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10% Happier with Dan Harris

10% Happier · Mental Health

A skeptical newsman's practical path into meditation.

contemplative · hopeful · restrained

2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer

YMH Studios · Comedy

Two best friends, zero filter, maximum bear energy.

playful · gritty · witty

20/20

ABC News · True Crime

ABC's newsmagazine crime stories, told full-length.

twisty · restrained · tense

48 Hours

CBS News · True Crime

CBS's long-running true crime institution, one case per episode.

twisty · tense · restrained

60 Songs That Explain the '90s

The Ringer · Music

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

wistful · witty · obsessive

99% Invisible

Roman Mars · Design

The hidden design of everyday things, told with calm curiosity and perfect pacing.

cerebral · contemplative · stylish

Acquired

Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal · Technology

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

obsessive · cerebral · epic

Against the Rules with Michael Lewis

Pushkin Industries · Society & Culture

Michael Lewis on referees, experts, and the people we stopped trusting.

cerebral · twisty · gritty

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg

All-In Podcast, LLC · Technology

Four billionaires argue about tech, markets, and each other.

cerebral · kinetic · gritty

American History Tellers

Audible · History

American history as immersive audio drama, one era per season.

epic · warm · cerebral

And That's Why We Drink

Christine Schiefer, Em Schulz · Comedy

One believer, one skeptic, ghosts and true crime and boxed wine.

witty · playful · dread

anything goes with emma chamberlain

emma chamberlain · Self-Improvement

Emma Chamberlain thinks out loud, honestly, about whatever is on her mind.

contemplative · cozy · dreamlike

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella · Comedy

Dax Shepard's disarmingly honest celebrity conversations about being human.

warm · contemplative · witty

Astonishing Legends

Astonishing Legends Productions · Society & Culture

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

obsessive · atmospheric · cerebral

Bad Friends

7EQUIS · Comedy

Bobby Lee and Andrew Santino, best friends, worst influences.

playful · witty · kinetic

Bear Brook

NHPR · True Crime

A cold case in the New Hampshire woods that rewrote how murders get solved.

atmospheric · twisty · restrained

Behind the Bastards

Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts · Society & Culture

The worst people in history, roasted with deep research and open contempt.

witty · gritty · relentless

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check Productions · Film Reviews

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

obsessive · witty · playful

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar

iHeartPodcasts · Politics

Anti-establishment news from a left-right duo that agrees the middle is broken.

gritty · kinetic · cerebral

Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond

Pushkin Industries · Music

Rick Rubin and friends in unhurried conversation with great musicians.

contemplative · warm · stylish

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

NPR · Society & Culture

Jesse Thorn's generous, career-spanning interviews with people who make culture.

warm · cerebral · stylish

Call Her Daddy

Alex Cooper · Comedy

Alex Cooper's confessional interviews turned cultural juggernaut.

stylish · playful · tender

Casefile True Crime

Casefile Presents · True Crime

Anonymous, meticulous true crime with zero banter and total focus.

bleak · restrained · unsettling

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

Pushkin Industries · History

Elegant little disaster stories about how smart people get things terribly wrong.

cerebral · unsettling · restrained

Circle Round

WBUR · Kids & Family

Folktales from around the world, retold warmly for little ears.

cozy · whimsical · tender

Club Shay Shay

Shay Shay Media & Playmaker · Football

Shannon Sharpe pours drinks and pulls legendary stories out of legends.

warm · gritty · stylish

Code Switch

NPR · Society & Culture

Race and identity in America, reported with candor and nuance.

cerebral · gritty · warm

Cold

KSL Podcasts · True Crime

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

bleak · obsessive · restrained

Comedy Bang Bang: The Podcast

Earwolf and Scott Aukerman · Comedy

Improvised character chaos where every episode goes somewhere gloriously stupid.

whimsical · playful · witty

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Team Coco & Earwolf · Comedy

Conan needs a friend and auditions a new famous one weekly.

whimsical · warm · witty

Crime Junkie

Audiochuck · True Crime

Full Body Chills pacing, case-a-week discipline, the biggest true crime show there is.

tense · gritty · restrained

Criminal

Vox Media Podcast Network · True Crime

True crime told quiet and precise, more curious than lurid.

restrained · unsettling · cerebral

Dan Carlin's Hardcore History

Dan Carlin · History

Five-hour history epics that hit like feature films. Start with the fall of anything.

epic · relentless · awe

Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe

iHeartPodcasts · Natural Sciences

A physicist and a cartoonist explain the universe like best friends at a whiteboard.

playful · awe · warm

Darknet Diaries

Jack Rhysider · Technology

True stories from the dark side of the internet, told like heists.

tense · twisty · paranoid

Dateline: Missing in America

NBC News · True Crime

Dateline digs into missing persons cases that never made the broadcast.

melancholy · restrained · tense

Dateline NBC

NBC News · True Crime

Television's veteran true crime team, in audio, case after case.

twisty · tense · restrained

Dateline Originals

NBC News · True Crime

Dateline's original serialized investigations, beyond the broadcast.

twisty · tense · restrained

Death, Sex & Money

Slate Podcasts · Relationships

The conversations we avoid, had out loud with strangers.

tender · contemplative · gritty

Decoder Ring

Slate Podcasts · Documentary

Cultural mysteries cracked open, from mood rings to the Macarena.

cerebral · whimsical · contemplative

Decoder with Nilay Patel

The Verge · Business

Nilay Patel asks executives the hard questions about how their companies actually work.

cerebral · restrained · stylish

Dirty John

LA Times Studios · True Crime

A whirlwind romance curdles into coercion in this landmark true crime serial.

tense · twisty · unsettling

Dissect

The Ringer · Music

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

obsessive · cerebral · awe

Distractible

Distractible · Comedy

Three internet friends compete pointlessly and delightfully about everything.

playful · whimsical · warm

Dolly Parton's America

WNYC Studios & OSM Audio · Music History

Nine chapters on Dolly Parton as the great American unifier.

awe · warm · wistful

Doughboys

Headgum / Doughboys Media · Comedy

Two comedians review chain restaurants with the seriousness of war reporters.

witty · playful · gritty

Dr. Death

Audible · True Crime

A charming surgeon leaves a trail of maimed patients. The system let him.

unsettling · tense · gritty

Ear Hustle

Ear Hustle & Radiotopia · Documentary

Life inside prison, told by the people living it.

tender · gritty · hopeful

Empire: World History

Goalhanger · History

How empires rise, rule, and rot, told by two great raconteurs.

epic · cerebral · stylish

Fall of Civilizations Podcast

Fall of Civilizations Podcast · History

Feature-length elegies for collapsed civilizations, gorgeous and devastating.

epic · melancholy · awe

Fantasy Footballers - Fantasy Football Podcast

Fantasy Football · Sports

Fantasy football advice with actual jokes and actual accuracy.

playful · kinetic · witty

A doctor's calm conversations about living well, beyond prescriptions.

warm · hopeful · contemplative

Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade

Audacy · Comedy Interviews

Carvey and Spade swap SNL lore with the people who lived it.

warm · witty · wistful

Founders

David Senra · Entrepreneurship

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

obsessive · cerebral · relentless

Freakonomics Radio

Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher · Documentary

The hidden side of everything, argued with data and charm.

cerebral · witty · playful

Fresh Air

NPR · Arts

Terry Gross, still the best interviewer alive.

warm · cerebral · contemplative

Futility Closet

Greg Ross · History

An amiable tour of history's oddest true footnotes and lateral puzzles.

whimsical · cerebral · cozy

Generation Why: True Crime

Audible · True Crime

Two friends walk through infamous cases with theories, skepticism, and decades of rapport.

cozy · cerebral · gritty

Giggly Squad

Hannah Berner & Paige DeSorbo · Comedy

Hannah and Paige giggle through culture like a group chat come alive.

playful · witty · stylish

Global News Podcast

BBC World Service · Daily News

The BBC's twice-daily sweep of everything happening on Earth.

restrained · cerebral · relentless

Good Hang with Amy Poehler

The Ringer · Comedy

Amy Poehler hangs out with people she likes. That's it. It's great.

warm · playful · witty

Handsome

Headgum · Comedy

Three comedians answer questions they are wildly unqualified to answer.

witty · warm · playful

Hard Fork

The New York Times · Technology

Two Times journalists keep up with tech's weirdest, fastest year, weekly.

witty · kinetic · cerebral

Heavyweight

Pushkin Industries · Personal Journals

Jonathan Goldstein helps people revisit the moment their life forked, gently and hilariously.

wistful · tender · witty

Hidden Brain

Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam · Science

Shankar Vedantam on the unconscious patterns steering your life.

cerebral · contemplative · dreamlike

History That Doesn't Suck

Prof. Greg Jackson · History

American history that earns the title, funny and rigorously sourced.

warm · witty · epic

Homecoming

Gimlet · TV & Film

A caseworker, a shadowy program, and memories that don't line up.

paranoid · restrained · twisty

How Did This Get Made?

Earwolf and Paul Scheer, June Diane Raphael, Jason Mantzoukas · Comedy

Three friends celebrate the best worst movies ever made.

witty · playful · kinetic

How I Built This with Guy Raz

Guy Raz | Wondery · Business

Founders retell the origin story you only hear after the exit.

uplifting · warm · cerebral

Huberman Lab

Scicomm Media · Health & Fitness

Stanford neuroscience translated into protocols, at length.

cerebral · obsessive · restrained

In The Dark

The New Yorker · True Crime

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

obsessive · gritty · restrained

Invisibilia

NPR · Personal Journals

The invisible forces that shape human behavior, told like fables.

dreamlike · cerebral · tender

KILL TONY

Golden Pony Productions · Comedy

Live open-mic chaos where new comics face the room and the panel.

kinetic · gritty · witty

Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang

Big Money Players Network and iHeartPodcasts · Comedy

Pop culture run through two very fast, very funny brains. I don't think so, honey.

kinetic · witty · stylish

Last Podcast On The Left

The Last Podcast Network · True Crime

Heavy research and heavier laughs across serial killers, cults, and cryptids.

witty · dread · gritty

Lex Fridman Podcast

Lex Fridman · Technology

Long, patient conversations with scientists, builders, and controversial minds.

contemplative · cerebral · restrained

Limetown

Two-Up · Drama

Three hundred people vanish from a research town. A reporter starts asking why.

paranoid · tense · twisty

Literally! With Rob Lowe

Stitcher & Team Coco, Rob Lowe · Society & Culture

Rob Lowe charms his way through Hollywood war stories with famous friends.

warm · witty · cozy

Lore

Aaron Mahnke · History

The dark folklore behind real places and the fears we inherited.

dread · atmospheric · restrained

Maintenance Phase

Aubrey Gordon & Michael Hobbes · Health & Fitness

Wellness fads and diet science put under a rigorous, funny microscope.

witty · cerebral · gritty

Marketplace

Marketplace · Business

Kai Ryssdal makes the day's economy make sense on your drive home.

warm · cerebral · restrained

Masters of Scale

WaitWhat · Management

Reid Hoffman tests theories of scale with the founders who lived them.

uplifting · cerebral · stylish

Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast

Matt McCusker & Shane Gillis · Comedy

Philly-basement comedy that conquered the world anyway.

gritty · witty · playful

Mind the Game

UNINTERRUPTED | Wondery · Sports

LeBron and Steve Nash talk basketball the way masters talk craft.

cerebral · warm · contemplative

Modern Love

The New York Times · Society & Culture

The Times' beloved essays about love, read aloud and lived further.

romantic · tender · wistful

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson · Society & Culture

Chris Williamson interrogates modern life with philosophers and scientists.

cerebral · contemplative · gritty

Morbid

Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart · True Crime

A hairdresser and an autopsy tech make the macabre feel like girls' night.

witty · dread · playful

Morning Wire

The Daily Wire · News

The Daily Wire's fast conservative morning brief.

restrained · kinetic · gritty

MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories

Ballen Studios · True Crime

Strange, dark, mysterious stories delivered with military precision.

dread · tense · atmospheric

My Brother, My Brother And Me

The McElroys · Comedy

Three brothers give terrible advice and perfect bits. Comfort listening at its purest.

playful · warm · whimsical

My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark

Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts · True Crime

The show that made true crime comedy a genre. Stay sexy.

witty · playful · gritty

New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce

Wondery · Sports

The Kelce brothers on football, family, and everything in between.

playful · warm · kinetic

Noble Blood

iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild · History

Royal history's bloodiest footnotes, delivered like bedtime stories with knives.

stylish · melancholy · twisty

Normal Gossip

Normal Gossip · Comedy

Anonymous everyday gossip retold as delicious serialized drama.

playful · witty · cozy

NPR News Now

NPR · News

NPR's newscast, refreshed hourly, five minutes flat.

restrained · kinetic · cerebral

Odd Lots

Bloomberg · Investing

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

cerebral · obsessive · witty

Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster

Plosive · Comedy Interviews

Guests order their dream meal in a magical restaurant run by two idiots.

cozy · whimsical · witty

Office Ladies

Audacy & Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey · Comedy

Jenna and Angela rewatch The Office with the stories only they have.

cozy · warm · playful

Old Gods of Appalachia

DeepNerd Media · Science Fiction

Appalachian horror folklore in a world where the mountains keep old, hungry things.

dread · atmospheric · gritty

Ologies with Alie Ward

Alie Ward · Science

A different -ology every week, taught by a scientist who loves it madly.

playful · awe · warm

On Being with Krista Tippett

On Being Studios · Society & Culture

Krista Tippett's slow, luminous conversations about what it means to be human.

contemplative · tender · awe

On Purpose with Jay Shetty

Perfect Strangers · Health & Fitness

Jay Shetty's calm conversations on purpose and peace of mind.

hopeful · contemplative · warm

Our Fake History

PodcastOne · History

Historical myths put on trial: what really happened versus the story we tell.

twisty · witty · cerebral

Pablo Torre Finds Out

The Athletic · Sports

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

obsessive · witty · twisty

Pardon My Take

Barstool Sports · Sports

Barstool's chaos-engine sports comedy. Football Guy of the Week included.

playful · kinetic · witty

Park Predators

Audiochuck · True Crime

Murders and disappearances in America's national parks.

atmospheric · tense · restrained

Pivot

New York Magazine · News

Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway spar over tech, business, and power.

witty · kinetic · stylish

Planet Money

NPR · Business

The economy explained through stories so fun you forget you're learning.

playful · cerebral · witty

Pod Save America

Pod Save America · News

Former Obama staffers on the week in politics, exasperated and fluent.

kinetic · witty · gritty

Pop Culture Happy Hour

NPR · Film Reviews

NPR's friendly daily huddle on what to watch, read, and hear.

warm · witty · playful

Post Reports

The Washington Post · Daily News

The Post's deep daily dive on the story that matters most.

restrained · cerebral · gritty

Radiolab

WNYC Studios · Natural Sciences

Science storytelling that turns a question you never asked into an hour you can't stop replaying.

cerebral · awe · playful

RedHanded

RedHanded · True Crime

Sharp British true crime with wit, rigor, and real empathy.

witty · gritty · unsettling

Revisionist History

Pushkin Industries · Society & Culture

Malcolm Gladwell re-examines things overlooked and misunderstood, one contrarian story at a time.

cerebral · twisty · playful

Revolutions

Mike Duncan · History

Every great revolution, narrated with clarity from first spark to final purge.

epic · cerebral · relentless

Rotten Mango

Stephanie Soo · True Crime

Stephanie Soo tells true crime like a friend who cannot stop researching.

unsettling · twisty · stylish

S-Town

Serial Productions · Personal Journals

A tip about a murder unspools into a haunting portrait of one Alabama town.

melancholy · atmospheric · wistful

Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

Justin McElroy, Dr. Sydnee McElroy · Comedy

A doctor and her husband tour medicine's most misguided cures, laughing the whole way.

witty · cozy · cerebral

Scamfluencers

Audible · Society & Culture

Con artists of the influencer age, unpacked scam by glorious scam.

stylish · twisty · witty

Science Vs

Spotify Studios · Science

Fads and headlines versus what the studies actually show.

witty · cerebral · kinetic

Sean Carroll's Mindscape

Sean Carroll · Physics

A physicist's long, patient conversations at the edge of what we know.

cerebral · contemplative · awe

Search Engine

PJ Vogt · Technology

PJ Vogt answers questions you didn't know you had, beautifully.

cerebral · whimsical · contemplative

Serial

Serial Productions & The New York Times · News

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

obsessive · twisty · restrained

Serialously with Annie Elise

Annie Elise & Audioboom Studios · True Crime

YouTube-native true crime with courtroom-level detail, weekly.

kinetic · gritty · tense

Short Wave

NPR · Life Sciences

Daily science joyrides in fifteen minutes flat.

playful · cerebral · uplifting

Small Town Murder

James Pietragallo, Jimmie Whisman · Comedy

Comedians tell shocking small-town cases with respect for victims and none for towns.

witty · gritty · playful

SmartLess

Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes, Will Arnett · Comedy

Bateman, Hayes, and Arnett needle each other in front of famous guests.

warm · witty · playful

Snap Judgment

Snap Judgment and PRX · Performing Arts

Cinematic true stories with a musical pulse and a storyteller's swagger.

kinetic · atmospheric · warm

Snapped: Women Who Murder

Oxygen · True Crime

Oxygen's cases of women pushed to the unthinkable.

twisty · tense · gritty

Someone Knows Something

CBC · True Crime

A veteran investigator revisits cold cases with the families still waiting.

melancholy · restrained · tender

Something You Should Know

Mike Carruthers | OmniCast Media · Science

Intriguing facts and expert interviews you retell at dinner.

cozy · cerebral · playful

Song Exploder

Hrishikesh Hirway · Music

Musicians take apart one song and show you where the magic lives.

contemplative · awe · tender

Spooked

KQED and Snap Studios · Performing Arts

True supernatural stories told fireside by people who were there.

dread · atmospheric · tender

StarTalk Radio

Neil deGrasse Tyson · Science

Neil deGrasse Tyson takes the cosmos personally, with comics riding shotgun.

awe · playful · cerebral

Story Pirates

Story Pirates · Kids & Family

Kids' stories written by kids, performed by professionals who commit completely.

whimsical · playful · warm

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

iHeartPodcasts · Life Sciences

Twice-weekly wonders from the weird edges of science and culture.

cerebral · dreamlike · playful

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts · Society & Culture

Josh and Chuck explain literally anything, amiably, for the thousandth time.

cozy · playful · cerebral

Swindled

Swindled · True Crime

White-collar crime told deadpan by a concerned citizen. Corporate villainy, perfectly seasoned.

restrained · gritty · cerebral

Switched on Pop

Vulture · Music Commentary

Two music nerds decode why pop songs work.

playful · cerebral · stylish

Sword and Scale

Sword and Scale · True Crime

The dark end of the true crime spectrum, unflinching.

bleak · dread · unsettling

Thanks For Asking

Feelings & Co. · Personal Journals

Honest stories about grief and the complicated middle of getting through.

tender · melancholy · hopeful

The Ancients

History Hit · History

The ancient world brought close, one expert conversation at a time.

cerebral · awe · atmospheric

The Ben Shapiro Show

The Daily Wire · News Commentary

Conservative commentary at full speed, five days a week.

relentless · cerebral · gritty

The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)

Ascension · Religion & Spirituality

Father Mike Schmitz reads the whole Bible with you, day by day.

contemplative · warm · hopeful

The Bible Recap

Tara-Leigh Cobble · Religion & Spirituality

Tara-Leigh Cobble recaps each day's Bible reading in plain language.

warm · contemplative · hopeful

The Big Picture

The Ringer · TV & Film

Big conversations about movies, the business, and the Oscars race.

stylish · cerebral · witty

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer · Sports

Sports and pop culture from the guy who built a media empire on both.

witty · kinetic · cozy

The Black Tapes

Pacific Northwest Stories · Drama

A journalist chases a demonologist's unsolvable tapes into the dark.

dread · paranoid · atmospheric

The Bright Sessions

Atypical Artists · Fiction

Therapy sessions for people with strange abilities, warmer than it sounds.

tender · hopeful · dreamlike

The Bulwark Daily

The Bulwark · News

Never-Trump conservatives on the day's politics, briskly.

gritty · cerebral · kinetic

The Daily

The New York Times · News

The Times' flagship daily: one story, told deeply, every morning.

restrained · cerebral · contemplative

The Dan Le Batard Show

Dan Le Batard · Sports

Sports radio that treats absurdity as the point. Meshuggeneh included.

playful · whimsical · warm

The Dan Patrick Show

iHeartPodcasts and Dan Patrick Podcast Network · Sports

The dean of sports talk, holding court like it's an art form.

warm · witty · kinetic

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

DOAC · Business

Steven Bartlett's long-form interviews about success and its costs.

contemplative · stylish · cerebral

The Dollop with Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds

All Things Comedy · Comedy

One comedian reads American history's dumbest true stories to another, cold.

witty · gritty · playful

The Dropout

ABC News · True Crime

Elizabeth Holmes and the nine-billion-dollar lie, from first believer to final verdict.

twisty · unsettling · stylish

The Ezra Klein Show

New York Times Opinion · Society & Culture

Ezra Klein thinks through the biggest questions with the sharpest guests.

cerebral · contemplative · restrained

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

Pushkin Industries · Society & Culture

A Yale professor teaches the science of feeling better, gently.

hopeful · cerebral · warm

The Headlines

The New York Times · News

The Times' morning headlines in under ten minutes.

restrained · kinetic · cerebral

The History of Rome

Mike Duncan · History

Rome, from foundation myth to fall, in one legendary chronological run.

epic · cerebral · restrained

The Indicator from Planet Money

NPR · Business

One economic idea, ten minutes, every weekday.

playful · cerebral · kinetic

The Infinite Monkey Cage

BBC Radio 4 · Science

British scientists and comedians argue about the universe over tea.

witty · cerebral · playful

The Intelligence from The Economist

The Economist · Daily News

The Economist's daily brief: global, dry, and quietly essential.

cerebral · stylish · restrained

The Joe Rogan Experience

Joe Rogan · Comedy

Three-hour conversations with everyone from comics to controversial scientists.

kinetic · gritty · contemplative

The Journal.

The Wall Street Journal & Spotify Studios · Daily News

The Wall Street Journal's best story of the day, told like a story.

restrained · cerebral · stylish

The Magnus Archives

Rusty Quill · Performing Arts

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

dread · atmospheric · obsessive

The Megyn Kelly Show

SiriusXM · News

Megyn Kelly's daily interrogation of politics and media.

relentless · gritty · cerebral

The MeidasTouch Podcast

MeidasTouch Network · News

Rapid-response progressive legal and political commentary.

relentless · kinetic · gritty

The Mel Robbins Podcast

Mel Robbins · Education

Mel Robbins turns behavioral science into marching orders.

uplifting · warm · relentless

the memory palace

Nate DiMeo · History

Tiny, gorgeous history miniatures that will wreck you in six minutes.

wistful · dreamlike · tender

The Moth

The Moth · Performing Arts

True stories told live on stage, no notes, all heart.

tender · warm · wistful

The NoSleep Podcast

Creative Reason Media Inc. · Science Fiction

Original horror fiction performed like campfire stories for adults.

dread · unsettling · atmospheric

The NPR Politics Podcast

NPR · Politics

NPR's politics team explains the week without the shouting.

cerebral · kinetic · restrained

The Pat McAfee Show

Pat McAfee, ESPN · Football

Loud, live, unfiltered sports talk with the boys.

kinetic · playful · gritty

The Prosecutors

PodcastOne · True Crime

Two prosecutors re-try famous cases with actual courtroom rigor.

cerebral · restrained · twisty

The Psychology of your 20s

iHeartPodcasts · Mental Health

The psychology of the decade everyone said would be fun.

warm · hopeful · cerebral

The Ramsey Show

Ramsey Network · Business

Dave Ramsey yells at debt. Callers keep calling.

relentless · warm · gritty

The Rest Is History

Goalhanger · History

Two historians make the past feel like the best dinner party in Britain.

witty · epic · cerebral

The Rest Is Politics

Goalhanger · Politics

Two former insiders disagree agreeably about how politics actually works.

cerebral · witty · restrained

The Rewatchables

The Ringer · TV & Film

The Ringer rewatches the movies you can't turn off, category by category.

cozy · witty · playful

The Shawn Ryan Show

Shawn Ryan · Society & Culture

Long-form sitdowns with operators, spies, and people who lived the classified life.

gritty · tense · contemplative

The Sporkful

Dan Pashman · Arts

It's not for foodies, it's for eaters.

playful · warm · cozy

The Tim Ferriss Show

Tim Ferriss · Entrepreneurship

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

cerebral · obsessive · contemplative

The Town with Matthew Belloni

The Ringer · Society & Culture

How Hollywood actually works, from the deals to the desperation.

stylish · cerebral · gritty

The Tucker Carlson Show

Tucker Carlson Network · News

Tucker Carlson's interview show, unbound.

gritty · relentless · paranoid

The Watch

The Ringer · TV & Film

Prestige TV and pop culture, argued about smartly twice a week.

witty · cerebral · kinetic

This American Life

This American Life · Society & Culture

The original: true stories about ordinary Americans, told perfectly for decades.

tender · wistful · warm

This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von

Theo Von · Comedy

Theo Von's fever-dream storytelling and surprisingly tender interviews.

witty · warm · gritty

Throughline

NPR · History

The history hiding underneath the news.

cerebral · epic · contemplative

Tides of History

Audible / Patrick Wyman · History

Deep history from the Ice Age forward, written by an actual historian.

cerebral · epic · contemplative

Today, Explained

Vox · Daily News

The day's biggest story, explained sharp and fast.

kinetic · cerebral · witty

Unexplainable

Vox · Life Sciences

A show about everything science can't explain yet, told with wonder.

awe · contemplative · hopeful

Unexplained

iHeartPodcasts · Society & Culture

Quiet British explorations of events that refuse explanation.

dread · contemplative · atmospheric

Up and Vanished

Tenderfoot TV · True Crime

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

obsessive · gritty · tense

Up First from NPR

NPR · News

NPR's three biggest stories before your coffee cools.

kinetic · restrained · cerebral

Welcome to Night Vale

Night Vale Presents · Science Fiction

Community radio from a desert town where every conspiracy is true and mundane.

dreamlike · whimsical · unsettling

What A Day

What A Day · Daily News

The news, delivered quick with jokes and a point of view.

witty · kinetic · playful

Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)

Team Coco & Ted Danson, Woody Harrelson · Society & Culture

Ted Danson learns podcasting mid-episode while interviewing everyone he loves.

cozy · warm · witty

Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel

Esther Perel Global Media · Society & Culture

Real couples therapy sessions with Esther Perel. You will hear your own relationship.

tender · restrained · unsettling

Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Lemonada Media · Comedy

Julia Louis-Dreyfus asks older women for the wisdom nobody wrote down.

warm · uplifting · witty

Wolf 359

Kinda Evil Genius Productions, LLC · Science Fiction

Deep-space workplace comedy that quietly becomes a gripping drama.

witty · lonely · tense

World War II with Tom Hanks

The HISTORY Channel | Back Pocket Studios | Audacy · History

Tom Hanks walks the Second World War from invasion to atom bomb.

epic · restrained · melancholy

Wow in the World

Tinkercast · Education for Kids

Science adventures for kids that parents secretly love.

playful · whimsical · uplifting

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Marc Maron · Comedy

Marc Maron talks to everyone worth talking to, garage honesty included.

warm · contemplative · gritty

You're Wrong About

Sarah Marshall · History

The stories the 90s got wrong, retold with humor and mercy.

witty · cerebral · tender