After a year-and-a-half of reporting, our seven part audio series The Butterfly Effect is here.

You can listen to the whole season now for free on Audible and Amazon. 

If you’re having problems downloading The Butterfly Effect. THIS is what I need to tell you. Download the audible app, but then get the show for free from the audible or amazon sites. And then it magically appears on the app. It’s a bit counterintuitive but after I cracked the mystery I use the app all the time. It even reads me stories from the New York Times.

But if you still don’t like the sound of it, the entire series will be free on Apple Podcasts and everywhere else at the beginning of November.

Here’s a welcome note:

Hi everyone,

Welcome to The Butterfly Effect. It’s sort of about porn, but it’s about a lot of other things. It’s sad, funny, moving and totally unlike some other nonfiction stories about porn - because it isn’t judgmental or salacious. It’s human and sweet and strange and lovely. It’s a mystery story, an adventure. It’s also, I think, a new way of telling a story. This season follows a single butterfly effect. The flap of the butterfly’s wings is a boy in Brussels having an idea. His idea is how to get rich from giving the world free online porn. Over seven episodes I trace the consequences of this idea, from consequence through to consequence. If you keep going in this way, where might you end up? It turns out you end up in the most surprising and unexpected places.

So if you’re thinking, why do I want to listen to a show about the tech takeover of the porn industry, I have two things to say:

1. Why wouldn’t you want to listen to a show about the tech takeover of the porn industry? That’s a great idea for a show.

2. Would you want to listen to a show about three women destroying a mysterious Norwegian man’s stamp collection? Well, that happens at the end of episode 2. At the end of Episode 3 a woman becomes convinced that she played a part in a murder committed by an Italian priest. At the end of Episode 4 a boy in Oklahoma is forced to move to a house on the very, very edge of his town.

I hope you like our show,

Jon