traces an intriguing butterfly effect. Many years ago, a teenager in Brussels had an idea – make porn free and easy to stream online. The consequences of that ...Show More
2) Coming This Fall
A butterfly effect traces the unexpected consequences of a singular action. In the new Audible series, The Butterfly Effect, Jon Ronson discovers one such effect in a chance glance across a hotel lobb...Show More
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Great podcast. It’s 2 podcasts in 1. The first half (7 eps) are about what free porn has done to people and how it’s helped and/or hurt so m...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.3) The Butterfly Effect Bonus: Mike in Ohio
A trip to the Midwest, where one man’s childhood memories of a classic TV show resurface in the world of bespoke porn.
4) The Butterfly Effect Ep. 6: Anxiety
The PornHub butterfly effect takes us to a man in Georgia trying to resurrect his long-lost love, Darlene, and a man in Canada who can only eat fried chicken. Plus, a return to the Valley, where the m...Show More
5) The Butterfly Effect Ep. 2: The Fallow Years Between Teen & Milf
Jon travels to California’s San Fernando Valley, where most of the world’s porn is made. There he finds pornographers with lives upended by Fabian’s business plan. But it isn’t long before Jon discove...Show More
6) Coming Soon: The Last Days of August
In December 2017 the famous porn star August Ames committed suicide in a park in the San Fernando Valley. It happened a day after she’d been the victim of a pile-on, via Twitter, by fellow porn profes...Show More
7) The Butterfly Effect Ep. 7: A Leap of Faith
In the season’s finale, Jon reports back to Fabian and puts him in touch with a porn director who blames Fabian for the struggles in his life. And finally – one last visit with customs producers Dan a...Show More
8) The Butterfly Effect Ep. 3: Something Happened
Jon journeys deeper into the mysterious and delightful world of custom porn, which may never have existed if it weren’t for Fabian. He meets producers and their clients, and discovers that these films...Show More
9) The Butterfly Effect Ep. 5: The Yes Ladder
The Ashley Madison hack of 2015 resulted in the leaked names and email addresses of 37 million aspiring cheaters around the world. In this episode, Jon unravels PornHub’s relationship to Ashley Madiso...Show More
10) The Butterfly Effect Ep. 4: Children
What are the consequences of children’s unlimited access to free, easily accessible porn? Meet a mom who thinks 13 is too young to tell her daughter what she does for a living – until her daughter mak...Show More