It started as a social experiment in 1981. You'd call a phone number and leave a message in which you would apologize for a crime or misdeed you'd committed. But to the man who created it, Allan Bridge, the “Apology Line” became a fascination…

Chris Garcia was in denial when his father was diagnosed with dementia. Until the day his dad didn’t recognize him. So Chris did what any comedian would do – he joked about it. The result is his podcast…

Serving life in prison since the age of 17, “Suave” Gonzalez assumed he would die behind bars. But one day he met a journalist whose words gave him purpose. Then when a Supreme Court ruling set him free, he truly was given a second chance…

…This week we talk to Matt Waxman, creator and host of iHeart's Trickeration. A podcast dedicated to the best pranks, schemes and scams in the history of sports.

…Our featured podcast this week is Gamblers from The Ringer Network. Author and journalist, David Hill joins us to talk about his deep-dive into the lives of professional gamblers.

…The Pod Spotter welcomes the Band of Mothers podcast and hosts Shayna Ferm and Tracey Tee. They know all about the joys of motherhood, but also that sometimes mommy needs some peace, quiet, and wine…not whine.

There are tons of investigative, True Crime podcasts. But how many actually contributed to solving a cold case? This week we feature Bear Brook, an investigative series that profiled, and helped solve, a 30-year old quadruple-murder…

…In his 6-episode podcast, The Edge: Houston Astros, sportswriter & host Ben Reiter talks to key figures and digs deep into the scandal that rocked the Astros' franchise and the baseball world. This week, Ben joins The Pod Spotter to talk about his pod and the anatomy of the scheme.

Roughly 53,000 juveniles are in some form of lockup. Nearly 60 percent are black or Latino. We all make dumb mistakes when we’re young. But for these kids, those “dumb mistakes” have a lasting impact…

A child is injured. The injury is diagnosed as being the result of abuse and the child is removed from the parents’ home. Another child saved? Not in this case…

Why do kids' clothes have pockets? What’s a chambray shirt? Should I burn my cargo shorts? If you have a question about what’s in your closet, don’t miss this episode…

What’s the story behind Wonder Woman? Charles Ponzi’s scheme? Dynamite? The worst video game ever? The Smithsonian is home to over 150 million artifacts and every one of them has a backstory you…

From clown fetishes to tales of hunting Bigfoot, the hosts of our next featured podcast have heard it all. Comedian and YouTuber, Joe Santagato and Greg Dybec are the hosts of Other People’s Lives…

The Worldwide Tribe podcast features the human stories of displaced people. Stories from those who fled religious, political or economic oppression in their home country, desperately looking for a better life. They’re the people behind the cold, immigration statistics…

Hundreds of women missing. Many of them ultimately found murdered. Discarded. No public outcry. Police inaction. The only people who seem to care are their devastated families. And our next guests…

…The host and creator of Everything is Alive, sits and chats with everyday objects that you otherwise might never have thought much about. His interviews are funny, intimate and surprisingly, well, human.

…This week we feature the investigative, true-crime pod and talk to Arif Noorani, CBC’s Executive Producer, and Michelle Shephard, Investigative Reporter and Host of Season 8, “Brainwashed.”

Imagine your most private, deepest, darkest secret. Got it? Now imagine standing on a stage and telling that secret, in intimate detail, to a couple hundred strangers...

Two women are sexually assaulted 35 years apart but their cases are inextricably linked. This week we speak with Amy Brittain, an investigative reporter and host…

…This week we feature the podcast, “Bodies.” Host Allison Behringer joins us to discuss the physical, mental & emotional effects women endure when it comes to their most sensitive health challenges.

What’s the story behind the theme from Seinfeld? What about the Netflix audio logo? How did they create the sound effects for the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park? If you have a question about sound, our next guest can answer it…

…The Washington Post’s Lillian Cunningham knows everything you would ever want to know about the Presidents. And some things you’d rather not know…

Verified: Dust Up is a David vs. Goliath story. This terrific pod details how one woman stood up to a powerful, international pharmaceutical company…

Over 50,000 Americans lost their lives in The Vietnam War. The faces of almost all of those can be seen at vvmf.org, a virtual tribute that humanizes those brave men and women. But not all of the names have a face…

This week’s guest couldn’t be more in demand. Josh Dean, one of the hosts of Chameleon: Hollywood Con Queen, recently unmasked the con artist who’d been impersonating top Tinseltown power players…

It’s a story about a father and daughter. And the Hell’s Angels. And drug dealing, arson and … a double-murder suicide. But mostly it’s about a father and daughter…

This week we talk to Saredo & Surer Mohamed - sisters and the co-creators & hosts of On Things We Left Behind, a podcast that puts a human face on war…

From underground bunkers in Helsinki to a Jackson Hole in China, there’s so much we don’t know about the world around us. This week we talk to Neil Innes and Andrés Bartos…

From discovering a partner’s secret bank account to learning that you’re being paid less than a co-worker with less experience – money is complicated. It can also become… uncomfortable…

…Conversations is a podcast that puts online “feuders” in touch to find out what happens when people with different points of view step out from behind the keyboard and get to know the person on the other side of the screen.