Shea Serrano and Jason Concepcion comb through all the NBA & WNBA news from the past week, handing out six pop culture-themed trophies to six basketball-related activities.
In this basketball-meets-pop-culture show from Wondery, the guys honor the most magical and messy moments from the NBA and beyond by handing out hardware like the “Denzel Washington in Training Day” Trophy for the most dominant performance of the week. Or the “Sixth Sense ‘I See Dead People’” Trophy given to the player or team who had the biggest comeback of the week. The possibilities are endless, as Shea and Jason drop movie, music, and TV references like Steph Curry raining threes.
There’s no better way to get all your basketball news from a couple of Spurs-Knicks fans, while reliving all your favorite things from the Fast & Furious franchise to the latest Kendrick-Drake beef.
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Heidi’s Lane with Heidi Powell: Where we dive into real stories, belly laugh moments, and heart-to-heart chats. Each episode will bring tons of vulnerability, the permission to start anew, inspiration to be in the present moment and finding joy in living life to the fullest. Tune in for unfiltered conversations that will make everyone feel seen, heard, and loved because at the end of the day, we’re all here to lift each other up and be in the driver’s seat of our own lives.
The human body is a miracle. But when it’s not working, it can be the stuff of nightmares. On this new series from master storyteller MrBallen, we’re sharing medical horror stories and diagnostic mysteries that are surgically calibrated to make your blood run cold.
From bizarre, unheard-of diseases and miraculous recoveries to strange medical mishaps and unexplainable deaths — you’ll never hear the phrase “heart-stopping” in the same way again. MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries is a first-of-its-kind collaboration between MrBallen and Wondery, the award-winning company behind Dr. Death.
Audible subscribers can listen to all episodes of MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries ad-free right now. Join Audible today by downloading the Audible app.
The tight knit fabric of a small town can be torn apart when a violent crime happens.
Join host and advocate Hilarie Burton Morgan in the companion podcast to SundanceTV’s powerful true crime documentary series, “It Couldn’t Happen Here.” Along with key crew from the TV series as her co-hosts, Burton Morgan will dive deeper into the cases covered on the show featuring never before heard archive and a behind the scenes lens of how the team tackles these head-scratching and heart-breaking stories. “It Couldn’t Happen Here” encourages everyone to get curious, get involved, and ask how can I help when it appears the system has failed?
After listening to this podcast, you’ll find yourself thinking twice about our series title: “It Couldn’t Happen Here”. It can, and it does, more than you would think.
For more information on the cases we cover or if you have a case you’d like us to tackle, please follow our advocacy work on @ICHHstories on Instagram and Twitter
The best bosses create systems for solving problems old and new—from navigating working-from-home demands to hiring the right people, from running good meetings to managing themselves.
Andrew Palmer, author of the Bartleby column, looks for advice on how to be a better boss by talking to people who have actually done the job. Listen to The Economist‘s guide for managers.
Season 3 is all about the challenges of AI in the workplace. It’s out Thursday 29th January.
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The Home Service Expert podcast is the No. 1 podcast for ambitious home service entrepreneurs, whether they are in plumbing, HVAC or another niche. In this show, Tommy Mello, a $200M business founder, will talk with the best entrepreneurs and experts in the home service industry and beyond, to share insights that have made them successful: from the newest marketing tools to the best scaling strategies. Previous podcast guests include Terry Nicholson (former national trainer of NYSE-listed home services company), Craig Smith (President of HomeAdvisor, a home services marketplace valued at $2B+), Cameron Herold (former COO of three $100M+ companies), etc.
Alison Roman brings you Solicited Advice, a podcast that is just that. The New York Times bestselling cookbook author is joined every week by a guest who, like her, enjoys giving and or receiving advice. Together, they answer questions from live and recorded callers that cover everything from modern dating to awkward neighbor interactions to how to order a martini with confidence and, of course, cooking (no, you should not be “washing your chicken,” and yes, you really should have two types of salt).
New episodes every other Thursday– listen wherever you get your podcasts. Solicited Advice is brought to you with distribution and revenue support from the Talkhouse Network.
On a January night in 1995, 18-year-old Christa Pike and two other teenagers lured 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer to a secluded area near the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. They taunted, beat, and slashed Colleen, carving a pentagram into her chest, before Christa picked up a piece of concrete and smashed Colleen’s skull, killing her. Those salacious details stood out during a national Satanic Panic over ritual abuse and suburban cults. The Knoxville News Sentinel later accused Christa of killing “for love and Satan.” She was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death by electrocution—one of the youngest women ever to be sentenced to death in the United States.
Thirty years later, Christa is still alive, incarcerated at a Nashville prison and the only woman on death row in Tennessee. She has spent much of her adult life in solitary confinement. In the decades since the murder, evolving understanding about brain science and trauma have cast Christa’s wildly violent act—and death sentence—in a new light. We now know that the brain of an 18-year-old remains underdeveloped and impulsive. Christa has a horrific history of abuse, violence, and family neglect; the first time she attempted suicide, she was 9 years old. That kind of trauma can arrest healthy development, leading some young adults down a disastrous path.
As Christa approaches her final appeals, a team of state and federal defenders are urgently trying to save Christa’s life. Her date of execution could be set any time. If executed, she will be the first woman killed by Tennessee in almost 200 years. Should a woman who committed a violent crime as a damaged teenager be granted a chance at rehabilitation? And is justice best served through retribution or mercy?
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