Podcasts of Note

NPR's entertainment and pop culture round-table podcast features spirited discussions of movies, books, television, nostalgia, and - every time - what's making us happy this week.

Wrestling with Depression is an internet radio program hosted by comedian Marty DeRosa. The show brings on other comedians, wrestlers, and performers to talk about some of the unseen sides of entertainment. About how they deal with their own sadness, depression, or other emotions that you might not expect to hear from stage and screen personalities. Don't worry though, it's not all sad, some parts are pretty funny! This is no clinical advice, and we're no doctors! What you will get are stories from real people, who have had to face depression in their own lives.

Eating healthy isn't as difficult (or joyless) as you might imagine. Every week Nutrition Diva, Monica Reinagel, serves up simple, painless ways to upgrade your eating habits. Before you know it, you'll be eating healthier and feeling fabulous!

Bob Boilen and Robin Hilton spin new music from emerging bands and musical icons

A podcast and blog about language

A Way with Words is a lively hour-long public radio show about the English language.

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All-new hardboiled mysteries in the pulp detective tradition! Tough-as-nails private eye Jack Justice and his long-suffering partner Trixie Dixon, girl detective do their part for law, order and thirty-five dollars a day. When it comes to detective work, Jack and Trixie agree on the facts. Clients cry, clients lie, clients dicker over the bill.

In the tradition of the great mystery men of radio, pulp fiction and the golden age of comics comes The Red Panda, famed protector of 1930s Toronto! Hiding his true identity as on of the city's wealthiest men behind a bright red domino mask, The Red Panda dispenses two-fisted pulp justice with strength, courage and eerie hypnotic powers.

Mignon Fogarty is the creator of Grammar Girl and the founder and managing director of Quick and Dirty Tips. A magazine writer, technical writer, and entrepreneur, she has served as a senior editor and producer at a number of health and science web sites. She has a B.A.

"The Internet is studded with geeks mocking bad movies from the safety of their podcasts, but The Flop House might just be the best of the bunch." --The Onion A.V. Club

Welcome to Night Vale is a podcast presented as a radio show for the fictional town of Night Vale, reporting on the strange events that occur within it.

Despite all the fun cartoons on the packaging featuring tiny humanoid sea creatures having wacky fun and wearing clothes, Sea Monkeys are just brine shrimp. But the story of Sea Monkeys and their inventor is actually pretty surprising -- and quite dark.

True stories you never thought you'd dare to share.