Podyssey Picks
Podyssey Picks (Nov 1): Top Community Recommendations
Here’s this week’s roundup of top podcasts and playlist recommendations from the Podyssey community! In anticipation of election day, we’ve rounded up three salacious presidential stories in a new podcast deep dive. Also, check out our partner podcast Sinica Podcast about what’s *really* happening in China. Lastly, did we hear something about Podyssey merch dropping soon? Find out below!
mmLast Updated: Oct 30th, 2020
Hikers continuously disappear without explanation. Are these animal attacks or kidnappings?
32: Missing 411: Unexplained Disappearances Of People From National Parks & Lands
Mile Higher
1:41:28 | Aug 27th, 2018
This episode examines David Paulides movie Missing 411 which seeks the answer to the unsolved disappearances of thousands of visitors in our National Parks & Forests, all under similar circumstances. ...Show More
Harvard medical school paid people to steal bodies from graves...then their largest donor goes missing after a visit.
In the mid-1800s, Harvard Medical School had a reputation for being a “den of body snatchers.” And then, in November 1849, the school’s most prominent supporter, Dr. George Parkman, went missing. He w...Show More
For more spooky listens, check out this playlist:
This is where birds go to die.
vertebrats recommended:Oct 25th, 2020
A question you don't think to ask, but I admire how they answered it. Very well written episode, neither too clinical nor sentimental. Great work as always from BirdNote
Where Birds Go to Die
by BirdNote Daily
😎 Classifieds
Get latest podcast industry news with 'The Podcast Pulse Instagram Live Show' featuring conversations with guests in podcasting.
Re-live the Dot Com era with this new podcast.
jhawthorne recommended:Oct 20th, 2020
Entertaining stories about the rise and fall of dot.coms
Netscape: The First Fleck of Gold
by Go For Broke
The classic children’s book, Goodnight Moon, was banned from the New York public library.
monamok recommended:Oct 30th, 2020
As a parent who has read this book to their kiddos, it was so interesting to hear the social context of this book and people who you wouldn’t imagine excluding it from libraries. Super recommended!
415- Goodnight Nobody
by 99% Invisible
Love libraries? Listen to this playlist from a Podyssey member who got married at a library!
Coco Chanel was a Nazi.
rmmiller364 recommended:Oct 29th, 2020
I feel very ignorant right now because I had NO IDEA that Coco Chanel was a Nazi collaborator. Wow, podcasts teach me so much.
55. Women At War 3: The Collaborator (Coco Chanel)
by The Land of Desire: French History and Culture
Explore animal vaginas with this hilarious British comedy pod.
tvidatko recommended:Oct 29th, 2020
Today I've binged several episodes of 'The Boring Talks' podcast and let me tell you: Duck's vaginas are really something! 🦆
#29 - Animal Vaginas
by The Boring Talks
This serial killer hunts his victims like animals — Hunger Games style.
He blindfolds his victims, releases them out into the wilderness, gives them a head start... then he hunts them down with his hunting rifle. Hunting is his favorite game and human are his favorite p...Show More
✨ Podcast Partner Spotlight: Sinica Podcast
A weekly discussion of current affairs in China. Whether you’re an armchair Sinophile or a decision maker in boardrooms or embassies, get informed and entertained on all that is happening in modern China.
👉 Episode Feature: How does censorship actually work in China? Expert Molly Roberts takes a deep, data-driven look at the way that internet censorship functions, and how it impacts Chinese internet users.
Censored: Molly Roberts on how China uses deterrence, distraction, and dilution to control its internet
Sinica Podcast
51:16 | Jun 18th, 2020
1 recommendation
This week on Sinica, we continue with the ongoing California series of podcasts that Kaiser recorded last winter, and present a conversation taped in December, when he chatted with Margaret (Molly) Ro...Show More
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