Podyssey Picks
Podyssey Picks (Jan 8)
This week’s podcast picks feature some great community recommendations, including an episode on why your identity is a story you tell yourself, the veteran outing domestic violent extremists, and the backstabbing battle that made coconut water popular.
We’re also excited to highlight our community sponsor this week, the Look Again: Mental Illness Re-Examined podcast from the BC Schizophrenia Society that brings forward the humanity of mental illness while dispelling the myths. This podcast is for anyone whose life has been touched by mental illness.
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Best Episodes of the Week
1. Why your identity is a story you tell yourself.
Sean Illing talks with neuroscientist Gregory Berns, author of The Self Delusion. Berns claims that the idea of a unified, persistent self is a kind of illusion, and that we are better understood as m...Show More
2. Meet the veteran outing domestic extremists.
Veterans are valuable recruits for far-right groups. Kris Goldsmith wants them to fight back.
3. The backstabbing battle that made coconut water popular.
Whether enrobed with chocolate in a candy bar or sucked up through a straw on the beach, coconut has become shorthand for the good life: clear blue waters, white sand beaches, and an ocean breeze. But...Show More
4. The collapse of NFL player Damar Hamlin and sports as a capitalistic spectacle.
Earlier this week, Damar Hamlin, safety for the Buffalo Bills, collapsed following what appeared to be a routine tackle during a high-stakes football game against the Cincinnati Bengals. He received m...Show More
5. How wanting the Pizza.Pizza domain led to the discovery of how the internet actually works.
In this episode, David sits down to explain how wanting the Pizza.Pizza domain led him down a rabbit hole to discovering some interesting facts about how the internet works. Who decides what domains a...Show More
6. What it means to say goodbye and let go.
The Sugars have been thinking about what it means to say goodbye and let go. In this first episode of their two-part series on moving on, the Sugars and Claire Bidwell Smith answer two letters from pe...Show More
Podcast Spotlight (Ad)
Look Again: Mental Illness Re-Examined
Television & film like to portray people with schizophrenia as young, white men. In real life, schizophrenia is not as seen on TV especially for women
Featured Episode: Schizophrenia: What's gender got to do with it?
New & Notable Podcasts
The Cost of Happiness: Tony Hsieh
Featured Episode: What Happens In Vegas | Chapter 1
Overlooked
Featured Episode: Chapter 1: Niko Quinn’s truth
For True Crime Lovers
1. The real Silence of the Lambs who kidnapped and killed six Black women.
For nearly a decade Sheila Hole watched her son Brandon descend further into the depths of his mental illnesses. There were signs and red flags that were too obvious to ignore. Brandon Hole was differ...Show More
2. The frantic girl who escaped her abduction led to the discovery of the Spotsylvania serial killer.
In June of 2002, Cory Thompson and his 16-year-old niece, Kenya Spry, were backing out of their parking space of their apartment complex when a frantic teenager ran up to them begging to be taken to t...Show More
Podcast Playlists
Mindful Podcasts to Help You Pause and Reflect
Start the new year with less stress. Listen to some relief for the soul in audio-form.
waitwhat7 episodes
How to Live Your Best Life Without Beating Yourself Up
Self-help doesn’t have to be so self-critical! Need help sticking to your New Year's resolutions? Or have you ditched them altogether? Whatever your strategy, this time of year many of us are thinking about self-improvement. Here are some great self-help and lifestyle podcasts to help guide you through whatever changes you want to make—without beating yourself up!
podcastplaylist5 episodes
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.
Have you listened to a great podcast? Have you made a great podcast? Recommend it on Podyssey we may just feature it on next week's Podyssey Picks.