Podyssey Picks
Podyssey Picks (Dec 3)
mmLast Updated: Dec 3rd, 2023
Best Episodes of the Week
1. The billionaires who want to be demigods.
Douglas Rushkoff explains the differences between contemporary billionaires and their forebears — and why we should laugh and dismiss their increasingly bizarre behaviors.📰 You can read ‘We will coup...Show More
2. How Trump is dividing the evangelical church.
Journalist Tim Alberta grew up in a conservative, republican, evangelical church, where his father was the pastor. He wanted to know why so many evangelical Christians had become extremists, and arden...Show More
3. How the handful of employees at The East India Company came to rule India for the British Empire.
Welcome to Empire, a brand new history podcast hosted by William Dalrymple and Anita Anand. The first series looks at the British in India: The East India Company, The Raj, Gandhi, Independence and P...Show More
4. Should you rent or buy your home? The new math.
For many millennials, buying a home has become almost entirely out of reach. Average 30-year mortgage rates are hovering around 7 percent — the highest they’ve been since 2007 — largely because of the...Show More
5. How Visa, the credit card, got started.
To paraphrase Visa founder Dee Hock, how many of you know Visa? Great, all of you. Now, how many of you know how it started? Or, for that matter, who started it? Who runs and governs it? Where is it h...Show More
6. Why does T-rex have teeny tiny arms and weird teeth.
For our first ever episode of Terrible Lizards we start, perhaps inevitably, with the most famous and iconic dinosaur ever – Tyrannosaurus. (Actually I wanted to do Nqwebasaurus but Iszi wouldn't let ...Show More
New & Notable Podcasts
Mortal Sin
Featured Episode: Introducing: Mortal Sin
Classy with Jonathan Menjivar
Featured Episode: Are Rich People Bad?
47:46 | Jun 21st, 2023
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Jonathan has some hangups about class. In the first episode of this series, he takes us from a nightclub outside LA to the halls of a fancy Manhattan prep school, and asks sociologist Rachel Sherman '...Show More
For True Crime Lovers
1. The US Postal Service employee who disappeared.
Kierra Coles /// Part 1 /// 715 Part 1 of 2 www.TrueCrimeGarage.com Kierra Coles is a United States Postal Service employee who went missing in October of 2018. This year marks five years since...Show More
2. A grocery store may hold clues to a vibrant octogenarian disappearance.
A vibrant octogenarian disappears. As investigators work to find her, a local grocery store may be what’s needed to solve this crime … and more.
Podcast Playlists
Foodie True Crime
Most of us are completely disconnected from the natural sources of our food and completely trust that what we get from the store is what it says it is. Take a dive into the world of food fraud, as well as celebrating the diligent men and women who fight for product safety and truth in advertising and labelling.
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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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