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Retired Horticulturalist Dave Decock takes calls/texts from listeners about their gardens, lawns, vegetables, etc. The king of all things green, the lord of lilacs, the prince of pruning – the names go on and on – but we all know him as retired horticulturalist Dave Decock. Dave answers questions from listeners about their lawns, shrubs,…

Noah Galvin and Ari’el Stachel play two rival royal heirs who end up falling in love in “The Two Princes,” a scripted podcast series from Gimlet Media. The seven-episode series is a “modern retelling of a classic fairy tale” about the joys and woes of teenage romance, according to Gimlet. All episodes of “The Two…

Buy Photo Rima Fadlallah, left, and Yasmeen Kadouh talk about their new podcast show called Dearborn Girl, at the Foundation Hotel studio, in Detroit, May 17, 2019. (Photo: David Guralnick, The Detroit News) Dearborn — Growing up in Dearborn, Yasmeen Kadouh heard stories about her city, with one of the nation’s largest concentration of Arab-Americans. But she said…

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Adulting’s Jordan Carlos and Michelle Buteau. Photo: Gijs van der Most The comedy podcast universe is ever expanding, not unlike the universe universe. We’re here to make it a bit smaller, a bit more manageable. There are a lot of great shows and each one has a lot of great episodes, so we want to…

Now that a majority of Americans have listened to a podcast, it’s fair to say the medium has gone mainstream. Within a surge of new shows catering to all kinds of listeners, there’s been a wave of fictional audio dramas that breathe new life into a format first popularized by the radio dramas of the…

In the 1960s and ’70s, Berry Gordy’s Motown Records defined the sound of an era of pop music, producing some of pop history’s greatest stars while breaking down longstanding racial barriers in the music industry.  While Motown’s heyday may be long-passed, it’s alive, well and electrifying on Broadway right now, thanks to the new bio-musical…

You know the saying, “the truth is stranger than fiction?” A lot of the time, that really is the case — and these spooky podcasts about history prove it. There are plenty of events in our own pasts, in our own world, that seem to defy explanation; from possible “haunted” history to strange disappearances and…

D.C. United’s games don’t stop and neither does Filibuster. Jason, Adam, and Ben are back to talk about the 94 seconds of failure that led to D.C. United’s loss to the Houston Dynamo. We also talk about the formation, the missing players, and the sacrifices that are made when you move starters around. In the…