Light and Dark: Podcast Recommendations

Light and Dark: Podcast Recommendations from Yeardley Smith🌞

January 15, 2023

Five podcast episodes on a theme, each week curated by a different person

Light and Dark: Podcast Recommendations

CuratorYeardley Smith (she/her), host of the Small Town Dicks podcast

Why did you choose this theme?

I love true crime, and I consume a lot of it. But I also need some light in the form of inspiration, aspiration, and humor to balance out all the murder.

PODCAST PICKS:Click on the podcast art to listen 👂

Small Town Dicks

For EarBuds curator Yeardley Smith (and host of Small Town Dicks) it’s really hard to choose one favorite from the past 11 seasons. But this two-part episode is a great start.Detectives Dan and Dave, along with the victim’s widow and fellow officers, recount the day Chris Kilcullen was murdered while on a traffic stop. This one brings tears to Yeardley's eyes every time she hears it.

I SpyThe Spycatcher Parts 1 & 2This two-parter is like watching a thriller! A (former) spy named Eric O’Neill is charged with catching one of the FBI’s most notorious spies at the agency, Robert Hanssen.

Alec Mapa: Hot Mess with Matthew Dempsey Psychotherapist

Alec and Matt: Alec not drinking

Alec, who is an actor/writer/comedian, holds nothing back in this searingly honest episode about why he recently decided to stop drinking. Matthew is also incredibly candid. His warmth is the perfect complement to Alec’s take-no-prisoners approach to life.

Brené Brown: Unlocking UsBrené with David Eagleman on The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing BrainAny time someone mixes science with spirituality, EarBuds curator Yeardley Smith is up for it!

Comedy Gold Minds with Kevin HartNiecy NashListening to this interview feels like being a fly on the wall to a wonderful conversation between two friends for whom no subject is off-limits. Niecy is a force of nature and Kevin is 100% there for it.

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New in 2023: We've partnered with Realm Media on pairing a fiction podcast with our theme. This week, light and dark!

I Love LuciferBridesmaids meets American Werewolf in London in this Rom-Mon-Com (Romantic-Monster-Comedy, of course) audio series starring Adam Levy (The Witcher) about two B-movie stars who battle movie monsters by day... and real monsters by night.When the cameras stop rolling, the lines of reality are blurred, and the fantasy of their day job turns into a living nightmare.

FEEDBACK WITH EARBUDS:

This week on our podcast...(Click on Yeardley to listen)Yeardley Smith, whose voice you may recognize from her portrayal of Lisa Simpson on The Simpsons (and from her podcast, Small Town Dicks) shares podcast recommendations that strike the balance between light and dark. PLUS: We've got a voice clip from the creator of this week's Spotlight pick, Chameleon: Dr. Dante, a podcast about a hypnotist and scam artist named Ronald Dante. Subscribe

COMMUNITY:

🎤This week in Podcast The Newsletter: Tink Media asked people in podcast marketing to share their 2023 podcast marketing insights.🐦BirdNote is excited to announce the launch of its fourth and final season of Threatened, a podcast about answering the call to protect the birds and places we love. 🛸Tenderfoot TV and Cadence13 announced that they'll extend their partnership through 2024, with the renewal of the series Up and Vanished, To Live and Die in LA, Culpable, and Radio Rental. 

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CLASSIFIEDS:

👑What do you get when you pair two childhood best friends, cocktails, and powerful women in history? You get Queens Podcast! Women are often overlooked, maligned, or completely misunderstood in history. Hosts Katy and Nathan are here to change that — one cocktail at a time. Join them as they dive deep into the lives of some of the most fascinating women, from ancient history to the modern day. Come ready to laugh, learn and maybe share a drink or two. 🥂 Cheers!🗽What does a statue of a fictional hero tell us about the stories we choose to memorialize? Enter The Statue, a brand new podcast produced by WHYY Digital Studios. Join host Paul Farber, one of the nation's thought leaders on monuments and public space, as he examines a monument to the most famous Philadelphian who never lived: "Rocky Balboa” of the Oscar Award-winning film Rocky.

🔨Texture and Artefact, a new podcast about sound and memory, combines personal monologues, field recordings, interviews, clips from old cassettes, occasional drama, and original music, all knitted together into narrative soundscapes. The first episode is about growing up with undiagnosed ADHD in the UK in the '90s.

SPOTLIGHT:

 

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Chameleon: Dr. Dante

, enter the twisted world of Dr. Ronald Dante, a prodigiously talented hypnotist (and not an actual doctor) whose mind-bending schemes spanned decades.

Dante rode the self-help craze of the 1980s and '90s, hypnotizing women out of their fortunes, taking out hits on his rivals, and opening up one of the biggest fake universities in history. Host Sam Mullins tracks Dante through yacht clubs, prison cells, trailer parks, and theme parks to uncover the unbelievable true story of the greatest con man you’ve never heard of.

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