When a podcast entails homework, you can tell it is enhancing your intelligence. Every episode of "Start with This," the follow-up to the eerie podcast "Welcome to Night Vale," offers listeners both something to consume and something to produce: typically a book or television program in the first case, and a writing assignment in the latter. The goal is to encourage you to be more creative, and the topics covered in each episode—from "Present Tense" to "Non-Lovecraftian Horror"—are satisfyingly diverse.

Start With This is a podcast turned creative playground created by Welcome to Night Vale co-creator Jeffrey Cranor to help you put your ideas into action. Every episode has a theme that ranges from world creation to opening words to failure. Then they assign the listeners two quick tasks: one to consume and one to produce. The greatest method to start writing is to start writing, thus Jeffrey wants you to start producing, one assignment at a time. Uncertain about where to start? Take This First.

Website: https://www.nightvalepresents.com/startwiththis

Sure, Plato and Nietzsche are still well-known today, but the majority of philosophies are still somewhat obscure. Have you ever had a conversation on how crucial metaphysics is to our comprehension of the world? Have you heard of verificationism? Absolutely, if you listened to this endearing UK podcast. Nigel Warburton and David E dmonds, hosts of "Philosophy Bites," invite viewers for excellent introductions to the arguments, thinkers, and ideas that have influenced our world.

Over the past ten years, technological advancements have changed artificial intelligence. Can ethics keep up with it soon enough? In this edition of the Philosophy Bites podcast, Peter Railton and Nigel Warburton talk about some of the issues that come up when considering ethics and AI.

Website: https://philosophybites.com/

Have we not all questioned that to ourselves? Nicole Byer, the hilarious presenter of "Why Won't You Date Me," spends the entirety of each episode discussing contemporary dating, including discussions on apps, open relationships, matchmakers, and more. Yes, it is explicit.

Since decades, Nicole Byer has remained unmarried. She has a large ass, is clever and humorous, and enjoys giving blow jobs. Therefore, the reason she is always unmarried is a mystery. This podcast is a search for the solution. Nicole interviews a comedian, friend, or ex-boyfriend to learn about their dating experiences and determine her own every week.

Website: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/why-wont-you-date-me-with-nicole-byer/id1314759544

Crime Show, which debuted in 2021, fulfills its promise to provide "story about people." And occasionally crime,' each episode providing a stand-alone tale that does not merely rely on the dreadfully overdone "women getting murdered" theme (though murder is a common topic). Other episodes feature scammers and identity thieves, while others feature ghosts. Additionally, we even encounter a singer whose voice was appropriated by a successful imposter in one very weird case. Not your normal true-crime podcast, this one.

This podcast, currently, looks into the six times Curtis Flowers, a Black man from Winona, Mississippi, was prosecuted for the same crime in this season. Flowers fought for his life for more than 20 years, all the while a white prosecutor worked nonstop to have him put to death.

Website: https://features.apmreports.org/in-the-dark/season-two/

The "wellness" sector is rife with con artists peddling miraculous cures. With its humorous, insightful examination of the BS obscuring the market, Maintenance Phase is here to help separate fact from fantasy. The goal of the show is to demystify a highly complex subject so that we can all comprehend it, whether it be through the use of fad diets, vibrating devices, fat-shaming, or whatever Gwyneth Paltrow is doing right now.

Michael Hobbes and Aubrey Gordon disprove the hoax science underlying wellness fads every other Tuesday. You may support us on Patreon, send a one-time payment through PayPal, or shop on TeePublic for Maintenance Phase t-shirts, mugs, and more. Every other Tuesday, new episodes are released.

Website: https://www.maintenancephase.com/