Society & Culture Podcasts

Dirty John

35 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 40.5K ratings
All episodes are available for free, with remastered ad-free episodes available for Wondery+ subscribers. Debra Newell is a successful interior designer. She meets John Meehan, a handsome ...

Atlanta Monster

33 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★ - 20.1K ratings
From the producers of Up and Vanished, Tenderfoot TV and HowStuffWorks present, 'Atlanta Monster.' This true crime podcast tells the story of one of the city’s darkest secrets, The Atlanta Child Mu...

Impaulsive with Logan Paul

642 episodes - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 19.8K ratings
The world's greatest, most thought-provoking, mentally stimulating podcast in the history of mankind... hosted by a bunch of idiots.

Ear Hustle

78 episodes - Latest episode: 10 days ago - ★★★★★ - 18.6K ratings
Ear Hustle brings you the daily realities of life inside prison shared by those living it, and stories from the outside, post-incarceration. The podcast is a partnership between Nigel Poor,...

CHARLI AND DIXIE: 2 CHIX

30 episodes - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 15.8K ratings
You’ve seen them dance, sing and hang out with the world in videos that have reached billions. Now, here's your opportunity to really discover who Charli & Dixie D'Amelio are as individuals, daught...

Dolly Parton's America

13 episodes - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 15.4K ratings
In this intensely divided moment, one of the few things everyone still seems to agree on is Dolly Parton—but why? That simple question leads to a deeply personal, historical, and musical rethinking...

Man In The Window: The Golden State Killer

29 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 13.7K ratings
In Man in the Window, Paige St. John, a Pulitzer Prize winning investigative reporter has uncovered never before revealed details about the man who would eventually become one of California...

Believed

12 episodes - Latest episode: 8 months ago - ★★★★★ - 12.7K ratings
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 t...

American Scandal

217 episodes - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 11.8K ratings
New episodes come out every Tuesday for free, with 1-week early access for Wondery+ subscribers. Every scandal begins with a lie. But the truth will come out. And then comes the fallout an...

Embedded

84 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 11K ratings
Host Kelly McEvers takes a story from the news and goes deep. Whether that means digging into the Trump administration's past, the stories behind police shootings caught on video, or visiting a tow...

True Crime All The Time

448 episodes - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 10.7K ratings
Hosts Mike Ferguson and Mike Gibson guide you through the most interesting true crime stories. This is a true crime podcast that spares none of the details and delves into what makes these ...

Sibling Revelry with Kate Hudson and Oliver Hudson

94 episodes - Latest episode: 8 days ago - ★★★★★ - 9.2K ratings
Sibling Revelry explores the sibling bond, family dynamics, the human mind, and so much more. Kate and Oliver dive deep into the things that interest them and talk to other siblings in a free-forme...

Confronting

38 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 8.6K ratings
Season 2 - Confronting: Columbine The events of April 20th, 1999 shaped our nation and altered the American narrative. One of America’s deadliest school shootings took place in a small...

Still Processing

140 episodes - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★★ - 8.5K ratings
Wesley Morris and Jenna Wortham are working it out in this weekly show about culture in the broadest sense. That means television, film, books, music — but also the culture of work, dating, the int...

Bad Batch

46 episodes - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 8.3K ratings
Patients in search of a miracle cure end up in critical condition. The race is on to find out what went wrong before more people get hurt. The trail leads back to a medical company with sli...

Detective Trapp

25 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 8.3K ratings
Anaheim investigator Julissa Trapp is not like other detectives. She’s the only woman on the homicide squad, and a skilled chameleon: undercover cop in vice stings, crime-scene commander, p...

Against the Rules with Michael Lewis

31 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 8.1K ratings
Journalist and bestselling author Michael Lewis (Liar's Poker, Moneyball) takes a searing look at what’s happened to fairness. It feels like there's less of it every day—whether it comes to lending...

Imagined Life

124 episodes - Latest episode: about 22 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 7.9K ratings
What is it like to be famous before you’re famous? What is it like to walk in the shoes of another person? Each episode of Imagined Life takes you on an immersive journey into the life of a...

You and Me Both with Hillary Clinton

47 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★ - 7.9K ratings
Hillary Clinton sits down for candid, in-depth, and sometimes hilarious conversations with people she finds fascinating. With help from her guests, Hillary will tackle the topics that shape our liv...

Happy Face Presents: Two Face

37 episodes - Latest episode: 12 days ago - ★★★★ - 7.9K ratings
What would you do if you learned you were adopted, your biological mother was a convicted murderer and your father’s true identity was a mystery? This is what happened to Becky Babcock, the daughte...

On Being with Krista Tippett

938 episodes - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★★ - 7.8K ratings
Groundbreaking Peabody Award-winning conversation about the big questions of meaning — spiritual inquiry, science, social healing, and the arts. Each week a new discovery about the immensity of our...

Scrubbing In with Becca Tilley & Tanya Rad

230 episodes - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 7.6K ratings
We need a crash cart! Scrub in each week with Becca Tilley and her BFF Tanya Rad as they fangirl over their favorite shows, work through boy troubles, and hang out with the biggest celebrity guests...

Gals on the Go

189 episodes - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★ - 7.5K ratings
Join your two favorite gals, Brooke and Danielle, every Wednesday for a fun podcast about all things lifestyle! Danielle Carolan is a full-time student at the University of Georgia, Youtuber and S...

Modern Love

274 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★ - 7.1K ratings
For 16 years, the Modern Love column has given New York Times readers a glimpse into the complicated love lives of real people. Since its start, the column has evolved into a TV show, three books a...

Southern Fried True Crime

163 episodes - Latest episode: about 9 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 7K ratings
Erica Kelley is a native Tennessean exploring historical and contemporary true crime in the South. Southern charm is attempted but southern sass is bountiful. Join her as she shows you just how sou...

Accused

40 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★ - 6.7K ratings
Season 3: In 1984, a father of three disappeared while working at a mysterious Cincinnati plant. It turned out he’d met a gruesome fate: Pieces of bone, his eyeglasses and walkie-talkie wer...

Dear Hank & John

814 episodes - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 6.2K ratings
Hosts John and Hank Green (authors and YouTubers) offer both humorous and heartfelt advice about life’s big and small questions. They bring their personal passions to each episode by sharing the we...

Gangster Capitalism

58 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★ - 6.2K ratings
The C13Originals Peabody nominated series is back for Season Three: Jerry Falwell Jr. and Liberty University. A sex scandal rocks one of the world’s largest Christian universities, and the man at t...

House of Kim with Kim Zolciak

161 episodes - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★ - 5.5K ratings
If you know anything about Kim, you know there is never a dull moment in her life. Kim has done it all from motherhood, to music, to starring on The Real Housewives of Atlanta, and even her own spi...

Room 20

23 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★ - 5.1K ratings
The sign above his hospital bed called him Sixty-Six Garage. For more than 15 years, he would lay there unidentified and unconscious. Or so, everyone believed. From L.A. Times Studios and the team ...