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Podyssey Picks (Oct 15)

This week’s podcast picks features some great community recommendations, including an episode on the nature of sex and gender in apes, how to buy haunted dolls with souls trapped inside of them, and what Roman emperors actually did all day.

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Last Updated: Oct 15th, 2023

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1. The nature of sex and gender in apes.

Busting the Myth of Primate Patriarchy: The Nature of Sex and Gender in Our Ape Relatives | Frans de Waal

29:15 | Sep 13th, 2023

1 recommendation

World-renowned primatologist Professor Frans de Waal explores the nature of sex and gender among our cousins the apes, and how gender diversity is a common and pervasive potential on nature’s masculin...Show More

2. An online market where you can buy yourself a soul trapped in the body of a doll.

Haunted Dolls [rewind]

1:00:16 | Oct 9th, 2023

1 recommendation

Please enjoy this rewind of last year's Halloween special called Haunted Dolls. Coming up next week we'll start our Halloween series called 'The 12 ft. Skeleton.' Then we'll be teaming up with our sib...Show More

3. What did Roman emperors actually do all day?

How to live like a Roman emperor

45:22 | Sep 25th, 2023

1 recommendation

What did Roman emperors actually do all day? Were they really as bloodthirsty as legend would suggest? And why was food so important? Speaking to Matt Elton, popular historian, author and broadcaster ...Show More

4. Everything that connects us is slowly disappearing.

Episode #189 ... Everything that connects us is slowly disappearing. - Byung Chul Han pt. 2

32:43 | Oct 3rd, 2023

1 recommendation

Today we talk about the disappearance of rituals, truth, community, communication, public spaces and talk about the importance sometimes of being an idiot. Hope you love it! :) Sponsor: Better Help ...Show More

5. The scars of Native American boarding schools.

The scars of Native American boarding schools

32:46 | Oct 11th, 2023

1 recommendation

In a moment of reckoning, survivors of the U.S.-run Indian boarding schools are speaking out and trying to hold the U.S. government accountable.

6. How roads and highways affect wildlife – good and bad.

How Roads & Highways Affect Wildlife

46:23 | Sep 26th, 2023

2 recommendations

Environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb says cars are killing animals, while highways cut off them off from their food sources and migration paths. His new book about road ecology is Crossings.Maureen C...Show More

New & Notable Podcasts

Eerie

An 8-episode anthology audio series of original horror stories from some of the most exciting contemporary voices in horror, pulled from literature, film & TV. Each story brings a different flavour of scary, from the haunting to the grotesque, to suit different sensibilities and fright thresholds. Every listener will find something that truly creeps them out.

Genres: Horror

Brock Media

+1 FAN

Featured Episode: 02. Shit ur pants

24:39 | Oct 4th, 2023

1 RECOMMENDATION

A found footage horror about two siblings who receive an allegedly cursed voice note. Written by Willy Hudson and performed by Willy Hudson & Ella Bruccoleri EERIE is an anthology audio series of...Show More

About a Boy: The Story of Vladimir Putin

The West's obsession with Vladimir Putin's KGB past often misses the biographical detail that can be captured by a single word: dvor. The word means courtyard in Russian, but to a Russian speaker, it is evocative of a whole universe. It was the space where Putin, like so many Soviet kids of his generation, grew up and learned an unforgiving, often brutal social code. Puck journalist Julia Ioffe introduces Westerners to that universe and explains why it’s critical to understanding the Russian president and what he might do next in the war against Ukraine.

Genres: True Crime

Audacy | Puck

+3 FANS

Featured Episode: Chapter 1: The Ghosts

30:26 | Oct 4th, 2023

The Soviet Union suffers unthinkable horrors during World War II. Leningrad, the city into which Vladimir Putin is born, loses more than a million of its citizens to starvation, and Vladimir Putin’s p...Show More

For True Crime Lovers

1. Meet India's Jack the Ripper.

India's Jack the Ripper - Raman Raghav

25:08 | Apr 16th, 2022

This week we're tackling our first serial killer - Raman Raghav. Raman terrorised the streets of Mumbai in the 60s. Let's dig a little deeper into his crimes, his MO and his eventual arrest. I also ta...Show More

2. Mysterious murder: drug deal gone wrong or change of heart by his lover?

Episode 104 - Denise Frei

1:06:01 | Jul 19th, 2023

In episode 104 of Murder and Such, Hunter discusses another case from the grand ol' state of Iowa. A case where a man was found mysteriously murdered, but was this a drug deal gone bad, or did the lov...Show More

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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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