Podyssey Picks
Podyssey Picks (Jul 31)
This week’s podcast picks features some great community recommendations, including an episode on the inside of an open marriage, the ultimate framework for happiness, and how to be perfect.
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Best Episodes of the Week
1. What’s an open marriage really like? Find out at this couple’s podcast therapy session.
They met as religious teenagers and married as virgins. It's the age old story — once you're allowed to be intimate, you no longer want to be. Deciding to open the marriage has brought about huge chan...Show More
2. The ultimate framework for happiness.
600: Welcome back to anxiety slayer. Today Shann is speaking with Kristina Mand-Lakhiani about personal transformation, authenticity, understanding and accepting oneself, and a path to happiness durin...Show More
3. How to be perfect and the right answer to every moral question.
What do "Parks and Recreation" and "The Office" have in common with books that explore philosophical theories like deontology, ubuntu, utilitarianism and more? They’ve all been written by Michael Schu...Show More
4. A CIA case officer, “Mad Dog”, spills the beans on what it’s like working at the CIA.
Jim Lawler, aka “Mad Dog”, was a CIA case officer for 25 years. In this episode we hear some of the stories he has and things he did while working in the CIA. Jim has two books out. Affiliate links b...Show More
5. A history 101 on the partition of India.
For the latest in our everything you want to know series, historian Dr Anwesha Roy revisits the 1947 partition of India, which divided British-ruled India into two independent countries. In conversati...Show More
6. RIP malls.
What do we lose if we lose the mall? 70 years into their existence, these hulking temples to commerce are surprisingly resilient and filled with contradictions. In this episode, Alexandra Lange, the a...Show More
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In all my years of journalism, there is one story that's stuck with me. Twenty years ago I was out bush chatting to diamond explorers about a heist that happened in the remote Kimberley region of West...Show More
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For True Crime Lovers
1. The deaths and suicides of Scientology followers.
Leah Remini and Mike Rinder discuss the recent tragic deaths of Kelly Preston and Benjamin Keough and how scientology views doctors and mental health professionals. They explain how scientologists bel...Show More
2. Two girls stabbed their friend 19 times as a pledge to a creepy forest man.
Slenderman, you know him. He’s the creepy tall dude lurking in the woods without a face. He was created in 2009 on Something Awful by a man named Eric Knudesen and has dominated the internet ever sinc...Show More
Podcast Playlists
An Audio Trip to Hawaii
Fly to Hawaii with podcasts! Learn about the history of Hawaiians, Aloha shirts and more by traveling to the tropical islands with your ears.
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The Best Kids' Podcasts For Long Summer Trips
Going for a long drive this summer? Here are top podcast recommendations from Wired to keep kids entertained and parents sane.
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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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