Podyssey Picks
Podyssey Picks (Sept 22)
mmLast Updated: Sep 22nd, 2024
Best Episodes of the Week
1. What happened after Donald Trump falsely claimed Haitian immigrants were eating pets.
After the presidential debate, Donald Trump’s false claims about Haitian immigrants eating pets in Springfield, Ohio, remain in the spotlight. Where did the story come from, why won’t it go away, and ...Show More
2. How people are fighting back against library book bans.
B.A. Parker brings us around the country to see what access for books is looking like for students in Texas, librarians in Idaho and her own high school English teacher in Pennsylvania.Learn more abou...Show More
3. Why X (formerly Twitter) was banned from Brazil overnight.
“This is not a normal legal dispute.”
4. Is screen time as poisonous as we think?
Young people have been reporting a sharp rise in anxiety and depression. This maps neatly onto the global rise of the smartphone. Some researchers are convinced that one is causing the other. But how ...Show More
5. Why Harris had a theory of Trump and was right.
Tuesday night was the first — perhaps the only — debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. And it proved one of Harris’s stump speech lines right: Turns out she really does know Trump’s type. She...Show More
6. Touching stories of unusual and important letters.
When the best—and perhaps only—way to say something is to write it down. Prologue: Ira goes out with a letter carrier, ‘Grace,’ as she delivers mail on her route. He learns about the people who brin...Show More
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For True Crime Lovers
1. Meet the Candy Man Killer and Lost Boys of Houston Heights.
Back in the summer of 1973, the Houston Police were called to a home where a 33-year-old man named Dean Corll had been shot to death. This crime scene led them to search a shed he had been renting and...Show More
2. The cell phone murders.
The Cell Phone Murders /// Part 1 /// 784 Part 1 of 2 www.TrueCrimeGarage.com On September 25, 1996 just before midnight, a 911 call came into emergency services. A crying woman requested police...Show More
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