25 Best Gimlet Podcasts
A list of the most popular Gimlet podcasts on Podyssey Podcasts.
25 Best Gimlet Podcasts
1. Reply All
"'A podcast about the internet' that is actually an unfailingly original exploration of modern life and how to survive it." - The Guardian. Hosted by Alex Goldman and Emmanuel Dzotsi from Gimlet.
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51:29 | Jul 27th, 2017
138 RECOMMENDATIONS
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
2. Science Vs
There are a lot of fads, blogs and strong opinions, but then there’s SCIENCE. Science Vs is the show from Gimlet that finds out what’s fact, what’s not, and what’s somewhere in between. We do the hard work of sifting through all the science so you do...Show More
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Joe Rogan: The Malone Interview
43:14 | Feb 5th, 2022
14 RECOMMENDATIONS
Recently, Joe Rogan aired an interview that scientists are up in arms about — with Dr. Robert Malone. Malone talked smack about the Covid-19 vaccines, talking about scary side effects and implying tha...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.3. StartUp Podcast
A series about what it's really like to start a business.
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40:28 | Oct 18th, 2019
7 RECOMMENDATIONS
As acquisition talks with Spotify continue, Alex and Matt face their hopes and fears about what might lie ahead.
4. Heavyweight
Maybe you’ve laid awake imagining how it could have been, how it might yet be, but the moment to act was never right. Well, the moment is here and the podcast making it happen is Heavyweight. Join Jonathan Goldstein for road trips, thorny reunions, a...Show More
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40:57 | Nov 9th, 2017
14 RECOMMENDATIONS
Four years ago, Jesse was hit by a car and nearly died. Now he wants to find the driver. And thank him.CreditsHeavyweight is hosted and produced by Jonathan Goldstein.This episode was also produced by...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.5. Crimetown
Welcome to Crimetown, a series produced by Marc Smerling and Zac Stuart-Pontier in partnership with Gimlet Media. Each season, we investigate the culture of crime in a different city. In Season 2, Crimetown heads to the heart of the Rust Belt: Detroi...Show More
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37:37 | Feb 26th, 2017
3 RECOMMENDATIONS
After a lucrative career as a thief, Charles Kennedy has an important realization: the real money is in drugs. He rises to become one of the East Coast’s biggest traffickers, throwing coke-fuelled par...Show More
6. Every Little Thing
Who invented pants? How did ‘pink for girls’ and ‘blue for boys’ happen? What do dogs say when they bark? ELT is here to answer your burning questions. If you have a question that needs answering, call the ELT Help Line at 833-RING-ELT or send an aud...Show More
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How Police Sketch Artists Read Your Mind
23:17 | Feb 17th, 2020
9 RECOMMENDATIONS
A police sketch artist reveals how she turns your fuzzy memory into a sharp drawing. Sketch artist Kelly Lawson from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation walks us through the process. Thanks to Gary We...Show More
7. Homecoming
Now a Prime Original TV series. From Gimlet, Homecoming centers on a caseworker at an experimental facility, her ambitious supervisor, and a soldier eager to rejoin civilian life — presented in an enigmatic collage of telephone calls, therapy session...Show More
Most Recommended Episode
24:09 | Nov 16th, 2016
10 RECOMMENDATIONS
New clients arrive. A customer asks for the bill. The airport signage needs a lot of work. A bird wakes up in the Everglades.Homecoming was created and written by Eli Horowitz and Micah Bloomberg; dir...Show More
8. Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel
Listen to the incomparable therapist Esther Perel counsel real couples as they reveal the most intimate, personal, and complicated details of the conflicts that have brought them to her door. This season, she takes on open marriage, racism inside an ...Show More
Most Recommended Episode
51:19 | Oct 8th, 2017
3 RECOMMENDATIONS
[Contains mature themes] He reached out because a year after the discovery of his affair, they aren’t fighting anymore, but they certainly haven’t moved on. Esther guides them towards a more honest co...Show More
9. Mystery Show
A podcast about mysteries, hosted by Starlee Kine. From Gimlet.
Most Recommended Episode
51:33 | Jun 5th, 2015
32 RECOMMENDATIONS
A young boy finds an enchanting object in the street. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
10. The Pitch
Where real entrepreneurs pitch to real investors—for real money. The Pitch takes you behind closed doors and into the world of startups: how people sell their ideas, what makes investors tick, and how these initial conversations can bloom into busine...Show More
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#85 Will Coronavirus Kill This Deal?
35:12 | Mar 11th, 2020
3 RECOMMENDATIONS
There’s a tried and true playbook in tech: get a ton of users, then figure out how to monetize them. Today’s founder, Ofo Ezeugwu, has plenty of users on his site, but the investors press Ofo about hi...Show More
11. The Habitat
On a remote mountain in Hawaii, there's a fake planet Mars. Six volunteers are secluded in an imitation Mars habitat where they will work as imitation astronauts for one very real year. The goal: to help NASA understand what life might be like on the...Show More
Most Recommended Episode
28:46 | Apr 18th, 2018
10 RECOMMENDATIONS
The crew leaves Earth behind. The Habitat is a production of Gimlet Media. It’s produced by Lynn Levy, Peter Bresnan, and Megan Tan. Our editors are Alex Blumberg, Jorge Just, Caitlin Kenney, and Blyt...Show More
12. Undone
When big news happens, the world tunes in and then moves on. But often the stories we thought were over haven’t really ended; they were the beginning of something else. Undone is a new show from Gimlet Media that digs up the surprising things that ha...Show More
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41:03 | Nov 15th, 2016
2 RECOMMENDATIONS
One summer night in 1979, 50,000 people got together at a baseball stadium to kill disco. And it worked. Kind of. In this first episode of "Undone" we meet someone who worked as an usher at Disco Demo...Show More
13. Surprisingly Awesome
A show that delves into topics that seem mundane, annoying and sometimes downright boring - to reveal that they're surprisingly awesome.
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32:08 | Nov 5th, 2015
1 RECOMMENDATION
Adam McKay helps Adam "Who Cares about Sports" Davidson conquer the free throw. The Facts The Reverend John DeLore mixed this episode, and wrote and performed music for it, along with his bandmates, J...Show More
14. The Clearing
When April Balascio was 40 years old, something she’d feared for decades was finally proven true. Her father, Edward Wayne Edwards, really was a murderer. The Clearing is about what came after April called a detective in 2009 to tell him about her su...Show More
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15. Without Fail
Candid conversations with entrepreneurs, artists, athletes, visionaries of all kinds—about their successes, and their failures, and what they learned from both. Hosted by Alex Blumberg, from Gimlet Media.
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Ira Glass: The Man Who Launched a Thousand Podcasts
54:45 | Dec 10th, 2018
7 RECOMMENDATIONS
In November 1995, Ira Glass quietly launched the first episode of This American Life. The rest, as they say, is history. Today his show is a colossal success and Ira Glass is a household name. But in ...Show More
16. Mogul
Mogul is a show about hip hop’s most iconic moments, told by the people who lived them. Season 2 dives into the birth of southern hip hop. It all started in Miami with the 2 Live Crew, a group that took hip hop and made it faster, harder, and nastier...Show More
Most Recommended Episode
41:57 | Jul 28th, 2017
2 RECOMMENDATIONS
August 30th, 2012. A day that shook hip hop. Chris Lighty was discovered dead in his Bronx home. The official cause of death: a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. In this episode, we talk to pe...Show More
17. Uncivil
America is divided, and it always has been. We're going back to the moment when that split turned into war. This is Uncivil: Gimlet Media's new history podcast, hosted by journalists Jack Hitt and Chenjerai Kumanyika. We ransack the official version ...Show More
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31:54 | Nov 15th, 2017
3 RECOMMENDATIONS
We dig deep into the anthem of the Confederacy, and learn that almost everything we thought we knew about it... was wrong. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
18. Sandra
Helen’s always dreamed of ditching her hometown, so when she lands a job at the company that makes Sandra, everyone's favorite A.I., she figures it’s the next-best thing. But working behind the curtain isn’t quite the escape from reality that Helen e...Show More
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19:56 | Apr 18th, 2018
9 RECOMMENDATIONS
Welcome to Orbital Teledynamics — as far from Guymon as you can get without actually leaving Guymon.Directed by Sebastian Silva; written by Kevin Moffett and Matthew Derby; executive produced by Mimi ...Show More
19. The Nod
The Nod tells the stories of Black life that don’t get told anywhere else, from an explanation of how purple drink became associated with Black culture to the story of how an interracial drag troupe traveled the nation in the 1940s. We celebrate the ...Show More
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Josephine and The Amazing Technicolor Rainbow Tribe
29:56 | Mar 6th, 2018
3 RECOMMENDATIONS
Josephine Baker is famous for doing outrageous things: dancing in a banana skirt, walking a cheetah on a leash, working as a French spy… But did you know about her attempt to build a racial utopia? Th...Show More
20. Conviction
Manuel Gomez is a detective straight out of a detective novel. He carries a pen that’s really a knife, wears a watch that’s really a camera, adores Sherlock Holmes and Miami Vice. But the cases Gomez takes on are all too real: cases of young men in N...Show More
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Episode 1: Meet the Quinneys (Season 2)
27:57 | Feb 25th, 2020
7 RECOMMENDATIONS
In 1989, nine-year-old John Quinney accused his father Melvin of being a satanic cult leader and abusing him in satanic rituals. His father vehemently denied the charges. It was a case that tore their...Show More
21. Story Pirates
The award-winning Story Pirates Podcast takes stories written by kids and turns them into sketch comedy and songs. Made up of talented comedians, songwriters, and frequent celebrity guests, the Story Pirates inspire kids to create, bringing laughter ...Show More
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Summer Bonus: I Want To Be Rich/Fart Out Loud Day/Nothing Is Impossible
21:36 | Aug 16th, 2018
2 RECOMMENDATIONS
A new summer bonus episode from the Story Pirates coming atcha! Today’s episode features a new story called I Want To Be Rich by a 3rd grader from Massachusetts named Sammy, as well as two of our favo...Show More
22. The Two Princes
Rupert and Amir are finally getting married and this time nothing is going to stop them. Not the handsome new prince who’s rolled into town and only has eyes for Rupert. Not the mysterious disappearance of half the kingdom’s population. Not even the ...Show More
Most Recommended Episode
27:40 | Jun 4th, 2019
9 RECOMMENDATIONS
Rupert wants answers. Lavinia wants a wedding. The Forest wants... something. The Two Princes was created and written by Kevin Christopher Snipes and directed by Mimi O'Donnell. Kelly AuCoin- Knight, ...Show More
23. Twice Removed
A new family history podcast hosted by A.J. Jacobs. They say we’re one big family: this is the show that proves it. You will be filled with delight… or abject horror. You never know. It’s family.
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1:08:29 | Dec 16th, 2016
3 RECOMMENDATIONS
Dan Savage has helped redefine what it means to be a family in the 21st Century. And given his ancestors, it’s no surprise why. Dan’s family history traces back to the 1920s Chicago mob scene, a South...Show More
24. How's Work? with Esther Perel
This season on How's Work?, iconic couples therapist Esther Perel focuses on the hard conversations we're afraid to have in our jobs: Colleagues navigating the new etiquette of a work from home workforce. Newsrooms whose journalists feel that coverin...Show More
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54:48 | Feb 11th, 2020
3 RECOMMENDATIONS
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
25. Sampler
Sampler brings you the best moments from the world of podcasts. We'll feature bite size tastes from a variety of shows plus we'll talk with podcasters to find out why they do what they do. Sampler is hosted by Brittany Luse and a different spe...Show More
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