Favorite Podcasts

This American Life · added 3 months ago

The bees! There's a part of me that aspires to be so curious about pain, so open to discomfort.

France Inter · added 3 months ago

Not sure this is a best of all time, per se, but I laughed out loud when an interviewer was trying to help Timothée by supplying him with a word and he just said something totally different. Re: --- Chalamet: “il veut..." (looking for word) Interviewer: trying to be helpful "être le mauvais garçon" Chalamet: deadpan "un gars qui s’exprime.” --- trop beau. In order to find this funny, though, it is essential to watch the interview from the start. You gotta let the vibes build (have we learned nothing from Marty Supreme??). But of course this was a lesson I learned practically because I did try to watch it cold open and was like 'what on earth about this could have possibly made me break out laughing'

This American Life · added 4 months ago

Maduro election coverage 2024. Followed by this episode which asks Venezuelan activists how they feel about the U.S. incursion: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/extras/the-americans-outside-my-window

Decoder Ring · added 5 months ago

Oh man dating could be so so so weird. Or it is. But for real, though.

99% Invisible · added 5 months ago

The thinking around inclusion that influence the set design of Sesame Street—the trash, the attitudes, the community. @TAG?

Altered States · added 6 months ago

I listened to season 1, where people who were leaders in their communities (think your pastor) were subjects in psychadelics research. Records their experience and the questions they wreslted with as they decided what were appropriate and inappropriate altered states, among other things. Also this is a banger of a trailer.

99% Invisible · added 6 months ago

Woof, classic. This is a problem worth knowing about.

99% Invisible · added 6 months ago

The world is not built for women. Maybe mentions the cockpit design problem. These are important problems to understand for their structural implications on how much of the infrastructure in society is conceived.

99% Invisible · added 6 months ago

I had no idea FEMA, in the worst case-scenarios, will buy peoples' homes. You can avoid the problem of rescuing people if you just have the people leave the place they'd need to be rescued from. And these people have no viable alternative on the housing market because no one is going to buy their home that has become a flood zone. Wild.

Hidden Brain · added 7 months ago

The Moth · added 7 months ago

WNYC Studios · added 11 months ago

People adapting and adapating and adapting again to hone their workflow for producing TV transcriptions at the start of this era.

Let's Learn Everything! · added 1 year ago

Just here for the trees, skip the card art.

People I (Mostly) Admire · added 1 year 4 months ago

How to Age Up · added 1 year 6 months ago

Nice Try! · added 1 year 6 months ago

WNYC Studios · added 1 year 8 months ago

The part of our brain that remembers... is really the part of our brain that constructs ideas. There is no "remembering" or retrieving old memories; there is only creating new memories. And in those creations, there are modifications. Remembering again and again actually... creates more opportunity for becoming disconnected from the truth of what happened.

WNYC Studios · added 1 year 8 months ago

What if the rules, understood reasonably, create an incentive for all teams to try to lose. What if this happened at the highest levels of competition? Also I don't know what the tie-in is but I just also have Micheal Scott's win-win-win on the brain.

99% Invisible · added 2 years 5 months ago

Of the mini-episodes, I’m here for different time and a pre-modern subscription service for music.

99% Invisible · added 2 years 6 months ago

We don't really want total silence. Fountains in a park are a widespread manifestation of this fact--the gurgling helps let other tinier noises—the scuffing of feet, the crack of a twig, someone trying to whisper privately—go unnoticed.

99% Invisible · added 5 years 1 month ago

Finding the cracks in the world. Making something beautiful out of the unseen--the unappreciated. @TAG on the mind

99% Invisible · added 5 years 3 months ago

Coming from a place of having simply zero interest in basketbal, this episode has been one which gripped me, and I think it’s a testament to the storytelling that it did as much.

Everything is Alive · added 5 years 3 months ago

This feels like one where the concept being so weird is unto itself an accomplishment. I didn't get through too many of the others in this series, but--of those I did--this one stuck with me the most.