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Podcast : The Audio Long Read (LS 65 · TOP 0.05% what is this? ) Episode : From the archive: A day in the life of (almost) every vending machine in the world Pub date : 2025-12-03 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization We are raiding the Guardian long read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions fr...

Podcast : A Slight Change of Plans (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this? ) Episode : When Productivity Becomes Pathological Pub date : 2025-07-07 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization These days, psychiatrist Judith Joseph knows joy. It’s the feeling she has after eating a delicious meal, celebrating the completion of a successful study i...

Podcast : The 404 Media Podcast (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : Inside the Biggest Sting Operation Ever (with Michael Bobbitt) Pub date : 2025-12-01 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Joseph speaks to Michael Bobbitt, a former FBI official who worked directly on Operation Trojan Shield. In this operation the FBI secretly ra...

Podcast : Bag Man (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this? ) Episode : Episode 1: An Unsettling Secret Pub date : 2018-10-29 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization He was brash. Politically incorrect. An “outsider” political candidate who rose to the White House, out of nowhere, with a reputation as a “counter-puncher.” But Vice President Spiro Agnew...

Podcast : Heavyweight (LS 78 · TOP 0.01% what is this? ) Episode : #64 Kevin Pub date : 2025-11-20 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Kevin's childhood was a hard one. But it was made bearable by his neighborhood friends, Jason and Gerald. Then, one afternoon, the boys just vanished. Over thirty years later, Kevin still hasn't forgotte...

Podcast : The Next Big Idea (LS 59 · TOP 0.1% what is this? ) Episode : Andrew Ross Sorkin: What the Crash of 1929 Says About Today Pub date : 2025-11-06 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Andrew Ross Sorkin’s new book, 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History—and How It Shattered a Nation , is an eye-opening account of t...

Podcast : Imaginary Worlds (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this? ) Episode : Bringing Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein to Life Pub date : 2025-11-05 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization When director Guillermo del Toro asked Tamara Deverell to be the production designer on his film adaptation of Frankenstein, she had a good idea of what he wa...

Podcast : There's More to That (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this? ) Episode : Why Are There So Many Shipwrecks in the Great Lakes? Pub date : 2025-11-20 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Beneath the waters of the Great Lakes, thousands of shipwrecks, hulking carcasses of a bygone era, have been hiding for generations, just waiting to be...

Podcast : Riskgaming (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this? ) Episode : How to be a polymath Pub date : 2025-11-19 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Everyone loves a good Renaissance man or woman, but it’s hard to do it all with tenacity and verve. There’s also the constant balance between perfectionism and dilettantism — how long should you k...

Podcast : American Medieval (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this? ) Episode : The “Fall of Rome” with Sarah Bond Pub date : 2025-11-19 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Summary In this episode, we spend our time thinking about the Roman Empire. Cliche, but fun. Anyway, Sarah and Prof. Gabriele discuss how we can hear from the 98.5% of Rome th...

Podcast : All About The Music (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this? ) Episode : Samira Ahmed – The Blondie hit that’s about Debbie Harry’s stalker Pub date : 2025-11-12 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization I suspected we might be listening to The Beatles in this episode. Instead I got Blondie and The Monkees, neither of which were expected… both...

Podcast : Origin Story (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : The Labour Party – Part One – A Very British Socialism Pub date : 2025-11-05 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Welcome back to Origin Story season eight: The Story of Socialism. This week, in the year of its 125th anniversary, we begin the tale of the UK Labour Party,...

Podcast : Last Days (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this? ) Episode : Ep. 136 - Diane Keaton Pub date : 2025-10-13 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization On October 11, 2025, Diane Keaton — the Oscar-winning actress, director, author, and one of the most singular voices in American cinema — passed away at the age of 79. Over a career spanning more...

Podcast : The Good Fight (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : George Packer on Liberal Values in Authoritarian Times Pub date : 2025-11-08 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Yascha Mounk and George Packer discuss autocracy in literature and real life. George Packer is an award-winning author and staff writer at The Atlantic. His...

Podcast : Verbal Diorama (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this? ) Episode : The Usual Suspects Pub date : 2025-09-11 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Verbal Diorama meets Verbal Kint in a neo-noir crime thriller, based somewhat on a true story, from the mind of Oscar-winning screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie. An idea based on a line from C...

Podcast : Works in Progress Podcast (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this? ) Episode : The economics of the baby bust with Jesús Fernández-Villaverde Pub date : 2025-11-06 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Why are birth rates plummeting across the developing world? Why should we even care about the baby bust? Where can we find the most elastic...

Podcast : In Theory: The JHI Blog Podcast (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this? ) Episode : The Age of Choice: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Sophia Rosenfeld Pub date : 2025-10-29 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In this most recent episode of In Theory, Disha Karnad Jani interviews Sophia Rosenfeld about her new book The Age of Choice: A Hi...

Podcast : Private Passions (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this? ) Episode : The Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer Pub date : 2025-10-26 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization The Right Honourable Sir Keir Starmer is the seventh Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Prior to his political career, he was a barrister and served as Director of...

Podcast : Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend (LS 85 · TOP 0.01% what is this? ) Episode : Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook of The Rest Is History Podcast Pub date : 2025-10-20 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Historians Dominic Sandbrook & Tom Holland feel surprisingly aroused and chuffed, respectively, about being Conan O’Brien’s friends...

Podcast : Uncommon Knowledge (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this? ) Episode : Thomas Sowell: A Free Man | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution Pub date : 2025-10-21 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization This special episode of Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson features our most requested guest: Hoover senior fellow and acclaimed economist...

Podcast : The Selects Podcast (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this? ) Episode : The Sunshine Hotel by Sound Portraits Pub date : 2025-09-03 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Today we present an all time favorite of the team at Selects.  This iconic work by Dave Isay and Stacy Abramson is a vivid portrait of New York City’s Bowery, before it...

Podcast : ill-advised by Bill Nighy (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : You're Not a Weirdo Pub date : 2025-10-16 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Bill answers your questions from how to cope with sleepless nights to where to buy the perfect shirt. This episodes' playlist is called ‘Country Hurts’ Storm Windows - John Pr...

Podcast : Stuff You Should Know (LS 89 · TOP 0.01% what is this? ) Episode : The Mystery of the Sleepy Sickness Pub date : 2025-10-02 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Back in the early 1900s, a new pandemic happened out of nowhere with odd symptoms, that was never solved or cured. It just went away. Which means it's right up our alle...

Podcast : Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this? ) Episode : Thrill Seekers, Episode 1: Are You a Thrill Seeker? Pub date : 2024-09-23 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Would you go on a reality show if you didn’t know what it was about? Even if they promised you the adventure of a lifetime? In 2005,...

Podcast : Read Me a Poem (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this? ) Episode : “Of Light” by Agha Shahid Ali Pub date : 2025-10-07 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Amanda Holmes reads Agha Shahid Ali’s “ Of Light .” Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theamericanscholar.org. If we select your entry, you’ll win a...