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History

Official website: https://aboutsalem.com

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The Thing About Salem launched this month, bringing you bite sized pieces of Salem Witch Trials history. Hosts Josh and Sarah are descendants of women accused of witchcraft in Colonial America. After interviewing over a hundred witch-hunt experts, they have put together 15 minute episodes focusing on one thing about the Salem Witch Trials each Sunday. Expect topics in the first few weeks like Tituba, The Crucible, Poppets, the Witches’ Sabbath, and Witch Marks.

© Josh Hutchinson and Sarah Jack

Music

Official website: https://www.instagram.com/musicpersonpodcast

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Music Person is brand new today from the Talkhouse Podcast Network. It's hosted by Dylan Tupper Rupert, who you may know as either Producer Dylan of Bandsplain, or the co-creator, writer and host of KCRW's Lost Notes. The new music interview show is aimed to be "a place of discovery and a respite from the algorithm for curious listeners".

© 2026 Talkhouse

Society & Culture

Official website: https://www.shecomeswithbaggagemedia.com/podcast

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She Comes With Baggage returns for a new season this month, from Kirstie Pike - a podcast centering LGBTQ+ voices and the messy, beautiful stories that come with life. It’s funny, it’s raw, and it’s full of the kind of truth you can’t find in a guidebook - and a reminder that we are all more alike than we are different.

© 2026 She Comes With Baggage

Business

Official website: https://boldandboutique.com

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Bold & Boutique is a new podcast that explores the craft behind AI characters, interaction design, marketing and brand identity. Season 1 dives into the rise of AI characters and virtual brand ambassadors, with real-world insights from a decade of building branded voice experiences. It's hosted by Phoebe Ohayon — a seasoned voice branding strategist with global clients like Mercedes and McDonald’s — and Maikel van der Wouden.

© Phoebe Ohayon and Maikel van der Wouden

Education

Official website: https://redcircle.com/shows/about-that-wallet

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In the financial lifestyle podcast About That Wallet this week, a show designed to help the sandwich generation build strong financial habits and make smarter money decisions, financial expert Kevin Matthews II shares his take on what tariffs might mean for the price of things you buy - and how to teach your children about money.

© Anthony Weaver

Education

Official website: https://talibjasir.com/grumpy-wizdom

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Grumpy Wizdom is a new podcast hosted by Talib Jasir, the founder of the Afros & Audio Podcast Festival. With poetic narration, lived truths, and soundscapes that breathe, Grumpy Wizdom walks with you through the hard-earned lessons on becoming, belonging, survival, and the words we live by. This isn’t self-help. It’s self-remembering.

© All Rights Reserved 2025

Health & Fitness

Official website: https://manvsmindpod.com

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Man vs Mind is a timely, relatable new podcast about male mental health and everything going on inside a man’s mind. From therapy and fatherhood to anxieties, hang-ups, obsessions, gym guilt and crying at TV ads, it’s real talk without the preach: brutally honest, funny and refreshingly candid, from two bang-average guys.

© 2026 Man Vs Mind

Technology

Official website: https://irlpodcast.org/

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IRL: Online Life is Real Life returns for a new season, produced with PRX. This season - there are fears about AI taking our jobs or becoming too intelligent in the future. But what about the AI that’s already here, just beneath the surface of our daily lives? Bridget Todd goes deep into the ways AI has infiltrated our social relationships and human rituals, from finding love to being our neighbor.

True Crime

Official website: https://abcaudio.com/podcasts/devil-in-the-desert/

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In 2012, a woman was found with her hands bound in the Mojave desert; but it wasn't the only crime that had took place there. Devil in the Desert unravels the tangled life of Hossein Nayeri, the mastermind behind one of the most brutal crimes in California history. It's new today from ABC Audio and 20/20, and is hosted by ABC News chief national correspondent Matt Gutman.

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Society & Culture

Official website: https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/witi-underwater

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In New Zealand, the legendary author Witi Ihimaera’s list of achievements is expansive. But at the age of 80, he felt a yearning to master something he had never done: learn te reo Māori - the Māori language. Witi Underwater is new from RNZ, hosted by Adam Dudding and Eugene Bingham, and follows him and his classmates through this year-long immersive journey. You’ll also learn about the revitalisation of te reo Māori, and the complex and personal challenges facing its learners.

© (C) Radio New Zealand 2026