Random Wondery Podcasts

How we became us! We take a look backward & find ourselves negotiating our LIFE EXPERIENCES, discovering life’s various tones -comedy, drama, and nostalgia. Our podcast offers imagery of a documentary recreation, but for audio. Life happens in a heartbeat. Let’s learn, thrive and love from our experiences while we’re here. Cheers!

Categories: Comedy, Society & Culture

Tags: Comedy, Discovery, documentary, drama, learning, life, mentee, mentor, Motivation, nostalgia, retelling, self help, Stories, story, wonder, wondery

Will Be Wild is a new 8-part series about the forces that led to the January 6th insurrection and what comes next. Through in-depth stories from a wide range of characters – from people who tried to stop the attack to those who took part – hosts Andrea Bernstein and Ilya Marritz explore the ongoing effort to bring autocracy to America, the lasting damage that effort is doing to our democracy, and the fate of our attempts to combat those anti-democratic forces. Because January 6th wasn’t the end of the story, January 6th was just a practice run.

All episodes are available now. You can binge the series ad-free on Wondery+ or on Amazon Music with a Prime membership or Amazon Music Unlimited subscription.

Categories: News, Society & Culture

Tags: 2020 Election, donald trump, Inc, insurrection, jan 6th hearings, january 6th, January 6th attack on the Capitol, pineapple street studios, Trump, will be wild, wondery

How did 9/11 the day become 9/11 the idea? That question drives Pineapple Street Studios and award-winning host Dan Taberski (Missing Richard Simmons, Running From COPS, The Line) to shift the focus to what happened on 9/12, and every day after that. 9/12 is a poignant, surprising, and surprisingly funny seven episode series about people who wake up on 9/12 having to navigate a new, radically altered world. A teenager gets caught up in an out-of-control conspiracy theory that he helped start. A Pakistani business owner finds hundreds of his Brooklyn neighbors are disappearing. Joke-writers at The Onion must figure out just how soon is “too soon”? 9/12 asks what it all means. We know what happened on 9/11. But what happened on 9/12 to alter our memory and our perspective forever?

The series 9/12 earned three Podcast Academy Awards at the 2022 Ambies, including Podcast of the Year.

Categories: History, News, Society & Culture

Tags: 20th anniversary, 9/11, 9/11 & Humor, 9/11 & Memory, 9/11 anniversary, 9/12, afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Amazon Music, Amazon Original, anniversary, conspiracy theory, Dan Taberski, History, never forget, new york, News, Non-fiction, nyc, Pentagon, Pineapple Street, Pineapple Street Media, pineapple street studios, Podcast, podcasting, The Daily Show, the onion, twin towers, wondery, World Trade Center

What does it feel like to pick up the phone and scam someone out of $50 million? This is the story of Gilbert Chikli, one of the greatest con artists of all time. Host and award-winning journalist Evan Ratliff investigates how Chikli duped some of the world’s most powerful people into handing over their fortunes. He explores how Chikli evaded the law for years and became a Robin Hood-like hero. More than just a tale of criminal genius, this is a show about the moment we’re living in right now — the golden age of scammers — and the power of seduction. But what happens when the fantasy we’ve been lured into finally crumbles away?

All episodes are available now. You can binge the series ad-free on Wondery+ or on Amazon Music with a Prime membership or Amazon Music Unlimited subscription.

Categories: Society & Culture, True Crime

Tags: con artist, evan ratliff, Exhibit C, gilbert chikli, persona, pineapple street studios, scam, scammer, the french deception, true-crime, wondery