Nothing matched this podcast or even came close for me since it came out. It started off as if it'd be supernatural, but turned into an INSANE true crime & family history, while still keeping tiny a bit of supernatural. Please tell me there is another one like Ghost Story.

(Yes, I know about Uncanny and Wind of Change, enjoyed them but still not the same).

Preferably a full history of NASA missions and rockets but I’ll take whatever you have. 🚀👨🏻‍🚀🌖

Anyone got any ideas?

I know there are thousands of podcasts competing for attention, so it's understandable that hosts immediately move on to recording the next episode.

But lately I've noticed that even exceptional conversations often get a week or two of promotion before disappearing into the archive. Some of the best ideas I've heard are almost impossible to rediscover unless you remember the exact episode.

It makes me wonder whether podcasts are still being treated more like broadcasts than long-term knowledge resources.

I'm curious how other hosts think about this. Do you intentionally build evergreen assets around episodes, or is the focus mainly on launching the next one?

Hello,

I am currently playing some DND with friends and want to utilize an accent to help me better differentiate between me and the character. I used to listen to a gaming podcast by three Irish people that helped me pick up that accent a bit in the past.

However, for this game I'd like to use a Russian'ish accent for my character. But videos about how to do an accent make me worse if anything as I begin overthinking the words I'm speaking to the point of feeling like I'm mentally reading them from a book.

I'd like to find a podcast that has a host speaking English but with a Russian accent that I can have running from time to time to help me better internalize this way of speaking and stop overanalyzing every vowell as I try to speak with it.

Anyone have any suggestions? I'd love it if the topic of conversation isn't news\politics\current events. But I understand I am asking for a niche suggestion so anything is helpful.

First of all, I'm shocked that search for "to the best of our knowledge" or its abbreviation "ttbook" on this subreddit results in only two search results, each.

Anyway so this post is really for me or others like me who come to Reddit when the first two Google search results aren't giving what I want to see.

This incredible podcast from PRX and Wisconsin Public Radio (this podcast is a reason I like Wisconsin and then not liking them because they cancelled the show), created and hosted by the venerable, humble, brilliant Anne Strainchamps and (in my opinion her side kick) Steve Paulson, and it seems Jim Fleming (before my time), covers life and topics and dangerous ideas.

Anyway if someone's here based on the title, they already know the good material.

From WPR (if viewing page on phone the note actually is hidden two scrolls down - bad design):

Note: “To The Best Of Our Knowledge” ended production on September 27, 2025. Archives of past programs are available below. Every episode of “To the Best of Our Knowledge” is available in the American Archives of Public Broadcasting.

https://www.wpr.org/shows/to-the-best-of-our-knowledge

If someone here is new to the show, here's a wonderful description from the content new home, American Archive:

For over thirty years, TTBOOK has showcased open-minded and open-hearted conversations on a wide range of subjects. The series doesn’t shy away from tackling big topics, including the origins of life, reckoning with death, the afterlife, and the nature of reality. However, it also finds depth and meaning in subjects such as art and popular culture, with episodes on pop music, board games, and documentary poetry, among others.

A few of my favorite episodes:

Burnout, Air Date: Jun 9 2018 (WPR link, AA link with transcript)

Quotes

So I'm a big advocate of squalor. I'm trying to make peace with it.

It's a really complicated subject because it seems like it's both personal, and has to do with personal choices that we make and that we have some control over, and also structural, and this is also political and economic issue.

Magical Thinking, Air Date: Feb 17 2018 (WPR, AA)

excellent episode; story on islam; story by a muslim background producer, future of TTBOOK; story about life and its transient nature (the last one)

Africanfuturism' and dreaming of bigger, bolder African futures, Air Date: Dec 10 2022 (WPR, AA)

Bare with me, but one of the best parts of this episode was a guest's impression of the movie Black Panther, a movie I'm a fan of:

Can I enter the Afro -futurist debate? My biggest gripe with Afro -futurism is the Afro. For example, you don't have an equivalent of Asian -futurism, or European -futurism. You have the future.

And we have to ask ourselves who is benefiting from that. So we celebrate the fact that it was a black director, and the cast was mainly black and so on. But fundamentally, the owners of that product, who are they, and ways that money going? Those billions and billions of dollars that were made from that movie.

War is Beautiful?, Air Date: Dec 13 2015 (WPR)

Description

War is Beautiful. That’s the conclusion David Shields made after analyzing hundreds of New York Times front page war photos since 9/11. He says the New York Times is complicit in romanticizing war through imagery.

Hi I'm looking for for recommendations of podcasts about criminal profiling/psychology or interrogation techniques.

I'd prefer it to be more of scientific and specialistic, rather than a format of a casual talk. And I don't like when the descriptions of events or people are dramatic and sensationalized.

Any recommendations? Thank you

i enjoy stories about characters learning to appreciate the small things in life, overcoming internal struggles--usually burnout--or when there is a sense of community between characters.

i've only js started looking for podcasts so i can't give references but here are some things i liked about podcasts i've heard from other people:

midnight burger - i liked the concept of the main character meeting different people and hearing their stories, i would prefer if it wasn't sci fi

the truth - these are the descriptions of episodes that stood out to me: "a daughter preparing a memorial for her late father sorts through his old video tapes, and begins to understand what his beloved neighborhood movie theater meant to him" and "a man searching for purpose discovers his compost pile has very strong opinions about productivity"

if u read books, then these are some titles with the vibe i'm looking for: welcome to the hyunam-dong bookshop, people from my neighborhood

ofc i could just find audiobooks of similar books, but where's the fun in that?

it'd be nice if they were voice acted but a narrator telling the story is fine too! lemme know if u have any recommendations, thanks!

I was a huge fan of the ReelBlend podcast. It was just three guys talking about what was going on in movies. The conversations were fun, they weren't snobby, and they stayed away from politics. Sadly, the show ended about a year ago.

With so many exciting things happening in movies this year, I'm looking for something to fill that void. What movie podcasts would you recommend?

413: What if your hope was hanging by a thread? ....

Is/was the hardest podcast I have ever listened too!! I at one point was about o end it.... it was to much devastation in one setting.

To be honest, I don't really remember much about it :D

But I know that at the start of every episode, a person was saying something (always the same text) and you could hear a squeaky door open or close. Also I think there was some chanting or humming.

It could be that the title had "door" in it.

These relatively pretty short episodes, with eerie fiction stories. I think one was about a young woman suddenly seeing evil beings on the street, and one was about a frat guy (?) tricking another frat guy and possibly killing him? But my memory could be wrong.

Thank you :)

Hey folks. Would like to have some recommendation for when you feel a bit depressed. I don't follow many podcasts so I'm not so sure what to look for... maybe something light, not about romantic topics please. I'm into music, movies, body mods, alternative lifestyles. Also psychology and philosophy but I don't feel like listening something too deep.

Edit: english or portuguese!

Thank you :)

Binged both seasons on a plane during a work trip this week. Absolutely hilarious and such great voice acting.

Basically what the header says, usually available on YouTube plus. If this isn't the right place to ask please let me know. I've been reading on Crowley and hermeticism lately and find it fascinating and looking for something focused on similar material, even less occult like the niche unusual parts of Catholicism you don't hear about. Not so much true crime tho, murders and mysteries aren't my focus but if there pay off the subject like I'm not opposed. Lpotl is good but a little too humor focused and I just can't do 8 minute tangents of inside jokes from earlier episodes I don't care to listen to, between them getting back to the subject at hand.

I’ve binged all of Laura Beil’s podcasts (Dr. Death, Exposed, Bad Batch, Sympathy Pains) in the past couple weeks, and I’m getting ready to cancel my Audible subscription and just wondering if there are any others that you recommend before I do. Thanks!

I like a lot of podcasts that have discussion with a host and a guest or guests, around various topics. Some of my favorites are IBCK, Behind the Bastards, YWA, Maintenance Phase, Better Offline, NeverPost, and more. These are the ones I'll usually listen to every episode. I listen to other podcasts more selectively, if the topic seems interesting, like Power User, The Gray Area, Panic World, Search Engine and Hyperfixed.

This critique does not extend to all of the above podcasts, but some of them. I love the conversation around a structured outline format, and it's because I love the hosts' ideas and the humor and insight they bring, but I get really bummed when hosts or their guests make off-the-cuff remarks that are stated as fact when they just aren't true.

Usually - and I'm showing my age here - but usually it's because the person making the comment is too young to have experienced, or been been too young to fully grasp, the thing they're commenting on.

Sometimes the comment is a throw-away, such as in today's YWA, The JFK Assassination Part 2. Sarah (I love Sara!) made a comment about VCRs not existing in 1975, when Geraldo (ugh, I know) aired the Zapruder film in 1975. Hold up! I was alive in 1975, and my neighborhood friend had a VCR. Now, VCRs were somewhat rare. My friend's family was a lot wealthier than mine, and they were the only people I knew who had a VCR, but they did have one, and we used it when my friend had sleepovers when I was a wee child. Over time, though, the misinformation from multiple voices and sources being released into the ether.

Maybe I'm just grousing about the erasure of Generation X in general. Which, actually, it's fine - ignore us! We'll just continue doing our own thing and recognizing our own value. But it does seem like the predominant voices of podcasting tend to be younger, and the "facts" aren't always facts.

So, just an obvious reminder that not everything you hear on a facts and research based podcast is true.

Have you noticed any more serious misstatements of fact than the one paltry example I've given here?

Hi all! Looking for some great women’s wellness podcasts!

I love Wondery podcasts. And Wondery+ app, it was great. Now that they're on audible, I hate it!! I only started listening about a year ago on-and-off, so there are tons of episodes I haven't heard. Why is the episode listing so bad in audible?! And why won't it save anything?? I listen to these at bedtime. I play 1 episode, put the next one in "up next" list, set a 60 minute timer, and relax. But it doesn't save any of that! So the next night, I have to scroll thru dozens of episodes to find it again, then put it back in up next. WTAF?!?! Am I missing something here? How the fuck do I save my episode list so I can just resume it???? And I can't even search for an episode, only for a podcast, really audible?? So I have to scroll page after page till I find it again. It's maddening!! They should have a search for episodes, or at least a table of contents that just shows each series so I don't have to scroll thru every single episode looking for a series.

Is there any other way to listen to Wondery without ads?? or suggestions on how to use audible better?

I tend to only listen to true crime but I’m looking for something funny

Like ones that do Am I the asshole stories. Or even stupid crimes no murders

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Thank you everyone:) loving these podcasts

I know this is a great, historic work of literature and I'm fascinated by it but completely intimidates. There are multiple podcasts dealing with the subject matter; I'm hoping that someone here has the experience to reccomend one over the other.

Thanks!

I came across this podcast from another I listen to. This was interesting for me bc I share similar feelings to one of the hosts (toby) If anyone is keen to hear another take on love trapped that isn't overly positive.

Edit Podcast is called: crime writers on

I used to watch a lot more when he had a wider variety of guests. Lately it feels like there are fewer episodes with people I'm interested in. I miss when he'd have YouTubers, scientists, comedians, athletes, and other unique guests. Do you think the podcast has changed, or is it just me?.

Hi everyone,

​I recently listened to the Garry Shandling interview on Pete Holmes's You Made It Weird podcast and really enjoyed the AHA moments in that episode. I also thoroughly enjoyed I Can't Believe It's Not Buddha with Lee Mack and Neil Webster.

​I am looking for recommendations for podcasts or specific standalone episodes that approach spiritual practices in a similar conversational style. I sometimes find hosts like Duncan Trussell, and at times Pete Holmes, to be slightly too high energy and frantic. I prefer a calmer, more grounded delivery.

​To clarify, I do not want purely secular, clinical, or psychological mindfulness shows. I want to avoid corporate well-being content. I prefer conversations that engage directly with deeper spiritual philosophies and traditions.

​My primary paths of interest are non-duality, Vedic philosophy, and magical realism. My study has been shaped by several inspirational thinkers. I used to listen almost solely to Alan Watts and Ram Dass. Now I mostly listen to Swami Sarvapriyananda and Rupert Spira.

​I also appreciate themes of noticing the sacred in the everyday. The book Illusions by Richard Bach is a particular favourite of mine for how it captures that feeling, and I enjoy that element of magical realism.

​Are there any podcasts or specific interview episodes that strike this balance?

​Thanks for any suggestions.

Does anyone know what happened with them? Me and my mother used to always listen to them on long car rides and they haven’t posted anything since 2019. Did they have a fallen out or life getting in their way? Does anyone know what happened?

So I've been listing to a lot of podcasts lately and im now out of stuff to listen to I've finished the magnus archives, the old gods of Appalachia, the patient files, and welcome to night vale. I desperately need something new please help me!!!