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Join NFL Insider and social media breakout star, Annie Agar, as she tackles the world of fantasy football, odds, props and parlays in “The Offensive Line.” Each week, Annie will break down the NFL’s juiciest and trendiest matchups and drama in her signature quick hitting style, while roasting players and teams (sorry in advance Cowboys fans), dishing out some ice-cold takes, teasing you with a weekly teaser and slamming the most “offensive” lines, odds and spreads. She’ll be joined by current and former players, and celebrity superfans for a fiery and fun slant on all things ...

NFL, College Football & Basketball Sports Betting Podcast hosted by former Oddsmaker Todd Fuhrman and Professional Bettor Payne Insider previewing games from a Gambling Perspective every Monday, Wednesday, & Thursday at BetTheBoard.net Follow the guys on Twitter: @BetTheBoardPod @Payneinsider @ToddFuhrmanListen to Bet The Board on the Wondery App or wherever you get your podcasts. Binge all episodes ad-free on Wondery+. Join Wondery+ in the Wondery App, Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Start your free trial by visiting wondery.com/links/bettheboard/ now.

What do a girl whose mother crossed the border as a teen and an 18 year old who just won the Republican primary have in common? The Competition.Did you know that every summer, 50 of the nation’s best and brightest high school seniors—one from every state—descend on Mobile, Alabama to take part in the country’s most lucrative scholarship competition exclusively for teen girls?The Competition takes you behind the scenes of the Distinguished Young Women program (formerly known as America’s Junior Miss) and follows seven radically different teenage girls as they experience the highs and...

On election night, two-term president Oliver Pierce watches in disbelief from the White House as Charles Dunwalke wins a controversial electoral college victory. With only 73 days before Dunwalke’s inauguration, president Pierce makes a secret decision to act, with historic and possibly catastrophic consequences.

Hosted by Allie Clifton, Channing Frye, & Richard Jefferson, Road Trippin' is the premier podcast for entertaining and insightful NBA stories told directly by your favorite players. Episodes often feature a guest NBA player or a sports and entertainment personality.

Dating can be a drag, so why not turn it into a game? In this blind-dating game show, host Jujubee (RuPaul’s Drag Race, Dragnificent) guides singles through a series of sexy games to see if they can find their one true love-for-now. This is how it works: We have a contestant. We give them three daters to choose from, but the only thing they get from their potential love connections are their voices. We play some racy games before eliminating all but one potential dater. And that’s when the cameras come on and things get personal. Can they win a date on Jujubee’s dime or will she send ...

When Frank Farian first laid eyes on Rob Pilatus and Fab Morvan, he saw everything he wasn’t. They were handsome, young, and Black. But Frank had something they didn’t. He had power.So, Frank offered them a devil’s bargain. Almost overnight, Milli Vanilli’s debut album went five times platinum and scored a Grammy nomination. But when the lie at the center of their success started to unravel, Rob and Fab would discover the hard way the difference between star power and real power.From Wondery, Blame It on the Fame is a story about the lie that shot to #1 and what it cost to tell the ...

The untold stories behind the products you’re obsessed with and the bold risk-takers who made them go viral.How did Birkenstocks go from a German cobbler’s passion project 250 years ago to a starring role in the Barbie movie? Who created that bottle of Sriracha permanently living in your fridge? Did you know the Air Jordans were initially banned by the NBA, or that Super Mario became the best-selling video game character ever thanks to a strategy called “The Infinite Game?” On Wondery’s new weekly podcast The Best Idea Yet, Nick Martell and Jack Crivici-Kramer (hosts of the ...

When nerdy gamer Sam Bankman-Fried rocketed to fame as the world’s richest 29-year-old, he pledged to donate his billions to good causes. But when Sam's crypto exchange FTX collapsed, billions of dollars went missing, and Sam was in handcuffs, those who knew him were left wondering — who was Sam really? A well-meaning billionaire who made a mistake? Or a calculated con man? From Wondery and Bloomberg, the makers of The Shrink Next Door, comes a new story of incredible wealth, betrayal, and what happens when “doing good” goes really, really, bad.Binge all episodes of Spellcaster: The ...

Sírvete un tequila o un mezcal, un café o un chocolate caliente, tal vez un jugo de zanahoria o de chicozapote, hasta con un vasito de agua y acompaña a estos dos amigos en un nuevo podcast. Andrés Bustamante y Trino Camacho nos invitan a formar parte de sus pláticas semanales, donde repasan las mejores anécdotas que marcaron (o no) sus vidas, las noticias más absurdas y los inventos más extravagantes que puedan encontrarse. Esto es La última trinchera, donde el humor se convierte en el último bastión a defender. Escucha los episodios completos de La última trinchera en todos los ...

In 1973 Hell came home and invaded the body of a young girl. This is the story of a movie and its makers. It's a tale of dark and light, of loss and love. A story of faith and fury, of causes and curses, of horrors real and imagined, of unbridled ego and brute force filmmaking. It's the movie critics called "religious pornography" and "occultist claptrap." The movie that left audiences...hysterical. Decades later, it remains perhaps the most frightening movie we will ever see. From Wondery, this is a seven-part deep dive inspired by the story behind an unforgettable, classic movie. This is......

What does it feel like in the split second when you realize you're about to be locked up in a foreign country - possibly for life? In Locked Up Abroad, host Jim Clemente (Real Crime Profile) brings you first hand accounts from people who lived this nightmare, starting with Billy Hayes, subject of the Oliver Stone movie Midnight Express. A riveting, immersive audio adaptation of the hit TV series by the National Geographic Channel. From Istanbul to Bali to Sao Paulo, you'll hear what it's like to be locked up abroad.

Cult Liter Podcast Host Spencer Henry brings the bizarre every Tuesday. Each week we'll dive into a new story of cults, crime, televangelists gone wild, you never really know what you're going to get, just a guaranteed good time.

What drives a regular person to risk it all in the criminal underworld? On Wondery's Criminal Lives, host Danny Gold takes you inside the minds of some of America’s most successful black market entrepreneurs. From a larger-than-life steroids kingpin who dodged bullets on his way to the top, to the self described "Original Gay Gangster" who had a gift for numbers and an addiction to luxury, to a surfing smuggler who found zen in the Thai weed trade, each reveals the rules of the game, the adrenaline-fueled highs, and the missteps that brought it all crashing down. Forget what you've seen in ...

O filósofo Mario Sergio Cortella e seu filho, o jornalista Pedro Mota Cortella, promovem um debate entre gerações sobre temas universais e também arte, literatura, psicologia e, claro, filosofia.Da Wondery, A Grande Fúria do Mundo é um podcast Amazon Original.

He was a trusted OB-GYN working inside one of the most prestigious universities in the world, an Ivy League school that is home to Nobel Prize winners and medical all-stars. Yet behind closed doors, Dr. Robert Hadden assaulted hundreds — perhaps thousands — of unsuspecting patients. When it looked like no one would be held accountable, the survivors engaged in a decade-long fight for justice.From the team behind the hit series Dr. Death, host and medical journalist Laura Beil unfurls the story of Dr. Hadden’s horrific behavior and the ensuing cover-up. It’s a story of power: who has it...

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.

Si entre amigos nos vamos a mentir ¡Mejor que cada quien se quede en su casa! Martha Debayle no tiene tiempo para juegos, ella apuesta por la honestidad brutal y la vulnerabilidad total. ¿Qué tan honesta? Bueno, tan honesta como para contarte que pierde la paciencia cuando no es ella quien maneja, o para compartir los detalles de la colonoscopía de Juan, su esposo, o cuándo estuvo a punto de morir después de dos martinis. ¡Sí, así de cruda es la cosa! Pero también está dispuesta a revelarte esas metidas de pata épicas que ha vivido durante sus viajes.Martha te invita a una sesión ...

And Away We Go! is a travel podcast that’ll whisk you away on unique and immersive adventures all around the world. In each episode, a very special guest will become our honorary tour guide, taking us to a place in the world that they love. From record shopping in Portland with Alison Brie, to bike riding through the French Countryside with Josh Groban, to finding a tin man in Chicago with Lamorne Morris and much more, they’ll choose where we go, what we see, eat, drink, listen to — and all we have to do is fire up our imaginations and enjoy! Listen to episodes of And Away We Go! ...

Welcome to the exciting world of Cairo Carter! Cairo is seven years old and lives in the big city, and he loves to explore the world around him. Cairo has lots to learn about kindness, safety, and even the value of a dollar, so it’s lucky he can always depend on his family, his friends, and his community to help him learn and have tons of fun along the way. Come join him in the ADVENTURES OF CAIRO!Listen to Adventures of Cairo on the Wondery App or wherever you get your podcasts. You can binge all episodes ad-free on Wondery+. Join Wondery+ in the Wondery App or on Apple Podcasts. Start your...