Castology: Recent Episodes
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PODCASTS! People love them! And those who don’t? Well, they just haven’t been enlightened yet. But how in the heck do you figure out which ones are worth listening to? Castology, that’s how.
In each episode, our Castologists Brit, Harry, and Zane will review some of the best (and sometimes not-so-best) podcasts around. They’ll also do the hard work and trawl the RSS feeds to find the newest podcasts that should be on your radar. Will they always agree with each other’s picks? Probably not! But hey, you’re clever, you know that’s how reviews work.
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Zane Recommends - Adventures in New America
https://newamericapodcast.com/
scripted #fiction #comedy
Adventures in New America is the first sci-fi, political satire, Afrofuturistic buddy comedy, serialized for New Americans in a new and desperate time.
Set a few years in the future, Adventures in New America follows the escapades of two mismatched African-New-American best friends — fat, lonely, curmudgeon IA and lesbian sneak-thief Simon Carr — who take on a series of increasingly wild heists to get quick cash to pay for IA’s medical treatment while attempting to survive the wilds of New New York City — and a secret cabal of Tetchy Terrorist Vampire Zombies from outer space. Intrigued? Good! Frequently, there will be musical numbers... and radical reflections on our dangerous, beautiful, heart-pounding world.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1434863731
Britt Recommends - Ladies, We Need to Talk
https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/ladies-we-need-to-talk/episodes
Conversational #HealthAndFitness #SexAndRelationships #HardConversations
Want to know how to close the orgasm gap? Riding your hormonal rollercoaster blindfolded? Feel like kicking your mental load to the kerb? You're not the only one. Ladies, We Need To Talk dives headfirst into the tricky topics we often avoid talking about, like our alcohol consumption, the struggles of monogamy, and the wonders of our vaginas. With sensitivity, personal stories, and serious smarts, this show is for women who feel the squeeze between work, their private life, and their pelvic floor. Join host Yumi Stynes as she tears open the sealed section on life.
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/ladies-we-need-to-talk/id1277424411
Harry Recommends - Crypto Island
A new series from a founding host of Reply All, Crypto Island explores the frontiers of a strange new world. Host PJ Vogt investigates ‘Web 3’, the opaque and mysterious world of blockchains, ephemera, and imaginary utopias. For those interested in podcasting news and contemporary history, check out this salient article on Vogt in the wake of Reply All: https://www.vulture.com/2022/04/crypto-island-podcast-pj-vogt.html
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/crypto-island/id1614253637
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Harry waxes lyrical about his own work while Zane and Britt chime in periodically to keep his ego in check. This episode is a shameless plug for Bookworms and Barflies, Harry’s other podcast. If you like books, banter, and booze, this one's for you!
Zane Recommends - Ballsy History
https://ballsyhistory.fireside.fm/
history #scripted #lighthearted
Ballsy History is a weekly-ish podcast about big personalities and little-known stories. Join us for a tour of the outrageous acts, incredible stories, and outsized characters that shape history.
Your hosts are a four female family with a penchant for uncovering the quirky side of the past (and, sometimes, not so distant past). Ballsy History was born during stay-at-home orders during the COVID pandemic.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1543648297
Britt Recommends - Articles of Interest
https://99percentinvisible.org/aoi/
ArtHistory #Fashion #Informative #TheArts
Articles of Interest is a show about what we wear. It's a twelve-part series from 99% Invisible, looking at clothing.
Produced and Hosted by Avery Trufelman
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/articles-of-interest/id1455169228
Harry Recommends - Normal Gossip
Normal Gossip delivers juicy, strange, funny, and utterly banal gossip about people you’ll never know and never meet. Host Kelsey McKinney discusses reader-submitted comedic gossip with guests, diving into the lives and decisions of complete strangers. The second-hand truth really is stranger than fiction. Produced by Alex Sujong Laughlin. Show art by Tara Jacoby.
https://open.spotify.com/show/0KVZ16mLZ1bbNlnKemYTzm
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Sweet Bobby
#limited series #documentary #truecrime #serious
https://www.tortoisemedia.com/listen/sweet-bobby/
Kirat is a successful radio presenter. On Facebook she meets Bobby, a handsome cardiologist. He’s a catch. Soon, they get tangled up in a love affair full of lies and manipulation. Then... Kirat discovers a deception of almost unimaginable proportions.
From the makers of Finding Q, this is Sweet Bobby. A live investigation, in six parts, in search of one of the world's most sophisticated catfishers.
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/sweet-bobby/id1590561275
American Radical by MSNBC
#limited series #documentary #serious
https://american-radical.simplecast.com
Rosanne Boyland hated politics. She was shy, and she rarely left her home in Georgia. But then her family got a shocking call: Rosanne had died at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, in the middle of a crowd trying to force its way past a police line.
From the depths of their grief, the Boylands vow to figure out what happened to Rosanne. Her brother-in-law, Justin Cave, reaches out to an old high school friend he hopes can help: MSNBC journalist Ayman Mohyeldin.
The quest for the truth takes Ayman back to his hometown of Kennesaw, Georgia, where he retraces the last six months of Rosanne's life and picks up a trail that leads to childhood haunts, missing boyfriends, and down shadowy internet rabbit holes. American Radical is a five part series
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/
Things Fell Apart by BBC Radio 4
#8 part series #interview
A series of strange, unexpected human stories from the history of the culture wars. Hosted by Jon Ronson.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0011cpr
Food Crime
#2 hosts #truecrime #comedy
A comedian and a die-hard true crime fan come together to dig up fact-packed and funny stories about food getting caught up in the world of crime. Murder, poison, heists… all with a side of piss-taking and taste testing. Brought to you by Nat and Jules from Nat’s What I Reckon. Only available on Spotify right now.
https://open.spotify.com/show/7mxeLBgewG9c9lJMfJ388l?si=a9e756f964d6416d
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Zane Recommends - DRILLED
https://www.drilledpodcast.com/
interview #science #dry #angrymaking
A true-crime podcast about climate change, hosted and reported by award-winning investigative journalist Amy Westervelt. Climate accountability — investigating the various drivers of delay on climate action — is critical to understanding and addressing climate change. Drilled is an independent news outlet focused on climate accountability. The Drilled podcast, launched in 2017, now has an audience of more than one million listeners worldwide and is consistently among the top 100 science podcasts. Drilled has earned rave reviews from The New Yorker, The Guardian, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and received a 2019 “Excellence in Digital Storytelling” award from the Online News Association, as well as the 2021 Covering Climate Now award for audio.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1439735906
Britt Recommends - The Worst Idea of All Time
https://www.worstideaofalltime.com/
Chillingwiththeboys #Movies #Comedy #NZHumour #OZHumour #TrashFun
TWIOAT is an award-winning smash hit comedy podcast hosted by kiwi comedians Guy 'Flash' Montgomery and Tim 'Timbly' Batt (known jointly as the Frost Fellas, The Boiz, etc). The pair have been punishing themselves with movies for your enjoyment since Feb 2014, starting by watching and reviewing Grown-Ups 2 once a week, every week, for a full year. They applied the same treatment to Sex and The City 2, Sex and The City, We Are You Friends, and are now watching and reviewing every softcore adult film in the Emmanuelle franchise. Sub-projects include My Week With Cats, where the pair went to see CATS (2019) at the cinema every day for a week, and Podcast In A Tree which saw them record while in different trees around Aotearoa New Zealand.
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-worst-idea-of-all-time/id824108207
Harry Recommends- Reply All
At its most basic, Reply all is a podcast about the internet. It explores stories about how people shape the internet, and how the internet shapes people. Hugely successful and arguably seminal, Reply All gained a massive listenership based on the originality of its stories, and intelligence of its writing, and the chemistry of its hosts. In 2021 it released a controversial episode series that led to its decline and eventual cancellation in recent history.
https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all
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Introducing the second of our new Castologists! Introducing, Harry!
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Let's get to know one of our new Castologists! Introducing, Britt!
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Britt Recommends - Left Right Out
#AussiePolitics #Conversational #SimplifiedPolitics #ExplainItToMeLikeIm5
https://www.instagram.com/left.right.out/
The show for anyone who wants to understand Australian politics but doesn’t know where to start. Each week, Elfy and Justine answer your questions. Because politics is for everybody and no one should feel left out of this convo.
https://open.spotify.com/show/0g6ZFdMk1GoQsEwooJnTl3?si=e01beb3e54274cdd
Harry Recommends - No Silly Questions
From The Daily Aus - creators of the viral news page, podcast and newsletter followed by over 350,000 Australians on social media - comes No Silly Questions. It's the podcast that will arm young people with everything they need to get involved in dinner table conversations ahead of the next federal election.
The series will feature in-depth interviews with key politicians, experts, and advocates.
https://open.spotify.com/show/6eHW3ZeUIO8kytACR9fQ3h
Zane Recommends - Working Class History
#solo host #scripted #documentary style
https://workingclasshistory.com/
History is not made by the actions of a few rich and powerful individuals, like so much of the history we learn in school. History is made by the combined everyday actions of hundreds of millions of us: women, men, youth, people of colour, migrants, indigenous people, LGBTQ+ people, disabled people, workers, the unemployed, housewives - the working class. Our project is dedicated to all those who have struggled in the past for a better world, and who continue to do so now.
As well as our podcast and social media outlets we are working on building an interactive website and global map of people's history. We are committed to being completely independent, and making our history available to everyone, so we have no adverts and apart from a bit of bonus content we don't put anything behind a paywall. We are not academics or experts, we are just ordinary workers doing this on our own time to try to help educate and inspire a new generation of activists with lessons from the past. This podcast is about how we, together, have fought for a better world.
https://podfollow.com/1355066333
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The Bright Sessions
scripted #fiction #fullcast
15-20mins
The Bright Sessions is a science fiction audio drama about people with supernatural abilities in therapy. The podcast was created by Lauren Shippen and premiered on November 1st, 2015.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1053268058
Cold
scripted #solohost #truecrime
60mins
Cold is a narrative podcast series focused on missing persons cases. Investigative journalist and host Dave Cawley takes on a single story with each season. Season 1 tells of the unsolved disappearance of Susan Powell on Dec. 7, 2009. Season 2 digs into the vanishing of Joyce Yost on Aug. 10, 1985. Cold is a KSL Podcast.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1441595858
Dark Woods
scripted #fiction
20-30mins
From Legendary Producer Dick Wolf and Wolf Entertainment comes a new fiction series starring Corey Stoll (House of Cards, Ant-Man), Monica Raymund (Chicago Fire), and Reid Scott (Veep). When the body of a young volunteer is discovered in the middle of the California redwoods, two estranged ex-spouses, game warden Mark Ellis (Stoll) and city councilwoman (Raymund), must put their differences aside to learn the terrifying truth about what is happening in their state park. Executive Produced by Elliot Wolf (Hunted), directed by Takashi Doscher (Only), and written by David Pergolini.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1592717608
Ghostwriter
scripted #fiction #fullcast
83mins
In this C13Features podcast movie presentation of Ghostwriter, Kate Mara and Adam Scott star in a psychological thriller about a former journalist who reluctantly accepts a job ghostwriting a new murder mystery novel for an eccentric billionaire. As they collaborate on the project, questions - and suspicions - begin to arise. Grab some popcorn, and get lost in your imagination in this gripping and suspenseful podcast movie experience, Ghostwriter, from C13Features.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1596530271
Stories From Among the Stars
scripted #fullcast
25-35mins
Season 3, A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine, will be available for listening until February 15! Stories from Among the Stars is an anthology series that shares thrilling science fiction audio stories–but only for a limited time. Our first season was Steal the Stars, about forbidden love, a crashed UFO, and an alien heist. This season, we're sharing A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine. Hear the story of the ambassador from Lsel Station to the Teixcalaanli Empire as she investigates her predecessor's mysterious end, guided by his memories.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1259505930
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Liz Recommends - Harsh Reality: The Story of Miriam Rivera
https://wondery.com/shows/the-story-of-miriam-rivera/
It was supposed to be a reality show with a twist. In a sun-drenched villa in Ibiza, six hot guys compete for a cash prize and for the love of the beautiful and mysterious Miriam. It’s meant to be her big break: the moment she becomes the superstar she was born to be. But this is the era of “cruel reality TV” and the show producers have a different goal: they want to surprise the men with the fact that Miriam is trans. A new six-episode investigative series from Wondery, the makers of The Shrink Next Door and The Apology Line, and from Novel, HARSH REALITY is the story about love, lies, reality TV and a woman before her time: Miriam Rivera. Written by Agnes Borinsky and hosted by Trace Lysette.
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/harsh-reality-the-story-of-miriam-rivera/id1594927287
Nick Recommends - NFL Explained
NFL explained, hosted by Aditi Kinkhabwala and Mike Yam, is a new original podcast series that takes fans behind-the-scenes of the inner workings of the NFL. From how the regular season schedule is made, to the evolution of the Super Bowl, NFL explained looks to answer the NFL's biggest questions.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nfl-explained/id1581864202
Zane Recommends - Teenager Therapy
chatty #fivehosts #mentalhealth
Five stressed, sleep-deprived, yet energetic teens sit down and talk about the struggles that come with being a teenager. Is high school really as bad as everyone says?
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1437039510
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Nick plays it REAL smart by asking Liz and Zane... what is the future of podcasting!
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Liz Recommends - Stuff the British Stole
https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/stuff-the-british-stole/
Throughout its reign, the British Empire stole a lot of stuff. Today those objects are housed in genteel institutions across the UK and the world. They usually come with polite plaques. This is a series about the not-so-polite history behind those objects.
Each episode, award-winning journalist, author and genetic-potluck, Marc Fennell, picks one artefact and takes you on the wild, evocative, sometimes funny, often tragic adventure of how it got to where it is today.
These objects will ultimately help us see the Commonwealth — and ourselves — today, in a different light.
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/stuff-the-british-stole/id1540218461
Nick Recommends - The Trojan Horse Affair
A strange letter appears on a city councillor’s desk in Birmingham, England, laying out an elaborate plot by Islamic extremists to infiltrate the city’s schools. The plot has a code name: Operation Trojan Horse. The story soon explodes in the news and kicks off a national panic. By the time it all dies down, the government has launched multiple investigations, beefed up the country’s counterterrorism policy, revamped schools and banned people from education for the rest of their lives.
To Hamza Syed, who is watching the scandal unfold in his city, the whole thing seemed … off. Because through all the official inquiries and heated speeches in Parliament, no one has ever bothered to answer a basic question: Who wrote the letter? And why? The night before Hamza is to start journalism school, he has a chance meeting in Birmingham with the reporter Brian Reed, the host of the hit podcast S-Town. Together they team up to investigate: Who wrote the Trojan Horse letter? They quickly discover that it’s a question people in power do not want them asking.
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-trojan-horse-affair/id1606918193
Zane Recommends - You Are Good
movies #duo #chatty
https://blubrry.com/whyaredads
Sarah Marshall and Alex Steed have always struggled to succinctly express just what their podcast is about. Until recently it was called Why Are Dads? and professed to explore films via the lens of their father figures. They stuck to this conceit for a little while — albeit with frequent, entertaining digressions — but soon a drift started to occur. The show started in August of 2020, and by the winter it wasn’t uncommon that episodes would spend far more time on other areas than they did on fathers. By the spring, the digressions had completely overwhelmed the dads. Acknowledging that their focus had changed, this May the pair announced that they were changing the name to You Are Good (a reference to a touching scene of affirmation in Mel Brooks’s Young Frankenstein that they’d discussed on an earlier episode).
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/you-are-good/id1527948382
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Liz takes over on this tinysode, and kicks off a discussion on podcast cover art. What should podcasters aim for? What works? What doesn’t? Your Castologists are here to give you their hot tips.
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Liz Recommends - Motel Evil
https://www.waylandproductions.com/projects/motel-evil/
Audible original
Show that brands itself “theatre for the mind”.
In the remote reaches of Alaska where the sun doesn’t rise 65 days of the year, two unsolved murders occurred exactly 10 years apart in the same motel room. On the next anniversary a true crime enthusiast, Henry, suffers the same fate. Now the guests, all with their own secrets to hide, must remain in the motel until Detective Read gets answers….who is the Rockyville Motel murderer?
https://www.audible.com.au/pd/Motel-Evil-Podcast/B095X6K8PC
Nick Recommends - Art Breaker
These are climactic times; the Climate Crisis, the Biodiversity Crisis, Sixth Mass Extinction... The Anthropocene. So how is this affecting the art we're making in our society, and how can that art be part of a response, or even a solution? Join us as we explore music, prose, poetry, visual art and more, and learn how the art we love is made, and why.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/art-breaker/id1513277276
Zane Recommends - The Doodler
https://thedoodlerpod.com/
truecrime #produced #journalism
The Golden State Killer. The Unabomber. Ted Bundy. You’re probably familiar with these serial killers. But in the mid-1970s, another monster terrorized San Francisco’s gay community. He was coined “The Doodler,” and he may have been responsible for as many victims as the Zodiac Killer, yet you’ve probably never heard of him. Plagued by a complicated investigation, a frightened public, and the hesitation of many to come forward, the case went cold, and a killer walked free. Nearly 50 years later, a renewed hunt for a forgotten serial killer seeks to change that.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1535882542
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Liz Recommends - Escape From Virtual Island
Escape from Virtual Island is an epic comedy adventure starring Paul Rudd, written by John Lutz of Saturday Night Live, Late Night with Seth Meyers, and 30 Rock, and produced by Broadway Video.
Rounding out the ensemble cast in this genre-hopping, madcap comedy are Emmy nominee Jack McBrayer, Wine Country and AP Bio’s Paula Pell, Late Night with Seth Meyers’ Amber Ruffin, and 30 Rock’s Scott Adsit.
The Audible Original also features the voice talents of Jason Sudeikis, Jane Krakowski, Olivia Wilde, Kenan Thompson, Seth Meyers, Rachel Dratch, Henry Winkler, and a host of other comedy favorites.
https://www.audible.com.au/pd/Escape-from-Virtual-Island-Audiobook/B0847S8BPX
Nick Recommends - Witnessed Borderlands
The tall-but-true tale of a charismatic outlaw, an iconic small-town sheriff, and the record-setting drug bust that ensnared them both.
https://www.campsidemedia.com/shows/witnessed-borderlands
Zane Recommends - Timesuck with Dan Cummins
https://timesuck-with-dan-cummins.simplecast.com/
solohost #educational #informal #longform #bro-ey
2-2.5hours
Each week, Dan Cummins takes fascinating listener suggested topics and enthusiastically dives into time sucks about everything from Charles Manson to the Lizard Illuminati, absurdly and sarcastically sharing the best of what he uncovers with you. Time to get curious! Time for Timesuck.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1156343076
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Liz decided to make her ep all about quick and dirty tips from the Castology team on what makes a good podcast.
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Liz Recommends - Radio Rental
https://radiorentalusa.com
A new anthology series that explores bizarre real-life stories; from horror, to crime, to the paranormal. Told first person, these true stories are set inside the fictional world of Radio Rental, an 80’s style video rental store. This imaginative cult classic inspired horror brand blurs the lines of reality with cutting edge documentary storytelling. Hosted by Rainn Wilson as his character Terry Carnation.
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/radio-rental/id1483289230
Nick Recommends - Journo
In a world where news and opinion are just a click away, it’s more important than ever for everyone, including journalists, to understand how news is made, how it’s used and abused, and how it can be made more reliable and trustworthy for its audiences.
Journo is a new podcast hosted by correspondent and author Nick Bryant that explores the issues, opportunities and challenges facing journalists and shaping the media industry.
https://jninstitute.org/education/journo-podcast/
Zane Recommends - Strange by Nature Podcast
https://www.patreon.com/strangebynature
informal #chatty #educational #panel
30-40minutes
Life is strange, naturally, you want to hear about it. Strange by Nature is your guide to the strange, weird, and unbelievable side of nature. Professional naturalists Laura, Rachel, and Kirk, present weekly curated stories about just how strange nature can get.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1552464409
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The Smashing Security Podcast recommended by Carole T
2hosts #guests #informal #recap
A helpful and hilarious take on the week's tech SNAFUs. Computer security industry veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault chat with guests about cybercrime, hacking, and online privacy. It's not your typical cybersecurity podcast...
Winner of the "Best Security Podcast 2018" and "Best Security Podcast 2019", Smashing Security has had over seven million downloads. Past guests include Garry Kasparov, Mikko Hyppönen, and Rory Cellan-Jones.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1195001633
No Experts Allowed recommended by Seth Roseman
2hosts #educational #informal
Join co-hosts Jonathan Fuller and Seth Roseman as they talk about Bible stories, laugh a little, and try to answer two fundamental questions: What's the story? What's the point?
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1515952191
Art Breaker recommended by Mark Spencer
interview #informal #onhiatus
20-40mins
These are climactic times; the Climate Crisis, the Biodiversity Crisis, Sixth Mass Extinction... The Anthropocene. So how is this affecting the art we're making in our society, and how can that art be part of a response or even a solution? Join us as we explore music, prose, poetry, visual art, and more, and learn how the art we love is made, and why.
https://www.climactic.fm/show/art-breaker/
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/art-breaker/id1513277276
Crowley Time with me, Tom Crowley recommended by David Barnes of Wooden Overcoats
scripted #comedy
10-55mins
Comedy sketches, characters, and messages in bottles plucked from unknown shores. Written and performed by Tom Crowley (as heard in Wooden Overcoats, Victoriocity, and The Beef and Dairy Network Podcast). Send all comments to @atomcrowley on Twitter.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1438849221
The Industry recommended by Dan Delgado
scripted #professional #solohost
30-60mins
The Industry is a podcast that takes a closer look at some of the lesser-known (and perhaps intentionally) forgotten stories of movie history. Insane productions, scandalous lawsuits, victories from the jaws of defeat, and the occasional crime are the order of the day in this Industry. Each story is explored with experts who know or with the people who were there.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1402868957
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In honour of the new podcast release '9116--The Rock Opera' by TNC Podcast 'The Paranoid Strain', we are doing a special themed episode all about music!
To find out more about '9116--The Rock Opera' follow the links below:
https://pod.fo/e/103424 "Disc 1" of the rock opera
https://pod.fo/e/103423 "Disc 2"
Album on Soundcloud (music only) Stream The Paranoid Strain Orchestra | Listen to music albums online for free on SoundCloud
Website: theparanoidstrain.com
Facebook group: The Paranoid Strain (facebook.com)
Liz Recommends - Disgraceland
https://www.disgracelandpod.com
Disgraceland is a podcast about musicians getting away with murder and behaving very badly. Thirty-ish minute episodes that trace the most insane criminal stories surrounding our most interesting and infamous pop stars.
https://www.disgracelandpod.com/listen-main
Nick Recommends - Dissect (A Spotify Exclusive)
Dissect is a Spotify exclusive podcast that takes a season of the show and rips apart (CREATIVELY!) a big name album to discuss themes, production and the stories behind the big artists.
https://dissectpodcast.com/
Zane Recommends - Ongoing History of New Music
http://www.edge.ca/ongoinghistory
solohost #formal #educational
20-40mins
Ongoing History of New Music looks at things from the alt-rock universe to hip hop, from artist profiles to various thematic explorations. It is Canada’s most well-known music documentary hosted by the legendary Alan Cross. Whatever the episode, you’re definitely going to learn something that you might not find anywhere else. Trust us on this.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1201968027
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Science Diction - What does the word “meme” have to do with evolutionary biology? And why do we call it “Spanish flu” when it was never Spanish? Science Diction is a podcast about words—and the science stories within them. If you like your language with a side of science, Science Diction has you covered. Brought to you by Science Friday and WNYC Studios.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1500919715
The Allusionist - Adventures in language with Helen Zaltzman. TheAllusionist.org
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id957430475
Words for Granted - Words for Granted is a podcast that looks at how words change over time. Host Ray Belli uses linguistic evolution as a way of understanding larger historical and cultural changes.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1123201523
Lexicon Valley - A close examination of language — its power to inform and misinform, to elucidate and obfuscate — from renowned Columbia University linguistics professor John McWhorter. A true polymath, McWhorter analyzes the words and phrases that dominate our discourse and make the headlines. For extra content, including bonus episodes and written columns, please consider becoming a paying subscriber to Booksmart Studios!
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1576564760
Lingthusiasm - A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics by Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne. A weird and deep conversation about language delivered right to your ears the third Thursday of every month.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1186056137
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Liz Recommends: The Bystanders
https://bleav.com/shows/the-bystanders/
One rainy night, Bunny Bell Pasht is stabbed to death in the courtyard of her apartment while her neighbors watch… and do nothing. Or did they?
Kristin Chenoweth - Bunny Bell Pasht
Jane Lynch - Narrator
Oscar Nuñez - Phil Absconder
Ki Hong Lee - Kyle Shyttles
Ed Westwick - Rick the Killer
Michael Hitchcock - Lou Louie
Jaclyn Hales - Lexi Hades
Matt Mattson - Tim Hades
Ash Lendzion - Sara Fatbottom
Karen Huie - Fan He
Jim Lau - Hop He
Machete Bang Bang - Pasta
Victoria Atkin - Rebexa
J. Michael Trautmann - Dale
Co-written, Produced, and Directed by Jaclyn Hales and Ash Lendzion
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-bystanders/id1566787408
Nick Recommends - Hong Kong Silenced
Mass arrests. Newspaper raids. Banned protests. Activists fleeing into exile. A curriculum designed to brainwash. The Telegraph’s award-winning China Correspondent Sophia Yan tells the inside story of how life in Hong Kong was turned upside down in just one year.
https://art19.com/shows/upside-down
Zane Recommends - Everything Everywhere
https://everything-everywhere.com/everything-everywhere-daily-podcast
A Podcast for Intellectually Curious People!
Learn something new every single day.
Everything Everywhere Daily tells the stories of interesting people, places, and things from around the world and throughout history. Topics covered include, but are not limited to, history, science, geography, and culture.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1521870190
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Liz Recommends - Unspookable
https://app.kidslisten.org/pod/Unspookable
Unspookable is a family friendly look at the histories and mysteries behind your favorite scary stories, myths and urban legends. Each week host Elise Parisian discusses such topics as Bloody Mary, Charlie Charlie, and Ouija Boards to find the stories behind the scares. (Recommended for ages 8+) Unspookable has been called one of the "Best podcasts for kids of all ages" by Time Out New York, one of the “7 Podcasts Big Kids Will Love” by The New York Times, one of the "10 Best Podcasts for Children" by the Irish Examiner, appeared multiple times across Canada on CBC Radio's Podcast Playlist, on NPR station WHYY's Kid's Listening Hour, has been featured by Podcast Magazine, The AV Club, Fast Company, and more.
They have little segments with kids even saying what they think about the topic
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/unspookable/id1438566169
Nick Recommends - Aftershock
Aftershock is a fast-paced thriller about a massive earthquake that destroys the West Coast, causing a mysterious island to rise up from the Pacific - with Sarah Wayne Callies (The Walking Dead), David Harbour (Stranger Things), Jeffrey Dean Morgan (The Walking Dead), and Tati Gabrielle (The 100).
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/aftershock/id1573594705
Zane Recommends - I Know Dino
https://iknowdino.com
The big dinosaur podcast. News, interviews, and discussions about dinosaurs.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id960976813
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We all have recommended so so much over the years but here are the recommendations from the boys that have stuck with me (Liz)
Wild Wild Tech
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/wild-wild-tech/id1519846548
Great stories of how tech shapes our culture in wild ways.Would you be surprised to find out scientists are using World of Warcraft to learn how to fight COVID-19? What if I told you that I could spoil almost any movie based on who uses an iPhone? Or how about the fact that Disney is afraid of butts? Well, that’s Wild Wild Tech, the podcast that brings you the wildest, most bizarre, most interesting stories about how tech is shaping our culture.
Shipworm
https://twoupproductions.com/shipworm/podcast
More pods embracing the movie length pod and I like it. IIn this first of its kind feature-length audio movie, Wallace Conway wakes up to find he’s been implanted with an untraceable earpiece while sleeping. So long as he does everything the voice on the other end tells him, he and his family will live. itten by Zack Akers and produced by Skip Bronkie, Shipworm is the fourth podcast from Two-Up, the studio known for breaking ground in fiction (Limetown), musical (36 Questions), and documentary podcasts (The Wilderness).
Wind of Change
https://crooked.com/podcast-series/wind-of-change/
If there were more eps I would listen to those eps. It’s 1990. The Berlin Wall has just come down. The Soviet Union is on the verge of collapse. A heavy metal band from West Germany, the Scorpions, releases a power ballad, “Wind of Change.” The song becomes the soundtrack to the peaceful revolution sweeping Europe — and one of the biggest rock singles ever. According to some fans, it’s the song that ended the Cold War.
Decades later, New Yorker writer Patrick Radden Keefe hears a rumor from a source: the Scorpions didn’t actually write “Wind of Change.” The CIA did.
This is Patrick’s journey to find the truth. Among former operatives and leather-clad rockers, from Moscow to Kiev to a GI Joe convention in Ohio, it’s a story about spies doing the unthinkable, about propaganda hidden in pop music, and a maze of government secrets. “Wind of Change.” An offbeat eight part investigation
Scam Goddess
https://www.earwolf.com/show/scam-goddess/
Scam Goddess is a podcast dedicated to fraud and all those who practice it! Each week host Laci Mosley (aka Scam Goddess) keeps listeners up to date on current rackets, digs deep into the latest scams, and breaks down historic hoodwinks alongside some of your favorite comedians! It’s like true crime only without all the death! True fun crime!
Knifepoint Horror
https://knifepointhorror.libsyn.com/
Tales of supernatural suspense written and produced by Soren Narnia.
The text of these stories is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. CC BY 4.0
Music by Kevin MacLeod, incompetech.com, unless otherwise noted.
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Liz Recommends - Midnight Burger
https://midnightburger.libsyn.com/
When Gloria took a waitressing job at a diner outside of Phoenix, she didn't realize she was now an employee of Midnight Burger, a time-traveling, dimension-spanning diner. Every day Midnight Burger appears somewhere new in the cosmos along with it's staff: a galactic drifter, a rogue theoretical physicist, a sentient old-timey radio, and some guy named Caspar. No one knows who built Midnight Burger or how it works, but when it appears there's always someone around who could really use a cup of coffee.
"When the waves of the universe crash unrelentingly, when the stars seem indifferent to your plight, suddenly there is a diner."
We open at 6.
Gloria: Siouxsie Suarez
Caspar: Joe Fisher
Ava: Finlay Stevenson
Leif: Tom Moorman
Effie: Julie Cowden-Starbird
Zebulon: Neal Starbird
Written by Joe Fisher
Produced by Joe Fisher and Finlay Stevenson
They’ve just joined the Fable and Folly Network.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/midnight-burger/id1537653218
Nick Recommends - The Missionary
A young missionary named Renee Bach left her comfortable life in America to start a malnutrition program in rural Uganda. Folks back home and in Uganda praised her as a model missionary -- an example of the healing power of God’s message. But a decade later she’s accused of masquerading as a doctor and rumored to have killed hundreds of children in her unlicensed clinic. How did Renee Bach end up here? Is she a case of good intentions gone wrong...or a predator posing as a saint?
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-missionary/id1494353780
Zane Recommends - Crazy Town
https://www.postcarbon.org/crazytown/
With equal parts humor and in-depth analysis, Asher, Rob, and Jason safeguard their sanity while probing crazy-making topics like climate change, overshoot, runaway capitalism, and why we’re all deluding ourselves.
https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/crazy-town-post-carbon-institute-EWoPf_w-4Te/#
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These are the podcasts that were recommended on Castology in the past that I STILL listen to every episode of! In Part 2 I am re-recommending the podcast that my cohosts brought to my attention and have stood the test of time!
Terms - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1175563320
Congressional Dish - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id572967793
Bedside Rounds - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id919579524
Where Should We Begin with Esther Perel - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1237931798
Twenty Thousand Hertz - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1171270672
The Guilty Feminist - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1068940771
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Liz Recommends - The Erasable Podcast
https://www.erasable.us
A bi weekly podcast hosted by three veteran pencil bloggers about the joys of wooden pencils.
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-erasable-podcast/id839754350
Nick Recommends - Whatever Happened to Pizza at McDonalds?
This is a podcast about whatever happened to pizza at McDonald's.
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/whatever-happened-to-pizza-at-mcdonalds/id1152856686
Zane Recommends - Chestnut Chat
https://www.conkercup.com/chestnutchat
Chestnut Chat is the media affiliate of Conker Cup. We are the number 1 source for all your conker (buckeye) needs, including news, interviews, and inside scoops.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1500134165
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Liz Recommends - Hit Job
An Audible Original.
Hit Job follows Brynn Morris (Keke Palmer), an aspiring artist desperate for a job so she can help her ailing grandmother. As a last resort, she takes a job as an administrative assistant at a company with the motto "Do Bad Things for Good Reasons." Joining forces with her awkward tech nerd of a coworker Geo (Pete Davidson), she unexpectedly gets swept up in a company-wide contest that forces her to question her morals. Having a killer job suddenly takes on a whole new meaning.
https://www.audible.com.au/pd/Hit-Job-Podcast/B091ZG765V
Nick Recommends - Rabbit Hole
What is the internet doing to us? The Times tech columnist Kevin Roose discovers what happens when our lives move online.
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/rabbit-hole/id1507423923
Zane Recommends - Excuse me, That's Illegal
https://redcircle.com/shows/excuse-me-thats-illegal
Need a little break from stories of murder and heartache? Join your boy Leroy as he takes a hardcore look at some softcore crimes. New episodes on the 10th, 20th and 30th of the month!
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1526994548
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Tiny Leaps Big Changes
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/tiny-leaps-big-changes/id1071032154
Tiny Leaps, Big Changes is a personal development podcast focused on exploring the day-to-day behaviors we all engage in that determine the results we gain in our lives. Hosted by Gregg Clunis, the show shares simple strategies you can implement into your life to start moving the needle towards your biggest goals.
The Savvy Psychologist
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-savvy-psychologists-quick-and-dirty-tips-for/id803978236
Aka The Savvy Psychologist Quick And Dirty Tips For Better Mental Health.
Welcome to psychology for the rest of us. Host Dr. Monica Johnson takes the science of psychology and makes it both entertaining and relatable. Using a sympathetic ear and evidence-based research, she explains the ‘why’ behind emotions like joy, anger, fear, trust, and anxiety, and helps you better understand the relationships you form with your friends, family, coworkers, and yourself. Seeking a healthier emotional life? It’s time to bring a trained psychologist and mental health expert along for the ride.
The Mindful Minute
https://www.merylarnett.com/podcast/uncategorized/welcome-to-the-mindful-minute
Trying mediation for the first time can be intimidating, especially if you have no idea what to do. Fortunately, there are teachers like Meryl Arnett of The Mindful Minute podcast, that take you through simple and concise guided meditations that allow you to get out of your own head (and your own way) while learning how to live in the moment.
Peace Out
https://bedtime.fm/peaceout
By Bedtime FM. Short stories that help children calm down and relax by guiding them through visualization and breathing exercises. Perfect for parents or teachers who want to teach mindfulness and self-regulation.
New story released every Fortnight.
Narrated by Chanel Tsang and Produced by Rob Griffiths
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Liz Recommends - How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
How To Fail With Elizabeth Day is a podcast that celebrates the things that haven’t gone right. Every week, a new interviewee explores what their failures taught them about how to succeed better
Elizabeth Day is an award-winning author and broadcaster. Her chart-topping podcast, How To Fail, is a celebration of the things that haven't gone right. According to Stylist magazine, she has ‘revolutionised the way we see failure’.
Guests have included Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Gloria Steinem, Andrew Scott, Lily Allen, Mabel, Kazuo Ishiguro and Malcolm Gladwell. It won the Rising Star Award at the 2019 British Podcast Awards.
Her new novel Magpie, is published in the UK in September 2020. Her latest book, Failosophy: A Handbook for When Things Go Wrong, is out now and has been described by Alain de Botton as ‘beautiful, timely and humane.’
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/how-to-fail-with-elizabeth-day/id1407451189
Nick Recommends - How to Build a Happy Life
In this series, Arthur C. Brooks seeks to uncover how we can live more joyful lives. Through scientific discussions and an exploration of what happiness is, Arthur will uncover the how-tos of happy living and assign you exercises to make happiness a daily practice.
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/how-to-build-a-happy-life/
Zane Recommends - DIY Musician Podcast
https://podcast.cdbaby.com/
Making music has never been easier, but building a music career today is altogether different. Finding the right audience for your music takes an entrepreneurial mindset, a lot of hard work, and a willingness to experiment. The DIY Musician Podcast features interviews with artists of all styles and backgrounds who’ve found a unique but authentic pathway to success, as well as in-depth discussions with music publicists, promoters, lawyers, publishers, talent buyers, and more. This podcast is geared towards independent musicians who want to build a sustainable music career without giving up (too much) financial or creative control. Hosts Kevin and Chris work with hundreds of thousands of artists at CD Baby, and are actively releasing and promoting their own music too; they're part of the same community they’re helping to educate and encourage with each new episode.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id253809240
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These are the podcasts that were recommended on Castology in the past that I STILL listen to every episode of! In Part 1 I am re-recommending the podcasts that I brought to the table that I still cannot get enough of.
Thrilling Adventure Hour - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id408691897
The Dollop with Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id643055307
The Red Line - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1482715810
Ologies with Alie Ward - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1278815517
Dan Carlin's Hardcore History - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id173001861
Liz Recommends - Bad Vibes
The ultimate horror anthology for the ears.
Hello there, my frightful friend. It’s your old pal Mr. Boogey (Justin McElroy). I’m so glad you stopped by. Every week I will tell you a story in exchange for your fear. For dread and terror is the sweet, sweet, sustenance I crave and I am very hungry. Each weekly tale is more chilling than the next and as always I will be there to lead you in and out of the darkness. So take a break and join me won’t you? I promise you won’t live to regret it :). Tah-tah.
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/bad-vibes/id1557912286
Nick Recommends - Strawberry Spring
Based on the short story by Stephen King, Strawberry Spring is a scripted podcast set against the backdrop of the sixties revolution on the campus of New Sharon College. We follow a generation of students who don't trust authority, the futile efforts of the local police, and a young, determined reporter as he chases the bloody trail of Springheel Jack, an unrelenting, modern-day Jack the Ripper. After vanishing and leaving his murders unsolved, Jack is back - along with a new Strawberry Spring, a weather pattern with an unusual fog bank
Zane Recommends - Knifepoint Horror
Tales of supernatural suspense written and produced by Soren Narnia. For sheer chills-around-the-campfire-style storytelling, nothing beats Knifepoint, an intermittent anthology podcast where each episode features a weary-voiced narrator telling a standalone, first-person story that inevitably builds from ominous dread into an all-consuming horror fest.
The text of these stories is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license, meaning that anyone is free to adapt the stories as they see fit, even for profit, without the obligation to compensate the author. CC BY 4.0
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id406250030
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No Dunks - No Dunks is a daily NBA podcast hosted by Skeets, Tas, Trey, Leigh, and JD — the original basketball podcasters. Join ‘em as they break down the league’s biggest games and headlines, answer listeners’ questions, interview guests, and more.
Fifth And Last NRL Podcast - A weekly rugby league podcast that aims to bring you all the inside information and perspective on the greatest game of all, Rugby League.
Ordineroli Speaking - Celebrating resilience in sport - the human stories behind the stars
Beyond the Grid - Beyond The Grid, delivers great stories, fresh insight, and amazing anecdotes from the world of F1.
Liz Recommends - The Something Scary Podcast
Do you wanna hear something scary? Join Markeia every week as they bring you the creepiest ghost stories, urban legends, and folktales.
Creepy music and really evocative storytelling.
They also choose a story each week to animate and post on youtube.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/something-scary/id1438162222
Nick Recommends - Edith!
After President Woodrow Wilson suffered a massive, paralyzing stroke in the White House, Edith Wilson did the unthinkable: she told no one. And for almost a year following the end of World War I, Edith Wilson acted as the de facto unelected President. She would issue orders as him. She would fire people as him. She would even cause international incidents as him. And all along the way, enemies both internal and external, inched closer to finding out her secret.
https://crooked.com/podcast-series/edith/
Zane Recommends - The Oyster
https://www.theparagoncollective.com/
In a not-so-distant future, due to overwhelming carbon emissions, The Earth is on the brink of becoming uninhabitable. These conditions are made far more horrifying because the available housing shelters (that can produce sustainable air quality) will only be able to house 80% of the world’s total population. To try and save the human race, every person has a government-mandated microchip implanted in their brain to attempt to facilitate the migration of a portion of the population to an underground shelter. In order to decide who gets to be protected and who must stay above ground, the government implements a value scale they have determined based on “usefulness” to future society. If you are valued at a 50 or above, you will be chosen to enter the bunker, and, if not, you must stay above ground and face the end of days. “Neuron” (which acts as both a prestigious brain implant and also a software company) is folded into a sanctioned branch of the government called, “The Ministry of Experience.” Their job now is to develop technologies and software that can replicate the human experience above ground. But what is far more pressing is The Ministry must find a way to reduce the use of resources, or they will run out of all survivable assets before being able to relocate to “Eden” - the one place above ground that might be salvageable in a few years time. Whether Eden will be ready in time remains to be seen, but its existence is literally the last hope for the human race surviving. In a drastic effort to cut emissions and resource usage, “The Oyster” is created. The Oyster is Nirvana - A state absent from the mind while being filled with complete pleasure and bliss. What, then, happens when reality begins to fade and The Oyster is all that remains?
The Oyster stars Logan Browning (Dear White People and the Perfection), Mamoudou Athie (Jurassic World), Carla Gugino (Haunting of Hill House), Keith David (Greenleaf), Giancarlo Esposito (Breaking Bad), Constance Zimmer (House of Cards, UnReal), Andrew Santino (Dave) and more.
Created by Alex Aldea and Adrienne Schaffler
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1538224217
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Criminal
https://thisiscriminal.com
Criminal is a podcast about crime. Not so much the "if it bleeds, it leads," kind of crime. Something a little more complex. Stories of people who've done wrong, been wronged, and/or gotten caught somewhere in the middle.
Host Phoebe Judge and co creator Lauren Spohrer.
Real Crime Profile
https://www.realcrimeprofile.com
Join Jim Clemente (former FBI profiler), Laura Richards (criminal behavioral analyst, former New Scotland Yard) and Lisa Zambetti (Casting director for CBS’ Criminal Minds) as they profile behavior from real criminal cases. Real Crime Profile will take you through the gripping Steven Avery case highlighted on ‘Making A Murderer,’ the OJ Simpson Trial, and much more.
Casefile
https://casefilepodcast.com
Casefile is an award-winning true-crime podcast that presents unforgettable stories in a professionally produced audio format. What started in 2016 as a one-person side project has grown to include an entire team based across multiple continents.
Our episodes delve deep into the circumstances, investigations and trials of both solved and unsolved cases from all over the world. Casefile has hundreds of millions of downloads and consistently ranks highly across podcasting charts. Discover why everyone from Rolling Stone to Time magazine is calling it a must-listen experience.
Swindled
https://swindledpodcast.com
Utilizes narrative storytelling, archival audio, and immersive soundscapes to explore true stories of white-collar criminals, con artists, and corporate evil. From corruption and fraud to Ponzi schemes and environmental disasters, these financially motivated crimes have shaped our world in unimaginable ways. All in the name of greed.
Small Town Dicks
https://www.smalltowndicks.com
Small Town Dicks is a podcast about the big-time crime that’s happening in Small Town, USA. Each episode features the detectives who broke the case in their small town, and includes assets like jailhouse phone calls, suspect interviews and 9-1-1 calls. The show is anchored by veteran, identical-twin detectives Dan and Dave, and hosted by actress, Yeardley Smith.
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Liz Recommends - Obitchuary
https://audioboom.com/channels/5054873
Each week hosts Spencer Henry [Cult Liter Podcast] and Madison Reyes sit back and read outlandish, hilarious, and sometimes scathing obituaries. Every Thursday they come to the table with bizarre history, strange funeral traditions, and so much more! Each episode ends with a 'dumb criminals' segment in which they each talk about hilarious run-ins with the law.
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/obitchuary/id1573981050
Nick Recommends - You Little Ripper
Australian Paralympic legend Kurt Fearnley and co-host Georgie Tunny deliver our daily dose of Paralympics for the Tokyo Games, speaking to key athletes to bring home the spirit of the Paralympics.
Zane Recommends - The Deep
https://www.zoemarshall.com/thedeep
From terminal parents to sex workers, extremists, and drug addicts, The Deep is a place for thought-provoking conversations that help us explore who we are when no one is looking. Cracked wide open by her past trauma, grief, and abuse host Zoe Marshall holds the space for others to share their fascinating stories and perspectives through these deep conversations.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1515060551
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The TNC Collective has grown so much in the last year! And I wanted to share some of the very fun and varied podcasts that comprise our members! If you would like to see all of the other podcasts on the network just visit thatsnotcanon.com
Mistholme Museum
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1506017781
Podcast Nine and Three Quarters
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1495739628
SpaceJunk
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1436286830
Blood Rage Mode
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1576281312
True Crime IRL
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1448751294
Do Something Nice
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1454620343
Liz Recommends - No Place But The Water
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000ly22
9 eps between 10 and 20 minutes each
A family runs a hotel at the edge of the water. But the food is running out and the water keeps rising.
When there is no place but the water, where do you go?
A drama series set in the future flooded world. Written by Linda Marshall Griffiths
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/no-place-but-the-water/id1528356252
Nick Recommends - Unleaded (An Episode of America Dissected)
The Flint Water Crisis dominated national headlines when it emerged in 2016—focusing national attention on the hazards of lead poisoning. Newark, New Jersey is facing a similar crisis today. But Flint and Newark are only the tip of the iceberg of an epidemic of lead poisoning facing urban communities across the country. Dr. Abdul El-Sayed visits Flint to speak with Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, the pediatrician and researcher who uncovered the Water Crisis to understand how Flint’s history shaped the government failures that led to the crisis—and how distrust can devastate public health for poor, marginalized communities all across the United States.
https://crooked.com/podcast/unleaded/
Zane Recommends - Water Women
A podcast for and about women involved in the oceans in some way, ocean sciences, ocean lifestyle, all of it! If you're a fan of the oceans, listen in every week for something new about ocean life!
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1494613500
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Nick Recommends - My WakeUpAndGos!
Every day Nick tried to get up and GOOOO and these picks from him on the mini are perfect! With a range of daily shows, there’s plenty of short bursts of news you’ll love!
Download This Show
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/download-this-show/id499804600
The Daily
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-daily/id1200361736
Today, Explained
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/today-explained/id1346207297
Have You Been Paying Attention?
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/have-you-been-paying-attention/id1121926361
Wind of Change
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/wind-of-change/id1509307460
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Liz Recommends - Coma Girl
https://stephaniebond.com/series/coma-girl/
In this riveting romantic comedy mystery, a victim of a tragic event lies in a hospital bed at the mercy of dysfunctional family, friends, and caretakers who think she can't hear them!
There are 187 episodes between 2 and 8 mins.
Stephanie has published over 100 novels and has over 7 million copies of her work in worldwide distribution in numerous languages and formats.
She’s also written Elevator Girl, Lottery Girl, Factory Girl, Comeback Girl.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/coma-girl/id1552721730
Nick Recommends - Crime in Sports
Two comedians take an unmerciful and hilarious look at athletes who have lost big games...with the law! Crime in Sports does the research, and finds the funny in the world of sports true crime. New episode every week!
https://crime-in-sports.simplecast.com/
Zane Recommends - Stir the Plot
A podcast where the hosts watch the first and last scenes of a movie, then improv their theories for what happens in between!
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/stir-the-plot/id1450341781?uo=4
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This week’s ep is all about my top five podcasts that I go to to make me happy. They’re all easy listens. What are your top 5 happy making pods? Tell us at castologypodcast@gmail.com
Liz Recommends
1: Thrilling Adventure Hour
https://www.patreon.com/thrillingadventurehour
http://thrillingadventurehour.com/
2: The Amelia Project
https://ameliapodcast.com/
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-amelia-project/id1314667752
3: RSlash
https://m.youtube.com/c/rSlash/videos
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rslash/id1475773051
4: Imagined Life
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/imagined-life/id1439810326
5: The Guilty Feminist
http://guiltyfeminist.com
Hon mention to My Favorite Murder (minisode only) and Coma Girl (I would like more
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Liz Recommends - The Man Enough Podcast
https://manenough.com/podcast/
What does it mean to be a man, or really a human, in the world today?
We’re changing that together. You have the ability to change it with us.
If you’re interested in deepening your connection with yourself and others, evolving your understanding of the impacts of traditional masculinity on all people, and being reminded that you are enough, this is the podcast for you.
We go deep and it gets real, and it’s all so beautiful, even the messy, uncomfortable parts
…maybe especially those parts.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-man-enough-podcast/id1571480224
Nick Recommends - Exploration Radio
Exploration Radio talks to explorers about the challenges they have faced, what we stand to learn from them and how we can better prepare for the future
http://www.explorationradio.com/about.html
Zane Recommends - Slaughterhouse Road
https://www.slaughterhouse-road.com/
A chill, Australiana, romantic, horror, alt-country, musical podcast. 'Nuff said.
Let me take you down Slaughterhouse road, just a little town somewhere on the coast. Take a seat, grab an ale, let me tell you a tale… of bangers and mash, an abattoir, and honey for sale.
Slaughterhouse Road is a tragic alt-country Australiana romantic horror musical podcast set in a jaded small town on Australia’s east coast. If you like open mic night at your local pub, fresh hot snags, and sweet young country romance, you might just like this little tale.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1474044583
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Liz Recommends - Alice Isn’t Dead
http://www.nightvalepresents.com/aliceisntdead
A truck driver searches across America for the wife she had long assumed was dead. In the course of her search, she will encounter not-quite-human serial murderers, towns literally lost in time and a conspiracy that goes way beyond one missing woman.
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/alice-isnt-dead/id1088978354
Nick Recommends - The Masked Man Show
David Shoemaker hosts 'The Masked Man Show' on the Ringer Podcast Network every week breaking down everything in the world of professional wrestling.
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Zane Recommends - Euphomet AND The Experiment
Euphomet
https://redcircle.com/shows/euphomet
A documentary series about the unknown and our relationship to it, featuring real people sharing astonishing paranormal experiences.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id991129779
The Experiment
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts
It’s easy to forget that the United States started as an experiment: a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, with liberty and justice for all. That was the idea. On this weekly show, we check in on how that experiment is going. The Experiment: stories from an unfinished country. From The Atlantic and WNYC Studios. WNYC Studios is a listener-supported producer of other leading podcasts, including Radiolab, On the Media, and Death, Sex & Money. Since 1857, The Atlantic has been a magazine of ideas—a home to the best writers and boldest minds, who bring clarity and original thinking to the most important issues of our time.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1549704404
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Liz Recommends - The Villain Was Right
https://villainwasright.libsyn.com/
Comedians Craig Fay and Rebecca Reeds view movies and TV shows from the villain's perspective and dare to ask if they were really all that bad.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-villain-was-right/id1438524435
Nick Recommends - Day X
This story began with a mysterious gun in an airport bathroom and led to a German military officer facing trial on terrorism charges. It’s a story about national identity and reckoning, mirroring the story of Germany itself. And years later, it’s still unfolding — raising a question that democracies across the world are waking up to: What happens when the threat is coming from within?
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/19/podcasts/far-right-german-extremism.html
Zane Recommends - The Poison Room
https://poisonroom.com/
The Poison Room is a podcast about dangerous writing - from the very first anti-vaccination literature to the Anarchist Cookbook. Banned books, burned books, ridiculous laws, and centuries of misinterpreting holy texts, as well as books that are dangerous to read and own, and books that were dangerous to write.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1482011808
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Liz Recommends - Chameleon: Hollywood Con Queen
https://www.campsidemedia.com/shows/chameleon
CHAMELEON: Hollywood Con Queen, from Campside co-founders Josh Dean and Vanessa Grigoriadis, peaked at #2 on the Apple charts and was named one of 2020's best podcasts by Spotify, Stitcher, and Rolling Stone.
Chameleon unspools the story of one of the weirdest and wildest scams in history. Over the past seven years, hundreds of Hollywood gig workers have been fooled into flying to Indonesia for a movie that doesn’t exist. This deeply reported show from two veteran investigative reporters examines the cost of wanting something so badly that you see only what you want to see, contrasted against how information – and disinformation – can be used as a weapon to prey on true believers; the way the imbalance between powerful women and below-the-line men in the film biz plays out in the era of #MeToo; and the nature of Hollywood, a place where everyone is pretending to be someone else.
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/chameleon-high-rollers/id1532225667
Nick Recommends - Climbing Gold
Alex Honnold and co-host Fitz Cahall share stories from the people who define the sport of climbing by pushing the boundaries and challenging the status quo of the previous generation. Athletes. Risk takers. Dirtbags. Pioneers. Community builders. Outsiders. Leaders.
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Zane Recommends - The Red Line
https://www.theredlinepodcast.com/
The Red Line is a geopolitical think tank based in Australia, covering and analysing key issues shaping the world today.
Their flagship production is The Red Line Podcast. Released fortnightly, each episode tackles one topic in-depth, examining the key players involved, the geopolitical strategies at play, and the underreported angles of the issue. Episodes of The Red Line Podcast serve as comprehensive crash courses in the issue it tackles, providing insights deeper than those found in mainstream media outlets.
The Red Line Podcast is a one-of-a-kind briefing that will leave you with a deep understanding of the background, key factors, and international players shaping critical geopolitical issues.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1482715810
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Liz Recommends - It’s Nice to Hear You
https://www.itsnicetohearyou.com
Can the power of voice lead to a deeper connection? Hear what happens in this audio only matchmaking experiment based on the exchange of voice memos. No names, no direct contact, no pictures. IT’S NICE TO HEAR YOU is an independently produced genre-bending podcast about this real life experiment that took place in 2020. Through 6 episodes, there are lessons, told 1 pair at a time. Yes, some pairs do end up in a relationship afterwards. Eavesdrop into their private conversations and hear how these strangers fall into like, reciprocate vulnerability, and develop intimacy. This is what human connection sounds like.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/its-nice-to-hear-you/id1550711873
Nick Recommends - Shipworm
Wallace Conway wakes up to find he’s been implanted with an untraceable earpiece while sleeping. So long as he does everything the voice on the other end tells him, he and his family will live
https://twoupproductions.com/shipworm/podcast-1
Zane Recommends - Choiceology with Katy Milkman
Can we learn to make smarter choices? Listen in as host Katy Milkman--behavioral scientist, Wharton professor, and author of How to Change--shares stories of high-stakes decisions and what research reveals they can teach us. Choiceology, an original podcast from Charles Schwab, explores the lessons of behavioral economics to help you improve your judgment and change for good.
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Liz Recommends - Morally Indefensible
From Marc Smerling, the creator behind The Jinx and Crimetown, comes a story of murder, friendship and betrayal. In 1979, Ex-Green Beret Doctor Jeffrey MacDonald was convicted of the murders of his pregnant wife and two young daughters. When he meets a famous young journalist named Joe McGinniss, the two become fast friends. Joe agrees to write a book about Jeff’s case to finally reveal the truth. The book, Fatal Vision, became a smash bestseller and a TV limited series watched by millions of people. But the story it told wasn’t the story Jeff expected…And that sets off a series of events that ruins both their lives.
Morally Indefensible is a companion to the FX docuseries, A Wilderness of Error coming to FX September 25, and streaming next day on Hulu.
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/morally-indefensible/id1525749557
Nick Recommends - Painkiller
The opioid crisis hit a milestone this past year: fentanyl killed more people in a single year than any other drug in modern history. How did we get here?
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Zane Recommends - Old Timey Crimey
https://oldtimeycrimey.podbean.com
True crime from 1950 and before with Scott, Amber, and Kristy. Because the good ol' days weren't always so good.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1458912564
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Liz Recommends - Let’s Go To Court
http://lgtcpodcast.com/about-the-show/
Two gals chat true crime from a legal perspective!
“The Let’s Go To Court podcast brings together two of the greatest legal minds of our time.
Just kidding.
We’re your hosts Brandi Egan and Kristin Caruso. What we lack in legal training we more than make up for in being completely obsessed with lawsuits. Every week, we discuss two juicy legal battles. Each episode is peppered with Brandi’s booming laugh and Kristin’s Olympic-level talent for putting the word “so” into every sentence.
The podcast started in 2018, but we’ve been having these conversations for years. What can we say? We’re just a couple of lifelong friends who love the drama of a trial.
Our other interests include: liquid eyeliner, Fresca, and begging Noodles and Company to bring back the spicy chicken caesar wrap.”
Nick Recommends - The Line
In 2018, a group of Navy SEALs broke ranks and accused their chief, Eddie Gallagher, of murder—sucking them all into the biggest war crimes trial in a generation. Did a Navy SEAL cross the line in Iraq? Dan Taberski (“Running from COPS”) takes you inside that courtroom for the first time, peeling back the curtain on how America wages its wars now and revealing the story that the media covering the trial blew right past. Through intimate conversations with over 50 special operators, the series explores just how blurred the line between right and wrong has become in the forever wars—and what that’s doing to the hearts and minds of those we send to fight them.
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Zane Recommends - Two Headed Girl
Two Headed Girl, a new show about gender, mental illness, and all sorts of transitions made by a couple of married queers trying to figure themselves out.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1435549226
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Liz Recommends - Passenger List
https://passengerlist.org/
Atlantic Flight 702 has disappeared mid-flight between London and New York with 256 passengers on board. Kaitlin Le (Kelly Marie Tran), a college student whose twin brother vanished with the flight, is determined to uncover the truth. Passenger List is a mystery thriller podcast from PRX’s Radiotopia.
Season two airing at time of recording.
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/passenger-list/id1472392291
Nick Recommends - The Improvement Association
For at least a decade, allegations of cheating have swirled around elections in rural Bladen County, N.C. Some people in town point fingers at a Black advocacy group, the Bladen County Improvement Association, accusing it of bullying voters, tampering with ballots and stealing votes outright. These accusations have never been substantiated, but they persist. Reporter Zoe Chace went to Bladen County to investigate what’s really going on. From the makers of Serial and The New York Times, a five-part series about allegations of election fraud — and the powerful forces that fuel them.
Zane Recommends - What'sHerName
https://www.whatshernamepodcast.com
What’sHerName women’s history podcast is hosted and produced by academic sisters Olivia Meikle and Katie Nelson. Committed to reclaiming forgotten history, What’sHerName tells the stories of fascinating women you’ve never heard of (but should have). Through compelling interviews with guest historians, writers, and scholars, Katie and Olivia bring to life the “lost” women of history. Fascinating and funny, thought-provoking and thoughtful, What’sHerName restores women’s voices to the conversation.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1320638747
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Liz Recommends - We Regret To Inform You
https://apostrophepodcasts.ca/rejection/
The road to success is littered with speed bumps. Every celebrated actor, writer, musician, artist, inventor and entrepreneur has faced debilitating career rejection on their journey to the top. We tell their fascinating stories and break down exactly how they achieved their remarkable goals. Because hidden inside each rejection is a unique insight. And we’re here to find it.
At its heart, this podcast is about persistence and inspiration.
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/we-regret-to-inform-you-the-rejection-podcast/id1503835352
Nick Recommends - Sudhir Breaks the Internet
The Columbia University sociologist Sudhir Venkatesh studies exclusive worlds by embedding himself — with a crack-selling gang, sex workers, the teenage children of billionaires, and most recently, at the highest levels of companies at the vanguard of the digital revolution, including Facebook and Twitter. And now he’s hosting a podcast. In each episode, Venkatesh will reveal what he learned in Silicon Valley and talk with the people he met along the way who are building and running the digital world, and those who are using it in a signal way, digging deep into their motivations and challenging their priorities.
Zane Recommends - The Faces of Fascism
https://facesoffascism.podbean.com
A history podcast examining the lives, ideologies, and radicalisation of Western Europe's most notorious dictators.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1457257084
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Liz Recommends - The Cipher
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p090t9cl/episodes/downloads
When 16-year-old Sabrina cracks the cryptic Parallax, she’s recruited to track down a serial killer... who might not be from this world. Starring Anya Chalotra and Chance Perdomo. 11 episodes. Best with headphones/good speakers.
For both: Serial so begin at the start.
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-cipher/id1543887425
Nick Recommends - West Cork
In West Cork, it’s simply known as ‘the murder’. In 1996 French film producer Sophie Toscan du Plantier is found dead near her holiday home. There are no witnesses and no known motive. The police suspect one man in this community but they can’t make a charge stick and he refuses to leave, living under the glare of suspicion ever since. This series brings together an incredible cast of characters, many of whom have never spoken publicly before. The family of the victim bring to life a woman lost; the suspect puts forward his defence; and local people explain what it’s like to have the living embodiment of their unsettled nerves still resolutely among them
For both From the start
Zane Recommends - Paper Ghosts
Four separate cases, four young girls. All of whom go missing in the early to mid-1970s, all within miles from one another in neighboring New England towns. And not one arrest has been made in over 50 years. In Paper Ghosts, investigative journalist and true crime author M. William Phelps’ decade-long search for answers is reignited when a call reveals new information that sets the investigation in motion, uncovering never-made-public documents and bringing forth new witnesses and suspects.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1526682330
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Grace Recommends - Dead Bodies Podcast
http://soundcloud.com/deadbodiespodcast
Have you ever seen a dead body?
People find dead bodies everywhere, under floorboards, inside chimneys, and in their homes. They’re at crime scenes, disaster scenes and in morgues. There have been dead bodies on the red carpet, in cannibals’ dens, and even advertised in the classifieds.
In this series, experienced crime and court reporter Sharnelle Vella, and veteran radio host Dee Dee Dunleavy look at where dead bodies have been found, how they got there, and most importantly, the effect on people who found them.
We talk to people who deal with death daily as part of their jobs, and people who weren’t prepared for the shock of finding a dead body.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1394418765
Nick Recommends - Behind the Insurrections
In the wake of the January 6th insurrection in D.C., Robert Evans and co-host Propaganda take a look at fascist insurrections throughout history. They also unpack the evolution, successes, and failures of antifascists in Italy, Germany, and Spain.
For both: Take a pick!
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/behind-the-insurrections/id1548574516
Zane Recommends - The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id128859062
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe is a weekly science podcast discussing the latest science news, critical thinking, bad science, conspiracies, and controversies.
https://www.theskepticsguide.org/podcast/sgu
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Grace Recommends - Make It Then Tell Everybody
https://mitte.libsyn.com/rss
Make It Then Tell Everybody is a show dedicated to finding out how comic artists and illustrators do what they do, hosted by Dan Berry.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id572995537
Nick Recommends - Death at the Wing
At the dawn of the 1980s, the world was moving faster, the media was growing bigger, and greed was finally good. For the NBA, it was a chance to finally step into the spotlight. But all that wealth and stardom came at a deep cost.
This is the story of how basketball reflected a moment when Reagan’s America doubled down on some of its core values: selfishness, violence, and racism -- and the players who paid the price.
For both: from the start
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/death-at-the-wing/id1558869948
Zane Recommends - Under The Shroud
https://www.undertheshroud.com/
"Supernatural? We're not super anything. Just a little extra." Hapless half-demon Corin Black taxis creatures of the night through Baltimore's sin-soaked streets.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1458175901
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Asabi Recommends - Why Won't You Date Me? with Nicole Byer
https://teamcoco.com/podcasts
Nicole Byer is single and has been for decades. She’s smart, funny, has a fat ass and loves giving blow jobs. So the question is why is she perpetually single? This podcast is a quest to find that answer. Every week, Nicole invites a comedian, friend, or ex-fling to interview their dating life and figure out her own.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1314759544
Nick Recommends - How It Happened
Trump’s Last Stand: How much damage can a sitting president do in a day or a week or two months? In the first series of How It Happened, national political reporter Jonathan Swan reveals the inside story of Donald Trump’s last few months in office. The story starts with his COVID-19 recovery and ends with the insurrection at the Capitol.
For both: from the beginning
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Zane Recommends - Sayer
https://iamsayer.com
SAYER is a narrative fiction podcast set on Earth’s man-made second moon, Typhon. The eponymous SAYER is a highly advanced, self-aware AI created to help acclimate new residents to their new lives, and their new employment with Ærolith Dynamics. This podcast has been running since 2014 and after a hiatus in 2020, it has recently released the latest episode.
For Both: From the beginning
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id831100527
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Asabi Recommends - Code Switch
http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch
What's CODE SWITCH? It's the fearless conversations about race that you've been waiting for! Hosted by journalists of color, our podcast tackles the subject of race head-on. We explore how it impacts every part of society — from politics and pop culture to history, sports and everything in between. This podcast makes ALL OF US part of the conversation — because we're all part of the story. "We're talking to people who have been marginalized and underrepresented for so long, who are so hungry to see themselves represented fully and with nuance and complexity," says Shereen Marisol Meraji, co-host of Code Switch, Apple Podcasts' first-ever Show of the Year for 2020. "People recognize that, because we had been having these conversations for so many years in advance, we're a trusted place where they could go to better understand all the stories about race filling up their newsfeeds and social channels." Their weekly podcast launched in 2016 but truly came into its own during this historic, transformative year, as Meraji and co-host Gene Demby examine issues of racial, ethnic, and cultural identity through frank one-on-one discussions and incisive non-fiction. In a year dominated by discourse about race, this indispensable show furthered them by providing powerful and timely insight, offering diverse and empathetic personal perspectives to a broad audience. "There are certain lenses that we are bringing into, both as journalists and the people that we're bringing to these stories," Demby says. "But also, we are specific people with specific fascinations and broad curiosity. If we're telling these stories, you should assume that they're going to look and sound like us."
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1112190608
Nick Recommends -
Takeline
Takeline is a weekly podcast hosted by Jason Concepcion and Renee Montgomery that’s a fast-paced exploration of the NBA and world of sports and culture. Each week Jason and Renee talk about the games, players, controversies and issues that run both on and off the court. The show will be a place for lively debates, guests (experts and super fans), and contributors who will provide game analysis, get deep into the storylines and will give the audience a chance to learn everything they didn’t even know about the games.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/takeline/id1555597876
No Dunks
No Dunks is a daily NBA podcast hosted by Skeets, Tas, Trey, Leigh, and JD — the original basketball podcasters. Join 'em as they break down the league's biggest games and headlines, answer listeners' questions, interview guests, and more.No Dunks is a daily NBA podcast hosted by Skeets, Tas, Trey, Leigh, and JD — the original basketball podcast
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/no-dunks/id1468409996
Zane Recommends - It Seemed Smart
https://www.sbnation.com/a/it-seemed-smart-podcast
Liars, cheaters, burglars, oh my! Enter the amusing, diabolical, and entertaining world of sports trickery and mayhem. Spencer Hall shares the absurd stories of stolen bats, pirated play calls, renegade cross-country road racers, and promising footballers who, it turns out...
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Asabi Recommends - Mugglecast
MuggleCast is your weekly ride into the Wizarding World. Pioneering the Harry Potter podcast phenomenon in August 2005, MuggleCast has continued to bring its listeners entertaining and thought-provoking discussions about J.K. Rowling's expanding universe. With each new episode, we discuss everything Harry Potter: the latest news, the Potter books, Fantastic Beasts, The Cursed Child, the theme parks, the video games, and more!
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id76699727
Nick Recommends - The Crisis
An investigation into the deadly fight over the environment and who controls it. In Season 1 we delve into the murders of three Colombian coal miners who were working for an Alabama coal company and unravel a decades-long saga of bribery, scandal, civil war, and death. From VICE News.
For both: from the start
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Zane Recommends - The Munk Debates Podcast
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/962-the-munk-debates-podcast-p-52131924
The Munk Debates podcast is an extension of the main stage events - in the subject, speaker selection, tone, and format. It will introduce the iconic brand - and its engaging debates about significant issues of our time. Audiences will hear strong and passionate arguments from both sides of an issue so they will have enough information to make up their own minds about where they stand.
For Both: Pick an episode that interests you
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1486184902
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Shane Recommends - Back To One
The no nonsense, in-depth, actors-on-acting podcast from Filmmaker Magazine. Hosted by Peter Rinaldi. One working actor every episode doing a deep dive into their approach to the craft. No small talk, no celebrity stories, no inane banter—just the work.
For Nick: Jackie Weaver
For Zane: Christopher Abbott
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/back-to-one/id1372499952
https://filmmakermagazine.com/column/back-to-one-a-podcast-on-acting/#.YGxYT-gzZPY
Nick Recommends - Power: The Maxwells
Everyone’s heard of Ghislaine Maxwell (Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged partner in crime). But there’s a shadowy figure who hangs above her who you likely don’t know: her father, media tycoon Robert Maxwell. His rise from nothing to fall… from the deck of his super yacht under mysterious circumstances is straight out of a crime novel. His favourite daughter Ghislaine’s theory: her father was murdered. From Somethin’ Else, makers of ‘The Immaculate Deception’ and ‘The Fault Line: Bush, Blair and Iraq’, hosted by Investigative journalist Tara Palmeri, ‘Power: The Maxwells’ is a seven-part series on the incredible true story of a media mogul whose legacy is still being felt today.
For both: from the start!
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/power-the-maxwells/id1547265474
Zane Recommends - Squanderlust
https://www.squanderlustpod.com/
Most people are pretty irrational about money sometimes, even the professionals. Knowing the ‘right’ course of action doesn’t always help when our emotions get involved. Yet so much advice around money requires perfect rationality, habits, and willpower to make it work.
Host, Martha Lawton is a money coach and former financial adviser who owns her imperfections. On Squanderlust she talks about how we can all improve our financial wellbeing by managing our feelings about money and working with, instead of against, our innate psychological tendencies.
She also brings in expert guests including psychologists, researchers, financial advisers, and educators to help. Oh, and she tries to have a laugh along the way.
For Both: Any
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1452044382
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Once again we welcome guest-castologist Shane Anderson to the podcast to help us all figure out what podcasts we need to be listening to!
Shane Recommends - Monsters Out Of The Closet
Monsters Out of the Closet is a horror fiction podcast dedicated to proudly featuring spooky and strange stories, poetry, songs, and other creative content from diverse LGBTQ+ voices.
For Both: Any episode!
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/monsters-out-of-the-closet/id1293523211
https://www.monstersoutofthecloset.com/
Nick Recommends - One Heat Minute Productions
ONE HEAT MINUTE PRODUCTIONS began with film journalist Blake Howard examining Michael Mann's 1995 crime opus HEATchronologically, in 60-second increments, in the aptly titled "One HEAT Minute." After more than 170 episodes the finale featured the legendary mastermind director, screenwriter and producer behind the film Michael Mann. Now, the feed is occupied by similarly obsessed examinations like: THE LAST (12 minutes) OF THE MOHICANS is a twelve-episode limited podcast series focusing on the climax of the Michael Mann's 1992 epic The Last of the Mohicans. (Completed) INCREMENT VICE is the podcast that explores Paul Thomas Anderson's INHERENT VICE one scene at a time, with host Travis Woods (Weekly on Fridays) ALL THE PRESIDENT's MINUTES is a podcast where conversations about movies, journalism, politics and history meet. Each show we use the seminal and increasingly prescient 1976 film All The President's Men as a portal, to engage with the themes and the warnings of the film resonating since its release. (Three times a week)
For both: from the start OR pick a movie!
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/one-heat-minute-productions/id1274489817
Zane Recommends - #ElderWisdom
Erin Davis along with co-host Lloyd Hetherington explore friendship, tragedy, love, life, learning and so much more on our Stories from the Green Bench podcast.
The Green Bench is a symbol of elder wisdom. Physically or virtually, the bench invites us all to sit alongside a senior, share a conversation or give and offer advice.
It challenges the stigma seniors face; ageism still so prevalent in society. It reminds us of the wealth of wisdom our elders offer and in doing so, helps restore them to a place of reverence.
For Both: Any will do!
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1535690542
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Joining the podcast once more as a special guest-Castologist is local film-maker and podcast enthusiast - Shane Anderson. In this episode our Castologists tackle a rather esoteric theme - Yellow. So prepare yourselves for a wild ride as we scramble for what 'yellow' means in the world of podcasting.
Shane Recommends - Rating Descending
This is Rating Descending, where Michelle St Claire and Abigail Ward watch IMDb’s Worst 250 movies so you don’t have to. They begrudgingly descend through the “Bottom 250” list, and fill you in on the horrors and tragedies they witness along the way. Bad jokes, cheap beer, and shared trauma incoming.
For Both: "248: God's not Dead"
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/rating-descending/id1525486540
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1215941
Nick Recommends - Today, Explained
News comes at you fast. Join us at the end of your day to understand it. Today, Explained is your all killer, no filler, Monday to Friday news explainer hosted by Sean Rameswaram and featuring the finest reporters from the Vox Media Podcast Network and beyond.
For both: take a pick!
https://www.vox.com/today-explained
Zane Recommends - Absorbent and Yellow
Are ya ready, kids? If a fan-made episode-by-episode deep dive into the world of SpongeBob Squarepants be something you wish, then hit subscribe and tune in!
For Both: Pick one at random!
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1521339749
AND
Black and Yellow
Forward-thinking feminists Alana J. Webster and Jacklyn Chung-Young don’t hold back when discussing societal issues facing women and people of color in the new weekly podcast, Black & Yellow. Armed with research and wit, the ladies delve into the complexities of being a Black or Asian woman in today’s world. From CP Time to sexual harassment, Jacklyn and Alana offer their intersectional perspective on what’s happening in our society today and ways to stay as woke as possible.
For Both: Pick one that you want to learn more about
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1322666490
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Liz is gone! But we will persist! Joining the podcast as a special guest-Castologist is local film-maker and podcast enthusiast - Shane Anderson. With no set theme all of our recommendations are a little bit angry-making, so consider yourselves warned!
Shane Recommends - Cases of Color
Hosted by Randi Johnson, Cases of Color is an Ethical True Crime podcast showcasing missing persons and unsolved crimes involving black people and people of colour. Focusing on a critical look at the systems of authority, criminal justice and police that have been weaponised against these communities and used to silence their stories.
For Both: Pick any episode
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cases-of-color/id1484671903
https://twitter.com/casesofcolor
Nick Recommends - Just Something About Her With Jennifer Palmieri
“Just Something About Her with Jennifer Palmieri” is hosted by the former communications director for the Obama White House and Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign. Palmieri explores why — after decades of making steady progress — women find themselves banging up against the same glass ceilings. The show features interviews with powerful women from business, politics, the arts and journalism to learn how they found a way to break through and create their own path to success.
For both: pick an ep!
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/just-something-about-her-with-jennifer-palmieri/id1529897535
Zane Recommends - Gaslit Nation
https://www.patreon.com/gaslit
Gaslit Nation is a weekly podcast covering corruption in the Trump administration and rising autocracy around the world. It is hosted by writers Sarah Kendzior and Andrea Chalupa, experts on authoritarian states who warned America about the threat of Trump and his criminal cohort long before they took power. Here they take a deep dive into the news, delivering analysis, history, context, and sharp insight on global affairs.
For Both: Start at the latest episode
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1400926647
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First up, Liz has a little announcement. Then its time to recommend podcasts. Nick looks into the world of a soccer savant with American Prodigy. Liz finds the happy in the news cycle with Good for a Change. And Zane looks at the weird and wonderful, specifically cryptozoology with The Cryptid Factor. After that, the team moves onto reviewing their Sleep podcasts from last week.
Liz Recommends - Good For A Change
https://good-for-a-change.zencast.website
Jarrod, Sean and Hollie combat the barrage of awful, everyday news with good stuff that'll make you feel happy inside.
For both: Pick either a recent ep for up to date news, or a thing you wanna hear about.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/good-for-a-change/id1486123868
Nick Recommends - American Prodigy
He was an American prodigy. The next Pelé. The savior of U.S. soccer. But he wasn't even old enough to drive. In 2004, Freddy Adu joined MLS at 14 years old, becoming the youngest American pro team sport athlete in 100 years. His story is a tale of talent, money, fame and fútbol. Journalist Grant Wahl, who covered Freddy and LeBron James in their teens, retraces the legend of Freddy as he went from superstar to one of the biggest "what ifs," asking: What determines who "makes it" and who "doesn't"? And what does it say about our cultural obsession with the potential of young athletic genius?
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/american-prodigy-freddy-adu/id1534964872
Zane Recommends - The Cryptid Factor
https://audioboom.com/channels/4961702
Rhys Darby, Dan Schreiber, David Farrier and 'Buttons' bring you The Cryptid Factor - a show dedicated to the weird and the wonderful, and in particular, Cryptozoology.
Hear the team passionately (and often awkwardly) discuss animals yet to be proven by science - like the Mongolian Death Worm, Chupacabra, Bigfoot, and the Loch Ness Monster. Though they take the pseudo-science as seriously as they can, they struggle to take themselves seriously at all.
Its hosts are comedian & actor Rhys Darby, respected television journalist and documentarian David Farrier, host of top-rating podcast 'No Such Thing as a Fish' Dan Schreiber - and Pulling it all together is their best friend, 'Buttons'. If anything goes wrong, it is probably his fault.
For Both: Pick one and hope for the best
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id646121818
Mentioned in the review: https://mynoise.net/
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You're getting veeeeerry sleepy... at least we hope you are because this is our Sleep themed week! Zane brings I Can't Sleep Podcast to the table. Nick looks at the popular Sleep With Me. And Liz completely messes with the theme by recommending a narrative thriller podcast where the characters HAVE to stay awake with Edge of Sleep. Then, reviews baby! So many reviews. Ok so just three, but still. FUN.
Liz Recommends - Edge of Sleep
https://www.qcodemedia.com/theedgeofsleep
When a night watchman finishes his shift at work, he is terrified to discover that everyone in the world who went to sleep the previous night has died. Now he and a band of survivors must stay awake and uncover the secret of this global epidemic before they fall asleep.
For both: Serial, so from the start, kids!
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wondery-presents-the-apology-line/id1179629560?i=1000505768852
Nick Recommends - Sleep With Me
Insomnia? Mind racing at night? Worries keeping you up? Tune in for a bedtime story that lets you forget your problems and progressively gets more boring until you fall to sleep. So get in bed, press play, close your eyes, and drift off into dreamland.
For both: take a pick!
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/sleep-with-me/id740675898
Zane Recommends - I Can’t Sleep Podcast
https://www.icantsleeppodcast.com/
Benjamin Boster literally aims to bore you to sleep by reading random articles from the web.
For Both: Pick a topic that won't engage you.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1457402220
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Castologists to the rescue with podcasts you'll want to subscribe to, stat! Zane gets his science on with The Joy of X. Nick gets his legalese on with Opening Arguments. Liz gets her "true crime but makes it art" on with The Apology Line. Then it's review time for all the goodies from last week.
Liz Recommends - The Apology Line
https://wondery.com/shows/the-apology-line/
If you could call a number and say you’re sorry, and no one would know…what would you apologize for? For fifteen years, you could call a number in Manhattan and do just that. This is the story of the line, and the man at the other end became consumed by his own creation. He was known as “Mr. Apology.” As thousands of callers flooded the line, confessing to everything from shoplifting to infidelity, drug dealing with murder, Mr. Apology realized he couldn’t just listen. He had to do something, even if it meant risking everything. From Wondery the makers of Dr. Death and The Shrink Next Door comes a story about empathy, deception, and obsession. Marissa Bridge, who knew Mr. Apology better than anyone, hosts this six-episode series.
For both: It's a serial, so from the start.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wondery-presents-the-apology-line/id1179629560?i=1000505768852
Nick Recommends - Opening Arguments
Every episode, legal expert Andrew and comic relief Thomas will tackle a popular legal topic and give you all the tools you need to understand the issue and win every argument you have on Facebook, with your Uncle Frank, or wherever someone is wrong on the Internet. It's law. It's politics. It's fun. We don't tell you what to think, we just set up the Opening Arguments.
For both: Take a pick
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/opening-arguments/id1147092464
Zane Recommends - The Joy of x
https://www.quantamagazine.org/tag/the-joy-of-x
The acclaimed mathematician and author Steven Strogatz interviews some of the world’s leading scientists about their lives and work.
For Both: PIck something that fascinates you
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1495067186
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Open your ear holes because it's podcast time! Your Castologists have a bunch of cool stuff for you to listen to this week. Liz looks at cool jobs that don't exist anymore with Jobsolete; Zane does a very Zane thing and looks at contentious history with The Dangerous History Podcast; and Nick settles down to listen to and deconstruct some tunes with Heat Rocks. Then it's time to review last week's suggestions.
Liz Recommends - Jobsolete
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-jobsolete-75145608/
Ever wonder what kind of job you would have if you were born in a different time? Jobsolete is a new podcast that asks that very question every week. Helen Hong and Matt Beat take a spin through the workplaces of the past, looking at a different obsolete job in every episode. From the forgotten jobs of history to obscure occupations that still survive, you'll discover some of the most interesting and unusual ways that people have made a living. Go listen to Jobsolete, find out what it was like to be a switchboard operator, a town crier, a food taster, or an MTV VJ. Listen to Jobsolete to learn about History’s Most Fascinating Jobs.
For Nick: Sea shanty singer
For Zane: Blockbuster Store / Video Clerk
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/jobsolete/id1544156952
Nick Recommends - Heat Rocks Podcast
Scorching guests and sizzling records: join music writer Oliver Wang and music supervisor Morgan Rhodes each week as they invite their favorite artists, critics and scholars for in-depth conversations about the albums that shape our lives. Each week our special guests will take you deep into their heat rocks from the world of hip-hop, soul, dance, jazz, funk and more. Get with us!
For both: pick an ep
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/heat-rocks/id1290971833
Zane Recommends - The Dangerous History Podcast
The Dangerous History Podcast covers the history that the Establishment would rather you NOT know, helping you learn the past so you can understand the present and prepare for the future.
For Both: Pick One that Appeals!
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id893725777
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Here at Castology, we love it when you help us help you. So we took your listener submissions, we listened to them, and in this episode we’re gonna tell people about ‘em. Liz recommends a pop culture podcast with pep: I Understood That Reference. Zane looks at movies through a nostalgic frame (with added booze) with The Memory Distillery. Then Nick gets in touch with his trashy reality TV side with Back To Reality. Then it’s on to the reviews from last week.
Liz Recommends - I Understood That Reference
https://capunderstands.com
Brought to you by Rob & Ross, this podcast follows the conversations of two film, comic and video game enthusiasts as they discuss what’s trending in pop culture today. Pretty unique right? The main focus will be movies and comics and we’ll be uploading episodes routinely up here along with some other written pieces. This also marks the beginning of The Great Reference Game – Rob vs Ross in a winner takes all and loser takes a fall reference competition!
For both: any ep you fancy. Recent ones have more... you know, recent stuff to talk about.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i-understood-that-reference/id1453445365
Nick Recommends - Back from Reality
Back From Reality is a new weekly podcast in which host, Gabrielle Scawthorn, chats with a different guest each week from the world of reality television. Each conversation will cover the highs and lows of the reality TV experience, how their lives have changed as a result, and what it's like to come Back From Reality.
For both: take a pick!
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/back-from-reality/id1522142042
Zane Recommends - The Memory Distillery
Each week the memory distillery malt, mash, ferment, and distill our way through the spirits of our past in the form of long-loved movies.
For Both: PIck a movie you like (Gremlins, Elf, The Addams Family)
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1459261391
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The Castologists are at it again, with podcast recommendations for your aural pleasure. Liz looks at whether historical figures were evil or genius with Evil Genius, Nick looks at some of the really bad experiments the CIA have been involved in with Brainwashed. And Zane looks at exactly what big questions billionaires can actually answer with Bill Gates and Rashida Jones Ask Big Questions. Then we review last week’s submissions.
https://www.climactic.com.au/
www.podcastersdeclare.com
Liz Recommends - Evil Genius
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0605sx6/episodes/downloads
Award-winning comedian Russell Kane will be joined by a panel of non-experts each week, to delve into the lesser known sides of some of the world’s great geniuses to see who was the ‘most brilliant’ of all time.
For both: pick a person you love (or hate!) and see if you still feel the same way after.
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/evil-genius-with-russell-kane/id1356142765
Nick Recommends - Brainwashed
Brainwashed investigates the CIA’s covert mind control experiments – from the Cold War and MKULTRA to the so-called War on Terror. It’s the story of how a renowned psychiatrist used his unwitting patients as human guinea pigs at a Montreal hospital, and the ripple effects on survivors, their families, and thousands of other people around the world. It also examines the cultural impact — how the CIA brought LSD to America and inadvertently created counterculture influencers such as author Ken Kesey and poet Allen Ginsberg. It’s an exploration of what happens in times of fear, when the military and medicine collide. And what happens when the survivors fight back.
For both: from the start
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/brainwashed/id1530261634
Zane Recommends - Bill Gates and Rashida Jones Ask Big Questions
https://www.gatesnotes.com/podcast?utm_source=listennotes.com&utm_campaign=Listen+Notes&utm_medium=website
Bill Gates and Rashida Jones Ask Big Questions pairs Bill Gates with actress and writer Rashida Jones to tackle some of the biggest questions facing us today: Is it too late to solve climate change? Does everybody lie? Is inequality inevitable? Join them for deep dives into these questions and even a few answers.
For Both: As much as you can stand from the start, or Episode 2: Is inequality inevitable
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1538630420
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You want to know which podcasts to listen to, and we wanna tell you which podcasts to listen to! Handy, huh? This week Zane looks at the climate crisis with Inherited, Nick looks at how messed up the US school system is with Nice White Parents, and Liz puts her fingers in her ears and pretends it’s all not happening by listening to other people’s stories with Story Club. Then, review time!
Liz Recommends - Story Club
https://giantdwarf.com.au/media/story-club-podcast/
Each week features new guests telling stories live from the Giant Dwarf Theatre in Sydney Australia. Past guests have included Jordan Raskopoulos (who I initially misgendered in this episode, apologies Jordan!), Josh Lawson, Bridie Jabor, Richard Glover, Rob Carlton and many more.
For Nick: The Meat Oracle
For Zane: Grey Wolf, I Did Not Scream
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/story-club/id1014873303
Nick Recommends - Nice White Parents
If you want to understand what’s wrong with our public schools, you have to look at what is arguably the most powerful force in shaping them: white parents. A five-part series from Serial Productions, a New York Times Company.
For both: From the start
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nice-white-parents/id1524080195
Zane Recommends - Inherited
https://www.criticalfrequency.org/inherited
We don't choose the world we inherit. But we do choose what we do with it.
Stories from, for, and by the youth climate movement.
Produced by Georgia Wright and Julianna Bradley.
For Both: The Green New Dream
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/inherited/id1508946017
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Bit of a mixed bag from our Castologists this week! Nick looks at the doping and the Olympics with Bloodsport, Zane takes a look at a panel show that’s part politics part pop culture and part world changing with Bad Faith. Then Liz settles down by the metaphorical fireplace for a mystery novel or two read by Phoebe Judge with Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Then it’s on to the reviews!
Liz Recommends - Phoebe Reads a Mystery
https://thisiscriminal.com/mystery/
In what is probably the shortest episode description Liz has chosen yet, Phoebe Judge (Criminal) reads a chapter a day from a classic mystery novel.
For both: whatever book takes your fancy.
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/phoebe-reads-a-mystery/id1503921457
Nick Recommends - Bloodsport
The story of the systematic doping of the 2012 and 2014 Olympics by the Russian state set against the ongoing attempts to catch the cheats.
For both: From the start
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/bloodsport/id1522052223
Zane Recommends - Bad Faith
https://www.patreon.com/badfaithpodcast
Bad Faith is two shows in one: it's a panel show about politics and pop culture with a rotating cast of performers and politicians, artists and activists, writers and radicals; and it's a two-way podcast where two people from two very different parts of the left make the case for one less terrible world.
With civilization for the most part collapsing, the task of building a united left is more than urgent than ever. A panel show might not do that, but it will be good for some cheap kicks, and maybe it will explain something along the way.
Briahna Joy Gray (@briebriejoy) is a former attorney, National Press Secretary for the Bernie Sanders campaign, co-host of campaign podcast Hear The Bern, and a journalist who is early enough in her political career that she remains (tragically) sanguine.
Virgil Texas (@virgiltexas) is an internet user and co-host of Chapo Trap House.
Together, they'll help you through... all of this.
For Both: The Red Green
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bad-faith/id1531192509
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You know when everything is crap and you wanna getaway? Yeah us too, so this week we are talking Escapism podcasts! Liz brings the popular comedy fiction Wooden Overcoats, Zane takes escapism literally with Extremities, and Nick goes out of this world with From Now. Then it’s review time for last week’s pods.
Liz Recommends - Wooden Overcoats
https://www.woodenovercoats.com/
RUDYARD FUNN RUNS A FUNERAL HOME ON THE ISLAND OF PIFFLING.
It used to be the only one. It isn't anymore.
Rudyard Funn and his equally miserable sister Antigone run their family’s failing funeral parlor, where they get the body in the coffin in the ground on time. But one day they find everyone enjoying themselves at the funerals of a new competitor – the impossibly perfect Eric Chapman! With their dogsbody Georgie, and a mouse called Madeleine, the Funns are taking drastic steps to stay in business…
British Podcasts Award Winner
For both: serial so from start.
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/wooden-overcoats/id1039662268
Nick Recommends - From Now
A famed lost spaceship, the USS HOPE, returns to Earth after vanishing thirty-five years prior. The lone survivor disembarks mysteriously looking the exact same age as when he left. Following the ensuing media chaos, he finally reunites with his formerly identical twin brother (now an old man) for a one-on-one meeting. But what starts as a joyful reconciliation soon leads to dark revelations that threaten their relationship -- and the future of humanity.
For both: serial so from the start
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/from-now/id1544239486
Zane Recommends - Extremities
https://www.wendoverproductions.com/
In a typical "Zane" move Zane has brought a History and Science podcast (with a garnish of Geography and Social Sciences thrown in)! Extremities examines the why, and how, people live in Earth's most isolated and extreme settlements. Typically one location per season, the podcast has covered Pitcairn, Svalbard, and St Helena. The podcast has not run since early 2020, but there are still hours of escapist content to enjoy.
For Both: Pick Any
https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/extremities-wendover-productions-2i3VLedRp5x/#
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You know why you’re here. We’ve got podcasts, you want podcasts. It’s how this relationship works. This week Liz looks to the past in a comedic fashion with the history podcast You’re Dead To Me. Zane brings an etymology podcast that couldn’t be more British if it tried with Something Rhymes with Purple. And then Nick brings an interviewer that asks the hard questions in the sassiest way with Sway. Then it’s time for reviewing all the pods we brought last week.
Liz Recommends - You’re Dead To Me
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07mdbhg/episodes/downloads
Hosted by Greg Jenner: Public historian and “chief nerd in horrible histories”.
This is the history podcast for people who don't like history... and those who do. Greg Jenner brings together the best names in comedy and history to learn and laugh about the past.
Every ep sees him with a comedian and a historian to talk things history. Then they quiz the comedian on what they’ve learned in the episode.
For Both: Whatever eps take your fancy.
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/youre-dead-to-me/id1479973402
Nick Recommends - Sway
Power, unpacked. “Sway” is a new interview show hosted by Kara Swisher, “Silicon Valley’s most feared and well-liked journalist.” Now taking on Washington, Hollywood and the world, Kara investigates power: who has it, who’s been denied it, and who dares to defy it.
For both: take a pick
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sway/id1528594034
Zane Recommends - Something Rhymes with Purple
https://somethinelse.com/projects/something-rhymes-with-purple
What are the origins, meanings, and insights into how and why we use the words we do? Something Rhymes with Purple is a podcast about words and language where we find out. It’s hosted by Susie Dent, the star of dictionary corner on 8/10 Cats Does Countdown, and author, broadcaster, and ex-MP Gyles Brandreth. Each week they delve into a topic around language, offer some words of the week, and pepper it with fascinating insights, facts, and quirky anecdotes.
For Both: Pick one
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/something-rhymes-with-purple/id1456772823?mt=2
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Did you have a good weekend? Ready for some new podcasts to pepper your week with? Well we got em. Liz looks at Shondaland’s venture into podcasting with Criminalia, Nick covers the ABC’s first foray into true crime podcasts with Trace. And Zane is still about changing the world in 2021 with Tiny Leaps Big Changes. Then it’s time for the Castologists to share their thoughts on last week’s offerings.
Liz Recommends - Criminalia
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-criminalia-69919305/
With 'Criminalia,' Holly Frey and Maria Trimarchi Bring Humor to Historical True Crime Podcasts
The co-hosts talk to Shondaland about the murderesses that inspire their show, and how they keep it light even when dealing with death.
Similar to Frey’s award-winning podcast, Stuff You Missed in History Class, each episode of Criminalia unpacks a person from history — usually a woman — who has committed a murder via poison. Who was she? What circumstances led up to the crime? And did she actually do it? For those who prefer their top shelf storytelling with a sidecar, Frey also offers a thematic cocktail recipe. Because, well, why not?
For Both: season 1 is on female poisoners so have at it.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/criminalia/id1503557247
Nick Recommends - Trace
ABC Australia's first True Crime podcast, Trace has so far covered the death of Maria Jones and the story Informer 3838. Both huge cases in the Australian crime world.
For both: From the start or pick a season!
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/trace/id1249219269
Zane Recommends - Tiny Leaps, Big Changes
Tiny Leaps, Big Changes is a personal development podcast focused on exploring the day-to-day behaviours we all engage in that determine the results we gain in our lives. Hosted by Gregg Clunis, the show shares simple strategies you can implement into your life to start moving the needle towards your biggest goals.
For Both: Pick One
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/tiny-leaps-big-changes/id1071032154
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Oh hi, we didn’t expect you here so soon. KIDDING we totally did and we have podcasts for you. Zane is still on a crusade to change the world with Popular Front, Liz regresses back to a time when stuff was all gumshoes and gals with Case Closed! (Old Time Radio). And Nick rounds it off with a look at food through a racial, cultural, and political lens with The Racist Sandwich. Then we do that thing we do where we review the things from last week. You know the one. It’s the bit with the reviews.
Liz Recommends - Case Closed: Old Time Radio
https://www.relicradio.com/otr/show/caseclosed/
From the folks at Relic Radio. Classic entertainment from radio’s golden age. Relic Radio features eight podcasts offering old-time radio from a number of genres.
Case Closed is audio play stories from the golden age. Old Time Crime is filled with cops, robbers, and private investigators...Let’s reopen the cases and hear these great stories again!
For both: I like the old Sherlock and Johnnie Dollar eps.
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/case-closed-old-time-radio/id219708992
Nick Recommends - The Racist Sandwich
Racist Sandwich is an American food podcast hosted by Stephanie Kuo and Juan Diego Ramírez. The podcast was originally hosted by San Francisco Chronicle Food Critic Soleil Ho and journalist Zahir Janmohamed. The podcast focuses on race, gender, and class within the food industry in the United States and abroad.
For both: take a pick!
Link
Zane Recommends - Popular Front
https://www.popularfront.co/
Popular Front is conflict journalism done differently. They report on the parts of war big media rarely acknowledges, and talk to people they'll never find. This is all independent, funded by members through subscriptions and sponsorship. Popular Front is detailed, niche, and for everyone. You don't need a PhD or an invite to a journo dinner party to be in on this.
The podcast will forever be the backbone of Popular Front, but it has since grown to become a grassroots conflict journalism platform. They're doing documentaries, news dispatches, articles, print publications, training, and building a community.
For both: Pick One you think you can handle
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/popular-front/id1364539980?mt=2
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It’s a new year and we’ve got new podcasts for you to put in your ear holes! Liz looks at the most minor of true crime scandals with The Walkers Switch. Nick looks at actual serious true crime with Smoke Screen: Fake Priest. Then Zane gets his word nerd on with Science Diction.
As always we follow that up with the reviews of last week’s recommendations.
Liz Recommends - The Walkers Switch
https://www.laurenandaugustine.com/the-walkers-switch
“2 out of 3 people remember Walkers switching the colours of their Cheese and Onion and Salt and Vinegar crisp packets. But Walkers deny it ever happened. Are they lying? If so, why? The Walkers Switch investigates the greatest hoax in British crisp history.”
This podcast from Lauren Peters and Augustine Cerf investigates the issue forensically. They believe you deserve to know the truth, so explore fan theories, a possible Tory plot and the Mandela Effect, whereby people create their own memories. It’s like Serial for crisps, with mysterious tinkly podcast music and the serious approach the issue deserves.
The Walkers Switch is Serial, but for crisps. Esquire has named it one of the best podcasts of 2020, and one of The Guardian’s podcasts of the week.
Limited series, 6 episodes between 15 and 40 mins long.
For both: it’d a serial so start at the start.
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-walkers-switch/id1504502482
Nick Recommends - Smoke Screen: Fake Priest
For 30 years, a man claimed to be a priest. He performed baptisms and took confession. Every time he ran into trouble, Father Ryan would move on to another small Midwestern town and start his scheme all over again. Followers who once worshipped him, now accuse him of exploitation, fraud and abuse. Multiple prosecutors have charged him, but he’s never been imprisoned for his crimes. Investigative reporter Alex Schuman, who hails from a small Iowa town himself, set out to find out how Father Ryan got away with it for so long and why on earth he did it.
For both: from the start
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/smoke-screen-fake-priest/id1525807626
Zane Recommends - Science Diction
https://www.npr.org/podcasts/813012842/science-diction
From the people who make Science Friday, we bring you Science Diction, a bite-sized podcast about words—and the science stories behind them. Hosted by SciFri producer and self-proclaimed word nerd Johanna Mayer, each episode of Science Diction digs into the origin of a single word or phrase, and, with the help of historians, authors, etymologists, and scientists, reveals a surprising science connection. Did you know the origin of the word meme has more to do with evolutionary biology than lolcats? Or that the element cobalt takes its name from a very cheeky goblin from German folklore? Fun, nosy, and nerdy, Science Diction takes a look at what we're really saying when we use everyday words. Science Diction is a show for information packrats who are constantly sniffing out knowledge—you can listen while making your coffee or brushing your teeth. Episodes will drop once a week in the Science Friday podcast feed for the show's four-episode first season. Continuing Science Friday's decades-long track record of making science accessible, Science Diction reveals the science in places we didn't even know it existed. Because science is everywhere—even in our words. Locked inside our language are etymologies and...
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It’s storytime this week on Castology! Liz uncovers the extraordinary lives of unsung bush heroes in Outback Stories. Nick takes a peek at the stories behind the sports stars with Ordineroli Speaking. And Zane showcases stories and discussions on Native American Indigenous History with The Red Nation.
Then get ready for your post-Christmas reviews wrap-up.
Liz Recommends - Outback Stories
Extra Ordinary Outback Stories
https://www.extraordinarymediaco.com/listen-to-podcast
What makes an ordinary person extraordinary? Join regional journalists Lucy Samuels and Lucy Taylor as they fly across remote Australia, yarning to the unsung heroes of the bush. Walk alongside some of the unique characters that inhabit the backcountry, as we meet a world-renowned motocross rider turned goat chaser, a burns survivor with an unbreakable spirit, and a bush dressmaker that can make all of your wedding day dreams come true... plus so many more. Buckle in!
Releases weekly with some bonus eps. 20-30 mins long. Called Outback Stories on search but the cover art says ExtraOrdinary Outback stories and the extraordinary is larger than the writing but anyway.
For both: I really liked the Jamie Manning ep.
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/outback-stories/id1531053254
Nick Recommends - Ordineroli Speaking
A show that speaks to Australia’s biggest sports stars about their careers but also the personal side of being at the peak of your game.
For both; take a pick. Nat Medhurst ep is great
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/ordineroli-speaking/id1500848514
Zane Recommends - The Red Nation
https://therednation.org/
The Red Nation Podcast features discussions on (mainly) North American Indigenous history, politics, and culture from a left perspective. Hosted by Nick Estes with help from a friend and comrade Sina.
For Both: The Savage US Constitution
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-red-nation-podcast/id1482834485
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It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas podcasts! Ho, ho, ho fellow podcast lovers, it’s time to look under the tree and see what festive podcasts your Castologists have wrapped up for you this year. Nick goes behind the music with Tinsel Tunes; Liz combines her two favorite things (narrative podcasts and swear words) with Saint Nick and the Big F*ck Up, and Zane looks at the holiday season through a TV camera lens with Advent Calendar House. Then it’s reviews time.
Liz Recommends - Saint Nick and the Big F*ck Up
https://www.saintnickandthebigeffup.com/
“Saint” Nick and the Big F*ck Up is written by Phil Rickaby. Initially intended to be performed as a solo play, the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 put the kibosh on those plans. Since it may be a long while before theatres reopen and audiences are comfortable returning to the theatre, Phil decided to record this play as an audio drama, and release it for the Holiday season, 2020. Perhaps in the future, Phil will be able to perform some version of this play for a live audience.
Phil is a storyteller, creator, and performer. You may have seen him as Gormless Joe in Keystone Theatre’s The Belle of Winnipeg, The Last Man on Earth, and Gold Fever. His solo play The Commandment has played to rave reviews at Fringe Festivals across Canada.
He is the host of the Canadian theatre podcast, Stageworthy; and co-host of The Introvert’s Guide To, a podcast about introverts.
“Saint” Nick and the Big F*ck Up is Phil’s first experiment in audio drama.
Each ep is about 10 mins and it’s a six-part series so it’s a very easy listen.
For both: serial so start from the start.
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/saint-nick-and-the-big-f-ck-up/id1537335229
Nick Recommends - Tinsel Tunes
Tinsel Tunes podcast goes into great detail about Christmas Tunes. Full of fun and interesting facts, it will get you into the Christmas Spirit. Hear about your favorite classics or modern songs. Learn about those songs that you dislike. The stories behind these are just as interesting.
For both: take a pick!
https://itunes.apple.com/nz/podcast/tinsel-tunes-podcast/id1420985193
Zane Recommends - Advent Calendar House
Every TV show HAS to have a Christmas special it seems, and this is the podcast about those specials! It is a salute to all TV holiday specials, but mostly the Christmas ones. Episodes are released all year round, but it is great to binge over the holiday period!
For Both: A Christmas Toy
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/advent-calendar-house/id1319727649
HONORABLE MENTION: Christmas Old Time Radio, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/christmas-old-time-radio/id344546010
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The Castologists are here to wade through the oceans of offerings and fish out the best pods for your ear holes. This week Zane looks at inspirational stories with added Alan Cumming and Christopher Sweeney in Homo Sapiens. Liz gets historical with added Aussie flair in Bloody Classic. And Nick gets his NASA on with added Apollo mission intrigue with 13 Minutes To The Moon. Then it’s review time as always.
Liz Recommends - Bloody Classic
Bloody Classic is an Aussie podcast that shares stories from history, mythology and folklore. Each episode Liz & Mattie take turns telling a new story designed to teach the other a little something something, and see what sort of whacked out response comes out. Join them on your morning commute or on a lazy Sunday afternoon as they weave tales that will (hopefully) aid your next round of trivia. They promise not to take up too much of your time.
Eps are usually about 20 mins, but they havent released since May. The curse of 2020 strikes again.
For both: pick an ep that interests you.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bloody-classic/id1265609037
Nick Recommends - 13 Minutes to the Moon
The story of the first moon landing, told by the people who made it happen.
For both: Pick a mission!
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/13-minutes-to-the-moon/id1459657136
Zane Recommends - Homo Sapiens
https://homosapienspodcast.com/
Alan Cumming and Christopher Sweeney talk to inspirational people over tea and biscuits. Each week they'll bring you intelligent, informative, and fun conversations that represent the interests of LGBTQ+ people around the world.
For Both: Pick one that appeals
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/homo-sapiens/id1257514825
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Oh hey. You’re here again. It must mean it’s PODCAST TIME. This week, Zane gets his zzz in a spooky kooky way with On a Cold Dark Night. Liz finds a podcast that tests the limits of extreme internet satire with The Renner Files. And Nick gets ready for war, with The Bomb. Then it’s time for reviews reviews reviews. Well, just three of them, from the whole “we recommended some podcasts last week” thing.
Liz Recommends - The Renner Files
“The Renner Files is a new kind of true crime podcast… one that’s not about true crime at all. Instead it’s about Jeremy Renner’s ill-fated app. Why did Oscar-nominated actor Jeremy Renner ever have an app? What did it do? Who made it? Who used it? And why did it shake the internet to its core? Hosts Caroline Goldfarb and Sarah Ramos set out to investigate the mystery of the app, but got so much more in return. The Renner Files tells a larger story: one about the dangerous side of celebrity fandom, the ethics of audience exploitation, the celebrity influencer complex, and the destructive power of ironic internet comedy.”
For both: start from the start, it’s a serial.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-renner-files/id1530942600
Nick Recommends - The Bomb
A little-known scientist discovers something that will change the course of human history.
After befriending some of the world’s greatest physicists in 1920s Berlin, Albert Einstein among them, Leo Szilard is forced to flee when the Nazis come to power. In London, he discovers the destructive possibilities of harnessing nuclear power; setting the course for the world’s first atomic bomb.
For both: from the start
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-bomb/id1524778767
Zane Recommends - On a Dark, Cold Night
https://www.kristenzaza.com/podcast
On a Dark, Cold Night is the ideal podcast for horror-lovers with insomnia; a creepy friend to tell you bedtime/ghost stories. The podcast involves Your Narrator telling you a spine-chilling yet soothing ghost story every week. Launched in January 2018, the show has over 100 episodes to listen to and is written, performed, and produced by Kristen Zaza.
For Both: It is a series, so start at the beginning
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/on-a-dark-cold-night/id1335069754
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It's our 100th episode! And to celebrate we're bringing you our recommendations of podcasts who have more than 100 episodes. Zane gets into a bit of Dr Karl with Shirtloads of Science; Nick settles down for a long night with Binge Mode; and Liz gets ready to correct everyone with You're Wrong About... Then as always, we review the picks from last week.
Liz Recommends - You're Wrong About
You’re Wrong About
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/youre-wrong-about/id1380008439
Mike Hobbes and Sarah Marshall are journalists obsessed with the past. Every week they reconsider a person or event that's been miscast in the public imagination.
Time Magazine named the podcast the second-best of 2019.
For both: Liz liked the Diana series as well as the OJ Simpson series.
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/youre-wrong-about/id1380008439
Nick Recommends - Binge Mode
The deepest of deep dives! Mallory Rubin and Jason Concepcion dive DEEEEEEEP into their favourite shows and universes. From Game of Thrones to Harry Potter to the MCU; the pair share their encyclopedic knowledge and love for all things nerdy!
For both: Pick your pop culture poison
https://open.spotify.com/show/6u8aqT4yaqnXiAwSHQP0NN
Zane Recommends - Shirtloads of Science
https://shirtloadsofscience.libsyn.com/
Doctor Karl is a household name in Australia and is known for his appearances on television and radio and his science education books that are suitable for kids and adults alike! Dr Karl’s a curious optimist – a great combination for a science lover. On his podcast 'Shirtloads of Science', you get to join him and his guests for weird facts, amazing conversation and remember, it’s never too late for a happy childhood.
For Both: Pick one that interests you!
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/shirtloads-of-science/id1167803730
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Have we got some (podcast) news for you! Nick looks at the history of different recognizable sounds with Twenty Thousand Hertz. Zane gets his audio drama on with Apocalypse Sounds. And Liz gets back on the murder train with It Was Simple: The Betty Broderick Murders. Then it’s delicious review time for last week’s recommendations.
Liz Recommends - It Was Simple: The Betty Broderick Murders
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-05-20/betty-broderick-murders-podcast
These were murders that would turn any town on its head, but La Jolla, Calif? That rich jewel by the sea? Thirty years ago, a man and his new wife were murdered in their bed. That’s a long time for a double homicide to stay in the public eye and imagination, but these were no ordinary murders. The killer was the man’s first wife, Betty Broderick. Betty and Dan Broderick had looked like the perfect couple, right up until they weren’t.
After four children and nearly 15 years of marriage, after the riches they both worked for were finally within reach, he walked out and began having an affair with his assistant. But divorce ended the Brodericks’ marriage only on paper. “Till death do you part” turned out to be the way it would ultimately end: bitter, savage and fatal. It took two criminal trials to send Betty Broderick to prison, and we’ll hear not only from her divorce attorney, but also from the criminal defense attorney who argued for her in two murder trials, plus the foreman of the jury that convicted her.
So many things burned this case into memory: The principals were rich. The jealous killer was, for a change, the woman, not the man. It’s been the subject of TV movies and books. It’s resonated with two generations of Americans -- deserted wives, unhappy husbands. And it’s raised some questions about how divorce laws may contribute to what’s called the feminization of poverty. All of these issues remain critical and controversial in contemporary America today. Thirty years after five bullets, two coffins and one California prison inmate No. W42477, why can’t we look away from Betty Broderick?
For both: Serial so start from start.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/it-was-simple-the-betty-broderick-murders/id1513430448
Nick Recommends - Twenty Thousand Hertz
The stories behind the world's most recognizable and interesting sounds. From Siri to Dial-up!
For both: Take a pick!
https://www.20k.org/
Zane Recommends - Apocalypse Songs
http://www.redscare.co.nz/
Red Scare Theatre Company presents a five-part audio drama experience.
Apocalypse Songs follows a local radio station reporter Amy Louise Chen investigating the tapes of Clara Wilson, an obscure 1960s musician whose cryptic lyrics seem to have predicted the future. Amy joins forces with Clara’s great-nephew Josh to investigate the mystery of Clara’s “Apocalypse Songs”.
Cast:
Cassandra Tse - Amy Louise Chen
Catherine Gavigan-Binnie - Clara Wilson
Dryw McArthur - Joshua Marshall
Chris Green - Priest
Karen Anslow - Julianne Cozens
Caitlin Penrose - Ann McDermott
James Cain - Man
For Both: From the Start
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1518993880
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This week your Castologists pay tribute to teaching and learning with our education-themed week. Liz gets her word nerd on with The Allusionist. Then it’s lecture time with Nick and TED Talks Education. And Zane brings a podcast to inspire passion in teaching professionals with For The Love Of Teaching. Then it’s reviews time, baby!
Liz Recommends - The Allusionist
https://www.theallusionist.org/
Helen Zaltzman channels her logophilia into a funny and educational podcast that explores the English language and lexicon
taking listeners on a deep dive into language. While the subject matter could sound dry, in Zaltzman’s hands, it’s not. The show is filled with good humor and a great deal of levity to make one of the funniest and educational podcasts around.
Zaltzman is also one of hosts of the wildly popular and long-running podcast Answer Me This!, which has been answering questions from listeners since 2007.
Description
For Both: pick a word that you’re interested in. I liked Nightmare and Ghostwriter.
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-allusionist/id957430475
Nick Recommends - TED Talks Education
What should future schools look like? How do brains learn? Some of the world's greatest educators, researchers, and community leaders share their stories and visions onstage at the TED conference, TEDx events and partner events around the world. You can also download these and many other videos free on TED.com, with an interactive English transcript and subtitles in up to 80 languages.
For both: Take a pick
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/ted-talks-education/id470623037
Zane Recommends - For the Love of Teaching
http://www.teachstarter.com
For the Love of Teaching is a podcast which aims to ignite passion in teaching professionals all over the world. Join us to hear the stories of real educators doing what they love. If you’re a teacher needing encouragement and support or if you just want to keep up with everything education, Teach Starter’s For the Love of Teaching is the podcast for you. Because challenges crop up, and some things aren’t on the lesson plan. But teachers are incredible, teaching is a gift and together we’ve totally got this!
For Both: Favourite Rude Reads for Kids
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1450756371
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This week we have spies! We have cops! And we have... well, movies and that doesn't really fit into the theme so there goes our exciting show notes intro. Liz delves into what it's like to be a spy in ASIO with the podcast I Spied. Zane looks at a podcast that takes fan favourite movies and obliterates them with Gutting the Sacred Cow. And Nick brings us a podcast that goes undercover to look at police violence in the USA with The Untold Story: Policing. Then your fave Castologists get down to the reviews of last week's recommendations.
Liz Recommends - I Spied
https://diamantina.com.au/portfolio-item/i-spied/
"What is ASIO? I'm sure you've all heard of it, but do you really know what it does? Is it as sexy as James Bond leads us to believe or is it just part of the political fabric? Who better to give us the ins and outs than former ASIO intelligence officer, now comedian David Callan and National news director at Nova and journalist Michelle Stephenson. I Spied will take a look at the dark underbelly of the intelligence world and give its love-handles a damn good shake. .
A DM Podcast www.diamantina.com.au
For both: It seems kind of serial-y even though it strictly isn't so start at the start. There are a few references to past stories each ep so beginning at ep 1 is probably best.
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/i-spied/id1529988608
Nick Recommends - The Untold Story: Policing
When it comes to policing in America, a seemingly impenetrable system stands in the way of ending police violence. Join host and actor Jay Ellis (Insecure, Top Gun: Maverick, Mrs. America) as he seeks to explore the untold story of policing. Jay’s mission: demystify police union contracts, separate truth from fiction, and deliver some concrete steps that can end violent police misconduct across the United States. In this four-part series, Jay seeks the guidance of academics, data scientists, organizers and city officials to learn more about the egregious systems currently in place and the pressure that the public can apply to strengthen justice and accountability.
For both: From the start
https://www.lemonadamedia.com/show/the-untold-story-policing/
Zane Recommends - Gutting the Sacred Cow
https://guttingthesacredcow.podomatic.com/
Standup Comedians Kevin Gootee and Kevin Israel love films and they love arguing about them. But in this unique podcast; they invite their comedian friends to come in and argue why some of the most loved or acclaimed films are trash. Kevin and Kevin preside over these cases and see if their friends have made them change their minds. Check out this podcast dedicated to giving the most hilarious, witty, and funniest movie reviews you'll ever hear.
For both: Fight Club, Batman vs Superman, Mighty Ducks
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1482502667
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If you’re wondering what podcast you should listen to this week (other than this one), wonder no more! Liz gets her criminal on with Heist with Michael Caine, Nick gets pop-culture nerdy with Wild Wild Tech and Zane gets Regular nerdy with the Broadway themed Dungeons and Dragons podcast Once More With Dragons. Then the Castologists weigh in on the pods they recommended last week.
Liz Recommends - Heist with Michael Caine
https://www.audible.com.au/pd/Heist-with-Michael-Caine-Audiobook/B08BFXNHD9
Sir Michael Caine - perhaps best known as gang leader Charlie Croker in 60s crime caper The Italian Job - tells the stories of remarkable heists and extraordinary robberies from around the world, as remembered by the masterminds, detectives, victims, journalists and witnesses that lived through them.
For more than 60 years, Caine has played thieves, criminals, gangsters and the detectives trying to catch them. But there’s Hollywood and then there’s real life... and that’s when things get really interesting.
From the largest bank burglary in American history, to the world’s most audacious book heist, Heist with Michael Caine travels to America, Australia, Stockholm, Antwerp and everywhere in-between to tell true stories behind the world’s most daring heists.
A Somethin’ Else production for Audible Originals, Heist with Michael Caine was created by Alexis Conran, Russell Finch and David Britland. Produced by Richard Ward and Jessica Beck. Executive produced by Joe Sykes and Russell Finch.
This is an Audible Original Podcast. Free for members. You can download all 6 episodes to your Library now.
For both: whatever heist takes your fancy but the first one is pretty great.
https://www.audible.com.au/pd/Heist-with-Michael-Caine-Audiobook/B08BFXNHD9
Nick Recommends - Wild Wild Tech
Great stories of how tech shapes our culture in wild ways. Would you be surprised to find out scientists are using World of Warcraft to learn how to fight COVID-19? What if I told you that I could spoil almost any movie based on who uses an iPhone? Or how about the fact that Disney is afraid of butts? Well, that’s Wild Wild Tech, the podcast that brings you the wildest, most bizarre, most interesting stories about how tech is shaping our culture. Hosted by Jordan Erica Webber and Joshua Rivera, every week on Wild Wild Tech we’ll uncover infamous stories at the intersection of pop culture and tech, learn from the experts, and talk to the people who lived through some truly strange tales. These are the tech stories that are seldom told - but once you hear them, you won’t be able to forget them. These are the stories that are seldom told, but once you hear them, you’ll never forget.
For both: Pick an episode
https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/wild-wild-tech/id1519846548
Zane Recommends - Once More With Dragons
https://oncemorewithdragons.com
Ready your crossbow and lace up your tap shoes: the time has come for "Once More, with Dragons!" It's a musical theatre themed, Dungeons and Dragons real-play adventure featuring a troupe of your favorite musical theatre YouTubers and podcasters. "Once More, with Dragons" is an improvised, fantasy, role-playing story filled with combat, intrigue, mysteries, and...
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Need some more podcasts on your list? Castologists are on it! This week Liz finds the funny in life’s blah with The Hilarious World of Depression, Nick looks at the slimy belly of the Sydney underworld with No Gangsters in Paradise, and Zane gets down to some olde worlde music with The Knowne World Bardcast. As always, after all that, the Castologist review the podcasts they recommended last week.
Liz Recommends - The Hilarious World of Depression
https://www.hilariousworld.org/about
A show about clinical depression...with laughs? Well, yeah. Depression is an incredibly common and isolating disease experienced by millions, yet often stigmatized by society. The Hilarious World of Depression is a series of frank, moving, and, yes, funny conversations with top comedians who have dealt with this disease, hosted by veteran humorist and public radio host John Moe. Join guests such as Maria Bamford, Paul F. Tompkins, Andy Richter, and Jen Kirkman to learn how they’ve dealt with depression and managed to laugh along the way.
The Hilarious World of Depression is not medical treatment and should not be seen as a substitute for therapy or medication. But it is a chance to gain some insight, have a few laughs, and realize that people with depression are not alone and that together, we can all feel a bit better
For both: any eps that look good.
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-hilarious-world-of-depression/id1181589175
Nick Recommends - No Gangsters in Paradise
At the turn of the millennium, Western Sydney was a terrifying gangland. At the heart of the frenzy was the Darwiche-Razzak family conflict – a Romeo-and-Juliet style tragedy complicated by honour codes, politics and drive-by shootings. Journalist Mahmood Fazal draws on his own experiences as a gang member to tell the inside story of Sydney’s Lebanese gang wars, to pinpoint why young Muslims just like him commit their lives to violence.
Fazal delves into the city’s cultural divide, the special police task force that dealt with the conflict, and what life is really like behind bars. Tough questions emerge from the investigation: Why did these young people re-enact in Australia the experience of a Middle-Eastern war they never knew and which their parents hoped to leave behind? What role did prejudice play in the police’s response to the conflict? And how did Eddie Darwiche get his hands on ten rocket launchers?
For both: From the start
https://www.audible.com.au/pd/No-Gangsters-in-Paradise-Audiobook/B07Y8NG6LP
Zane Recommends - The Knowne World Bardcast
https://knowneworldbardcast.com
The Knowne World Bardcast is a podcast for the populace of the Knowne World of the Society for Creative Anachronism. Our purpose is to unite bards, minstrels, musicians, storytellers and all other performing artists in the SCA and to provide a digital archive of the songs and stories of Scadian life as well as introducing bards of previous and current generations to the Knowne World at Large. The KWB is not directly affiliated with or endorsed by the Society for Creative Anachronism and is a an independent production of DeepNerd Media. Your host and curator is Lord Gideon ap Stephen of the Barony of Hawkwood, apprentice to Mistress Rosalind Jehanne and Master Dunstan Le Herryngmonger.
For Both: The Choir Episode...
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If you want podcasts you’ve come to the right place! We’ve got three recommendations coming at you this week. Zane takes a break from the doom and gloom with We Don’t Deserve Dogs; Nick gets caught up in a comedy thriller podcast Max and Ivan: Fugitives; and Liz looks at what people are most afraid of with the short form podcast 10 Things That Scare Me. Then it’s onto the reviews!
Liz Recommends - 10 Things that Scare Me
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/10-things-scare-me
WNYC Studios.
It’s a tiny podcast about big fears
In each episode, one person talks. Alone in a room. It could be anyone. It could be you. It’s someone driven by fears that keep them up at night, that define their lives, and inform their choices. This is a podcast about them, about you, about us, and the world we inhabit together.
New episodes every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
For both: Ida and Noa
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/10-things-that-scare-me/id1443856963
Nick Recommends - Max and Ivan: Fugitives
https://play.acast.com/s/maxandivanfugitives
Two lowly tech developers acquire a laptop full of contraband data, witness a murder, and then narrowly escape being assassinated. Suddenly, they find themselves sucked into a world of state-funded disinformation campaigns, bot farms, all-knowing Big Data organisations, and shadowy terror groups. Inspired by the chaotic way global politics is currently unfolding, Max & Ivan: Fugitives is an on-the-run comedy thriller set across international borders.
For both: From the start
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/max-ivan-fugitives/id1487956745
Zane Recommends - We Don't Deserve Dogs
https://thepodglomerate.com/dogs
Comedian Richie Redding and celebrity veterinarian Dr. Lisa Lippman are unlikely cohosts... and also a loving couple. The result is an extremely informative show that is surprisingly funny. Each episode features high profile guests telling hilarious stories of the pets that shape their lives. They also get real vet advice from Dr. Lisa and get to play stump the doctor with all the silliest animal questions they have. (You'll learn a TON about sex and poop). This is the least narcissistic interview possible! Instead of talking about themselves, guests get to talk about the thing that makes us human: their love for life's furry little family members… and these jumping-off points highlight more of their personalities than we might think.
For Both: Any Episode
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1482431848
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Food, glorious food! Yep it’s themed ep time this week and we are talking about food pods! Liz looks at peoples’ complicated relationships with food through the podcast Food Psych. Nick goes the celebrity chef route with The Dave Chang Show. And Zane looks at the science behind our exploding population and dwindling food sources in Feeding 10 Billion. Then the Castologists review their picks from last week.
Liz Recommends - Food Psych
https://christyharrison.com/foodpsych
A weekly show dedicated to helping you make peace with food and break free from diet culture
Helping people make peace with food since 2013. Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor Christy Harrison talks with guests about their relationships with food, body image, eating disorders, weight and size acceptance, non-diet nutrition, exercise, body politics, feminism, self-compassion and self-care--all from a body-positive, Health at Every Size perspective. Along the way, Christy shares her own journey from disordered eater and dieter to food writer and anti-diet dietitian, and offers tips to help you accept your body and let go of guilt about food.
Food Psych® challenges diet culture in all its forms--including the restrictive behaviors that often masquerade as wellness and fitness. The podcast is designed to offer safe and non-triggering support for listeners in recovery from eating disorders, weight stigma, and body shame. Subscribe for new anti-diet inspiration every week, and discover a whole new world of body positivity! Learn more and get full show notes and transcripts at christyharrison.com/foodpsych
For both: Pick an episode
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/food-psych-podcast-with-christy-harrison/id700512884
Nick Recommends - The Dave Chang Show
Dave Chang has a few questions. Besides being the chef of the Momofuku restaurants and the creator and host of Netflix’s 'Ugly Delicious,' Dave is an avid student and fan of sports, music, art, film, and, of course, food. In ranging conversations that cover everything from the creative process to his guest’s guiltiest pleasures, Dave and a rotating cast of smart, thought-provoking guests talk about their inspirations, failures, successes, fame, and identities.
For both: Pick an episode
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-dave-chang-show/id1375877915
Zane Recommends - Feeding 10 Billion
https://ivmpodcasts.com/feeding-10-billion
By the year 2050 we will have 10 billion people on our planet - a sixth of whom will be in India. If we want to feed all 10 billion of us in a sustainable, healthy and just way, we need to reimagine how we source our food. Feeding ourselves cannot come at the cost of global health, worsening greenhouse gas emissions, excessive land, water and resource use, zoonotic diseases, antibiotic resistance, and needless suffering. The Covid-19 pandemic has only made the importance of protein diversification evident. If you want to be part of the future of food and work on solutions to some of the biggest problems of our time, join the Good Food Institute’s Varun Deshpande and Ramya Ramamurthy on Feeding 10 Billion.
For Both: Pick an episode
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You need podcasts? We got podcasts! This week Liz uncovers home truths with Family Secrets, Zane looks at Australia through the eyes of refugees with In My Country, and Nick gets his petty review on with Beach Too Sandy Water Too Wet. Then we review last week’s submissions!
Liz Recommends - Family Secrets
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-family-secrets-30131253/
Family Secrets. We all have them. And while the discovery of family secrets can initially be terrifying or traumatic, often these discoveries have the power to liberate, heal, and even uplift us. Join Dani Shapiro, bestselling author of the memoir Inheritance, and her guests as they explore astonishing family secrets and uncover the extraordinary lessons the truth can teach us.
For both: anything that grabs your fancy. All juicy secrets
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/family-secrets/id1441824608
Nick Recommends - Beach too Sandy, Water too Wet
Is your beach too sandy? Water too wet? Ice too cold? More importantly, do you feel like yelling about it on the internet? We’re here to help. Beach Too Sandy, Water Too Wet features dramatic readings of one-star reviews written by people who just need to have their voice heard.
For both: From the start or wherever you like!
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/beach-too-sandy-water-too-wet/id1446051252?mt=2
Zane Recommends - In My Country
https://inmycountrypodcast.com/
We hear a lot about refugees and asylum seekers, but we don’t often hear from the people themselves. In My County shares the stories of six Aussies who came to Australia as refugees or asylum seekers. Stories of identity, religion, sexuality, the arts, parenting, culture, fashion, meaning, purpose, and the many places we call home. Hosted and produced by Adam and Pia. Pia has a background in psychology and worked in Nauru for two years to December 2016, leading a team providing support to refugees held on the island for ‘offshore processing’. Adam is a social worker by trade and currently works in delivering training and capacity building programs around the world. He is co-founder of Moment of Inertia, a theatre production company that showcases local artists in Brisbane. We have both worked extensively in refugee resettlement in Australia, have strong networks within refugee communities and services nationally and internationally, and have completed Oxford University’s International Summer School in Forced Migration.
For Both: Pick one that appeals
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/in-my-country/id1518632425
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We've got podcasts right, freshly chilled, right out of the fridge for you this week. Liz goes back to her macabre roots with Martinis and Murder, Nick dips into the listener submissions with BiPositive+, and Zane turns to science with the award winning Important, Not Important. Then we review last week's offerings.
Liz Recommends - Martinis and Murder
https://www.oxygen.com/martinis-murder-true-crime-podcast
From serial killers to mysterious disappearances to infamous murder cases, John and Daryn break down one murder over the course of one or two episodes, making heavy subject matter a little more palatable by not checking their senses of humor at the door. Freshly shaken martinis also help. Spending hours on research per case, John and Daryn not only tell the narrative of each murder but also delve into compelling and little-known facts about the lives of each killer and victim. What was the motivation? Was the killer a psychopath or a sane person who simply snapped? What was the impact on the victim’s family, friends and community?
For both: Any story that grabs you.
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/martinis-murder/id1194278396
Nick Recommends - BiPositive+
Join Mari and MD – bi women, therapists and media enthusiasts – in discussing issues and exploring the sexuality continuum in an unapologetically queer podcast.
For Zane: Episode
For Liz: Episodes
Zane Recommends - Important, Not Important
https://www.importantnotimportant.com/podcast
The 3-time Webby-nominee for Best Host, Best Science show, and Best Podcast Episode dives into the brains of the world's smartest people to provide Action Steps you can take to fight for a better future -- for everyone. Their topics include climate change, food & water, clean energy, biotech, artificial intelligence, medicine, and space. And their diverse guests are on the frontlines of the future: scientists, doctors, farmers, CEO's, astronauts, politicians, even a reverend. Hosted by Quinn Emmett & Brian Colbert Kennedy
For Both: Why is Drinking Water So Unaffordable for So Many Americans?
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/important-not-important/id1336515208
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Let's get medical, medical. We wanna get medicaaaaal. Can you tell we have a theme this week? We peek behind the hospital curtain for all things med this week. Nick gets narrative with medical anecdotes from history to now with Bedside Rounds; Liz gets her House-style medical detective hat on for Medical Mysteries; and Zane looks at how you really are what you eat in terms of health with The Doctor's Kitchen.
Then we wade into the reviews portion of our podcast so you know EXACTLY how we felt about all the recommendations from last week.
Liz Recommends - Medical Mysteries
https://www.parcast.com/medicalmysteries
Doctors are among the best-educated members of our society. So what happens when they can’t diagnose you? Medical Mysteries brings high-stakes story-telling and intrepid investigation to the hospital, in a medical procedural for the podcast space. Every week, we follow desperate patients battling mysterious symptoms--from the bizarre to the terrifying--as determined doctors race against the clock for a diagnosis. Medical Mysteries is a Parcast Original, with new episodes every Tuesday.
For Nick: Any malady that intrigues you.
For Zane: Fatal familial insomnia.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/medical-mysteries/id1473655873
Nick Recommends - Bedside Rounds
www.bedside-rounds.org
Bedside Rounds is a storytelling podcast about medical history and medicine’s intersections with society and culture. Host Adam Rodman seeks to tell a few of these weird, wonderful, and intensely human stories that have made modern medicine.
For both: Take a pick!
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bedside-rounds/id919579524?mt=2
Zane Recommends - The Doctors Kitchen
https://thedoctorskitchen.com/podcasts
The Doctor's Kitchen is a podcast with Dr Rupy Aujla. Covering a range of topics from the principles of healthy eating to how to prevent and treat illness, Dr Rupy and his panel of experts draw on the latest research to give you actionable tips to help supercharge your health.What you choose to put on your plate is one of the most important health interventions anyone can make.
For Nick: Pick Any
For Liz: Pick Any
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-doctors-kitchen-podcast/id1316938642
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Welcome to another week of podcasts, where Nick didn't get the memo that Liz and Zane decided to feature listener submissions. Oh wait, he did get the memo, he just decided to ignore it. He looks back at the factors at play in the Hurricane Katrina disaster with Floodlines; Liz sits us all down for stories of the weird and wonderful with Strange Country; and Zane takes a look at a regency romance novelist that has more novels than Jane Austen but somehow remains mostly unknown with Heyer Today. Then you know what time it is? It's time for the reviews from last week's offerings!
Liz Recommends - Strange Country
https://www.strangecountrypodcast.com/
"Sometimes you need to have a glass of wine, cuppa whatever and listen to a good old weird story.
"Welcome to Strange Country, a podcast devoted to bizarre, surreal and extraordinary stories that make America the weird place it is. Co-hosts Kelly and Beth are former newspaper reporters turned school librarians who have always had a soft spot for a good story--the stranger the better. Discover the first woman to survive a barrel ride over Niagara Falls and the man who invented “complex marriage” in one of the most successful utopian experiments. Things get weird pretty quickly around here."
A weekly release podcast that feels like an MFM style chatty sit down with friends to talk about weird shit.
For both: I liked the weird-ass ep where they talk about human tissue jelly falling from the sky but, you know, whatever works for the boys.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/strange-country/id1272774380
Nick Recommends - Floodlines
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/floodlines/
Some call it Hurricane Katrina. Some call it the Federal Flood. Others call it the day the levees broke. On August 29, 2005, the city of New Orleans was submerged. That story of hubris, incompetence, and nature's wrath is now etched into the national consciousness. But the people who lived through the flood and its aftermath have a different story to tell. A story of rumors, betrayal, and one of the most misunderstood events in American history.
For both: From the start
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1501433969
Zane Recommends - Heyer Today
https://heyertoday.libsyn.com/
Heyer Today takes a deep dive into the life and work of Georgette Heyer, plus a book club, a cinematic investigation and amazing guests like Stephen Fry, Joanne Harris, Mary Jo Putney and more.
For Both: Start at the beginning
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/fable-gazers-season-2-heyer-today
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On the menu today we have three delicious podcasts to fill you up with knowledge and enjoyment. Zane looks at what the apocalypse could look like with Ashes Ashes; Liz finds a pod that helps you through heartbreak in a sweary, care-y way with F*ck Off And Die; and Nick indulges his passion for filmmaking with the podcast full of Hollywood heavy hitters Team Deakins. Then gather round children, for the reviews from last week's ep.
Liz Recommends: F*ck Off & Die
https://www.fodbook.com/the-podcast/
"F*ck off and die is a crude cosmic hug for anyone going through heart break. It features activities, kinda loosely backed by science, designed to make you feel instantly better. Made by Sarah Robinson and Jade Foo, in a lounge room in Perth Western Australia."
It comes from a book written by the gals, that aims to help you, or your mate, through the fucked up first month of a break up.
“It’s not meant to inspire you or elicit wild meditation regimes. Our only desire is to get you through that fucked up first month, and into the mother fucking light.”
The girls talk about breakup and heartbreak issues while falling back on the wisdom of their book.
It’s sweary, it’s care-y, it’s Liz in podcast form.
For both: Pick a topic that sounds fun to you.
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/f-ck-off-and-die/id1498920296
Nick Recommends - Team Deakins
Cinematography buffs, this is for you! The Team Deakins podcast is an ongoing conversation between acclaimed cinematographer Roger Deakins and James Deakins, his collaborator, about cinematography, the film business and whatever other questions are submitted.
For both: take a pick!
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/team-deakins/id1510638084
Zane Recommends - Ashes Ashes
https://ashesashes.org/
Ashes Ashes is a show about systemic issues, cracks in civilization, collapse of the environment, and if we’re unlucky the end of the world. The name is borrowed from the nursery rhyme “Ring a Ring o’ Roses,” a song that children sing while spinning in a circle before collapsing on the floor in heaps of laughter. Some claim that the lyrics were written in response to England’s Great Plague and Black Death, and the line Ashes! Ashes! We all fall down is interpreted as death and the cremation of bodies. Although apocryphal, this interpretation is fitting for our times. While human civilization owes its existence to the unimaginable wealth that nature freely provides, our current growth trajectory is increasingly being fueled by the direct erosion of biodiversity, ecosystem services, cultural heritage, and more, effectively cannibalizing our future for the sake of short-term “progress.”
For Both: Ep 44, Ep 34, Ep 31, Ep 28, and Ep 23. Fan favorite: Ep...
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A real mixed bag this week, there's no theme and that feels very obvious from the wildly different podcast recommendations from our Castologists! Zane jumps back on the swindling bandwagon with Scam Goddess; Liz calls the bluff of films based on "true stories" with Truth Vs Hollywood; and Nick keeps on truckin' with Over The Road. Then, it's time for reviews from last week.
Liz Recommends - Truth vs Hollywood
https://audioboom.com/channels/5017114
Truth vs Hollywood is a critical look at the real story behind popular films that are "Based on a True Story". From the tragedy of Munich to the fun of hGoodfellas, our film-loving hosts David Chen and Joanna Robinson will explore the films as well as looking at what really happened. Each movie gets 2-3 eps to unpack it all.
For both: pick a movie you wanna relive with a truthful lens.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/truth-vs-hollywood/id1510582080
Nick Recommends - Over the Road
Over the Road is an eight-part series that gives voice to the trials and triumphs of America’s long haul truckers. Host “Long Haul Paul” Marhoefer, a musician, storyteller and trucker for nearly 40 years, takes you behind the wheel to explore a devoted community and a world that’s changing amidst new technologies and regulations.
For Both: from the start
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/over-the-road/id1472401495
Zane Recommends - Scam Goddess
https://www.earwolf.com/show/scam-goddess/
Scam Goddess is a podcast dedicated to fraud and all those who practice it! Each week host Laci Mosley (aka Scam Goddess) keeps listeners up to date on current rackets, digs deep into the latest scams, and breaks down historic hoodwinks alongside some of your favorite comedians! It’s like true crime only without all the death! True fun crime!
For Both: Pick One you havnt heard of before!
https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/earwolf/id407542375
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Need new podcast eps daily? We can't help you personally but we CAN recommend podcasts that fit the bill. Because, you know, that's our job. Liz's recommends the Aussie news headlines podcast The Squiz; Nick jets across the world for NY Times: The Daily; and Zane dives a bit deeper with Story of the Day: NPR. Then it's reviews time.
Liz Recommends - The Squiz
https://www.thesquiz.com.au/podcast/
In a matter of minutes, the Squiz Today podcast will get you across the news headlines. Published each weekday at 6.00am, this short daily news podcast is designed to fit into your morning routine – perfect for the commute, the gym or over a morning coffee.
"The Squiz was born from a love of news. Quite simply, we want to give busy people a quick and easy way to keep up with the news. The result is our weekday email and podcast, Squiz Today. It’s your shortcut to being informed.
The Squiz is for everyone, but you’re probably wondering about Ms Squiz in our logo. Women are at the core of The Squiz. When we sit down to write Squiz Today we have our time-poor, information-hungry girlfriends in mind. The Squiz is a big shout out to her.
"The Squiz is a fact-filled run-down of what’s making news with a teensy bit of analysis, and an eye on what’s coming next. We are independent of all the news outlets and committed to agenda and opinion-free news. You’re smart people, you don’t need us to tell you what to think."
Squiz Kids
A news podcast for 8-12yos. In just a few minutes, we give kids (and their adults) a rundown on the big news events delivered free of opinion, and with positivity and humour. Designed to slip easily into families’ morning routines, a new episode will drop at 7am each weekday.
For both: definitely listen to both the regular Squiz and Squiz Kids eps. And check out the online community if you have a sec.
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/squiz-today/id1385995581
Nick Recommends -
This is what the news should sound like. The biggest stories of our time, told by the best journalists in the world. Hosted by Michael Barbaro. Twenty minutes a day, five days a week, ready by 6 a.m. This is what the news should sound like.
For both: Take a pick!
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-daily/id1200361736?mt=2
Zane Recommends - Story of the Day : NPR
https://www.npr.org/podcasts/381444905/story-of-the-day
Small snippets of one story every day is Zane's pick this week. NPR's Story of the Day is a daily top stories that you can't miss. Exceptional, moving, offbeat, or just plain funny. Episodes are about 5 minutes long with snippets from interviews and source materials. Classic NPR presentation applied to current events.
For Both: Any
https://feeds.npr.org/1090/podcast.xml
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Wonder no more what podcasts you should listen to this week, our Castologists are on the case. Liz unearths an otherworldly immersive audio podcast with Murmurs; Zane also jumps on the anthology train travelling on the horror side of the tracks with Old Gods of Appalachia; and Nick forces the others to get their motor sports on with Beyond the Grid. Then as always, it’s on to last week’s reviews.
Liz Recommends - Murmurs
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07w07fy
There’s a crack in reality and something’s breaking through. Ten mind-altering tales from some of the best new drama podcast writers.
Liz dives into another immersive audio podcast. Think Twilight Zone meets Twin Peaks meets... something else also awesome. From BBC Sounds. Get into it.
For both: Look technically it can be listened to out of order since it’s anthological but I think it benefits from being listened to from the start. Ep 9 was Liz’s fave.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/murmurs/id1489191605
Nick Recommends - Beyond the Grid
Nick does MOTORSPORT! Liz and Zane LOVE IT and they WILL LOVE IT. Well, probably not, but if you're in the mood to get some Formula1 goodness into ya ears then Beyond the Grid is the perfect starter. With infinite team and driver access, Beyond the Grid interviews and details the drivers and histories of Formula1
For both: Try the Daniel Ricciardo and/or the Alain Prost eps!
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/beyond-the-grid/id1405972616?mt=2&uo=4&ls=1
Zane Recommends - Old Gods of Appalachia
https://www.oldgodsofappalachia.com/
Old Gods of Appalachia is a horror-anthology podcast set in the shadows of an Alternate Appalachia, a place where digging too deep into the mines was just the first mistake. These horror stories are produced by Deep Nerd Media. Old Gods is set in an alternate or shadow Appalachia. An upside-down Appalachia, if you will.
This world feels eerily similar to the hills and hollers we’ve grown up with. But there are some tell-tale differences. The names of towns and counties will be changed. Historical events will slide forward or backward in time. The stories pass through hundreds of years of this Appalachia’s history. To link our story to actual Appalachia, the nexus these first stories are based on actual disasters that occurred in the region, but these real events will also be changed, reshaped and altered on this side of the veil.
No real names will be used for individuals who may have been connected to the real life inspirations for our stories. Any resemblance to actual persons is purely coincidental or the will of darker forces that we do not understand.
For Both: Start from the beginning
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/old-gods-of-appalachia/id1485435369
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Podcasts! Get your podcasts! This week Nick looks at the story of a guy who got fired by the nicest man in Hollywood with Dead Eyes. Liz gets PTSD listening to people’s horror workplace stories with I Work With A Nightmare. And Zane continues his bookish theme, this time with a book club for those of us who can’t be assed with The Lazy Book Club. Then, we review all the goodness that was last week’s recommendations.
Liz Recommends - I Work With A Nightmare
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i-work-with-a-nightmare/id1511219279
At some point in our life we will work with someone who makes going to work a living hell. Someone so difficult and intense that we become riddled with anxiety and stress.
Sam Blacker gets people to anonymously share their stories of the truly worst possible coworkers and bosses and retells it with names and some details changed.
And while some parts are changed, the one thing that remains the same is that the truly nightmarish coworkers can be found in any job.
For Both: any one that grabs you!
https://open.spotify.com/show/5a2bKiNPgQzLjAAban6fy3
Nick Recommends - Dead Eyes
Actor/comedian Connor Ratliff (The Chris Gethard Show, UCB, Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) embarks upon a quest to solve a very stupid mystery that has haunted him for two decades: why Tom Hanks fired him from a small role in the 2001 HBO mini-series, Band Of Brothers.
For both: From the start!
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1494539046?at=1000lMpE&ct=hgdotcom-podcast-page
Zane Recommends - The Lazy Bookclub
https://podtail.com/en/podcast/the-lazy-book-club/
The Books are not over yet! Another similar podcast to last week's pick is - The Lazy Bookclub. The Hosts, Matt, David and Josh, read through books chapter by chapter and give real-time commentary on the happenings. You need to like the hosts and their banter to like this podcast, and Zane does!
For Both: Start at the beginning of a book
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/lazy-book-club/id1491964180
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It is time for more podcasts! Comedy gameshows? Economic scandals? Book reports? This week we have them all as Liz Brings the comedy with Dump Him (the Game Show, Nick Harks back to simpler and financially confusing days with Boom/Bust: HQ Trivia, and Zane bring in a podcast on one of his favourite topics, books! Then come the reviews of last weeks’ recommendations, so brace yourselves!
Liz Recommends - Dump Him (The Game Show)
Grab the pinot, pop on your track pants and get ready to call your ex. Dump Him! The Game Show is a fierce, fast-paced and hilarious game show that takes on relationships, sex, breakups and all of the yummy bits in between. Hosted by the vivacious Anna Piper Scott, each week she will take two teams through the hellish landscape of modern dating. Featuring regular team captains, the bisexual bombshells, Patrick Collins and Alice Tovey, this is the podcast for anyone who has ever fallen in love, fallen in bed, or fallen for filth.
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/dump-him-the-game-show/id1491162313
Nick Recommends - Boom/Bust: HQ Trivia
The live trivia app 'HQ Trivia' was once the obsession of the internet, garnering millions of players and an international spotlight. But then it all went wrong. From 'The Ringer' Podcast Network, ‘Boom/Bust: HQ Trivia’ is an exploration of the spectacular rise and fall of the massively popular app
For both: From the start
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/boom-bust-hq-trivia/id1513070482
Zane Recommends - Overdue
https://overduepodcast.com/
BOOKS! You have been safe until now from one of Zane's oldest and deepest obsessions, books. But no longer! Overdue is a podcast about the books you've been meaning to read. Join Andrew and Craig each week as they tackle a new title from their backlog. Classic literature, obscure plays, goofy children’s books: they'll read it all, one overdue book at a time.
For Both; pick one that appeals!
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/overdue/id602003021
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Is it really bright out? No, those are just the STARS IN OUR EYES because it's our celebrity-hosted themed week! (Liz is not sorry for her sparkling wit on that intro). Liz proves she's no superman with the Scrubs throwback Fake Doctors Real Friends with Zach and Donald; Zane asks WTF with Marc Maron; and Nick gets chummy with talk show wit with Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend. Then the team chat through last week's recommendations in the review section. Because that's how we roll. (Seriously, we do it the same way every week, you should know this by now.)
Liz Recommends - Fake Doctors Real Friends with Zach and Donald
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-fake-doctors-real-friends-60367049/
"You know what's long, tedious and boring? Surgery. You know what isn't? This new podcast! Join Scrubs co-stars and real-life best
friends Zach Braff and Donald Faison for a weekly comedy podcast where they relive the hit TV show, one episode at a time. Each week,
these BFFs will discuss an episode of Scrubs, sharing behind-the-scenes stories and reminiscing on some of their favourite memories from filming. They’ll also connect with Scrubs super fans and feature beloved show cast members for exclusive interviews."
For both: whichever guest you wanna catch up with or ep you wanna recap.
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/fake-doctors-real-friends-with-zach-and-donald/id1503559501
Nick Recommends - Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend
After 25 years at the Late Night desk, Conan realized that the only people at his holiday party are the men and women who work for him. Over the years and despite thousands of interviews, Conan has never made a real and lasting friendship with any of his celebrity guests. So, he started a podcast to do just that. Deeper, unboundedly playful, and free from FCC regulations, Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend is a weekly opportunity for Conan to hang out with the people he enjoys most and perhaps find some real friendship along the way.
For both: Take a pick!
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conan-obrien-needs-a-friend/id1438054347
Zane Recommends - WTF with Marc Maron
http://www.wtfpod.com/
Zane has brought some BIG podcast titles in the past, but this one is definitely in competition for the biggest. This podcast has been the biggest in the world several times over the years it has been releasing, and today, who can even tell? But there are over 1000 episodes for you to track down and try out.
For over twenty years, Marc Maron has been writing and performing raw, honest and thought-provoking comedy. In September 2009, Marc changed the podcast landscape when he started WTF with Marc Maron, featuring Marc's revelatory conversations with iconic personalities such as Conan O’Brien, Terry Gross, Robin Williams, Keith Richards, Ben Stiller, Lorne Michaels and President Barack Obama. It became a worldwide phenomenon, with more than six-million downloads each month and 250 million lifetime downloads within its first 6 years.
For Nick: Barack Obama + The President Was Here [613+614]
For Liz: Terry Crews [1092]
http://itunes.apple.com/podcast/wtf-with-marc-maron-podcast/id329875043
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Podcasts podcasts podcasts, because that's what we do. This week Liz looks into a disease some doctor's don't believe in with Patient Zero, Nick goes behind the scenes with famous musicians with The Road Taken and Zane looks into whether the CIA interfered with an 80s megahit power ballad with Wind of Change. Then it's review time. Will the Castologists come to blows this week? Stay tuned to find out!
Liz Recommends - Patient Zero
https://www.patientzeropodcast.com/
New Hampshire Public Radio takes a look at what happens when society confronts the limits of scientific knowledge, through one of the most enigmatic diseases of the 21st Century: Lyme disease.
Patient Zero is a multipart podcast series from NHPR. The project – in development for more than a year - continues the tradition of in-depth, audio-rich podcast storytelling from NHPR, including such prior productions as Outside/In, Civics 101, Bear Brook and Supervision.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate there are more than 300,000 new cases of Lyme disease a year: more new cases than measles, acute hepatitis, and mumps. That growth also makes Lyme disease more common than whooping cough, tuberculosis, and spotted fever. In New Hampshire, the prevalence of Lyme disease infections led the state Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to create a statewide prevention plan, to give guidance on how best to reduce the risk of tick-borne disease.
Patient Zero host Taylor Quimby knows what it’s like to experience the disease. In the summer of 2017, Quimby had his own bout with Lyme disease, an experience that sent him searching for answers as he turned from reporter to disease detective.
For both: start at the start.
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/patient-zero/id1473507649
Nick Recommends - The Road Taken with CT and Baio
Vampire Weekend’s Chris Tomson and Chris Baio take an honest look at the life of a touring musician through conversations with their peers, idols, and rivals. The truth lies somewhere between the penthouse suite and a sleeping bag on the floor, between a private jet and a 2004 Honda Odyssey, between a sold-out Madison Square Garden and 10 paid attendees at Rubber Gloves in Denton, Texas.
For both: Take a pick!
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-road-taken-with-ct-and-baio/id1467826116
Zane Recommends - Wind of Change
https://crooked.com/podcast-series/wind-of-change/
Zane isn't usually about spies, but today, he has brought a spy podcast!
It’s 1990. The Berlin Wall has just come down. The Soviet Union is on the verge of collapse. A heavy metal band from West Germany, the Scorpions, releases a power ballad, “Wind of Change.” The song becomes the soundtrack to the peaceful revolution sweeping Europe — and one of the biggest rock singles ever. According to some fans, it’s the song that ended the Cold War.
Decades later, New Yorker writer Patrick Radden Keefe hears a rumor from a source: the Scorpions didn’t actually write “Wind of Change.” The CIA did.
This is Patrick’s journey to find the truth. Among former operatives and leather-clad rockers, from Moscow to Kiev to a GI Joe convention in Ohio, it’s a story about spies doing the unthinkable...
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Oi you. Yes you. It's time to find your newest podcast to listen to, via our Castologists. This week Nick gets on the true crime bandwagon with Ronan Farrow's The Catch and Kill; Liz goes with not-so-true crime with the Audible Original podcast (that's technically an audiobook) Cut and Run; and Zane gets his feminst on with a podcast on female entrepreneurship, Second Life. Then, stay tuned for all the reviews you can handle from last week's recommendations.
Liz Recommends - Cut and Run
https://www.audible.com/pd/Cut-and-Run-Audiobook/B082YHVMCG
Welcome to a tale of love, adventure, and organ theft.
In this charming, scripted audio crime comedy, Samantha Dugan (D’Arcy Carden) and Abe Lally (Sam Richardson) are best friends and partners in crime. They steal kidneys. Like all jobs, it’s complicated. Despite being Robin Hoods of organ thievery, Abe and Samantha are just the sweetest people.
Samantha, a professional con artist, uses her charms to steal kidneys from bad people and get them to good ones. Abe, Sam’s surgeon-in-crime on their illicit kidney theft operation, is using unfettered access to the human body to advance his research to cure diabetes. This gig is hell on their social lives.
This hilarious and twisted Audible Original tale features just about everything you could hope for: crime, punishment, law, order, love, romance, air travel, Ed Begley Jr., and a quinceañera.
Cut and Run, a star-studded scripted audio performance, boasts the talents of Meg Ryan (You’ve Got Mail) as The Narrator; Sam Richardson (VEEP) as Abe Lally; and D’Arcy Carden (The Good Place) as Samantha Dugan—plus the aforementioned Ed Begley, Jr. (Arrested Development) as Gordon Grimbsy, the amiable crime boss; Rachel Bloom (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) as Katie Reynolds, Abe’s girlfriend and best selling children’s book author; and Thomas Lennon (Reno 911) as Jeff Calvert, an FBI agent and unwitting organ donor. This Audible Original also features Eugene Cordero, Baron Vaughn, Carlos Alazraqui, Arturo del Puerto, Dustin Ybarra, Aaron Abrams, Ginger Gonzaga, Greg Santos, Oscar Montoya, Roberta Valderrama, and Shulie Cowen.
Cut and Run was written and co-produced by Ben Acker and Ben Blacker, the inventors of the first narrative fiction podcast, The Thrilling Adventure Hour.
For both: It's a serial, start from the start.
https://www.audible.com/pd/Cut-and-Run-Audiobook/B082YHVMCG
Nick Recommends - The Catch and Kill
For the past two years, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Ronan Farrow has been following a trail of clues from his investigation of Harvey Weinstein to other blockbuster stories about the systems that protect powerful men accused of terrible crimes in Hollywood, Washington, and beyond. But he didn’t bring that information to light on his own. A compelling cast of sources—from brave whistleblowers to shadowy undercover operatives—decided the fate of these investigations, sometimes risking everything in the process. The Catch and Kill Podcast brings you their stories, in their own words, for the first time.
For both: It's a serial, start from the start.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-catch-and-kill-podcast-with-ronan-farrow/id1487730212
Zane Recommends - Second Life
www.secondlifepod.com
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Hello and welcome to our podcast obsession. This week Liz recommends a podcast full of dad jokes to make people smile with I Just Called To Tell You A Joke, Nick brings his only two dudes talking about nothing podcast with Tiny Meat Gang, and Zane gets in touch with his inner child with Story Pirates. Then: REVIEW TIME.
Liz Recommends - I Just Called to Tell You a Joke
Every day, host Josie Steele calls someone she loves to tell them a joke. That’s it.
For both: I bet you can't stop at one ep.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i-just-called-to-tell-you-a-joke/id1509704200
Nick Recommends - Tiny Meat Gang
A podcast from Youtubers and Comedians Noel Miller and Cody Ko, Tiny Meat Gang is an absurd show that sees the two discussing internet beefs, their lives, and everything in between.
For both: Take a pick!
https://open.spotify.com/show/3gC8VKeT4bkctx2rgHXOLO
Zane Recommends - Story Pirates
https://www.storypirates.com/
Something that has been underrepresented on this podcast so far is podcasts for kids! So Zane has brought one to the table this week! Created by Gimlet Media and winner of the 2020 iHeartRadio award for Best Kids and Family Podcast, The Story Pirates Podcast is one of the top three kids and family podcasts in the world. Downloaded over 20 million times and featuring songs and sketches based on stories written by kids, special guests include top talent like Kristen Bell, Billy Eichner, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Dax Shepard, Bowen Yang, Paul Scheer, Claire Danes, John Oliver, David Schwimmer, and Lake Bell.
For Both: Any
https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/id719585944
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We have more podcasts for your ear holes this week. Liz decided she needs to get more comfy with managing her cash, so she's recommending She's On The Money. Nick gets his comic book nerd on with Marvel's foray into the podcast universe, Wolverine. And Zane takes a look at all the times people buggered things up in the past with The Constant: A History of Getting Things Wrong. Then it's review time, featuring our recommendations from last week.
Liz Recommends - She’s on the Money
https://www.shesonthemoney.com.au/
Note there are two She’s on the Money podcasts, we are talking about the Australian podcast featuring Victoria Devine, financial advisor and co-host Georgia King. They have an AMAZING FB community which is great to join for advice and group consensus. They usually reference the group on the pod to chat about their money wins and tips for saving etc.
“We empower women to make smart money decisions.
Millennial women are smart, savvy and independent. We grew up listening to Destiny’s Child, so it’s only natural, right? Yet, when it comes to money stuff, we can feel overwhelmed, unsure where to invest or stuck in a relentless cycle of “money in and money out”, never making ground or reaching our goals. She’s on the Money is here to help solve those problems. We believe that being good with money doesn’t mean you have to hibernate and live on a diet of two minute noodles and cheap wine. We believe you can have it all; the house deposit, the Pilates membership, the share portfolio, the Santorini trip and, of course, the brunch dates.
We’re here to change your relationship with money through relatable finance and money hacks you can implement today.”
For both: whatever topic takes your fancy.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/shes-on-the-money/id1468033698
Nick Recommends - Marvel's Wolverine
INJECT that adamantium into your veins! Following a string of mysterious deaths in Burns, Alaska, Special Agents Sally Pierce and Tad Marshall arrive to investigate. They soon find there’s more going on than meets the eye
For both: From the start
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/marvels-wolverine/id1343499710
Zane Recommends - The Constant: A History of Getting Things Wrong
https://www.constantpodcast.com/
Back to the status quo for Zane this week as he recommends and SCIENCE & HISTORY podcast. The Constant is a science and history podcast about getting things wrong. From ancient science to contemporary blunders, we take you on journeys of misadventure and misapprehension, filling your brain with juicy nuggets of the sometimes comical, sometimes tragical and always fascinating ways people mess things up.
Each season of The Constant runs 8 episodes, released weekly on Tuesdays.
Episodes vary in length, with the shortest running 10 minutes and the longest nearly 1 hour, but on average most stories tend to range between 20-25 minutes.
The Constant is currently on hiatus, with plans to return for a special abbreviated kickstarter season in October.
For Both: Pick one that appeals
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-constant/id1321926387?mt=2
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Castology acknowledges the Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the first inhabitants of the nation and the traditional custodians of the lands where we live, learn, and work.
In light of the growing movement around the world against racism and bigotry we Castologists wanted to do what we can to raise the profile of some great titles, made by, for, and about people of colour in Australia and around the world. We welcome any further input of titles we should be listening to and hope you can enjoy the eight great podcasts we recommend in the (no-so) mini-sode!
Now is the time to make your voice heard! Go protest and stand with all people who are so unfairly treated around the world!
Liz Recommends -
Scam Goddess
https://www.earwolf.com/show/scam-goddess/
Scam Goddess is a podcast dedicated to fraud and all those who practice it! Each week host Laci Mosley (aka Scam Goddess) keeps listeners up to date on current rackets, digs deep into the latest scams, and breaks down historic hoodwinks alongside some of your favorite comedians! It’s like true crime only without all the death! True fun crime!
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/scam-goddess/id1479455008
Pretty for an Aboriginal
Actor Miranda Tapsell (Love Child, The Sapphires) and writer/actor Nakkiah Lui (Black Comedy, Kiki and Kitty) join forces to present Pretty for an Aboriginal, a BuzzFeed Australia podcast featuring wide-ranging conversation and critique of society, politics and culture.
Drawing on Australian and international guests – season one includes writer and commentator Roxane Gay, rapper, comedian and writer Briggs and Orange is the New Black’s Yael Stone – Miranda and Nakkiah discuss topics such as relationships, the importance of representation and how to be a good ally, all while challenging perceptions of Indigenous Australia and the nature of success.
The conversation is friendly and sharp, and you’ll hear much-needed perspectives at the intersection of politics and culture. As hosts, they allow guests to reflect on their experiences in a more open-ended space. Eight episodes are available in 2017’s first season, with a second season to follow in 2018.
https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/pretty-for-an-aboriginal/id1282132573
Nick Recommends -
Frontier War Stories
Boe Spearim is a Gamilaraay & Kooma radio host and podcaster who lives in Brisbane. Frontier War Stories - a podcast dedicated to truth-telling about a side of Australian that has been left out of the history books. Each episode Boe will speak with different Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people about research, books and oral histories which document the first 140 years of conflict and resistance. These times are the Frontier Wars and these are our War Stories.
https://boespearim.podbean.com/
Sibling Rivalry
Monét X Change and Bob the Drag Queen discuss literally everything. Bob The Drag Queen & Monét X Change are the hosts of Sibling Rivalry Podcast. Bob, winner of season 8 of RuPaul's Drag Race & Monét, winner of Miss Congeniality on Season 10 and winner of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars 4 are not actually related to each other but you'd never know when you hear their hilarious sister-like banter on Sibling Rivalry Podcast.
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This week we set a challenge for each Castologist to recommend a podcast they think one of the OTHER Castologists would normally recommend! Still with us? SO: Zane brought a podcast on sex, feminism and mortality for Liz: Dying for Sex. Then, Nick recommended a historical journey for Zane with Tides of History. Then Liz did her darndest to impress Nick with a podcast containing all his favourite things including boats, shipping containers, spies and intrigue with The Last Voyage of the Pong Su. Then, it's time for the reviews of last week's podcast.
Liz Recommends - The Last Voyage of the Pong Su
https://www.theage.com.au/pong-su
A North Korean dictator, bags of heroin, drug lords, spooks, sailors, Australian cops and a web of lies: Come aboard The Last Voyage of The Pong Su.
Featuring conversations recorded by listening devices, and translated. Interviews. Reported by Richard Baker (The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald) and produced by Rachael Dexter, The Last Voyage of The Pong Su tells the story of an ill-fated 2003 drug trafficking operation involving a North Korean cargo ship, its crew and members of an Asian crime syndicate targeting Australia with a then-record amount of heroin (estimated street value of A$160 million.)
The podcast also won the Melbourne Press Club's Quill award for podcasting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pong_Su_incident
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For Nick: Start from the start, it's a serial.
Nick Recommends - Tides of History
Zane LOVES history so Nick chose HISTORY to curry favour with the podfather. Those echoes define the boundaries of states and countries, how we pray and how we fight. They determine what money we spend and and how we earn it at work, what language we speak and how we raise our children. From Wondery, host Patrick Wyman, PhD (“Fall Of Rome”) helps us understand our world and how it got to be the way it is.
For Zane: Any and all!
https://wondery.com/shows/tides-of-history/
Zane Recommends - Dying for Sex
https://wondery.com/shows/dying-for-sex/
What could be MORE Liz? Wondery + Sex + Mortality + Feminism? Zane brought in THE MOST Liz podcast they could find: Dying for Sex. When host Nikki Boyer’s best friend Molly is diagnosed with Stage IV breast cancer, she decides to do something bold. She leaves an unhappy marriage and embarks on a series of sexual adventures to feel alive.
For Both: Start at the beginning
https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/id1495392900
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Ooh boy do we have a show for you today. Zane gets into the big issues this week and we mean big... free speech and how it’s in massive anyone? His recommendation is Clear and Present Danger. Liz has found an immersive podcast the thinks could be even better than 2019’s beloved Carrier: The Left Right Game. And Nick finally delves into the listener submission pile with Chronosphere Fiction. Then it’s REVIEW TIME!
Liz Recommends - The Left Right Game
https://www.qcodemedia.com/theleftrightgame
Originally written on a Reddit thread (https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/7asz8x/has_anyone_heard_of_the_leftright_game_part_1/), The Left Right Game is Liz’s new obsession. AND it’s about to be made into a TV series (https://www.slashfilm.com/the-left-right-game/) on Amazon.
“Tessa Thompson stars as an idealistic young journalist trying to make a name for herself by following a group of paranormal explorers, obsessed with a seemingly harmless pastime known as the Left/Right Game. The journey takes her into a supernatural world that she and the other members of the expedition can neither handle nor survive.”
Starring and co-produced by Tessa Thompson.
Written and created by Jack Anderson.
Directed by Emma Tammi.
Presented by Sonos, QCode Media.
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-left-right-game/id1498806952
For both: Make sure you listen with headphones OR in a car if you’re a careful driver, especially for episode two.
Nick Recommends - Chronosphere Fiction
Chronosphere Fiction is a story telling anthology podcast where writers’ creations come to life with sound effects and music.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/chronosphere-fiction/id1294436798
Zane Recommends - Clear and Present Danger
http://www.freespeechhistory.com/
From 1989 and until the early noughties free speech went viral across the globe as new democracies tore down the walls of censorship. But for more than a decade the global respect for free speech has been in decline. In 2003 41% of the world’s countries had a free press. In 2017 that figure had dropped to 31%. Or put differently: Only 13% of the world’s 7,4 billion people enjoy free speech. 45% live in countries where censorship is the norm. Still, more than half the world’s population across cultures and continents think free speech is very important. But why is that? Where does the principle of free speech come from? How has it been developed over time? Why have kings, emperors, and governments killed and imprisoned people to shut them up? And why have countless people risked death and imprisonment to express their beliefs? And what can people in the digital age learn from past conflicts over where to draw the line? Jacob Mchangama guides you through the history of free speech from the trial of Socrates to the Great Firewall.
Jacob Mchangama is the founder and executive director of Justitia a think tank focusing on human rights and a Visiting Scholar at Columbia’s Global Freedom of Expression Center. He has commented extensively on free speech and human rights in outlets including the Washington Post, the Wall Street...
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Well we've accidentally done it again; we've themed the week. Somehow we've all ended up recommending podcasts with super bleak titles (but not all bleak content!). Liz recommends Aussie comedy podcast Time to Die, Zane recommends queer film deep dive podcast Dead for Filth, and Nick explores the end of the world with, well, The End of The World with Josh Clark. Then it's on to the reviews of last week's podcasts.
Liz Recommends -
Time To Die
https://www.planetbroadcasting.com/our-shows/time-to-die/
"Time To Die is the unfunniest podcast you’ll ever subscribe to. But that’s kind of the point.
Each episode we match up to two brilliant comedians and ask them to use their comedy powers to write three minutes of the worst stand up they can imagine. Then our guests swap their scripts and go out and present the stand up as if they wrote it themselves… at a real comedy club. The winner is the comic who commits to the bit and gets the most laughs!"
HOSTS:
BEN RUSSELL
Ben Russell is a graduate of The Second City Chicago and iO Chicago. He has appeared in True Story with Hamish and Andy, SBS’ The Feed, The Project on 10, Tonightly, The Letdown and The Aaron Chen Tonight Show on ABC. You can hear Ben on podcasts Finding Drago (ABC) and the twisted sketch show The Grub with Greg Larsen and Anne Edmonds.
TOM WHITTY
Tom Whitty is an award-winning journalist, TV producer and musician. He’s the executive producer of Australia Talks for the ABC, the former managing editor of The Project for Network Ten, and the creator of Time To Die. He’s also obsessed with stand-up comedy.
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/time-to-die/id1504187933
For Both: At time of airing, there are only three eps thanks to COVID19 hitting just as they launched but pick any episode that appeals.
Nick Recommends - The End of the World with Josh Clark
We humans could have a bright future ahead of us that lasts billions of years. But we have to survive the next 200 years first. Join Josh Clark of Stuff You Should Know for a 10-episode deep dive that explores the future of humanity and finds dangers we have never encountered before lurking just ahead. And if we humans are alone in the universe, if we don't survive intelligent life dies out with us too.
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-end-of-the-world-with-josh-clark/id1437682381
Zane Recommends - Dead for Filth
Zane loves movies, but hesitates to listen to many film podcasts, let alone recommend them, but this listener submission is one of the exceptions. From the ooky spooky mind of horror personality and screenwriter, Michael Varrati, comes the June Gloom Productions original Podcast "Dead For Filth", for all things queer horror and beyond. Dead For Filth will bring you the best queer & horror icons out of the closet and into the night to talk about the genre they love.
For Both: Pick any episode that appeals
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/dead-for-filth-with-michael-varrati/id1271494841
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It's podcast time, your favourite time of the week. Zane is still hungry for podsnacks so he recommends 60-Second Science (Space/Mind/Tech/Earth/Health). Liz dives into the listener recommendation pile to solve the worlds trivial problems with What Shall We Do About...? and Nick shows his love for music and sound engineering with Song Exploder. Then, it's on to the reviews from last week. Whose podsnack will reign supreme?
Liz Recommends - What Shall We Do About?
"The world is full of problems, though most of them don't make the headlines. Sam Robinson sits down with some prominent personalities to try to improve and perhaps even solve some of the world's less pressing issues. Nothing too trivial will be left unturned."
Host Sam Robinson sits down with Aussie personalities like Marc Fennel, Ash London and Dan Illic to discuss how to solve the world's issues that are smaller than, say, a fucking pandemic.
Like What shall we do about kindness? Which is all about how to find the good in among all this shit. Or what shall we do about children's television, where Sam chat's to kids TV royalty James Sherry about what will happen with aussie kids TV quotas being reduced. Or even what shall we do about clutter if we don't wanna go all Mari Kondo on our stuff?
For both: Pick a topic or personality that appeals
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-shall-we-do-about/id1484907828
Nick Recommends - Song Exploder
A podcast where musicians take apart their songs, and piece by piece, tell the story of how they were made.
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/song-exploder/id788236947
Zane Recommends - 60-Second Science from the Scientific American (Space/Mind/Tech/Earth/Health)
https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/60-second-science/
Zane loves science! And this is one of his favourite sources of daily science info! Leading science journalists provide a daily minute commentary on some of the most interesting developments in the world of science. For a full-length, weekly podcast you can subscribe to Science Talk: The Podcast of Scientific American. And if you do not get enough science news from this podcast there are a series of more specifically
For both: Listen to them all!
https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/60-second-science/id189330872?mt=2
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It's snack time, here at Castology... podsnack time that is. These are the podcasts you listen to when you just want a lil something something, but you have no time to invest. Liz recommends the aptly named Little Tiny, Zane gets cooking with Food in Five, and Nick has managed to find a narrative podcast that's teeny tiny as well in 2298. Then it's review time!
Liz Recommends - Little Tiny
https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/little-tiny/
A coin, a key, a doughnut: how have these small things changed the course of history?
Spend some time exploring world history via the small things that have shaped it. Each episode details a story in history, taking you from a tiny moment of change through to its mammoth consequences, all in the space of a coffee break. Hosted by Kara Schlegl.
Kara Eva Schlegl is a writer, producer and story-teller from Sydney, Australia.
Episodes include how a dinner party led to the invention of the pill, how one person getting fired may have led to the Titanic sinking, or how pigeon poop brought about a Nobel Prize winning theory.
For both: Pick topics that take your fancy. I particularly liked the one on The Pill. Listen to a few pod snacks for a full meal.
https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/little-tiny/id1337500254
Nick Recommends - 2298
The Network makes sure Profiles eat right & stay focused — but Profile 24 — thanks to a mysterious bird — is finding that difficult.
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/2298/id1294068639
Zane Recommends - Food in Five
You want a pod snack!? Zane has a podsnack for you; Food in Five. If you love to cook or if you are interested in cooking this is the podcast you're looking for! Chef Ben Kelly shares recipes, food history, stories, everything you could want and more all in a neat 3-10 minute package. It releases in 5-10 Minute Episodes 3 Days A Week
For both: Pick a few topics or recipes that appeal to you!
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/food-in-five/id1316687069
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Welcome back to another episode packed with podcasts!
Liz Recommends: Cautionary Tales
http://timharford.com/articles/cautionarytales/
"We’ve always warned children by telling them unsettling fairy tales. But my Cautionary Tales are for the education of the grown ups. And my Cautionary Tales are all true.
Cautionary Tales is a new podcast from Tim Hartford and Pushkin Industries, makers of Malcolm Gladwell’s Revisionist History, Michael Lewis’s Against The Rules, and Laurie Santos’s Happiness Lab.
"Helping me tell these Cautionary Tales are some marvellous actors, including Alan Cumming (Instinct), Archie Panjabi (The Good Wife), Toby Stephens (Die Another Day) and Russell Tovey (Quantico). We also present the acting debut of a certain Mr Malcolm Gladwell.
Together we weave stories of human error, of tragic catastrophes and hilarious fiascos. Oil tankers crash in broad daylight, vital military ideas are carelessly given away to the Nazis, and a shouty man in a uniform pulls off an audacious heist. Alongside the drama, each story has a moral that emerges from psychology, economics, even design. Each story will make you wiser."
For both: You Have Reached Your Destination; Bowie, Jazz and the Unplayable Piano
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cautionary-tales/id1484511465
Nick Recommends - WeCrashed
The founders of WeWork thought they were on the brink of making history. The company was valued at $47 billion dollars, it was ready for a huge IPO, and its charismatic CEO Adam Neumann thought it was going to change the world. Adam had a prophet-like vision for WeWork that he sold to some of the world’s savviest investors — but did his vision ever match the company’s reality? Hosted by David Brown of the hit podcast Business Wars, WeCrashed is a six-part series about the rise and fall of WeWork. It’s a story of hope and hubris, big money and bigger screwups, and the lengths people will go to chase “unicorns.”
https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1494781373
Zane Recommends - Motherhacker
https://gimletmedia.com/shows/motherhacker
Motherhacker is written by Sandi Farkas and executive produced and directed by Amanda Lipitz. The series stars Carrie Coon, Pedro Pascal, Alan Cumming, Lucas Hedges, Tavi Gevinson and Alex Goldman.
Bridget’s life is a series of dropped calls. With a gift for gab, an ex-husband in rehab, and down to her last dollar, Bridget’s life takes a desperate turn when she starts vishing over the phone for a shady identity theft ring in order to support her family.
For both: Start at the beginning
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/motherhacker/id1487213874
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PODCASTS, GET YOUR PODCASTS. You want 'em? We got 'em, piping hot just for you. Nick looks at the fall of difference civilizations with a podcast unsurprisingly titled Fall of Civilizations. Zane goes super meta with the fake TV recap show Please Save Me. And Liz is back on the crime wagon (did she ever really get off?) with Fake Heiress. Then it's reviews time for last week's eps, baby!
Liz Recommends - FAKE Heiress
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000c9mb/episodes/downloads
The rise and fall of Anna Delvey, who conned New York high society into believing that she was a multi-millionaire heiress. Vicky Baker and Chloe Moss dig deeper into the scandal in this BBC 6 part series..
"For years, Ms. Sorokin pretended to be Anna Delvey, a German heiress with a trust fund that paid for a life of glamorous ease. She lived in boutique hotels, wore designer clothes and hung out in Manhattan’s moneyed party circles. In reality, Ms. Sorokin, 28, was a Russian immigrant who walked out on bills, connived her way into luxury, and persuaded a bank employee to give her $100,000 she never intended to pay back, the jury decided in convicting her in 2020.
For both: It's a serial so start at the start.
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/fake-heiress/id1491349699
Nick Recommends - Fall of Civilizations
https://fallofcivilizationspodcast.com/
A history podcast looking at the collapse of a different civilization each episode. What did they have in common? Why did they fall? And what did it feel like to watch it happen?
For both: Pick ya fancy!
https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/fall-of-civilizations-podcast/id1449884495
Zane Recommends - Please Save Me
https://pleasesaveme.podbean.com/
Are your regular podcasts not meta enough for you? Well, here is the answer to that imaginary problem... Please Save Me. Hosts Sarah Black and Ben Flores are the #1 fans of Chicago Heroes, which is a hit television show that does not exist. They recap each week’s wild episode with a rotating cast of goofy guests from the Chicago comedy community and beyond.
For Both: Society's Leeches
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/please-save-me/id1383816440
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Hi! It's us, your friendly Castologists here to give you the podcasts we think you should be listening to. Get cosy with Liz's recommendation: In Bed With Nick and Megan, which sees celebrities literally getting in bed to chat with Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally. Nick gets us all ready for a massive earthquake in a region nowhere near where we record with The Big One: Your Survival Guide. And Zane shows his theatre geekery with Musicals With Cheese.
Then it's time for the TRUE CRIME week reviews!
Liz Recommends - In Bed with Nick and Megan
https://www.earwolf.com/show/in-bed-with-nick-offerman-and-megan-mullally/
"Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman have been a couple for 20 years – 138 years in Hollywood time – and in their brand new podcast they take listeners directly into their bed… because that’s where every episode is recorded – their bed. Cozying up with their famous friends, your favourite couple provide a funny, revealing, and very candid look into their relationship and life at large. In some episodes, they’ll even kick the guest out of bed and get extra personal in what some have called the most searing and rawly sexual conversations ever to burn their way through a voice recorder. Oh, yes. It’s that good. Join Megan and Nick for some serious pillow talk."
For both: Pick a guest that takes your fancy
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/in-bed-with-nick-and-megan/id1487579237
Nick Recommends - The Big One: Your Survival Guide
When The Big One hits it'll take under two minutes for more than 10 million Southern Californians to lose internet, power, and a sense of security. Host Jacob Margolis and Producer Misha Euceph take you on a journey to understand what the catastrophic earthquake will mean for Los Angeles, the U.S., and the world. This is what you need to know to survive
For both: From the start!
https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1445054297?mt=2
Zane Recommends - Musicals With Cheese
https://musicalswithcheesepodcast.simplecast.com/
it has taken this long, but finally Zane has brought a glimpse into his passion for musical theatre to Castology! Jess is a Musical Theatre expert, Andrew knows nothing about the Musical Theater world. Listen to hear the hilarity ensue as fresh eyes analyze musicals old & new.
For Both: Pick a musical you know
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/musicals-with-cheese-podcast/id1436673419
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True crime lovers of the world unite, it's CRIME TIME on Castology this week. It's conmen, liars, and shysters with Zane's recommendation Pretend Radio. Liz took a break from murder (listening to it, not doing it) to recommend The Score: The Bank Robber Diaries. And then Nick does a deep dive into some pretty sobering systemic breakdowns with Dig. Then, it's review time for last week's recommendations.
Liz Recommends - The Score: The Bank Robber Diaries
https://play.acast.com/s/thescore
"14 months. 30 Banks. An all-access pass into the mind of one of Southern California’s most prolific bank robbers.
On the show, Joe Loya - the so-called “Beirut Bandit” - reveals his story of transformation from abusive childhood to prolific bank robber, violent convict, ex-con, writer and ultimately, a reconciled son.
Produced by Peabody-Award winning podcaster Ben Adair (The Sterling Affairs, Dr. Death, Reveal) at Western Sound in partnership with Acast Studios."
This podcast runs through the life cycle of a bank robber, from how he got into robbing banks, how it escalated, how he got caught, how he fared in prison… has he really reformed?
For both: Start at the very beginning.
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-score-bank-robber-diaries/id1483260185
Nick Recommends - Dig
A woman told Louisville police she was raped in January 2018. She expected them to quickly try to arrest the suspect. But an officer on the scene that night didn't seem to believe her. The detectives weren't convinced that a crime occurred. And a prosecutor rejected the case well before an arrest was even under consideration. In the first season of Dig, a new podcast from the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting, we bring you the results of a yearlong look at how rape cases are investigated in Louisville. What we've learned: here, the police defer to prosecutors on rape cases — and prosecutors reject the vast majority of cases presented to them. Due to this unusual relationship, most people accused of rape here will never face consequences. Most won't be arrested or convicted. And the case will be closed anyway.
For both: From the start!
https://www.npr.org/podcasts/782223781/dig
Zane Recommends - Pretend Radio
http://pretendradio.org/
No blood and gore here! Pretend Radio is a documentary-style podcast about real people pretending to be someone else. The host interview con artists, snake oil salesmen, undercover FBI agents—pretty much anyone living a lie.
For Both: Take your pick!
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pretend-radio/id1245307962?mt=2
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We're still here to find all the podcasts you need during Covid-19 quarantine. We've got behind the scenes action with Brooklyn Nine-Nine: The Podcast, a look at the moment in history when Australia's Prime Minister Gough Whitlam was sacked with The Eleventh, and all the armchair travel and history your isolated self can handle with 80 Days: An Exploration Podcast. Then Nick. Zane and Liz review last week's podcasts. Wanna have yours featured? Write in, amigos!
Liz Recommends -
Brooklyn Nine-Nine: The Podcast
https://www.nbc.com/brooklyn-nine-nine/exclusives/brooklyn-nine-nine-podcast
NINE-NINE!
Liz is bloody obsessed with this show so obviously it was time to pimp the podcast. Also as mentioned in the episode, Stephanie Beatriz, if you're out there and you wanna tweet Castology, goddamn that would make Liz's week/month/year.
"This is the official podcast for NBC's Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Join host Marc Evan Jackson for a deep dive into each season of one of television's biggest hit comedies with guests including co-creator Dan Goor, cast members Terry Crews, Joe Lo Truglio, Melissa Fumero, Stephanie Beatriz and more as they reveal behind-the-scenes stories, funny anecdotes, never-before-heard secrets and much, much more!"
For both: Start wherever you want, kids!
Link: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/brooklyn-nine-nine-the-podcast/id1496689557
Nick Recommends - The Eleventh
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-eleventh/id1499296059
How much do you really know about the 11th of November 1975?
You’ve probably heard that famous "Well may we say" speech made by Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam on the day he was sacked by the Queen’s representative ... or seen the grainy footage from the steps of old parliament house.
But do you properly understand the extraordinary events leading up to the most dramatic day in Australian political history? How did The Dismissal actually happen?
For both: From the start!
Zane Recommends - 80 Days: An Exploration Podcast
https://80dayspodcast.com/
The 80 Days: an exploration podcast, brought to you by three history and geography nerds in an internet-powered balloon. Every episode the hosts take you to a little-known country, territory, settlement or city and explore the history, culture and people of each place over approximately an hour and a half.
For Both: Pick your Favourite!
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/80-days-an-exploration-podcast/id1139128775
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A broad spectrum of recommendations for all of our budding castologists out there! Liz is back at the Wondery alter with the family drama of Blood Ties, Nick dips into the Movie podcast pool with the Rewatchables and Zane is spinning off by himself once again with the off-beat interview podcast of Love+Radio! Lots to choose from this week, let us know what you think!
Liz Recommends - Blood Ties
https://wondery.com/shows/blood-ties/
When Eleonore and Michael Richland (played by Gillian Jacobs and Josh Gad) lose their parents unexpectedly in a small plane crash, they must choose between two very different paths: honor their father’s legacy as a world-renowned cardiologist and health care magnate — or risk everything for the truth. From Wondery, the makers of “Dirty John,” “Dr. Death,” and “Over My Dead Body,” comes the first season of a new six episode scripted drama. Starring Gillian Jacobs (Community, Love), Josh Gad (Frozen, Book of Mormon), and Amy Landecker (Transparent).
There are currently six episodes with a behind-the-scenes seventh. BUT it does seem to to hint at a season 2 so stay tuned.
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/blood-ties/id1484142154
Nick Recommends - The Rewatchables
The Rewatchables sees a cast of people from The Ringer and the world come together to discuss the most rewatchable movies ever.
For both: Pick your favourite movie. (Dunkirk episode is excellent)
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-rewatchables/id1268527882
Zane Recommends - Love & Radio
http://loveandradio.org/
Nick van der Kolk's Love and Radio features in-depth, otherworldly-produced interviews with an eclectic range of subjects, from the seedy to the sublime. Get inside the mind of a rogue taxidermist. Find out what it's like to experience a stroke firsthand. Or spend time with an artist who gives away her life savings every night. You've never heard anything like it before. This show is moving to Luminary!
For both: Pick your favourite
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/love-radio/id84389707
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Well hey there. It's us, your friendly Castologists. We are here to make your self-isolating that little bit easier with recommendations of the podcasts you should be listening to. Liz recommends a show that's part reality television, part makeover show and part self help with We Love You (And So Can You). Zane gets serious (and we seriously mean serious) with the serious investigative journalism podcast Reveal. Then Nick takes us across the globe for an intriguing documentary about a hidden royal family with The Jungle Prince. Then, it's review time, baby.
Liz Recommends - We Love You (And So Can You)
https://twitter.com/weloveyoupod?lang=en
"We Love You (And So Can You) follows the journey of a guest looking to makeover part of their life: like jumping back into the dating world, dealing with professional jealousy, or navigating a new phase in life as an empty nester. Hosts Kristen Meinzer and Jolenta Greenberg draw on extensive knowledge of self-help to provide a prescription of wellness practices, creative activities, media consumption, and more, which the guest follows while we eavesdrop on their progress. The goal: for the guest to find the outstanding person who was there all along, and learn to love themselves more. We Love You (And So Can You) is part reality show, part self-love school, and the best makeover show in the podcast universe."
These gals are also the hosts of the previously recommended podcast By The Book (https://bythebookpod.com/about-us)
For both: whatever ep grabs you.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/we-love-you-and-so-can-you/id1474844851
Nick Recommends - The Jungle Prince
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/22/world/asia/the-jungle-prince-of-delhi.html
The story passed for years from tea sellers to rickshaw drivers to shopkeepers in Old Delhi. In a forest, they said, in a palace cut off from the city, lived a prince, a princess and a queen, said to be the last of a Shiite Muslim royal line. Some said the family had been there since the British had annexed their kingdom. Others said they were supernatural beings. It was a stunning and tragic story. But was it real?
On a spring afternoon, while on assignment in India, Ellen Barry got a phone call that sent her looking for the truth.
For both: All of it!
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/27/podcasts/the-daily/jungle-prince-royal-family-oudh.html
Zane Recommends - Reveal
https://www.revealnews.org/episodes/
This is a SERIOUS journalism podcast. With PRX, CIR co-produces the nationally distributed “Reveal” radio show and podcast. “Reveal” features CIR’s reporting, as well as stories from public radio stations and a wide range of media partners, both nonprofit and commercial. Founded in 1977 as the nation’s first nonprofit investigative journalism organization, The Center for Investigative Reporting has developed a reputation for being among the most innovative, credible and relevant media organizations in the country.
For Nick: Scuttling Science
For Liz: Six Years Separated
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Time for distractions! Stop worrying about what is outside, let's find some peace and some fun in the land of podcasts!
Liz Recommends -
https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/mindfully/
https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/mindfully/id1403629619
Nick Recommends -
Tiny Meat Gang
Zane Recommends -
The Escape Artists Group of Podcasts
https://escapeartists.net/
https://escapepod.org/ (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/escape-pod/id73329293?mt=2&ls=1)
https://podcastle.org/ (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/podcastle/id276266378?mt=2&ls=1)
https://pseudopod.org/ (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pseudopod/id179911785?mt=2&ls=1)
https://www.castofwonders.org/ (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cast-of-wonders/id451249755?mt=2&ls=1)
Off Book - The Improvised Musical Podcast
https://www.earwolf.com/show/off-book/
(https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/earwolf/id407542375)
The Thrilling Adventure Hour
http://thrillingadventurehour.com/
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thrilling-adventure-hour/id408691897
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It's Quarantine time! Nick is out of the studio because he's sick and IT'S THE LAW. Welcome to the apocalypse and our appropriately-timed WTF week! Zane gets meta with the Podcast Reviews Reviews Podcast. Liz looks at a pod that only looks at movies with a body swap premise with The SwapCast Podcast. And Nick drills down into conspiracy theory town with Knowledge Fight.
Liz Recommends -
The SwapCast Podcast
https://www.theswapcastpodcast.com/
Every episode hosts Paul Mizzi, Lucy Thomas, and Brendan Levi delve in to the wonderful world of the body swap trope in their inane quest to find gold in an oversaturated genre.
At time of recording there are 41 episodes between 40 mins to an hour. They also have minisodes where they review some movies they’ve mentioned but not specifically covered because it’s hard to watch everything.
They’ve reviewed big movies such as, well, Big (which is way more problematic than you remember), Freaky Friday, and Shazaam, as well as smaller flicks such as Ice Angel AKA On Thin Ice: Going For The Gold.
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-swapcast-podcast/id1358097801
For both: Pick a movie you wanna know about. The Big ep is a fave of mine.
Nick Recommends - Knowledge Fight
Each episode, Dan and Jordan take a look at some clips from that day's Alex Jones Show and struggle to make sense of what they find.
For both: Pick any and try your best.
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/knowledge-fight/id1192992870
Zane Recommends - Podcast Reviews Reviews Podcast
https://www.patreon.com/freckle
https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/prrp-podcast-reviews-reviews-p-766873
This is it. This is peak-meta when it comes to podcasts. Host Kenneth Eckle reviews the reviews of this podcast. Apparently, it is multi-award-winning.
For both: Pick any
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1446055832
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DONT PANIC!
The world is a flurry of change and worry at the moment and we are not immune! However, we would like to share some of the good podcast resources we have been listening to for all of the FACTS and NEWS that we need to know about COVID19.
Liz Recommends -
Coronacast
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/coronacast/id1501500390
This Podcast Will Kill You
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/this-podcast-will-kill-you/id1299915173?mt=2
Coronavirus Daily From NPR
https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1503226625?mt=2&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory
Zane Recommends -
Epidemic With Dr. Celine Gounder and Ronald Klain(Just Human Productions)
https://open.spotify.com/show/3DLvofLCx0o7adGqnfZvxl
New Scientist Weekly
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/new-scientist-weekly/id1496847791
Today, Explained
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/today-explained/id1346207297?mt=2
Congressional Dish
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/congressional-dish/id572967793?mt=2
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Hi-diddley-ho Castologerinos! This week Nick delves into the world of US politics and the 2020 election with The Wilderness. Liz finds a podcast that asks you to be the detective and crack the crime case with Solve. Then Zane tells everyone else to shut up a second by recommending Shut Up A Second. Then it's onto the reviews!
Liz Recommends - Solve
https://solvehq.com/podcast/
You’ve listened to every true crime podcast, lost days on the Zodiac killer subReddit, and googled so many serial killers you’re probably on some watchlist. By now you consider yourself a seasoned detective. There’s just one thing missing: you’ve never been given a real case to crack.
Enter SOLVE, the world’s first interactive murder-mystery podcast that puts you at the center of the investigation. Each week on SOLVE, you’ll be assigned a new case, based on real true crimes, that will test your skills as a detective. You’ll interrogate new suspects, piece together evidence, and scour distinct crime scenes to track down murderers hiding in plain sight. SOLVE premieres December 16th on Apple Podcasts, the iHeart Radio app, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. One crime. Four suspects. Can you SOLVE these crimes?
Listeners are invited to decipher clues embedded in leaked audio files, voicemails, courtroom testimony, and other evidence to try to find the killer.
The L.A.-based startup has raised $20 million in funding from Elisabeth Murdoch, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Upfront Ventures and Shari Redstone’s Advancit Capital.
Solve first debuted as an original Snapchat Show in May 2018 as an interactive murder mystery show, in which the audience takes on the role of the detective. Viewers interview suspects and analyze key evidence to try to solve cases inspired by true crimes. So far, about 150 episodes of “Solve” have been produced for Snapchat, with new instalments premiering weekly.
The Solve podcast series was produced in partnership with iHeartMedia and SALT Audio, the production company that has worked on top scripted podcasts “Blackout,” starring and executive produced by Rami Malek (from QCode and Endeavor Content) and “Carrier” (from QCode).
Next year, Solve plans to launch projects in “every other media you can think of,” including video games, Wright said.
For both: Any ep that takes your fancy.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/solve/id1487980715
Nick Recommends - The Wilderness
What will it take to defeat Donald Trump in November? In season 2 of The Wilderness, Jon Favreau looks for the path to victory in 2020 by talking to voters, strategists, organizers, and candidates in the battleground states that will decide the election.
For both: From season 2 (season 1 is a little dated, but worth a listen)
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-wilderness/id1408796715
Zane Recommends - Shut Up A Second
https://www.sanspantsradio.com/shut-up-a-second
Zane has one pet peeve surrounding podcasting; podcasts about nothing. BUT this may be the exception that proves the rule! THe team at Sans Pants radio produce Shut Up A Second, where...
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We don't really have a theme but the names of our recommendations do sound very disaster-y this week. Zane recommends The Alarmist, a podcast for everyone who loves to catastrophise. Liz shares her favourite stories of survival with How I Survived (and we all know how much Liz loves a good survival story). And then Nick jumps over to Audible for the exclusive podcast It Burns, which isn't about his personal hygiene, but rather about the mad world of competitive chilli growing. Then it's reviews time from last week.
Liz Recommends - How I Survived
https://www.thatslife.com.au/thats-life-new-podcast-how-i-survived-survival-stories
Each fortnight, How I Survived brings you the shocking true story of a person who’s survived against the odds, told in their own words. Hosted by that's life! writer Beth Young, these stories are terrifying, inspiring and ultimately prove the power of the human will to live.
Liz finds it hard to listen to the self-inflicted accidents (sliced face off with a chainsaw? NO THANK YOU.) But she loves the ones where people have weird encounters, or triumph over evil motherf***ers.
For both: Bourke Street Massacre: My Brother The Killer
I Was Swallowed by A Hippo
Kelly Went For A Run - attacked while running
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/how-i-survived/id1380588512
Nick Recommends - It Burns
It Burns is the story of a 10-year scandal-plagued international competition that will take listeners from the Australian Coast to South Carolina (via an Indian Research Facility).
It’s a war filled with larger than life characters. There will be sledging, accusations of cheating, theft and performance enhancing drugs. And allegations that Australia was cheated out of a Guinness World Record. In the process of charting the scandal-plagued race to breed the world’s hottest chilli, the audio documentary lifts the lid on the subculture of ‘Chilli-heads’, hardcore chilli fans spread across the globe who compete in chilli eating and breeding competitions.
The internet is filled with videos of grown men being reduced to tears by a square millimetre of chilli. The docu-series asks: what motivates someone to breed and eat a demonic nugget that is so hot it no longer has flavour? At what point does this stop being cuisine and start being an endurance sport?
This humorous series shows that all this has never really been about chilli. It’s been about how people use pain to shape themselves, define themselves and make themselves feel alive.
For both: All of it!
https://www.audible.com.au/pd/It-Burns-Audiobook/B07R52JVMZ
Zane Recommends - The Alarmist
https://www.earios.net/the-alarmist
A new discovery for Zane is The Alarmist! Writer/performer Rebecca Delgado-Smith (The Good Place) and guests scrutinize history’s greatest disasters to figure out what went wrong, and most importantly, who’s to blame.
For both: Take your pick!
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-alarmist/id1468678544
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It's your favourite time of the week, time for more podcasts! Liz recommends a podcast that's literally just someone reading juicy reddit stories out loud called RSlash. Nick gets his entrepreneurial spirit on with The Pitch. Then Zane looks at porn... in podcast form with Girls on Porn, a show where two gals review porn movies. Next, the gang review last week's submissions.
Liz Recommends - Rslash
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-swBG9Ne0Vh4OuoJ2bjbA
rSlash is a YouTuber that goes over subreddits and reads funny stories sometimes with the accompaniment of his dog Yugo. Literally that’s it. A dude reading entertaining Reddit stories out. And Liz is LIVING FOR IT.
For both: I am a fan of any of the r/prorevenge, r/pettyrevenge or r/maliciouscompliance
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rslash/id1475773051
Nick Recommends - The Pitch
Each episode takes listeners behind closed doors to the critical moment when aspiring entrepreneurs put it all on the line. While it offers a glimpse into the high-stakes world of venture capital, it’s really a show about human relationships: how people sell their ideas, what makes investors tick, and how these initial conversations can bloom into business deals—or die on the vine.
For both: Any!
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1008577710?mt=2
Zane Recommends - Girls on Porn
https://headgum.com/girls-on-porn
In a weird twist Zane has brouhgt in a sexy podcast! Girls on Porn is a porn review podcast hosted by two erotic enthusiasts and all around horny gals, Laura and Rachel. Committed to helping you find hot and ethical porn, each week the girls research and review porn based on popular search terms.
For Both: Pick one that appeals
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1454548968?at=1000lMpE&ct=hgdotcom-podcast-page
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Hello and welcome back to Castology, your weekly dose of podcast goodness. Or badness in this instance, with Liz recommending the dark must-listen podcast Chasing Cosby. You can probably guess what it's about. Then Zane offers up a one-episode-only podcast on exactly what the title says it's about: QueerMuslimSexWorker. And finally Nick gets his MI5 on with a bit of I Spy, the podcast that chats all things in the world of international espionage. Then it's review time, baby!
Liz Recommends - Chasing Cosby
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2020-01-07/new-podcast-chasing-cosby-chronicles-the-rise-and-fall-of-bill-cosby
Guys, this one gets dark, so brace yourself. But also it's super important so you have to listen.
"For nearly half a century, Bill Cosby brought warmth and laughter into hearts across the country, cementing his image as “America’s Dad.” But he also led a dark, secret life preying on women. The comedian carefully coaxed each one into feeling safe and cared for, then left them to pick up the pieces of their lives. It all started with Andrea Constand. She carried the burden of being the only one of the 60-plus accusers whose case could be tried in a court of law. Now, she's telling her side of the story, along with firsthand accounts from more than a dozen survivors, jurors and prosecutors. From the Los Angeles Times, and hosted by investigative reporter Nicki Weisensee Egan, "Chasing Cosby" is the definitive take of the rise and fall of Bill Cosby. New episodes released every Tuesday."
For both: It's a serial so start at the start. Also note: ep 3 is ROUGH but important listening.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/chasing-cosby/id1493558501
Nick Recommends - I Spy
Spies don’t talk—it’s the cardinal rule of the business. But here at Foreign Policy, we get them to open up. On I Spy, we hear from the operations people: the spies who steal secrets, who kill adversaries, who turn agents into double agents. Each episode features one spy telling the story of one operation.
For both: any of em!
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/i-spy/id1482310665
Zane Recommends - QueerMuslimSexWorker
https://audioboom.com/posts/5877593-queer-muslim-sex-worker
An odd one this week, Zane has brought the unique podcast Queer Musilim Sex Worker. Now, it is not the content that is odd (it is very compelling), but the format - it is a single-episode documentary podcast. The unashamedly intersectional podcast telling the incredible story of Mariam, a sex worker who juggles being Muslim, queer and non-binary.
For Both: There is only one episode
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/queer-muslim-sex-worker/id1227703932?i=1000385032411
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What's up listeners? This week it's all about YOU (well, if you submitted a podcast). It's listener submission week! Nick and Liz have gone a similar yet different route, both picking storytelling podcasts. Nick recommends the sci-fi fiction serial Directive, and Liz recommends the anthological podcast devoted to telling all the tales Several Stories High. Then, Zane gets his David Attenborough on with not one but TWO animal podcasts: Just The Zoo Of Us and Amazing Wildlife. Then it's reviews time.
Liz Recommends - Several Stories High
https://www.severalstorieshigh.com/podcast
"Several Stories High is a podcast and much more—an idea. This concept of stories. Little slices of magic on display for all who should notice such things. Whether it’s a true tale, fiction, or somewhere in between…it’s all magic.
But stories come in many forms, no? Some you read. Others you hear—be they from a tangible teller of tales, present and in the flesh, or via the airwaves. And some stories take the form of song. Of moving musical melodies that conjure emotional responses from the deepest parts of us. Maybe they’ll make us feel like laughing, or crying, or contemplating—but the only thing that matters is that we feel something.
Yes. Everybody loves a good story—whether you hear it, read it, or sing it … just as long as you feel it. And Several Stories High creator Nathaniel David Knox has a few of his own to tell.
And for those who prefer to read stories rather than listen to them, he even has some written stories up on his website. But you're here, so you probs just want that sweet podcasty goodness. That's cool too, no judgment here!
For both: Pick a story that takes your fancy
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1400576578
Nick Recommends - Directive
A listener submitted SciFi series about a man stuck alone for 20 years, taking care of sleep passengers on a ship to colonise a new planet.
For both: all eps!
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/directive/id1441355969
Zane Recommends -Just the Zoo of Us & Amazing Wildlife (Two Podcasts)
Two lisener submissions! We had two animal-centric podcasts submit to us one-day apart, and so, not to unfairly pick one over the other, Zane is bringing both to the table this week!
Just the Zoo of Us (https://www.justthezooofus.com/) is an animal review podcast by Christian and Ellen Weatherford of Jacksonville, Florida. Every week, each host selects one animal species submitted by a listener to research, review, and rate out of ten in the categories of effectiveness, ingenuity and aesthetics. This podcast is made with families in mind and contains no profanity or graphic language. This podcast is released weekly and usually runs just under an hour.
Amazing Wildlife is an educational series highlighting the wonders of the animal kingdom. Featuring fun and insightful facts about the world's most fantastic animals (a few species an episode). Released approximately once every fortnight the episodes run just under 20 minutes.
For Both: Pick your favourite!
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/just-the-zoo-of-us/id1463896106
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Oh hi there. Castology this week is coming at you with lots of angry-making podcasts. Nick looks at the companies taking over the world (specifically Amazon this week) and what that will cost us with Land of the Giants. Liz submits two podcasts on the same topic for you to compare and contrast. The topic: disgraced billionaire Jeffrey Epstein. The podcasts: The Mysterious Mr Epstein and Broken. Then Zane fires shots in the niche podcast showdown by recommending Stone Clearing With Richard Herring. Then as always, it's review time for last week's offerings!
Liz Recommends - The Mysterious Mr Epstein and Broken: Jeffrey Epstein
https://wondery.com/shows/the-mysterious-mr-epstein/
https://www.sonymusic.com/sonymusic-labels/adam-mckay-and-three-uncanny-four-productions-partner-to-launch-investigative-podcast-focused-on-jeffrey-epstein/
Mysterious Mr Epstein. This is a Wondry podcast detailing the story of how a wealthy financier who was apparently able to elude justice for financial and sexual crimes from his first days as a young man on Wall Street, until the very end. Hosted by Lindsay Graham.
"We now know that Jeffrey Epstein was a sexual predator. He was also accused of fraud, embezzlement, coercion and more. But for most of his life, he was a mystery to the public, and to many of the people who knew him. In this six part series, we peel back the layers of Epstein’s life to detail his financial and sexual crimes, and his network of enablers, with original reporting and interviews. From humble beginnings, Epstein came to amass significant wealth which he used to buy sex, social status, silence, even justice —until money wasn’t enough. From Wondery (“Dirty John”, “The Shrink Next Door”), and hosted by Lindsay Graham (“American Scandal”)."
Broken: Jeffrey Epstein is a Three Uncanny Four production, with a team that includes Adam McKay, the Oscar-winning filmmaker behind The Big Short and Vice. "Jeffrey Epstein described himself as “radioactive”, and then he died in prison. But right before that, he was a friend and confidant of many of America’s most powerful politicians, billionaires, and entertainers, some of whom apparently shared a common interest: trafficking underage girls. In "BROKEN: JEFFREY EPSTEIN" host Ariel Levy (The New Yorker) and Special Correspondent and Executive Producer Julie K. Brown (The Miami Herald) tell the full story of Epstein, his accomplices, and the broken systems that enabled his crimes."
For both: I would suggest starting with Mysterious Mr Epstein and then going to Broken because the details in Broken matter more when you know the man behind them.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mysterious-mr-epstein/id1480055524
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/broken-jeffrey-epstein/id1478460758
Nick Recommends - Land of the Giants
Facebook. Apple. Amazon. Netflix. Google. These five tech giants have changed the world. But how? And at what cost? Recode’s Jason Del Rey starts with The Rise of Amazon. Over two decades, an online marketplace for books became the world’s most valuable company. We examine how it got its power, what it’s doing with it, and what might happen to it in the future. Produced by the Vox Media Podcast Network.
For Zane: Episode
For Liz: Episodes
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Welcome back, we have more podcasts for you! Liz recommends a podcast on her second passion besides murder podcasts: beauty. The Beauty Brains podcast breaks down what's really in your cosmetics and whether you need them, Zane gets occulty with The History of Witchcraft (which is more about the history of trash humans) and Nick does a deep dive into the world of criminals on the Dark Web with Hunting Warhead. Then it's on to the reviews of last week!
Liz Recommends: The Beauty Brains
https://thebeautybrains.com/
“We’re here to help you cut through the confusing, misleading and sometimes false information that the beauty companies bombard you with. Our goal is to explain cosmetic science to you in a way that’s entertaining and easy to understand. We believe the more information you have, the better you’ll be able to find products that you like at a price you can afford. So, you can listen to the advertising. Or advice from a friend. Or what your stylist tells you. But if you want to really understand cosmetic products in an unbiased, scientific way, Ask The Beauty Brains. You’ll get answers from a team of scientists who have no sales pitch and nothing for you to buy.”
Perry Romanowski is a writer, cosmetic chemist, Inventor, scientist, instructor, futurologist, and thought leader. He’s also the founder of Chemists Corner blog and training program. He also has the longest running streak done while joggling.
Valerie George is a cosmetic chemist, science communicator, educator, leader and avid proponent of transparency in the beauty industry. She works on the latest research in hair color and hair care as Vice President of Research & Development at a leading salon brand.
The Beauty Brains was founded by Perry and Randy Schueller, two cosmetic scientists with decades of experience in formulating and testing beauty products. Randy and Perry recorded the first 165 episodes of the Beauty Brains. Randy retired from the show in 2018.
In addition to Perry and Valerie, other scientists will write for the website on occasion. Some of these individuals want to be able to express their honest opinions and share their knowledge without fear of losing their day jobs so they’ve adopted brainy character names like the Left Brain, the Right Brain, and our personal favorite, Sarah Bellum.
So far there are 200 episodes and counting.
For both: Whatever topic floats your boat.
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-beauty-brains/id733300242
Nick Recommends - Hunting Warhead
How do you take down a criminal network that’s hidden in the shadows? How do you rescue child abuse victims who could be anywhere in the world? Hunting Warhead follows the journalists and police on a global mission to expose the darkest corners of the internet. What they discover shocks them. Host Daemon Fairless tracks down the investigators, survivors and criminals themselves. A co-production of CBC Podcasts and the Norwegian newspaper VG.
Further Reading: https://www.vg.no/spesial/2017/undercover-darkweb/?lang=en
For both: From the start
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hunting-warhead/id1480270157
Zane Recommends - The History of Witchcraft
Zane is once again sharing a podcast from his descent into the deepest depths of the history podcast well and brought The History of Witchcraft to the table. Witches didn't exist. Yet thousands of people have...
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Welcome back, podcast lovers. This ep sees Zane play games with Dorky Geeky Nerdy Trivia, Nick try to pass off another sports podcast as drugs podcast that's still about sports with Smoked, and Liz delves into a semi-voyeuristic listener submission with Other People's Lives. Then it's on to the reviews from last week!
Liz Recommends - Other People’s Lives
https://oplshow.com/
Each week, hosts Joe Santagato and Greg Dybec have an anonymous phone call with a stranger they found on the Internet. You never know what topics will be discussed and what stories will be shared
Currently 86 eps available.
Episodes such as: I Got Paid To Marry Someone For a Green Card, I Survived a Mass Shooting, My Service Dog Saved My Life, Im Dating A Prisoner I’ve Never Met, I Have Synesthesia, and My Relationship with Inanimate Objects.
For both: Any one that takes your fancy.
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/other-peoples-lives/id1209912119
Nick Recommends - Smoked
In the 1980s, racing prodigy Randy Lanier shot to stardom at the Indy 500—and funded his racing through a secret double life as one of the biggest pot kingpins in American history. Now, after serving nearly 30 years in prison, Lanier's tale of weed, speed and the road ahead highlights society's changing relationship with marijuana, and the legacy of those already incarcerated for it.
For both: From the start
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/smoked/id1471136526
Zane Recommends - Dorky Geeky Nerdy Trivia
https://dorkygeekynerdy.com/
Another listener submission from Zane! This podcast allows you to play a trivia game at home, at work, in the car, and with your friends. How well do you know pop culture, movies, comics, TV, books, and more? Join hosts Brian Rollins and Blaine Dowler for a fun-filled, weekly challenge.
For Nick & Liz: Pick one that appeals!
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/w-blaine-dowler/dorky-geeky-nerdy
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Once more we have a theme week! Our first for the year! This week our Castologists all bring a live podcast to the table for your enjoyment! Liz tells us why she is a bad feminist while sharing The Guilty Feminist and Nick and Zane get the Very similar idea of sharing a news game-show podcast - Have You Been Paying Attention? and Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! respectively!
Liz Recommends - The Guilty Feminist
https://guiltyfeminist.com/
Liz is a feminist but… She hadn’t listened to The Guilty Feminist until recently. This one has been going since 2015 … sometimes it seems weekly, sometimes more, sometimes less over the years.
“Ever felt like you should be better at feminism?
Join comedian Deborah Frances-White and her guests for this comedy podcast, recorded in front of a live audience. Each week they discuss topics "all 21 first century feminists agree on" while confessing their insecurities, hypocrisies and fears that underlie their lofty principles.”
Deborah Frances-White is the 2016 Writers' Guild Award Winner for Best Radio Comedy for her hit BBC Radio 4 series Deborah Frances-White Rolls the Dice. She is an Edinburgh Fringe regular, a screenwriter and is in huge demand for her corporate seminars.
For both: pick any guest that takes your fancy.
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-guilty-feminist/id1068940771
Nick Recommends - Have You Been Paying Attention?
The show that turns the headlines into punchlines is back! Tom, Ed and Sam return as we ask the question - Have You Been Paying Attention?
For both: Take Ya Pick
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/have-you-been-paying-attention/id1121926361
Zane Recommends - Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
https://www.npr.org/podcasts/344098539/wait-wait-don-t-tell-me
This may be the most popular podcast Zane has every brought to the show! Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! is NPR's weekly current events quiz. Have a laugh and test your news knowledge while figuring out what's real and what we've made up. This weekly, hour-long quiz show by NPR is a dynamic and cerebral spin on the stranger aspects of the news. Hosted by Peter Sagal, at-home callers can pit their knowledge of the current news against news and entertainment experts. The show has been on the air for 30 years!
For Nick: Charlie Day
For Liz: Leslie Odom Jr
https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id121493804?mt=2&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory
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Look it was only a matter of time before Nick brought another sports podcast. He swears it's more about racism but we will have to listen to 30 For 30: The Sterling Affair to find out. Liz has found a podcast by the people who created the Castology-fave Carrier. It's called Blackout, its apocalyptic and it stars Rami Malek. Then Zane gets some "friends of Dorothy" together for Best Judies, an LGBTQIA+ podcast that celebrates the people that made and continue to make up the community. Then REVIEW TIME.
Liz Recommends - Blackout
https://www.qcodemedia.com/blackout
From the same studio as Carrier comes Blackout starring Rami Malek. Blackout is an “apocalyptic thriller as a small-town radio DJ fighting to protect his family and community after the power grid goes down nationwide, upending modern civilization.” Blackout stars and is executive produced by Rami Malek and produced by QCode and Endeavor Audio.
It has similar immersive sound design style to Carrier, staring Cynthia Errivo, a podcast that was a universal thumbs up recommend from the Castologists last year, though not quite to the same degree. It’s not as much a solo story as Carrier was so doesn’t haunt the listener as much. BUT it is an eerie post-apocalyptic look at how much we rely on electricity and phones and what would happen if they were suddenly taken away. Written and created by Scott Conroy. Directed by Shawn Christensen. Presented by Sonos.
For both: start from the start as it's a serial.
https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/blackout/id1447513097
Nick Recommends - 30 for 30: The Sterling Affair
https://www.espn.com.au/nba/story/_/id/27414482/when-donald-sterling-saga-rocked-nba-changed-forever
The Sterling Affairs is a story of power and scandal in Los Angeles. When an audio recording of a racist rant by then Clippers owner Donald Sterling was leaked online in 2014, it caused an uproar that changed the NBA forever.
But Sterling had been a problem for decades -- in basketball, real estate and more. Why did it take 30 years to finally hold him accountable?
"The Sterling Affairs" is a five-part series from 30 for 30 Podcasts and The Undefeated, produced in collaboration with Western Sound. The series is reported and hosted by ESPN's Ramona Shelburne.
For either: Start from the start!
https://30for30podcasts.com/sterling/
Zane Recommends - Best Judies
Zane is starting the year with pride by bringing Best Judies to the table. This incredibly positive Australian podcast is based in Sydney and aims to celebrate ALL of the Best Judies in our lives. From iconic and important members of our LGBTQIA+ history, to those who are stamping their heels in the dirt today – the Best Judies podcast is about REAL gay life from the big city and the small town, right across the country. The term 'Judy' comes from as far back at WWII, used as a code to describe someone who was gay or a 'Friend of Judy' (Garland). Warmly adopted to describe our best friends, this podcast will show case those colourful, wonderful and previous people who make up the community.
For Nick & Liz: Whichever one appeals, you may recognise some names on the guest list.
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Have you ever wondered what it takes to become a Castologist? We, even if you haven’t you are about to get a brief window into the audition process we subjected Nick to before he could join our exulted ranks.
Zane threw him a curveball in this one, just to see how he would handle it. Listen at your own risk, as things get weird!
In this episode we talk about ‘Believed’ (which NIck has recommended on our regular episodes) and ‘Pounded In The Butt By My Own Podcast’ (which Zane had been hiding away for just such an opportunity).
You can find the podcast here:
http://www.nightvalepresents.com/poundedinthebuttbymyownpodcast
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1347293924
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This week Zane has a secret... well, many secret in fact. His recommendation is The Secret Room and looks at the stories no one ever tells. Nick takes a look at the media taking a look at politics through a comedic lens with The Press Box. And then Liz brings a podcast not because she loves it but because she's not sure. Does she actually like Monster Presents: Insomniac or does she just really want to like it?
Liz Recommends - Monster Presents: Insomniac (or does she?)
https://insomniacpodcast.com/
For the first time ever, Liz is bringing a podcast she isn't actually sure if she likes or not. I mean, she wants to like it because it's an interesting twist on the true crime podcast but... she just isn't sure. GROUP CONSENSUS TIME!
“This podcast began with a simple, scary premise: to research the disturbing and horrific routines of lesser known serial killers. Host Scott Benjamin wanted to learn more about what made them tick, and why they did these terrible things. But, slowly, Benjamin’s research started to affect him, consuming him day and night. It followed him home at night and into his bed. The work turned him into an insomniac.”
See, Liz’s instinct would be to, um, STOP RESEARCHING KILLERS if her sleep was affected. But no, Scott has decided he needs to work through it to be able to put it to bed, so to speak. Is he actually becoming derranged himself? Listen to find out.
For both: Pick any one except the Genosee River Killer because goddamn that's a hard listen.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/monster-presents-insomniac/id1454411295
Nick Recommends - The Press Box
The Ringer’s Bryan Curtis and David Shoemaker catch you up on the biggest media stories, from sports to politics and everything in between.
For either: Take ya pick!
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-press-box/id1058911614
Zane Recommends - The Secret Room
http://www.thesecretroompodcast.com/
What’s the one thing you’ve never told anybody? Ben Hamm explores the stories no one ever tells in The Secret Room. This is an interview podcast where the host, Ben Hamm, talks to people from all over the world about the secrets they have kept hidden away.
For Nick: Nindaddy's Secret
For Liz: Revenge
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-secret-room-true-stories/id1082252585?mt=2
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Your Castologists give their top 5 picks from ALL of the podcasts we featured this year (as of the time of recording)!
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Remember when Nick recommended the super-niche podcast Containers? You know, the one about containers of the shipping variety? Well Liz decided it was time for a niche podcast war and here we are with The Podcast For Laundry. Zane has a rather theatrical listener submission with The Irrationally Exuberant, and Nick goes to Hollywood with Scriptnotes. Then it's time to let you all know what we thought of last week's recommendations.
Liz Recommends - The Podcast For Laundry with Brett Davis
https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/podcasts/the-podcast-for-laundry/
When Nick decided to bring the super-niche podcast Containers (about, you guessed it, fucking shipping containers), Liz knew she had to out-niche him as payback. And here we are with The Podcast For Laundry.
“When we brought comedian and laundry enthusiast Brett Davis to “talk suds with his buds” on our network, we could never have expected the seemingly affable host and innocuous topic (laundry) to result in this. Regrettably, we are contractually obligated to present The Podcast For Laundry, and apologize to the many guests dragged into Brett’s endless downward spiral. Listener discretion is advised.”
In every episode, Mr. Davis, or an obnoxious, inept version of himself, talks to a friend in a laundromat about washing clothes. Segments include “What’s Your Terge?” where guests discuss their preferred detergent, and “Bleach, Please,” where they talk about something that bothers them about laundry. Each episode is filled with banter gone horribly wrong.
For both: any Tom Scharpling ep, or the hilarious ep with Allie Goertz where Brett pitches his laundry-themed musical.
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-laundry-podcast-with-radley-carolla/id1254592653
Nick Recommends - Scriptnotes
Screenwriters John August and Craig Mazin discuss screenwriting and related topics in the film and television industry, everything from getting stuff written to the vagaries of copyright and work-for-hire law.
For either: Take ya pick!
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/scriptnotes-podcast/id462495496
Zane Recommends - The Irrationally Exuberant
https://theirrationallyexuberant.com/
Back with another listener submission, Zane has brought in The Irrationally Exuberant. Reid Messerschmidt delivers this podcast (which is also art) this constists of a stream-of-conciousness, scripted, absurdist take on history, pop culture, animals, religion, conspiracies, music, books, language, the paranormal, insects, Johnny Appleseed, The Harlem Globetrotters, McDonald's, Satan, God, humanity, crows, Reptilians, alternative medicine, bees, Eddie Vedder... and the list goes on. You really need to listen to this one to understand what it, in fact, is.
For Nick & Liz: Pick one that appeals!
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-irrationally-exuberant/id1289105880?ls=1&mt=2
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Liz takes a gamble this week, recommending a podcast that the lads are very much not the target for: Ladies, We Need To Talk. Then Zane recommends something we're surprised wasn't on Liz's list with The Wonderland Murders. Nick rounds off the recommendations with a deep dive into the origins of slavery in US history. Then as always, it's review time and we look at our podcasts from last week.
Liz Recommends - Ladies We Need To Talk
https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/ladies-we-need-to-talk/
"Want to know how to close the orgasm gap? Riding your hormonal rollercoaster blindfolded? Can’t find contraception that works for you? You’re not the only one.
Ladies, We Need To Talk is a podcast for women, by women, that isn’t afraid to dive head first into the tricky topics we often avoid talking about. Join host Yumi Stynes as she tears open the sealed section on life. With sensitivity, personal stories, and serious smarts, this is for women who feel the squeeze between work, their private life, and their pelvic floor."
For both: Pick a topic, any topic!
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/ladies-we-need-to-talk/id1277424411
Nick Recommends - 1619
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/23/podcasts/the-daily/1619-project.html
In August of 1619, a ship carrying more than 20 enslaved Africans arrived in the English colony of Virginia. America was not yet America, but this was the moment it began. No aspect of the country that would be formed here has been untouched by the 250 years of slavery that followed. On the 400th anniversary of this fateful moment, it is time to tell the story.
“1619” is a New York Times audio series hosted by Nikole Hannah-Jones.
For either: From the start. Or episode 3.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1619/id1476928106
Zane Recommends - The Wonderland Murders
https://wondery.com/shows/wonderland-murders/
Zane is taking a leaf from Liz's book and bringing in a Wondery True Crime podcast! Journey back to 1981, when four people were brutally murdered in their home in the Hollywood Hills. The Wonderland Murders is the tale of a violent home invasion robbery and the revenge rampage that followed. It involves a drug-fueled gang of criminals, a crazed crime kingpin -- and the world’s most famous porn star on a downward and deadly spiral. Join Young Charlie host Tracy Pattin and writer/director Larry Brand and they take you back to Wonderland Ave.
For Nick & Liz: Start from the beginning
https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/id1370096738
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Each of the hosts has brought a very "them" podcast this week: Zane with science, Liz with true crime and Nick with sports. (Liz is already going 'Ew,, sports'). Respectively they're recommending Moonshot, Keli Lane: Problem Child and Sonic Boom. Then it's review time and they gang have a few things to say. Especially about Containers.
Liz Recommends - Keli Lane: Problem Child
http://www.problemchildpodcast.com/
Liz thought she knew all about this case as she followed it quite closely on the news. She was wrong. This particular investigative podcast has never before seen or heard information that makes the case all the more confusing.
This podcast is Brisbane-based and hosted by an amateur investigator obsessed with deep driving into true crime, is a mum, and has undertaken studies in Criminology and Law. They plan to tackle more Australian cases in the future.
"In our multi-episode investigative podcast series, we will explore the case of Keli Lane – the Australian woman convicted of murdering her newborn infant, Tegan. We will explore why Keli concealed three pregnancies from everyone around her, and we will thoroughly examine the trial process, court documents, and delve deeply into the background of Keli Lane.
"We will explore Keli’s current situation in Silverwater Women's Correctional Facility in NSW, Australia, and document her attempts to free herself from prison along with help from the RMIT innocence initiative and ABC exposed – who are advocating on Keli’s behalf for a Judicial Review.
For both: Start at the start and listen to as many as you feel compelled to.
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/problem-child-story-keli-lane-murder-baby-tegan/id1455431583
Nick Recommends - Sonic Boom
https://www.theringer.com/sonic-boom
Did Seattle ever have a chance? Who are the villains in this story? Hear from the NBA legends, politicians, die-hard fans, business executives, and more as The Ringer’s Jordan Ritter Conn unearths never-before-heard truths about the NBA’s greatest heist.
For either: The pilot episode is free, grab that one first.
https://luminarypodcasts.com/listen/the-ringer/sonic-boom/6426a152-d0b2-4a42-a147-bd1ebc3de157
Zane Recommends - Moonshot
It has been too long since Zane has recommended a science podcast! And this week he has an australian science/buisness podcast to recommend - Moonshot. Moonshot is a podcast focused on people chasing ‘moonshot’ ideas that seem almost impossible. Explore the world's biggest ideas and the people making them happen. Self-driving cars, jetpacks, 3D printed food, or a trip to Mars? Moonshot talks to the people who are at the forefront of all this rapid change to find out what the future of humanity might actually look like. Hosted by Kristofor Lawson and Andrew Moon.
Artwork by Andrew Millist
For Nick: When Space Companies Go Rogue
For Liz: Building immersive stories with Nonny de la Peña
https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/moonshot/id1142157485
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New Patrick/Nick is well and truly finding his feet as a Castologist but what will the group think of his latest recommendation... Containers? About shipping containers. Yep. Meanwhile Liz get her science and comedy on with Smart Enough To Know Better, and Zane recommends a rare celebrity interviews podcast David Tennant Does a Podcast With. Then it's on to the reviews from last week!
Liz Recommends - Smart Enough To Know Better
https://smartenough.org/
Dan and Greg had a passion for science and for arguing about it at length and in public. When it was pointed out how entertaining they were they put together the podcast and started to agree more often. Since then they've named the Earth's sun, travelled back in time to help win the war and dissected a gremlin all while following the scientific method.
Science is fun, and when Greg and Dan step in, learning about it is too.
Greg's worked for CSIRO and is currently a science communicator for ICRAR.
Dan is a web developer, performer and MC.
They have 40 years of experience between them on the stages of Brisbane and are 2 thirds of the team that put together the best selling plays .'Speed the Movie the Play', 'titanic the movie the play', and the 'Die Hard the Movie the Play'.
For both: You're gonna ignore me anyway, so pick something you wanna know more about.
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/smart-enough-to-know-better/id378712127
Nick Recommends - Containers
Containers is an 8-part audio documentary about how global trade has transformed the economy and ourselves. Host and correspondent Alexis Madrigal leads you through the world of ships and sailors, technology and tugboats, warehouses and cranes. At a time when Donald Trump is threatening to toss out the global economic order, Containers provides an illuminating, deep, and weird look at how capitalism actually works now.
For either: From the start
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/containers/id1209559177
Zane Recommends - David Tennant Does a Podcast with
https://www.david-tennant.com/podcast
Zane is bringing you another celebrity interview podcast. BUt this one is very casual and VERY charismatic. David Tennant Does A Podcast With... sees David talking to the biggest names from TV, movies, comedy and elsewhere. It features some revealing conversation, surprise stories and lots of laughs with the real people that just so happen to be celebrities.
For Nick: Catherine Tate/Michael Sheen
For Liz: Olivia Coleman/Sir Ian McKellen
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/david-tennant-does-a-podcast-with/id1450005207
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It's New Patrick/Nick's third ep, has he found his feet? Has he filled Old Patrick's shoes? Do we even remember who Old Patrick is anymore? No theme this week, but we are still bringing the podcast gold. Liz lives her life through self-help books with By the Book, Zane gets creepy and kooky with a very Addams Family-style podcast Odd Tonic, and New Patrick/Nick delves into the sci-fi world with a bit of Moonrise. Then as always we review last week's submissions and give them a thumbs up or down.
Liz Recommends - By the Book
https://bythebookpod.com/about-us
When Liz gets anxious, she reads self-help books because hey, if you know everything possible about how stuff works, you're less likely to stuff it up right? RIGHT? Enter her new podcast obsession By The Book.
"Half reality show, half self-help podcast, and one wild social experiment. Join comedian Jolenta Greenberg and her skeptical friend Kristen Meinzer as they live by the rules of a different self-help book each episode to figure out which ones might actually be life changing.
"By The Book was named one of the best new podcasts of 2017 by NPR. The New York Times selected By The Book as their Podcast Club Pick in Fall of 2017. And Bust Magazine named By The Book one of their Top Ten Bets for Winter 2017.
"Jolenta Greenberg is a New York-based comedian, podcaster, pop culture commentator, and self-proclaimed reality television historian. Jolenta created and co-hosts the podcast, By the Book; other podcasting work includes story editing for Risk, and producing for Freakonomics. Kristen Meinzer is a long-time audio producer and host, and head of nonfiction programming at Panoply. In addition to cohosting By The Book, she also cohosts When Meghan Met Harry: A Royal WeddingcastReview."
For either: Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus, The Secret, The Sleep Revolution
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/by-the-book/id1217948628
Nick Recommends - Moonrise
“Truer, but also darker.” This is the real origin story behind America’s decision to go to the moon. The story we learn starts with Sputnik, then President Kennedy’s challenge, and ends with triumph: an American flag on the lunar surface. But in the 50 years that have passed since the moon landing, as presidential documents have been declassified and secret programs have been revealed, a wilder story has begun to emerge. “Moonrise,” a new Washington Post narrative mini-series, digs into the nuclear arms race of the Cold War, the transformation of American society and politics, and even the birth of science fiction, to unearth what really drove us to the moon.
Join host Lillian Cunningham as she uncovers a story that has so much to reveal about America -- and about the dreams and nightmares of being human on this Earth.
For either: From the start
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/moonrise/id1469151663
Zane Recommends - Odd Tonic
https://www.oddtonicsociety.com/
Zane has another Listener submission for you! Another podcast that immediately caught his attention was Odd Tonic. This Addams Family-adjacent podcast features spooky and fantastic tales of weird history, strange science, and the paranormal that are drawn from their curated collection and choice listener submissions, your Ambassadors of Odd, Jennifer Page and Maxwell Holechek craft a weekly podcast experience that stirs an enchanting brew suitable for all ages who are brave enough to sip its curious and eerie elixir.
For Nick: Parlour Stories: Ghost Clown
For Liz: Black Eyed Children
https://radiopublic.com/odd-tonic-WodlNm/ep/s1!33b13
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It's that time of the year where it's the holidays, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, and a bit like Festivus for the rest of us. So your friendly Castologists decided on a family theme. (Collective aw). Zane heads into the Dungeons and Dragons universe with a familial twist with The Adventure Zone, New Patrick/Nick embraces his inner child with Chompers and Liz manages to find murder in the most unlikely of themes with Happy Face. Then it's on to the reviews from last week. What did Liz and Zane think of New Patrick/Nick's very first recommendation?
Liz Recommends - Happy Face
https://www.thehappyfacepodcast.com/
Who could have predicted Liz would have interpreted the Family theme to include murrrrrrrrder? (Pretty much everyone). But still, this IHeartRadio show is a doozy. Think the words of the actual killer in his police interviews, interspersed with interviews with his daughter about the red flags the family missed as their patriarch was becoming a notorious serial killer.
"For Melissa Moore, 1995 was a nightmare. That’s the year the teenager learned her father, Keith Hunter Jesperson, was a serial killer. It’s also the year Melissa Moore’s doubt spiral began: When you look like your father, and you share his intelligence and charisma, how do you know you’re not a psychopath, too? Happy Face is the story of Keith Hunter Jesperson, his brutal crimes, and the cat and mouse game he played with detectives and the media. But it’s also the story of the horrific legacy he gifted his children. Join Melissa Moore as she investigates her father’s crimes, reckons with the past, and wades through her darkest fears as she hunts for a better future.
"Melissa Moore is an Emmy-nominated Crime Correspondent for the Dr. Oz Show, Executive Producer and host of LMN's "Monster In My Family.” Melissa is a recognized expert on the topics of recovery from trauma, domestic violence and serial violent crimes. Moore was raised Melissa Jesperson, daughter of the infamous “Happy Face” serial killer, Keith Jesperson. Growing up in a small town in Washington state, she survived the escalating trauma from her home life and the man she called her father. Today, she frequently shares her insight and background with survivors seeking healing from violent crimes and abuse through her work and bestselling book, WHOLE: A Guide to Self-Repair (2016 Rodale)."
For both: Serial-style podcast so start from the start.
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/happy-face/id1434649680
Nick Recommends - Chompers
Make tooth time easy with this morning and night tooth brushing show for kids and ADULTS TOO.
Kids AND ADULTS TOO will hear jokes, riddles, stories, fun facts, silly songs and more, that’ll keep them giggling - and brushing - for the full two minutes that dentists recommend.
Chompers will have kids AND ADULTS TOO reminding parents that it's time to brush, not the other way around!
For both: Any of em'!
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/chompers/id1353418080
Zane Recommends - The Adventure Zone
https://www.maximumfun.org/shows/adventure-zone
So, what exactly IS a "family" podcast? How about a podcast where three brothers and their dad get together play a game? And what if those brothers were part of the podcast royal family? Justin, Travis and Griffin McElroy from My Brother, My Brother and Me, Sawbones, Schmanners, Wonderful! Trends Like These, The Empty Bowl, Run. A Doctor Who Fancast, Still Buffering, Positiviteeny, and From Death Till us Blart, have recruited their dad Clint for a campaign of high adventure. My favourite season is Season 1...
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This week’s episode features a REVEAL! Who has replaced Patrick? We mean, OLD PATRICK. It’s NEW PATRICK! HA, you thought we’d tell you their name, but we didn’t. So ya’ll are gonna have to listen to find out who they are and what they are about. Speaking of listening, this week’s podcast recommendations are Bad Batch, Believed AND That’s Not Proper. Then it's on to the reviews from last week.
Liz Recommends - Bad Batch
https://wondery.com/shows/bad-batch/
Yes, yes we know, Liz loves her Wondery podcasts. Deal with it because this one is a good one. Like the other ones.
"Patients are offered a miracle cure, but instead they end up rushed to the hospital in critical condition. The race is on to track down what went wrong with several patients in Texas before more people get hurt. The trail leads to a stem cell company with a charismatic CEO, and to an entire multibillion dollar industry where greed and desperation collide. Laura Beil, the award-winning host and reporter of “Dr Death,” returns for this six-part investigative series from Wondery."
One of the most nuts things about this podcast is that Beil had a six hour interview and unrestricted access to one of the main characters in the story, Liveyon’s CEO John Kosolcharoen. This is a story where it's really hard to tell who the bad guy is, and your opinions are gonna flip several times.
For both: Start from the start.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/the-bad-batch/id1226598945
Nick Recommends - Believed
https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510326/believed
How did Larry Nassar, an Olympic gymnastics doctor, get away with abusing hundreds of women and girls for two decades? Believed is an inside look at how a team of women won a conviction in one of the largest serial sexual abuse cases in U.S. history. Nick thinks you should listen to the whole thing, but also make sure you’re mentally prepared.
For both: Start from the start.
https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1438898081?mt=2
Zane Recommends - That's Not Proper!
This is a listener submission, and it is one of those submissions that took Zane about 5 minutes to latch on to. It was immediate and strong. That's Not Proper! is a podcast hosted and created by Cori Asuncion, a 46 year old mother of seven children who has decided to break the silence of her generation and has come to the realization that things aren't always what everyone says they are, being proper is subjective, social and spiritual awakening and finding humor in the chaos.
For Nick: Create Rebels with Intent
For Liz: Have We Normalized Rape Culture?
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thats-not-proper/id1481091915
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This week’s episode is full of drama as one Castologist announces (DUN DUN DUN )their departure from the podcast. Who will it be? Who would be crazy enough to leave the most kick-ass podcast ever? Which Castologist will hold a petty grudge forevermore? And which Castologist is the mature one who is determined to keep the podcast on track? This week’s podcast recommendations are Noble Blood and Creative Processing with Joseph Gordon Levitt. Then it’s on to last week’s reviews and a fond(ish) farewell. Stay tuned next week to meet the newest Castologist on the block!
Liz Recommends - Noble Blood
http://noblebloodtales.com
It’s true crime, history-style! Liz manages to find a way to listen to stories of murder and mayhem, and do some learning too! Host Dana Schwartz gets into stories of royalty gone wrong, in this IHeartRadio podcast produced by Lore’s Aaron Mahmke.
“Noble Blood explores the stories of some of history’s most fascinating royals: the tyrants and the tragic, the murderers and the murdered, and everyone in between.
The world is full of ill-fated love affairs, bad decisions, and family drama, but for a monarch, the personal will determine the fate of nations.
And when you’re wearing a crown, mistakes tend to mean blood.”
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For Both: The Second Death of Marie Antoinette, Ever Dearest Cousin Nicky
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/noble-blood/id1468332063
Zane Recommends - Creative Processing with Joseph Gorden-Levitt
Zane is showing his creative roots again with this relatively new podcast from one of his favourite creatives! Joseph Gordon-Levitt gets into the nitty-gritty of how a wide variety of creative people do what they do. Listeners’ questions inspire conversations between Gordon-Levitt and a range of creative guests, from Hollywood notables like Rian Johnson and Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg, to behind-the-scenes heavyweights like casting director Mary Vernieu, and from political visual artist Shepard Fairey to indie sonic songstress, Yuka Honda, and more.
For Pat: Career & Contacts / Mary Vernieu, Casting Director
For Liz: Originality & Imitation / Rian Johnson, Filmmaker
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/creative-processing-with-joseph-gordon-levitt/id1472587591
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It’s November so we’re going for a Fiction theme for NaNoWriMo. Zane goes back to one of the originals in podcast fiction land with Rabbits, Liz looks at an audio drama designed to create awareness of homelessness through storytelling with Baby It’s Cold Outside and Patrick gets down with his inner and outer nerd with The Glass Cannon Podcast. Then it’s on to last week’s reviews!
Liz Recommends - Baby it’s Cold Outside
https://www.crisis.org.uk/get-involved/podcast
Chris O’Dowd and Anne-Marie Duff star in this three act radio drama that delves into the difficulties faced by those who find themselves homeless, especially around the holidays. Liz was particularly tickled with this one because not only was it a good dramatic production, but it was created with crisis.org.uk to raise funds for the homeless. Liz thinks using theatre and drama for social good is very good indeed.
“Written by award winning screenwriter Regina Moriarty and directed by Virginia Gilbert, the show is a thought-provoking journey, finding humour in the darkness whilst hitting home the impact of homelessness in the UK.
“Baby, It's Cold Outside was developed by Duck Soup Films, in association with Crisis. It marks the launch of Fremantle's scripted podcast label, Storyglass, which will commission and develop original scripted ideas from storytellers around the world.”
For Both: listen to the whole thing from the start. It’s short.
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/baby-its-cold-outside/id1445734509
Pat Recommends - The Glass Cannon Podcast
https://glasscannonpodcast.com/
Fictional you say? I don't ordinarily deal in fiction when it comes to podcasts but I suppose I'll make an exception considering the circumstances. As you may well know I'm a huge fan of D&D, and this podcast is D&D adjacent. These guys are playing Pathfinder, which is D&D for nerds, it has more nitty gritty rules. They're hilarious and terribly entertaining and there's a plethoraof episodes so please enjoy.
For Zane and Lizne: Start from the beginning
https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/the-glass-cannon-podcast/id1007021910
Zane Recommends - Rabbits
https://www.rabbitspodcast.com/
For our Fiction special Zane thought that he would recommend the frist audiodrama serial he ever listened to - Rabbits. Rabbits is a documentary/docudrama that follows one womans investigation of her friends disappearance and her possible involvement in a shadowy secret society that orchestrates a decades-long life and death game.
For Pat & Liz: From the start.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/rabbits/id1209601557?mt=2
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Oh, it's you! Welcome! We've got a wide range of interests with today's recommendations: think science, sex and weird musical stuff. Zane looks at a Luminary exclusive bursting with Hollywood and Broadway star power in Anthem: Homunculus. Liz has a new interest in dating podcasts thanks to her new podcast Ghosts of Boyfriends Past so she's grabbed Frank and Beans from the listener submissions list. And then Patrick looks at a super approachable hard science offering with Sean Carroll's Mindscape (while being very hungover). Then it's on to the reviews of our spooky Halloween ep last week.
Liz Recommends - Frank and Beans
https://www.facebook.com/Frank-Beans-A-Sex-and-Relationship-Podcast-193991901415725/
Liz is getting into relationships and dating podcasts now that she's launched her own and Frank and Beans jumped out at her from the submissions pile. She loves the on-air chemistry of show hosts Beth and Brian, and the way they get the male, female perspective on some of the most important issues in the world of love and sex.
"Frank and Beans is a biweekly podcast that covers the ups and downs of dating, relationships and sex with a female and male perspective, making the world a better place to date."
For both: whatever topic takes your fancy.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/frank-and-beans/id1388833923
Pat Recommends - Sean Carrol's Mindscape
https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/
Who's Sean Carrol you say? Only a theoretical physicist from the university of California. He specialises in quantum mechanics, cosnology, and gravity. He also hosts a rip roaring podcast. These episodes are typically an interview with a scientist or a science adjacent professional. It's good gear, get it in ya.
For Zane & Liz: It's all good
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/sean-carrolls-mindscape-science-society-philosophy/id1406534739
Zane Recommends - Anthem: Homunculous
The time has come and Zane is recommending a Luminary exclusive podcast. BUT it is a truly unique and possibly game-changing musical podcast written by John Cameron Mitchell who wrote and originated the the role of Hedwig & the Angry Inch. Anthem: Homunculous is the story of broke, failed artist Ceann Mackay (John Cameron Mitchell) as he launches an app-based “tumor telethon” to crowdfund his survival. Cynthia Erivo, Glenn Close, Nakhane and Patti LuPone co-star in a darkly hilarious musical retelling of Ceann's life as he realizes what’s killing him may be the very thing that saves us all.
For Pat & Liz: From the Start
https://luminarypodcasts.com/listen/john-cameron-mitchell-and-bryan-weller-topic/anthem-homunculus-luminary-exclusive/ab4fffb8-7835-4482-8b48-c9898818768f
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Spoooooooky Halloween everybody! This week's episode is all about the creepy, kooky and downright spooky so we've found podcasts to recommend that are (hopefully) guaranteed to make your skin crawl. Liz recommends an immersive drama featuring some star power with Cynthia Erivo, Carrier; Zane looks to this mortal coil with real-life supernatural encounters in Spooked WNYC; and Patrick takes a look the frightening history behind common folklore with the podcast that spawned an Amazon Prime TV series, Lore.
Liz Recommends - Carrier
https://www.qcodemedia.com/carrier
The main reason Liz got so, erm, carried away with Carrier was the immersive experience factor. Thanks to excellent soundscapes and use of surround sound, you really feel like you're in the episode and experiencing every eerie thing the protagonist is experiencing.
"What happens when a truck driver picks up a loaded trailer, but has no idea what’s really inside? Tony, Grammy, and Emmy award winner Cynthia Erivo journeys down a dark and lonely highway in this original scripted thriller from Qcode and creator Dan Blank. With immersive audio techniques that create a dimensional listening experience, the audience is strongly advised to use caution, wear headphones if possible, and listen... carefully."
For both: It's a serial so start from the start and listen with headphones for a full experience.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/carrier/id1468956772
Pat Recommends - Lore
https://www.lorepodcast.com/
Hosted by Aaron Mahnke, Lore is an award-winning, podcast about true life scary stories. Each episode revolves around a them a takes a dark little dive into some of the darker nooks and crannies of history. These pieces run for about a half hour and include 2 or 3 stories, that's just value you can't turn down. New eps drop fortnightly on Mondays.
https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/lore/id978052928
For Zane & Liz: It's all good homies
Zane Recommends - Spooked WNYC
This podcast is produced by one of Zane's old favourites (that has yet to be recommended) Snap Judement. Presented by Glynn Washington, Spooked features true-life supernatural stories, told firsthand by people who can barely believe it happened themselves. Be afraid. Created in the dark of night, by Snap Judgment and WNYC Studios. New episodes on Mondays and Thursdays.
For Pat & Liz: Pick and episode that appeals
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1279361017
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You need some podcast recommendations? Well, you’re in luck! We have three new podcast recommendations for you as well as our reviews of last week’s recommendations! Zane has another listener submission this week with the all-things-weird podcast None Dare Call it Ordinary!, Liz goes mythical with a Greek Mythology podcast with a feminist bent and Pat brings us a science-based drug podcast. And don't forget to stick around for our reviews of last weeks podcast at the end!
Liz Recommends - Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! A Greek and Roman Mythology Podcast
https://www.mythsbaby.com/
"Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! is a Greek and Roman mythology podcast.
But it’s not your average Greek and Roman mythology podcast, this one is told by a 30-something Millennial with a penchant for cursing and a feminist attitude. The stories are deeply researched, thoroughly told, and they don’t hold back the details that have been sugarcoated and treated with kid gloves over the millennia since they were originally told.
There’s violence, assault, and so, so many gods transforming into animals to have their way [with women and nymphs]. Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! is casual and fun but equally knowledgeable and will leave you with a deeper understanding of the myths and the people who told them those many, many years ago." Hosted by Liv Albert, this podcast is great because it's a nice chatty (even though there is only one person talking) podcast that makes history and myths super accessible.
For both: I like the Hercules/Heracles series because that guy was actually kind of a dick.
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/lets-talk-about-myths-baby-a-greek-roman-mythology-podcast/id1264449047
Pat Recommends - Say Why to Drugs
https://play.acast.com/s/saywhytodrugs
Dr Suzi Gage is a psychologist interested in understanding the relationship between drug use and mental health. Most are dedicated to a particular substance or type of substance, there's also live shows, special guest interviews and AMA's thrown into the mix. Episodes range from about 20-40 minutes.
For Zane & Liz: Just go ahead and pick your favorite drug
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/say-why-to-drugs/id1114492774
Zane Recommends - None Dare Call It Ordinary!
https://www.nonedarecallitordinary.com/
Another Listener submission! This one is an interesting artifact as it seems to combine a few common themes that Zane like to bring to his fellow castologists. Part true-crime, part history, part comedy, the hosts Dylan, Brent, and Forrest dig into the unusual, unorthodox, and downright unsettling beliefs found at the depths of the Internet and the heights of paranoia. They are kind of a podcast on the history of ideas, except the ideas come mainly from cranks, con artists, extremists, frauds, and other chronic failures. Whether they promote pseudoscience, alternative medicine, fringe religions, radical politics, or revisionist history.
For Pat: Any topic that you might be interested in
For Liz: Any topic that you might be interested in
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Hello, we are back with your weekly podcast recommendations!. Zane has a Comedy audio fiction, Penny Peep Show, Liz brings dips back into the true-crime pool with Small Town Dicks and Pat brings us a Radiolab-adjacent podcast - The Memory Palace. And don't forget to stick around for our reviews of last weeks podcast at the end!
Liz Recommends - Small Town Dicks
https://www.smalltowndicks.com/
This one was a listener submission and Liz is really glad it was bought to the table because she is now obsessed. "Small Town Dicks is a podcast about the big-time crime that’s happening in Small Town, USA. Each episode features the detectives who broke the case in their small town, and includes assets like jailhouse phone calls, suspect interviews and 9-1-1 calls. The show is anchored by veteran, identical-twin detectives Dan and Dave, and hosted by actress, Yeardley Smith." It also used to be hosted by Zibby Allen but she mysteriously disappeared from the podcast recently and there are conflicting reports as to why.
For Pat: Stolen
For Zane: Breach (or for either of you The Bitter End, Cut and Run, or Disgruntled if you feel like more murder/tough stories)
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/small-town-dicks-podcast/id1271261548
Pat Recommends - The Memory Palace
http://thememorypalace.us/
Thank you Radiolab for putting this little gem on my radar. Nate DiMeo began telling these little historical vignettes in 2008 and hasn't broken his stride since. They're like yummy, dainty time capsules that you can swallow whole. With your ears. Episodes release a couple of times a month, durate for about ten minutes, and are always a welcome site in my feed.
For Zane & Liz: A White Horse, Shipwreck Kelly, Local Channels, Distance
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-memory-palace/id299436963
Zane Recommends - The Penny Peepshow
https://thepennypeepshow.libsyn.com/
You know what is missing from the podcast-sphere? Sitcoms. Today Zane is bringing you one of the answers to that lack - The Penny Peepshow.
The Penny Peepshow presents a range of podcast-play series for your edification and delight. Featuring full-cast productions of original scripts that span the full spectrum of genre (while keeping it's roots firmly planted in comedy) this is a very charming podcast!
For Pat: Bert & Maggie: Victrionics
For Liz: The Devil's Bed & Breakfast: Episode 01
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-penny-peepshow/id1345041200
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Hello, we are back with the podcast goods. Zane has a listener submission this week with the audio memoir Days of My Life, Liz brings her first celebrity host chat show recommendation with Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard and Pat takes a deep dive on the porn industry with Jon Ronson's The Butterfly Effect/The Last Days of August. Then it's reviews time!
Liz Recommends - Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
https://armchairexpertpod.com/
"Hi, I’m Dax Shepard, and I love talking to people. I am endlessly fascinated by the messiness of being human, and I find people who are vulnerable and honest about their struggles and shortcomings to be incredibly sexy. I invite you to join me as I explore other people’s stories. We will celebrate, above all, the challenges and setbacks that ultimately lead to growth and betterment.
What qualifies me for such an endeavor? More than a decade of sobriety, a degree in Anthropology and four years of improv training. I will attempt to discover human “truths” without any laboratory work, clinical trials or data collection. I will be, in the great tradition of 16th-century scientists, an Armchair Expert."
I love this podcast because I find Dax a really emotionally honest host. He sits down with Hollywood pals for discussions on pretty much anything.
For both: I really like the Kristen Bell eps because I love their relationship, and I love the Jason Batemen ep too.
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/armchair-expert-with-dax-shepard/id1345682353
Pat Recommends - The Butterfly Effect / The Last Days of August
http://www.jonronson.com/butterfly.html
Many of you may know Jon Ronson as the public shaming guy, or the guy who busted into Bohemian Grove with Alex Jones in the 90's to witness the masters of the universe conducting a mock sacrifice to the Canaanite god Moloch. Perhaps you know him from another wonderful part of his journalistic career. This time around he's taking a dive into the world of pornography. The Butterfly Effect focuses more on what PornHub has done to the industry and how it's professionals have responded. The Last Days of August looks takes a closer look at the tragic suicide of young starlet August Ames. These two pieces were originally Audible exclusives, but have thankfully since made their way to podcatchers under the title The Last Days of August.
For Zane & Liz: Listen to as much as you wish, if you're like me yoLyou'llwant to binge.
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-last-days-of-august/id1258779354
Zane Recommends - Days of My Life
https://www.buzzsprout.com/252630
This listener is a listener-submission, a truly unique podcast, and the first of its kind that Zane has encountered. Days of My Life is an Autobiographical Audio Drama Podcast created by Aidan Rosewell.
Rosewell puts his heart on his sleeve as he recounts events of his life growing up in the 90’s and struggling to cope with drug addiction and being a teenage carer for his mother. There are a few historical events also wrapped into the narrative.
This one is incredibly personal and interesting. It is best to start from the beginning, as it is in essence a serial narrative.
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Liz has started her very own new podcast! Ghosts of Boyfriends past is all about the loves that have come and gone from our lives - so we thought we should do a bonus episode talking about the podcasts that have come and gone from our lives.
In this bonus episode we are sharing our favourite podcasts that are no longer being produced!
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Oh hi there. This week gets a little bit political but it isn't from Patrick this time. Liz recommends a political thriller radio drama called Terms, Zane gets opinions from all sides of the political divide with Left, Right and Centre and Patrick lightens up the mood with the comedy podcast Norm MacDonald Live. Then it's on to the reviews from last week.
Liz Recommends - Terms
https://www.termspodcast.com/
"On election night, two-term president Oliver Pierce watches in disbelief from the White House as Charles Dunwalke wins a controversial electoral college victory. With only 73 days before Dunwalke’s inauguration, president Pierce makes a secret decision to act, with historic and possibly catastrophic consequences." Yeah it's pretty Trump-esque. And also has a lot to say about how the US system of voting is broken. An excellent radio play style thriller that hits close to home, has excellent acting and knows how to tell a good story.
For both: Start from the start, it's a serial podcast.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/terms/id1175563320
Pat Recommends - Norm MacDonald Live
The most unfortunate thing about being Australian for me was that I only ever got exposed to Norm MacDonald through his bit roles in movies amd TV. We never really got SNL or stand up specials on our airwaves, so when I came across this show on YouTube I was like 'Hey it's that drunk guy from Billy Madison, I had no idea he was the funniest person on the planet'. Unfortunately you can no longer view Norm MacDonald Live on YouTube, I think because he has a Netflix show now and Netflix wanted the Norm monopoly. Fortunatley you can find audio versions of this chaotic masterpiece. This show puts Norm and his trusty sidekick Adam Egat (of Queensboro Bridge renown) conducting a casual interview with a famous person, often a comedian. This show, for me, is a breeding ground for my favourite comedic spontaneities.
For Zane & Liz - Pick someone you like. I quite like the Andy Dick, Gilbert Gottfried, Stephen Merchant, and Bob Einstein (god rest him) episodes.
https://podtail.com/en/podcast/norm-macdonald-live/
Zane Recommends - Left, Right, and Center
https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/left-right-center
Politics. Zane both hates and is incredibly compelled by politics, but HATES the idea that he is in an echochamber. Enter, this podcast. Left, Right & Center is KCRW’s weekly civilized yet provocative confrontation over politics, policy and pop culture. Josh Barro, representing the Center, hosts a discussion of the week’s news and issues with thought leaders on the Right and Left, and expert guests. They focus mostly on the big headlines of the week (or the day) with a few minutes put aside for the hosts and guests soapbox moments. This is not a debate podcast, but does value the truth, not just partisan talking points.
For Pat: Listen to the most recent episodes
For Liz: Listen to the most recent episodes
https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=319014603&mt=8
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We are back with just the right of podcasts that you can handle. This week Patrick nerds out with Brian Cox's Infinite Monkey Cage, Liz gets pop culturey with The Good Place: The Podcast, and Zane takes a peek inside The Futility Closet.
Liz Recommends - The Good Place: The Podcast
"Holy motherforking shirtballs! This is the official comedy and entertainment podcast for NBC's TV show The Good Place. Subscribe and you'll get weekly behind-the-scenes stories, episode and performance insights and funny anecdotes. Hosted by actor Marc Evan Jackson (Shawn) with a rotating slate of co-hosts and special guests, including actors, writers, producers and more, this podcast takes a deep dive into everything on- and off-screen."
This isn't just your typical behind the scenes show podcast either. There's philosophy, trivia, basic chats with the actors about their lives, chats with the writers about their inspiration. It's really a quite joyful little listen along podcast for fans of the show. DO NOT listen to the first ep if you haven't finished the first season of The Good Place on TV.
For both: Pick a guest you wanna hear from.
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-good-place-the-podcast/id1388743215
Pat Recommends - The Infinite Monkey Cage
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00snr0w
BBC Radio 4 produces the science/ comedy podcast with scientist Brian Cox and comedian Robin Ince. If you don't know who Brian Cox is then educate yourself you fool, and if you don't know who Robin Ince is then who could blame you? A typical epsidode sees Brian and Robin and three guests, two scientists and a comedian, tackle a particular topic. Parallell universes, death, speed, you name it. Episodes average about 30 minutes.
For Zane & Liz - Find yourself a topic or guest roster that piques interest.
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-infinite-monkey-cage/id343580439
Zane Recommends - Futility Closet
https://www.futilitycloset.com/
This is an old standard on Zane's play list. A pleasant distraction and easy-to-listen-to podcast. The Futility Closet podcast is a weekly show featuring forgotten stories from the pages of history, surprising and curious tales from the past and to end each episode with lateral thinking puzzles. Futility Closet is a collection of entertaining curiosities in history, literature, language, art, philosophy, and mathematics, designed to help you waste time as enjoyably as possible. This podcast is a spin off of the Futility Closet Blog and is hosted by the husband and wife team of Greg and Sandra Ross with their pod-cat Sasha, and they release episodes each Monday.
For Pat: Episode 259: The Astor Place Riot
For Liz: Episode 261: The Murder of Lord William Russell
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast?id=842593579
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Welcome back to the wonderful world of podcasts with your friendly neighbourhood Castologists. (actual friendliness may vary depending on what podcasts we've listened to this week.) No theme this week, just good old-fashioned and new-fashioned podcasts. Liz recommends scripted anthology podcast (with season one about a mysterious missing musician) Six Cold Feet; Zane chats kick-ass women from the past with The Bitchery of History; and Patrick gets into some modern philosophy with Aubrey Marcus Podcast.
Liz Recommends - Six Cold Feet
https://sixcoldfeet.com/
The first season of this "spoken novel" style podcast focuses on a "found audio" plot device. We as the audience are listening to a man called River, recording himself while searching for his missing sister. Do yourself a favour and save episode 0, a behind-the-scenes look at the podcast, til after you've listened to the series. Liz felt there were a few things spoiled (unintentionally!) by co-collaborators J. M. Donellan and Jessica McGaw.
The website for this Brisbane podcast perhaps describes it best. "Six Cold Feet is a fiction anthology podcast about music, mystery, and the places we escape to when the real world disappoints us. Season 1 told the story of River, who is looking for his recently disappeared sister. Season 2 [which Liz has been cast in and which will premiere in September/October] follows the story of Athena, who is hired to write a biography of her hero; the mercurial singer-songwriter Juliet Knives. She quickly discovers that Knives has been keeping secrets for many years, and that she might be finally ready to confess…
Written by award-winning author and poet J.M. Donellan and performed by a cast including Melanie Zanetti, Kate Logan, Jessica McGaw, and Tom Yaxley this series will leave you pondering long after the final episode sings through your speakers."
For both: It's a serial so start at the very beginning (but not episode 0!)
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/six-cold-feet/id1304057366
Pat Recommends - Aubrey Marcus Podcast
https://www.aubreymarcus.com/blogs/aubrey-marcus/tagged/aubrey-marcus-podcast
Aubrey Marcus is an optimizer of the human variety, an author, and the CEO of Onnit, a lifestyle brand based on holistic health philosophy. Nothing out of the ordinary for me here. Longform interview stlye podcast with some of the world's formost athletes, scientists, philosophers, and then some. Each episode Aubrey and his guest try to tackle some of the biggest questions and broadest concepts. Episodes sit around the one hour mark.
For Zane & Liz: I like Adam Savage and Michael Pollan
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/aubrey-marcus-podcast/id521945322
Zane Recommends - The Bitchery of History
https://umpboh.podomatic.com/
Another Zane-theme has emerged - Women in History. This podcast is a bit more relaxed and casual then some of the previous similar podcasts. Celebrating the women who made history, only to be forgotten by it, best friends Max and Allison discuss badass heroines and villains like two kids at the back of the bus.
For Pat: Any Episode
For Liz: Any Episode
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It's Mental Health week at Castology, as the team recommend podcasts to do with all things self-care and psychology. (Also if you need it, this is your weekly reminder to look after yourself!) Liz recommends (possibly the longest titled podcast ever) The Savvy Psychologist's Quick And Dirty Tips For Better Mental Health; Patrick gets zen with a bit of guided meditation thanks to Meditation Oasis; and Zane goes completely left of field and recommends a fictional podcast that takes a peek into the therapy sessions of superpowered people with The Bright Sessions. Then, it's review time for last week's submissions.
Liz Recommends - The Savvy Psychologist's Quick And Dirty Tips For Better Mental Health
https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/savvy-psychologist
This is one of Liz's favourite podcasts to recommend to friends struggling with the various issues of, you know, living in the world. Got anxiety? Dealing with stress? Wondering if negative thoughts are really that bad? Having weird dreams and wondering if they mean anything? The Savvy Psychologist aka clinical psychologist Dr Jade Wu probably has an episode for you. At only 10-15 mins per episode, this podcast is a legit easy-to-digest snack to help you snap back to reality and regain control of some aspects of your life that may have gotten messy. It's really handy beginner's guide to understanding how we work as emotional human beings. It's like mini on-the-go therapy real talk.
For both: Pick a topic you struggle with or want more information on and go go go!
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/savvy-psychologists-quick-dirty-tips-for-better-mental/id803978236
Pat Recommends - Meditation Oasis
https://www.meditationoasis.com/
Meditation for me is one of those things that I always tell myself I'll start doing on a regular basis. A couple of times a week isn't terribly regular, is it? This podcast helps tremendously though. It's especially good if you've never meditated before or find yourself getting frustrated with your solo attempts. Mary and Richard Maddox bring 40 years of mediation teaching and practice between them, so you can trust you're in good hands. I chose this podcast over others because it seemed to me the most pure, a little bit of preamble and then straight into the mediation, often with a soothing musical accompaniment. There's 60 episodes and they range form 10 - 30 minutes. Stay healthy people, mentally healthy.
Zane & Liz: Whatever you do, don't pick the wrong one.
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/meditation-oasis/id204570355
Zane Recommends - The Bright Sessions
http://www.thebrightsessions.com/
On this theme week, Zane is presenting to you, The Bright Sessions. The Bright Sessionsis a science fiction podcast that follows a group of therapy patients. But these are not your typical patients - each has a unique supernatural ability. The show documents their struggles and discoveries as well as the motivations of their mysterious therapist, Dr. Bright.
The show is written and directed by Lauren Shippen and has concluded its main run. However, there is a sequel series planned for release exclusively on Luminary and Lauren Shippen is writing three YA novels in the universe of the show for Tor Teen. The first comes out September 24th...
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It has been SO long since we started recommending podcasts, and we have somehow managed to restrain ourselves from recommending any podcasts on our own network That’s Not Canon. But, alas, that streak is now broken!
We will restrain ourselves to one podcast each that we personally enjoy from TNC, and a little bit about the network itself. Also, please forgive Zane’s awkward opening, he is not particularly comfortable with blatant self-promotion.
Liz recommends: Glass of Whine
Pat recommends: One Third of Life
Zane recommends: Murder in the Land of Oz
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Hi! Welcome back to Castology. So good to see you! Pull up a chair and listen to this week's mixed back of recommendations from your friendly neighbourhood Castologists. Patrick brings a bit of Neil Degrasse Tyson to the table with StartTalk Radio, Liz picks a podcast purely because Patrick will like the name and recommends crime banter series Loose Units, and Zane takes a step through the scary door with Twilight Zone/Black Mirror-esque The Veil Audio Drama. Then it's on to last week's reviews? Will there be clashes and drama? Maybe! Maybe not also. You will have to listen to find out.
Liz Recommends - Loose Units
https://looseunitsthepodcast.libsyn.com/
Paul F. Verhoven sits down with his dad John to chat all things crime in the 1980s. You see John was a cop in Sydney during the height of police corruption and boy does he have some stories. So Paul put them all into a book. BUT as the show description states: "The true crime book Loose Units, out now through Penguin Publishing (and in bookstores everywhere), had one thing it couldn't do: it couldn't fit everything. So each week, Paul and John will sit down and delve into cases too surreal, brief or contentious to fit into the book."
After literally only picking this podcast because she thought resident loose unit Patrick would find the title appealing, she fell in love with it. The banter between father and son is straight up entertaining as hell and almost veers into comedy in some eps. But some are tragic. A good all rounder with lots of crime stories from someone's dad, who always seems to sound cool and funny when he calls someone a fuckwit.
For both: I started from the start but each ep is a separate story so just pick the topic that appeals to you.
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/loose-units-the-podcast/id1445344726
Pat Recommends - StarTalk Radio
https://www.startalkradio.net/
What's better than interrupting quality family time on father's day to write show notes? Many things, presumably, but also listening to Star Talk Radio. This podcast is hosted predominantly by Neil deGrasse Tyson, world famous astrophysicist and science communicator. This podcast has a number of formats. Interview style, answering twitter questions, and whatever the Chuck Nice episodes are. These episodes average about 50 minutes, hardly 4 hours, but we'll look the other way for Neil.
For Zane & Liz: You'll figure it out
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/startalk-radio/id325404506
Zane Recommends - The Veil Audio Drama
http://www.voxxstudios.com/the-veil
Another fiction podcast from Zane! again, it is a speculative fiction podcast, but this one has a very definite sense of style and execution. The Veil is a sci-fi/horror audio-drama anthology. It's being described as a mix between The Twilight Zone and Black Mirror. Each episode contains a fully immersive soundscape, original score, original script from their writing team. Episodes are released every other Thursday.
For Pat: Any Episode
For Liz: Any Episode
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-veil-audio-drama/id1443675475
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Your Castologists have taken some time away from trawling the RSS feeds to have a chat about what apps are best to enjoy your current podcast obsessions and discover new ones. There are so very many options when it comes to podcasting apps that it is hard to know which is best for you. So let us try and help both you and, in some cases, your favourite podcasters!
Some helpful links:
radiopublic.com
www.listennotes.com
www.podchaser.com
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After a brief departure from their usual "type" of podcast, the gang are all back in their wheelhouse with this week's offerings. Zane takes time out to try to empathise with pop culture's worst evildoers with Next Door Villain, Liz looks at crime of the non-murdery variety with Con Artists and Patrick is back to thinky informational self with The Portal With Eric Weinsten. Then as always, it's on to the reviews from last week's submissions.
Liz Recommends - Con Artists
https://www.parcast.com/conartists
This one is relatively new so Liz wants credit for liking it before it was cool. The format for this one is great: Ep one on the fraudster focuses on the rise of their crimes and ep two is how they got caught. "They seem like a friend. Family, even. You trust them with your life. But behind the promises of fame, success, and riches beyond your wildest dreams... it’s just another guy in a fake Rolex. Con Artists peeks behind the masks of hustlers, swindlers, and fraudsters. We’ll dive into their psychology, and teach listeners how to spot a con. What kind of person runs a scam? And why do we trust them? Con Artists is a Parcast Original. New episodes come out every Wednesday." Because it's kinda nice to find out the sociopathic tendencies of people who don't resort to murder for a change, right? Even if they did cheat hundreds of people and defraud... OK Liz will shut up now.
For both: Bernie Madoff parts one and two.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/con-artists/id1471046920
Pat Recommends - The Portal with Eric Weinstein
A new podcast from one of my favourite brains! Eric Weinstein is one of them polymaths, one of them clever folks who thinks good. He's a mathematician, an economist, and the managing director of an investment firm. It's difficult to say what the format or content of this podcast is just yet, but so far it's seems to be interviewish and subversive. That works for me. Let's follow along and see what happens next.
For Zane & Liz: Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-portal/id1469999563
Zane Recommends - Next Door Villain
https://www.nextdoorvillain.com/
Welcome to Next Door Villain, a podcast where the hosts try to practice empathy by discussing the humanity behind their favorite fictional villains.
Each episode, hosts Joe and Tiana discuss a well-known fictional villain. They attempt to find the humanity behind these characters so that we can learn to love, and respect them. Because if we can learn to connect with characters that were designed to be hated, then we might just have a chance at understanding the villains we face in our everyday lives.
For Pat: Pick a fun villain
For Liz: Pick a fun villain
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/next-door-villain/id1358530011?mt=2
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OMG we did it again, and accidentally have a theme. It's LISTENER SUBMISSION week! That's right, we are bringing you YOUR recommendations (for three of you, anyway). And it just so happens to also have a slighly fail-centric theme. Liz brings the relationship drama with UR Gonna Die Alone, Patrick is all about stuffing up with style with The Art of Failure, and Zane gets on his social justice high horse with In Sickness and In Health.
Liz Recommends - UR Gonna Die Alone
https://urgonnadiealone.libsyn.com/
Yes that is the correct spelling for the title and yes it made journo Liz shudder. This podcast is hosted by the super sarcastic team of Christyn Chandler and Jordan Jacobo and is all about trainwreck relationships. That's right, famous relationships that have crashed and burned. Each episode looks at a different couple and tells their story of romantic implosion. If you, like Liz, are a complete dating cynic then this podcast is most certainly for you. Sit back and enjoy the sordid details and schadenfreude.
For both: I particularly liked Woody Allen and Mia Farrow, the Tom Cruise series, and Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love.
Link https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ur-gonna-die-alone/id1412835724
Pat Recommends - The Art of Failure
https://www.artoffailurepodcast.com/
A listener submission you say? Yes I do. My very first, and if you don't like it that's fine, because we learn from our failures... don't we? Wow, what a segue. Host Steve Friedman sits down with an interesting array of guests to discuss failure and what can be gleaned from it. He'll also pop in the occasional minisode to share with you some of his own failures and what he's gotten out of them.
For Zane & Liz: Your fate is your own
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/art-of-failure/id1439857643
Zane Recommends - In Sickness and in Health
https://insicknessandinhealthpodcast.com/
This is another listener submission and Zane LOVES this podcast. It is a podcast about health and social justice. Health is wealth and this podcast is about why some of us have it, and some don’t. Each Season focuses on a different issue (The Opioid Crisis, Gun Violence) which are then split into multi-episode chapters.
In Sickness and in Health is produced and hosted by Dr. Celine Gounder. as well as a podcaster Dr. Gounder is a doctor, a disease detective and a storyteller. Dr. Gounder is the CEO/President/Founder of Just Human Productions, a non-profit multimedia organization.
For Pat & Liz: These are submitted in subcategories, so pick one that appeals and follow through as far as you wish.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/in-sickness-and-in-health-with-dr-celine-gounder/id1282044849
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Well, well, well, look who it is... it's your friendly neighbourhood Castologists here to recommend podcasts to you for your listening pleasure! Liz's enthusiasm for this disease podcast is infections with This Podcast Will Kill You, Patrick peeks behind the curtain of the US with The Empire Files, and Zane gets nostalgic for Hollywood's Golden Era with You Must Remember This. Then come the reviews of last week's offerings.
Liz Recommends - This Podcast Will Kill You
http://thispodcastwillkillyou.com/
"Grad students studying disease ecology, Erin and Erin found themselves disenchanted with the insular world of academia. They wanted a way to share their love of epidemics and weird medical mysteries with the world, not just colleagues. Plus, who doesn't love an excuse to have a cocktail while chatting about pus and poop?" And thus This Podcast Will Kill You was born. Each episode looks at a first person account of a disease, then they look at its history and potential future if things progress as on their current track.
This is a new one for the Exactly Right network aka the podcast network owned by the MFM gals Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark.
For both: Any disease that takes your fancy but I liked Encephalitis Lethargica.
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/this-podcast-will-kill-you/id1299915173
Pat Recommends - The Empire Files
http://theempirefiles.tv/
Yes, it's as terrifying as it sounds. Perhaps not in the way you imagine though. This is the podcast version of a documentary and interview series hosted by Abby Martin. She and her team delve into issues, both domestic and international, surrounding the world's biggest empire. If you'd like to know more about war profiteering, regime changing, and the incestuous relationship between politicians and the press, this'll be the podcast for you. Bare in mind that this is rather editorialised, Abby certainly wears her heart on her sleeve, but that's why we love her.
For Zane & Liz: You're loose units, you'll figure it out.
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/empire-files/id1332127325
Zane Recommends - You must Remember This
http://www.youmustrememberthispodcast.com/
You Must Remember This is the podcast dedicated to exploring the secret and/or forgotten histories of Hollywood's first century. The podcast was created and is written, produced and narrated by Karina Longworth. This podcast is a heavily-researched work of creative nonfiction. Every reasonable attempt is made at accuracy, but quite often when it comes to the kinds of stories they explore, between conflicting reports, conscious and unconscious mythologizing and institutionalized spin, the truth is murky at best. That’s kind of what the podcast is, ultimately, about.
For Pat: Any that catches your eye
For Liz: Any that catches your eye
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/you-must-remember-this/id858124601
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We're going back in time this week to celebrate the past: that's right, it's our HISTORY themed week. Liz takes a look at the tumultuous years of the Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton presidencies with seasons one and two of Slow Burn. Zane twists the meaning of "history" with a Dungeons and Dragons etymology and mythology podcast GM Word of the Week. And Patrick goes back to his old mate Daniele Bolelli with History on Fire. Then as always, the Castologists get down to the business of reviewing last week's recommendations.
Liz Recommends - Slow Burn
https://slate.com/slow-burn
"Even recent history is rich with surprising subplots, strange details, and forgotten characters.
On Slow Burn, Leon Neyfakh excavates the strange subplots and forgotten characters of recent political history—and finds surprising parallels to the present. Season 1 captured what it was like to live through Watergate; Season 2 does the same with the saga of Bill Clinton’s impeachment.
Slow Burn is a production of Slate Plus. Slate Plus members support our work—and they get a bonus episode every week, with exclusive interviews and conversations that go deeper into the story."
For both: Pick either Clinton or Nixon and start at the start of the season.
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/slow-burn/id1315040130
Pat Recommends - History on Fire
http://historyonfirepodcast.com/
Remember The Drunken Taoist Podcast? Remember it's host, Daniele Bolelli. Remember how his silken, sumptuous voice made you question your sexuality for one brief, liberating flicker? Pssh. Me neither. Anyway, here's another Daniele podcast, a history podcast. Episodes run for about 90 to 120 minutes and each one is as exciting and well researched as the next. There's roughly 50 episodes available for free download on your usual podcast provider. The more recent ones are available through Luminary, so of you wish to support this beautiful man, do so there.
For Zane & Liz: Whatever tickles your bottom
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/history-on-fire/id1038514498
Zane Recommends - GM Word of the Week
https://www.gmwordoftheweek.com/
For our history themed episode Zane has brought an interesting little gem that he has listened to for years. A simple and easy-to-consume palate cleanser, that just so happens to be based around role playing games. A good Game Master needs a lot of big, fancy words at their disposal to make their flavor text as engaging as possible. The podcast takes an inspiration word and then works backwards into the history and etymology. Jam packed with bite sized pieces of interesting historical nuggets.
For Pat: Excalibur
For Liz: Gorgon
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/gm-word-week-mad-adventurers/id987577519?mt=2
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Well it was completely by accident but it seems this week is a Liz Best themed week, with all hosts recommending podcasts right up Liz'a alley. Zane takes a dip into the true crime world with Swindled, Patrick goes behind the scenes of classic films with the Wondery Inside series, and Liz recommends amazing stories of survival with I Survivor.
Liz Recommends - I, Survivor
https://wondery.com/shows/i-survivor/
Liz's first podcast love was My Favorite Murder and her favourite episodes were always the ones where Karen Kilgariff retells episodes of the TV show I Survived. Welp, now there's a podcast with a very similar name called I, Survivor all about the kick-ass stories from those people who have gone through the worst and survived.
"Hosts Jenna Brister and Wagatwe Wanjuki share their stories, and those of the men and women who fought back, who won, and who live rising above the trauma of their experiences."
For both: Pick an ep with a story you like the sound of, they have pretty good descriptive titles and blurbs.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i-survivor/id1405751724
Pat Recommends - Inside Star Wars
https://wondery.com/shows/inside-star-wars/
'It was made on a shoestring and dumped into a handful of movie theaters back in 1977. And then it changed the world.' This one's from Wondery, so you know it's good. This tells the story of how this cultural touchstone was made. All the behind the scenes stuff you'd heard about, all the juicy titbits, and then some. Created, written, and hosted by Mark Ramsay, this is part of a larger 'Inside' series from the man, and they're all of the same format and calibre.
For Zane & Liz - 'Inside' what you will. Star Wars, Jaws, Psycho, or The Exorcist
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/inside-star-wars/id1459899343
Zane Recommends - Swindled
http://swindledpodcast.com
What!? Can it be? Zane is bringing a true crime podcast to the table!? Indeed he is! But this true crime podcast is the best kind of true crime podcast, one with very little blood and guts.
Swindled is a podcast that utilizes narrative storytelling, archival audio, and immersive soundscapes to tell true stories of white-collar criminals, con artists, and corporate evil.
The anonymous host, using “A Concerned Citizen” as his moniker, recounts tales of real life, financially motivated crimes including embezzlements, frauds, Ponzi schemes, environmental disasters, corporate negligence, corruption, and more.
For Pat: The Sting
For Liz: The Psychic
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/swindled/id1308717668
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Get ready for recommendations and reviews coming at you! Zane brings inanimate objects to live with Everything Is Alive, Liz takes you back to school, musical-style with Loveville High and Patrick gets back to his comedy roots with Mixed Mental Arts. Then the trio reviews their selections from last week.
Liz Recommends - Loveville High
https://www.lovevillehigh.com/
Imagine that your fave 90s teen movies ramped up the camp factor and added a musical score. That's pretty much Loveville High. "LOVEVILLE HIGH is a 9-part musical podcast series! Each ten-minute episode is a self-contained love story in the fictional town of Loveville, Ohio on prom night. New love, old love, romantic love, friend love, gay and straight, cis and genderqueer."
This musical podcast has a book and lyrics by David Zellnick (Yank!) and music by Eric Svejcar (Peter Pan Jr)
For both: This is a serial podcast so start at the start and listen to as many as you wish.
Link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/loveville-high/id1444830216
Pat Recommends - Mixed Mental Arts
https://www.mixedmentalarts.online/
Is hosted by comedian, actor, and writer Bryan Callen and Hunter Maats (the other guy). No I kid. Hunter is largely the reason I listened to this podcast. He's a plethora of interesting takes and titbits. This show is on hiatus, and with something new brewing behind the scenes so who knows what format it'll take next. The format it largely stuck to for 300 something episodes was conversations with a range of guests such as authors, comedians, actors, doctors, entrepreneurs, Mixed Martial Arts fighters, journalists, nutritionists, musicians, porn stars and video game developers.
For Zane & Liz: Pick your poison
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/mixed-mental-arts/id1286827713
Zane Recommends - Everything is Alive
https://www.everythingisalive.com/
Zane is finally showing his true colours and bring another improvised comedy podcast to the table! Everything is Alive is an unscripted interview show in which all the subjects are inanimate objects. In each episode, a different thing tells us its life story - and everything it says is true. Produced by NPR veteran Ian Chillag, Everything Is alive has a very serious tone, with very silly subject matter.
For Pat: Pick one that amuses you!
For Liz: Pick one that amuses you!
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/everything-is-alive/id1388419519?mt=2
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Get ready because this week we have interesting facts, secret societies and one on one chats full of "sick burns" this week. Zane brings a podcast that takes a leaf out of QI's book called There's No Such Thing As A Fish, Liz uncovers a charming fictional tale of a secret organisation that helps desperate people fake their deaths, and Patrick brings the interview stylings of Michael Malice to the table with the seemingly-grammatically-incorrect-but-actually-not-incorrect-at-all podcast, Your Welcome.
Liz Recommends - The Amelia Project
https://ameliapodcast.com/
"Congratulations. You’ve reached The Amelia Project. This phone call isn’t happening. If you’re not serious about this, hang up. Now." So begins The Amelia Project, a fictional podcast that's equal parts charming and intriguing. "The Amelia Project offers a very special service: Faking its clients' deaths! Its eccentric clientele includes cult leaders, scientists and politicians, all desperate to disappear and start over... But for how long can the secrecy last?"
The show is written and directed by Philip Thorne and Øystein Ulsberg Brager and follows the unnamed Interviewer as he asks his clients why they need to escape and plans how to get them off this mortal coil... at least on paper.
Make sure you listen to the preludes in between each episode, as even though they seem light and fluffy they can sometimes contain important information about the case to follow. Plus the contain descriptions of hot cocoa from Le Deux Margots in Paris that made Liz drool, so there's that.
For both: Start from the start and listen to the prelude eps as well. Ep 5, Percy was Liz's favourite and made her snort laugh out loud in her car.
Link https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-amelia-project/id1314667752
Pat Recommends - Your Welcome with Michael Malice
https://gasdigitalnetwork.com/gdn-show-channels/your-welcome/
Michael Malice is a media personality, columnist, and an author; best known for his book Dear Reader: The Unauthorized Autobiography of Kim Jong Il. He's an anarchist, a wisecrack, a troll, and my best friend. Every week he'll throw up an episode (a bit like how we do) that consists of a conversation with a guest. There's no real rhyme, reason, theme or, thyson. There is a bit. They're largely political. Something new and different from Patrick.
For Zane & Liz: Ethan Suplee or Nick Monroe or
Lyn Ulbricht or Ethan Nicolle
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/your-welcome-with-michael-malice/id1389660155
Zane Recommends - No Such Thing as A Fish
https://audioboom.com/channel/nosuchthingasafish
No Such Thing as a Fish is a weekly British podcast series produced and presented by the researchers behind the BBC Two panel game QI. In it each of the researchers, collectively known as "The QI Elves", present their favourite fact that they have come across that week. The most regular presenters of the podcast are James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski and Dan Schreiber, although other QI researchers also make appearances, and there are guest presenters on some episodes.
For Pat: Any episode will do!
For Liz: Any episode will do!
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Hello, welcome, pull up a chair and settle in for podcast reviews to help you choose. Zane brings the movie lover goods to the table with another listener recommendation: Miscast Commentary. Patrick listens to his girlfriend for once (or lets her do his homework, you decide) and recommends No Filter with Mia Freedman. And Liz listens to her psychologist mama like always and recommends a clinical psychology podcast with an almost voyeuristic twist with Where Should We Begin? With Esther Perel.
Liz Recommends - Where Should We Begin? With Esther Perel
https://www.estherperel.com/podcast
"Our original audio series takes you into the antechamber of intimate moments. Here we learn, explore, and experience alongside the couples who have been gracious enough to let us in." This podcast takes the listener into the normally private world of therapy, with audiences able to sit in on a session conducted by world famous psychologist and couples therapy expert Esther Perel. Vulnerabilities are laid bare as we listen to situations unfold on the therapists couch in what essentially amounts to single session case studies of those involved. YES the participants applied to be a part of this so they are aware they are being recorded, and yes sometimes listening in can be a confronting experience but interjections by Esther explaining what can be gleaned from each episode is a rich well from which to draw emotional sustenance and learning.
For both: Pick an episode title that appeals to you. Each ep is a self-contained single therapy session.
Link https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/where-should-we-begin-with-esther-perel/id1237931798
Pat Recommends - No Filter with Mia Freedman
https://www.mamamia.com.au/podcasts/no-filter/
No Filter is candid conversations with people that count. That's what it says on the website anyway. I'm inclined to agree. Maybe 'candid conversations that make you cry' could work. I cried in one of the episodes. Renowned journalist Mia Freedman sits down with a vast array of people for roughly an hour and gets into the nitty gritty. There doesn't theem to be a theme other than unabashedness and honesty, and honestly, that's enough for me.
For Zane & Liz: Gabbie Stroud & Dr Naomi
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/no-filter/id995159486
Zane Recommends - Miscast Commentary Review
http://www.miscastcommentary.com/
Miscast Commentary is about a pair of friends providing full length commentary for the movies (or the types of movies) that they watched growing up together. They talk trivia, personal stories and much more. The format is a very simple but but effective one. That of an audio commentary that the hosts record as they watch the movie. So, if you choose, you can watch along with them as they make jokes and share information about the film!
For Pat and Liz: Pick an episode that appeals!
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/miscast-commentary/id1145697204
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Liz, Zane and Patrick are all actors (bloody actors!) so they've decided to recommend podcasts with a theatrical inclination this week. Zane is all about the improvised comedy podcast Hello From The Magic Tavern, Liz flexes her musical muscles with 36 Questions: The Podcast Musical and Patrick gets into the acting process with Inside Acting. Then as always we all take turns reviewing what was recommended last week.
Liz Recommends - 36 Questions: The Musical Podcast
https://www.twoupproductions.com/36-questions
"In this three-part podcast musical starring Jonathan Groff and Jessie Shelton, a couple attempts to bring their marriage back from the brink of divorce using 36 revealing questions designed to make strangers fall in love." Liz is so bloody happy this podcast exists and thinks more people trying to get their work seen and heard by the wider public should turn to the wonderful medium of podcasts rather than expecting to get Broadway money straight away. This podcast is literally a musical, just sans a stage or visual performances. The story is told with an inventive device to make all that not necessary. Just characters, with songs and a whole lot of feelings.
For both: Start from the start because it's literally a musical in three acts.
Link https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/36-questions-the-podcast-musical/id1248086475
Pat Recommends - Inside Acting
This little number comes from Trev and AJ, two L.A. based actors who wanna get inside their craft. That's just what they do each episode, often with other actors. They've been lucky enough to host such talented fellows as J.K. Simmons and Jenna Fischer. Unfprtunatley the podcast is no longer producing new episodes but there is a plethora of episodes for you to choose from should you wish.
For Zane & Liz: J.K. Simmon and Kevin Sorbo
Zane Recommends - Hello From The Magic Tavern
https://hellofromthemagictavern.com/
OR the WIKI http://magictavern.wikidot.com/
Hello from the Magic Tavern is a podcast about Arnie, a human from Chicago who has fallen through a magical rift behind a Burger King into the land of Foon. Since he has his podcasting equipment with him and he's getting a weak WiFi signal from Burger King through the rift, he decided to host a weekly podcast from The Vermilion Minotaur where he interviews the strange people and creatures he meets. His co-hosts are Usidore, a wizard, and Chunt, a changeling currently in the form of a badger. Takes place in the town of Hogsface, and are on a quest to defeat The Dark Lord.
It is an improvised scene podcast, each unique scene adding to the overall story of Arnie in Foon.
For Pat: 89 - Jyn'Leeviyah the Red (w/ Felicia Day)
For Liz: 95 - Tom the Spy
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/hello-from-the-magic-tavern/id975078285
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Here we are, just for you. We do the hard work of finding new podcasts for your aural pleasure so you don't have to. This week Zane is recommending Dragon Friends, Liz is putting forward Deadly Manners and Patrick is all about them Tiny Desk concerts. And stick around after the recommendations for the reviews of last week's podcast offerings.
Liz Recommends - Deadly Manners
https://deadlymanners.libsyn.com/
Do you like theatre? Radio plays? Camp murder mystery drama and noirish intrigue? Then this is right up your alley. A short radio play series featuring Kristen Bell, RuPaul, Michelle Visage, Ross Matthews and more, Deadly Manners is a schlocky whodunnit in the style of And Then There Were None/Cluedo etc. Will you guess who the killer is? And why? Who knows! But you'll have fun listening to the over-the-top yet simultaneously realistic (yes, somehow both) performances, and all the Agatha Christie-style melodrama you can handle.
For both: You guessed it, it's another serial so start from the start and listen to as many as you wish.
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/deadly-manners/id1289105780
Pat Recommends - Tiny Desk
https://www.npr.org/series/tiny-desk-concerts/
My third NPR podcast is quite a bit different from the other two. Tiny Desk has artists (well known and sometimes often unknown) perform a little concert for those lucky enough to be in the room. The rest of us just have to settle with listening or watching online. That's basically it though, roughly 20 minutes of beautiful music. I've found this to be a great place to discover new music as well as see some of my favourite artists perform at their best.
For all of you: St Paul & The Broken Bones, Daniel Caesar, Anderson Paak, Rhye, Noname, Leon Bridges
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/tiny-desk-concerts-video/id362115318
Zane Recommends - Dragon Friends
https://www.thedragonfriends.com/episodes/podcast/
This is a podcast that Zane found doing research into the possibility of a live Dungeons and Dragons show, then got hooked. Dragon Friends is a monthly comedy show and podcast where comedians muddle through their first Dungeons & Dragons adventure campaign. The rules are... lax. The stories are... muddled? But the cast are very funny and definitely do not let up the whole way through the show. It DOES have a tendency to be a bit in-jokey, so go back as far as you can and start the adventure with them.
For Pat & Liz: Start with a season break! or go back as far as you can.
https://open.spotify.com/show/5oaRbBlvaAkuEE4cILfZdk
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Well hello, we didn't see you there. We are your Castologists, Liz Best, Zane C. Weber and Patrick Shearer, here to tell you what's good in podcast land. This week Liz gets true crimey again with The Lady Vanishes, Patrick gets philosophisey again with Alan Watts Podcast, and Zane gets history-y again (we think it's again? We've lost track of who did what) with listener submission The History of Aotearoa New Zealand. Then they get stuck into the reviews from last week's offerings.
Liz Recommends - The Lady Vanishes
https://7news.com.au/news/crime/the-lady-vanishes-search-for-missing-australian-mother-intensifies-as-new-7news-podcast-climbs-charts-c-39131
A much loved mother, teacher and friend steps on a plane for an overseas adventure and is never seen again. Marion Barter, the former wife of Australian soccer great Johnny Warren, went missing in 1997. The circumstances surrounding her disappearance are bizarre. Her daughter has never given up hope of finding her. This is her quest.
If you like weird stories then this one just keeps getting more weird. Also if you are a Queensland/NSW local you could actually be an armchair detective and help solve this one if you were in the Gold Coast/Byron area at the time. From Seven News, it's occasionally a bit too news like and editorial but still engrossing.
For both: Start from the start because it's another serial one.
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-lady-vanishes/id1457296528
Pat Recommends - Alan Watts Podcast
http://www.alanwattspodcast.com/
Alan Watts was a 20th century British born philosopher. He's often credited with introducing and popularising Eastern philosophies to Western audiences. His focus is primarily with Zen Buddhism, Hinduism and Taoism. This particular podcast only delivers Alan in about 10 minute chunks and removes episodes from the feed not long after they're posted. I don't mind this so much as it gives me a healthy little dose in between my more lengthy and dense subscriptions. If you wish to listen to more of Alan there is a wealth of his content on YouTube, Soundcloud and Audible, as well as on the apps associated with this podcast.
For both: Pick any episode you can grab.
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/alan-watts-podcast/id119777571
Zane Recommends - History of Aotearoa New Zealand
https://historyaotearoa.com/
Zane has recently fallen into a hole of history podcasts and wallowing about in all the great shows he has found. And this is one of those! A listener submission, The History of Aotearoa New Zealand Podcast is a chronological and narrative telling of the history of New Zealand. Each episode they tell the story of New Zealand in an interesting and informative way!
For Pat: Any Episode that Appeals
For Liz: Any Episode that Appeals
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/history-of-aotearoa-new-zealand-podcast/id1448322129
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Welcome back to what we like to call Castology, because that is the name of our podcast. This week seems to be our Punctuation in Podcast Titles Week, as we bring you recommendations of RISK!, Philosophize This! and Who The Hell is Hamish? As always, Liz, Patrick and Zane then move on to reviewing what they recommended last week.
Liz Recommends - Who The Hell Is Hamish?
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/podcasts/podcast-who-the-hell-is-hamish/news-story/c95b519a9ececa6076df80bd130ba158
He was born Hamish Watson, a surfie dude from Sydney – but he could morph into whatever you needed him to be.
Hamish is due to be sentenced to jail in early 2019 for swindling a handful of victims out of more than $7m. But these crimes are just the final pages in a resume too thick to staple; for decades he’s duped victims in the US, Canada, Britain, Hong Kong and Australia.
How did he do it? How did he evade authorities around the world for so long and what’s he done with all those tens of millions of dollars he stole?
From The Australian newspaper comes this podcast that does a deep dive into just who the hell Hamish whoever his last name is, well is, and the extent of his crimes and deception is mind boggling.
For Both: Start from the start because it's a serial podcast.
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/who-the-hell-is-hamish/id1451470931
Pat Recommends: Philosphize This!
https://philosophizethis.org/
He was born Stephen West and I think remains so. Stephen likes philosophy and wants you to also like philosophy as well. Each episode is delivered in delicious 20-30 minute bite size chunks, and each episode covers a philosophical movement or philosophical philosopher. Each episode often leads into the next one so I find it best to binge these in chunks.
For Zane & Liz: I started with The Frankfurt School and binged form there, but start wherever you wish.
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/philosophize-this/id659155419
Zane Recommends - RISK!
http://risk-show.com
This is a podcast that Zane has been listening to for YEARS. He was an early adopter of the podcast and has fallen in and out of love with it many times over those years. RISK! is a live show and podcast where people tell true stories they never thought they’d dare to share in public, hosted by Kevin Allison. The award-winning live show happens monthly in New York and Los Angeles and has featured people like Janeane Garofalo, Lisa Lampanelli, Margaret Cho, Marc Maron, Sarah Silverman.
For Pat: Raw
For Liz: Fright
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=334724074
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Move over men, this week it's all about the ladies. That's right, Castology is bringing you a themed episode with recommendations of podcasts hosted by women (but definitely not just for women). Liz reclaims her sexual power with anti-slut shaming comedy podcast Guys We Fucked, Patrick gets physical with Found My Fitness, and Zane gets in touch with Lady Parts (and Liz is not sorry for making that sound like he touched girl bits instead of reviewing a film-focused podcast).
Liz Recommends - Guys We Fucked
http://www.sorryaboutlastnightcomedy.com/guys-we-fucked/
Have you ever wanted to interview people you've slept with in a forum where they have to reply? If you answered fuck yes then this is for you. Corrine Fischer and Krystyna Hutchinson are Sorry About Last Night, a comedy duo who host this very not shy podcast aimed at doing away with slut shaming while dishing the dirt on their sex lives, with no topic taboo. "Guys We Fuckedis a weekly self-produced podcast during which Corrine and Krystyna interview men they’ve slept with and titans in the comedy and sex industry (i.e.: comedians Jim Norton and Artie Lang) porn star Stoya & sex advice guru Dan Savage), discuss sexual taboos, and create a sex-positive environment for their million plus listeners worldwide." Note: the gals talk for quite a while before their guests come on, just for those who like to skip the banter.
For both: Danny: Were You Ashamed To Fuck Me? or
Am I Just Fucking Crazy w/ Amanda Knox were ones Liz liked. or pick whatever title interests you.
Link: https://podcasts.apple.com/mx/podcast/guys-we-f-d/id885960517
Pat Recommends - Found My Fitness
https://www.foundmyfitness.com/
Dr Rhonda Patrick is one of the most knowledgeable beings I've ever come across. Every time I listen to her I need sit for a while and digest, as though I've just eaten a great big spaghetti. She holds a Ph.D. in biomedical science and a Bachelor’s of Science degree in biochemistry/chemistry. She is focused primarily on longevity and health optimisation and disseminates this information better than the best of them.
For Zane & Liz: Choose either Satchin Panda or Roland Griffiths
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/foundmyfitness/id818198322
Zane Recommends - Lady Parts Podcast
This is a film and media review podcast but with a very specific scope, and it is Brisbane based! Lady Parts is a fortnightly podcast dissecting the roles of women in genre cinema, both in front of and behind the camera. Lady Parts is one part Aimée Lindorff and one part Sophie Overett. Both writers and producers of various stripes the hosts have a very interesting insight into the current state of female representation in media.
For Pat: Episode 30 - The Incredibles 2 (but really any)
For Liz: Epsode 24 - Red Sparrow (but really any)
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lady-parts-podcast/id1003165101
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Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to Castology. The team kick things off with their recommendations: Liz goes for the cultural touchstone S-Town to nudge those who haven't yet listened to do so; Patrick brings a bit of The Church of What's Happening Now with Joey Coco Diaz; and Zane goes out of left field with a curated music podcast featuring an LGBTQI+ twist called Homoground. Then, stick around to hear the verdicts on last week's recommendations.
Liz Recommends - S-Town
https://stownpodcast.org/
If you didn't listen to S-Town (from the makers of Serial and This American Life) when it was cool, Liz is giving you the official Castology nudge to get on it now. What started out as John hating his hometown in Alabama and calling in an investigative journalist to look into a possible murder and coverup in the neighbourhood, turns into something completely different when another death occurs. There's apparently a lawsuit against the makers of this podcast so listen now, before it's taken down!
For both: It's another serial one folks, start from the start and listen until at LEAST the end of episode two before you decide if you want more.
Link: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/s-town/id1212558767
Pat Recommends - The Church of What's Happening Now
http://thechurchofwhatshappeningnow.libsyn.com/
Joey 'CoCo' Diaz is a maniac. That is an understatement. He is also a comedian, actor and podcaster with a wild, wild past. Find out about it on The Church of What's Happening Now. The usual podcast format is an interview with whoever's brave enough to come on. The guests are wide ranging, often those individuals who've been lucky enough to lead lives as interesting as Joey's. Otherwise it's Joey and offsider Lee Syatt talking about whatever comes up, or trading stories from their past.
For Zane & Liz: Pick a guest that you like, or take a deep dive with the 'Acid Church' episode.
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-church-of-whats-happening-now-with-joey-coco-diaz/id558364221
Zane Recommends - Homoground
Now this is the very first podcast of this kind that I have come across. a music curation podcast. If you are like me and live in a bit of a music-bubble, and struggle to hear new stuff then this might be the new wave of podcasting for you. The Homoground podcast features music from LGBTQ and allied bands to bring exposure & access to queer bands, especially to those who live in isolated areas.
For Pat: Any
For Liz: Any
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/homoground-queer-music-radio-lgbtq/id434095730
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Wahoo, we made it to 20 episodes! Have we figured out how to do this thing in the most professional way possible? Hell no! But since when has that stopped us? Zane continues his fiction podcast roll with Motel Americana, Liz follows in his footsteps with the serialised radio play Sandra, and Patrick tries to tickle our funny bones with the comedy offering Your Mom's House. Then we get stuck into the reviews from last week's podcast recommendation.
Liz Recommends - Sandra
https://gimletmedia.com/shows/sandra
Sandra is a radio play style of podcast starring Alia Shawkat and Kristen Wiig. This podcast is a twisted look at the world of virtual assistants aka Siri and Alexa, and the world we are creating when devices can listen in to our lives. The offical blurb reads: "Helen’s always dreamed of ditching her hometown, so when she lands a job at the company that makes Sandra, everyone's favorite A.I., she figures it’s the next-best thing. But working behind the curtain isn’t quite the escape from reality that Helen expected."
Liz binged the crap out of this but she brought it to the table because she desperately wanted to know what the other Castologists thought of the ending.
For both: This is another serial so start at the start and go as far as you want.
Link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sandra/id1369393683
Pat Recommends - Your Mom's House
http://www.yourmomshousepodcast.com/
From the minds of my favourite comedy couple, Your Mom's House is non stop, top notch toilet humour. Tom Segura and Christina Pazsitzky host this outlandish, weekly comedy podcast. Each week they'll often have another comedian on or comedians on to discuss all things everything and all in between. Other weeks they won't have a guest, they'll simply bask in the glory of their loving marriage. So come on in, give this one a try, even if for a just a quick glass.
For Zane and Liz: Pick a guest that appeals to you.
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/your-moms-house-with-christina-p-and-tom-segura/id503482646
Zane Recommends - Motel Americana Podcast
https://motelamericanapodcast.com/
Another submission! And it is also a fiction podcast! Motel Americana is a short story podcast consisting of odd and lovely tales set in a crummy motel in Jersey circa the 1980’s. The stories here run the literary gamut, from sci-fi and horror to comedy and romance. The premise is that these stories were written by Oscar Garrett, a teenager who lived at the motel with his family and evidently bugged the rooms because the tales are clearly based on actual audio surveillance recordings of the lodgers that stayed at the motel. The podcast is hosted by Jack Same who is a one man team which makes the content even more impressive!
For Pat: Any
For Liz: Any
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/motel-americana/id1447103453?mt=2
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Welcome! Pull up a chair and listen to your favourite Castologists recommending their favourite podcasts. This week Patrick brings Ari Shaffir's Skeptic Tank, Zane goes fictiony with Starship Sofa and Liz jumps on what's sure to be the next true crime podcast hit Jensen & Holes: The Murder Squad.
Liz Recommends - Jensen & Holes: The Murder Squad
http://themurdersquad.com/
GUYS! Billy Jensen and Paul Holes have a podcast! If you don't know who the hell Liz is talking about then you're obviously not a Murderino. Paul Holes is a retired detective who helped solve the Golden State Killer case and Billy Jensen is the kickass investigative journalist who helped finish Michelle McNamara's book on the case (I'll Be Gone In The Dark) and now works as a police consultant. The first new podcast on Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark's Exactly Right network, this is the podcast that invites YOU to help solve their cold cases. It's ARMCHAIR DETECTIVE TIME.
"Each week ride shotgun with retired cold case investigator Paul Holes and investigative journalist Billy Jensen as they attempt to solve an unsolved murder case using a variety of methods, from routine shoe-leather work to advanced technologies like familial DNA searches and social media geotargeting. But their secret weapon in the search for justice is staring right at these notes.
You have been watching and listening to stories about violent crimes and investigations for years. Now is the time to put all of that knowledge and wits to good use to actually help solve a crime. Welcome to the Murder Squad."
For both: Listen from the start, there are only a handful of eps out.
Link https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/jensen-and-holes-the-murder-squad/id1455668750
Pat Recommends - Ari Shaffir's Skeptic Tank
Ari Shaffir. Comedian. Writer. Actor. Producer. Podcaster. Jew. Ari is one of my favourite comedians right now. His iconoclastic and unrelenting style of comedy is one I certainly appreciate. His podcast often opens with an introduction from Ari followed by a laid back chat with his guest. Every now and then you'll come across a solo podcast or a panel discussion.
For Zane & Liz: #277 Henry Rollins, if you want more I really liked #350 Shooter.
http://arithegreat.com/category/podcast/
Zane Recommends - Starship Sofa
http://www.starshipsofa.com/
Zane has brought in one of his old favourites this week, an audio fiction podcast! Hosted by the INIMITABLE accent of Tony C Smith, Starship Sofa is an audio magazine style show, similar in style to some of the great SF print magazines out there like Asimovs and Analog. A typical show includes poetry, flash fiction, fact article, reviews and main fiction. It’s produced by many and put together by one. Writers who have had there work narrated on the podcast include Michael Moorcock, Joe Haldeman, Bruce Sterling, David Brin, Harry Harrison, Ted Chiang, George R. R. Martin, William Gibson, and many many more.
For Pat: Any
For Liz: Any
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=166360307
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It's time for more Castology! Are you ready? Are you really? Because we are CHANGING IT UP this week. That's right, from this episode we'll have our recommendations first up, then stick around for our reviews from last week's offerings. This week, Pat recommends one of his favourite ever podcasts, Congressional Dish, Zane brings a listener submission - Dead Ladies Show Podcast - to the table, and Liz looks at another true crime phenomenon in Dr Death.
Liz Recommends - Dr Death
Liz should get some sort of award for recommending so many Wondery podcasts. This week it's all about Dr Duntsch aka Dr Death.
"33 Patients. A Charming Surgeon. A Spineless System.
We’re at our most vulnerable when we go to our doctors. We trust the person at the other end of that scalpel. We trust the hospital. We trust the system. Dr. Christopher Duntsch was a neurosurgeon who radiated confidence. He claimed he was the best in Dallas. If you had back pain, and had tried everything else, Dr. Duntsch could give you the spine surgery that would take your pain away. But soon his patients started to experience complications. And all they had to protect them was a system ill equipped to stop the madness. From Wondery, the network behind the hit podcast Dirty John, DR. DEATH is about a medical system that failed to protect these patients at every possible turn. Reported and hosted by Laura Beil."
For both: This is a serial podcast so ya gotta start from the start.
Link: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/dr-death/id1421573955
Pat Recommends - Congressional Dish
OK. This is my baby. Not really. It's host Jennifer Briney's baby I guess. But I like to think I've been there since the shower. This woman is one of my heroes. Since 2012 she has been reading the bills that pass through the legislative branch of the United States Government. It's a dirty job, but no one was doing it. Not even the members of the branch, really. This is the raw data. Who is taking money from who, how much and what bills are being put forward as a result. If you want to narrow your news streams to escape the madness of the world I would still urge you to keep this one flowing. This podcast has the potential to change the world.
For Zane & Liz: Pick a more recent episode, if you like it go back further. See how deep the rabbit hole goes.
https://congressionaldish.com
Zane Recommends - Dead Ladies Show Podcast
https://deadladiesshow.com/
Zane is so excited to recommend this submission! The Dead Ladies Show (and podcast) is all about women who achieved great things against all odds. The live show happens every two months or so at ACUD, Berlin, and celebrates ladies who were fabulous while they were alive, in English and in German and these shows are recorded and released as a podcast. It is hosted by Katy Derbyshire and Florian Duijsens and produced by Susan Stone.
For Pat: 17 Ada Lovelace
For Liz: 19 Constance Barnicoat & Irihapeti
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/dead-ladies-show-podcast/id1289661254
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Your friendly neighbourhood Castologists are here to tell you where to go... to get good podcasts. (Not the other way, sheesh, we don't want you all to get mad at us and leave!) Liz dips back into the Wondery barrel to look at their new offering One Plus One, Zane explains what the "ology" part in Castology means (and a whole lot more ologies too) with the appropriately named Ologies, and Patrick gets newsy and questions everything with The Fifth Column. Got thoughts? We know you do! Send them to us!
Liz Recommends - One Plus One
https://wondery.com/shows/one-plus-one/
Liz was all about this podcast that explores famous partnerships in history because the first series looks at Beatles Lennon and McCartney and she s all about them (and always has been even before her stupid ex claims he got her to love them, so there.)
"Every great collaboration is a love story. It’s intense. Passionate. Along the way, there’s flashes of love, hate, pride, ego, ambition, and brilliance. Think: Jay-Z and Beyonce. Google’s Sergei Brin and Larry Page. Lenin and Trotsky. The Lakers’ Shaq and Kobe. From Wondery, the company behind the hit podcast “Business Wars,” comes ONE PLUS ONE, an ongoing series about what happens when two geniuses come together to do something they could never accomplish on their own. In each six-episode series, hosts Rico Gagliano (Safe for Work) and Faith Salie (CBS’ This Morning) will bring you the ups and downs of the world’s greatest and most dramatic collaborations. And they will look at some key questions: Why does creative tension often spark something magical? And what can we learn from these stories to help with our own life and work partnerships?"
https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/one-plus-one/id1449642919?mt=2
For both: The whole Lennon/McCartney series.
Pat Recommends - The Fifth Column Podcast
What's more fun than listening to a bunch of well informed journos sitting around, getting drunk and shooting the breeze about the state of play? Probably loads of stuff but this is still worth your time I swear. I first clued onto this thanks to Kmele Foster of Free Think Media appearing on a bunch of my other feeds. Now I've gotten to know his friends Matt Welch of Reason Magazine and Michael Moynihan from Vice News and boy am I glad I did. These podcasts usually consist of the above three doing the higher above, but they'll sometimes have a guest on or opt for a one on one interview style.
For Zane: 134
For Liz: 136
http://wethefifth.com
Zane Recommends - Ologies
https://www.alieward.com/ologies
Zane is back with another science podcast! Created by science correspondent Alie Ward, Ologies involves Ward interviewing radical names in every -ology she likes, including archaeology and biology, and making you laugh so hard you might cry. Alie Ward studied both science & film in college and was a staff writer/editor for the Los Angeles Times and on-air contributor to KTLA. She volunteers at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and is a co-founder of the science communication collective Nerd Brigade.
For Pat: Selachimorphology (SHARKS) with Chris Lowe
For Liz: Kalology (BEAUTY STANDARDS) with Renee Engeln
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/ologies
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This episode runs the gamut from wacky spontaneous musical fun, to true crime intrigue and a hub for dangerous ideas. First up as always listen to the verdict on the podcasts the Castologists presented the week before, then get stuck into our new recommendations. This week Zane shows his musical loving side with Off Book: The Improvised Musical, Liz presents a cultural touchstone podcast in Teacher's Pet, and Patrick looks at all the ideas you're not meant to talk about through Unregistered With Thaddeus Russell.
Liz Recommends - Teacher's Pet
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/the-teachers-pet
If you haven't yet listened to Teacher's Pet, you're missing out on a huge, Australia-wide watercooler conversation moment. The podcast, by The Australian reporter Headly Thomas investigates the disappearance of Lyn Dawson in the 1970s, the ever changing stories and shady dealings of her husband Chris Dawson, and a pattern of systematic abuse in high schools. Unmissable for true crime lovers and those who want to get in on the story as it's unfolding.
For both: All of it. Everything. Until forever.
https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/the-teachers-pet/id1385379989?mt=2
Pat Recommends - Unregistered with Thaddeus Russell
I first heard Thaddeus on my favourite podcast Tangentially Speaking. Since then I've seen him appear on a number of other places and spaces. He's a professor history, American studies, diplomacy and world affairs. He also isn't afraid to have dangerous or disagreeable conversations, which is what I like about this podcast. These are often one on one conversations with other interesting folks.
For Zane & Liz: The choice is yours, use your powers wisely.
http://www.thaddeusrussell.com/podcast
Zane Recommends - Off Book: The Improvised Musical
https://www.earwolf.com/show/off-book/
Before Zane was a podcast mogul, he was a musical theatre fanatic! And this week he is bringing you a a taste of that obsession with Off Book. On Off Book: The Improvised Musical, you get a brand new original musical every week! Each episode, Jessica McKenna, Zach Reino and a special guest create a new musical on the spot. Off Book is accompanied by the incomparable Scott Passarella (King of Pianists, Pianist of Kings.) And every week is a totally different show.
For Pat: Everything is Prozactly What I Need
For Liz: Sham Wowowow
https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/off-book-the-improvised-musical
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Controversy abounds as the team reviews last week's podcast offerings. Which of the podcasts got our Castologists in a tizz? You'll have to listen to find out. Then, we back away from potential blows just in time to recommend new podcasts for your ears to enjoy: Imagined Life from Liz, Revisionist History from Patrick and NRIWoman Podcast from Zane (a reader submission!).
Liz Recommends - Imagined Life
https://wondery.com/shows/imagined-life/
A delightful podcast that's part story, part history and part game. "Have you ever wondered what it would feel like to walk in the shoes of a legend and not even realize it? IMAGINED LIFE takes you there.
Each episode guides listeners on an immersive journey through the surprising moments and challenges that shaped someone’s life before they were famous. Clues about your identity are dropped along the way, but only at the end will you learn who “you” are.
Part mystery, part deeply immersive story, and part inspiration for how to weather life’s unexpected trials, Imagined Life shows just how connected we all are."
Liz and Zane have taken to messaging each other to start every new ep at the EXACT same time to try to see who is first at guessing who the "you" this week is. (Zane normally wins because let's face it, he has an encyclopedic knowledge on pretty much everything.)
For both: The Performer, The Trailblazer, The Rebel, The Officer
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/imagined-life/id1439810326?mt=2
Pat Recommends - Revisionist History
Malcollm Gladwell may be a familiar name to many of you. He's an esteemed author, journalist, public speaker, and as of 2016 a podcaster. Each episode he'll invite listeners along to an adventure through an often obscure part of history to explore a person, event, or idea through a novel lens.
For Zane & Liz: Whatever you like the sound of.
http://revisionisthistory.com
Zane Recommends - NRIWoman Podcast
https://nriwoman.com/
Another Submission from Zane! NRI (Non-Resident of India) Woman Podcast began as a Facebook page in 2016 by two close friends, Bettina Tauro and Ninorah Brookshire. Both Indians by birth but living outside of India. It began with the intention of starting conversations with other like-minded women in the Middle East and around the world. Each week they chat with guests who share their story. Conversations cover topics ranging from family, marriage, career, kids to fashion and more.
For Pat: 27 A Girls Faith
For Liz: 26 Her STEM
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/n-r-i-woman
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Happy April Fool's Day! Our Castologists jokingly thought it would be funny to do a Religion theme on this prankiest of days because it seemed like a good idea at the time. And because none of them are remotely religious they've uncovered some podcasts with some sort of spiritual component... Also it's nearly Easter so just go with it OK? Liz found enlightenment in the words of J.K. Rowling with Harry Potter and the Sacred Text, Zane gets down to worshipping false gods with Zealot, and Patrick gets controversial with The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast.
Liz Recommends - Harry Potter and the Sacred Text
"On this podcast, we ask: What if we read the books we love as if they were sacred texts?"
This podcast is all about looking at the Harry Potter book series as if it were a sacred text and finding out what we can learn from each chapter. The hosts pick a central theme through which to explore the characters and context, always grounding themselves in the text. Through this, they unearth some wonderful lessons we humans can take from the famous plight of the Boy Who Lived. The hosts recommend reading along with them to get the most out of the works but it is not mandatory.
For both: Whatever book you remember/chapter/theme takes your fancy.
Pat Recommends - The Jordan B Peterson Podcast
Jordan B Peterson is a clinical psychologist at the University of Toronto. He has quickly become one of the most controversial and polarising figures in popular academia. His podcast usually consists of interviews with guests, Q&A's, and recordings of lectures and conferences. Since this is a very special religious episode I have recommended his psychological significance of the bible series For Zane & Liz: The psychological significance of the bible lectures.
https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/the-jordan-b-peterson-podcast/id1184022695?mt=2
Zane Recommends - Zealot
Infringing a little bit on Liz's territory Zealot is a true crime-ish podcast about cults. This is another Australian podcast, each episode Jo Thornely talks to a comedian/performer friend about a different cult from Scientology to Synanon to The Universe People.
For Pat: 17: The Family with Shelley Stocken
For Liz: 21: Universe People with Patrick Lenton
https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/zealot
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It's listener submission overload this episode (except for Patrick who marches to the beat of his own drum). As always we start with reviewing last week's submissions and then get to recommending new stuff. Zane's challenges the status quo with Challenging Behaviors, Liz talks about sex, baby, with the listener suggested The Sugar Baby Confessionals and Patrick gets ready to expand all our minds with Psychedelic Salon.
Liz Recommends - The Sugar Baby Confessionals
https://fablegazers.libsyn.com/
"One way or another you always pay for sex."
"We’ve all read about it in the glossies – young girls becoming Sugar Babies, swapping cash and gifts for sex, to pay their way through university. Well, what if your best friend – your best, married friend – embraced the sugar baby lifestyle – not by necessity, but by choice? Sara’s best friend, Ruby, did just that. Sexy? Scary? Judge for yourself."
Host Sara, who describes herself as vanilla, wants to get to the heart of why her best mate Ruby is so interested in living a sugar baby life. What's so interesting about this podcast is that we get to explore Ruby's adventures into sugar baby land as she embarks on it, talking all about her feelings, thoughts and fears along the way, serial style.
For both: Start from the start and listen along.
https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/the-sugar-baby-confessionals/id1347256516?mt=2
Pat Recommends - The Psychedelic Salon
Continuing on with my theme of old woo woo lectures I bring you The Psychedelic Salon. I listen to this podcast mostly for the wealth of archived Terence McKenna lectures, but there's plenty of other interesting material in here too. Like the last podcast the format is usually and introduction from the host Lorenzo, followed by a lecture. There's coverage of the lectures given at Burning Man and Palenque Norte conferences covered here as well.
For Zane & Liz: I like any old Terence McKenna talk and maybe you will too.
https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/psychedelic-salon/id1235694853?mt=2
Zane Recommends - Challenging Behaviours
https://challengingbehaviours.wordpress.com/
This podcast was submitted through our website! It is very focused and specific which is what I think podcasts do best. In each episode the hosts - Jack, Tom and occasionally Adam - aim to challenge our behaviours, approaches and preconceptions toward people with disabilities and learning difficulties, while adding to the overall discussion about these subjects. And that is the main part that this cast does well. They ADD to the discussion surround these subjects and the people they effect in both a first-hand and second-hand way. They are relatively new but they are learning quickly about episode composition and sound recording and if you can get over a few inconsistencies with sound there is a lot of interesting content.
For Liz: RJ Mitte
For Pat: Frank Turner (beware varying Audio Quality)
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/challenging-behaviours
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Welcome back to our podcast review podcasts where we, your Castologists, review podcasts. Got it? This week Zane gives us history with a comedic twist courtesy of The Dollop, Liz gets back into potential true crime (no conviction yet, folks!) with The Drop Out and Patrick gets philosophical and thinky with Ram Dass Here and Now.
Liz Recommends - The Drop Out
http://abcradio.com/podcasts/the-dropout/
Money. Romance. Tragedy. Deception. The story of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos is an unbelievable tale of ambition and fame gone terribly wrong. How did the world’s youngest self-made female billionaire lose it all in the blink of an eye? How did the woman once heralded as “the next Steve Jobs” find herself facing criminal charges — to which she pleaded not guilty — and up to 20 years in jail? How did her technology, meant to revolutionize healthcare, potentially put millions of patients at risk? And how did so many smart people get it so wrong along the way? ABC News chief business, technology and economics correspondent Rebecca Jarvis, along with producers Taylor Dunn and Victoria Thompson, take listeners on a journey that includes a three-year-long investigation. You’ll hear exclusive interviews with former employees, investors, and patients, and for the first-time, the never-before-aired deposition testimony of Elizabeth Holmes, and those at the center of this story.
For both: Start from the start and listen to as many as you feel compelled to listen to.
https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/the-dropout/id1449500734?mt=2
Pat Recommends - Ram Dass Here and Now
Richard Alpert was a Harvard professor and a clinical psychologist before he was Ram Dass. I found the most compelling version of his story is told with the first episodes of this podcast. He is a spiritual teacher and author, and these podcasts are a great way to digest his teachings, old and new. The format usually consists of an introduction from Raghu Markus (a friend and student of Ram Dass') followed by a lecture from years ago. Occasionally Ram Dass will be present for an interview. I've always found this podcast helpful for un-muddling my head, a nice little respite from my usual subscriptions.
For Zane & Liz: I recommend you start with episode 1 and continue as long as you wish.
https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/ram-dass-here-and-now/id518366323?mt=2
Zane Recommends - The Dollop
www.dolloppodcast.com
On the Dollop podcast history buff and comedian Dave Anthony tells a new story each week to comedian Gareth Reynolds (who nominally knows nothing about the story). The Dollop is a super-popular podcast that has pioneered its two person format! Fans of both comedy and history are drawn to the wild stories and quick improv of the comedian hosts. The Dollop regularly tours in both the US and Australia and these live episodes usually feature local comedians and stories.
For Pat: 300A - Donald Trump (Part One)
For Liz: 188 - The Domino's Pizza Story
https://geo.itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/dollop-dave-anthony-gareth/id643055307?mt=2
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You want more podcasts? We got more podcasts (because that's literally our job, to give you podcast recommendations!) Liz brings a reader submission to the table (that she was already planning on doing thank you very much) called Forgotten Australia. Patrick decides during the show what he's going to recommend and comes up with RadioLab Presents More Perfect. And as for Zane, he's also waded into the barrel of reader submissions and brings us The What If Podcast.
Liz Recommends - Forgotten Australia
https://www.facebook.com/forgottenoz/
Forgotten Australia is a documentary podcast exploring incredible, often grim, stories from Australian history.
Michael Adams, a Sydney-based journalist, author and television producer.
Michael got the idea for the podcast while writing the biography Australia’s Sweetheart, about a forgotten movie star who went from Sydney to Hollywood and London in the 1930s. During his research he kept finding this amazing stories that no one had ever heard of, like an Aussie who had an unlikely role on the Titanic, the disappearance of a Brisbane socialite, unknown serial killers. He figured podcasts were the best way to be able to tell these stories and taught himself how to record, edit and publish podcasts.
For both: Episodes 6 (parts 1 and 2), episode 5, or any other one that takes your fancy really.
https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/forgotten-australia/id1442763878?mt=2
Pat Recommends - Radiolab presents More Perfect
It's Radiolab so of course it's good. This one delves more specifically into the Supreme Court, the precedents they set, and how. It's absolutely, terribly fascinating. If you don't think this will be your cup of tea you are wrong. Give it a try.
For Zane & Liz: It's all good baby babeeh.
https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/radiolab-presents-more-perfect/id1117202653?mt=2
Zane Recommends - The What If? Podcast with Jbats and Mykahl
http://www.whatif-podcast.com/
This is the first submission that I have chosen to feature on the podcast! And it is right in the Zane-Wheelhouse of causal, conversational podcasts. The two hosts ask strange, hilarious, paranormal, tough, and mysterious questions.
For Liz & For Pat: Pick one that appeals to you!
http://www.whatif-podcast.com/subscribe/
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We made it to our tenth episode (relatively) unscathed! This week as always we review last week's submissions, before bringing you delicious piping hot new podcasts for your approval. Because of St Patrick's Day we're all about drinking this week, with Liz recommending And That's Why We Drink, Pat offering up The Drunken Taoist Podcast and Zane rounding it off with Dumb People Town.
Liz Recommends - And That's Why We Drink
https://www.andthatswhywedrink.com/
Liz finds a way to relate drinking back to a murder (and supernatural) podcast, because OF COURSE SHE DOES. And That's Why We Drink is a paranormal and true crime podcast hosted by Christine Schiefer, Em Schulz, boxed wine (aka goon) and milkshakes. Get ready for bantery and eerie ghost tales and super terrifying true crime.
Featuring the catchphrase: "The world's a scary place. And that's why we drink!"
For Zane: Episode 78
For Pat: Episode 45
For both: Episode 9 because of their tragic cultural misunderstandings on how Aussies play goon of fortune.
https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/and-thats-why-we-drink/id1204570053?mt=2
Pat Recommends - The Drunken Taoist Podcast
This isn't really about drinking but hey, it's got drunk in the title. This bi-monthly podcast varies in format. Sometimes it's just host and all around cool guy Daniele Bolelli ranting and raving. Other times his co host Rich Evirs will help roll things along. They'll also throw in a guest every other episode. They touch all areas but tend to steer a lot towards politics, philosophy, sex, history and all that good jazz.
For Zane & Liz: Whatever you like. But I like episodes 129, 132, 137, 145
https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/the-drunken-taoist-podcast/id567232410?mt=2nk
Zane Recommends - Dumb People Town
https://starburns.audio/podcasts/dumb-people-town/
Now, while not explicitly about drinking, the news stories featured on Dumb People Town almost always include people who have consumed too much! It’s as much an exploration as it is a celebration of dumb people doing dumb things (often in Florida). With comedians Daniel Van Kirk, Randy Sklar, and Jason Sklar (who are twins). They have a very active social media presence and most of their stories are sourced from their fan base.
For Liz & Pat: Jump in randomly!
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/dumb-people-town/id1187357113?mt=2&at=1001lpDq
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Episode nine and it's podcast time. First up, as always, your friendly neighbourhood Castologists tell us exactly what they thought of Ain't it Rich, Serial and RadioLab. Then, have they got more recommendations for you! (Of course they have, it's literally their job). Liz is all about romantic espionage with I Secretly Recorded My Boyfriend, Patrick brings comedy and the biggest issues of our time together with #WeThePeople LIVE, and Zane brings Paul F. Thompkins to the table once more with Spontaneonation (making Liz very happy in the process).
Liz Recommends: I Secretly Recorded My Boyfriend
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/i-secretly-recorded-my-boyfriend/
Jo was so astounded with some of the things her boyfriend said that she started secretly recording him (seriously, he doesn't have a clue). She brings her friends Katy and Sparky on board to judge the status of her relationship by the very amusing recordings. Get ready for heavy Birmingham accents, lots of swearing and a fascinating look into the differences between men and women.
For both: Start at the start and listen to as many that grab you. This one's easy to duck in and out of.
Pat Recommends - #WeThePeople LIVE
Hey guess what I've recommended. A news, science and politics podcast. Something like that anyway. Crazy right? Hosted by Australian media personality Josh Zepps, this one started out as a somewhat drunken panel show that would take place in a bar in New York. Now that Josh is a responsible adult with twins he's moved back to Sydney and the show has taken on a one on one interview format... onaoneonone. Anyway, the show is great regardless of format and he manages to wrangle plenty of fine guests.
For Zane: Episode - 134. Dr Karl - LIVE
For Liz: Episodes - 139. Is the USA Undemocratic - Harvey Kaye
https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/wethepeople-live/id1002920114?mt=2
Zane Recommends - Spontaneanation www.earwolf.com/show/spontaneanation-with-paul-f-tompkins
After The Thrilling Adventure Hour left my life, Paul F Tompkins did his best to fill the void in my life (and in the Largo Theatre) with this improv podcast. Spontaneanation with Paul F Tompkins is a completely improvised show, from monologue to interview to narrative sketch. Join Paul, his special guests, his incredibly talented improviser friends, and accompanist Eban Schletter for an hour of comedy that none of them ever see coming.
For Liz: 41 Pet Store, Post Robbery
For Pat: 4 Savannah Georgia
http://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/earwolf/id407542375
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First up it's review time. What did we think of This is Love, Flash Forward and Making Sense with Sam Harris? Then we've more podcasts to bring to the table. Let's hear it for RadioLab, Serial and Ain't it Rich! Stay tuned to see what the team thinks of this crop of podcasts next week.
Liz Recommends - Serial
https://serialpodcast.org/
In case you've been living under a rock, Liz decided to recommend the worldwide podcasting phenomenon that is Serial. Most people got addicted to podcasts from this very series. The first series looks at the murder of Hae Min Lee and the subsequent conviction of her on-again off-again boyfriend Adnan Syed. Season two looks at Bowe Bergdhal, a man who was kept prisoner by the Taliban for five years, but all is not as it seems. The most recent season looks at the inner workings of a courthouse in Cleveland.
For both: Liz recommends starting at the very start of season one, where the obsession for most people began. Good luck not listening past the cliffhanger endings.
Pat Recommends - Radiolab https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/radiolab
Radiolab is a highly stylized, well edited, and terribly compelling investigative program. Their stories range far and wide, with nary a common thread. Well maybe the thread could be something like 'Lost but not forgotten'.. or something. Stories you didn't know you wanted to know. It's good.
For Zane: Episode - UnErased episodes
For Liz: Episodes - Post No Evil
They're all good, really.
Zane Recommends - Ain't it Rich www.aintitrich.com
A fellow Brisbane podcast with strong opinions! Ain't it Rich is a podcast aiming to take down capitalism with comedy. Each week, hosts Mickey and Aria tell a story of excessive affluence to their comedian guests. It is funny and informative well researched with facts about important historical figures and events.
For Liz: Episode 43 - The Harlem Globetrotters (w/ Nick Carr)
For Pat: Episode 63 - Private Schools (w/ Sam Bowden & David Woodhead)
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/aint-it-rich/id1142519987?mt=2
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Welcome to episode 7, where we rate the sex (podcasts) we had last week, and offer up new podcasts for review. Liz is following up sex with it's logical progression, luuuurve; she recommends This Is Love. Pat's podcast this week is Making Sense with Sam Harris (formerly Waking Up with Sam Harris). And Zane shows us a peek at what the future might hold with Flash Forward.
Liz Recommends - This Is Love https://www.thisislovepodcast.com/
This is Love is a podcast made by the producers of the award-winning podcast Criminal - Phoebe Judge, Lauren Spohrer and Nadia Wilson. The show investigates life’s most persistent mystery: love. The six-episode series explores “stories of sacrifice, obsession, and the ways in which we bet everything on each other.” It's only been going for two seasons and each ep is max 20 mins long.
For both: Liz's favourite episodes are 5, 6, 7, 8 and 2. But it's a gorgeous almost anthropological short stories series so there is lots of gold to be had in all eps.
Pat Recommends - Making Sense With Sam Harris (Formerly Waking Up) https://samharris.org/podcast/
Sam Harris is a neuroscientist, author, philosopher, and one of the 'Four Horsemen of the Non-Apocalypse'. His work touches on a wide range of topics, including rationality, ethics, free will, neuroscience, meditation, philosophy of mind, politics, Islamism, terrorism, and artificial intelligence. These are the sorts of topics you can expect to be expounded upon with a variety of guests over a long format.
For Zane: Episode #78
For Liz: Episodes #144
And if you're hungry for more I can recommend #137, #138, #140, #143, #145, #147, #148
Zane Recommends - Flash Forward www.flashforwardpod.com
This is a relatively new podcast-obsession for me. I am a huge fan of both science and science fiction and this podcasts is a great intersection of the two! Flash Forward is a podcast about the future. Each episode we take on a possible (or not so possible) future scenario — everything from the existence of artificial wombs, to what would happen if space pirates dragged a second moon to Earth. The show has been featured by Planet Money, Popular Science, WIRED, Note to Self, Gimlet, Indiewire and more. Apple Podcasts named Flash Forward one of the Best Podcasts of 2016. Flash Forward is produced and hosted by Rose Eveleth.
For Liz: "Portrait of the Artists As An Algorithm" (July 17)
For Pat: "Under the Sea" (July 31)
https://www.flashforwardpod.com/feed/podcast/
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Let's talk about sex, baby! In honour of Valentine's Day, the team at Castology wanna recommend getting down and dirty. How romantic! But before then we gotta talk about last week, namely: How Did This Get Made?, The Rubin Report and Intelligence Squared U.S. Debates. Then it's getting hot in here, with Liz gushing about Sex Nerd Sandra, Zane slipping in a bit of Savage Lovecast, and Patrick getting stimulating with Tangentially Speaking. Subscribe to us on ITUNES, STITCHER, SPOTIFY or your podcatcher of choice. Find us on FACEBOOK, TWITTER or INSTAGRAM.
Liz recommends: Sex Nerd Sandra https://www.patreon.com/sexnerdsandra
Host SandraDaugherty is a podcasting, workshop-teaching, sexual-shame-fighting “sex nerd” and her own words describe her podcast better than Liz ever could. “Many folks at first think "Sex Nerd" is just some provocative catch phrase I use to get attention. Ew no,” Sandra says on her Patreon. “In 2009, it was the only way I could efficiently communicate what I am and how I relate to the world. I was teaching a lot of BJ & orgasm classes back then and that quickly evolved into the Sex Nerd Sandra podcast (formerly on Nerdist). While I love to overshare about neato sex info, I’ve never felt like a sexpert, and always felt like a sex nerd. I hope we continue to learn together. I'm making lighthearted, curiosity-driven sex ed episodes interviewing scientists, practitioners and perverts about their passions." In earlier episodes she co-hosted with Dave Ross. She's now left the Pod Network life and you can donate to her Patreon so she can keep doing her sexy, nerdy thing.
Liz's recommendation for Zane: Ep #35 Kiss and Make Out (Live ep).
Liz's recommendation for Pat: Ep #66 Red Hot Touch
(But Liz also thought it was hard to choose which ep to recommend which gent, so she suggested listening to both if they can).
https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/sex-nerd-sandra/id455065811
Pat Recommends: Tangentially Speaking with Dr. Christopher Ryan https://chrisryanphd.com/tangentially-speaking/
This might be the favourite of my podcast subscriptions, it's certainly the one I recommend most. Chris Ryan first burst onto the scene in 2010 when he and his wife Cacilda Jethá co-wrote Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality. I first heard Chris when he appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience (naturally), where he was encouraged to start his own podcast. I've been listening to Tangentially Speaking from he beginning and am never disappointed. Chris gets all sorts of interesting people on, comedians, actors, musicians, scientists, writers, friends of his, and eccentrics he meets on his travels. I've too many favourite episodes so here's just a few: #188 Tom Spanbauer,#165 Lodhy, #204 Wim Hof, #214 Wade Davis, #254 Debra Berger, #279 Cacilda Jetha, #341 Aron Ralston
For Liz: To keep it thematic I'm going to recommend #322 Angela White
For Zane: #346 Wednesday Martin for Zane
https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/tangentially-speaking-with-christopher-ryan/id566908883
Zane recommends: The Savage Lovecast https://www.savagelovecast.com/
I have been listening to Dan Savage for years and I know he has many strong opinions about Valnetine's Day. Dan Savage is an author, a sex-advice columnist, a podcaster, a pundit, and a public speaker. "Savage Love," Dan's sex-advice column, first appeared in the The Stranger, Seattle’s alternative...
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It's all happening in episode five, if by all you mean podcasts are getting reviewed. Self-proclaimed Castologists Liz, Zane and Patrick kick off by reviewing last week's first THEMED comedy podcast selections (The Jimmy Dore Show, A Very Fatal Murder and The Film Reroll). Then we scooch on over to this week's also-themed offerings. The theme? Panel discussions! Liz suggests How Did This Get Made, Patrick brings select episodes of the Rubin Report to the table and Zane gets us all thinky with Intelligence Squared Debates. Find us on FACEBOOK, TWITTER or INSTAGRAM. Subscribe to us on ITUNES, STITCHER, SPOTIFY or your podcatcher of choice. (And give us a review, you know you want to).
Liz recommends: How Did This Get Made? https://www.hdtgminfo.com/
Have you ever seen a movie and thought: "How in the ever-loving fuck did this movie get made?" and yet somehow felt your excitement levels rising at how good/bad this dumpster fire of a film was? Then How Did This Get Made? is gonna be your jam. The panel is most often comprised of actors/comedians Paul Scheer, June Diane Raphael and Jason Mantzoukas but they frequently get their hilarious buddies along to add fuel to their garbage fire of a movie discussions. They watch the flick off-mic, then in the podcast they do a full movie recap and comb through just how shit/excellent the movie really is.
For Pat and Zane: Pretty much any episode that features movies that grab or intrigue you. Personal faves include Con Air, Look Who's Talking Too and Skyscraper.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/how-did-this-get-made/id409287913
Pat Recommends - The Rubin Report (Since it sometimes has panel discussions) https://daverubin.com/
The second disaffected liberal in a row. Dave Rubin and this show used to be part of The Young Turks but felt the network was getting a little too crazy for him. So now he hosts his own political news talk show. Dave's format usually involves a monologue at the beginning and then a one on one interview. Dave himself identifies mostly as a classical liberal with libertarian leanings. The Rubin Report can also be viewed rather than simply listened to on YouTube.
For Liz and Zane: a panel show episode so as to align with this theme.
A Bishop and a Rabbi Discuss Religion, the Enlightenment, and Finding Meaning.
Jordan Peterson and Ben Shapiro: Religion, Trans Activism, and Censorship.
LIVE from OCON: Jordan Peterson, Dave Rubin, Yaron Brook, Greg Salmieri
https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/the-rubin-report/id1052842770
Zane Recommends - Intelligence Squared U.S. Debates https://www.intelligencesquaredus.org/podcasts
I love listening to passionate people talk about what they are passionate about. Bonus points if the are erudite and succinct and extra bonus points if it is balanced with those who politely disagree! In a true debate format IQ2US allows listeners to eavesdrop on the brightest minds in journalism today, discussing topics ranging from domestic and foreign policy to cultural trends and technological innovations.
For Liz and Pat: Is Donald Trump Bad for Comedy?
https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/intelligence-squared-u-s-debates/id216713308
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We made it to episode four! As always, the Zane, Liz and Patrick kick off by telling us exactly what they thought of each other's offerings from last ep: Criminal, Dan Carlin's Hardcore History and The Smartest Man in the World Proopcast. Then it's on to the first of our THEMED recommendations, and this week we're all about comedy. Liz recommends A Very Fatal Murder (because of course she find's another comedy podcast about murder), Patrick wants us to listen to The Jimmy Dore Show (because of course he's a comedy podcast about politics), and Zane recommends The Film Reroll podcast because he's all about not being predictable. Find us on FACEBOOK, TWITTER or INSTAGRAM. Subscribe to us on ITUNES, STITCHER, SPOTIFY or your podcatcher of choice. (And give us a review, you know you want to).
Liz recommends: A Very Fatal Murder https://www.theonion.com/c/a-very-fatal-murder
Yes even with a comedy theme, Liz has managed to link it back to murder. Does this mean she's a psychopath? Who knows! A Very Fatal Murder was The Onion's contribution to the super popular investigative journalism/documentary style murder podcasts. The format, voice over and even use of a consistent music theme take the piss out of podcasts such as Serial and Up and Vanished (we're looking at you, Payne Lindsay). It's true crime, fake murder satire.
Liz recommends: For the boys to listen to the whole series. Each of the six episodes is only ten minutes long, don't be fucking lazy.
Pat Recommends - The Jimmy Dore Show https://jimmydorecomedy.com/home/index.php/the-jimmy-dore-show-podcast/
A comedy theme? I've already recommended two podcasts hosted by comedians! Here's my third and final. The Jimmy Dore show is part of TYT Network hosted by comedian and disaffected liberal who's name appears in the title. Each week he goes of on the Democrats, the Republicans and anywhere he sees political corruption. Usually flanked by comedians Stef Zamorano and Ron Placone and featuring bang on impressions by Mike MacRae, this show delivers some of the most depressing information about the state of the world in one of the most digestible ways.
Pat recommends: any old episode, though it's always good to be up to date with who's fucking the world over so maybe the freshest.
https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/the-jimmy-dore-show/id390071758
Zane Recommends - The Film Reroll Podcast https://www.filmreroll.com/
A comedy themed episode is the PERFECT time to introduce another of my passions, tabletop RPGS. The Film Reroll is a podcast with the idea to play through movies as a table top role playing game. It is hilarious when it goes right, and even more-so when it goes wrong! The show is cast by actors, improvisers and avid gamers. For Film Reroll they are playing a system called GURPS which is Generic Universe RolePlaying System. GURPS is meant to just provide basic rules for the game so anyone could take the system and apply it to any world or in this case movie.
Zane Recommends: Any movie that you know and love, I specifically enjoyed 'From Dusk till Dawn'
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-film-reroll/id1064775021
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Episode three and we're still obsessed with podcasts! This episode sees the Castologists Patrick, Liz and Zane discuss what they thought of last week's recommendations: Casefile, The Duncan Trussell Family Hour, and Unnatural Selection. One of us might have cried a little. Then we zoom on over to this week's selections: Criminal, Dan Carlin's Hardcore History and The Smartest Man in the World Proopcast. Write to us on our socials and tell us your thoughts, or recommend a podcast we just HAVE to listen to. Find us on FACEBOOK, TWITTER or INSTAGRAM. Subscribe to us on ITUNES, STITCHER, SPOTIFY or your podcatcher of choice. (And give us a review, you know you want to).
Liz recommends - Criminal https://thisiscriminal.com
Criminal is, as the title (and website suggests) a podcast about crime. But unlike Liz's previous murdery podcasts this one walks us through all types of crime (from blackmail, to identity theft, to assault and more). Host Phoebe Judge presents fascinating little snippets (most episodes are less than 20 mins long) from the lives of people who may have committed, witnessed or been victims of the crimes. As Vulture Magazine once said: Criminal is a podcast that "sees crime as something sociological, historical, even anthropological — that crime is a function of people, time, and place. With incredible sound design, marvelous writing, and a boldness in the way it makes its choices, there are few shows that feel more alive."
Liz's recommendation for Pat: Ep #52 Money Tree (and ep #49 The Editor if he's up for it)
Liz's recommendation for Zane: ep #42 The Finger.
(Since they're short eps, Liz also recommends ep #38 Jolly Jane, ep #11 I'm About To Save Your Life, ep #45 Just Mercy, ep #48 Eight Years and ep #71 A Bump In The Night... or any others, really. So easy to digest)
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/criminal/id809264944?mt=2
Pat Recommends - Dan Carlin's Hardcore History https://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-series
One of the most popular and well researched podcasts on the market. Dan Carlin takes his time to release these episodes but it is well worth the wait and obviously necessary once you realise how much time and energy went into these shows. Each episode provides hours of some of the most compelling and informative entertainment available. Some of the older shows have been archived behind a pay wall but are well worth the purchase, particularly Wrath of the Khans. Dan Carlin also hosts Hardcore History: Addendum in which he will often address topics he has been asked about, as well as bring on guests for another perspective.
For Zane: Prophets of Doom
For Liz: Thor's Angels
https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/dan-carlins-hardcore-history/id173001861?mt=2
Zane Recommends - The Smartest Man in the World Proopcast https://www.gregproops.com/blog
“Here he is, though, in front of a live audience each week, bravely recording some of the boldest comedy on the podcasting frontier right now.” -Rolling Stone Magazine
Greg Proops is a stand up comic from San Francisco. He lives in Hollywood. It’s not that bad. Really. The Proopdog is best known for his unpredictable appearances on Whose Line is it Anyway? and Greg has lent his voice to Hell and Back, Star Wars the Phantom Menace, The Nightmare Before Christmas and he really was Bob...
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It's episode two time! Do we know what we're doing entirely yet? Probably not! Will you enjoy it? Hopefully! This week Liz, Patrick and Zane tell you what they thought of last weeks recommendations including: The Thrilling Adventure Hour, My Favourite Murder and The Joe Rogan Show. This week's recommendations are: well-known Aussie true crime podcast Casefile, not-so-well-known Aussie podcast Unnatural Selection and comedy podcast The Duncan Trussell Family Hour.
Liz Recommends - Casefile https://casefilepodcast.com/
Casefile is a weekly (sometimes fortnightly) meticulously researched true crime podcast hosted by an extremely ocker Australian man who, to this day remains anonymous. It was launched in January 2016. Legend has it that the host has kept his name out of the spotlight because he wants the stories, facts, and questions speak for themselves.
After having surgery in 2015, the host was listening to a lot of podcasts and true crime shows including Hardcore History, The Joe Rogan Experience, Serial and watching Making a Murderer. He was actually encouraged by Joe Rogan himself to make his own based on in-depth research and a storytelling style.
Casefile provides thorough explorations of well-known cases such as the Port Arthur Massacre, Ivan Milat murders and the East Area Rapist, as well as presenting lesser known cases that prove just as remarkable.
For Zane: Case 42: Sherri Rasmussen.
For Pat: Case 60 parts 1, 2 and 3 on the Jonestown Massacre.
https://geo.itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/casefile-true-crime/id998568017?mt=2
Pat Recommends - The Duncan Trussell Family Hour http://www.duncantrussell.com
The DTFH is hosted by comedian and oddball Duncan Trussell. This podcast was previously known as the Lavender Hour which Duncan co hosted with his then girlfriend Natasha Leggero. Each episode begins with a bit of ranting and raving from the host of the show, followed by a guest. Duncan's interests are varied and esoteric so his guests range from comedians to scientists to psychonauts to spiritual teachers and more.
For Zane: Episode #209 with Dr. Bruce Damer
For Liz: Episodes #43 & #64 with Duncan's Mother
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/duncan-trussell-family-hour/id350580455?mt=2
Zane Recommends - Unnatural Selection http://www.unnaturalshow.com
Unnatural Selection is an irreverent weekly podcast about 'newsy type stuff and things'. Hosted by Tom Heath, Adam Direen and Jorge Tsipos.
The hosts met when completing their Bachelor of Performing Arts at Monash University in 2009 and began the first iteration of the Unnatural Selection podcast in 2010 as a live talk-show for Radio Monash.
The podcast live-streams the recording every Monday evening, and releases episodes a couple of hours after.
For Liz and Pat: Any episode the is not a "Chat's with" episode.
https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/unnatural-selection/id376503959?mt=2
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Hello and welcome to our first episode! We three are podcasters and (mildly obsessed) podcast fans and we’re here to spread the word about our favourite podcasts, as well as those new, up-and-coming and everything in between.
Each week you’ll have three new recommendations from Liz, Pat and Zane and a review of our selections from last week. So have a seat, stay a while and keep listening to podcasts!
Zane Recommends:
The Thrilling Adventure Hour http://thrillingadventurehour.com/
"The creators of The Thrilling Adventure Hour proudly call it "fake radio." It's less an homage to old-time radio and more of a clever update. A live monthly performance at Largo, a 200-seat, scruffy-chic Hollywood nightclub" - NPR
Some of the stories of TAH include “Sparks Nevada, Marshal On Mars” and “The Cross-Time Adventures Of Colonel Tick-Tock”, and Zane's personal favourite, "Beyond Belief".
TAH was written by two film and television writers Ben Acker & Ben Blacker (who met in college and have worked together since) and starred a veritable smorgasbord of Hollywood talent (before they were so famous) including: Paget Brewster, Paul F. Tompkins, Craig Cackowski, Busy Philipps, Annie Savage, James Urbaniak, John DiMaggio, Marc Evan Jackson, Mark Gagliardi, Hal Lublin, Joshua Malina, Janet Varney.
Some of the most notable guest stars were: Alison Brie (Community), Danny Pudi (Community), Zac Levi (Chuck, Tangled), Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother), Patton Oswalt (comedy; Young Adult), Jon Hamm (Mad Men), Karen Gillan (Doctor Who), Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Dark Knight Rises, Looper), Emily Blunt (Looper), Nick Offerman (Parks & Recreation), Nathan Fillion (Firefly, Castle)
Thrilling Adventure Hour Treasury https://open.spotify.com/show/0QAbveMrMTMprQT9oQKdkJ?si=vUoVc78iQNerE8x2droa5A
Episode #10 - Wishing Hell https://open.spotify.com/episode/4j3Cf14X8aclW2o7W4yiVM?si=YJsxtp1JRHGIpkNPeZXUQA
Pat recommends:
Joe Rogan Experience http://podcasts.joerogan.net/
The Joe Rogan experience is a long form podcast hosted by comedian and UFC colour commentator Joe Rogan. What started out as a humble underground goof with Joe and his friends has quickly become one of the most popular shows of all time. It boasts roughly 3.3 million subscribers and high profile guests such as Neil deGrasse Tyson, Elon Musk, Steven Tyler, Anthony Bourdain and many more.
Patrick's top picks for Zane and Liz are (respectively):
1158 Chuck Palahniuk - Freelance journalist and author whose works include Fight Club and Choke.
1170 Tulsi Gabbard - Politician of the Democratic Party serving as the U.S. Representative for Hawaii's 2nd congressional district.
Other picks from Pat include: #142 Graham Hancock & Duncan Trussell, #1171 Nick Yarris, #1080 David Goggins, #804 Sam Harris, #877 Jordan Peterson, #911 Alex Jones, #1035 Paul Stamets, the "Shrimp Parade" trialogues with Duncan Trussell and Dr. Christopher Ryan, and any episode with Dr. Rhonda Patrick.
Liz recommends:
My Favourite Murder https://www.myfavoritemurder.com
My Favorite Murder is a weekly true-crime comedy podcast hosted by American comedians Georgia Hardstark and Karen Kilgariff. The pair met at a Halloween party in 2014 when Karen was talking about a gruesome event she witnessed. While the rest of the party guests backed away slowly, the normally socially anxious Georgia approached and the pair talked about murder and true crime for the rest of the night. Both thrilled they’d found someone who shared the others’ interest in...
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