'Best Podcasts of 2022' - Paste Magazine It’s been 25 years since Anne Champion’s friend was killed, but the case was never solved. When Anne, now a prominent Manhattan attorney, gets an unexpected phone call from an old friend, it compels her to return to Iowa, her childhood home, to try and piece together the events around Laura Van Wyhe’s mysterious death.
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Billionaire Zappos founder and tech CEO Tony Hsieh was obsessed with happiness and helping people achieve it. After running “the world’s happiest company” for two decades, Hsieh created his experimental community — The Downtown Project — dedicated to pursuing happiness. But what do Tony's life and death reveal about Silicon Valley’s obsession with re-imagining how society functions? "A gripping tale" - The Guardian The Cost Of Happiness is reported and hosted by Nastaran Tavakoli-Far. It is ...
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"Best Podcasts of 2022" - Financial Times On a January night in 1978, a white light burned through the sub-Arctic sky. It was Cosmos 954, a nuclear-powered Soviet espionage satellite that had malfunctioned and fallen to earth. As the satellite disintegrated, it scattered dangerously radioactive debris across the vast traditional lands of the Dene, Métis, and Inuit in the Northwest Territories of Canada. Operation Morning Light tells the story of the Cosmos 954 disaster, its impact on the lan ...
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"Best True Crime Podcast" Nominee, 2023 Ambies Warsaw, Missouri, is a small, rural town of just over 2,000 people in the American Midwest. Locally it’s known as the “quiet end of the Lake of the Ozarks.” Very few realize that it’s the paddlefish capital of the world. But when a new group arrived driving flashy, imported cars and dropping hundreds of dollars on bait and tackle, the town became the setting for an undercover federal sting operation tasked with bringing down a suspected internat ...
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Nastaran chats with Dan Lyons, best-selling author and screenwriter for HBO's Silicon Valley, about the Tony Hsieh story and the highs and lows of tech company culture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Imperative Entertainment and Vespucci
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Hosted by Ash Kelley and Alaina Urquhart from the hit show Morbid. When 90-year-old Laurence Pilgeram drops dead on the sidewalk outside his condo, you might think that’s the end of his story. But, really, it’s just the beginning. Because Laurence and others like him have signed up to be frozen and brought back to life in the future. And that belie…
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What remains of Tony’s utopian, llama-shaped vision for a neighbourhood? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Imperative Entertainment and Vespucci
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Once again, Tony finds himself at the center of a toxic culture characterized by suspicion and silence. Except this time, there’s no escape. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Imperative Entertainment and Vespucci
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The feverish excitement around The Downtown Project begins to give way to frustration, confusion, and disappointment. Tony's utopian vision is concealing something toxic. And it isn’t just businesses and investors at stake. All of a sudden, so are people’s lives. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…
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Dëneze speaks with Stephanie Poole, Daniel T’seleie, and Paul Andrew to get three different perspectives on the story of the Dené people, the crash of Kosmos 954, and their predictions on how this story might end. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Imperative Entertainment and Vespucci
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When you talk about investing millions in a neglected city, buying up old buildings, funding small businesses and startups, and creating the happiest community on earth, people listen. So it’s no surprise that word quickly spreads about Tony Hsieh’s grand plans and the pilgrimages to Vegas begin. But will Tony’s utopia prevail? Or will the qualitie…
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The people affected by Cosmos 954 try to hold the authorities accountable for the changes to the land and the people, but answers to how to overcome these challenges will have to be found elsewhere. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Imperative Entertainment and Vespucci
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As the operation concludes, and the story of Cosmos 954 fades from public view, those left in the debris-field are forced to confront a new threat that lay hidden. Until now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Imperative Entertainment and Vespucci
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Flush with cash from his sale of Zappos to Amazon, Tony Hsieh is writing big checks. He has some 350 million dollars to invest — and just a year into this bold experiment in social engineering, his efforts to transform downtown Vegas into the happiest place on earth seem to be well underway. Did his vision for a tech utopia really work wonders on t…
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People living in the Cosmos 954 debris-field begin to notice strange changes in the environment around them. Are they connected to the crashed satellite? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Imperative Entertainment and Vespucci
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In July 2009, a man sells a company for $1.2 billion dollars — a company he’s spent the past decade building, and one that has revolutionized how we buy things on the internet. At just 35 years old, he’s instantly among the world’s richest people. But he sees himself as so much more than a business mogul. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit pod…
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Helen interviews award-winning environmental journalist and author, Michelle Nijhuis about wildlife crime, protecting Paddlefish, and the history of the modern conservation movement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Imperative Entertainment and Vespucci
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Special Preview Episode: Elizabeth the First. The Taylor Burton Show
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31:26Here’s your special preview episode of the new series Elizabeth the First – about the remarkable life of Elizabeth Taylor. In our preview, Elizabeth Taylor meets Richard Burton on the set of Cleopatra. And the rest is Hollywood History. Headline News says ‘I love Elizabeth the First’ and the Toronto Star says the podcast is ‘sumptuously produced’. …
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Making her final visit to Warsaw, Helen learns about the aftermath of Operation Roadhouse. She discovers an uncertain, but hopeful future for this vulnerable fish and the communities who care about it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Imperative Entertainment and Vespucci
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The operation sets up camp in the tundra and sets out to recover the satellite, but debris from Cosmos 954 has spread far and wide across the landscape, threatening the indigenous trappers who populate the region. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Imperative Entertainment and Vespucci
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Josh thought he’d found a tech utopia — but then reality hit. This is a story about one man’s quest to transform a city, and the world, through his particular vision of happiness. It’s about the people who were seduced by that vision. And the people who were left behind. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…
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An old friend helps Helen shed some light on the shady side of the caviar industry. Meanwhile, a visit to a lawyer in the Hampton’s causes Helen to question everything she’s been told about this case. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Imperative Entertainment and Vespucci
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A massive operation is launched to recover pieces of Cosmos 954. In Snowdrift, a police officer and his partner are tasked with guarding a large chunk discovered in the tundra—an assignment that will change their lives forever. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Imperative Entertainment and Vespucci
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Who was pulling the paddlefish poachers’ strings? Helen zeroes in on some of Roadhouse’s biggest suspects, but is also forced to confront a troubling question from her own past. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Imperative Entertainment and Vespucci
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In 1977, the Soviet Union launches a new espionage satellite—Cosmos 954—but soon after launch, its orbit starts to wobble. The question isn’t if it’s going to crash, but when. In a top secret laboratory, American scientists rush to find out where the disaster will take place. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…
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30:56Here’s your special preview episode of the new series Elizabeth the First – about the remarkable life of Elizabeth Taylor. In our preview, Elizabeth Taylor meets Richard Burton on the set of Cleopatra. And the rest is Hollywood History. Headline News says ‘I love Elizabeth the First’ and the Toronto Star says the podcast is ‘sumptuously produced’. …
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Back in Missouri, Helen lands a meeting with a top conservation official. She gets the inside scoop on why Operation Roadhouse was launched and how it was executed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Imperative Entertainment and Vespucci
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The people of Snowdrift, a small indigenous settlement, awaken to the sight of people in white suits stalking the streets of their community, scanning the ground with strange instruments. They don’t know it yet, but they’re now a part of a massive search — the only question is, a search for what? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoic…
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Teaser: The Cost of Happiness - Series Premieres December 5
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3:12Billionaire Zappos founder and tech CEO Tony Hsieh was obsessed with happiness and helping people achieve it. After running “the world’s happiest company” for two decades, Hsieh created his experimental community — The Downtown Project — dedicated to pursuing happiness. But what do Tony's life and death reveal about Silicon Valley’s obsession with …
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Why would criminals travel halfway across the world to the Ozarks in search of fish eggs? To answer that question, we need to travel back in time to Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union, to understand how caviar became such a coveted and valuable delicacy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…
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Helen realizes that to get to the truth, she needs to start fishing where the fish are. Immersing herself in Warsaw’s ‘snagging’ culture, Helen discovers that this town has fallen prey to Paddlefish poachers before. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Imperative Entertainment and Vespucci
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Journalist Helen Hollyman arrives in Warsaw, Missouri determined to solve the mystery of how a suspected international caviar poaching ring infiltrated this small midwest town to steal its most prized possession. When fish guts start appearing on the roadside, it takes a daring undercover sting — Operation Roadhouse — to catch the criminals. Could …
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Teaser: Operation Morning Light - Series Premieres November 14
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3:14On a January night in 1978, a white light burned through the sub-Arctic sky. It was Cosmos 954, a nuclear-powered Soviet espionage satellite that had malfunctioned and fallen to earth. As the satellite disintegrated, it scattered dangerously radioactive debris across the vast traditional lands of the Dene, Métis, and Inuit in the Northwest Territor…
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Teaser: The Paddlefish Caviar Heist - Series Premieres October 24
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6:19Warsaw, Missouri, is a small, rural town of just over 2,000 people in the American Midwest. Locally it’s known as the “quiet end of the Lake of the Ozarks.” Very few realize that it’s the paddlefish capital of the world. But when a new group arrived driving flashy, imported cars and dropping hundreds of dollars on bait and tackle, the town became t…
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The podcast generates new leads in the case. Annie pursues them, and reflects on what this quest has meant for her and for others close to Laura. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Imperative Entertainment and Vespucci
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Laura’s son Samson shares his recollections of growing up with Leanne in California, how he came to learn of his mother’s death, and his efforts to connect with his estranged father. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Imperative Entertainment and Vespucci
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Annie uses her legal skills to obtain more evidence, and learns about a potential breakthrough in the case. But she and Leanne have to lobby law enforcement to take action on it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Imperative Entertainment and Vespucci
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Jason and Annie review the evidence with a cold case expert and discuss possible theories. Annie speaks with a new eyewitness to Laura’s final hours. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Imperative Entertainment and Vespucci
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Leanne fights for custody of what Laura left behind, and Donnie’s past catches up with him. A child is caught in between. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Imperative Entertainment and Vespucci
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Laura's abundant gifts came at a cost — a precarious childhood and a troubled adolescence. She searched for freedom, and lived with consequences. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Imperative Entertainment and Vespucci
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The story that witnesses gave police back in 1996 doesn't hold up to scrutiny, and the pressure seems to be getting to one of those witnesses. Annie tracks him down, but the meeting doesn't go as planned. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Imperative Entertainment and Vespucci
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The police file in Laura's case tells one story about what happened the night she died, but does it add up? Annie decides she has to confront a key witness to find out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Imperative Entertainment and Vespucci
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Jason and Annie travel to Iowa to find out more about Laura’s life and the mystery surrounding her death. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Imperative Entertainment and Vespucci
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As an accomplished attorney, Annie is used to tackling tough legal challenges. But an unexpected call spurs her to revisit a case more personal than the rest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Imperative Entertainment and Vespucci
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Twenty five years after Laura Van Wyhe’s body was found by the side of the road, prominent Manhattan attorney Anne Champion is returning to Iowa to find out what happened to her friend. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Imperative Entertainment and Vespucci
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