Minds to Sit With

Minds to Sit With🧠: Podcast Recommendations

February 04, 2022

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

Curator:

Jesse Baker

Why did you choose this theme? 

I turn to podcasts to help me perceive the world through a different lens. I make podcasts for the very same reason. I am drawn to compelling stories told by singular voices like Esther Perel’s in Where Should We Begin.

PODCAST PICKS:Click on the podcast art to listen 👂

This Is DatingThe List: Aziz Date 1The goal of this show is to help people right now date a little better, one first date at a time. In this show, hosts Jesse Baker, Hiwote Getaneh, and Eleanor Kagan set up and record real first dates. As producers, they do their best to try and foster some magic, in hopes that a first date will turn into a second. In this episode, Aziz explores what straying from his "list" does for his love life.

Why Won't You Date Me?Big Dick Energy with Conan O’BrienNicole takes it where it needs to go, even though you didn’t know you needed it to go there. The guests just try to keep up. As Conan says in this episode, it’s one of the sexiest podcasts out there!

Terrible, Thanks For AskingA Life Interrupted with Suleika Jaouad

This show will break your heart every week, but somehow every episode is still rooted in laughter. And Nora has a great laugh. This conversation with Suleika is an example of two minds that our curator, Jesse Baker, says she would love to inhabit. Suleika’s memoir presents the most beautiful argument for hope she has ever read.

HeavyweightBarbara Shutt

Jesse Baker says she longs to have a problem interesting enough to have Jonathan Goldstein try to help her solve it. Or at least talk her through it. This episode is a two-part true-crime situation where everyone listening goes down the rabbit hole together.

CriminalThe Boycott

This is the most recent episode in the feed, but honestly you could close your eyes and just pick one, and chances are, it would be stellar. Our curator Jesse Baker says, "I don’t know Phoebe Judge, but I wish I did. I love getting lost in whatever whodunit or injustice she wants to conjure up. This show is my comfort food." This episode is about the Black students and families who fought against school segregation in North Carolina.

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FEEDBACK WITH EARBUDS:

This week on Feedback...We interview Jessie Baker, this week's EarBuds curator, about the minds she likes to sit with from this week's podcast picks!PLUS: You'll get to hear a voice note from the creator of this week's Spotlight pick, Samori at South and the City.

COMMUNITY:

📰Lauren Passell's 'Podcast The Newsletter' In 2003, in Vernon BC, two half-starved brothers emerged from the wilderness with an unbelievable story about living as “bush boys” who were kicked out by their parents because they wanted to become vegetarians. In Wild Boys, Comedian Sam Mullins explores what was fabricated and what was true about their story.🎂Follow Friday, the podcast about who you should follow online, celebrated its first birthday last week with a special episode guest-hosted by Garbage Day writer Ryan Broderick. Most weeks on the show, host Eric Johnson interviews creative people — like Ologies host Alie Ward, YouTube creator Tom Scott, and The Black List founder Franklin Leonard — about who they follow online, and why.

🏙️From The Intercept, Invisible Institute, and Topic Studios, in association with Tenderfoot TV, Somebody is a podcast exploring the murder of Chicago man, Courtney Copeland. Copeland’s mother, Shapearl Wells, probes her son’s homicide and joins forces with a team of journalists to confront Chicago Police and challenge the city’s long-standing racial disparities. This podcast was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for Audio Reporting.

CLASSIFIEDS:

⭐NPR's fourth annual Student Podcast Challenge is back and now open for students pursuing their associate's or bachelor's degrees! Students will produce a podcast between three and eight minutes on a topic, issue or story of their choosing. The College Podcast Challenge is open until February 28. The winners will be notified in late spring. This year, for the first time, there will be a $5000 grant for the College Podcast Challenge Winner, plus $500 for finalists.🌏G’day mate! If you are a recent migrant to the land Down Under, this podcast series is for you! Australia Explained will help you understand the quirky habits that embody the Aussie way of life. Listen to this podcast in Mandarin, Punjabi, Arabic, Filipino, Russian, or Thai!🧊'Tartarus' is a sci-fi horror audio drama. Three staff members run a secret research facility that extends deep below the ice of Antarctica, imprisoning hundreds of strange and dangerous monsters.

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PODCAST SPOTLIGHT:

South and the CitySouth and the City is an unscripted podcast of two fraternity brothers' experiences, perspectives, and cultural influences. On this podcast, hosts Samori and Tony discuss a collection of stories, share tips, and offer unpopular but darn good opinions. Take a listen to the varied perspectives of two millennial Black men from, pun intended, the south and the city!

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