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Podcast : Articles of Interest (LS 67 · TOP 0.05% what is this? ) Episode : The It Bag Pub date : 2026-10-09 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization How did a  practical, essential tool become an expensive status symbol?  For photos and links, head to articlesofinterest.substack.com Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices T...

Podcast : The Blank List (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this? ) Episode : The Greatest Inventions of All Time - Episode 4 Pub date : 2026-05-26 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization What do rotisserie chicken, cameras, and the 'Irish exit' all have in common? They're all up for debate in this week's episode on the greatest inventions of all time...

Podcast : Garlic & Pearls (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this? ) Episode : The Beaufort Scale: The Poetic British Way of Measuring What Happens at Sea Pub date : 2026-09-18 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Suzanne enlightens Muriel about the Beaufort Scale and explores the remarkable story of its creator, hydrographer Francis Beaufort, wh...

Podcast : The Kitchen Sisters Present (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : Cigar Stories: He Who Reads Pub date : 2026-08-04 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Narrated by Andy Garcia. At the turn of the century until the 1930s in the cigar factories of Tampa and Ybor City, a well dressed man in a panama hat with a loud and beau...

Podcast : Search Engine (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this? ) Episode : Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? Pt. 1 (classic) Pub date : 2026-07-03 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Two Americans embark on a quest: fly across an ocean to try to get into the most exclusive nightclub in the world – Berghain. A German techno palace wh...

Podcast : The Haunted Library (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this? ) Episode : Jekyll and Hyde: Part 1 Pub date : 2026-09-21 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Lawyer Gabriel Utterson hears a troubling tale about a man named Hyde. When he discovers that Hyde stands to inherit the fortune of his esteemed friend Dr Jekyll, a mystery begins to t...

Podcast : Imaginary Worlds (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this? ) Episode : Is Mythology the Key to Understand AI? Pub date : 2026-09-23 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization With all the talk about rogue AI potentially ending civilization, it’s hard not to think of The Matrix. When there are stories about people falling in love with ChatGPT,...

Podcast : The Story of Money (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : Butchers, fake deaths and falling from helicopters: History’s craziest frauds Pub date : 2026-09-23 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization How do you tell if an economy is actually working? Most economics classes point to controlled inflation, steady growth, or low un...

Podcast : Reaching Out (LS 34 · TOP 3% what is this? ) Episode : Chapter 1: Katabasis Pub date : 2026-09-16 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Sayre’s twin brother, Connor, asks if he wants to look for their birth father who they’ve never met. This episode also contains: strippers, distracted therapists, and wildfires. Want to support...

Podcast : Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show) (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : A Weirdly Helpful Travel Guide Pub date : 2026-07-29 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Annie Sim is the CEO (Chief Eating Officer) of The Table Less Traveled Evan Stern is the host of Vanishing Postcards --- Help Zak continue making t...

Podcast : In The Dark (LS 81 · TOP 0.01% what is this? ) Episode : The Journey, Episode 1: Gifts Pub date : 2026-09-15 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization A woman in Texas agrees to carry a child for a wealthy couple in California. She thinks she’s helping a family in need. Then she becomes a whistle-blower. New Yorker subscribers get e...

Podcast : The Next Big Idea (LS 59 · TOP 0.1% what is this? ) Episode : Your Mind Is a Propagandist Pub date : 2026-08-17 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Your brain is a master storyteller. The problem? It’s also an unreliable narrator. We like to think our beliefs are built on facts, logic, and careful reasoning. But psychologist a...

Podcast : The Divide (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this? ) Episode : 1. ‘I’m Done With That Life’ Pub date : 2025-10-24 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Beginning a new 12-part spy drama. SCOTLAND, 1964: Paul Wilder used to be a spy but he’s put that life behind him. Now, three years after he ‘retired’, he meets a woman with an offer he’s...

Podcast : Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford (LS 71 · TOP 0.05% what is this? ) Episode : Evel Knievel Faces the Abyss Pub date : 2026-09-04 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Evel Knievel, the world-famous daredevil, is planning his greatest ever stunt. In 1974, he wants to leap over Snake River Canyon in Idaho. The chasm is almost a t...

Podcast : Planet Money (LS 83 · TOP 0.01% what is this? ) Episode : Dolly Parton’s “9 to 5,” the true story behind the anthem (bonus) Pub date : 2026-08-30 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization The brilliance of "9 to 5" is that it is catchy even though it’s also kinda depressing. You will be dancing along. You're enjoying it. And, then w...

Podcast : Plain English with Derek Thompson (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this? ) Episode : Why America Is Switching From Booze to Weed Pub date : 2026-08-05 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Two extraordinary trends are happening in the United States simultaneously. One is that alcohol consumption is declining precipitously. The share of...

Podcast : Imperfect Paradise (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : Can this museum rebrand AI art? Pub date : 2026-07-03 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Los Angeles has a new museum: Dataland –- the world’s first museum completely devoted to AI-generated art. In a time of high anxiety around the impact of AI on job...

Podcast : Ologies with Alie Ward (LS 81 · TOP 0.01% what is this? ) Episode : Noctohabitology (SLEEP PROCRASTINATION) with Vanessa “Nessy” Hill Pub date : 2026-08-12 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Late night scrolling. Couchlock. Habitual insomnia. You want to sleep —  so why won’t you turn off the light, dumplin’? We’ve got someon...

Podcast : The Booking Club (LS 34 · TOP 3% what is this? ) Episode : The Dawn of a Post-Literate Society, with James Marriott Pub date : 2026-08-14 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Books are dying. Across the world the number of people reading is in free fall. Literacy is declining or stagnating in most developed countries. At univer...

Podcast : Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford (LS 71 · TOP 0.05% what is this? ) Episode : The Weight of Fame: A Hollywood Tragedy Pub date : 2026-08-07 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Talented and beautiful, Molly O'Day is a rising star in 1920s Hollywood. But when Molly's teenage body starts to change and she can no longer fit into...

Podcast : Very Bad Wizards (LS 65 · TOP 0.05% what is this? ) Episode : Episode 333: P-hacking the Mind Pub date : 2026-05-26 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization David and Tamler do another tier ranking--this time on philosophical thought experiments, so as not to further alienate our chemistry-adjacent listeners. We hit most of the big...

Podcast : The Dead Can't Sue (LS 43 · TOP 1% what is this? ) Episode : William Buckley: How an escaped convict spent 30 years with an Indigenous group Pub date : 2026-07-27 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Perhaps you're familiar with the phrase "Buckley's chance!". Well, it's thought that it originates from William Buckley, a man wh...

Podcast : Podlandia: A-O Rewatch with Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this? ) Episode : The Dream is Alive Pub date : 2026-07-16 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization The dream of podcasting is alive in 2026. It's been 15 years since the cult classic comedy series Portlandia introduced the world to the 90's time...

Podcast : A View From A Bridge (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this? ) Episode : Fabricated Memories and Stories: David Byrne's View From A Bridge Pub date : 2026-07-15 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization On a bridge overlooking Central Park in New York, David Byrne reflects on the unreliable nature of memory and what the blurry lines that run...

Podcast : 99% Invisible (LS 83 · TOP 0.01% what is this? ) Episode : 100 Objects #10: Nunchaku Pub date : 2026-07-24 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In the early 1970s, Bruce Lee made nunchaku (nunchucks) cool — kids were building their own and buying them in record numbers. But the nunchucks craze coincided with something much bigg...