NYTimes Podcast Club: Suggestions Sunday - Podcasts for Long Stretch of Winter (01/12/20)

“The strong do what they want, and the weak suffer what they must.” — Athenian embassy to Melos via Thucydides “As far as right and wrong are concerned, our people think there is no difference b...Show More

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An unconventional love story about a teenager, the Pacific Ocean, and an encounter with something wild.  Grayson, by Lynne Cox Lynne's latest is Swimming in the Sink. You can find more about Lynne at ...Show More

Izzy visits Christie's house post-holiday madness for a moment of brief reflection.  Christie has a new puppy, Izzy's eaten so much she may float away, and both of your favorite Capricorns are ready f...Show More

We here at Heat Rocks talk a lot about Prince, and this marks the FIFTH episode where we're discussing an album of his. Around in the World in a Day incorporated more psychedelia and a wider variety o...Show More

When Ollie Wards' brother Greg marries his American dream girl in New Zealand and they go into business together, it seems like a perfect start to a new life. But only a few months later, Greg is hear...Show More

Host Christian Wallace takes us back to his hometown in the Permian Basin, which is nearly unrecognizable to him today. We meet a few of the people whose lives have been upended by the biggest oil boo...Show More

This season started with the question: How did we get here? How did Stefano and Harris overdose and die in their early 30s? How did our country lose 400,000 lives to opioids since 1999? In the new yea...Show More

Between 1854 and 1929, 250,000 orphans - at peril in the dangerous, overcrowded streets of New York - were placed on trains and sent west to live with new families. A desperate solution to a desperate...Show More

Growing up Noah knew his grandparents had survived the Holocaust, but his questions had always been sidelined.

Episode 108: Things are still... well, we'll say MILDLY HAYWIRE. Also, Thor has a secret(s), X and a certain dashing figure try to out-hero each other, and X contemplates the simultaneously infinite a...Show More

This week, a telephone scammer makes a terrible mistake. He calls Alex Goldman.   Further Reading If you suspect you are a victim of a tech support scammer, you see a suspicious pop-up, or get an uns...Show More

After a drunken slip of the tongue, Steve Marsh and his siblings discover a secret their mother has been keeping for almost 40 years. Now, Steve wants to help his mom take action. Credits Heavyweight ...Show More

Here we have episode 1 of the NEW podcast by the Nerdy Boys here at Nerdy Things Podcast. We talk about Season 1 Episode 1 of “The Good Place” – “Pilot” ‘Everything...Show More

Podcast host, Naomi Van Winkle, shares her reason for creating this podcast, as well as her childhood experiences inside the Kings Chapel religious group of Norwich, CT.

In this episode of Intelligence Matters, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and senior Obama administration official Samantha Power speaks with host Michael Morell about a wide range of topi...Show More

EPISODE DETAILS Veteran radio actor Sue Scott, having been “put out to pasture,” has just washed up on the island. Dazed and confused, she sets out on a mission to discover what this island is all abo...Show More

"Half A Life.”   "Half A Life" is a season four episode of The Next Generation which beautifully and painfully portrays the love story between Lwaxana Troi and Dr. Timicin of the planet Kaelon II, sho...Show More

Reporting by Vicky Baker Drama by Chloe Moss Anna Delvey was due to come into a trust fund of $67m on her 26th birthday. She was on her way to establishing the Anna Delvey Foundation, a multi-million...Show More

Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell are still in a standoff over the rules for the Senate impeachment proceedings. Pelosi still hasn’t sent the articles of impeachment to the Senate, and it looks like Mc...Show More

Today is Friday, January 10, and we’re looking at MolsonCoors vs. Heineken. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-i...Show More

A vast ruined bath house, a fire-damaged poem and a world teetering on the brink of collapse. In this episode, we look at the history of the collapse of Roman Britain. Find out how a great civilizat...Show More

Both of the world’s greatest economists, Irving Fisher and John Maynard Keynes, thought they could see into the future and make a killing on the stock market - and then both were wiped out by the Wall...Show More

We’re featuring an episode from the ZigZag podcast called “The Weird Kids at the Big Tech Party.” Before Silicon Valley was dominated by the Big Five tech companies, there was Mozilla - founded by c...Show More

Psychic Predictions 2019 Review; News Items: Virtual Humans, GM Trees, Australian Fires, Engrams, Puffin Tool Use; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction

John McWhorter on the history and evolution of no and not. Join Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, exclusive member-only podcasts, and more. Sign up for a free trial today at www.slate.com/podcas...Show More

The first chapters of Acts describe the perfect community of the Jerusalem Jesus club. Events take a dark turn after the first five chapters. The club is beset by tribulations. The disciples decide to...Show More

[Part 1 of 3] Pennsylvania State University student Ross Ulbricht had been fascinated with mathematics and science from a young age. During his college years, he developed a new fascination with li...Show More