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Heavyweight

The Heavyweight podcast explores deeply personal stories of regret, missed opportunities, and unresolved situations. Hos...

Podcast Comedy Nonfiction Personal Narrative

8.9 Great

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The Moth Radio Hour

NPR-distributed storytelling show founded in 1997 by George Dawes Green, featuring true personal stories performed live...

Podcast Nonfiction Personal Narrative Live Storytelling

8.7 Great

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Welcome to Night Vale

Fiction podcast launched in 2012 by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor, framed as community radio from a surreal fictional d...

Podcast Fiction Horror Comedy

8.7 Great

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The Adventure Zone

The Adventure Zone is a popular podcast featuring the McElroy brothers – Justin, Travis, and Griffin – and their father,...

Podcast Fiction Family Comedy

8.7 Great

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Wolf 359

Science fiction audio drama running 2014–2017, set aboard a space station orbiting the red dwarf Wolf 359, noted for ser...

Podcast Sci Fi Fiction Comedy

8.6 Great

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Love + Radio

Narrative audio documentary podcast known for immersive sound design and intimate, unconventional portraits of people li...

Podcast Experimental Nonfiction Personal Narrative

8.4 Great

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StoryCorps Podcast

The StoryCorps Podcast shares condensed segments from the oral history project's interviews, featuring everyday conversa...

Podcast Nonfiction Personal Narrative Oral History

8.2 Great

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Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend

Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend is a comedy podcast hosted by former late-night television host Conan O'Brien, featuring co...

Podcast Long Form Comedy Celebrity

8.2 Great

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Terrible, Thanks for Asking

U.S. podcast hosted by Nora McInerny, launched in 2016, inviting guests to discuss grief and life's hardest experiences...

Podcast Comedy Grief Nonfiction

8.0 Great

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Death, Sex & Money

WNYC podcast hosted by Anna Sale, launched in 2014, covering death, sex, and money—subjects people typically avoid in po...

Podcast Intimate Nonfiction Personal Narrative

8.0 Great

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Strangers

Radiotopia podcast hosted by Lea Thau featuring true first-person stories about human connection, loneliness, and the mo...

Podcast Community Nonfiction Personal Narrative

8.0 Great

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Story Pirates Podcast

Story Pirates is a children's media company and podcast that adapts original stories written by kids into comedic sketch...

Podcast Fiction Education Comedy

7.8 Good

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Behind the Bastards

Podcast hosted by Robert Evans and produced by Cool Zone Media that profiles history's most destructive figures using re...

Podcast History Comedy Political

7.8 Good

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King Falls AM

Supernatural comedy-drama fiction podcast set in a small-town radio station, launched around 2015, blending mystery, hum...

Podcast Fiction Supernatural Comedy

7.8 Good

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My Favorite Murder

Comedy true crime podcast launched in 2016 by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark, credited with popularizing the "mur...

Podcast True Crime Comedy Feminist

7.8 Good

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The Glass Cannon Podcast

Actual-play tabletop RPG podcast launched in 2015 using the Pathfinder system, produced by a New York-based group led by...

Podcast Fiction Comedy Tabletop RPG

7.8 Good

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Last Day

Last Day is a documentary podcast created by Lemonada Media that investigates the fentanyl crisis and the opioid epidemi...

Podcast Mental Health Nonfiction Personal Narrative

7.8 Good

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Snap Judgment Presents: Spooked

Spin-off of Glynn Washington's Snap Judgment podcast featuring real first-person accounts of supernatural and unexplaine...

Podcast Horror Seasonal Personal Narrative

7.5 Good

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The Dirtbag Diaries

The Dirtbag Diaries is an outdoor storytelling podcast created by Fitz Cahall that explores the cultural and emotional i...

Podcast Outdoor Adventure Nonfiction

7.5 Good

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Story Collider

Live show and podcast founded around 2010 where scientists and non-scientists share true personal stories about how scie...

Podcast Science Nonfiction Personal Narrative

7.3 Good