Pod-Alization: The Flaky Biscuit; Are They Good Guys Or Bad Buys? Medical Mysteries

 New podcast can show you the dough

Consider the new podcast, Flaky Biscuit. Produced by iHeartPodcasts and Shondaland Audio, in each episode, Host Bryan Ford will cook or bake his guest's most memorable and nostalgic meal as he attempts to give them their own version of the "Proust Effect" - the curious phenomenon of a memory triggered by a smell, a taste, or even a sound. 

Guests will include Jenna Fischer, Adam Shapiro, Tristan Mack Wilds, Daniele Uditi, Andre Mack, and Priya Krishna.

Bryan Ford is an Afro-Honduran, award-winning bread baker and best-selling author of New World Sourdough. Bryan was also the host of Magnolia Network’s Baked in Tradition and The Artisan’s Kitchen. Ford is currently running his flagship bakery concept in New York City, creating unique sourdough breads, and pastries that represent his love letter to Latin American baking.

In each episode of The Flaky Biscuit podcast, Ford will cook or bake his guest's most memorable and nostalgic meal as he attempts to give them their own version of the "Proust Effect" - the curious phenomenon of a memory triggered by a smell, a taste, or even a sound.

Fans will hear (and see) that food leads to engaging conversation as Bryan and his guests get candid about their successes, struggles, and how they've overcome it all to get where they are.

The Flaky Biscuit Podcast is distributed by iHeartPodcasts and will release new episodes weekly beginning today, with accompanying interview and recipe videos available on Shondaland’s YouTube Channel.

The written recipes of the meals Bryan Ford features on the podcast will be available on Shondaland.com, as well as through custom social content that will be shared via Shondaland’s socials.

The Flaky Biscuit Podcast: In Each episode, award-winning baker Bryan Ford welcomes fellow chefs, comedians, actors, musicians, change makers and more to his kitchen table. The guest's favorite, most nostalgic meal sets the tone for the stories of their childhood, growth, failure, triumph and everything in between. From a homemade version of a Twinkie, to recreations of a special family gumbo, listeners will hear Bryan do his best to make these special memories from scratch. Tune in each Tuesday.

 When you can't tell the good guys from the bad guys

Alphabet Boys is a multi-season narrative podcast that brings listeners inside the world of America’s alphabet agencies, such as the FBI, CIA, DEA, and ATF.

The second season of Alphabet Boys, an investigative podcast series from Western Sound and iHeartPodcasts, reveals an international arms-trafficking conspiracy that wraps up the DEA, the CIA, and the FBI in a single case.

Reported and hosted by investigative journalist Trevor Aaronson, the podcast dives into cases that raise a common question: Are federal agents and their informants catching bad guys or creating them?

Trevor Aaronson is an investigative journalist and host of the podcasts American ISIS on Audible and High Rollers, the second season of the Chameleon series. He is the author of The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI’s Manufactured War on Terrorism and a contributing writer for The Intercept. His TED Talk about the FBI’s counterterrorism program has been viewed more than one million times and translated into more than two dozen languages.

Drawing from hours of undercover recordings and hundreds of pages of internal U.S. government reports, Alphabet Boys: Up in Arms tells the story of how Romanian-American businessman Flaviu Georgescu was approached by a Colombian revolutionary interested in purchasing millions of dollars in military-grade weapons. Georgescu, a longtime cooperator with the FBI, called the CIA to report the arms deal. There was just one problem: Georgescu was under investigation by the DEA, whose agents didn’t know about his call to the CIA.

Told as a single narrative over ten episodes, Alphabet Boys: Up in Arms is a spy thriller that reveals how aggressive federal law enforcement agents can find themselves investigating the assets of other federal agencies — creating an alphabet soup in which it’s hard to determine who’s the good guy and who’s the bad guy.

"Season two of ‘Alphabet Boys’ goes behind the scenes of a border-hopping arms-trafficking conspiracy involving a mysterious international businessman, a government minister in Romania, an Italian politician, and revolutionaries with the FARC in Colombia,” host Aaronson says. “It’s a high-wire act that mixes up in the DEA, the FBI, and the CIA in a case that is as intriguing as it is absurd.”

Established in 2018 by Peabody Award-winning journalist Ben Adair, Western Sound is the Los Angeles-based podcast studio behind the #1 podcasts Strangeland and Lost Hills.

Season two premiered on June 26, with new episodes launching every Monday and Thursday through July 27.

Medical mysteries solved

I always loved the TV show House. Every week, the cranky doctor would solve some medical mystery that eluded mere mortal physicians.

Now, there's a podcast that's home to a House-type show.

Nearly 50 percent of all Americans suffer from some sort of chronic illness, and many of them struggle to receive an accurate diagnosis. Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast in partnership with Cosentyx unravels the medical mystery of a patient’s symptoms and explores how their lives were turned upside down in search of answers.

Tune in with host and three-time Emmy Award winner Lauren Bright Pacheco as she shares the stories of all kinds of mystery illnesses, from the first signs of trouble to the final relief at a confirmed diagnosis.

If you’re fascinated by the medical industry, you won’t want to miss Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast – with new episodes dropping every Monday.