Small Town Murder
Crime in Sports

I've added a few of these to my feed to test out. I'm always looking for new options. Here's a selection from my ever-growing queue. As a note, I typically like shorter podcasts (less than 1 hour) and don't find podcasts with celebrity guests that interesting.

Currently Running -

• Reply All - Probably my favorite that's still running. Wide variety of stories loosely tied to the internet/technology. They do some really good stories.
• This American Life - The OG podcast about a wide range of personal stories and experiences.
• Criminal - Unique stories about crimes and criminals. Not your typical crime podcast.
• Invisibilia - About the "Invisible Forces that affect our lives." Mainly a range of personal stories about people that differ from me. I'm always impressed with the range of stories they find and how they can tie them together.
• Heavyweight - The host is a great story-teller. He tells stories of every day people, but in a funny & self-depricating way.
• Ear Hustle - A podcast from inside the walls of prison.
• The Allusionist - This one is pretty niche, but I love it. It's an amusing podcast about etymology.
• Embedded - A series of investigative reports from where the news is happening. Season 1 is especially great (Season 3 is not).
• In The Dark - Captivating serial podcast about crimes & investigations and what they got wrong.
• 30 for 30 Podcast - Well produced audio docs, like the 30 for 30 TV series.
• The Dollop - Two comedians laugh their way through weird stories from history.
• How I Built This - Entrepreneurs tell their stories about the companies they built.
• Freakanomics Radio - Sociology meets Economics.
Others: Stuff You Missed in History Class, 99% Invisible, Lore, Science Vs, Endless Thread, Stuff You Should Know, Small Town Murder, The Pitch, Answer Me This, No Such Thing as a Fish, Crimetown

Previous Series/Podcasts:

• S-Town - A captivating serialized podcast about a character in a small town that grows in intrigue with each listen.
• Mystery Show - Similar to Heavyweight, but just so, so good. One of the best written podcasts ever.
• Serial - Even though I think Season 4 isn't ruled out, I include this here because Season 1 is just stand-alone remarkable. It changed the game.
• How to Do Everything - A long-running podcast from 2 great hosts that talk about what's going on behind every-day things. They were great.
• Homecoming - Fictional miniseries by Gimlet that was made into an Amazon series.
• Caliphate - A series from one of my favorite reporters: Rukmini Callimachi. She was on the ground covering ISIS and knows more about the organization than just about anyone else. Super interesting.
• The Drop Out - A series that covered Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos, basically a female version of the Fyre Fest dude.
• Sandra - Another well-produced fictional miniseries from Gimlet.

That should do.

Please review my list (which really should have more than 1 star, btw).

Blank Check with Griffin and David
99% Invisible
Planet Money
Song Exploder

The Solid Verbal for college football.

• 99% Invisible-Sort of like a modern version of "The Rest of the Story". Its hard to really describe because its all over the place
• Stuff you Missed in History Class-A lot of additional stories of history and extended takes on famous event/people
• Stuff You Should Know-Generally cool stories from history
• How Did This Get Made- Hilarious reviews of terribly bad movies
• Pop Culture Therapists-To licensed counselors breakdown mental health and psychiatry in tv and movies
• Sawbones- The history and stories behind all the weird medical cures we have used to heal people, usually with terrible results
• Ridiculous History- Like the name says, weird stories from history. I just listened to an episode called, "How Monopoly became a WW2 escape kit"
• Atlanta Monster-A look at the Atlanta Child Murders of the 80
• Up and Vanished-A dive into a cold case of a murder in Georgia. Saying any more will spoil it.
• S-town-Starts out as a murder investigation but soon focuses on a wild ass character in a small town
• Missing Richard Simmons-Single run podcast that looks at if Richard Simmons is still alive after a sudden disappearance

We have a lot of overlap. Popculture & sawbones are the only two I've not heard. I'll check them out. Any specific episodes you'd recommend on those two?

I think you'd dig this episode of The Dollop. http://thedollop.net/wp/episode-12-dollop/

Full disclosure, I happen to know one of the hosts of Pop Culture Therapists. The episodes over Silver linings Playbook and 13 Reasons Why are good starters though. I don't know if it's for everyone because they often joke about serious topics kinda like how doctors or cops do. A bit of dark humor.

The sawbones episodes on Lobotomy, Mercury, and typhoid Mary are interesting if not a little gory. In fact they don't beat around the bush and sometimes the descriptions are a little graphic/gruesome but still very interesting. It amazes me what we used to do in the name of medicine and health.


The Dollop sounds great and I'll be adding that to my rotation.

372 Pages We'll Never Get Back.

It's a couple of the Rifftrax guys reviewing books.

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Small Town Murder
Crime in Sports

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Be sure to check out the Chuck Knoblauch episode.

To Live and Die in LA is an interesting one. Reporter and PI use google data to track last days of accused killer. Next week is finale.

The Indicator
Planet Money
Crimetown
Meateater
The Wild
JRE, sometimes
Hardcore History (Blueprint for Armageddon series is the best set of podcasts ever made, IMO)
How I Built This has some good ones
Ben Shapiro if some juicy political news comes out
Stuff You Should Know, sometimes
TexAgs Radio, in the fall after football games
Industry Focus, if you're into finance
Pardon My Take (Barstool Sports podcast)

I listen to Lore and Conan Needs a Friend (which have been mentioned), so I'll throw out another one I love: Cocaine and Rhinestones. It's put on by David Allan Coe's son, and he focuses on stories surrounding country music in the 1900s. Some of the topics include Okie from Muskogee, Harper Valley PTA, The Pill, Spade Cooley killing his wife, and a bunch of others.

Figured I'd update this thread with a few newer ones I'm listening/have listened to.

Wind of Change - Did the CIA write a hit song?
The Left Right Game - Probably the best fiction podcast I've listened to
Your Own Backyard - Investigating the Kristen Smart Disappearance
Conviction, Season 2: American Panic - About the Satanic Panic. It's nuts.
Every Little Thing - I'd listened to this one in the past, but have been catching up on them more now. Bite sized episodes about random questions we have.
Man in the Window - Investigation of the evolution of the Golden State Killer
Slow Burn, Season 3 - The story of Tupac vs. Biggie
The Clearing - A woman investigates whether her father was a serial killer.