Podcasts that feel like

The Shawn Ryan Show

Shawn Ryan · Society & Culture · 407 episodes

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

If The Shawn Ryan Show hit the spot, these will too

Audiochuck · True Crime

shares that gritty, tense feel

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

Chris Williamson · Society & Culture

shares that gritty, contemplative feel

Chris Williamson interrogates modern life with philosophers and scientists.

Audible · True Crime

shares that gritty, tense feel

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

Annie Elise & Audioboom Studios · True Crime

shares that gritty, tense feel

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

Oxygen · True Crime

shares that gritty, tense feel

Oxygen's cases of women pushed to the unthinkable.

Tenderfoot TV · True Crime

shares that gritty, tense feel

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

Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts · Society & Culture

shares that gritty feel

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

NPR · Society & Culture

shares that gritty feel

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

Slate Podcasts · Relationships

shares that gritty, contemplative feel

The conversations we avoid, had out loud with strangers.