A podcast about hidden systems
Every Tuesday, Nadia Ferreira and Cole Wexler take one ordinary thing — sand, elevator music, a shipping container — and pull it apart until you can't unsee how it holds everything else together.
One ordinary thing per week, taken apart carefully. Transcripts and sources ship with every episode.
One reporter, one systems nerd. They disagree on roughly everything except the mixing levels.
Co-host · Reporting & tape
Twelve years producing overnight radio before she quit to chase field tape full-time. Nadia does the travel, the interviews, and the parts of the show recorded inside grain silos, container terminals, and one memorable municipal sewer.
Co-host · Research & scoring
Former freight logistics analyst who read one paper about sand mining and never recovered. Cole builds the research files, argues with the sources, and composes the show's score on a borrowed tape machine from 1978.