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This week we introduce you to a podcast host so sensitive, so comforting, so empathetic and gentle — well, he is to “active listening” what Kyler Murray is to scrambling in the pocket. He’s a natural. And he changes the game. This guy is so tuned in and caring, he makes Harry Styles seem like…

Is products liability litigation a sexy topic for a podcast? Ostensibly, that’s a class you sleep through in law school. But, if you read The Informant, or watched the film starring Matt Damon, you know that an investigation about the global price fixing of food additive lysine can actually be quite riveting. And so it…

She’s sophisticated and she’s crass. She’s glamorous and yet she mostly wears a hoodie and sneakers. She’s sharp and edgy, she’s soft and fuzzy. She’s dedicated to liberal politics and democracy and helping the underdog, and she once wore blackface on TV, a moment she says she’ll be working to undo for the rest of…

Podcasts getting laughs out of grisly crimes, that’s nothing new, but the Scam Goddess is getting giggles out of grifts, including the lady who scammed George Washington University into thinking she was African American. This week on Easy Listening – a podcast about podcasts – we give you a taste of Scam Goddess, the show…

There’s no business like show business. Everything about it is appealing, except the part where the barriers to entry are so high and wide you might find yourself in a Jakarta taxi with your heart in your throat and your passport in your bra. This week, we introduce you to our favorite new true crime…

Episode 79: Ken Jennings Explains Everything If it’s been a minute since you’ve been part of an intelligent conversation, don’t worry, Gina and I aren’t gonna have one — but you know who will? Jeopardy champ Ken Jennings, and Freakonomics writer Steve Levitt. Two of the smartest guys in pop culture, are going to change…

Have you ever thought of a joke so dark and wrong that if you ever even shared it with someone else they might seriously reconsider all they know about you? Congratulations! You’re a genius. We will explain. And if this pandemic has you snacking while doomscrolling and binge watching, it’s not like you don’t know…

If I say “Sweep the leg,” or “Wax on, wax off,” these are movie quotes as unmistakable and indelible as “Here’s looking at you kid” or “We’re not in Kansas anymore.” The Karate Kid film, like the character himself, lands a crane kick into our collective consciousness. And the new series, Cobra Kai, really reminds…

Jimmy Kimmell, Seth Rogan, Will Ferrell, Robert Downey Jr, Maya Rudolph, Kamala Harris – what do they have in common? They’ve all guested on a new podcast that doesn’t need time to find its footing. It isn’t a squishy little podcast baby, pushed screaming into the world,  that needs time to regain its birth weight…

It’s been 75 episodes. We’ve laughed. We’ve cried. We’ve tried to help solve cold cases. We’ve cheered for gymnasts and cursed MLM gurus. We’ve talked hoops and pro wrestling, self-help books, Internet trolls and the science of scat, the…