Podyssey Picks
Podyssey Picks (Nov 7)
This week’s podcast picks features some great community recommendations, including a lesson on how to be funny, why 1 + 1 doesn’t equal 2 in real life, and how one man evacuated beavers to save rare butterflies.
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Best Episodes of the Week
1. How to be funny 101 from a professor who teaches standup comedy in college.
To start the episode, Ali’s recounts a recent Drive-in comedy show he did with Shaun Majumder (1:03). Then Asif asks about the course Ali teaches at Queen’s University and whether you can “teach funny...Show More
2. Why 1 + 1 doesn’t equal 2 more often than not in real life and how that shows we don’t actually know anything.
If there’s one thing we might regret at the end of life, it’s that we missed out on moments that mattered—not because we weren’t physically there, but because our mind wandered off to some unknown pla...Show More
3. He evacuated beavers to save rare butterflies, but ended up leaving the butterflies at the brink of extinction instead.
Ecologist Nick Haddad was sitting in his new office at North Carolina State University when the phone rang. On the other end of the line was... The U.S. Army. The Army folks told him, “Look, there’s t...Show More
4. Why is poop so hard to talk about with friends?
Sh*t happens. So why is it so hard to talk about? This week, the ways that poop divides and binds us in our friendships.
5. Why do words like “debt” and “doubt” have silent B’s? The history of zombie letters in the English language revealed.
In early Modern English, writers and printers began to revise the spelling of many English words to reflect their etymological origins. Old letters were revived from the dead to reflect sounds that ha...Show More
6. How a steel tycoon gave birth to the library system in NYC and across the US.
EPISODE 308 In the final decades of his life, steel tycoon Andrew Carnegie -- one of the richest Americans to ever live -- began giving his money away. The Scots American had worked his way up from...Show More
New & Notable Podcasts
Elon Musk: The Evening Rocket
Featured Episode: Introducing Elon Musk: The Evening Rocket
01:56 | Oct 20th, 2021
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Sweet Bobby
Featured Episode: Introducing: Sweet Bobby
01:29 | Oct 18th, 2021
2 RECOMMENDATIONS
Premiering 28 October, 2021. How much do you know about the person you love? From the makers of Finding Q, Sweet Bobby is a live investigation, in six parts, in search of one of the world's most sophi...Show More
For True Crime Lovers
Young boys were abducted and gruesomely murdered in a chicken coop. MAILCHIMP ALIGN: top
In part one we discuss the incredible story of a missing boy, Walter Collins, and what his mother, Christine suffered in her desperate attempts to find her son in 1920s Los Angeles.
A talented artist and devoted activist mysteriously disappeared from a motel after leaving an eerie voicemail to her boyfriend. Where is Kelley Brannon?
Kelley Brannon disappeared from the Sunshine Inn motel in Live Oak, Florida on July 15th, 2020. She was a writer, artist, musician, filmmaker, and activist who stood at the forefront of any opportunit...Show More
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Meet the Curators
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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