If you’re gathering for the holidays this year, will you be busting out the Monopoly board? Did your Animal Crossing island or playing Dungeons & Dragons on Zoom help you get through pandemic lockdowns? Even if you’re not an avid gamer, you probably have lots of memories attached to games. This episode we’re recommending podcasts about all kinds of ‘em.

Featuring: Sidedoor, Dungeons and Daddies, Trampoline Hall, Love Me, The Secret Cabal Gaming Podcast

In Part Four of our recommendation chain, every podcaster we feature recommends the next podcast. This chain links together steamy fiction, house plants, and the wildest food podcast you’ve ever heard.

Featuring: On The Ledge, The Allusionist, MOONFACE, Richard's Famous Food Podcast, How We Survive

Our latest playlist of stellar true crime podcasts takes us from 17th century London to present day Toronto, with stories of history, mystery and crime.

Featuring: Bad Women: The Ripper Retold, Evil By Design, Stuff The British Stole, Boys Like Me, The Next Call.

2021 is nearly over, and it's been an interesting year for the world and for podcasting. Here are six new and notable podcasts this November.

Featuring: White Hot Hate, Storytime with Seth Rogen, Elon Musk: The Evening Rocket, Pop Chat, Carrie Low VS, FOGO: Fear Of Going Outside.

Takara Small is a technology journalist and the host of A Death In Cryptoland. She's joining us this episode to set the scene for her very bingeable podcast, and share a bit of what she discovered while making it. And don't worry — if you're new to cryptocurrency and have no idea what's going on here (we know the feeling), Takara explains what it is and why people are into it.

Plus, Takara plays her favourite podcasts. If you're into technology, climate science, or Princess Diana, you'll want to hear these.

Featuring: A Death In Cryptoland, The Daily, You're Wrong About, Big Tech, and The Argument

Every year our Halloween Spooktacular rises up from the grave to offer you the best and scariest podcasts for the season. There's true stories, fiction, and some things in between. And if you're a bit of a self-proclaimed scaredy cat, we've got some supernatural stories that are more sweet than scary to give you a bit of relief.

Featuring: Radio Rental, Spooked, Parkdale Haunt, Unspookable, Family Ghosts.

From the infamous fiascos to the ones you’ve never heard of, one thing’s for sure: the world of star athletes isn’t all glory.

Featuring: Blind Landing, Sportsland, False Idol, All-American: Tiger Woods, Running Things

Are you more into scientific facts or science fiction? This episode, you don’t have to choose. We’re celebrating podcasts that explore pasts and futures, both real and imaginary.

Featuring: Darts & Letters, The Big Story, Episodic Table of Elements, Star Trek: The Pod Directive, Ars Paradoxica.

Fall means podcast launch season, so we're lining up some of the best new releases this month. Plus, Leah interviews Slate's Josh Levin about his new podcast One Year.

Featuring: The White Saviours, One Year, Unlocking The Fountain, Doctor Vs. Comedian, Rigged

Helen Zaltzman is an OG podcaster -- she's been in the game since 2007. On her podcast The Allusionist, she explores the origins of words, and how people use them every day. On her quest to better make sense of language, Helen has battled typo demons, explored the linguistic roots of medieval werewolves, and taken a deep dive into Dothraki -- the fictional language from Game Of Thrones. Today, Helen joins us to talk about why linguistics doesn't have to be boring, and to share her favourite podcasts.

Featuring: The Allusionist, The Candyman, Shade, Human Resources