Podyssey Picks
Podyssey Picks (Jan 30)
This week’s podcast picks features some great community recommendations, including the psychology of billionaires, tips on how to be less anxious, and why some white people pretend they’re Native Americans.
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Best Episodes of the Week
1. The psychology of billionaires.
When you have billions it's impossible to spend it all on yourself and your family. So what else do you do? Join the space race like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos or start a foundation like Bill Gates an...Show More
2. How to be less anxious.
In this episode, Dr. Jud Brewer, a neuroscientist and addiction psychiatrist, discusses the biological origins of anxiety and how to unwind our feedback loops using techniques derived from his lab’s r...Show More
3. Why do some white people pretend they’re Native Americans?
People lie about being Native American all the time – on college applications, on job applications, in casual conversation. But how do "Pretendians" hurt real Indigenous people and communities? And wh...Show More
4. Why Spotify kicked out Neil Young and chose Joe Rogan instead.
Neil Young's music is being pulled from the streaming platform Spotify. That's after he told the platform to either remove his music, or take action on vaccine misinformation — specifically from podca...Show More
5. Financial confessions of a former child star from a poor family with a conniving mother.
In this episode, filmed in Los Angeles in summer 2021, Chelsea sits down with Jennette McCurdy to candidly discuss her experiences with child stardom, why she didn't join the iCarly reboot, the cost o...Show More
6. A beautiful audio diary of a girl with big dreams in a conservative Saudi Arabia that’s holding her back.
When we first met Majd Abdulghani, she was a teenager living in Saudi Arabia, one of the most restrictive countries for women in the world. She wanted to be a scientist, her family wanted to arrange h...Show More
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For True Crime Lovers
1. A teen girl was murdered and they charged her mother’s ex-girlfriend, but was she the killer?
On October 9, 1999, 18-year-old Rocio Wanninkohf was brutally murdered. Her mother's ex-girlfriend was immediately charged for the murder and convicted. But did she do it? Three years later, another y...Show More
2. The story of Pee Wee, a serial killer with 80+ victims.
I was in no shape to do research or writing last week. A mysterious illness had me completely out for days. I am revisiting the story of Donald "Pee Wee" Gaskins that I covered on British Murders back...Show More
Podcast Playlists
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Long-Form True Crime Podcasts
Love long-form true crime stories like Serial and Dirty John? Here's what you'll want to listen to next. Each podcast takes a deep dive into a single story.
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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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