obsessive podcasts

Acquired

Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal · Technology

Four-hour company histories treated like great literature. The best business show ever made.

Astonishing Legends

Astonishing Legends Productions · Society & Culture

The world's strangest legends, researched to the ends of the earth.

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check Productions · Film Reviews

Two friends podcast through entire filmographies, bit by glorious bit.

Dissect

The Ringer · Music

One classic album dissected line by line, a season at a time.

Founders

David Senra · Entrepreneurship

One founder biography distilled per episode, by a man possessed.

In The Dark

The New Yorker · True Crime

Investigative reporting that has actually reopened cases, one season at a time.

Pablo Torre Finds Out

The Athletic · Sports

Sports mysteries investigated for real. The rare show that breaks actual news.

Serial

Serial Productions & The New York Times · News

The show that invented binge journalism: one story, told week by week.

Up and Vanished

Tenderfoot TV · True Crime

A citizen investigation that helped crack a real cold case wide open.

Cold

KSL Podcasts · True Crime

One missing woman, one season, and the most thorough case file in podcasting.

Huberman Lab

Scicomm Media · Health & Fitness

Stanford neuroscience translated into protocols, at length.

Odd Lots

Bloomberg · Investing

Bloomberg's deep dives into the weirdest corners of markets and money.

The Tim Ferriss Show

Tim Ferriss · Entrepreneurship

Tim Ferriss deconstructs world-class performers down to their habits.

60 Songs That Explain the '90s

The Ringer · Music

Rob Harvilla explains the 90s one song and one feeling at a time.

The Magnus Archives

Rusty Quill · Performing Arts

An archive of paranormal statements that slowly reveals it is one enormous story.