This week, we launched “Tell Us Tuesday,” a new weekly Instagram story all about you. To kick off this series, we asked you to tell us what songs, podcasts, and playlists you’re listening to right now to help you get through this week and adjust to the new reality brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.
We compiled all the songs you shared into one playlist (Spotify), and all the podcasts are listed below.
Adulting 101 (Or, How to Be A Person)
Carlie’s Couch
Get comfortable with Carlie and Lex on the Couch as they explore a wide range of topics to help you live your best life – whatever that looks like for you! Listen on their website and Apple Podcasts.
The Friend Zone
Listen along every Wednesday as Dustin Ross, HeyFranHey & Assante explore mental health, mental wealth and mental hygiene, because who in the hell wants a musty brain? Listen on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, and Spotify.
Gettin Grown
Keia and Jade are two happy and hard working (Blackity) Black Women who are just trying to learn how to adult, for real. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, and Spotify.
Passing Through
Nneka Julia shares revelations and wisdom collected through travel, conversation, and self-education. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, and Spotify.
Arts & Culture
Broken Record
For generations of music lovers, the liner notes on albums were a central part of the way music was heard. You bought an album and it came with an accompanying narrative: a digression, an aside, a backstory—maybe even an invented history. We intuitively understood that great music required not just listening but conversation between the artist and the audience and the audience and the rest of the world.
Broken Record is a podcast that restarts those conversations—in a world without liner notes—for a new audience of music lovers. Listen on their website, Apple Podcasts, and Stitcher.
Jemele Hill is Unbothered
Award-winning journalist and culture critic Jemele Hill interviews the most compelling figures in news, pop culture, politics and sports. Expect unbothered and unfiltered conversations. Listen on Spotify.
Office Ladies
The Office co-stars and best friends, Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey, are doing the ultimate The Office re-watch podcast for you. Each week Jenna and Angela will break down an episode of The Office and give exclusive behind the scene stories that only two people who were there, can tell you. Listen on their website, Earwolf, and Spotify.
Soulection Radio Show
What began as an independent radio show has since blossomed into a global community of artists and audiences, united in a borderless, genre-bending, musical movement. Start with Show #403.
Business & Innovation
How I Built This with Guy Raz
Guy Raz dives into the stories behind some of the world’s best known companies. How I Built This weaves a narrative journey about innovators, entrepreneurs and idealists—and the movements they built. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more!
Food
The Doughboys
The podcast about chain restaurants. Comedians Mike Mitchell and Nick Wiger review fast food/sit-down chains and generally argue about food/everything. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Headgum, and Spotify.
Health & Medicine
Sawbones
Join Dr. Sydnee McElroy and her husband Justin McElroy for a tour of all the dumb, bad, gross, weird and wrong ways we’ve tried to fix people. Listen on Stitcher.
Religion, Spirituality & Mindfulness
The Empty Bowl
A meditative podcast about cereal from cereal eater Justin McElroy and Cerealously creator Dan Goubert. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher.
The Happiness Lab
In this podcast, Yale professor Dr Laurie Santos will take you through the latest scientific research and share some surprising and inspiring stories that will forever alter the way you think about happiness. Listen on Apple Podcasts, iHeartRadio, and Stitcher.
Headspace
Headspace is an app for meditation and mindfulness that is available to BU students for free thanks to the Wellbeing Project. Right now, the app is offering its resources for free to support the global community during this time of crisis. Get started today.
Marsh Chapel Sunday Services
Follow along with the weekly Sunday interdenominational worship service from Marsh Chapel at Boston University. Listen on Apple Podcasts.
Oh No Ross and Carrie!
Welcome to Oh No, Ross and Carrie!, the show where we don’t just report on spirituality, fringe science and claims of the paranormal, but take part ourselves. We join religions, undergo alternative medical treatments, and hunt for ghosts, goblins, demons, and deities. If it has an extraordinary claim attached to it, we’ll check it out. Listen on their website.
News & Politics
The Axe Files
David Axelrod, the founder and director of the University of Chicago Institute of Politics, and CNN bring you The Axe Files, a series of revealing interviews with key figures in the political world. Go beyond the soundbites and get to know some of the most interesting players in politics. Listen on Apple Podcasts and Stitcher.
The Daily (The New York Times)
This is how the news should sound. Twenty minutes a day, five days a week, hosted by Michael Barbaro and powered by New York Times journalism. Listen on Apple Podcasts and Google Podcasts.
Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me
Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! is NPR’s weekly hour-long quiz program. Each week on the radio you can test your knowledge against some of the best and brightest in the news and entertainment world while figuring out what’s real news and what’s made up. Listen on NPR, Spotify, and Stitcher.
Investigative Reporting and True Crime
Dirty John
Debra Newell is a successful interior designer. She meets John Meehan, a handsome man who seems to check all the boxes: attentive, available, just back from a year in Iraq with Doctors Without Borders. But her family doesn’t like John, and they get entangled in an increasingly complex web of love, deception, forgiveness, denial, and ultimately, survival. Reported and hosted by Christopher Goffard from the L.A. Times. Listen on Apple Podcasts, the Los Angeles Times website, and Stitcher.
My Favorite Murder
My Favorite Murder is the hit true crime comedy podcast hosted by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark. Since its inception in early 2016, the show has broken download records and sparked an enthusiastic, interactive “Murderino” fan base who come out in droves for their sold-out shows worldwide. Listen on their website, Apple Podcasts, and Stitcher.
Serial
Serial is a podcast from the creators of This American Life, hosted by Sarah Koenig. Serial tells one story — a true story — over the course of a season. Serial has won every major award for broadcasting, including the duPont-Columbia, Scripps Howard, Edward R. Murrow, and the first-ever Peabody awarded to a podcast. Listen on their website, Apple Podcasts, and Stitcher.
White Lies
In 1965, Rev. James Reeb was murdered in Selma, Alabama. Three men were tried and acquitted, but no one was ever held to account. Fifty years later, two journalists from Alabama return to the city where it happened, expose the lies that kept the murder from being solved and uncover a story about guilt and memory that says as much about America today as it does about the past. Listen on Apple Podcasts, NPR, and Spotify.