I’ve shared this before, but I absolutely love podcasts. It’s a gateway into so many worlds I know nothing about, and these days, I’ve been too drained to pick up a book after a long day of being “on.”
After getting through some podcasts that I love, I asked my Facebook friends which I should listen to next. Here’s how they responded.
(I’ve already binged #1, #2 and #3 and they are FANTASTIC)
PODCASTS
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Missing Richard Simmons
On February 15, 2014, fitness guru Richard Simmons disappeared. He stopped teaching his regular exercise class at Slimmons, cut off his closest friends, and removed himself from the public eye after decades as one of the most accessible celebrities in the world. Nobody has heard from him – and no one knows why he left. Filmmaker Dan Taberski was a Slimmons regular and a friend of Richard’s. Missing Richard Simmons is Dan’s search for Richard – and the deeper he digs, the stranger it gets.
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How I Built This
How I Built This is a podcast about innovators, entrepreneurs, and idealists, and the stories behind the movements they built. Each episode is a narrative journey marked by triumphs, failures, serendipity and insight — told by the founders of some of the world’s best known companies and brands. If you’ve ever built something from nothing, something you really care about — or even just dream about it — check out How I Built This hosted by Guy Raz @guyraz.
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Making Oprah
The inside story of a TV revolution. In this new WBEZ podcast, Oprah Winfrey tells the behind-the-scenes story of her iconic TV talk show, along with producers, staffers, TV executives, and ratings rival Phil Donahue. The three-part series chronicles the show’s scrappy roots in Chicago, its rise to daytime dominance, and the powerful sway Winfrey came to have in American life.
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Israel Story
Israel Story or Sipur Israeli, is a new radio initiative aimed at introducing high quality, long-form non-fiction content to, and about, Israel.
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Lore
Lore is an award-winning, critically-acclaimed podcast about true life scary stories. Our fears have roots. Lore exposes the darker side of history, exploring the creatures, people, and places of our wildest nightmares.
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The Balanced Blonde
She will discuss everything from the young entrepreneurial blogging life to wellness, friendship, branding a business, writing, how to keep the passion alive and so much more. On each episode, Jordan will interview someone in her life who has set their soul on fire and is doing awesome things. As always, we want you to get know Jordan better through this podcast and give you a glimpse into her life and those who she is closest to!
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Crimetown
Welcome to Providence, Rhode Island, where organized crime and corruption infected every aspect of public life.
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Radiolab
Radiolab is a show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and human experience.
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More Perfect
Supreme Court decisions shape everything from marriage and money to public safety and sex. We know these are very important decisions we should all pay attention to – but they often feel untouchable and even unknowable. Radiolab’s first ever spin-off series, More Perfect, connects you to the decisions made inside the court’s hallowed halls, and explains what those rulings mean for “we the people” who exist far from the bench. More Perfect bypasses the wonkiness and tells stories behind some of the court’s biggest rulings.
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Planet Money
Three short stories about putting a price on something hard to value precisely. We go from $4.66 under a pillow all the way up to $1 trillion across every inch of highway in America
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The Minimalists
Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus help over 20 million people live meaningful lives with less through their website, books, podcast, and documentary.
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2 Dope Queens
Phoebe Robinson and Jessica Williams are funny. They’re black. They’re BFFs. And they host a live comedy show in Brooklyn. Join the 2 Dope Queens, along with their favorite comedians, for stories about sex, romance, race, hair journeys, living in New York, and Billy Joel. Plus a whole bunch of other s**t.
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Modern Love
The Podcast features the popular New York Times column, with readings by notable personalities and updates from the essayists themselves. Join host Meghna Chakrabarti (WBUR) and Modern Love editor Daniel Jones (NYT) — and fall in love at first listen.
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Beautiful Stories from Anonymous People
1 phone call. 1 hour. No names. No holds barred. That’s the premise behind Beautiful Stories from Anonymous People, hosted by comedian Chris Gethard (the Chris Gethard Show, Broad City, This American Life, and one of Time Out’s “10 best comedians of 2015”). Every week, Chris opens the phone line to one anonymous caller, and he can’t hang up first, no matter what. From shocking confessions and family secrets to philosophical discussions and shameless self-promotion, anything can and will happen!
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The Moth
The Moth Podcast features re-airs of all new episodes of The Moth Radio Hour, plus additional stories from our vast archive recorded over the past two decades.
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The New Yorker Fiction
A monthly reading and conversation with the New Yorker fiction editor Deborah Treisman.
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Stuff You Missed In History Class
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Stuff Your Mom Never Told You
Hosted by Cristen Conger and Caroline Ervin, Stuff Mom Never Told You is the audio podcast from HowStuffWorks that gets down to the business of being women from every imaginable angle. Fueled by boundless curiosity and rigorous research, Cristen and Caroline are girls-next-door gender experts who skillfully decode the biology, psychology and sociology of ladies and gents, from their evolutionary past to millennial present, to better understand all the Stuff Mom Never Told You. -
Criminal
Criminal is a podcast about crime. Stories of people who’ve done wrong, been wronged, or gotten caught somewhere in the middle.
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Mortified
The Mortified Podcast gives listeners a semi-weekly (3 episode per month), all-access pass to Mortified Live readings worldwide plus interviews that pick up where the stage show ends. Special Guests Have Included: Elijah Wood, Chvrches, Alison Brie, Alanis Morissette, Retta, Busy Phillips, NFL Hall of Famer Eric Dickerson, The Cure’s Lol Tolhurst, Stephanie Seymour & more.
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Guys We Fucked
Each week, Corinne Fisher & Krystyna Hutchinson (together known as the comedy duo Sorry About Last Night) interview a gentleman they slept with. Some they made love to, some they had sex with a few times and some they f****d in a hotel bathroom…er, what? Corinne & Krystyna want to make the world a more sex-positive place…one candid story of intercourse at a time.
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Party In My Plants Podcast
Finally! The show that makes healthy living not suck! So you’ll actually want to do it. And so then you’ll actually start feeling, looking and living your best. Expect two exciting shows a week. One: a light-hearted conversation with a pro who takes the HELL out of HEALTHY (be it with a smoothie, acupuncture needles, or a non-judgy style of yoga). Two: me answering your questions (which you can submit on partyinmyplants.com/answermyq)! With episodes about plant-based eating, easy healthy cooking, fitness, digestion, meditation, weight loss, healthy travel, sneaking snacks into movies, beating anxiety and cohabiting with non-healthy people…you can expect to feel chill and confident with a new, easy hack for healthier living each time each time your headphones play this show.
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Women of the Hour
Lena Dunham hosts this podcast miniseries about friendship, love, work, bodies and more.
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Bonus: S-Town is coming soon!
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Liz Traines says
Thank you!! Great post! Just listened to Kendra Scott on how I built this, so good! Makes me want to shop there even more.