What's the single most compelling podcast episode you've ever listened to?

[Anonymous]

The Sporkful “when white people say plantation” https://www.sporkful.com/when-white-people-say-plantation-pt-1/

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Anonymous wrote:The second season of In the Dark- the story of Curtis Flowers is all that is wrong with the US. I couldn’t stop listening but it is incredibly frustrating.

The Promise from Nashville Public Radio. It’s about the history of desegregation and segregation in Nashville schools. It’s really eye opening and well done.

I liked these a lot, too. Both In the Dark seasons have to be my favorite podcast episodes ever. The Promise and the Teachers Pet are up there as well.

I liked but didn't love Serial (the first season) and STown. They were good but not on par with the others, IMO.

Thanks for starting this thread. I can't wait to check some of these out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The episode of Armchair Expert where Dax talks about his relapse after 16 years sober.

Several episodes of Revisionist History, but [/b]Food Fight[b] and A Good Walk Spoiled stuck with me.

Funny, this episode is the single podcast episode I have listened to that most despise. I lost an enormous amount of respect for MG because of that episode because of what I think was short sighted thinking. To each her own.

[Anonymous]

The season of Truth and Justice about the West Memphis Three (season 5, I think). Interesting information about memory and suspicion and false confessions criminal justice (or lack thereof)

[Anonymous]

Entire Season 1 of Serial for sure, but especially The Alibi and The Deal with Jay. I relisten to it every year and it transports me back to when I listened to it the first time, on a train back home to DC after a work trip + visiting friends in NYC. It was early December and all the episodes were out so I was able to binge it on the Amtrak. Listening to it as we passed through Baltimore made it even more powerful/real.

If I could choose runners up they would be:
- Bari Weiss's most recent episode of Honestly: Why You're Wrong -- and Right -- About Abortion. Super powerful.
- TAL: Switched at Birth, Cars, House on Loon Lake
- The Just Enough Family - whole series.
- Tom Brown's Body - whole series.

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Anonymous wrote:Entire Season 1 of Serial for sure, but especially The Alibi and The Deal with Jay. I relisten to it every year and it transports me back to when I listened to it the first time, on a train back home to DC after a work trip + visiting friends in NYC. It was early December and all the episodes were out so I was able to binge it on the Amtrak. Listening to it as we passed through Baltimore made it even more powerful/real.

If I could choose runners up they would be:
- Bari Weiss's most recent episode of Honestly: Why You're Wrong -- and Right -- About Abortion. Super powerful.
- TAL: Switched at Birth, Cars, House on Loon Lake
- The Just Enough Family - whole series.
- Tom Brown's Body - whole series.

I was just listening to the update this morning and trying to figure out what makes this podcast so good. I love it, though so sad, and I can’t put a finger on why (helpful for recommending it to others).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The episode of Armchair Expert where Dax talks about his relapse after 16 years sober.

Several episodes of Revisionist History, but [/b]Food Fight[b] and A Good Walk Spoiled stuck with me.

Funny, this episode is the single podcast episode I have listened to that most despise. I lost an enormous amount of respect for MG because of that episode because of what I think was short sighted thinking. To each her own.

Interesting! Would you mind elaborating? I obviously think that he oversimplifies to make the point about education inequality/access (as he does with many other topics), but I'm curious what you mean by short sighted thinking. Not criticizing, just genuinely curious.

Do you listen to the arch of episodes he did this past season with college rankings? I thought Food Fight was a good companion to these.

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Anonymous wrote:It's old, but I was so riveted by the first Season of Serial about Adnan Syad.

+1

It really remains the best one.

Omg yes

Whats it about?

A murder in Maryland

I was riveted by Serial too, but in retrospect it strikes me that they way it handled the murder of a teenage girl was detached and kind of exploitive.

[Anonymous]

My Brother My Brother and Me episode 108 "The Garfield Monstrosity"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Entire Season 1 of Serial for sure, but especially The Alibi and The Deal with Jay. I relisten to it every year and it transports me back to when I listened to it the first time, on a train back home to DC after a work trip + visiting friends in NYC. It was early December and all the episodes were out so I was able to binge it on the Amtrak. Listening to it as we passed through Baltimore made it even more powerful/real.

If I could choose runners up they would be:
- Bari Weiss's most recent episode of Honestly: Why You're Wrong -- and Right -- About Abortion. Super powerful.
- TAL: Switched at Birth, Cars, House on Loon Lake
- The Just Enough Family - whole series.
- Tom Brown's Body - whole series.

I was just listening to the update this morning and trying to figure out what makes this podcast so good. I love it, though so sad, and I can’t put a finger on why (helpful for recommending it to others).

Oooh, thanks for this. Skip Hollandsworth/Texas Monthly do great long-form journalism.

[Anonymous]

Where I live

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/thunder-bay/id1438924421

[Anonymous]

Terrible, thanks for asking
This American Life - My Bad
Tim Ferriss

[Anonymous]

I came into Missing and Murdered during the Finding Cleo season ... had no idea about the Sixties Scoop or the horror show of residential schools. Immediately went back and listened to the first season, which gave a lot of context to the Cleo season.

This is an amazing podcast, and I'm in awe of Connie Walker's reporting.

https://www.cbc.ca/mediacentre/program/missing-and-murdered

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One of my favorite is The Ghost of Bobby Dunbar by This American Life

Me too! I heard it about 10 years ago and still think about it.

[Anonymous]

Maybe someone will remember an episode I heard but can't remember which podcast it was. I think it may have been on Dax Shepard's podcast. There was a guest talking about how pedophilia and child abuse have always been weaponzied by religious groups. They were talking about QANON and how it traced back to things like the Satanic Panic and Salem witch trials. It was fascinating. Does this sound familiar to anyone??