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With Friends Like These

264 episodes - Latest episode: 9 months ago - ★★★★★ - 6.3K ratings
On this season of With Friends Like These, Forgiveness and Reconciliation, host Ana Marie Cox looks at post-Trump America and tries to find models for how we forgive people, and if we should.

Politically Re-Active with W. Kamau Bell & Hari Kondabolu

86 episodes - Latest episode: 6 months ago - ★★★★★ - 3.5K ratings
W. Kamau Bell and Hari Kondabolu are comedians who take politics seriously — and longtime friends, trying to help keep each other sane. Join them as they pull the alarm on the dumpster fire that i...

TALKING POLITICS

407 episodes - Latest episode: 7 months ago - ★★★★★ - 618 ratings
Coronavirus! Climate! Brexit! Trump! Politics has never been more unpredictable, more alarming or more interesting: Talking Politics is the podcast that tries to make sense of it all. Every week D...

Variant: The Podcast

123 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 330 ratings
Geek fandom is a vast and constantly growing space, and Variant covers nearly all of it. From the perspective of hosts Arris Quinones and Tim Connolly, this weekly Podcast talks Comics, Movies, TV,...

Last Week on Earth with Ben Gleib

157 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★ - 224 ratings
News. Pop Culture. Politics. Weird stories. EVERYTHING that happened during the last week. Comedian Ben Gleib catches you up on it all, while making fun of basically everything. Some people tell hi...

Object Of Sound

51 episodes - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 220 ratings
Object Of Sound brings you in tune with the music shaping our culture today. Hosted by poet and critic Hanif Abdurraqib, each episode blends the eclectic curation of freeform radio with artist inte...

Hal Sparks Radio Podcast Megaworldwide

118 episodes - Latest episode: 9 months ago - ★★★★★ - 163 ratings
The weekly podcast of The Hal Sparks Radio Program Megaworldwide, heard weekly on WCPT-Chicago.

Don't Tell Our Wives: Warm Beer, Cheap Comedy, and News

99 episodes - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★ - 121 ratings
What happens when you put comedians in front of microphones around a pool table? While we do end up playing with the balls and cue sticks, we search the deepest parts of every place (mainly the Int...

How Do I Know You?!

150 episodes - Latest episode: 12 months ago - ★★★★★ - 113 ratings
How Do I Know You?! Is a podcast for the people about People! Dwayne and Mark discuss the topics ranging from entertainment, politics, religion, culture, technology, etc.... and give their perspect...

Backstory with Larry Potash

70 episodes - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★★ - 112 ratings
Explore the BACKSTORY behind some of the most intriguing tales in history, culture, religion and science from Chicago and beyond. 

Monocle 24: The Globalist

858 episodes - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 92 ratings
Monocle 24’s unrivalled coverage of news and current affairs kicks off on weekdays with ‘The Globalist’ at 07.00 GMT/08.00 CET. Anchored from London and Zürich, join our editors for insight and opi...

Serial Fillers

6 episodes - Latest episode: 8 months ago - ★★★★★ - 79 ratings
Welcome to "Serial Fillers" - the podcast about celebs, influencers and cosmetic procedures with Dana Omari (aka @IGFamousbyDana) as your host. It's celebrity influencer gossip with a side of scien...

Monocle 24: The Briefing

863 episodes - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★ - 78 ratings
A pacy round-up of the day’s main news stories, anchored from London by a Monocle editor. The show features informed reporting, prescient business analysis and invaluable industry reports covering ...

Mark Leonard's World in 30 Minutes

416 episodes - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 69 ratings
Weekly podcast on the events, policies and ideas that will shape the world. World in 30 minutes is curated by Mark Leonard, Director of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), and featur...

Speakers Forum

232 episodes - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 48 ratings
Readings, debates, lectures from around Seattle, and so much more. Hear fascinating talks by authors, intellectuals, officials and regular folks with important stories recorded live.

Streetwise (The Pitch KC)

110 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 42 ratings
A podcast from The Pitch Kansas City, hosted by Editor-in-Chief Brock Wilbur, covering Kansas City's best and worst and all points in between. Pitch in and we'll get through it.

OMG I Can't

119 episodes - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★★ - 41 ratings
A podcast about everything and nothing at all. Tackling topics that are thought provoking, fun, uncomfortable, and hilarious. The opportunity to share interesting conversation with interesting pe...

Total Babble

238 episodes - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 31 ratings
A weekly podcast about music, movies, relationships, entertainment, the internet...whatever.

Celeb Talk Girl Talk

68 episodes - Latest episode: 7 months ago - ★★★★★ - 30 ratings
Welcome to Celeb Talk Girl Talk Podcast hosted by two Latinas from the Bronx. We are a lifestyle and pop culture podcast talking our way through your Mondays with candid conversations about relatio...

Cautious Coffee

22 episodes - Latest episode: 8 months ago - ★★★★★ - 30 ratings
Cautious Coffee is a forum to challenge and be challenged about what and how we think about the world. Hosted by Austin Staton and DeRae Crane, each episode brings you unscripted and unfiltered com...

Monocle 24: The Monocle Daily

443 episodes - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★★ - 29 ratings
Hear our take on the news and enjoy sharp reporting on the big stories every weekday. Tune in as our guest panel reviews the day’s events in Europe, follows developing stories in the Americas and w...

Status/الوضع

222 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 29 ratings
A critical, collaborative, and independent monthly Audio Journal combining analysis, reporting, and satire, comprised mainly of hard-hitting interviews/conversations, on-the-scene reports, reviews,...

Rooted In Tomorrow

33 episodes - Latest episode: 20 days ago - ★★★★★ - 29 ratings
We're a cooperative rooted in 100-years of forward-thinking. We're a different kind of company, grounded in a common cause ever since our founding in 1921 we have remained a cooperative. Land O'Lak...

Barely Legal Podcast

171 episodes - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★★ - 24 ratings
What’s So Funny About Lawyers, Guns & Money? Join Josh Sheridan from Busciglio Sheridan Schoeb, P.A. each week on his mission to make the law interesting, as he interviews local luminaries and peo...

Found In Translation With Ray Collazo

536 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 22 ratings
The Found In Translation Talk Show: Host Ray Collazo stacks truth about politics and today's hottest issues with a team of diverse experts and commentators.

Kyle Talks

49 episodes - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 22 ratings
Welcome to Kyle Talks, where I’m Kyle and we talk! In this podcast we focus on society, culture, & business! We interview amateurs, professionals, winners and those who are struggling along the way...

Notes from Poland

35 episodes - Latest episode: 6 months ago - ★★★★ - 21 ratings
A podcast on Polish politics, culture, history and society from the leading English-language source of news and information on Poland.

Cannabis Today

80 episodes - Latest episode: 11 months ago - ★★★★ - 19 ratings
Industry. Community. Culture. Welcome to Cannabis Today.

Rationalish

72 episodes - Latest episode: 7 days ago - ★★★★★ - 18 ratings
Two young researchers try to ask the right questions about world events and politics. Episodes every month. Come for the insight, stay for the puns.

From Embers

109 episodes - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
From Embers is a regular show about anarchist and anti-authoritarian politics in so-called Canada. We are part of the Channel Zero Anarchist Podcast Network.