Best Malthusian Podcasts (2025)

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Macho Grande 324 Metal Podcast with: Arc Tan Gent, Snot, Death Goals, God Alone, Barren Path, Malthusian, Alien Earth 1:08:09

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Featuring new music by: Death Goals, God Alone, Barren Path & Malthusian. Matt gives his review of Arc Tan Gent 2025 and Pete reviews Snot in Manchester. Plus the usual news & chat from the alternative world. Our new merch is now available at https://www.dethkult.co/collections/machograndepod Audible - audibletrial.com/machogrande Spotify Playlists…

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Music Hat 31:24

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With this episode, we’re putting on our music hat. For a program that relies so much on scoring and sound, it’s not often we talk about the musicians and the music they make that inspire us. Today, that changes. Today, we bring you two stories. Each about musicians that our former host and creator of Radiolab, Jad Abumrad, loves. We originally rele…

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The Medical Matchmaking Machine 1:01:41

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As he finished his medical school exam, David Fajgenbaum felt off. He walked down to the ER and checked himself in. Soon he was in the ICU with multiple organ failure. The only drug for his condition didn’t work. He had months to live, if that. If he was going to survive, he was going to have to find his own cure. Miraculously, he pulled it off in …

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BurgerCon Live!! 1:14:11

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Once upon a time in Chicago... Gloria - Siouxsie Suarez Caspar - Joe Fisher Ava - Finlay Stevenson Zebulon Mucklewain - Neal Starbird Effie Mucklewain - Julie Cowden-Starbird Leif - Tom Moorman And many special guests!! Written and Directed by Joe Fisher Produced by Joe Fisher and Finlay Stevenson Sound recording and engineering by John Szymanski R…

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Weighing Good Intentions 24:09

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In an episode first released in 2010, then-producer Lulu Miller drives to Michigan to track down the endangered Kirtland’s warbler. Efforts to protect the bird have lead to the killing of cowbirds (a species that commandeers warbler nests), and a prescribed burn aimed at creating a new habitat. Tragically, this burn led to the death of a 29-year-ol…

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The Menopause Mystery 38:58

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Until recently, scientists assumed humans were the only species in which females went through menopause, and lived a substantial part of their lives after they were no longer able to reproduce. And they had no idea why that happens, and why evolution wouldn’t push females to keep reproducing right up to the end of their lives. But after a close loo…

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Midnight Burger Returns in the Fall!! Check Out Our New Trailer! 1:25

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Midnight Burger returns on September 14th for subscribers and October 14th for everybody!! See you then! For more information on our show, visit our website: https://www.weopenatsix.com Subscribe for early access, ad free episodes, additional content and more! Subscribe on Patreon (The one with the bells and whistles): https://www.patreon.com/midni…

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Macho Grande 323 Metal Podcast with:Lost In Hollywood, Boneflower, Lowheaven, Sinsaenum, Squid Game, Happy Gilmore, Together, Norma Jean, Black Sabbath 1:12:20

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Featuring new music from: Lost In Hollywood, Boneflower, Lowheaven & Sinsaenum. Matt goes on a deep dive into Black Sabbath's back catalogue. We catch up on Happy Gilmore 2, Squid Game, Together and more. Plus the usual news & chat from the alternative world.

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Omega Station Part 3 of 3 38:41

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During our hiatus please enjoy the very first thing we ever did together: Omega Station! When a deadly virus cripples the Earth, the crews of Earth's various space stations must work together to try and survive. Cast: Lars - Joe Fisher Jill - Finlay Stevenson Ruby - Julie Cowden-Starbird Tzvi - Neal Starbird Henry - Tom Moorman Amanda - Suiouxsie S…

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Galaxy Quenching 40:08

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This week: the story of astrophysicist Charity Woodrum. Charity is an extragalactic astronomer who studies the life and death of galaxies, why some galaxies burn bright and others dim and sputter out. And in the midst of an unthinkable grief in her personal life, she discovers something in the sky – a new kind of light that would guide her path for…

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Macho Grande 322 Metal Podcast with: Fox Lake, Darko, Fates Messenger, Slow Crush, Superman, Bring Me The Horizon 1:03:39

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Featuring new music by: Fox Lake, Darko, Fates Messenger & Slow Crush. Plus the usual news & chat from the alternative world. Our new merch is now available at https://www.dethkult.co/collections/machograndepod Audible - audibletrial.com/machogrande Spotify Playlists Voicemail - 05603 689 842 contact us - [email protected] Twitter - @ma…

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The Nothing Behind Everything 32:54

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This week, two conversations from the archives about parts of the world that are imperceptible to us, verging on almost unthinkable. We start with a moment of uncertainty in physics. Inspired by an essay written by physicist and novelist Alan Lightman, called The Accidental Universe (https://zpr.io/4965dUdNqtpQ), taken from a book of the same name.…

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Omega Station Part 2 of 3 41:03

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During our hiatus please enjoy the very first thing we ever did together: Omega Station! When a deadly virus cripples the Earth, the crews of Earth's various space stations must work together to try and survive. Cast: Lars - Joe Fisher Jill - Finlay Stevenson Ruby - Julie Cowden-Starbird Tzvi - Neal Starbird Written and Directed by Joe Fisher Produ…

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More Perfect: The Hate Debate 37:20

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Back in 2017 our colleagues at More Perfect gathered a room full of people together to debate a straight forward question: Can free speech go too far? Today, eight years have passed and plenty has changed, but this question feels alive as ever. And so we’re re-airing More Perfect’s The Hate Debate. Taped live at WNYC's Jerome L. Greene Performance …

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Desperately Seeking Symmetry 57:23

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This hour of Radiolab, former co-hosts Jad and Robert set out in search of order and balance in the world around us, and ask how symmetry shapes our very existence -- from the origins of the universe, to what we see when we look in the mirror. Along the way, we look for love in ancient Greece, head to modern-day Princeton to peer inside our brains,…

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Macho Grande 321 Metal Podcast with: Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Still In Love, Accvsed, Blessings, Malevich, Believe In Nothing, The Surfer, 28 Years Later 1:39:02

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Featuring a live review of Iron Maiden at Manchester. We chat about Black Sabbath's incredible send off. New music from Still In Love, Blessings, Malevich, Accvsed and Believe In Nothing. Plus the usual news & chat from the alternative world. Our new merch is now available at https://www.dethkult.co/collections/machograndepod Audible - audibletrial…

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Omega Station Part 1 38:47

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During our hiatus please enjoy the very first thing we ever did together: Omega Station! When a deadly virus cripples the Earth, the crews of Earth's various space stations must work together to try and survive. Cast: Lars - Joe Fisher Jill - Finlay Stevenson Written and Directed by Joe Fisher Produced by Joe Fisher and Finlay Stevenson Music by Fr…

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On [The Divided Dial]: Fishing In The Night 38:51

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Have you heard On the Media’s Peabody-winning series The Divided Dial? It’s awesome and you should, and now you will. In this episode they tell the story of shortwave radio: the way-less-listened to but way-farther-reaching cousin of AM and FM radio. The medium was once heralded as a utopian, international, and instantaneous mass communication tool…

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Macho Grande 320 Metal Podcast: Download Festival 2025 special with Green Day, Korn, Sleep Token, Fit For An Autopsy, Vower, Venus Grrrls, Spiritbox 1:21:49

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Our Download Festival 2025 special. Interviews with Fit For An Autopsy, Vower & Venus Grrrls. Reviews of the entire weekend including: Green Day, Korn, Sleeptoken, Northlane, Jimmy Eat World, Svalbard, Vola, Poppy, Polaris, Bleed From Within, The Ghost Inside, Spiritbox, Sikth. Our new merch is now available at https://www.dethkult.co/collections/m…

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Sex, Ducks and the Founding Feud 25:08

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Jilted lovers and disrupted duck hunts provide a very odd look into the soul of the US Constitution. What does a betrayed lover’s revenge have to do with an international chemical weapons treaty? More than you’d think. From poison and duck hunts to our feuding fathers, we step into a very odd tug of war between local and federal law. When Carol Ann…

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Baby Shark 28:12

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This is episode five of Swimming with Shadows: A Radiolab Week of Sharks. Today, the strange, squirmy magic behind how sharks make more sharks. Drills. Drama. Death. Even a coliseum of baby sharks duking it out inside mom’s womb. And a man on a small island in the Mediterranean trying, against all odds, to give baby sharks a chance in a little plas…

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Mystery Bay 21:01

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This is episode four of Swimming with Shadows: A Radiolab Week of Sharks. Alison Kock was working at a car wash in Cape Town when she made a discovery that completely changed the course of her life. Inside a customer’s trunk, she found photographs of white sharks flying so high above the water they looked like airplanes. She followed those photogra…

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The Shark Inside You 28:53

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This is episode three of Swimming with Shadows: A Radiolab Week of Sharks. Today, we take a trip across the world, from the south coast of Australia to … Wisconsin. Here, scientists are scouring shark blood to find one of nature’s hidden keys, a molecular superhero that might unlock our ability to cure cancer: shark antibodies. They’re small. They’…

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The Cage 18:22

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This is episode two of Swimming with Shadows: A Radiolab Week of Sharks. Jaws spawned a thousand imitators: sharks in tornados, sharks in avalanches, sharks that battle giant octopuses. Hollywood has officially turned sharks into monsters of every shape and size. And yet, somehow, there will always be more. But drop below the surface, into the cold…

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Making a Monster 26:38

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Episode one of Swimming with Shadows: A Radiolab Week of Sharks. Rodney Fox went into the ocean one summer day in 1963. He came out barely alive, his body torn apart by a great white shark. At the time, it was one of the worst shark attacks ever survived. After he recovered, he was pulled back into the shadowy world he feared most. Again and again …

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Swimming with Shadows: A Radiolab Week of Sharks 2:23

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In the summer of 1975, Jaws scared an entire generation out of the water. The film burned an idea into our cultural memory: they are mindless, man-eating monsters. We set out to tell a different story about sharks. Five stories over five days. We tear down deep-seated myths about sharks, plunge into the water with them, and find sharks that explode…

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Double-Blasted 20:54

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We first aired this episode in 2012, but at the show we’ve been thinking a lot about resilience and repair so we wanted to play it for you again today. It’s about a man who experienced maybe one of the most chilling traumas… twice. But then, it leads us to a story of generational repair. On the morning of August 6th, 1945, Tsutomu Yamaguchi was in …

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Macho Grande 319 Metal Podcast: Download Festival Warm up show with Two Year Break, Archers, Lastelle, Battlesnake 1:28:39

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Our 2025 Download Festival warm up show. With music from 'Two Year Break, Archers, Lastelle & Battlesnake. We take a look at festival line up and pick our must see bands. Our new merch is now available at https://www.dethkult.co/collections/machograndepod Audible - audibletrial.com/machogrande Spotify Playlists Voicemail - 05603 689 842 contact us …

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The Elixir of Life 50:59

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Doctor and special correspondent, Avir Mitra takes Lulu on an epic journey live on stage at a little basement club called Caveat, here in New York. Starting with an ingredient in breastmilk that babies can’t digest, a global hunt that takes us from Bangladesh to the Mennonite communities here in the US, we discover an ancient symbiotic relationship…

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A Flock of Two 19:43

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Animals rescue people all the time, but not like this. In this episode, first aired more than a decade ago, Jim Eggers is a 44-year-old man who suffers from a problem that not only puts his life at risk—it jeopardizes the safety of everybody around him. But with the help of Sadie, his pet African Grey Parrot, Jim found an unlikely way to manage his…

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The War Keeps Raging Against Science 46:15

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Podcast: Science Vs (LS 76 · TOP 0.01% what is this?) Episode: The War Keeps Raging Against Science Pub date: 2025-05-22 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Strange things have been happening to science in the US. An executive order is freezing research, a website with once scientific information now…

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How Bacon Wrapped Hot Dogs Became Iconic Bay Area Street Food 28:44

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Podcast: Bay Curious (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?) Episode: How Bacon Wrapped Hot Dogs Became Iconic Bay Area Street Food Pub date: 2025-05-22 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization If you've ever walked around Pier 39 in San Francisco or made a late-night exit from a concert at the Greek Theatre in …

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Macho Grande 318 Metal Podcast with: Arm's Length, Larcenia Roe, Byzantine, Intercourse, Sleep Token, Bury Tomorrow 1:12:29

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Featuring new music from: Arm's Length, Larcenia Roe, Byzantine & Intercourse. Plus the usual news & chat from the alternative world. Our new merch is now available at https://www.dethkult.co/collections/machograndepod Audible - audibletrial.com/machogrande Spotify Playlists Voicemail - 05603 689 842 contact us - [email protected] Twitt…

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The Echo in the Machine 32:42

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Today you can convert speech to text with the click of a button. Youtube does it for all our videos. Our phones will do it in real time. It’s frictionless. And yet, if it weren’t for an unlikely crew of protesters and office workers, it might still be impossible. This week, the story of our attempts to make the spoken visible. The magicians who tri…

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Patreon Drop! Shift Notes Chapter 38: Welcome to the Triad 3:12:34

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Please enjoy this free episode of Shift Notes from our Patreon! Joe, Finlay, and Jessica talk about Chapter 38: Welcome to the Triad. For more Shift Notes and everything else we have to offer, head over to our Patreon and enjoy all of it for five dollars a month: https://www.patreon.com/midnightburger For more information on our show, visit our web…

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How to Cure What Ails You 25:01

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Now that we have the ability to see inside the brain without opening anyone's skull, we'll be able to map and define brain activity and peg it to behavior and feelings. Right? Well, maybe not, or maybe not just yet. It seems the workings of our brains are rather too complex and diverse across individuals to really say for certain what a brain scan …

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Forget Hindi or English, what about the other 777 languages? ft Ganesh Devy and Anvita Abbi 54:28

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Podcast: The Sandip Roy Show (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?) Episode: Forget Hindi or English, what about the other 777 languages? ft Ganesh Devy and Anvita Abbi Pub date: 2025-05-11 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization India recently saw heated debates around the three-language formula — a policy sugg…

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Macho Grande 317 Metal Podcast with: Desolated, Thurifer, Final Dose, Loathe, Sinners, Warfare, Employed To Serve, Machine Head, Dvne 1:36:49

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Featuring new music from: Desolated, Thurifer, Final Dose & Loathe. Live review of Dvne. Plus the usual news & chat from the alternative world. Our new merch is now available at https://www.dethkult.co/collections/machograndepod Audible - audibletrial.com/machogrande Spotify Playlists Voicemail - 05603 689 842 contact us - [email protected]…

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The First Known Earthly Voice 38:07

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What happens when a voice emerges? What happens when one is lost? Is something gained? A couple months ago, Lulu guest edited an issue of the nature magazine Orion. She called the issue “Queer Planet: A Celebration of Biodiversity,” and it was a wide-ranging celebration of queerness in nature. It featured work by amazing writers like Ocean Vuong, K…

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Terrestrials: The Snow Beast 31:23

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Today we bring you a story stranger than fiction. In 2006, paleobiologist Natalia Rybczynski took a helicopter to a remote Arctic island near the North Pole, spending her afternoons scavenging for ancient treasures on the ground. One day, she found something the size of a potato chip. Turns out, it was a three and half million year old chunk of bon…

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Macho Grande 316 Metal Podcast with: Burner, Sledges, Mogwai, Hippotraktor, Cobra The Impaler, Writhe, Torzs, Andor, novocaine 1:04:37

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Featuring new music from 'Burner, Sledges, Writhe & Torzs. A live review of Cobra The Impaler & Hippotraktor at Corporation, Sheffield. We also review the brand new Mogwai documentary 'If The Stars Had A Sound'. Plus the usual news & chat from the alternative world. Our new merch is now available at https://www.dethkult.co/collections/machograndepo…