Podyssey Picks
Podyssey Picks (Dec 29)
mmLast Updated: Dec 29th, 2024
Best Episodes of the Week
1. A hard way to make an easy living – a dive into sports betting.
Michael Lewis heads to Las Vegas to explore the way sports betting used to work, up until the day it was rapidly legalized by states around the country. We meet the betting sharps who figured out what...Show More
2. Why the Mona Lisa is so famous.
Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is the most famous painting in the world. 500 years old and just 77x53cm in size, it is kept behind bulletproof glass in the Louvre museum in Paris, where it draws 10 mil...Show More
3. A podcaster has a difficult conversation about race and religion with their father.
Our host Masud Olufani welcomes a very special guest, his dad, Milton John Bolds. On this episode Masud and his father re-examine an experience they had together when he was just a boy driving across ...Show More
4. Meet griots in France—traditional storytellers bridging African and European cultures, now reinventing their roles for modern audiences.
Traditional Manding (Mande) griots living in France sit at the crossroads between Africa and Europe. Historically, their role has been to weave traditional, oral histories, often within music, to prom...Show More
5. Boston’s tribute to Chinatown’s everyday heroes.
Sometimes it’s hard to know which came first – monuments or the stories we tell about who and what is heroic. And for the powerful people who get to choose, it’s usually people who look like them. But...Show More
6. The real nature of non-fiction work.
Robert Macfarlane says his writing is about the relationship between the landscape and the human heart. He's a modern-day re-interpreter of the sublime — whether he's writing about following ancient f...Show More
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Waiting For October
Featured Episode: Karo tells Yvonne a bedtime story about the monster world.
Featured Episode: WFO Season 1 - Prologue: "Story Time"
18:13 | Oct 31st, 2024
1 RECOMMENDATION
Karo tells Yvonne a bedtime story about the monster world. Transcript: https://monkeymanproductions.com/2024/10/wfo-s1-prologue-transcript/ Today's episode featured Robin Regalado as Karo and Tina Cas...Show More
New & Notable Podcasts
The Rise and Fall of Diddy
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Backed Up
Featured Episode: Episode 1: Sewers Gonna Sue
For True Crime Lovers
1. The Sweetwater double homicide.
Episode 140.Ad-Free Safe House Edition“The Bigamist And Her Murderous Husband: The Sweetwater Double Homicide” is the sordid tale of a love octangle (or something like that) when the suspiciously wido...Show More
2. The Hello Kitty murders.
In May 1999, Hong Kong police found the scattered remains of a young mother in a flat in the city’s Kowloon district. The crime scene was like nothing anyone had seen before: unimaginable brutality se...Show More
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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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