PJ Vogt

And life had once again resisted tidy narrative closure.

Just before Publish, we got a message from our third listener, Keller.

He too had attempted the desert crotch method.

He too had been flagged.

So as of December 2025, the TSA average dong anomaly remains unsolved.

For now, the real Bermuda Triangle will have to be the friends we made along the way.

If you are an average-donged man listening to this who has the same predicament and wants to try to help us solve this, please write in.

If you work for the TSA, particularly on the automatic threat recognition algorithm, and are willing to anonymously help us, please, please write in.

As I speak these words, average-donged North American men are still suffering.

Oh, before we go this week, one last thing.

People write me pretty often who are trying to figure out how to do work like what we do at Search Engine, just asking for career advice, looking for a door into this industry.

I just want to say publicly, Search Engine's brilliant producers, Garrett Graham and Emily Malterre, neither of them had any real audio or journalism experience before going to graduate school at NYU.

NYU's journalism school is a great place to learn.

A shockingly high number of the people who we work with all came to this work through that specific door.

I think the professors there are doing something right.

So if you want to learn how to make shows like Search Engine do the kind of work we do,

You could consider applying to the NYU Podcasting and Audio Reportage Program.

I think it's pronounced reportage, but I've been told not to say that because it sounds really pretentious.

Applications for the cohort starting in the fall of 2026 are due in just a couple of weeks, January 6th.

You can email audiojournalism at nyu.edu for more information.