Podyssey Picks
Podyssey Picks (Oct 13)
mmLast Updated: Oct 13th, 2024
Best Episodes of the Week
1. How a real life Mexican superhero is protecting citizens from speeding cars, and citizens are hacking their way to a better public transit.
Harnessing the creativity of a megalopolis isn't easy, but Mexico City shows us how it's done. Follow a real-life superhero who dons a luchador mask and cape to protect his fellow residents from speed...Show More
2. Victorian women who disguised as housemaids to spy on adulterous husbands and expose child abuse.
Apprehending thieves in the street. Disguising as housemaids to spy on adulterous husbands. Investigating and exposing child abuse. The exploits of women detectives in the Victorian era were dramatic,...Show More
3. How Deep South Jewish identity and the civil rights movement give rise to the pastrami.
Order a hot pastrami on rye at any delicatessen and you’ll taste the briny terroir of the Jewish Diaspora. Pastrami is an iconic cured meat that migrated with Eastern European Jews to America and beca...Show More
4. Why AI’s loudest critic predicts that AI’s exponential curve will soon flatten out.
Computer scientist Gary Marcus has been called AI’s loudest critic, and he predicts AI’s exponential curve will soon flatten out. He also thinks we’re unprepared to handle the AI we already have. In t...Show More
5. A podcast listener tries a substance he doesn’t know much about and not long after, his life begins to change. What was it?
This week we have for you ... not a whodunnit, but a what did I do? A listener tries a substance he doesn’t know much about and not long after, his life begins to change. Afterwards, he wonders — what...Show More
6. Why these famous short story writers are like miniature models of the world and how they can teach us to transcend our own limitations.
Writer George Saunders on how famous short stories by writers like Chekhov, Tolstoy, Turgenev and Gogol are like miniature models of the world and how they can teach us to transcend our own limitation...Show More
New & Notable Podcasts
Candyman: The True Story Behind The Bathroom Mirror Murder
Featured Episode: Left High and Dry: 1
Strangers on a Bench
Featured Episode: EPISODE 1: A Fight
30:33 | Sep 30th, 2024
1 RECOMMENDATION
Tom Rosenthal approaches a random stranger in a park in London and asks if he can sit down next to them and record their conversation.This is what happened!Please consider following, subscribing, and ...Show More
For True Crime Lovers
1. Has the Long Island Serial Killer finally been caught?
In the early hours of May 1, 2010, Shannan Gilbert called 911 from a Long Island house after working as an escort with a client she met on Craigslist. After seeking help from neighbours, she disappear...Show More
2. Two missing children quickly lead to an investigation into multiple murders, including theirs.
Two missing children quickly lead to an investigation into multiple murders, including theirs. The world was watching as detectives pieced together this deeply, disturbing case.
Podcast Playlists
The Art of the Scam
From the Fyre Festival to Anna Delvey and Elizabeth Holmes the tales of these liars who went big and got caught make for great podcasts
cesarm7 episodes
Spooky Listens
Anyone can switch on a scary movie — but can you face the frightening depths of your own imagination?
cbcpodcasts11 episodes
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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