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Freakonomics Podcast - Is the American Dream Really Dead?

Entertainment — More 30-year-olds earn less than their parents vs 10 yrs ago
Entertainmentest. 2017
— Unverified
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 24, 2026
Pulse 8.0 · 1/4
8.0
Pulse Index
1/4 families · real
+8.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
18
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
3
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Liveness is unverified — no conclusive probe observation exists for the recorded URL. Pulse momentum is positive over 30 days (+8.0). Observation is liveness-only: no tracked press, repository, or traffic rank — existence is confirmed, momentum is unobserved.

HTTP liveness

real
18 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 24, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 1 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 0% of 18 probesavg response 8740 ms
Developer tractionchecked · none
No public repository linked — GitHub signals are not tracked for this product.
Press & sentimentchecked · none
No coverage found in the tracked press corpus. Absence of press is itself a signal at this stage.
Web footprintreal
resolved host
edge
direct origin
server
not reported
Tranco rank
unranked
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

Freakonomics Podcast - Is the American Dream Really Dead?'s site could not be verifiably probed when we last probed it on Aug 24, 2026, so its status is unverified — we do not guess. It has fewer than two observed signal families, so no Pulse Index is composed — the evidence strip shows what is and isn’t present. Observed footprint: 3 functional tags. It has no curated competitive-alternative edges yet, so the comparable set below is functional tag-similarity — read it with the confidence flags.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
Waking Up with Sam Harris - The Multiverse & You (& You & You & You…)entertainmentsimilar100%48.00.0— unverified
Cultivate Conversation - Ep. 8: Predicting Unicornseducationtag-overlap100%40.0+32.0● live
Hardcore History - 56: Kings of Kingsentertainmentsimilar100%0.00.0■ inactive
A Little Dusty - JFK and The Pressentertainmentsimilar100%40.00.0● live
Internet History Podcast - Mosaic: The "First" Web Browserentertainmentsimilar100%40.00.0● live
Analyse Asia 146: Singularity University Labs and The Heretic with Pascal Finetteentertainmentsimilar100%0.0-16.0■ inactive
Love + Radio – Discarnate Rebel Angel, Timothy Wyllieentertainmentsimilar100%40.0+7.2● live
Reply All - Decodersentertainmentsimilar100%40.00.0● live

Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Overlap is the shared functional-tag ratio (Jaccard) for tag-matched rows. Pulse is the observed-activity index real and 30d Δ its signed month change; a dash means insufficient observed history, never zero.

Structure

observed attributes
Business modelunknown
Liveness tierunknown
Competitive alternativesnone linked
Open sourceNo
Public APINo
Free tierNo
Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

not in source

No disclosed funding in our sources. Funding data covers only ~1% of the corpus (462 rounds across 79K products), so absence here is unknown, not zero— we don't estimate a number we can't source.

RAW TELEMETRY last 14 probes
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2026-07-18 14:23Z502ottoradio.comnginx1292dead_5xx
2026-07-14 09:14Z502ottoradio.comnginx914dead_5xx
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Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Freakonomics Podcast - Is the American Dream Really Dead? · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/freakonomics-podcast-is-the-american-dream-really-dead · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.