#wondery podcasts

[halogalopaghost]

Do you like true crime? How about solving cold cases? Here's one way to help.

The Doe Project is a non-profit volunteer organization founded and run by Todd Matthews, one of the individuals who helped create NamUs, the national missing person's database. They have assisted in solving more than 100 cases nationwide, three of which were just this year. The website is completely open and free for anyone to use. If you fancy yourself an armchair detective, I absolutely recommend checking it out.

What I REALLY want to highlight is that the organization is asking for donations to keep the website updated and running.

The campaign has been running for a year, and as you can see, there have only been 56 donors. That's barely half of the amount of cases they've solved. This website and the work of its volunteers has without a doubt affected far more lives than that, and it should be allowed to continue to grow and thrive. If you want less funding to police, more support for missing persons and cold cases, and a more community-driven approach to crime solving and prevention, you need to be looking out for things like this.

You can use this QR code to donate directly to the cause, or click on this link to get to the page shown above.

Obviously if you can't afford to donate, then don't! Just reblog this post so that others can see it, and maybe the next person can donate enough for the both of you. I'll be donating as soon as I've finished making this post.

If you'd like to learn more about Todd Matthews and how he identified his first cold-case victim that launched his career as a missing persons' advocate, listen to episode four of What Remains, a podcast all about the science and procedure behind solving cold cases.

[raven-writes-fanfic]

To my moots that absolutely adore Hugh Dancy (and why shouldn't you?!?!):

I just started a new podcast called Ghost Story, and it literally involves Hugh's great-grandfather and great-grandmother. In fact, the podcast's host is Hugh's brother-in-law. AND!!!! Hugh takes part in the podcast.

No spoilers here, but if you're looking for something interesting to listen to as you go about your day, take a gander at this podcast. You probably won't regret it.

[arthurdrakoni]

1865 is an absolutely fantastic audio drama that follows the fallout from the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. This is my review.

I figured I’d start my journey around here by sharing a review I did of one of my absolute favorite audio dramas.

What can I say about this audio drama that hasn’t already been said? Well, I’ll certainly try. 1865 is, without a doubt, one of the greatest audio dramas currently available. The music, soundscaping, and voice acting combine to create a truly cinematic experience.

1865 begins with the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and all of the poltical fallout this caused. In the process we see the game of cat-and-mouse that emerges between Secretary of War Edwin Stanton and former Vice President Andrew Johnson. The podcast explores a little known, yet incredibly important, era of American History. Each episode is accompanied by a bonus behind the scenes episode where the cast and crew explain the facts behind the fiction. They discuss the few instances where they deviated from the historical record, and why they chose to do so. They also talk about how they put the show together; how they gathered sounds, how they created the music, and more.

The cast of composed of professional voice actors, many of whom have worked in the anime dubbing industry. It was a pleasant surprise that I recognized many of them. Of course, the producers are no slouches either. They’ve teamed up with Lindsay Graham, creator of the popular American History Tellers podcast. Everyone involved worked together, like a well oiled machine, to create an amazing audio drama podcast.

Well, there not really much more I can say here. I’ll link you to my full review over on my blog. And after you’ve read it, download 1865. Believe me when I say that you’ll be so glad that you did. If you have listened, what did you think?

Link to the full review on my blog: http://drakoniandgriffalco.blogspot.com/2020/03/the-audio-file-1865.html?m=1

[thedalatribune]

Paolo’s Podcast Recommendation: K2: The Savage Mountain

Against the Odds Wondery May 2021

Produced by: Wondery Hosted by: Mike Corey

[djregular]

To give you a sense of the opportunity cost of this decision: A narrative podcast I produced a few years ago had a budget of $200,000 which covered over a year of production, a staff of five, custom scoring, field reporting, and fact checking. This show was only eight episodes long and it didn’t go viral by any estimation, but it won journalism awards and was optioned for film and television. One of the companies that produced the show went on to be acquired by another company for multiple millions of dollars. The project made money for the companies that bankrolled the production off ad sales and option fees; all told, it was a modest success. For the price of the Kelce’s $100 million payday, Wondery could make 500 of these narrative shows, and I’d bet that an investment like that would return at least a couple of conventional successes. It is not part of Wondery’s calculus, obviously, but it would also pay journalists and creatives living wages for a period of time.

[luminouslumity]

I thought I was done with the Tudors, but a podcast I listen to sometimes just finished a series covering the Six Queens!

[circle--of--confusion]

Serious podcaster voice: and she doesnt know how "In the same boat, girlie" we all might be.

[darnelladunham]

There are several reasons why I love the #Wondery #podcast "Even The Royals" starring Brooke Siffrinn and Aricia Skidmore-Williams.

[six-of-ravens]

i can see why people don't like the early episodes of MFM, but im in an extremely parasocial relationship with my adoptive aunties who live in my phone (:

[nevinslibrary]

Not A Book Friday

Pacast’s Medical Mysteries and Medical Murders are no longer being produced (and I’ve caught up on all of the episodes from both of them I believe) and so I was looking for another interesting medical mystery sort of podcast. This one fits the bill pretty well.

There have only been 8 or so episodes that I’ve listened to so far, but, some of the stories that MrBallen has done are so so not to be listened to during any meal, or before or after the meal, like, 12 hours before or after the meal.

In all seriousness though, it’s a very interesting podcast, mostly not gratuitously done either (always a plus). There was one where I guessed what was going on before MrBallen got to the conclusion, but, it’s great that for the most part these stories are new to me. Woo, see, see, I have not yet listened to too many podcasts!

MrBallen's Medical Mysteries

[lizzibennet]

was just about to complain that there shouldn’t be fucking 3 minute ads on podcasts on spotify because I ALREADY PAY FOR IT and THEN i found out MY FAVORITE PODCAST ON THERE HAS BEEN REMOVED AND PUT UNDER A PAYWALL???!?!?!? content i had PREVIOUSLY ALREADY LISTENED TO has been taken off the platform!!!!!!!!!!!!! IM GOING TO KILL MYSELF IN FRONT OF WONDERY+

[desperatelyseekingcannibals]

Murder of Hugh Dancy’s Great-Grandmother Investigated in New Wondery Podcast ‘Ghost Story’

“Law & Order” star Hugh Dancy takes part in the series alongside other members of his family as well as homicide detectives, ghost hunters and psychic mediums. “A jaw-dropping tale of a haunting, which becomes a murder investigation, which leads to a family drama,” reads the show’s synopsis.

“Ghost Story,” which launches Oct. 23, will be available on Wondery+ and Amazon Music. It marks the fourth collaboration between Wondery and Pineapple Street Studios, following on from “9/12,” “Will Be Wild” and “Persona.”

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[ear-worthy]

SmartLess Podcast Welcomes Presidents Biden, Obama & Clinton

SMARTLESS’ UNITES PRESIDENTS BIDEN, OBAMA, AND CLINTON FOR HISTORIC PODCAST INTERVIEW

While one former president is in court defending himself against hush money payments to a porn star and to a Playboy playmate, three other Ex-POTUS's discuss gun violence, foreign relations, Biden’s re-election campaign, what they miss about being in office, the State of the economy, passing the baton Between Presidencies, and more on the Smartless podcast.

SmartLess hosts Will Arnett, Jason Bateman and Sean Hayes have brought together three U.S. Presidents, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, and Bill Clinton, for a historic podcast interview.

The momentous episode is available early on Amazon Music/Wondery+ here. It will be wherever podcasts are available on Monday, April 29.

The podcast interview was recorded in-person recently with the hosts and the Presidents in New York City.

SmartLess with Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes, and Will Arnett is a podcast that connects and unites people from all walks of life to learn about shared experiences through thoughtful dialogue and organic hilarity.

The award-winning podcast was launched in July 2020 and is consistently among the top five most listened-to podcasts monthly. Guests have included Bradley Cooper, Emma Stone, Don Cheadle, Larry David, Greta Gerwig, Idris Elba, Kristen Stewart, Pedro Pascal, Selena Gomez, and many more.

INTERVIEWS CLIPS AVAILABLE HERE:

Sean Hayes: Do you all miss something specific about holding office, obviously except for you because you’re in office, but do you guys miss something?

President Biden: I miss not having an office.

President Obama: Well, look, everybody talks about Air Force One.

Sean Hayes: Yeah, sure.

President Obama: Marine One. It’s pretty convenient, I won't lie. But I’ll tell you the thing I miss the most. Remember those music concerts I used to do at, you can basically invite anybody, and you have this concert and I mean we got you know Stevie Wonder, Paul McCartney.

Sean Hayes: Everybody will show up.

President Obama: They’ll show up. And they do these rehearsals the night before a lot of times and you can kinda sneak down and could just sit there and watch Mick Jagger practicing with BB King or something on a blues night. I do miss that.

President Clinton: I miss the fact that they don’t play a song when you walk in a room anymore.

Sean Hayes: We should’ve done that today.

President Clinton: I was lost for three weeks when I left office. But let me tell you something serious, this is one reason that I so badly want President Biden to be re-elected. What I really miss is the job. Not doing it, I'm glad, I believe in the two-term limit strongly, but what I learned was on the worst day, when nothing was going right, problems are everywhere, there was still something you could do that would make somebody's life better. There is no job like that on earth.

Sean Hayes: I love that.

Clinton: And I want somebody..

President Obama: Who appreciates it.

President Clinton: …that I trust to make the most of that every day. Cause they’ll be bad days no matter who gets elected. But he’ll get up and he’ll start thinking about that. And I think his opponent will be thinking about…

President Obama: Himself.

President Clinton: …yeah, who I can get even with, who I can send away. Joe Biden will make the best of the bad days.

Jason Bateman: And the team that you have assembled and your comfort with deferment. For me personally, I love leaders that have the confidence to hire those that they respect, that might make them a little nervous.

Will Arnett: And also not to think that you're the…

President Obama: That you’re the smartest guy…

Will Arnett: Yeah, that you’re gonna have every…. We had leaders like that in the middle part of the last century who were put into government by presidents of old, and they made a lot of decisions that they thought they were right about, and they were terrible people. And when that happens, when you think that you’ve got all the answers, is the moment you don’t.

Jason Bateman: Like Ron Klain, bringing us out of COVID. It’s just on and on and on, the way in which you’ve surrounded yourself with the absolute best this country has to offer.

President Biden: I made a commitment, having an administration that looks like America. I have more women in my cabinet, I’ve appointed more Black Circuit Court judges than every other president combined in American history. I’ve kept my commitment about putting a Black woman on the Supreme Court. I’ve had an opportunity to go out and get the best people - and by the way, I sometimes pick up the phone and ask these guys who they think are the best people. And I’m looking for people that most of all, not just are good, but care about what they’re doing.

Jason Bateman: Whereas the other guy is only hiring people that won’t talk back and that’s…

President Biden: Oh mine talk back.

CLIP 2 - Download Here

Sean Hayes: What are the issues coming up that people are focusing on that you believe are the wrong things, or they may be the right things, and what should they be focusing on?

President Biden: I think they should be focusing on a couple of things. Number one, we’re gonna, in the second term, God willing, we’re gonna make sure that we do something about gun violence in this country.

Will Arnett: Yes.

President Biden: The idea that we allow assault weapons to be sold, and magazines with 100 rounds, is just bizarre.

Will Arnett: Well, President Biden, I’m so glad to hear you say that because that was gonna be my other question. Which is, the Democrats never say we want to take your guns away.

President Biden: Absolutely not.

Will Arnett: You never said that, you said we gotta be smart about what’s going on.

Jason Bateman: You don’t need to kill a deer with an AR15.

Sean Hayes: Right.

President Biden: The Second Amendment, when I taught law school, the Second Amendment wasn’t absolute ever. You weren’t able to have a cannon when you were, you know, the liberty is ordered with the blood of patriots. I mean, it’s a bunch of crap.

This episode of Smartless will be available wherever you get your podcasts on Monday, April 29.

[frozen-snowflakesandsunflowers]

Episode 1: The Visitors 🏰

All Frozen Podcast: Forces of Nature episodes breakdowns here.

Cover edited by me

The first two podcasts have been released on Wondery, a podcast platform. The other episodes are available but you have to subscribe to listen (I haven't). The episodes will all be out on other platforms from 11th October. So I'll listen to episode 3 onwards then.

The episode begins with Mattias and some younger in-training soldiers helping the people of Sankerhus by digging. He begins to explain to them why they have to do so. He tells a story to own specific and then the other soldiers take a listen. I don't think these soldiers are important, they're just younger Soldier trainees for Mattias to tell the story to. The story is set a couple years ago and not too long ago since the events of Frozen 2. The story goes as follows:

The kingdom of Sankerhus is struck by a flood and Anna, now Queen, takes the people of the kingdom and its ruler Queen Disa in for shelter. Queen Disa loves constructing things using science and uses them to help Arendelle advance a little. She is actually a childhood friend of the sisters. They knew her once from a visit when they were little. She's a bit approachable to magic or feels weird around it yet she's fascinated by it too.

Then there's Wolfagang, the Duke of Weselton's nephew. He sounds very similar to his uncle and is obsessed with copper. He has a surprising talent knitting too. He also has two pet magpies named Astrid and Magnus who can talk (like parrots too). He came for an apology tour on behalf of his uncle. But despite his efforts for forgiveness, Anna finds him “fishy”.

In the episode for the first time in forever, finally someone, Disa being, has called Elsa “The Snow Queen”.

Disa longs to know about magic though she finds it strange. She tells Anna that her parents built a big library in the centre of her castle and since she's been checking out the books in it. But after learning of her father's passing, Anna helps her by taking her to their own archive of books of magic and folklore. Gazing at some books for a few seconds they hear sounds that eventually lead to a candle falling causing a fire in the room. Elsa arrives just in time and takes out the fire.

The episode ends there. Now from this episode, there are some takers. I believe Disa is up to no good and kinda tracked Anna using emotional manipulation on her to get to see the history of magic or so it seems that way but we all know how Anna is free and open to people and new things; that's her personality but at times it can be her flaw which enemies use to their advantage. In episode 2 Elsa fears this. So while Anna suspects Wolfagang and Elsa suspects Disa, it could be that Wolfagang is genuinely good and Disa is the enemy, we'll just have to see or rather keep a listen. I just get that feeling more in the next episode.

[fandomshatepeopleofcolor]

A new podcast detailing the history of the NYPD and its link to White supremacy and elitism. The host, Chenjerai Kumanyika, is the son of Civil Rights leader Makaza Kumanyika and he would talk about his family's own experiences with the NYPD.

- mod sodapop