Top Society & Culture Podcasts

bi design is for those who aspire to live life more intentionally, deliberately, and authentically; by their own design. After ending her engagement during the pandemic, host Whitney Young found herself single and starting over at 30. This unforeseen turn of events effectively forced her to throw away the societal blueprint and begin creating a new, more authentic and healthier life. It meant living by design vs. living on autopilot. The pivot entailed a grueling grieving process and healing journey that many millennials are accustomed to, especially those who are queer- identifying. A positive byproduct of this process is that Whitney was able to lean more fully into her identity as a bisexual woman, and found, through countless viral TikTok videos, that her experiences resonated with millions. Bi design will deep dive into topics and themes relating to Whitney’s experiences and observations, as well as the experiences and stories of influential guests who have, and continue to, live by design.

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Welcome to the Call Her Daring podcast with Kelley Daring. On this show we’ll be getting radically honest about the female experience. Along with experts and storytellers, I am here to inform, unite and support women across the globe and in all walks of life. Join me and Call Her Daring anywhere you listen to podcasts, plus enjoy behind the scenes content on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube. Send a DM or leave a comment on a topic you would like me to cover, or just say hi. I am so excited to get this started and go on this journey with women everywhere. I hope you’re excited to join me and those women as well.

Haunting, Purgatory’s premier podcast, shares weekly, real-life paranormal stories told by those who experienced them first-hand. Some will be unsettling... Some unnerving… And some are even downright terrifying! Haunting brings audiences into the story through first-hand accounts and immersive audio, giving listeners the feeling of coming face-to-face with the unexplainable. 
Hosted by Theresa (Teh-rez-ah), an "influencer" who tragically died before she could get the proverbial "little blue check in life," is stuck in the Eternal Twilight until she figures out how to finish her "unfinished business." Just like when she was alive and active on every social media platform, Theresa promises to always give her audience the -- mostly -- unfiltered look into her life, now afterlife. But instead of snarky social commentary, OOTDs, and hyper-edited selfies, with the help of her producer, Len, and succubus from Hell turned intern, Naomi, Theresa aims to help the living see that ghosts are just former people who want to have a little fun like anyone else, even though it's often in the form of mortal fear and suffering. 

In 2021, anonymous user Carl92 uploaded a 17-second sample of a song that changed lost media forever.

The catchy tune sounded familiar to so many people. But for years nobody could find it.

Was it an unreleased demo from a major artist? An AI generated hoax? The beginning of an alternate reality game?

Everyone Knows That: The Search for Ulterior Motives is a five-part miniseries about the history of the song, the theories pursued, the hoaxes created, and the song's shocking discovery.

New episodes air every Monday starting June 17.

Follow Everyone Knows That: The Search for Ulterior Motives on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon, and wherever you get your podcasts.

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What does a day in the life look like for you? Welcome to DITL, the podcast where we journey into the daily rhythms and rituals of extraordinary people.

Join Paige Port, President of Dear Media, as she digs into the fascinating lives and routines of her guests. From entrepreneurs to artists, athletes to chefs — each DITL episode offers a peek into the routines and strategies that fuel personal and professional success.

Driven by her own passion for planning, Paige leaves no stone unturned as she uncovers invaluable tips, tricks, hacks, apps, and even holy grail products. Tune in every Thursday and refine your own daily grind with DITL.

An unexpected collaboration.

California Governor Gavin Newsom, Super Bowl Champion Marshawn “Beast Mode” Lynch, and their friend and agent Doug Hendrickson are Politickin’.

Gavin Newsom like you’ve never heard him and Marshawn Lynch exactly how you’d expect him.

Join them for Politickin’ each week for the conversations that need to be had.

GenX Women are Sick of This Shit is a nostalgic nod to the humans of GenX in the Midwest. Each episode, co-hosts Megan Bennett and Lesley Meier, have an ADHD driven conversation about GenX history and pop culture using their own lives and experiences growing up in Indianapolis as the backdrop. The podcast is a creative project inspired by the Facebook group 'GenX Women are Sick of This Shit', created by Megan Bennett in 2023. "Five Minutes of Fame" stories and "Dear GenX Women" letters are sent in by listeners and members of the Facebook group and are shared with consent. The original Facebook group is a mosh pit of menopausal women talking about all things GenX culture and life in the 70s, 80s and 90s as well as being a GenXer today. GenX Women are Sick of This Shit is part of Latchkey Kids Media, LLC where we make things we like because we want to. Copyright 2025, Latchkey Kids Media, LLC

Introducing: Roundabout, an Acast Creative podcast about road trips, relationships and the memories made along the way.

Join everyday folks — and a few names you know! — as they relive the sometimes hectic, sometimes hilarious, always heartwarming moments from the road that brought them closer together.

It's all about the journey, baby!

Produced in partnership with DCP Entertainment.

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Named 2025 Ambies© Podcast of the Year, Hysterical investigates a mysterious illness that spreads among a group of high school girls in upstate New York. What is causing their sudden, often violent symptoms? Is there something in the water or inside the school? Or is it “all in their head?” The series examines the outbreak in LeRoy, NY, believed by some to be the most severe case of mass hysteria since the Salem Witch Trials. In his search for answers, Dan Taberski (9/12, Missing Richard Simmons, Running from Cops) explores other seemingly inexplicable events of the last few years – CIA officers being crippled with nausea and vertigo; cops OD'ing from exposure to fentanyl – and discovers they’re far more connected than we realize.

From Wondery and Pineapple Street Studios, this 7-part series forces us to grapple with the mysteries of our own minds, and reckon with a contagion that we thought was long dead, but may be the defining disorder of our time.

Audible subscribers can listen to all episodes of Hysterical ad-free right now. Join Audible today by downloading the Audible app.

Why is someone leaving dozens of dead animals as a mafia-style warning in the British countryside? Buried is the multi award-winning investigative series digging into some of the most disturbing environmental stories in history. In this thrilling new investigation, Buried: Dead Rabbit, reporters Dan Ashby and Lucy Taylor team up with the wildlife presenter Chris Packham to investigate. First, villagers find twenty mangled animals outside a primary school, then fifty by a farm shop, blood smeared over the doors.

Are they a Godfather-like threat? A taunt? A strange Satanic sacrifice? Or - just like a classic horror movie - the first flash of a monster, lurking in the shadows?

The answer leads the team to uncover a terrifying criminal underworld operating in the heart of the countryside. Masked men in 4x4s, violent rage, and tens of thousands of pounds at stake. Chris Packham tells us his own dead-animal threats escalated into a car bomb outside his house. Farmers and villagers say they feel abandoned, and the problem is darker - and far more widespread - than anyone thought.

Dead Rabbit begins like a folk horror movie but turns into a gripping, fast-paced thriller about the takeover of illegal hare coursing in the countryside.

This is the third series of Buried, bringing bingeable, fast-paced mysteries exposing urgent environmental true stories you've almost certainly never heard of. Husband-and-wife investigative duo Dan Ashby and Lucy Taylor dive into secret worlds of organised crime unfolding in our waste (Series 1) or trails of toxic chemicals that go right to our plates (Series 2, Buried: The Last Witness). Each series is a separate story bringing to light never-before-heard recordings and boxes of explosive legal documents, inviting the audience to unpick crimes or scandals with them.

The team's previous exploration into 'forever chemicals' (Buried: The Last Witness) continues on TV in Buried with Michael Sheen. Watch the documentary on iPlayer: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m002zkql/buried-with-michael-sheen