The Episode About Animals
The animal world is a special world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Oct 12, 2019•33 min•Season 8Ep. 6
Love and Radio
Nick van der Kolk's Love and Radio features in-depth, otherworldly-produced interviews with an eclectic range of subjects, from the seedy to the sublime. Get inside the mind of a rogue taxidermist. Find out what it's like to experience a stroke firsthand. Or spend time with an artist who gives away her life savings every night. You've never heard anything like it before.
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Necessary Measures
In 1981, Alex Pacheco went undercover at the laboratory of Dr. Edward Taub, a neuroplasticity researcher conducting experiments on macaque monkeys. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Sep 26, 2019•39 min•Season 8Ep. 5
Mean, Mean
The age-old question of nature versus nurture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Aug 15, 2019•42 min•Season 8Ep. 4
The Secrets Hotline, Vol. IV
Our listeners divulge their deepest and darkest secrets. To leave your own secrets for a future show, call +1 (641) 715-3900, then dial 55403#. This show has moved to Luminary! For more info, go to LuminaryPodcasts.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 01, 2019•30 min•Season 8Ep. 2
Black Feminist Thot
Mistress Velvet specializes in the subjugation of white men. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apr 23, 2019•31 min•Season 8Ep. 1
Such is the Way to the Stars
Richmond, Virginia: Sic Itur Ad Astra. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Nov 21, 2018•1 hr 25 min•Season 7Ep. 12
The Secrets Hotline, Vol III
Our listeners divulge their deepest and darkest secrets. Sound design by Stephen Vitiello. Final song: Chipmunk Party by Maja Ratkje. To leave your own secrets on a future secrets show, call +1 929 SECRETS. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Oct 13, 2018•45 min•Season 7Ep. 10
The Battle of Cumorah
Mike Norton has a change of heart. Produced by Noam Osband. Final song: Emblem by Colin Self. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Oct 01, 2018•58 min•Season 7Ep. 9
F Your Feelings
Evan has a secret. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Aug 23, 2018•38 min•Season 7Ep. 7
The Recruiter
Rob Navarro: gospel singer, the voice of Spanish-language Ronald McDonald, and one of the most successful gay pornographers in America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 29, 2018•54 min•Season 7Ep. 4
The Secrets Hotline, Vol. II
Awkward, funny, and tragic. You tell us your deepest darkest secrets. Featuring totally original music from Build Buildings. Leave your own secret at +1 641 715 3900, extension 55403#. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dec 21, 2017•22 min•Season 6Ep. 11
44 Years
Albert Woodfox lived in solitary confinement in prison longer than any other American, confined to a 6 foot by 9 foot cell for 23 hours each day—for nearly 44 years. Produced in collaboration with Amnesty International UK. Final song: It’s My Brown Skin by Helado Negro. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Nov 06, 2017•36 min•Season 6Ep. 8
Murdertown, USA
Content warning! If you’re squeamish around violent stuff, you should skip this one. Will is a collector. Final song: Pour Endormir les Démons by Merle Bardenoir from Chants D’Avant L’Aube. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Oct 24, 2017•41 min•Season 6Ep. 7
Photochemical
Meags loves photo booths. Final song: Laisse Autant Le Vent Tout Emporter by Les Breastfeeders Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Oct 13, 2017•31 min•Season 6Ep. 6
For Science!
Karaoke is Alex’s main gig, but that’s not how he makes his money. Final song: Road Soda Reggae by Indian Agent. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Sep 28, 2017•34 min•Season 6Ep. 5
The Boys Will Work It Out
Adult content. Listener discretion is advised. Since a child, Sarz had a deep connection to the Lord of the Rings books. After the movie version came out in 2003, that connection went several layers deeper. Outro song: By Your Side (Sade cover), performed by Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jul 06, 2017•45 min•Season 6Ep. 2
Relevant Questions
A preview of our next season, coming at you NEXT MONTH! Doug Williams has been waging a war for decades against the polygraph machine (aka the lie detector). Produced by Jacob McCleland and Ana Adlerstein. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 15, 2017•44 min•Season 6Ep. 1
The Secrets Hotline
Recordings from the Secrets Hotline, with original music and production by George Langford. Find more of George’s work at georgelangford.com. You can leave your own secret at +1 (641) 715-3900, extension 55403#. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apr 06, 2017•25 min•Season 5Ep. 14
La Retirada, Part Three
With Carlos' enemies enraged, the Gomez family is forced into hiding with the Witness Security Program, or WITSEC. But making a clean break from the past is a lot harder than they expected. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mar 24, 2017•31 min•Season 5Ep. 13
La Retirada, Part Two
The story continues as Rocío Gómez divorces her husband Rodrigo, a master drug trafficker in Colombia. Rocío and her children move to Miami where she begins a relationship with a new man, Carlos, whose dangerous past with the mafia catches up with Rocío’s family. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mar 10, 2017•40 min•Season 5Ep. 12
La Retirada, Part One
In Colombia, Rocío Gómez marries into an empire of wealth and power. She is told the family operates a low-profile import/export business, and finds comfort in her role as wife and mother. However, she soon learns the family business is not what it seems as Rosio becomes entangled with drugs, money, and mafioso. Produced in … Continue reading La Retirada, Part One → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mar 03, 2017•30 min•Season 5Ep. 11
How to Argue
We revisit Daryl Davis and ask him, "how should we argue?" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Feb 11, 2017•41 min•Season 5Ep. 9
Blink Once for Yes
When Mike comes home, his family is faced with a new reality and an impossible choice. Produced by John Fecile. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dec 26, 2016•1 hr•Season 5Ep. 6
Doing The No No
Adam Zaretsky is a bioartist who explores the manipulation of DNA, the fringes of genetic modification, and butts up against the ethical boundaries of science and beyond. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dec 02, 2016•1 hr 14 min•Season 5Ep. 5
Wood Fighting with Steel
Deep in the woods of Norway, a man from a strange, foreign land chops wood and reminisces over the love of his life from a bygone time. Produced by Sindre Leganger for NRK. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Nov 17, 2016•30 min•Season 5Ep. 4
Upper Left
Julie needed a fresh start, so she moved back home to the Bay Area, and made a new group of friends. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Oct 28, 2016•35 min•Season 5Ep. 3
The Enemy Within
A co-production with the podcast Reckonings. In the 1980s, Glenn Loury was one of the most prominent black conservative intellectuals in the United States, and was selected to be a top official within the Reagan administration. Unexpectedly, however, he withdrew his consideration before being appointed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Oct 13, 2016•1 hr 6 min•Season 5Ep. 2
An Old Lion or a Lover’s Lute, Special Extended Cut
Jerome and Ana work a couple blocks from one another in Oakland, California. When Jerome called out to her in the street, she pulled out her microphone and asked if he could repeat what he said to her. This is the conversation that followed. And, the conversation that followed that conversation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Aug 27, 2016•48 min
Deep Stealth Mode
From our friends at the Here Be Monsters podcast: Marlo Mack gave birth to a son. At least, she thought she did. But her son crawled towards dresses, wanted to be a princess, and asked to grow long blonde hair. At age 3, Marlo's son asked to go back into mommy's tummy, so he could come back out as a baby girl. Marlo thought it was a phase--it wasn't. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Feb 25, 2016•21 min
Discarnate Rebel Angel
In the remote, high deserts of New Mexico, Timothy Wyllie reflects on a life of testing the limits of reality and spirituality. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Oct 22, 2015•28 min•Season 4Ep. 18
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