Society & Culture Podcasts

This American Life
142 episodes - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 76.5K ratingsThis American Life is a weekly public radio show, heard by 2.2 million people on more than 500 stations. Another 2.5 million people download the weekly podcast. It is hosted by Ira Glass, produced ...

Up and Vanished
150 episodes - Latest episode: about 22 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 58.2K ratingsHost Payne Lindsey returns with season 3 to investigate the North West Montana disappearance of Ashley Loring HeavyRunner, an indigenous woman who went missing from the Blackfeet Nation Indian Rese...

Revisionist History
118 episodes - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 55.8K ratingsRevisionist History is Malcolm Gladwell's journey through the overlooked and the misunderstood. Every episode re-examines something from the past—an event, a person, an idea, even a song—and asks w...

Last Podcast On The Left
728 episodes - Latest episode: about 10 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 45K ratingsThe Last Podcast On The Left covers all the horrors our world has to offer both imagined and real, from demons and slashers to cults and serial killers, The Last Podcast is guaranteed to satisfy yo...

S-Town
8 episodes - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 42.7K ratingsS-Town is a podcast hosted by Brian Reed from Serial Productions, a New York Times company. The story follows a man named John who despises his Alabama town and decides to do something about it. He...

Lore
233 episodes - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 41.5K ratingsLore is a bi-weekly podcast (now also a TV show and book series) about dark historical tales. Each episode explores the mysterious creatures, tragic events, and unusual places that fill the pages o...

Dirty John
37 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 40.7K ratingsAll 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 ...

Cold
81 episodes - Latest episode: 8 months ago - ★★★★★ - 39K ratingsCold 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 d...

Radiolab
263 episodes - Latest episode: 8 days ago - ★★★★★ - 38K ratingsRadiolab is on a curiosity bender. We ask deep questions and use investigative journalism to get the answers. A given episode might whirl you through science, legal history, and into the home of so...

Zane and Heath: Unfiltered
324 episodes - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 31K ratingsZane and Heath: Unfiltered is a weekly podcast from YouTube sensations; Zane Hijazi and Heath Hussar, two uneducated Florida boys with strong opinions and nothing to back it. Join them for some raw...

To Live and Die in LA
48 episodes - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 29.8K ratingsIn Feb 2018, an aspiring actress vanished from her Hollywood apartment. Rolling Stone journalist Neil Strauss was asked to help the family get answers. Together, they found them...sometimes at grea...

True Crime Obsessed
437 episodes - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★★ - 29.6K ratingsThe true crime / comedy podcast YOU NEED IN YOUR LIFE. We recap your favorite true crime documentaries with humor, sass, and heart. FROM VULTURE: "It’s not wrong to laugh when you’re listening to a...

Radio Rental
44 episodes - Latest episode: about 21 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 27.9K ratingsDiscover real-life horror stories, from bizarre crimes to paranormal activity. These true stories are set inside the fictional world of Radio Rental, an 80’s video rental store run by an eccentric ...

Oprah's Super Soul
398 episodes - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 27.5K ratingsAwaken, discover and connect to the deeper meaning of the world around you with Oprah's Super Soul. Hear Oprah’s personal selection of her interviews with thought-leaders, best-selling authors, spi...

Reply All
216 episodes - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★★ - 26.9K ratings"'A podcast about the internet' that is actually an unfailingly original exploration of modern life and how to survive it." - The Guardian. Hosted by Alex Goldman and Emmanuel Dzotsi from Gimlet.

Freakonomics Radio
1,211 episodes - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★★ - 26.5K ratingsDiscover the hidden side of everything with Stephen J. Dubner, co-author of the Freakonomics books. Each week, Freakonomics Radio tells you things you always thought you knew (but didn’t) and thing...

Congratulations with Chris D'Elia
344 episodes - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★★ - 25K ratingsChris D'Elia (comedian: No Pain, Comedians of the World, Man on Fire, Incorrigible on Netflix, White Male Black Comic on Comedy Central) sits down every week to talk about what's on his mind.

In the Dark
62 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 24.8K ratingsSerial investigative journalism from APM Reports, with host Madeleine Baran and a team of reporters. Season 1 looked at the abduction of Jacob Wetterling in rural Minnesota and the accountab...

Making Sense with Sam Harris
324 episodes - Latest episode: 19 days ago - ★★★★★ - 23.8K ratingsJoin neuroscientist, philosopher, and best-selling author Sam Harris as he explores important and controversial questions about the human mind, society, and current events. Sam Harris is the auth...

Invisibilia
83 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 21K ratingsUnseeable forces control human behavior and shape our ideas, beliefs, and assumptions. Invisibilia—Latin for invisible things—fuses narrative storytelling with science that will make you see your o...

And That's Why We Drink
782 episodes - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 20.5K ratingsMurder and the paranormal finally meet! Grab your wine and milkshakes and join us every Sunday for some chilling ghost stories and downright terrifying true crime stories. The world's a scary place...

Impaulsive with Logan Paul
672 episodes - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 20.2K ratingsThe world's greatest, most thought-provoking, mentally stimulating podcast in the history of mankind... hosted by a bunch of idiots.

Jensen and Holes: The Murder Squad
168 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 20.2K ratingsRetired Cold Case Investigator Paul Holes and Investigative Journalist Billy Jensen dig deep into unsolved murders, unidentified remains and missing persons cases. Each week listeners ride s...

Atlanta Monster
34 episodes - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★ - 20.1K ratingsFrom 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...

Culpable
36 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 19.7K ratingsCulpable explores unsettled cases where the people who seem deserving of blame have somehow eluded justice. On February 26, 2014, Christian Andreacchio was found dead in the upstairs bathroom of hi...

Supernatural with Ashley Flowers
111 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 19.3K ratingsMost mysteries can be solved by looking at the facts. But sometimes, the facts don’t lead to a logical explanation, and the truth lies somewhere in the unknown… Join Parcast and Crime Junkie’s Ashl...

TED Radio Hour
281 episodes - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★ - 19.2K ratingsExploring the biggest questions of our time with the help of the world's greatest thinkers. Host Manoush Zomorodi inspires us to learn more about the world, our communities, and most importantly, o...

Coffee Convos with Kail Lowry and Lindsie Chrisley
344 episodes - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★★ - 19.1K ratingsCoffee Convos is hosted by Kail Lowry of MTV's Teen Mom and Lindsie Chrisley of USA Network's Chrisley Knows Best. These two reality stars come from totally different worlds, but have become close ...

Ear Hustle
92 episodes - Latest episode: 10 days ago - ★★★★★ - 18.8K ratingsEar 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,...

Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness
345 episodes - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 18.1K ratingsA weekly exploration of all the things Jonathan Van Ness (Queer Eye, Gay of Thrones) is curious about. Come on a journey with Jonathan and experts in their respective fields as they get curious abo...
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