Top Society & Culture Podcasts

As host of Booze Traveler (Travel Channel), Jack Maxwell has ventured to more than 50 countries over six different continents. He's done it by hot air balloon, chicken bus, camel caravan, tuk-tuk and donkey wagon. Spent time with Maasai Warriors in Tanzania, Roma Gypsies in Hungary, Vikings in Sweden, Nomads in Mongolia. He drank Bhang Lassi with the Babas of Nepal, screamed with Soccer Fans in Turkey, danced with Zulu in South Africa and waxed whiskey-poetic with an astrophysicist in Argentina. On this podcast, Jack will share these and other stories from the road, along with some surprising life lessons he's learned from the most unlikely people in the most unusual of places. With cocktail in hand he'll invite you to join him each and every week - whether you drink or not - on an eye-opening alcohol-inspired trip around the world.

History comes alive as we revisit important moments in American culture with interviews from the archives of the inimitable 20th-century broadcaster and oral historian Studs Terkel. Host Eve Ewing guides us through
the Studs Terkel Radio Archive and pairs each piece of archival audio with an interview with a contemporary thinker, intertwining the past and the present. Dust off your soapbox, open your ears, and come down to the Bughouse Square. Bughouse Square with Eve Ewing is produced by the WFMT Radio Network and made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: exploring the human endeavor.

For decades, GQ magazine has convened unforgettable discussions with the world’s leading cultural figures—now that tradition takes a new form. Mad Influence, hosted by GQ’s Editor in Chief Jim Nelson, features some of the most acclaimed actors, artists, and personalities of our time in lively and revealing conversation about the decisive moments that have defined their lives and shaped their careers. Where does inspiration come from? How are creative breakthroughs achieved? And what lessons can we learn from the feats—and the failures—of the world’s greatest performers?

Bridget Phetasy admires grit and authenticity. On Walk-Ins Welcome, she talks about the beautiful failures and frightening successes of her own life and the lives of her guests. She doesn’t conduct interviews—she has conversations. Conversations with real people about the real struggle and will remind you that we can laugh in pain and cry in joy but there’s no greater mistake than hiding from it all. By embracing it all, and celebrating it with the stories she’ll bring listeners, she believes that our lowest moments can be the building blocks for our eventual fulfillment.

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