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5 great podcasts to discover…

Welcome to the 261st edition of Find That Pod. 

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Here are this week’s podcast recommendations:

DOCUMENTARY

Leaving Eden

A podcast about the IFB Cult as told by survivor Sadie Carpenter, with her co-host Gavri'el HaCohen. This podcast covers the IFB, the history of the Independent Fundamental Baptist movement, other cults, other religions, and the real and present threat that cults and cult ideologies pose to society as a whole.

Website | Listen: Pod.link | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Overcast | Pocket Casts | Castro

Not sure where to start? Start with the first episode.

DOCUMENTARY

Scene on Radio

Scene on Radio is a two-time Peabody-nominated podcast that dares to ask big, hard questions about who we are—really—and how we got this way. Previous series include Seeing White (Season 2), looking at the roots and meaning of white supremacy; MEN (Season 3), on patriarchy and its history; The Land That Never Has Been Yet (Season 4), exploring democracy in the U.S. and why we don’t have more of it; and The Repair (Season 5), on the climate crisis: Where did we go so wrong in our relationship with the rest of the natural world, and who's "we"? 

Website | Listen: Pod.link | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Overcast | Pocket Casts | Castro

Not sure where to start? Start with the first season.

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SOCIETY & CULTURE

Fail Better with David Duchovny

Why am I making a podcast? The best answer I can come up with is that I feel like I’ve been failing my entire life, so I can speak from plenty of experience. Sure, I was on The X Files and Californication, I wrote some books and made some music. But I also got a literal F in The New York Times. I had a high-profile divorce and a magical mystery tour through rehab. So now I want to get into the way that failure looms over all of us and really shapes who we are. What’s good about that, what’s bad about that, what’s holding us back in shame?

Website | Listen: Pod.link | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Overcast | Pocket Casts | Castro

Not sure where to start? Start with the first episode: Ben Stiller and the Curse of the Sequel

COMEDY FICTION

Midnight Burger

When Gloria took a waitressing job at a diner outside of Phoenix, she didn’t realize she was now an employee of Midnight Burger, a time-traveling, dimension-spanning diner. Every day Midnight Burger appears somewhere new in the cosmos along with it’s staff: a galactic drifter, a rogue theoretical physicist, a sentient old-timey radio, and some guy named Caspar. No one knows who built Midnight Burger or how it works, but when it appears there’s always someone around who could really use a cup of coffee. “When the waves of the universe crash unrelentingly, when the stars seem indifferent to your plight, suddenly there is a diner.” We open at 6.

Website | Listen: Pod.link | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Overcast | Pocket Casts | Castro

Not sure where to start? Start with any episode.

SCIENCE FICTION

Rabbits

When Carly Parker’s friend Yumiko goes missing under very mysterious circumstances, Carly’s search for her friend leads her headfirst into a ancient mysterious game known only as Rabbits. Soon Carly begins to suspect that Rabbits is much more than just a game, and that the key to understanding Rabbits, might be the key to the survival of our species, and the Universe, as we know it.

Website | Listen: Pod.link | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Overcast | Pocket Casts | Castro

Not sure where to start? Start with the latest episode.

industry news

• Top promo and growth lessons from successful indie podcasters.

• Tips and wisdom from a top podcast consultant.

• Buzzsprout has introduced a new “fan mail” feature for podcasters that use their hosting platform.

• Apparently someone has been completely plagiarizing the A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs by stealing the copy and translating it into French and releasing their own podcast with the French version. Yikes.  

• YouGov has released some interesting podcast statistics on podcast listeners around the world.

• The number of podcasts updated with new episodes in the last week? 206,304. In the last month? 352,389.

• Libsyn has reported that Apple podcasts downloads has dipped below 50% for the first time.

• HigherEdPods is a new educations podcast directory.

• Only a few weeks left to enter the Independent Podcast Awards.

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