Podcast Brunch Club is like book club, but for podcasts. We have chapters all over the world. We'll keep a running list of the episodes we're listening to here (starting in October 2019)
Since the Internet exploded journalism’s business revenue, local newsrooms around the country have been in free fall. We speak to The Denver Post's former managing editor and other experts to debate h...Show More
Stat: 64 percent of Americans say fake news is causing confusion over basic facts, according to the Pew Research Center. Story: It’s becoming increasingly more difficult to sort fact from fiction in t...Show More
Michael Barbaro, who hosts the hit podcast The Daily for the New York Times, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher in front of a live audience at the 92nd Street Y in New York City. Barbaro explains why he...Show More
The news to know for Friday, June 28th, 2019! Today, what to know about President Trump's meetings at the G20 Summit, a U.S. Supreme Court ruling about the 2020 census, and Twitter's new rules for pol...Show More
Erica Mandy, the founder and host of the theNewsWorthy, chats with Jenna Spinelle, one of the co-leaders of our virtual PBC chapter. We featured an episode of The NewsWorthy on the podcast listening l...Show More
Adela and Sara discuss the podcast playlist on Breaking the News, which included episodes from Crazy/Genius, After the Fact, Recode Decode, and The NewsWorthy. We talked about: * Breaking the ...Show More
Who should get to keep secrets, and who should demand to know them? In this hour, TED speakers talk about the damage secrets can do, and the shifting roles we play when we keep, or share them. In a sp...Show More
What if, as a child born into a white Jewish family, anytime someone remarked about your skin color, a story was told about a distant Sicilian grandfather? Even if it was obvious that wasn't the whole...Show More
Madison Marriage broke a story that ricocheted around the world. The sleazy goings on of the President’s Club fundraising dinner provoked shock and outrage from all camps.But where did it all begin…. ...Show More
Secrets is a show about the secrets we all carry inside of us. When Mohamed El Abed found out that he had a secret sister, it was 25 years before he could start putting the pieces together. Across six...Show More
In this interview, Adela chats with the founder of PostSecret, Frank Warren. PostSecret is a project that allows people to send in anonymous, decorated postcards with a secret on it. Frank gave a TED ...Show More
In this interview, Stevie chats with the creator behind Secrets series that appeared on the Showcase from Radiotopia podcast, Mohamed El Abed. Podcast Brunch Club members worldwide listened to the fir...Show More
In this interview, Stevie (PBC chapter leader in Minneapolis) chats with the creator behind The Tip Off, Maeve McClenaghan. Podcast Brunch Club members worldwide listened to an episode of The Tip Off ...Show More
Adela and Sara discuss the podcast playlist on Secrets, which included episodes from TED Radio Hour, The Tip Off, Family Secrets, and Showcase from Radiotopia. The playlist was curated by Becca Bryers...Show More
Are some ideas so dangerous we shouldn’t even talk about them? That question brought Radiolab’s senior editor, Pat Walters, to a subject that at first he thought was long gone: the measuring of human ...Show More
In the first episode of G, Radiolab’s miniseries on intelligence, we went back to the 1970s to meet a group of Black parents who put the IQ test on trial. The lawsuit, Larry P v Riles, ended with a ba...Show More
Albert Einstein asked that when he died, his body be cremated and his ashes be scattered in a secret location. He didn’t want his grave, or his body, becoming a shrine to his genius. When he passed aw...Show More
This past fall, a scientist named Steve Hsu made headlines with a provocative announcement. He would start selling a genetic intelligence test to couples doing IVF: a sophisticated prediction tool, bu...Show More
This episode begins with a rant. This rant, in particular, comes from Dan Engber - a science writer who loves animals but despises animal intelligence research. Dan told us that so much of the way we ...Show More
Adela and Sara discuss the G series from Radiolab, which explored the concept of intelligence. They then diverge, as usual, to talk about other podcast recommendations. This is what we talked about...Show More
To celebrate the 100th episode of the Disrupt Yourself Podcast, we're disrupting our format a bit. In Episode 80 we gave you a preview of an online course we're developing. It's been our most download...Show More
At 27, Sara Blakely was selling fax machines and desperate to reinvent her life. So she came up with Spanx — hosiery that eliminates panty lines — and set to work building her business. See Privacy P...Show More
An athlete as a kid, a devastating sports injury would change James Clear's life forever. While a sophomore in high school, a baseball bat struck Clear in the face, resulting in massive head trauma. ...Show More
A story from Unthinkable producer and Marketing Showrunners staff writer, Tallie Gabriel, about a startup that's gone global with its attempts at reinventing live music, and how they manage to use sma...Show More
In this interview, Adela chats with Whitney Johnson, the host of the Disrupt Yourself podcast. The theme for the October PBC playlist was “Disruption” and we listened to an episode of Disrupt Yourself...Show More
Adela and Sara discuss the Disruption listening list, which explored the concept of disruption in both the business and the personal realms. This is what we talked about: * Disruption podcast ...Show More
In the 500th edition of the programme, Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the philosophical idea of free will. Free will - the extent to which we are free to choose our own actions - is one of the m...Show More
What if a device could tell you exactly how satisfied you’d be with any decision? What if you could carry the future around in your pocket? What if you never had to say “what if” again? Performed by ...Show More
Fundamental forces of physics somehow determine everything that happens, “from the birth of a child to the birth of a galaxy.” Yet physicist Leonard Mlodinow has an intriguing perspective on the gap b...Show More
From renting hotels to a jobs report-like census in the night, we look at ways communities are helping the homeless.
Cities are symbols of hope and opportunity. But today, overcrowding and gentrification are hurting their most vulnerable residents. This hour, TED speakers explore how we can build more humane cities....Show More
Matt and Liam were travelling and sick the past two weeks, so no conventional episode of Gimme Shelter this fortnight. Instead we present a collection of interviews with big city mayors on housing and...Show More
In the third episode of 'Making a house a home' we turn our spotlight to Housing First. Why is this probably the best way to fight homelessness? What does the case of Finland show to the rest of...Show More
Adela chats with a guest co-host, Zachary Davis, about the Free Will podcast listening list, which featured episodes that explore free will through various lenses, including science, philosophy, relig...Show More
In this interview, Jenna (chapter leader of the virtual chapter of PBC) chats with Sarah Gonzalez, host and reporter on the Planet Money podcast. The theme for the December PBC playlist was Homelessne...Show More
Let’s face it – there’s a lot of bulls**t flying around on the Internet. But where is it all coming from? This week, we tackle fake news, propaganda, and misinformation from a few different angles. We...Show More
Fake news may seem new, but in reality, it's as old as American journalism. This week, we look at a tension at the heart of news coverage: Should reporters think of the audience as consumers, or as c...Show More
Disinformation is a powerful weapon. It forces your enemy to inflict damage upon themselves based upon lies that you've deliberately spread. How did a homeless man's corpse help win World War II? How ...Show More
Are social networks downplaying their complicity in the problem that is “fake news?”Anil talks to Fadi Quran of the people powered social advocacy group, Avaaz, about how tech is used to target groups...Show More
Anne Applebaum talks to Renée DiResta about building a more trustworthy Internet. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy infor...Show More
In this interview, Stevie (chapter leader of the Minneapolis chapter) chats with Matt Levin, co-host of the Gimme Shelter: The California Housing Crisis Podcast, which we was included in our December ...Show More
Adela and Sara discuss the Homelessness listening list, which highlight some of the struggles and solutions communities are using to tackle the issue of homelessness. They also veer off topic to disc...Show More
Support PBC: * Become a monthly Patreon member (and get some bonus content) * Make a one-time donation via Paypal In this interview, Jenna (chapter leader of the virtual chapter of PBC) cha...Show More
In this interview, Stevie (chapter leader of our Minneapolis chapter) talks with Rhaina Cohen. Rhaina is the producer on the Hidden Brain episode, “Fake News: An Origin Story,” which we listened to as...Show More
Fukushima. Chernobyl. Three Mile Island. There’s been some big nuclear accidents over the past few decades, but how dangerous is nuclear power really? We take you inside the core of America’s biggest ...Show More
If we're going to embrace nuclear energy, we want to understand the effects of radiation and how to handle them. And that’s just the sort of work Dr. Lauren Jackson does! She joins us to talk about ho...Show More
Nuclear energy is still a controversial idea for many people, with dangerous accidents and destructive bombs being at the top of their minds when they hear the words, yet other renewable energy source...Show More
Every day, we go about our lives doing thousands of routine, mundane tasks. And sometimes, we make mistakes. Human error. It happens all the time. It just doesn’t always happen in a nuclear missile s...Show More
Technology allows us to bank, shop and dine without talking to another human, but what toll is this taking on our happiness? The inventor of the ATM and the Talking Heads singer David Byrne join Dr La...Show More
We gave our Happiness Guinea Pig a mission: Do five random acts of kindness in one day.
Professional artists aren't the only people who can make art. In this episode, learn how to weave art into your everyday life. Because whether you're doodling, making pottery or embroidering, creativi...Show More
In this interview, we hear from Dr. Ha Vinh Tho, the Program Development Coordinator of the Gross National Happiness Centre in Bhutan. Tho is also the founder and chairman of Eurasia Foundation, a hum...Show More
The Happiness Industry: Laurie Taylor talks to Will Davies, Professor in Politics at Goldsmiths, University of London, who asks why policy makers have become increasingly focused on measuring happines...Show More
Support PBC: * Become a monthly Patreon member (and get some bonus content) * Make a one-time donation via Paypal Sara and Adela discuss the Nuclear Power listening list, which offers an overvie...Show More
Support PBC: * Become a monthly Patreon member (and get some bonus content) * Make a one-time donation via Paypal In this episode, we’re joined by Heather Welch, the leader of our chapter in Wel...Show More
Support PBC: * Become a monthly Patreon member (and get some bonus content) * Make a one-time donation via Paypal In this episode, we’re joined by Andi Paradise, the former leader of our chapter...Show More
Welcome to what is possibly the most tense and uncomfortable summer program in America! The Boston-based program aims to teach the next generation the real truth about race, and may provide some ideas...Show More
They flew fighter jets together in Iraq and Afghanistan. Then they co-founded a successful business. Now, for the first time in their adult lives, they’re ready to part ways professionally, but they d...Show More
Chris Voss is an American businessman, author, and professor. Voss is a former FBI hostage negotiator, the CEO of The Black Swan Group Ltd, and co-author of the book, Never Split the Difference. Chris...Show More
We could all get better at conversing with our fellow humans. It’s just so easy these days to hide behind our screens, and when we’re finally face to face with actual people, we’re often talking too m...Show More
What if you could tell your co-workers what you really think of them? At the world’s most successful hedge fund, everyone is rated and ranked constantly – in front of everyone. They’ve figured out how...Show More
The fashion therapist and Project Runway mentor chats with Michael about his journey from an art student to one of the most trusted names in the fashion world. In this deeply personal and heartfelt co...Show More
When Axton Betz-Hamilton was 11 years old, her parents' identities were stolen. At that time, in the early 90s, consumer protection services for identity theft victims were basically non-existent. So ...Show More
Lindsey Buckingham is a singer-songwriter, a guitarist, and a producer. In 1974, he joined the band Fleetwood Mac, along with Stevie Nicks, his girlfriend at the time. A few year later, in 1977, Fleet...Show More
Actor Timothy Olyphant feels “eh” about being Conan O’Brien’s friend. Timothy and Conan sit down this week to chat about their favorite hobbit names, playing a mean mofo on-screen, buying a g...Show More
Georgia Tann of Memphis, Tennessee bragged that she had a rigorous selection process that matched the perfect child with the perfect home. Barbara Raymond's book is The Baby Thief. Say hello on Twi...Show More
Support PBC: * Become a monthly Patreon member (and get some bonus content) * Make a one-time donation via Paypal Sara and Adela discuss the Happiness listening list, which offers perspectives o...Show More
Jenna interviews Wendy Zukerman, the host of the amazing Science Vs podcast. Science Vs has been on a number of PBC listening lists, including our recent supplemental listening on Coronavirus, Nuclear...Show More
[Contains mature themes] A woman realizes she doesn’t want to have children and comes to Esther for help expressing this to her husband, who passionately wishes to be a father. But often the stories p...Show More
This is one of the rarest stories of all: a man who publicly experiences a profound change of heart. This is a profile of one of the gods of psychotherapy, who through a reckoning with his own wor...Show More
Dr. Gabor Maté is a world-renowned trauma expert who can (and will) deconstruct your happy childhood in a matter of minutes. At least, that’s what he did to our host, Stephanie. We start this episode ...Show More
As a psychotherapist, Lori Gottlieb sees her role as helping patients understand their stories. But how does she help a patient understand a story in which she is a character? You can catch up with T...Show More
Sara and Adela discuss the Conversation listening list, which was curated for the PBC community by the one-and-only Adam Grant! The episodes included on the list were from Invisibilia, How’s Work? Wit...Show More
Sara and Adela discuss the episodes on the PBC Chapter Leaders Favorite Episodes list and we hear from our chapter leaders in Moscow, San Francisco, Nairobi, New York, and Ames about what their chapte...Show More
A discussion with Gregory Warner, the host of Rough Translation. Rough Translation was on our Looking for Love playlist and was the podcast pick when we interviewed Sarah Gonzalez, host of Planet Mone...Show More
A discussion of the June PBC podcast listening list on Therapy. We also share a few podcast recommendations. Find the full show notes on the web at: https://podcastbrunchclub.com/therapy-roundup ...Show More
How are the origins of the French Revolution connected with Beyoncé, Jay Z and Rihanna? The answer lies with one of the world's most mysterious – and misunderstood – secret societies, the Illuminati.&...Show More
How conspiracy theories helped to create the U.S. and became the currency of political opportunists.
Conspiracism A functional conspiracy theory uses facts and rational arguments to prove that things are not as they seem. Conspiracism is a conspiracy without the theory. Conspiracism takes the form of...Show More
LANGLEY, VIRGINIA, 2011: The Scorpions’ song “Wind of Change” became the soundtrack to the end of the Cold War. But decades later, New Yorker investigative journalist Patrick Radden Keefe heard a rumo...Show More
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.
We're dropping an episode of Inside Podcasting into the feed this week. Listen to this interview with Nigel Poor and Earlonne Woods, creators and hosts of Ear Hustle. Support PBC: * Become a m...Show More
Open episode in podcast app of choice A discussion with Stephanie Wittels Wachs, the host of Last Day and the founder of Lemonada Media. Podcast Brunch Club members worldwide listened to and discus...Show More
This two-episode special is based on a course that Dr. Harriet Lerner and I did together on her groundbreaking book, “Why Won’t You Apologize?: Healing Big Betrayals and Everyday Hurts.” You can expec...Show More
We trace the journey of an apology, from Japan to the U.S., that got an unlikely broker. Along the way, she had to work out: what a sorry is, who it's for, and what makes it stick.
When Soraya was in college, her favorite professor hired her to help research a book she was writing. But when she fell into a deep depression and dropped out of school, she abandoned both the book an...Show More
From the Digital Box Set: Over the lifetime of a company, mistakes happen. When those mistakes cause damage, it's appropriate for a brand to apologize. Yet, it rarely happens. This week, we look at th...Show More
Real apologies from real people, all across the globe. This episode's theme - kids. Apologies come from England, Australia, Pakistan, China, USA, Philippines. This intimate podcast might be the ...Show More
A discussion of the July PBC podcast listening list on Conspiracy. We also share a few podcast recommendations. Find the full show notes on the web at: https://podcastbrunchclub.com/conspiracy-roun...Show More
A discussion with Mila Atmos, the host and executive producer of Future Hindsight. Podcast Brunch Club members worldwide listened to and discussed “The New Conspiracism: Nancy Rosenblum” from Future H...Show More
Gene Policinski joins Tim to talk about the First Amendment and how it continues to influence American society. He’s a Senior Fellow for the First Amendment at the Freedom Forum and he’s President of ...Show More
When Albert Snyder arrived for the funeral service of his son Matthew, a young Marine who died in the Iraq War, he was surprised by the noise and chaos that greeted him. Seven members of the Westboro ...Show More
In a spirited conversation with Dane Giraud, Maori broadcaster and commentator Ward Kamo discusses Maori perspectives on Free Speech and how banning offensive speech denies Maori the opportunity to "s...Show More
Does Freedom of Speech have limits in the workplace? Walter Mosley was working as a writer on a TV show. One day, in the writers' room, he shared with his colleagues the story of his disturbing encoun...Show More
Robin talks to fellow journalists around the world who have to walk the fine line between an espousal of free speech rights and their own safety. Is there reason to be optimistic about the future? He...Show More
A discussion with Brett de Hoedt, the host and executive producer of The Hardest Word. Podcast Brunch Club members worldwide listened to and discussed “Apologies from parents to their kids” from The H...Show More
A discussion of the August PBC podcast listening list on Apologies. We also share a few podcast recommendations. Find the full show notes on the web at: https://podcastbrunchclub.com/apologies-roun...Show More
Uncertainty can be hard to live with — especially when it feels never-ending. In this episode, Life Kit hears from three people who have survived tough times and gained perspective.
“When all the ordinary divides and patterns are shattered, people step up to become their brothers’ keepers,” Rebecca Solnit writes. “And that purposefulness and connectedness bring joy even amidst de...Show More
Embracing Uncertainty: Sheltering in Love - Part 9 (2020-05-20) - How we tolerate uncertainty - during current times and throughout our lives - has a powerful effect on our capacity for presence, ali...Show More
Epictetus was born into slavery and beaten until he was lame... but he became one of Ancient Rome's greatest thinkers by accepting every setback as an opportunity to learn and grow.Philosophy professo...Show More
A discussion with Tim O’Brien, the creator behind Shaping Opinion. Podcast Brunch Club members worldwide listened to and discussed “The 1st Amendment: 45 Words that Shaped America” from Shaping Opinio...Show More
On this roundup episode, Adela is joined by Paul Kondo, creator behind Podcast Gumbo (a weekly podcast discovery newsletter and a quick fun weekly podcast). Paul also curated the podcast listening lis...Show More
AI is coming...to make you better. Byron Reese has been thinking about and observing technology for a long time. He says as long as we keep learning, we never need to worry about losing jobs, especial...Show More
Because more people are working from home, employers are increasingly using software that monitors much more than just your hours on the clock. Featuring Adam Satariano (@satariano) Pui-Wing Tam (@pu...Show More
How did we get to a place where life's become an endless treadmill of work? In her latest book, Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation, Anne Helen Petersen tackles this question....Show More
Have you ever had a job where you had to stop and ask yourself: what am I doing here? If I quit tomorrow, would anyone even notice? This week on Hidden Brain, we talk with anthropologist David Graeber...Show More
A discussion of the October PBC podcast listening list on NAVIGATING UNCERTAINTY. We also hear thoughts from some of our PBC members and share a few podcast recommendations. Find the full show note...Show More
People with at least four decades between them, share and compare their life experiences. Featuring a Nottinghamshire woman who came to the UK from Czechoslovakia with The Kindertransport; the two Cov...Show More
A discussion with Chris Gethard, the creator behind Beautiful Stories from Anonymous People, or Beautiful/Anonymous for short. The premise of the podcast is this: 1 phone call. 1 hour. No names. No ho...Show More
A discussion of the November podcast playlist on WORKING HARD OR HARDLY WORKING? We also hear thoughts from some of our PBC members and share a few podcast recommendations. Find the full show notes...Show More
A discussion with Juleyka Lantigua-Williams, an all-around podcast powerhouse who is the founder and CEO of Lantigua Williams & Co and hosts a number of shows including How to Talk to [Mamí & Papí] ab...Show More
Friendship is hard, but the best way to tackle it is to talk about it. In this episode, you'll learn from the experts about how to make new friends and deepen your existing relationships.
The Therapy for Black Girls Podcast is a weekly conversation with Dr. Joy Harden Bradford, a Licensed Psychologist in Atlanta, Georgia, about all things mental health, personal development, and all th...Show More
"Your white friend can just make one comment and it feels like a trap door has opened up from underneath," one listener told us when we asked for stories about race and friendship. "And I’m thrust bac...Show More
What three little words have Mark tongue-tied around his friends? They're not the ones you think. Mark goes to long-term and long distance BFFs Darnell and Dimetrius to puzzle out his fear of a certai...Show More
Friends aren’t just fun to hang out with and handy in a pinch. They’re also a biological necessity. Rufus talks to journalist Lydia Denworth, author of a new book on the science of friendship, who exp...Show More
France is the place where for decades you weren't supposed to talk about someone's blackness, unless you said it in English. Today, we're going to meet the people who took a very French approach to ch...Show More
Being Black in Italy means you’re likely NOT born a citizen. Until the Civil War, the same was true for Black people in the United States. Citizenship was reserved for white people only. These histori...Show More
The elders who lived through segregation pass down the wisdom and knowledge they gained as they learned to safely navigate extremely tense, frightening, and humiliating situations. In this episode we ...Show More
Raised apart in Ghana and Germany, sisters Nana and Adjoa had very different childhoods. Now, Adjoa has sacrificed opportunities in Europe to come home to Ghana, but Nana can't understand why. Whilst ...Show More
We all know about the death of George Floyd. But what about his life? On this special episode of “Post Reports,” we tell the story of Floyd’s family, his upbringing and how racism hobbled his ambition...Show More
A discussion of the December podcast playlist on GENERATIONS. We also hear thoughts from some of our PBC members and share a few podcast recommendations. Find the full show notes on the web at: htt...Show More
A movement's begun to expose the mental load women shoulder. All that relentless, unpaid, thankless and invisible work women do. Naming it is powerful, right? But we want solutions! Author Eve Rodsky ...Show More
Reese Witherspoon joins Jameela to talk about how instagram helped her control her own narrative, struggling with postpartum depression, the red carpet advice Meryl Streep once shared, how "funny does...Show More
Ep 8: In the tradition of Eleanor Roosevelt, Hillary Rodham Clinton travels to Beijing to argue that women’s rights are human rights, setting new global priorities. To learn more about listener dat...Show More
A special bonus episode produced in collaboration with the Standard Hotel as part of their new audio programming platform, Sometimes Radio, and recorded in the Library Lounge of the Standard Hotel’s L...Show More
A discussion with Becca Bryers, who hosts Multi Story and is the chapter leader of our PBC chapter in East Midlands. We featured an episode of Multi Story called “Generations” on our December 2020 pod...Show More
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
Yellowstone National Park is where we saved the American bison from extinction. But each year, we slaughter hundreds of animals from this prized herd. Why? Learn more on this episode of Threshold.
In this season we're tackling Big Oil's big propaganda machine—its origins, the spin masters who created it, and why it's been so effective. It all began more than 100 years ago with Standard Oil, Joh...Show More
The images of dolphins in the Venice canals and coyotes parading through Chicago and elephants asleep in a field were held up as the silver lining of 2020. And from these nature memes emerged a sort o...Show More
Listen, 2020 has been rough. Between the pandemic, climate fires, police brutality, and the election, this year has felt like we’re hurtling down a highway to hell. But today, we’re taking an exit. In...Show More
A discussion of the January podcast playlist on FRIENDSHIP. We also hear thoughts from some of our PBC members and share a few podcast recommendations. Find the full show notes on the web at: https...Show More
Robert Hoge doesn’t look like most people. He was born with severe defects; growing up, he had to get used to people calling him “ugly.” This week, Robert reflects on the lie we all tell ourselves: th...Show More
We love it. We hate it. BEAUTY CULTURE. Looking good can make us feel decorated, empowered and more confident -- but why? And why are certain groups subtly told to "make-up" for their appearance...Show More
Beauty and ugliness - to what extent are our ideas about physical perfection culturally and socially constructed? Laurie Taylor talks to Gretchen Henderson, Lecturer in English at Georgetown Universit...Show More
Never has the saying 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder' been more true, than in nature. This week, we ponder a question: who really decides what is beautiful? It is the creatures who do not fit ou...Show More
Some may think of beauty as frivolous and fun, but on this episode, we're examining a few of the ugly ways that its been used to project power.
A discussion with Mark Pagán, host and producer of Other Men Need Help (OMNH). We featured an episode of OMNH called “I Miss You. Period.” on our January 2021 podcast playlist on Friendship. Find t...Show More
Bernie Krause was a successful musician as a young man, playing with rock stars like Jim Morrison and George Harrison in the 1960s and '70s. But then one day, Bernie heard a sound unlike anything he'd...Show More
Synesthesia is a neurological condition where one sensory experience gets combined with another, meaning someone might hear sounds when they eat, or see colors when they listen to music. So what exact...Show More
Why do some people find noises like a fork scraping a plate so terrible? asks Findlay in Aberdeenshire. Rutherford and Fry endure some horrible noises to find out the answer. Warning - This episode c...Show More
We'll kick off the chase with Diana Deutsch, a professor specializing in the Psychology of Music, who could extract song out even the most monotonous of drones. (Think Ben Stein in Ferris Bueller. Bue...Show More
Buzz and Sheldon are brothers in their eighties who have been estranged for decades. Buzz visits Sheldon to see if there’s still a relationship left to salvage.Our SponsorsCalm.com - Visit calm.com/he...Show More
Even before coronavirus led to social distancing, widespread working from home, and lockdown restrictions, loneliness was becoming a defining condition of the twenty-first century. Today, this pandemi...Show More
Heather McGhee is an expert in economic and social policy, and author of the best-selling book The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together. She is the former president of...Show More
Should we reuse and refill plastic packaging to limit the amount being thrown away? Nick Holland looks at different ways people are trying to make this happen. One idea is to take used containers ba...Show More
For 30 years, US News & World Report has been using a secret formula to rank the best colleges and universities in the United States. As a public service to our listeners, we hack the algorithm and di...Show More
In 1955, a boy from Chicago was murdered in rural Mississippi. Who his killers were was an open secret — but none were found guilty of the crime. More than 50 years later, spurred by the work of activ...Show More
Connor doesn't trust his memory. Actor, comedian, and showrunner of Adam Ruins Everything Adam Conover explains that, without a doubt, Connor is misremembering the details of his experience on Band o...Show More
Once a photo gets on the internet, it could end up anywhere. 0:01 - we have a Patreon now! 2:13 - product on Amazon 4:10 - Billy's tweet 4:22 - Hellicus's tweet 4:48 - Ryan Broderick 7:00 - CCb...Show More
The mysterious story of a German soldier, a faked Syrian identity and a loaded gun in an airport bathroom cracks the door open to a network of far-right extremists inside the German military and the p...Show More
An oldie but problem-ey? This week as part of our mother's day episodes we have Mindy’s mom, Sharon, on the podcast. We discuss how Snow White influenced her life. The non-profit pairing this week is ...Show More
The story of the brothers Grimm and how they came to publish a book of fairy tales has become something of a folk legend in itself. The conventional wisdom is that the Grimms collected their tales fro...Show More
The stories which preceded modern iterations of Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, and Little Red Riding Hood were often much more disturbing (R)
Greg Jenner and his guests uncover the gruesome truths behind some of our most-loved fairy tales that have kept children and adults enchanted for centuries. In comedy corner, we have the wickedly funn...Show More
This is the third episode in a series on fairy tales and Disney Princesses. This week, my friend Kali and I are talking all about that fiery red-headed fish, The Little Mermaid! We discuss the tragedy...Show More
When volcanoes erupt, they spray particles into the atmosphere that cool the planet for a bit. As we get closer and closer to truly catastrophic global warming, more and more scientists are wondering ...Show More
Thomas Kostigen joins us to talk about his latest book, Hacking Planet Earth: How Geoengineering Can Help Us Reimagine the Future!
Leading climate models point to a sobering reality: Even if the world’s economy reaches net zero emissions by midcentury, we will still have too much CO2 in the atmosphere. And so if we have to not ju...Show More
“We are as gods and might as well get good at it,” Stewart Brand famously wrote in “The Whole Earth Catalogue.” Human beings act upon nature at fantastic scale, altering whole ecosystems, terraforming...Show More
* Show notes website link: podcastbrunchclub.com/1021. * This month’s official podcast playlist is on the theme of GEOENGINEERING THE CLIMATE. * Join one of our in-person local chapters or our g...Show More
This week we are traveling all over the map to bring you stories about culinary diasporas. So, what exactly is a diaspora? What do we mean when we talk about it in the context of food? The term diaspo...Show More
Anti-Asian hate has surged since the coronavirus outbreak, and some of the most common targets have been Chinese food businesses. Tamasin Ford speaks to three people who’ve witnessed the rise of Sino...Show More
Can you have your cake and eat it? Do you have bigger fish to fry? Are you seduced by food imagery in literature, and lured into rash purchases by the purple prose of food packaging? This, then, is ...Show More
This week on AnthroDish, I am interviewing freelancer writer and journalist, Shailee Koranne. Based out of Toronto, ON, she writes about pop culture, bodies, cultural production, politics, and identit...Show More
A chance encounter with Paul Rudd at a movie theater causes formerly devout Jehovah’s Witness, Quinta Brunson, to rethink her future and embark on a new life. Featuring Paul Rudd and Dan Wilson.
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Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration
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I loved this format! I think they should do a spin off and use this exact format for a new podcast about animal intelligence.