When we hear about confidence games, we think, “never me.” Welcome to The Grift, a show about con artists and the lives they ruin. Best-selling author and New Yorker writer Maria Konnikova takes us to the darker side of human nature and deceit. Ten stories about card sharks, cult leaders, art forgers, impostors, and more. Why do we fall for them time and time again?
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Pet Stuff
There’s so much to know about our pets, it can be hard to keep up. From pop-trends to hot-button topics, strange behaviors and deceptive marketing. Join us, as we navigate our way through a crazy industry. Seriously, we’re not kitten around.
The Life You Can Save by Peter Singer (Audiobook)
What if you could help change or even save lives with very little effort? It may sound too good to be true, but in The Life You Can Save, world-renowned professor of bioethics Peter Singer shows us how small sacrifices can make a big impact and help end the needless suffering caused by extreme poverty. Listen to a free audiobook narrated by Kristen Bell, Stephen Fry, Paul Simon and more in The Life You Can Save podcast.
The Baking Podcast
There were no baking podcasts until master baker Taunya “the baker girl” teamed up with her sister Melody “the business girl” to create one. Join them as they discuss all things baking. Join them on their journey as they work to transition their cottage bakery to an actual store front.
Follow their bakery on Facebook page Covet Artisan bakery and on instagram covet_artisan_bakery: The Baking podcast has a facebook and instagram account too.
You can email the sisters at thebakingpodcast@gmail.com. They welcome comments and ideas for upcoming shows!
The Once & Future Podcast
Bringing you the science fiction and fantasy books that you want to read
The Feed Podcast
Chicago Chef/Restaurateur Rick Bayless and award-winning food journalist Steve Dolinsky have known each other for 20 years, and now they’re teaming up to tackle everything from food trends to seafood sustainability. Jump around the globe each episode as they teach you how to make delicious dishes like ramen and Korean fried chicken, with amazing guest chefs to guide you along the way.
LOVE SOMEONE with Delilah
In a world that can feel divisive and bleak, it’s easy to get caught up in feelings of hopelessness, but the beautiful, glorious, truth is this: LOVE NEVER FAILS. In the 40 years I’ve been on the airwaves, I’ve implored my listeners to LOVE SOMEONE; Family, friends, neighbors, community, the Lord, and themselves. I’m talking to guests with names you may know, and those you may not. They all have stories meant to inspire you! New episodes drop the 2nd & 4th Tuesday of each month!
Poem Talk
Kelly Writers House impresario Al Filreis leads a lively roundtable discussion of a single poem with a series of rotating guests including Tracie Morris, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, erica kaufman, Charles Bernstein, Sawako Nakayasu, Simone White, and others.
From the Front Porch
Welcome to From the Front Porch, a weekly conversational podcast on books, small business, and life in the South, produced by The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in Thomasville, Georgia.
The Others – Jesse Haynes: Science Fiction Novelist
When Aaron Winchell’s plane crashes into the ocean, he is washed on a small island in the Pacific. Winchell is the only survivor of the wreck, other than an old-timey voice recorder. In an attempt to keep a level of sanity, the man of mystery begins to record journalistic summaries of his stint on the island. It is his way to fight of the loneliness. …Except he isn’t alone. The longer Aaron is on the island, the more mysteries he unlocks. Why does he feel like he is being watched? Who are the shadowy humanoid figures he continues to see lurking in the trees? What dark secrets does the island conceal? And the biggest mystery of all–how does Aaron Winchell fit into all of it?
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