Serialized Non-fiction Podcasts

16 episodes

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  • 1

    The Dropout tells the story of the rise and fall of former Silicon Valley darling Elizabeth Holmes, the youngest self-made female billionaire. She dropped out of Stanford to launch her company Therano...Show More

    mm recommended:

    This will be good! Can't wait to hear what happened to Theranos with interviews from Elizabeth Holmes herself.

  • 2

    There’s nothing as intoxicating as piles of money, unless the Feds are watching you count it.

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    The Airplane Game sounds absolutely crazy. I was trying to figure out what they were "selling" for most of the episode, but it turns out they were just playing some weird pyramid cash game? Still tryi...Show More

  • 3

    Episode 1: The Arrival

    Sanctioned: The Arrest of a Telecom Giant

    31:32 | Apr 25th, 2019

    5 recommendations

    Meng Wanzhou lands in Vancouver on what was supposed to be a routine transit stop. Instead, she finds herself under arrest, accused of violating economic sanctions in Iran and facing the possibility o...Show More

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    Started listening to this about the Huawei Meng case. They definitely amped up the drama. Terrific use of the podcast form.

  • 4

    Before he was the 44th President, Barack Obama worked as a community organizer on the South Side of Chicago. Hear how the city shaped his political ambitions.

  • 5

    Drug users are the experts. We’ve survived. We know policy better than policy-makers. We know law better than lawmakers. We know pharmaceuticals better than pharmacists. We know nobody’s coming to sav...Show More

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    Really well produced podcast series by drug users about the dire and urgent situation they’re facing.

  • 6

    Prologue: The Mission

    Caliphate

    06:28 | Apr 19th, 2018

    2 recommendations

    The war on terror has cost the U.S. billions and has been fought for nearly 20 years. Rukmini Callimachi, a foreign correspondent for The New York Times, asks, “Who are we really fighting?”

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    Loved this podcast! Top notch journalism from the NYTimes. Learned a lot about ISIS.

  • 7

    S1 Ep. 1: Martha

    Slow Burn

    27:28 | Nov 28th, 2017

    6 recommendations

    People called her crazy, and to be fair she must have seemed crazy. But she was onto something. How Martha Mitchell, the celebrity wife of one of Nixon’s closest henchmen, tried to blow the whistle on...Show More

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    Very well produced podcast. If only people took Martha Mitchell seriously then Watergate would have been resolved much faster. But nope, newspapers just treated her as gossip in the women's section of...Show More

  • 8

    Ep.01 ‘We choose to go’

    13 Minutes to the Moon

    44:58 | May 12th, 2019

    2 recommendations

    With no idea how to get there, the race to the moon begins – "we intend to win". To understand how the story ends, we need to start at the very beginning. With Kevin Fong. Starring: Michael Collins St...Show More

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    Going to the moon was an amazing human feat. Listen to the history of how it happened.

  • 9

    EP 1: The Fixer

    Chapo

    25:57 | Nov 1st, 2018

    Vice News travels to the Sinaloa cartel stronghold of Culiacán, where we meet a drug trafficker and see how cartel violence affects daily life. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informat...Show More

  • 10

    Locals call it Murder Bay.It might be the most dangerous city for Indigenous youth in the world. But to others, it's their white nirvana.Host Ryan McMahon wants to know - not who killed all those kids...Show More

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    Omgosh...What is happening in Thunder Bay? Why do people think it's okay to throw things from their car at Indigenous people who are just walking on the street?

  • 11

    The Day Max Died

    Who the Hell is Hamish?

    19:26 | Feb 8th, 2019

    1 recommendation

    Tracy fell in love with Max Tavita, a man who won her over with tales of a life in the investment world and how he was working in the World Trade Center in New York when the first plane hit in 2001. T...Show More

  • 12

    A Different Kind of Star [1]

    To Live and Die in LA

    31:25 | Feb 28th, 2019

    4 recommendations

    When a 25-year-old aspiring actress and model vanishes from outside her Hollywood apartment, award-winning journalist and bestselling author Neil Strauss finds himself at the center of the investigati...Show More

    mm recommended:

    Ok after three people raved about this one, I finally gave in to give it a listen. Definitely hooked me in with the mysterious disappearance of an aspiring young star. But already a bit frustrated tha...Show More

  • 13

    A Pack of Lies

    The Bellingcat Podcast

    31:34 | Jul 24th, 2019

    1 recommendation

    Following the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, a mysterious troll army storms social media and a state sponsored disinformation campaign launches. Bellingcat dismantles the lies one by one.

  • 14

    The first season of Sick starts with the story of a mother and son, a generation apart, who both struggled with infertility. And they learn a terrible secret about an Indianapolis doctor who abused hi...Show More

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    Holy. Moly. Oh. My. Lord. Horrifying investigative series about an ob-gyn who artificially inseminates his patients with his own sperm in the 70s. Now there are 60+ half siblings with his DNA. This po...Show More

  • 15

    Trailer: The Baron of Botox

    The Baron of Botox

    03:06 | Jan 2nd, 2020

    1 recommendation

    This is the stranger-than-fiction story of an extraordinary doctor named Fredric Brandt. A man with a surgeon's hand and an artist's eye, whose famous patients saw him as a side door to eternal youth,...Show More

  • 16

    One: Wonderland

    Rabbit Hole

    26:49 | Apr 16th, 2020

    10 recommendations

    A young man finds escape on the internet. He doesn’t realize that on the other side of the screen, a force is pulling him in.

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    Watching one cat video leads to another cat video leads to another cat video... Hear from the guy who helped build YouTube’s addictive algorithm. The metrics you choose define the product you build an...Show More

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