Podyssey Picks
Podyssey Picks (June 13th)
This week’s recommendations feature some wild stories that bring us from earth to outer space — from the unbelievable $100 million deli to questioning whether UFOs are real.
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New & Notable Podcasts
Do You Know Mordechai?
Featured Episode: 1 - A Knock On The Door
38:41 | Apr 28th, 2021
1 RECOMMENDATION
Kathleen Goldhar was so happy her friend Arya had found someone great after a bad divorce and a year of disheartening online dating. But it turns out Mordechai Horowitz was just too good to be true. ...Show More
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Featured Episode: Episode 1: Email My Heart
37:59 | Jun 10th, 2021
3 RECOMMENDATIONS
A scheduled goodbye email raises as many questions as it answers.
Best Episodes of the Week
1. The unbelievable reason why a mom and pop deli in New Jersey is worth $100 million.
Why is a single New Jersey deli worth so much? And what does it tell us about how the stock market works? | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.
2. Are UFOs real? Possibly!
UFOs are having a renaissance. The New Yorker’s Gideon Lewis-Kraus explains what we stand to learn from an expected government disclosure, and why we want to believe. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplai...Show More
3. The unfortunate stories of lotto winners who were cursed by their windfalls.
Have you ever heard of the Curse of the Lottery? The legend that most, if not all big winners eventually face everything from bankruptcy to untimely death? We’ll explore whether there is any truth to ...Show More
4. Hitler’s girlfriend once travelled to Iceland for vacation because they thought Icelandic people were perfect Aryans.
by Egill Bjarnason • The location of this small island nation, along with its people and economy, played an unexpected and crucial role in the outcome of the Second World War. The original story, alon...Show More
5. Meet the couple social media loves to hate: An upper middle class couple with an unhealthy obsession with debt.
To their friends, they were just a normal upper middle class couple. But they were were hiding a debt so crippling they can’t even afford to get divorced. And when they told us their story, the intern...Show More
6. Why do people viscerally enjoy watching ASMR videos of whispering and soft sounds on Youtube?
There are millions of YouTube channels with people crinkling bubble wrap or whispering about folding laundry. Our guests talks about why autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) makes her, and many...Show More
For True Crime Lovers
7. She went out for a babysitting job in her small town, but never returned home.
Kelly Cook was a small town girl going out for a regular babysitting job. Her parents watched her enter a vehicle that never brought her home. The killer has not been caught.Don't forget to support th...Show More
8. A hitchhiking woman found herself enslaved and stuck under a bed for seven years.
If you're feeling stuck at home lately, imagine being kept in a box under a bed for years! In this episode, the Dolls tell the story of Colleen Stan, who was just trying to hitchhike her way to a frie...Show More
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Melody and Danny are the co-founders of Podyssey. Every week we curate this round-up with the mission of helping our readers find the hidden gems in the podcast world.
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