Podyssey Picks

Podyssey Picks (Dec 31)

For our last podcast picks this year, we’re featuring some great community recommendations, including an episode on how U2’s song led to death threats and a murder, whether rich people are bad, and what happened when a doctor only ate ultra-processed foods for a month*.

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Last Updated: Dec 31st, 2023

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1. How U2’s songs led to death threats, inspired a killer, and a murder.

U2: Death Threats, a Song that Inspired a Killer, and the Murder of Rebecca Schaeffer

43:35 | Nov 14th, 2023

1 recommendation

Years before a free album made them the most unpopular popular band on the planet, U2 ran into the arms of America. In 1987, touring behind their blockbuster album The Joshua Tree, their songs became ...Show More

2. Are rich people bad?

Are Rich People Bad?

47:46 | Jun 21st, 2023

3 recommendations

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

3. A doctor and journalist only ate ultra-processed foods for an entire month and this is what happened.

Let’s process food

25:52 | Dec 22nd, 2023

2 recommendations

Doctor and journalist Chris van Tulleken wanted to know how ultra-processed foods affect us, so for a month he ate almost nothing but UPFs. His book Ultra-Processed People examines how the food we eat...Show More

4. Exploring recipes on gravestones.

A Return to Recipe Graves

17:08 | Dec 19th, 2023

2 recommendations

Gastro Obscura’s senior editor Sam O’Brien returns to the podcast to go deeper with us on her strange beat – recipes etched into gravestones. We probe how food can help heal and remember those we’ve l...Show More

5. What applying to college after affirmative action is like.

Applying for college after the end of affirmative action

27:37 | Dec 27th, 2023

1 recommendation

The Supreme Court’s decision to end race-based affirmative action in college admissions sent counselors scrambling and students worrying about their chances. For two seniors, it made them totally reth...Show More

6. The slave-ship captain who wrote Amazing Grace.

Amazing Grace: a story of salvation and slavery

34:02 | Dec 20th, 2023

1 recommendation

John Newton was a slave-ship captain in the 18th century. However, he was also a devout Christian who went on to become a famous preacher and wrote the globally recognised hymn Amazing Grace. James Wa...Show More

New & Notable Podcasts

This Keeps Happening with Vienna Pharaon

I’m Vienna Pharaon, a licensed marriage and family therapist. I’ve spent over 25,000 hours working with individuals, couples and families, which has given me a front-row seat to our capacity for change, no matter how challenging a story might be. This is a show where I speak with anonymous people every week about the challenges they’re facing.

Genres: Therapy, Psychology

Vienna Pharaon

+1 FAN

Featured Episode: Jill: A Family Secret Revealed.

1:03:07 | Oct 25th, 2023

Jill was raised by her mother, who was a single parent for the majority of her childhood. But six years ago, she found out something shocking, and it caused a deep confusion within her, especially bec...Show More

Truer Crime

Do you ever listen to a true crime podcast and think “that’s not quite right…?” Same. Crime stories are hard to ignore and even harder to forget. But the thing is... they’re stories. And getting a story right is all about how you tell it. Truer Crime talks about real people — murdered, missing, misled — with more nuance, more context, and more questions. Hosted by Celisia Stanton.

Genres: True Crime

Celisia Stanton

+2 FANS

Featured Episode: Tamla Horsford

51:54 | Dec 29th, 2023

From 1920 to 1940, no Black people lived in Forsyth County, Georgia. None. But by the time Tamla Horsford moved there with her family, a lot had changed. Or so it seemed, until Tamla was found dead in...Show More

For True Crime Lovers

1. California’s most brutally savage double murders.

A True Teenage Psychopath: The Disturbing Case of Daniel Marsh

1:23:57 | Nov 30th, 2023

On April 13th, 2013, the community of Davis, California would witness the most brutally savage double murders it had ever seen. Claudia Maupin (76), and her husband Oliver “Chip” Northup (87) were bot...Show More

2. The West Texas psychopath murderer.

S6 E8 - West Texas Psychopath - the murder of Ella Bennett, part 1

25:20 | Nov 28th, 2023

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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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