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\ \ The Midnight Miracle \ \ Society & Culture\ \ Music. Conversation. Debate. Hosts Dave Chappelle, yasiin bey and Talib Kweli bring you a new genre of audio like nothing you've ever heard. Listen, then listen again. You'll discover something new every time.

Winner of Apple Podcasts' Best Shows of 2021, and one of The New York Times' Best 10 Podcasts of 2021, Season 1 was recorded during Chappelle's legendary 2020 Summer Camp in Ohio. Season 2 has been recorded around the globe. Subscribe now.

Welcome back, to The Midnight Miracle.

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\ \ Guys We F****d \ \ Sexuality\ \ Hailed as changing the way society thinks about female sexuality, Guys We Fucked continues to pave the way toward a healthier outlook on sex. Hosted by stand-up comedians Corinne Fisher and Krystyna Hutchinson, this critically acclaimed podcast will be your new best friend. Tune in every Friday to hear discussions on the most taboo kinks, interviews with revolutionaries in sexual health, cultural icons, and, occasionally, guys they’ve fucked.](/content/listen/corinne-fisher-and-krystyna-hutchinson/guys-we-f-d/61ef47bf-07ce-4c3e-b175-e846e8f5707f/index.html)

\ \ Barefoot Boys \ \ In 1911, just three decades after the sport of football came to India, a group of Bengali men sent shockwaves across the entire British Empire. The Amor Ekadosh, or “Immortal Eleven,” competing in one of the oldest football tournaments in the world, did so without boots on their feet. Unafraid to go toe-to-toe with their colonisers, they showed a country what freedom felt like–long before its citizens were free. Konkona Sen Sharma brings the remarkable story, once erased from history, to life.](/content/listen/konkona-luminary/barefoot-boys/b03b17f1-731b-4f0c-b16d-7cebe8430cab/index.html)

\ \ People's Party with Talib Kweli \ \ Music\ \ People’s Party is a weekly interview show hosted by hip-hop legend Talib Kweli. The show features big-name guests exploring hip-hop, culture, and politics.](/content/listen/uproxx/peoples-party-with-talib-kweli/b8786120-bfb5-4ef0-8026-6f72cd5c825e/index.html)

\ \ How I Masaba \ \ Society & Culture\ \ Designer, actor, and creative powerhouse Masaba Gupta sits down with her fellow badass entrepreneurs for conversations full of hard lessons, epiphanies, and only-funny-in-hindsight moments that have made—and continue to make—them the multi-prong mavens they are. You won’t get inspiration like this in business school.](/content/listen/masaba-gupta-luminary/how-i-masaba/860acc7e-ab39-4cb4-8dda-cd17b209f172/index.html)

\ \ Til This Day with Radio Rahim \ \ Society & Culture\ \ Everyone has their own fight, whether they know it or not. On Til This Day, broadcast journalist Radio Rahim travels through the most compelling life chapters of the greatest thinkers, artists and fighters of our time: from Questlove to Michael Che, Jon Stewart to Rosie Perez. Each guest shares how they earn their slice, find their opening, and, ultimately, prevail.](/content/listen/pilot-boy-productions-salt-and-radio-rahim/til-this-day-with-radio-rahim/be7987f7-0ddd-4473-b96b-d43bc39f25f5/index.html)

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\ \ Joking Not Joking \ \ Comedy\ \ Comedians Mo Amer and Azhar Usman ask the big questions the modern world makes you forget. Are we living in a simulation? What is money? What is life after death? They get real when it gets uncomfortable and funny when it gets serious. Are they joking… or not? New episodes drop every Thursday.](/content/listen/mo-amer-and-azhar-usman/joking-not-joking/a69947d4-800c-4421-b1fd-ea580efb9d3e/index.html)

\ \ Frontier Tween \ \ Performing Arts\ \ Tilly Mulch’s life on the untamed prairie is a constant adventure. From helping her God-fearing Ma and her poor sick Pa on the farm, to scheming with her frontier friends Billy and Nell, Tilly hardly has a moment to work on her life’s passion: her writing. Will Tilly win the poetry contest and get to travel to the city to see all the two-story buildings? Will Pa’s case of the shrivels do him in? Will Nell finally earn her Knot Hero badge from the Frontiersman Club? Find out this season on Frontier Tween!](/content/listen/team-coco/frontier-tween/f86e99db-ed9a-4642-9942-d7a6c4255138/index.html)

\ \ Smartr \ \ Comedy\ \ Big Tech is at the height of its power, so why are so many people losing faith in Silicon Valley? We've lived through the 'techlash' -- it's time for tech to lash back. Join venture capital legend Noa Lukas as he profiles the monopolies of tomorrow and helps them nail down that billion-dollar valuation, addict a global userbase, or move past their recent human rights-related "messaging difficulties.” Innovation is a zero sum game, and whether you're a hacker, a founder or a legacy player being left behind, Noa has the track record and the expertise you need to play Smartr.](/content/listen/team-coco/smartr/04617f69-c5f4-416e-81e2-fac0340cc666/index.html)

Compelling Stories

\ \ Pull the Thread: The Wild Life \ \ Society & Culture\ \ In the corrupt and deadly world of the illegal wildlife trade, criminals are responsible for the wholesale slaughter of animals, and the suffering of people, too. Justice is rarely found. Undeterred, one man set out to bring down one of the biggest wildlife trafficking syndicates on the African continent. His name is Wolf. And he’s a spy. Investigative journalist Runako Celina takes us through the bizarre and far-reaching web of the global illegal wildlife trade and those trying to dismantle it. From Luminary, Drake's DreamCrew Entertainment, Novel, and Thread Studios, this is Pull The Thread, Season 1: The Wild Life.](/content/listen/luminary-dream-crew-entertainment/pull-the-thread-the-wild-life/f6e260e2-eaa5-4c38-9b3c-588c8fe538a6/index.html)

\ \ British Villains \ \ History\ \ In 1963, a multimillion-dollar heist forever changed England’s history. The thieves called the job the train, the papers called it the Great Train Robbery, and the police called it the crime of the century. Since then, there have been books, articles, movies, plays, even tours of the site where the robbery took place. But how the villains pulled it off—now that’s a story that’s never been told. At least not the way host William Green tells it, because he has access to perhaps the last surviving man who may or may not have been involved: His dad.](/content/listen/ninth-planet-audio-the-cut/british-villains/ad755233-71ad-46ca-8c31-ea167c79f595/index.html)

\ \ Sonic Boom: How Seattle Lost Its Team \ \ For more than four decades, the Seattle SuperSonics were among the NBA’s most iconic franchises. But in 2008, they packed their bags for Oklahoma. ‘Sonic Boom’ tells a story of basketball and politics, wealth and power—revealing new truths about the NBA’s greatest heist.](/content/listen/the-ringer/sonic-boom-how-seattle-lost-its-team/6426a152-d0b2-4a42-a147-bd1ebc3de157/index.html)

\ \ Murder on the Towpath \ \ History\ \ Soledad O'Brien takes us back to 1964 when a well-connected white artist was murdered, a Black man stood accused, and a barrier-breaking civil rights lawyer rose to his defense—in what would become one of the most fascinating unsolved cases in US history.](/content/listen/film-nation-entertainment-in-association-with-neon-hum-media/murder-on-the-towpath/5e6e3513-f7b0-4fac-8a2e-a431409cbca4/index.html)

\ \ Telephone Stories \ \ Music\ \ Examine the many faces of Michael Jackson with host Brandon Ogborn. What starts as a simple question of guilt or innocence quickly turns into a searching chronicle of race, fame and abuse. Drawing on extensive interviews and relying on much-needed humor, Ogborn and co-host Omar Crook interview Jackson’s defense attorneys, the investigators & prosecutors who pursued him, and the writers & tabloid journalists who followed the cases and ferreted out leads. Through those interviews and their ruminations, Ogborn and Crook wander the hall of mirrors that was Jackson’s life, painstakingly, sometimes painfully, reconstructing the complex narrative of an iconic and troubled performer haunted by allegations of criminal perversion.](/content/listen/ninth-planet-audio/telephone-stories/52005634-54fa-4068-979f-8be693807c4c/index.html)

\ \ Break Stuff: The Story of Woodstock '99 \ \ Music\ \ In 1999, a music festival took place in upstate New York that became a social experiment. There were riots, looting, and numerous assaults. And it was set to a soundtrack of the era’s most aggressive rock bands. Incredibly, it was the third iteration of Woodstock, a festival known for peace, love, and hippie idealism. But Woodstock ’99 revealed some hard truths behind the myths of the 1960s, and the danger that nostalgia can engender. Listen to the entire season here.](/content/listen/the-ringer/break-stuff-the-story-of-woodstock-99/708febba-17a8-4f4b-a81f-63b1a53e7135/index.html)

Great Conversations

\ \ Therapy vs. the World with Joe Nucci \ \ Society & Culture\ \ Gaslighting, Narcissism, ADHD. 6 signs you’re neurodivergent. Are you autistic? These are just some of the mental health buzzwords popping up all over your feed these days. Is it real? Or are we just seeing the start to a mental health industrial complex? Joe Nucci is a psychotherapist seeing his industry devolve into psychobabble right in front of our eyes. Join Joe as he speaks to experts in his field and outside of it, as we decipher what kind of mental health information is helpful for you and what isn’t.](/content/listen/luminary/therapy-vs-the-world-with-joe-nucci/b7b763e2-2f7b-4fcd-b183-9c19219821f5/index.html)

\ \ The Black List Podcast \ \ TV & Film\ \ The Black List founder Franklin Leonard talks movies with people who love them and people who make them. Listen as he and Black List Director of Community Kate Hagen speak with filmmakers, producers, and creators of all kinds, and revisiting highly regarded films from the Black List itself.](/content/listen/ninth-planet-audio-the-black-list/the-black-list-podcast/09891360-3749-4049-837c-c10f67b1fa05/index.html)

Investigative Deep-Dives

\ \ Lies We Tell \ \ Society & Culture\ \ Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney and former Radiolab executive producer Ellen Horne uncover basic truths about human nature — by untangling twisted true stories set in motion by lies.](/content/listen/jigsaw-productions/lies-we-tell/29a522a2-600d-4382-9455-37f2ad3b7ec9/index.html)

\ \ Hyper-Thetical with Kerry Bishé \ \ Performing Arts\ \ The future is full of epic “what ifs”: What if a hostile attack took down our nation’s power grid? What if we could read minds? What if the supervolcano at Yellowstone erupted? In a brand new anthology podcast from FilmNation Entertainment, the producers that brought you unforgettable movies like "Arrival" and "The Big Sick", we take you into these hypothetical, near-future worlds using the power of story. Each episode takes us on a science fiction journey into these not-so-normal scenarios, through the viewpoint of very normal people. We ground these fictional stories in real science from actual scientists to excite your imagination about the world, both beautiful and terrifying, that awaits us.](/content/listen/film-nation-entertainment-in-association-with-transmitter-media/hyper-thetical-with-kerry-bishe/bd37ccac-cea9-4c80-b5fe-c55a5f3d177d/index.html)

All Things Pop Culture

\ \ The Rewatchables 1999 \ \ TV & Film\ \ The Rewatchables 1999, featuring The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and a rotating cast from the Ringer universe, dissects the most iconic movies from 1999, an all-time great year in film. Each episode breaks down a different movie with highly specific categories, analyzing it from every possible angle. The categories include: Most Rewatchable Scene, Who Won the Movie?, Best Quote, Could This Movie Be Made Into a Netflix Series in 2019?, the Overacting Award, and many more. The series will cover American Pie, Office Space, The Matrix, and more classics from '99.](/content/listen/the-ringer/the-rewatchables-1999/3cd826a7-d3d0-4354-a3d0-055f0eb1ac7a/index.html)

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