It’s been said that holding onto a grudge is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die. But sometimes that poison concoction is just so tempting...just a little swig will keep you straight. The problem is that the poison turns bitter every time.  So why do we hold onto resentments? In this episode of Easy Listening, a podcast about podcasts, we hear from experts to find out why we grudge and how we stop. I’m GIna Grad and I’m Teresa Strasser. Welcome to the show!

It’s now a category unto itself. Podcasts Addressing Mental Illness With a Very Light Touch. We’ve covered the Mental Illness Happy Hour, The Mental Health Comedy Podcast and this week, we added a new one to our list of faves: Depresh Mode with John Moe. Funny, relatable chat about serious depresh - and who doesn’t love an abbrev? This is Easy Listening, a podcast about podcasts. We play clips, we kibbitz. Teresa Strasser and Gina Grad welcome you to the show. 

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 what happened. What we DON’T know is what happened to the survivors two decades after that horrific event. Confronting Columbine gives us a look inside what happened that day.  Warning - This subject matter is difficult, please take care while listening. Gina Grad and Teresa Strasser welcome you to the show.

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 Matthew McGill’s and a new podcast series serves up one beautiful un-boxing. We play clips, we kibbitz - this is  easy listening, a podcast about podcasts. Gina Grad and Teresa Strasser welcome you to the show.

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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 pockets. We play clips, we kibbitz, this is Easy Listening, a podcast about podcasts. I’m TS, and I’m GG. Welcome to the show!

If you remember where you were when you listened to the last words of the podcast S-Town, if you still don’t see how Adnan Syed could have murdered Hae Min Lee, as he was in the library talking to Asia McClain, The Improvement Association is for you. From the makers of Serial, this is another juggernaut of podcast production, talent and news gathering, and we will be breaking it down today. Teresa Strasser and Gina Grad bring you Easy Listening, a podcast about podcasts. Welcome to the show. 

CARDS on the table: I avoid MOM content. Essay books, cable series, and wacky social media accounts. When it comes to podcasts, I like a getaway - not a faux-edgy look at motherhood that’s supposed to cut close to the bone because it swears. But wait - a friend suggested a mom podcast, and I was all in. I related, it didn’t feel forced and did the thing you want a podcast to do, keep you good company. This is Easy Listening, a podcast about podcasts. Teresa Strasser and Gina Grad welcome you to the show.

A child star who “Blossom’d” into a respected neuroscientist then went BACK into acting to PLAY a neuroscientist on a hit TV show… It doesn’t get more meta than that!  Mayim Bialik has had a lot on her plate…and not just her Passover Seder plate. In her podcast, Mayim Bialik’s Breakdown, she dissects the myths about mental health. We’re going to dip into Bialik’s brain in this episode of Easy Listening, a podcast about podcasts.  Gina Grad and Teresa Strasser welcome you to the show.

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 but Broadway Danny Rose is still a great movie, so … the heart wants what it wants? There’s a new podcast series, Farrow V Allen, and this week, we’re gonna discuss it, our thoughts, some clips -- the USHE -- this is Easy Listening, a podcast about podcasts. Teresa Strasser and Gina Grad welcome you to the show!

Like anyone who wanted to know the score of a Laker’s game while stuck in traffic, I switched over my radio dial to KNX-1070, where I heard the avuncular updates from a sportscaster who always felt like family. But to Gina Grad, he was literally family. Legendary broadcaster Steve Grad passed away last week. Today, we focus on a man that constructed his own mic as kid, spoke into one across decades in radio and TV, and lived long enough to see his daughter on the podcast stage. Welcome to the show.