The Big Listen
With thousands of podcasts out there, how do you know what to listen to? The Big Listen introduces you to podcasts you might never have heard of, and gives you the inside scoop on shows you already love.
Sometimes doing stuff your mom does isn’t uncool at all!
Bestselling author Gretchen Rubin and her 17-year-old daughter, Eliza, chat about being a mother/daughter podcasting duo. Plus, Dan Carlin on his epic history podcast; Andrea Silenzi of Why Oh Why on dating, awkwardness and our digital age; and storyteller supreme Shannon Cason on his top podcast picks.
Warehouse work might be boring, but it’s also is prime podcast listening time!
Warehouses are great places to listen to podcasts. So a former warehouse worker tells us. Also, comedian Phoebe Robinson on the public radio personalities she would date. And the host of the Memory Palace recommends his favorite podcast genre: “two dudes talking about stuff.”
This photo is not at all a metaphor for the American presidency in 2016. Nope.
Election day is here! We celebrate with some favorite politics pods. Sam Sanders tells us tales from the campaign trail, we gab with the Pollsters and laugh off the election with comedian Negin Farsad.
Ammon Bundy and fellow occupiers at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon are now on trial as a result of their 40-day standoff with federal authorities.
We take a field trip to the Government Accountability Office, learn about Sharia law on #GoodMuslimBadMuslim, occupy some federal lands and learn what podcasts the host of Gravy is snacking on.
Spring cows bursting out of their barn after a long Danish winter. There's a metaphor in there somewhere.
We meet Lauren’s Scandinavian doppelganger, then explode songs with the host of Song Exploder. We also chat with the makers of the hit show In The Dark. And radio Renaissance man Al Letson tells us what he’s listening to.
It's a pajama jammie jam with Tai Poole and Sook-Yin Lee of Sleepover from CBC.
This week on the show, we nerd out with the women of Nerdette, then we get our slumber party on with the host of Sleepover, public radio's first reality show. Plus, Jesse Thorn of Bullseye tells us what he’s putting his ears on.