Find That Pod #293

Let’s Discover Some Awesome Podcasts

🎙️Welcome to the 293rd edition of Find That Pod 🎙️

As always, welcome new subscribers!

Happy New Year everyone!

I’m very excited about this year as I’ve got a lot of changes and upgrades planned for the newsletter. My hope is that a digital resource I’ve been planning on launching for years finally comes together this year and that I can continue to create and publish more and more podcast discovery resources for you.

Ok, let’s get started with our 2025 - here are this week’s podcast recommendations:

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LIFE SCIENCES

Tiny Matters

Take a dive into the genes, microbes, molecules and other tiny things that have a big impact on our world with Tiny Matters. Join scientists Sam Jones and Deboki Chakravarti as they take apart complex and contentious topics in science and help rebuild your understanding.

From deadly disease to ancient sewers to forensic toxicology, Sam and Deboki embrace the awe and messiness of science and its place in the past, present, and future.

TV & FILM

What Went Wrong

What Went Wrong covers Hollywood’s most notoriously disastrous movie productions, digging into the behind-the-scenes insanity of everything from massive flops to record-breaking blockbusters. In each episode, hosts Lizzie Bassett and Chris Winterbrauer dive into a new film to explore the mind-blowing (and sometimes numbing) reasons why a movie is nearly impossible.

Not sure where to start? Start with any episode.

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HISTORY

16 Sunsets

16 Sunsets is a captivating 10-part podcast series that explores the dramatic history of NASA’s Space Shuttle program, crafted by the award-winning team behind “13 Minutes to the Moon”. Hosted by renowned space storyteller Kevin Fong and featuring music by Christian Lundberg from Hans Zimmer’s Bleeding Fingers Composers’ Collective, the series recounts the birth of the Shuttle era through the eyes of those who built and flew it.

Not sure where to start? Start with the first episode.

HISTORY

The Last Archive

This show is about the history of truth, and the historical context for our current fake news, post-truth moment. It’s a show about how we know what we know, and why it seems, these days, as if we don’t know anything at all anymore.

Not sure where to start? Start with the first episode.

HISTORY

Marooned

Join hosts Aaron Habel and Jack Luna as they journey through harrowing tales of the catastrophically lost.

Not sure where to start? Start with this episode: Stranded in Space

industry news

  • 🎙️ Spotify has released their new Spotify Partner Program that lets podcasters monetize their shows. The revenue split between Spotify and podcasters is 50% of ads sold. This revenue split is absolutely insane, especially in light of the fact that Spotify called Apple’s 30% IAP ‘tax’ as “discriminatory” which eventually led to the European Commission fining Apple 1.8 billion Euros.

  • ▶️ Nick Quah looks at what’s in store for podcasts in 2025 and whether the videofication of shows will diminish the audio-only podcasts.

  • 🏆🇨🇦 Here are the winners of the Canadian Podcast Awards for 2024.

  • 📰 Podcasts are about to exit the shadow of being an afterthought and become “the thing” as a primary place for breaking news, and major announcements from public figures. At least that’s what this article claims. 

  • 💸 What will happen to NPR and the massive amount of podcasts they publish if they are defunded by the incoming republican administration in the U.S.?

  • 🇬🇧 BBC have published their best of 2024 podcasts list.

  • 📊 Blubrry have posted their 2024 stats year in review.

  • 🎙️ The best podcasts of 2024 according to We Edit Podcasts.

  • 🎙️ Diary of a CEO host Steven Bartlett is being accused of amplifying dangerous health claims on his podcast, at least that’s the headline from this Guardian article.

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