Podyssey Picks
Podyssey Picks (Nov 20)
This week’s podcast picks features some great community recommendations, including an episode on how to deal with climate grief, what it was like to be Muslim right after 9/11, and the shocking story of the toxic love canal.
mmLast Updated: Nov 19th, 2022
Best Episodes of the Week
1. What is “climate grief” and how the heck do you deal with it?
This episode is all about feelings. You’ve heard the phrase “climate grief,” right? But how do we deal with what it does to our hearts, minds, and bodies? And how might it impact the climate action we...Show More
2. What it was like to be Muslim in NYC right after 9/11.
9/11 & Freedom: In the fall of 2001, Mo Razvi was a Pakistani businessman in Brooklyn living the American dream. But in the aftermath of 9/11, when hundreds of his mostly Muslim neighbors disappear ov...Show More
3. The shocking story of the toxic love canal.
When Hooker Chemical sold its infamous toxic waste landfill to the Niagara Falls School Board, the $1 deal left Niagara residents seriously ill. But few believed the company could truly be at fault......Show More
4. Why the 1904 Olympic Marathon was the single worst event in the history of the games.
There was no Olympics this year, but it's almost the anniversary of the single worst event in the history of the games: The 1904 Olympic Marathon. Get a free trial of The Great Courses Plus by going t...Show More
5. Hear from king crypto bro Sam Bankman-Fried himself on the fall of his crypto empire.
Sam Bankman-Fried built a reputation as the one reliable crypto bro. But within the span of days, his empire came crashing down. What the rise and fall of crypto's 30-year-old elder statesman says abo...Show More
6. Are women actually more talkative than men or is it just perception?
Women may be caricatured as babbling chatterboxes, but in public, women speak a lot less. Be it in conferences or committee meetings, television or parliamentary debates, women do not get a proportio...Show More
New & Notable Podcasts
Teaching Texas
Featured Episode: Chapter 1: Under God
35:16 | Sep 27th, 2022
4 RECOMMENDATIONS
On the outskirts of Hawkins, Texas, a couple found a problem in one of their kids’ school books. They didn’t have a background in education, but because they lived in Texas, their concern ignited a na...Show More
A Tradition of Violence
Featured Episode: Hunting for Humans
For True Crime Lovers
1. They stumbled across bodies in barrels in the Tomerong State Forest.
**The Nowra Bodies in the Barrels** On the 29th of January 2006, Peter Dalton and his wife were cycling along a track through the Tomerong State Forest, not far from the township of Nowra. During th...Show More
2. The Black Wall Street massacre.
Black Wall Street, former byname of the Greenwood neighborhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where in the early 20th century African Americans had created a self-sufficient prosperous business district. The ter...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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