Podyssey Picks
Podyssey Picks (July 28)
mmLast Updated: Jul 27th, 2024
Best Episodes of the Week
1. From violent hair pins to poisonous rings — a deep dive into the curious history of jewelry.
Roman women get creative, and violent, with their hair pins. In the Middle Ages, poison rings are used to covertly contaminate food and drink. A ring seals the deal on a scandalous marriage in 16th ce...Show More
2. All the theories on why the President of Iran, nicknamed “The Butcher of Tehran”, died in a helicopter crash.
On 19 May 2024, Ebrahim Raisi – “The Butcher of Tehran” and President of the Islamic Republic of Iran – died in a helicopter crash. Immediately, theories of who had killed him and why, swept the world...Show More
3. What exactly is free speech anyway and what would the Founding Fathers think of free speech today?
The First Amendment. Book bans, disinformation, the wild world of the internet. Free speech debates are all around us. What were the Founding Fathers thinking when they created the First Amendment, an...Show More
4. How and why we forget — an exploration of memories.
Remembering is a tricky, unstable business. This hour: a look behind the curtain of how memories are made...and forgotten. The act of recalling in our minds something that happened in the past is an...Show More
5. Should Hawaii welcome tourists back after a devastating wildfire?
After wildfires ripped through Lahaina in August 2023, the Hawaiian government had to decide if and when to welcome tourists back to Maui — and force locals to return to work in the same industry that...Show More
6. Noam Chomsky’s theory of the good life.
How do you introduce Noam Chomsky? Perhaps you start here: In 1979, The New York Times called him “arguably the most important intellectual alive today.” More than 40 years later, Chomsky, at 92, is s...Show More
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In the fall of 2011, a high school girl in LeRoy, New York falls ill: spasms, outbursts, and uncontrollably violent movements. As the mysterious illness spreads throughout the school, a young doctor a...Show More
For True Crime Lovers
1. How the Amish wife’s husband got away with murder.
When Ida Stutzman perished in a barn fire on a warm summer night in 1977, her husband Eli’s side of the story didn’t add up from the start. But the Stutzmans were part of the Amish community. The very...Show More
2. 7 rich friends show up for class reunion to find out who killed their friend 10 yrs ago.
100. 7 Rich Friends Show Up For Class Reunion To Find Out Who Killed Their Friend 10 Yrs Ago
1:31:54 | Jul 22nd, 2024
7 friends. 1 is killed senior year of college. 1 is accused of killing her. Now the rest are back at the college reunion to figure out the truth. Everything is made even more complicated when yo...Show More
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