Pod Crashing Episode 286 With Kurt Engfehr From Joseph The Angel George Bailey Was Never Born , a one-of-a-kind podcast experience, takes a definitive look at It's a Wonderful Life , one of the most popular movies of all time, the story of Americans' decades-long love affair with this cultural institution and how it may offer a light down the path we walk today. All 10 episodes available now. Created by Kurt Engfehr, the editor-producer of Oscar- and Palme d'Or-winning documentaries, and Ray Now...
Dec 19, 2023•18 min
Pod Crashing Episode 285 With A.J. Jacobs From The Podcast The Puzzler A new kind of daily puzzle is on its way. iHeartMedia and author A.J. Jacobs have announced a joint daily puzzle podcast, The Puzzler , releasing this fall. It received an initial order of 260 episodes. The shortform, daily podcasts will challenge listeners and celebrity guests with original, audio-friendly puzzles that are complete with weird history, fun trivia and lots of laughs. The celebrity guests will be featured along...
Dec 13, 2023•19 min
Pod Crashing Episode 284 With Beth Shelburne From Earwitness One July night in 1995, Deputy Sheriff William G. Hardy was shot behind the Crown Sterling Suites hotel in Birmingham, Alabama. At the same time as the murder, at least 10 people saw Toforest Johnson four miles away at a popular nightclub called Tee's Place. But detectives zeroed in on him as a main suspect in Deputy Hardy's murder anyway, ultimately resulting in Toforest being tried, convicted, and sentenced to death. For over a quart...
Dec 06, 2023•19 min
Pod Crashing Episode 283 With Actor And Director Rob Reiner And Journalist Soledad O’Brien From Who Killed JFK Who Killed JFK? For 60 years, we are still asking that question. In commemoration of the 60th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's tragic assassination, legendary filmmaker Rob Reiner teams up with award-winning journalist Soledad O'Brien to tell the history of America's greatest murder mystery. They interview CIA officials, medical experts, Pulitzer-prize winning journalists, eye...
Nov 29, 2023•8 min
Pod Crashing Episode 282 With Author And Podcaster Annie Gudger Fascinated with the heart and its fifth chamber that holds more love, that holds shadows, Annie poetically chronicles her passage through grief and the beauty she found on the other side in her debut memoir, The Fifth Chamber. In 2022, about 60,000 children in the United States under the age of six lived with a single widowed mother, nearly three times the number of children living with a widowed father. Yet our society still shies ...
Nov 25, 2023•10 min
Pod Crashing Episode 281 With Doctor’s RoseMarie, Laurie Santos And Sesame Streets Groover From The Happiness Lab Podcast Yale's Laurie Santos, a psychologist who explores the science of well-being in her popular podcast The Happiness Lab , is teaming up with a group of familiar characters who have brought joy to generations of children. On Sept. 18, Santos will be joined by Grover, Big Bird, and Abby Cadabby, three members of the beloved children's show Sesame Street , for the first in a three-...
Nov 23, 2023•7 min
Pod Crashing Episode 280 With Kenny Curtis And Jillian Hughs from Geeking Out The Podcast Hosts Kenny Curtis and Jillian Hughes (father and daughter team!) have a funny and clever tie-in book, also called Greeking Out: Epic Retellings of Classic Greek Myths. Dynamic, playful illustrations coupled with laugh-out-loud storytelling and real information about ancient Greece—delivered by the all-knowing Oracle of Wi-Fi—make this collection of fabulous fables a fresh addition to any history-lover's li...
Nov 09, 2023•8 min
Pod Crashing Episode 279 with Mike Steib From Office hours With Mike Steib Welcome to Office Hours, where Mike Steib sit down with the leaders shaping our world. From unicorn founders to battle-tested executives, He's here to share the answers to the most important questions you face in your work and to help you be the CEO of your own career. No script, no spin. just straight-from-the-gut answers to your questions from chief executives ranging from visionary founder Tommy Hilfiger to NYC's Mayor...
Oct 21, 2023•21 min
Pod Crashing Episode 278 With Simon Kent Fung From Dear Alana Host Simon Kent Fung explores the life of Alana Chen, a 24-year-old woman who disappeared from Boulder, Colorado in 2019. Alana left behind two dozen journals chronicling a deep faith, love of fashion, and dream of becoming a nun. She also harbored a secret. At 14, she confessed to her priest that she was attracted to women and was instructed not to tell her parents. Over the next seven years, Alana covertly received conversion therap...
Oct 18, 2023•20 min
Pod Crashing Episode 277 With Stephanie Lydecker And Courtney Armstrong From The Idaho Massacre On November 13, 2022, four students from the University of Idaho are brutally stabbed to death in an off-campus house. After a lengthy investigation and cross-country manhunt, a Ph.D. student from a neighboring university is charged with the crimes. As it turns out, the 28-year-old was majoring in criminology, studying the behavior of killers like the ones he would later be accused of becoming. Did he...
Oct 14, 2023•15 min
Pod Crashing Episode 276 With Marcy De Pena From Sweet Daddy Grace A personal deep dive into the life of Bishop Charles Manuel 'Sweet Daddy' Grace, an ambitious and gifted African immigrant from Cabo Verde to the United States, and one of the 20th century's most fascinating and overlooked figures. With hundreds of churches across the country and a congregation said to be upwards of three million, he was thought to be one of the richest Black men in America-but was he an anointed genius, or a bla...
Oct 11, 2023•20 min
Pod Crashing Episode 275 With Courtney And Steven From Journalista The untold story of the woman who broke one of the biggest scandals in U.S. history. The true story of Courtney "Cookie" Hood, former model and ex-wife of a Colombian drug cartel kingpin, hired to manage the CBS/60 Minutes field office in Managua, Nicaragua during the civil war in the '80s. What starts as another big party for her, ends up being the history making adventure of a lifetime, blowing the lid off the Iran-Contra scand...
Oct 07, 2023•21 min
Pod Crashing Episode 274 With Celest Headlee From Big Sugar Come explore the secretive, multi-billion-dollar sugar industry and the epic court battle that exposes how sugar is grown, cultivated and sold. Big Sugar is a deep dive into the inner workings of the industry. Hear firsthand from the workers, lawyers and journalists exposing the lies, exploitation and ultimately the truth. We travel from the Oval Office to the nightclubs of Havana to the sugarcane fields of Florida. This is a story of o...
Oct 03, 2023•18 min
Pod Crashing Episode 273 With Anney Reese And Samantha McVey From Stuff Mom Never Told You The concept of feminism has evolved and changed so much over the last few decades that it can be confusing for people to keep up. Luckily, Anney Reese and Samantha McVey break it all down every week on their popular iHeart podcast, Stuff Mom Never Told You . In this book-their first-they explore the history, strategy, and emotion that went into several milestones and emergent issues of the recent feminist ...
Sep 27, 2023•20 min
Pod Crashing Episode 272 With Craig Ferguson From The Joy Podcast Storied late-night talk host Craig Ferguson brings his interview talents and singular world view to a discussion of the modern state of JOY, sitting down with notable guests from the worlds of entertainment, science, government, and more. How's our Joy doing? Bridled? On life support? Where do we find joy in a world that seems by any rational measure to be collapsing around us? Episodes available here: https://www.iheart.com/podca...
Sep 21, 2023•10 min
Pod Crashing Episode 271 With Robert Greenfield And Gary Stromberg From Stones Touring Party A Long Hot Summer With The Rolling Stones. In the summer of 1972, the Rolling Stones swept across an America still smoldering from the tumult of the '60s, bringing their gritty masterpiece Exile on Main St. to the masses. Rolling Stone magazine journalist Robert Greenfield was along for the ride, writing the seminal rock book STP (Stones Touring Party) - culled from weeks on the road and more than 60 hou...
Sep 06, 2023•21 min
Pod Crashing Episode 270 With Sonari Glinton From Shattering The System Shattering The System is a podcast hosted by pioneering audio journalist Sonari Glinton. Drawing from his decades covering politics and the economy, Sonari exposes the systems making it possible for criminals of all kinds to get away with the unthinkable. Though it's a podcast about crime, this is more than just another true crime podcast. Using expert interviews, evidence, and innovative sound, Sonari unveils the ugly truth...
Aug 29, 2023•18 min
Pod Crashing Episode 269 With Sarah Wayne Callies From Aftershock Season 2 When an earthquake levels the West Coast of the US and kills the love of CASSIE'S (Sarah Wayne Callies) life, she makes a promise to him to find and protect his daughter, McKAYLA (Tati Gabrielle), who, prior to the quake, ran away in anger, blaming Cassie for breaking up her parents' marriage. However, the earthquake was so powerful it caused a giant island to rise 26 miles off the coast. Cassie discovers McKayla is on th...
Aug 22, 2023•20 min
Pod Crashing Episode 268 with Ultra Nate From The History Of The World’s Greatest Night Clubs From London Audio, iHeartRadio, and executive producer Paris Hilton. Hosted by Ultra Naté, this is a 12-part podcast exploring how different clubs around the world revolutionized the way we party. How they ushered in the birth of new genres and became hotspots for political activism. But above all how they created space for people to escape the world around them, to lose themselves in the music and leav...
Aug 15, 2023•23 min
Pod Crashing Episode 267 With Miles Taylor From The Whistleblowers THE WHISTLEBLOWERS: INSIDE THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION, hosted by former DHS official turned anonymous whistleblower and A Warning author Miles Taylor, will bring you into the room - and into the lives - of the high-ranking officials and frontline public servants who tried to bring order to the chaos of the Trump years, while grappling with the most difficult decision of their lives: whether to openly speak the truth. They knew that...
Aug 11, 2023•19 min
Pod Crashing Episode 266 With Katie Lowes And Guillermo Diaz From Unpacking The Toolbox Each week, Katie aka 'Quinn Perkins' and Guillermo aka 'Huck' dive into an episode of Scandal, sharing special behind the scenes stories, fun facts, and a healthy dose of laughs. Never ones to pass up a chance for a Scandal Fam reunion, the real-life friends invite some of their favorites from both in front of and behind the camera to reminisce and relive it all together. Plus, Katie and Guillermo look back a...
Aug 08, 2023•10 min
Pod Crashing Episode 265 Miles Gray From The Good Thief Vassilis Palaikostas, aka "Greece's Robin Hood" has been on the lam for 14 years. In his absence, legends of his generosity have grown. But no one knows where he is, or if the stories are even true. Here's what we do know: there's a million Euro bounty out for Vassilis, and a 24-hour task force trying to track him down. When he robs banks, he shares the money with the poor. When he kidnaps industrialists-- and he only kidnaps those who are ...
Aug 04, 2023•20 min
Pod Crashing Episode 264 Trevor Aaronson From Alphabet Boys Alphabet Boys reveals the secret investigations of the FBI, DEA, ATF, and other alphabet agencies. Hosted by journalist Trevor Aaronson, Alphabet Boys exposes secret undercover recordings that the government never wanted the public to hear. We explore cases that are both dangerous and absurd in order to ask this question: Are America's top cops catching criminals -- or creating them? Season one is "Trojan Hearse." During the rage-filled...
Aug 02, 2023•18 min
Pod Crashing Episode 263 Billy Mann From Yeah I Effed That Up Join Grammy-nominated hitmaker, entrepreneur, and philanthropist Billy Mann on a journey through the twists and turns of failure in "Yeah, I F***ed That Up." Through his joint venture label, Icons and Giants, Mann has had the privilege of rubbing shoulders with some of culture's most influential figures. Drawing inspiration from his son, who faces unique challenges as a person with Autism, Mann invites his guests to peel back the vene...
Aug 01, 2023•20 min
Pod Crashing Episode 262 Danielle Morton From City Of The Rails When journalist Danelle Morton's daughter skips town to hop trains, she follows her into the train yard, and across America. Join Danelle as she travels the country to understand what drew her daughter into the hidden world of the railroads. Her guides are the rail cops, train engineers, and hobos she meets along the way, each of them with their own extraordinary tales of the beauty and brutality of the rails. A mother/daughter stor...
Jul 29, 2023•21 min
Pod Crashing Episode 261 Glynnis MacNicol From Wilder Jack Kerouac but make it a girl with braids. Carrie Bradshaw, but without the sex, and also braids. An American Icon. An American Odyssey. American propaganda. Violently so, in some cases. Laura Ingalls Wilder is evergreen. For better or worse. Since the first Little House book was published in 1932, generations of readers have flocked to Laura's cozy stories of the Ingalls family settling the Western frontier. The series inspired a TV show, ...
Jul 28, 2023•20 min
Pod Crashing Episode 260 Josie Duffy Rice From Unreformed School of Humans and iHeartPodcasts present "Unreformed: The Story of the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children." In 1968, five Black girls escaped from the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children, a so-called "reform school" outside of Montgomery, Alabama. These girls were not the first children to run away from the institution, which everyone called Mt. Meigs. Children tried to escape all the time, desperate to get away from...
Jul 27, 2023•17 min
Pod Crashing Episode 259 Bryan Ford From The Flaky Biscuit As one of the only artisan baking cookbook authors who isn't white, Bryan Ford decided to create a show where everyone can have a seat at the table. Welcome to The Flaky Biscuit Podcast , a lively interview-style show that hosts diverse voices over food and honest conversations surrounding the concept that breaking the mold and creating a voice - whether BIPOC, women, or LGBTQ - are normalized. Each episode, Bryan brings amazing stories ...
Jul 26, 2023•17 min
Pod Crashing Episode 258 Joshua Topolsky From What Future Host Joshua Topolsky (co-creator of Vox Media and founder of The Verge) deconstructs modern culture, mining the surprising connections that make up our increasingly frenetic world. A heady mixture of fugue-state monologues and spontaneous, irreverent conversations with experts, weirdos, and big thinkers, What Future is here to dissect our insane reality, lasso the pieces, and ride off into the sunset with your money, your woman, and your ...
Jul 22, 2023•18 min
Pod Crashing Episode 257 Jacob And Ashley Schick From The Good Stuff The Good Stuff Podcast delves into the inspiring stories of success and perseverance. Through well-crafted story monologues, we showcase individuals who have made a positive impact through their acts of kindness, successful careers, businesses, and military service.
Jul 21, 2023•21 min
