Caty Szeto is a woman with a dream: to become a K-Pop superstar. The 23-year-old Asian American is traveling from her home in LA to South Korea’s capital Seoul to attend a K-Pop academy. There she’ll do hardcore training in singing, dancing and styling. All this is to prepare for make-or-break auditions for K-Pop entertainment agencies. If she makes it, Caty could be like all those chart-topping idols who travel the world, perform to legions of fans and make millions. But this quest has its challenges. Caty finds out about ageism in the industry, where many new idols are in their teens. Then she comes face-to-face with incredibly specific K-beauty standards while navigating being a foreigner in K-Pop. Over just three months, our host journalist Haeryun Kang follows Caty to see if she can overcome these obstacles and reach K-Pop stardom.

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A deadly bioterror attack shook the U.S. and triggered one of the FBI’s most complex investigations. Aftermath takes you inside the high-stakes hunt for the Anthrax killer and the investigative breakthrough that cracked the case.

Episode 1: Isolated Incident - Right after 9/11, the FBI scrambles to stop a second-wave attack using a deadly toxin. When a Florida photo editor is poisoned by a rare bacteria, agents uncover a possible al-Qaeda plot to spread anthrax from the air. But are they already too late?

From Wolf Entertainment, USG Audio and Dig Studios, in collaboration with CBC Podcasts.

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Will Johnnie Veal, convicted of the murder of two police officers in 1970, be granted parole after fifty years in prison? How can he convince the parole board he’s reformed when he insists he’s innocent? What is prison time even supposed to accomplish? These are the questions that propel The Parole Room forward as it builds toward Johnnie’s twentieth parole hearing after nineteen rejections.

The Parole Room is an intimate journey with Johnnie, a deep dive into the criminal legal system, and a parole room drama—taking listeners behind the curtain to hear tense deliberations as they unfold. The docuseries is vivid, emotional, and complex, bringing new questions and insights about the U.S. justice system and the country as a whole. The producer of You Didn’t See Nothin, Bill Healy, produced this project, and You Didn’t See Nothin’s host, Yohance Lacour consulted. This is episode 1. Listen to the full series on Audible.com/Parole.

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The Burden: Empire on Blood is set in the Bronx, NY, in the early 90s, when two young drug dealers ruled an intersection known as “The Corner on Blood.” The boss, Calvin Buari, lived large. He and a protege swore they would build an empire on blood. Then the relationship frayed and the protege accused Calvin of a double homicide which he claimed he didn’t do. But did he? 

Award-winning journalist Steve Fishman spent years trying to untangle this dark intrigue. Then one day, his phone rang. It was the protege. The Burden: Empire on Blood is one man’s last chance to overturn his life sentence. But someone’s gotta pay.

The Burden: Empire on Blood is the director’s cut of the true crime classic Empire on Blood, which reached #1 on the charts when it was released half a dozen years ago.

Empire on Blood is a production of Orbit Media in association with Signal Co. No1

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Ear Hustle is prison slang for eavesdropping, and that’s what listening to the show feels like: a raw, often funny, and always surprising peek into the reality of life inside prison.

Hosts Nigel Poor and Earlonne Woods co-created the show that launched in 2017 while Earlonne was incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison, where Nigel was a volunteer teaching photography. Since Earlonne’s release in 2018, the show has expanded to include stories from prisons across the state, including the California Institution for Women, as well as stories about getting out of prison and starting over, post-incarceration.

From finding romance, to grappling with a life sentence, to trying to parent via 15-minute phone calls, Ear Hustle stories deliver what This American Life host Ira Glass calls a “very real” and “untragic” take on prison life.

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In 1978, Pope John Paul I was found dead in his bed just 33 days after he was elected. The official story is that he suffered a fatal heart attack. But in the years since his death, some have claimed he was murdered to cover up crimes in the Vatican. The question of the Pope’s death has never been definitively answered, but there is one man who claims to know the truth. A man from one of New York City’s crime families who has deep ties to the Italian mafia. He was there the day of the Pope’s death and witnessed his murder firsthand. Or, at least, that’s what he says. His name is Anthony Raimondi, and these are his confessions.

From USG Audio and Truth Media in association with Clockwork Films.

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Yohance sits down with Kathleen Goldhar, the host of CBC’s new podcast Crime Story, to talk about Lenard Clark’s case and the many questions he grappled with while making You Didn’t See Nothin. 

Every week, Crime Story brings you a true crime case told by the storyteller who knows it best. Find more Crime Story episodes in your podcast app, or using this link: https://link.chtbl.com/H4ag6cIN

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Nearly 50-years-old now, Yohance tries to make sense of what forgiveness means in the face of endless racial violence.

Credits

Host: Yohance Lacour

Producers: Bill Healy, Dana Brozost-Kelleher, Erisa Apantaku, Sarah Geis

Sound Design/Mixing and Music Supervision: Steven Jackson and Phil Dmochowski at the Audio Non-Visual Company

Original Music: Taka Yasuzawa

Executive Producers: Alison Flowers and Jamie Kalven (Invisible Institute) and Josh Bloch (USG Audio)

Production Support: Jennifer Sears and Josh Laolagi

Fact-checking: Angely Mercado

Key Art: Kenneth L. Copeland, Jr.

Special Thanks: Lenard Clark and Wanda McMurray

Archival audio in this episode include (in order of appearance): WTTW, CBS Chicago, Dateline, and MSNBC.

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Yohance speaks to the Black minister about the notion that the attacker and his victim have become friends.

Credits

Host: Yohance Lacour

Producers: Bill Healy, Dana Brozost-Kelleher, Erisa Apantaku, Sarah Geis

Sound Design/Mixing and Music Supervision: Steven Jackson and Phil Dmochowski at the Audio Non-Visual Company

Original Music: Taka Yasuzawa

Executive Producers: Alison Flowers and Jamie Kalven (Invisible Institute) and Josh Bloch (USG Audio)

Production Support: Jennifer Sears and Josh Laolagi

Fact-checking: Angely Mercado

Key Art: Kenneth L. Copeland, Jr.

Special Thanks: Mindy Pugh and The Progressive Community Church Archives at the Illinois Institute of Technology

Archival audio in this episode include (in order of appearance): CNN, NPR/All Things Considered, WMAQ, Paramount Pictures, and WBEZ.

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The Black community becomes deeply divided over some of its leaders supporting the family of the attacker.

Credits

Host: Yohance Lacour

Producers: Bill Healy, Dana Brozost-Kelleher, Erisa Apantaku, Sarah Geis

Sound Design/Mixing and Music Supervision: Steven Jackson and Phil Dmochowski at the Audio Non-Visual Company

Original Music: Taka Yasuzawa

Executive Producers: Alison Flowers and Jamie Kalven (Invisible Institute) and Josh Bloch (USG Audio)

Production Support: Jennifer Sears and Josh Laolagi

Fact-checking: Angely Mercado

Key Art: Kenneth L. Copeland, Jr.

Special Thanks: Brother Randy Evans, Steve Bogira, the family of Joe Lattimore, Mindy Pugh and The Progressive Community Church Archives at the Illinois Institute of Technology, and Bob Berlin

Archival audio in this episode include (in order of appearance): CNN, Dateline, WBEZ, NPR, WMAQ, C-SPAN, and WTTW.

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