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What We're Listening To Now: Life Hack Podcasts

By South Charlotte Macaroni Kid November 4, 2024

Last week we gave you a list of 20 of our current fav true crime podcast. This week we have a round up of some serious ear candy, these podcast are the best guilty pleasure podcast we have found. They are not serious, some will make you laugh others will make you blush but they are all perfect for a time to completely zone out. As with our last podcast round up, all descriptions are taken directly from Apple Podcast descriptions of the show. 

Trashy Divorces: A Good Podcast About Bad Relationships. Every Wednesday and Sunday, Alicia and Stacie take you on a comedic ride through stories of marital misconduct and love gone wrong, blending biography, pop culture, history, and politics. 

Trashy Royals: Whether it's the debauchery of ancient Roman emperors, the Tudor crime family, the shenanigans behind the Chair of St. Peter, or the Austrian elites’ attempts to save themselves by trading their daughters to other royal houses, it turns out that our betters have always been among our worst.

You Must Remember This: You Must Remember This is a storytelling podcast exploring the secret and/or forgotten histories of Hollywood’s first century.

Cocaine and Rhinestones: Step right up. Come on in. (Sordid history of country music) 

Family Secrets: Family Secrets. We all have them. And while the discovery of family secrets can initially be terrifying or traumatic, often these discoveries have the power to liberate, heal, and even uplift us.

Grown Ups Read Things They Wrote as Kids: Remembering the good, the bad, and the awkward parts of growing up

You're Wrong About: Sarah is a journalist obsessed with the past. Every week she reconsiders a person or event that's been miscast in the public imagination.

I Miss Radio: Every music lover has personal classics that have been forgotten to time. You know the ones—the tracks that take you back to a particular time and place almost as soon as the first notes get played. Whether they were chart-toppers or lost personal favorites, you’ll hear those songs—from all variety of genres—on I Miss Radio. 

Hit Parade: What makes a song a smash? Talent? Luck? Timing? All that—and more. Chris Molanphy, pop-chart analyst and author of Slate’s “Why Is This Song No. 1?” series, tells tales from a half-century of chart history. Through storytelling, trivia and song snippets, Chris dissects how that song you love—or hate—dominated the airwaves, made its way to the top of the charts and shaped your memories forever.

Lost at the Smithsonian: Comedian and pop culture fanatic Aasif Mandvi gets up close and personal with the most iconic artifacts at the National Museum of American History. Join Aasif and his guests as they explore how vintage clothing, ratty furniture, and mismatched shoes transformed into Fonzie's leather jacket, Archie Bunker's chair, and Dorothy's ruby slippers and became defining symbols of American culture along the way.

Mobituaries: “CBS News Sunday Morning” correspondent Mo Rocca has always loved obituaries. Each episode of Mobituaries covers his favorite dearly departed people and things.

The Sporkful: We obsess about food to learn more about people. The Sporkful isn't for foodies, it's for eaters.

Badlands: Badlands was a true crime podcast that explored the real life stories of the famous at their most infamous. The kinds of stories that were once told here can now be found in the DISGRACELAND podcast feed, where you can listen to episodes about Hollywood stars caught up in scandal and true crime, musicians getting away with murder, athletes falling from grace, and more.

Disgraceland: Musicians. Movie stars. Mayhem. Murder. DISGRACELAND is the award-winning podcast that tells the unbelievable but true stories from the dark side of entertainment history. 

Even the Rich: Our lives can be crazy, but you can take a break from it all with Wondery’s new series, Even the Rich, where co-hosts Brooke Siffrinn and Aricia Skidmore-Williams pull back the curtain and chat about someone else’s craziness for a change.

Even the Royals: Admit it: you’re obsessed with royal families – watching them, gossiping about them, wanting to be them. It’s the stuff of fantasy. But for real life royals, the crown jewels can be more like shiny handcuffs.