Welcome to Feedback with EarBuds, the podcast recommendation podcast. Our newsletter brings you five podcast recommendations each week according to a theme, and curated by a different person. Our podcast is an audio version of the newsletter.

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This week's theme is Songs, Sounds, and Their Stories. The curator is Nathan Wizard, a sound designer and audio editor based out of Los Angeles.

Why did Nathan choose this theme? "Audio editing decisions, and the distinct sounds and songs that have become cultural staples, mean something different to every person listening. Here are a few episodes from vastly different podcasts where the hosts and guests dissect songs, soundtracks, artists, or stories that are good, bad, or wild and off the wall. They include fun anecdotes, trivia, and history behind the sounds, feelings, and creative processes of the people and bands that created them. Being able to put work out into the world and have it impact people in ways you’d never imagine is a feeling I hope listeners will be excited about.”

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This week, we are also sponsored by LWC Studios:

LWC Studios just launched a new show, How to Talk to High [Achievers] About Anything,

and they need you! LWC Studios is interviewing Black and brown professionals about their triumphs — and where they sometimes still trip up. They want to speak with folks achieving new heights, either in their personal or professional lives, and who are looking for ways to keep leveling up.

If this is you, or someone you know, please contact producer Virginia Lora at [email protected] to talk about scheduling an interview.

Learn about the show: https://www.talktohighachievers.com/

Links mentioned in this episode:
- Say hi in to us on Goodpods: https://www.goodpods.com/
- Joe Rogan is a Government Plant with Lauren Passell and Arielle Nissenblatt: https://pod.link/1071411026/episode/a853d4c2f34b10adbb464c5ce377a902
- GreatPods: https://greatpods.co/
- Listen to Appalachian Mysteria: https://pod.link/1239473998
- EarBuds blog post on Amazing Stories from Appalachia: https://www.earbudspodcastcollective.org/blog/podcast-recommendations-about-appalachia
- Subscribe to PodNews: https://podnews.net/

Find this week's podcast recommendation list here: https://www.earbudspodcastcollective.org/sounds-songs-stories-music-podcast-recommendations

Here are this week's podcast picks from Nathan:
- Punch Up The Jam
- Song Exploder
- Teen Creeps
- Lizard People: Comedy and Conspiracy Theories
- Get Played

This week's spotlight is the new podcast, "Goodniks.”

Description: Goodniks is an audio project exploring the journey and meaning of doing good in the world — for people who do good or are just thinking about it. As we follow along the journey of these Goodniks, we dig into who and what