Podcasts by Easy Listening
Are you listening to a podcast, as you search for a new podcast, because you’re obsessed with podcasts? This is the place for your ears. Gina Grad and Teresa Strasser (The Adam Carolla Show) celebrate and break down your favorite shows using audio clips and interviews to highlight the stuff that makes them burst out laughing, burst out crying and burst out into night sweats. (There's also a better than average chance that a clip they share will lead to a juicy reveal about themselves.) There are half a million podcasts in this world; G & T are here to help navigate with this weekly walk down podcast lane.
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A Goodbye Pod From Gina Grad and Teresa Strasser from 2023-11-01T23:02
The Girls Give Big Updates from 2023-06-19T16:41:54
Ep. 139 - Gina Looks Back at Her Time on the Adam Carolla Show from 2023-01-11T04:36:19
Ep 138 - Your Boobs Don’t Stop from 2022-09-30T23:52:27
It’s been a minute, but Gina Grad and Teresa Strasser pick up where they left off, only there’s less of Gina these days. She details her recent breast reduction, life...
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Easy Listening - Ep. 137 - JEW-ISH THOUGHTS ON JEWS from 2021-11-18T17:55:13
The only title that is more uncomfortable to say out loud than Adventures with Dead Jews, is perhaps People Love Dead Jews. These are the titles of Dara Horn’s Book and companion podca...
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Easy Listening - Ep. 136 - The Dark Side of Modeling: This S*it Never Gets Old from 2021-11-11T17:58:18
Fallen Angel is a new podcast series documenting the origin story of Victoria’s Secret. Secrets uncovered include: models have to be skinny and it leads to eating disorders! The modeling industr...
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Easy Listening - Ep. 135 - Dude, Maintain! from 2021-11-04T16:46:55
The diet industry is a cash cow that makes billions of dollars a year promising instant results and a brand new you. We’ve all fallen prey to one cure-all or anot...
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Easy Listening - Ep. 134 - Covid, Whiskey and Alec from 2021-10-28T17:47:29
This week, Teresa Strasser explains the unusual way her dad got COVID. Gina Grad shares some audio from a very intoxicated Vegas podcast episode. And both hosts discuss the ongoing con...
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Easy Listening - Ep. 133 - You Don’t Seem Like Yourself from 2021-10-21T17:38:56
It’s officially time for terrifying stories of body snatchers and cautionary tales about exorcisms…it IS spooky story season after all. And nobody does it better than Glynn Washington over at Sn...
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Easy Listening - Ep. 132 - Awkward Conversations, Hook Ups and Food Issues from 2021-10-14T17:04:03
If writing about cringy hook-ups and regrettable empty sex isn’t tricky enough, Paulina Pinsky managed to co-author one with her dad, Dr. Drew Pinsky. A triplet, Paulina remembers having the sex...
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Easy Listening - Ep. 131 - All We Need is Lisa Lampanelli from 2021-10-07T17:00:32
As two people who despise small talk, Gina goes deep with a one-on-one interview this week with former comedian and all-around personal hero Lisa Lampanelli. The two talk about judgeme...
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Easy Listening - Ep. 130 - Reach Out and Touch Someone from 2021-09-30T16:50:07
Easy Listening - Ep. 129 - Keep it to a Minimum from 2021-09-23T17:40:56
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Easy Listening - Ep. 128 - MY BIG FAT PODCAST WEDDING from 2021-09-16T17:59:48
Easy Listening - Ep. 127 - WHEN THE GUEST HATES YOU from 2021-09-09T17:37:49
What happens when a guest you’re looking forward to meeting doesn’t think you’re so great? Sammy “The Bull” Gravano visited the Adam Carolla Show recently and seemed less than charmed by Gina. I...
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Easy Listening - Ep. 126 - LET’S GET STOIC from 2021-09-02T17:25:45
What are the magic words when we like life is giving us a raw deal? Enter, Courage,Temperance, Justice, and Wisdom. These are the main principles of the roman-based Stoic philosophy that some sa...
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Easy Listening - Ep. 125 - JEOPARDY HOST UNDONE BY PODCASTING from 2021-08-26T17:17:36
An unknown gets a huge break in show business, only to be undone by idiotic comments made on a podcast years before. Just last week, it was the host of Jeopardy. With thousands of podcasts, if ...
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Easy Listening - Ep. 124 - They Made it Weird and We Loved It from 2021-08-19T17:07:17
Pete Holmes delivers a spiritual comedy sermon of a podcast called “You Made It Weird,” one of the first podcasts we covered on our show, and one of our favorites. The pandemic brought...
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Easy Listening - Ep. 123 - Sold in America from 2021-08-12T17:29:49
Sex trafficking doesn’t seem like something that affects many of our lives. But when you factor in online users, that number explodes. The series, SOLD IN AMERICA, takes an extremely p...
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Easy Listening - Ep. 122 - The Ruby Slipper Heist from 2021-08-05T12:00
Someone stole Dorothy’s iconic ruby red slippers from a museum in Grand Rapids, and the mysterious Hollywood shoe heist is now the subject of a new podcast docuse...
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Easy Listening - Ep. 122 - The Ruby Slipper Heist from 2021-08-05T12:00
Someone stole Dorothy’s iconic ruby red slippers from a museum in Grand Rapids, and the mysterious Hollywood shoe heist is now the subject of a new podcast docuse...
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Easy Listening - Ep.121 - When Family and Career Get Toxic from 2021-07-29T19:37:55
Britney Spears is once again getting flooded with media attention. But this time, it’s not for her world tours or Vegas residencies. Britney is still in the thick of dealing with her conservator...
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Easy Listening Ep. - 120 - The Dave Chappelle Podcast from 2021-07-22T16:54:21
The Midnight Miracle was recorded during Chappelle’s legendary 2020 Summer Camp in an intimate setting at “The Shack” — a mechanic’s garage retrofitted as a clubhouse. Inside, listeners get the ...
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Easy Listening - Ep. 119 - WHEN GUESTS GET UNDER YOUR SKIN from 2021-07-15T18:01:58
Easy Listening - Ep. 118 - Bill Cosby Conviction Unravels from 2021-07-08T17:38:52
Bill Cosby was released from prison after his sexual assault conviction was overturned on a techn...
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Easy Listening - Ep. 117 - Take it Back! from 2021-07-01T18:24:57
Easy Listening - Ep. 116 - Our Favorite Podcast Scandals from 2021-06-24T17:54:43
It’s a new medium, but it’s hard to imagine a world without it. Almost overnight, there are literally hundreds of thousands of them, new ones every day, some say as many as a million. And in the...
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Easy Listening - Ep. 115 - Looking Forward to 70 from 2021-06-17T18:14:50
If you want a heads up about how something is about to go down, you ask someone who’s done it already...
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Easy Listening - Ep. 114 - The Truth About Navy Seals: We Can’t Handle It from 2021-06-10T17:45:08
Easy Listening - Ep.113 - Forgive THIS! from 2021-06-03T17:57:25
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Easy Listening - Ep. 112 - Surviving The Great Depresh from 2021-05-27T17:01:20
Easy Listening - Ep. 111 - WE ARE COLUMBINE from 2021-05-20T18:11:53
On this second season of Confronting, the Wondery network is taking on Columbine High School where in 1999, 3 high school students killed 12 kids, 1 teacher and injured many more. We all know wh...
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Easy Listening - Ep.110 - Dying Alone With a Weird Box of S*% from 2021-05-13T17:46:35
What’s left after a life? Can a box of artifacts from the box of a man who died indigent tell a story that illuminates something about the human condition. IT’s not pandora’s box, it’s...
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Easy Listening - Ep 109 - The Big Wedding Grift from 2021-05-06T18:08:02
Here comes the Bride … CHILLA. That’s a bridal podcast, one among many, but a good excuse for us to discuss Gina Grad’s upcoming nuptials and all the ways BIG WEDDING is trying to pick her pocke...
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Easy Listening - Ep. 108 - No Improving on the Improvement Association from 2021-04-29T18:28:43
If you remember where you were when you listened to the last words of t...
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Easy Listening - Ep. 107 - Your Own Backyard, Crime Pod Snags Suspect from 2021-04-22T18:42:39
An 8 episode true crime series about the unsolved murder of a CAL POLY student back in 1996 is topping the itunes charts this week, as new developments unfold in the latest cold case warmed up b...
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Easy Listening - Ep. 106 - Odd Moms and Antisemitic Kids from 2021-04-15T18:05:14
CARDS on the table: I avoid MOM content. Essay books, cable series, and wacky social media accounts. W...
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Easy Listening - Ep. 105 - Mayim Bialik Breaks Down from 2021-04-08T17:45:37
A child star who “Blossom’d” into a respected neuroscientist then went BACK into acting to PLAY a ne...
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Easy Listening - Ep. 104 - The Bloom is Off Danny Rose; Farrow v Allen from 2021-04-01T17:21:50
Before the phrase “ME TOO” or “CANCEL CULTURE” a guy was obsessed with his 7 year old daughter, then he married, essentially, his step-daughter. And people were like … okay, we don’t love this b...
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Easy Listening - Ep. 103 - A Wedding and a Funeral from 2021-03-26T03:21:59
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Easy Listening - Ep. 102 - Real Housewives and the Truthiness Brand from 2021-03-18T18:38:56
Bethenny Frankel believes in saying YES. She’s written books about it. She’s said yes to reality shows. She created SkinnyGirl cocktails and workout videos and recipes, but if any of u...
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Easy Listening - Ep. 101 - I’ve Got a Secret from 2021-03-11T05:00
Theft. Affairs. A debilitating illness. A whole other family hidden somewhere else. Some secrets are way too big to tell. Others are way too big to keep. No matter what your secret is, take some...
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Easy Listening - Ep. 100 - Michael Barbaro Makes You Go Hmmm from 2021-03-04T19:04:20
Easy Listening - Ep. 99 - At Some Point, Salma, We Have to Call a Crazy Person a Crazy Person from 2021-02-25T05:00
Easy Listening Ep. 98 - Sports Prodigies: ESPN Makes Us Care About Soccer from 2021-02-18T19:41:45
Here we are in the middle of a pandemic, and you might be asking yourself, what do I need in a new po...
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Easy Listening - Ep. 97 - Adam Carolla and the Trump Fixer from 2021-02-11T18:24:31
We are coming at you hotter than a pair of Jewish space lasers! Trump’s fixer Michael Cohen and Adam C...
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Easy Listening - Ep. 96 - The Queens of Kvetch: Fran Lebowitz and Julie Klausner from 2021-02-04T18:39:51
If you don’t like Fran Lebowitz, we don’t want to hear it. What we do want to hear is the greatest Ne...
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Easy Listening - Ep. 95 - An Apology Hotline is Sorry Not Sorry from 2021-01-28T19:05:12
Easy Listening - Ep. 94 - This is Why You’re Stuck from 2021-01-21T18:52:49
If the existence of other people’s pandemic projects makes you feel icky inside, bec...
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Easy Listening - Ep. 93 - Part II Hilaria and the Baldwinitos from 2021-01-14T18:57:28
Hilaria Baldwin’s podcast heavily pushes her Spanish identity. Meanwhile, what do you do when one of your kids claims to be Spanish, but you know you’re not and she’s not? Hilaria’s madre had to...
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Easy Listening - Ep. 92 - We are all Hilaria from 2021-01-07T05:00
Who hasn’t told a little white lie? It’s often harmless and leaves us looking more mysterious to fol...
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Easy Listening - Ep 91 - Ira Glass and What It’s Like to Be 25 from 2021-01-01T03:51:12
It’s been said that Neil Diamond is the Pope of the Jews. And if that is true, it follows that Ira Glass is the Pope of podcasters, the OG, the chairman of the sound board, and the Ada...
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Easy Listening - Ep. 90 - Abuses in the Church from 2020-12-24T20:02:08
Easy Listening - Ep. 89 - Breaking Up With Bad Habits from 2020-12-17T20:08:26
Breaking up is hard to do. Just ask Neil Sedaka. But what about when a break up isn’t a pop song, but instead the conceit for a podcast that delves into...
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Easy Listening - Ep. 88 - Where is it Written You’re Supposed to be Happy? from 2020-12-10T21:16:36
If you could borrow the warmest earth mother type, sweet bubbe, big sister bestie, rabbi and perfe...
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Easy Listening - Ep. 87 - The Hidden Lives of Tyrants from 2020-12-03T20:33:08
The secret lives of tyrants can be downright fascinating, from their semi-kidnapped full-time sushi chefs, to their meth dealing, to their breeding of giant dog sized bunnies. One podcast share...
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Easy Listening - Ep 86 - Behind the 90’s Music from 2020-11-26T05:00
So, I guess the fortune teller’s right. Should've seen just what was there and not some holy light. But you crawled beneath my veins and now. I don't care, I had no luck.I don't miss it all that...
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Easy Listening - Ep. 85 - Beyond the Orgy Dome from 2020-11-19T05:00
This week we introduce you to a podcast host so sensitive, so comforting, so empathetic -- he’s to “active listening” what Kyler Murray is to scrambling in the pocket. He’s a natural. And he cha...
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Easy Listening - Ep. 84 - No Talc In Your Panties from 2020-11-12T21:11:03
Is products liability litigation sexy? If you read The Informant, or watched the film, you know that an investigation about the global price fixing of food additives can actually be quite riveti...
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Easy Listening - Ep. 83 - Sarah Silverman from 2020-11-05T21:45:09
She’s sophisticated and crass. She’s glamorous and yet she mostly wears a hoodie and sneakers. She...
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Easy Listening - Ep 82 - The Goddess of Scam from 2020-10-29T04:00
Podcasts getting laughs out of grisly crimes, that’s nothing new, but the Scam Goddess is getting giggles out of grifts, including the lady who scammed George Washington University into thinking...
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Easy Listening - Ep. 81 - Crowning the Queen of the Con from 2020-10-22T23:23:31
There’s no business like show business. Everything about it is appealing, except the part where the barriers to entry are so high and wide you might find yourself in a Jakarta taxi wit...
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Easy Listening - Ep. 80 - Ken Jennings Explains Everything from 2020-10-15T18:56:01
If it’s been a minute since you’ve been part of an intelligent conversation, don’t worry, Gina and I aren’t gonna have one -- but you know who will? Jeopardy champ Ken Jennings, and Fr...
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Easy Listening - Ep. 79 - A Sick Sense of Humor from 2020-10-08T16:47:19
Have you ever thought of a joke so dark that if you ever shared it with someone else they might s...
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Easy Listening - Ep. 78 - Cobra Kai Deconstructed from 2020-10-02T22:55
“Sweep the leg,” or “Wax on, wax off,” are movie quotes as unmistakable as “Here’s looking at you...
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Easy Listening Ep. 77 - Three of the Funniest Friends in Hollywood from 2020-09-24T21:43:27
Jimmy Kimmell, Will Ferrell, Maya Rudolph, Kamala Harris - what do they have in common? They’ve all guested on a new podcast that doesn’t need time to find its footing. This podcast has us dying...
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Easy Listening - Ep. 76 - Oh My Pod! So Many Pods! from 2020-09-17T17:49:43
It’s been 75 episodes. We’ve laughed. We’ve cried. We’ve tried to help solve cold cases. We’ve cheered for gymnasts and cursed MLM gurus. We’ve talked hoops and pro wrestling, self-help books, I...
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Easy Listening - Ep. 75 - At the Intersection of Self-Help and Crazy Cult from 2020-09-10T22:16:25
Could a podcast kindly explain to us how we can welcome anxious feelings, debunk self-defeating beliefs, be fully present in the moment, use our creativity as a gift to the world AND become comp...
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Easy Listening - Ep. 74 - The Sordid, Sad, Brave World of Gymnastics from 2020-09-03T04:00
From the moment Kerry Strug stuck her historic vault, to the moment a superb gymnast was blackballed from the Olympics for blowing the whistle on creepy criminal Dr. Larry Nassar, USA gymnastics...
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Easy Listening - Ep. 73 - The Long and Short of Long Island Serial Killer from 2020-08-27T04:00
A sex worker went missing in 2010 on a call to a Long Island john. Suffolk County police went looking for her, and found the uncovered human remains of nine more sex workers, all murdered. But i...
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Easy Listening - Ep. 72 - Eat, Pray, Fat, Meat, Carbs, Love from 2020-08-20T18:23:46
Doctors don’t agree. Americans don’t agree. Everyone is up in arms, sure that their view is the right one. It’s a confusing, confounding mess. We’re not talking about coronavirus, we’re talking ...
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Easy Listening - Ep. 71 - This is the Pandemic Guy from 2020-08-14T18:52:09
Don’t you wish you had a kindly uncle, with a Midwestern accent and a no nonsense attitude who happens to have 45 years of experience studying infectious diseases, and just tells you everything ...
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Easy Listening - Ep. 70 - Leah Remini Can F***ing Swear from 2020-08-06T04:00
Leah Remini has stories. Nobody has Scientology stories like Leah does. Nobody drops F bombs like Leah Remini, either. Girlfriend can curse. Leah Remini has a brand new podcast Scientology: Fai...
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Easy Listening - Ep. 69 - Podcasts For Surviving Coronavirus from 2020-08-01T16:32:13
ULTRA FITNESS GURU RICH ROLL SITS DOWN WITH A LEADING EXPERT ON INFECTIOUS DISEASES TO FIGURE OUT WHAT’S SAFE, WHAT WE SHOULD AVOID, HOW TO BOOST IMMUNITY, AND THE BEST WAY TO TRAVEL B...
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Easy Listening - Ep. 68 - Cool to be Kind from 2020-07-23T16:43:06
If your mom won’t walk you down the aisle because she disapproves of your lifestyle, there’s a st...
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Easy Listening - Ep. 67 - Holy Poop from 2020-07-16T20:44:34
Gina and Teresa feature a number one podcast about number two. POOP JUST GOT REAL. They highlight a podcast that explores not metaphorical poop, but actual feces, in the wild, what we can learn,...
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Easy Listening - Ep. 66 - Hamilton Pods: History Has Its Ears on You from 2020-07-09T04:00
Easy Listening - Ep. 65 - Amateur Sleuths from 2020-07-02T04:00
You might think you already know about the Golden State Killer, but a new podcast “I’ll Be Gone in the Dark” gives you background on the background in a podcast that’s different than anything in...
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Easy Listening - Ep. 64 - Concern Trolling&Queer Eyes Rolling from 2020-06-25T04:00
Former “Queer Eye” star Carson Kressley shares his binge watch list on “Homophilia” and Jameela Jamil gets real about “concern trolling” with author Roxane Gay on the “iWeigh” podcast. Hosts Gin...
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Easy Listening - Ep. 63 - "Activism in Sports and Supernatural Church Happenings" from 2020-06-18T04:00
WBUR’s “Only a Game” gives voice to a rising USC sophomore and his gripping, now viral essay on sports and race. And “Heaven Bent,” a new podcast about religion, explores “carpet time” and speak...
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Easy Listening - Ep. 62 - Socialite Grifters and Fallen Beauty Queens from 2020-06-11T04:00
Vanessa Williams lost her crown, but the details were lost on most of us. “You Must Remember This” and gue...
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Easy Listening - Ep 61 - "Punchlines and Gut Punches" from 2020-06-04T04:00
This week, a look at what really happened when Dave Chappelle quit his own show, on a podcast aptly titled, “What Really Happened.” Andrew Jenks hosts this phenomenal series, and Teresa Strasser...
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Easy Listening - Ep.60 - "Creeps And Geniuses" from 2020-05-28T04:30
Teresa Strasser filled in this week for Gina Grad on the world record-holding “Adam Carolla Show” podcast, as Adam did his first live show since quarantine. In OPP, Other People’s Podcasts, “Wha...
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Easy Listening - Ep.59 - "No Nudes Is Good Nudes" from 2020-05-21T22:05:47
The guy who wrote “The Blind Side” and “Moneyball” brings us season two of his podcast, and “Against the Rules with Michael Lewis” was worth the wait. This season, he focuses on the importance o...
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Easy Listening - Ep.58 - "Michael Jordan And His Dance, Steve Jobs And His Daughter" from 2020-05-14T04:30
The daughter Steve Jobs first shunned, then awkwardly embraced, has no animosity toward the icon, but she does have a beautiful story about family shame and secrets, told on the podcast “Family ...
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Easy Listening - Ep.57 - "Blame Tony Soprano's Mom" from 2020-05-07T04:30
This week, Gina Grad finally gets to discuss an important theory about HBO’s “The Sopranos” with a cast member. And from TV to classic movies, TCM has released its first podcast and “The Plot Th...
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Easy Listening - Ep.56 - "Confessions of a Phelps-Roper and Plots Against America" from 2020-05-01T05:37:42
More pandemic content for your ears! This week, Gina Grad confesses to loving “The Confessional,” a deeply spiritual look at making amends, with guest including a famous former member of the Wes...
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Easy Listening - Ep.55 - "Bored In The House And In The House Bored" from 2020-04-24T06:31:06
One bright spot in quarantine: celebrities and comedians “making the time” to podcast! This week, Gina Grad and Teresa Strasser parse two new podcasts from funny duos, “Oh, Hello: the P’dcast” w...
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Easy LIstening - Ep.54 - "Good Listens For Bad Times" from 2020-04-16T04:30
Tina Fey saves us from descending into quarantine madness on Back to School with Seth Rudetsky and Without Fail reminds us there are so many other "essential" people to thank right now.
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Easy Listening - Ep.53 - "Brene Brownie Points During Covid-19" from 2020-04-10T05:28:02
Brene Brown reminds us to calm the F#@k down when we go through an "FFT" (aka: a First F#@%ing time), we find out why it's so hard to be empathetic in these pandemic times, and Gina sings. A lot...
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Easy Listening - Ep.52 - "The Tiger King's Glorious Reign" from 2020-04-03T06:38:33
In these troubled times, one leader has shown himself capable of capturing the attention of America. That man is a king. He’s the “Tiger King.” And his rule started long ago. Before it ...
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Easy Listening - Ep.51 - "What To Binge While Quarantined" from 2020-03-26T04:30
As we all struggle with self-quarantine, Gina Grad and Teresa Strasser give you binge worthy podcast options in all the major podcast food groups: true crime, self-help, comedy, docu-series and ...
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Easy Listening - Ep.50 - "Podcasts For A Coronavirus Self-Quarantine" from 2020-03-17T21:00:51
Self-quarantine is tough. If you need diversions, we think there are three ways to go – true crime, comedy, self-help - we’ll give you podcast recommendations in each genre. And If you want to k...
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Easy Listening - Ep.49 - "Basic Cable News: Coronavirus And Nancy Grace" from 2020-03-12T04:30
Nancy Grace is on an unwavering crusade for justice. And, she’s on this week’s show. In other cable news news, we feature a new series from CNN, “Coronavirus: Fact Vs. Fiction” which gives Dr. S...
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Easy Listening - Ep.48 - "When Breaking Up Is Hard But Quitting Is Easy" from 2020-03-06T07:10:06
G & T dig up an old school episode of This American Life (before it was even called This American Life) to examine a woman who celebrates the art of the "quit" by quitting absolutely everything ...
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Easy Listening - Ep.47 - "Robin Williams, Michael Moore and RuPaul" from 2020-02-27T05:30
RuPaul talks about our daily fear and dread (hint, social media isn’t doing us any favors) with documentarian and rabble-rouser Michael Moore on his new podcast, ...
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Easy Listening - Ep.46 - "Killers And Cons" from 2020-02-21T06:05:39
“How to With Charles Duhigg” makes a second appearance on the show, with an episode explaining how the artistry of con-men can be used by everyday people to negot...
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Easy Listening - Ep.45 - "Lost Your S***? There's A Podcast For That!" from 2020-02-14T05:57:52
On You Are Not So Smart, a negotiating expert explains “how to talk to people about things,” a conversation with lessons for anyone who is human and must talk to people about things. And Sharon ...
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Easy Listening - Ep.44 - "Porn On The Pod" from 2020-02-06T05:30
What does porn do to young minds when they watch it before they've even had their first kiss? Lynette Carolla from For Crying Out Loud lets us in on the harrowing talk she had with her son about...
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Easy Listening - Ep.43 - "Friday Night Lights and the Wellness Scam" from 2020-01-31T06:39:31
A new podcast series tells the story of the West Texas oil boom through the lens of migrant sex workers, endangered roughneckers, and high school football players — “Boomtown” serves up “Friday ...
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Easy Listening - Ep.42 - "The Baron Of Botox And Chasing Cosby" from 2020-01-24T06:46:24
“The Baron of Botox” tells the compelling story of a ground-breaking dermatologist to the stars who revolutionized faces, but also may have gone too far with his own. His depression was mysterio...
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Easy Listening - Ep.41 - "Love, Sex and Basketball" from 2020-01-17T06:33:45
On this podcast about podcasts, NPR helps parents with “the sex talk” and explains why the Dutch have really mastered sex ed on “Life Kit.” And “Horse” is podcast about basketball without any pe...
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Easy Listening - Ep.40 - "Murder in Oregon, Killing it in the Kitchen" from 2020-01-09T05:30
“Murder in Oregon” arrives on the true crime podcast landscape with a bang, though in this case, it’s more like a slice. And although Nigella Lawson doesn’t slice like a chef, wh...
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Easy Listening - Ep.39 - "Online Hate And Real Life Swindles" from 2020-01-03T20:53:49
Could anything ever happen to Joe Francis that would make you feel sorry for him? Can a teen who moderated a hate speech-filled message board be redeemed? What if...
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Easy Listening - Ep.38 - "When Christmas Has You Feeling Extra Jewish" from 2019-12-20T07:37:49
In this season of Christmas cheer, Teresa and Gina tap into their Jewish roots to ...
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Easy Listening - Ep.37 - "Curious, Catch and Kill" from 2019-12-13T05:59:43
Podcast host Josh Peck is “Curious” about our own co-host, Teresa Strasser. Gina Grad shares her favorite moment from that interview, and it involves a trash bag ...
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Easy Listening - Ep.36 - "Bill Murray's Dream Job And Moby's Feud With Himself" from 2019-12-06T01:42:29
Bill Murray shows up for a podcast interview a day early, and we wouldn’t want it any other way. On “3 Girls, 1 Keith,” Amy Schumer captures the quirky, comforting mug of goodness that is Bill M...
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Easy Listening - Ep.35 - "When You Screw Up The Oscars And Betray Japan" from 2019-11-28T05:30
You’re about to find out what the Oscars, Three-Mile Island and the collapse of the American economy have to do with each other. Plus, when it comes to calming down your Japanese pitcher, someti...
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Easy Listening - Ep.34 - "Sexist Egotistical Lying Hypocritical Bigot" from 2019-11-22T01:33:38
Two barrels, four bodies and one killer true crime series - and speaking of things isolated in the woods, we are checking back in with Dolly Parton and her Tenness...
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Easy Listening - Ep.33 - "Bad Batches And Last Days" from 2019-11-15T04:06:26
Grifters gonna grift, and con men gonna con and fraudsters are coming for the coins rattling around in your piggy bank of hope - but cheer up! Wait don’t -- you want it darker, Leonard Cohen ask...
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Easy Listening - Ep.32 - "Self-Help Books Explored" from 2019-11-08T00:02:13
If one of the agreements you have with the four agreements is that you agree to set that book ablaze, you have something in common with the hosts of By the Book — which is a podcast you’ve been ...
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Easy Listening - Ep.31 - "The Office Ladies And The Queen Of Epstein" from 2019-11-01T04:00
If you listen to as many podcasts as we do, you may think you know all there is to know about Jeffrey Epstein and his evil shenanigans, but there’s a happy, uplifting part of this story. And whe...
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Easy Listening - Ep.30 - "I Look Like A Woman, But I Think Like A Man" from 2019-10-26T03:47:49
We know God answer’s the prayers of a little Jewish girl named Gina Grad, because finally, there is a Dolly Parton podcast and on the other end of the musical spectrum, The Monster Mash is haunt...
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Easy Listening - Ep.29 - "The Thing About Keith Morrison" from 2019-10-18T23:26:09
Keith Morrison’s voice equals podcast magic, because why wouldn’t it? And a podcast for people who listen to true crime podcasts and get ethical heebie jeebies.
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Easy Listening - Ep.28 - "When You're Struck By Grief And A Meteor" from 2019-10-11T20:23:57
An abandoned theme park and the last words of a dying young mother. But to cheer you up, serious depression! That’s right - comedian Gary Gulman is everywhere now, but he was in one place for a ...
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Easy Listening - Ep.27 - "Meditations On Multilevel Marketing" from 2019-10-03T04:30
Swimming in cash, the fallacy of sunk costs, and why pyramid schemes benefit from your personal shame spiral. And meditations on meditating from a guy who had a panic attack on live TV and is no...
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Easy Listening - Ep.26 - "NXIVM And Shame Pie" from 2019-09-28T06:19:50
A sex cult leader wants a photo of your labia - but is he just trying to make you accountable, or is he the world’s most inventive self-help perv? Are all men just...
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Easy Listening - Ep.25 - "How To Start A Sex Cult" from 2019-09-20T22:43:06
Is the side-kick of an evil, sex-trafficking minors psycho-path just as bad as the sex-trafficing psychopath? How to be in a state of bliss when your HBO show gets...
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Easy Listening - Ep.24 - "I Swear We Are Done With These Sociopaths" from 2019-09-14T03:57:09
"Cold" continues to give Gina and Teresa chills as they wrap up their discussion on some of the oddest an...
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Easy Listening - Ep.23 - "Crosby, Stills, Nash and Go F*** Yourself, Podcast Man" from 2019-09-10T07:39:10
David Crosby storms out but Susan Powell probably didn’t and the COLD podcast introduces us to something called cartoon incest porn. All this and more, or l...
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Easy Listening - Ep.22 - "Sugar Daddies And Cold Cases" from 2019-08-31T08:07:36
The hottest new true crime series called "Cold" has G & T hooked and the "Death, Sex and Money" podcast gets to the bottom of what makes sugar daddy websites so alluring. Plus Gina pulls back th...
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Easy Listening - Ep.21 - "What I Wouldn't Give To Go Back" from 2019-08-23T03:55:49
A woman wants to believes she knows why her mom lost custody of her - but she really has no idea on "This American Life" and a comic at the top of his game would give it all up for one more day ...
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Easy Listening - Ep.20 - "When HBO Says No - Comedians Talk Rejection" from 2019-08-15T21:25:09
An unfunny pastor is paired with a funny Jewish comic in the hopes of punching up his sermon on "How To with Charles Duhigg" and comedian / actor Adam Ferrara tells the "Relentless" podcast how ...
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Easy Listening - Ep.19 - "The News Girl Has News" from 2019-08-09T05:31:03
When the news girl has news, we bring a very special episode of the show. Here, we present what is normally a Patreon episode. There’s some pod talk (Kim Goldman’s “Confronting OJ”), but then Gi...
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Easy Listening - Ep.18 - "Can You OD On OJ? No Way!" from 2019-08-05T09:00:27
Can you OD on OJ? Not today. Kim Goldman’s podcast delivers - from the plaintive wail dude and his shocking back story, to OJ’s new lawyer competing in the Olympics of telephone smarminess, to a...
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Easy Listening - Ep.17 - "When Yiddish Is Your Love Language" from 2019-07-26T05:12:08
Gina’s boyfriend is pretty funny and motherhood can be dead serious. This week, on our podcast about podcasts, we are talking about some shows that are very close to home. One is actually, kind ...
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Easy Listening - Ep.16 - "Eat Your Feelings, Then Stick 'Em In The Mail" from 2019-07-19T06:07:36
A binge-eating expert explains why diets don’t work, and the Post Secret guy shares about the ongoing catharsis of sending secrets through the postal system. Gina Grad and Teresa Strasser review...
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Easy Listening - Ep.15 - "Wayne Brady, Cindy Brady Or Tom Brady?" from 2019-07-12T01:35:17
Tom Brady and the case for being a generalist on “The Good Life Podcast,” the one Buddhist mantra that could change everything, ‘Freakonomics” tells us how to change our minds, and why...
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Easy Listening - Ep.14 - "The FBI vs The SAT" from 2019-07-04T19:24:59
On the podcast about podcasts: “Gangster Capitalism” goes deep on the college admissions scandal, so hosts Gina Grad and Teresa Strasser go deep on this A+ new podcast series, sampling some of t...
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Easy Listening - Ep.13 - "White Lies And Dark Comedy" from 2019-06-28T00:52:02
Amy Schumer’s dad may be her best podcast guest ever, National Geographic helps us understand why kids lie, a makeup guru creates an empire out of the nude look, and the 400-yard dash that will ...
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Easy Listening - Ep.12 - "Lizzo, Death Row, Very Bad Words, and Very Good Apologies" from 2019-06-20T16:45:22
The podcast about podcasts! Terry Gross gives rapper and flutist Lizzo the “Fresh Air” treatment. “Ear Hustle” returns to let us know Death Row is both better and worse than we think it is. Marc...
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Easy Listening - Ep.11 - "Mobituaries, Mo' Problems" from 2019-06-14T06:06
This week, Gina and Teresa delve into the world of psychotic psychiatrists with "The Shrink Next Door", they discuss why sit-com death beats sit-com divorce on "Mobituaries with Mo Rocca", they ...
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Easy Listening - Ep.10 - "I Don't Want To Win My Day" from 2019-06-06T14:57:22
This week, how to influence an election, how to find Nirvana at SoulCycle, how to have a cathartic cry over a dead dog with the help of Mike Rowe, and the unintended consequences of free porn — ...
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Easy Listening - Ep.9 - "Two Jons Do Make A Right" from 2019-06-03T00:39:44
On this week’s show, a porn star’s tweet leads to a mysterious death. Or does it? There’s a new true crime podcast in town from Jon Ronson (The Last Days of August), an...
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Easy Listening - Ep.8 - "Bad Cops, Bad Coaching and Good Nudes" from 2019-05-24T07:34:50
This week, the “Missing Richard Simmons” host delves into some pretty bad policing, “The Art of Manliness" tells you why you should shut up while your kids are playing and finally, "Against the ...
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Easy Listening - Ep.7 - "Exit Wounds, Emotional Wounds and Now, An Awkward Word From Our Sponsor!" from 2019-05-17T06:24:25
This week, Conan talks dog sperm, Patricia Arquette’s dad converts over a missed left turn, you went to rehab at 14 whether you knew it or not and another string of awkward “words from our spons...
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Easy Listening - Ep.6 - "Blood, Sugar, Sex, Magic, Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat" from 2019-05-09T18:18:07
This week, Jane Fonda made be 81, but she’s still down for some acting lessons, as she explains on “WTF.” She also had a deeply flawed childhood, which you can learn about in great detail on “Yo...
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Easy Listening - Ep. 5 - "Fresh Death Can Be Tricky" from 2019-05-06T21:11:12
Gina and Teresa find themselves at the strange intersection where “To Live and Die in LA” meets “Missing Richard Simmons.” Gina may miss him the most since she was actually his student and she s...
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Easy Listening - Ep. 4 - "This Week in Trauma! Roots of Evil and Childhood Stardom" from 2019-04-25T18:24:14
Murder, incest, stardom, public failure, how to be rich while stiffing your greedy relatives, and Mike Rowe, delivering a dash of soothing, folksy storytelling about a famous person who we like ...
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Easy Listening - Ep.3 - "The Bitch Is Back" from 2019-04-19T02:48:07
This week, one of the most painful moments from the Adam CarollaShow, the “Bitch Bag” is unearthed for your Easy Listening pleasure. Gina worries that her chin might be trying to kill her (and t...
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Easy Listening - Ep.2 - "I'm Not Comfortable With The Touching" from 2019-04-13T22:53:07
This week, Gina shares two classic parody songs from the Adam Carolla Show vault, both of which lead to some very personal and wildly uncomfortable revelati...
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Easy Listening - Ep. 1 - "I Didn't Go Crazy, I Stayed Crazy" from 2019-04-04T04:42:11
In the premiere episode, Gina and Teresa help celebrate ten years of the Adam Carolla Show with a look back at one of David Alan Grier’s most classic appearances. SPOILE...
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Easy Listening - Thursday Premiere Teaser from 2019-04-01T08:17:37
"Easy Listening with Gina Grad and Teresa Strasser" is premiering THIS THURSDAY.
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