Originals
From cinematic investigative series to thoughtful talk shows, our original and partner editorial shows reflect a diversity of ideas, interests and identities- all of them created with the same commitment to quality. Our award-winning team has worked on some of the most successful and renowned podcasts of all time, and they bring narrative and technical experience to every Pineapple project.
We’ve sold multiple originals for TV and film development, including Wind of Change to Hulu, Missing Richard Simmons to Amazon Studios, Heaven’s Gate to HBO Max, and The Clearing to Chernin Entertainment.
The 11th
The 11th is a podcast that published an entirely new issue on the 11th of every month. Each issue, a different voice. Every month, something new. The 11th was listed as Vulture’s Best Podcasts of 2022.
30 For 30
30 for 30 offers captivating storytelling for sports fans and general interest listeners alike, going beyond the field to explore how sports, competition, athleticism and adventure affect our lives and our world.
9/12
How did 9/11 the day become 9/11 the idea? That question drives Pineapple Street Studios and award-winning host Dan Taberski to shift the focus to what happened on 9/12, and every day after that. Winner of the 2022 Ambies for Podcast of the Year.
70 Over 70
A show about how we make the most of the time we have left. Host Max Linsky talks to 70 remarkable people, all over the age of 70, not just about their past but their lives right now.
Back Issue
Back Issue reminisces on moments in pop culture’s past that have shaped our present. Each episode brings personal reflection, incredible guests, and plenty of deep belly laughs. This season our co-pilot Tracy Clayton is taking a break, so Josh Gwynn has invited some very special guest co-hosts to share their perspective on some of the most formative stories in pop culture.
Because of Anita
In 1991, Anita Hill told the world that Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas had sexually harassed her. Thirty years later, we’re still feeling the ripple effects of that testimony—in our politics and our lives. This four-part podcast explores the enduring impact of that moment, with new insights and on-the-ground stories from guests like Tarana Burke, Kerry Washington and Professor Hill herself, in her first-ever public conversation with Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, who testified 27 years after her.
Bloodlines
From ESPN Investigates, Bloodlines examines horse racing’s current existential crisis. How did horse racing go from America’s most popular sport to a game driven by returns on investment? How have decades of breeding for races changed the horses themselves? And what might the dead horses at one track mean for the future of horse racing?
Borderline Salty
After years of helping each other improve recipes, solve cooking conundrums, and come up with delicious new ideas, hosts Carla Lalli Music and Rick Martinez are ready to help others become better, smarter, happier cooks.
The C - Word
Lena Dunham and Alissa Bennett take you on a historical deep dive into the life of a woman society dismissed by calling her mad, sad, or just plain bad. Join them for a rich, hilarious, and heartbreaking look into exactly what it means when we call a woman “crazy.”
The Catch and Kill Podcast
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Ronan Farrow has been following a trail of clues from his investigation of Harvey Weinstein to other blockbuster stories about the systems that protect powerful men accused of terrible crimes in Hollywood, Washington, and beyond. The Catch and Kill Podcast won the 2020 Edward R Murrow Award for Best Podcast.
Classy with Jonathan Menjivar
Classy is a collection of surprising stories, juicy and uncomfortable interviews, and engaging segments that explore the ways that class infiltrates our day-to-day lives. In the host seat is Jonathan Menjivar – a working-class Latino kid who joined the media elite and became someone who likes oysters, wears cashmere socks, and is very conflicted about all of it.
The Clearing
When April Balascio was 40 years old, something she’d feared for decades was finally proven true—her father, Edward Wayne Edwards, was a murderer.
The Competition
Did you know that every summer, 50 of the nation’s best and brightest high school seniors—one from every state—descend on Mobile, Alabama to take part in the country’s most lucrative scholarship competition exclusively for teen girls?The Competition takes you behind the scenes of the Distinguished Young Women program (formerly known as America’s Junior Miss) and follows seven radically different teenage girls as they experience the highs and lows of competing for two weeks. But, what happens when a Supreme Court decision catapults all 50 girls into the center of a nationwide debate about their rights as women in America? After fighting for months to make it to nationals to take home the $40,000 top prize, the girls are faced with a tough decision: do they speak up for their political beliefs or do they stay focused on winning the money? And what might this mean for their futures – and their friendships?
Doctor’s Log
In Doctor’s Log, from The Meteor and Pineapple Street Studios, Dr. Esther Choo, an emergency room physician in Portland, Oregon, will deliver a twice weekly report from the front lines of the coronavirus crisis: her own ER. She takes listeners into the real world doctors and nurses are facing now, as they grapple with the most significant health threat in modern history, and helps us all understand what to do to stay safe.
The Gateway
The Gateway is a six-part series about Teal Swan, a new brand of spiritual guru, who draws in followers with her hypnotic self-help YouTube videos aimed at people who are struggling with depression and suicidal thoughts. Teal insists her therapy saves lives, but her critics say Teal’s death-focused dogma is dangerous.
Ghost Story
Host Tristan Redman is a seasoned journalist who doesn’t believe in ghosts. But weird things happened in the bedroom he lived in as a teenager. When he discovers years later that subsequent occupants of the same house have been visited by the ghost of a faceless woman, he’s curious. Because it just so happens that Tristan’s childhood home is right next door to the house where his wife’s great grandmother, Naomi Dancy, was murdered in 1937 – killed by two gunshots to the face. Could there be a connection between the ghost and the murder? Tristan decides to investigate and soon finds himself going where no son-in-law should go, deep into his wife’s family history, asking questions no one wants answered.
Heaven’s Gate
In 1997, thirty-nine people took their own lives in an apparent mass suicide. 20 years later, those who lost loved ones and those who still believe - tell their story. Heaven’s Gate: The Cult of Cults is now a documentary series on HBO Max.
Hysterical
Hysterical investigates a mysterious illness that spreads among a group of high school girls in upstate New York. What is causing their sudden, often violent symptoms? Is there something in the water or inside the school? Or is it “all in their head?” The series examines the outbreak in LeRoy, NY, believed by some to be the most severe case of mass hysteria since the Salem Witch Trials. In his search for answers, Dan Taberski (9/12, Missing Richard Simmons, Running from Cops) explores other seemingly inexplicable events of the last few years – CIA officers being crippled with nausea and vertigo; cops OD'ing from exposure to fentanyl – and discovers they’re far more connected than we realize.
Julie
The series chronicles Julie Yip-Williams’ process of preparing for her death and revisiting the events of her extraordinary life.
The Kids Are All…Home
The Kids are All...Home is for kids stuck at home, by kids stuck at home.
Love Thy Neighbor
Hosted by journalist Collier Meyerson, Love Thy Neighbor is an exploration of the “Crown Heights Riot” that took place 30 years ago– and how it can help us unlock and understand modern dilemmas from police violence and racism to the persistence of antisemitism.
Magnificent Jerk
On the last day of her grandmother’s life, journalist Maya Lin Sugarman finds a box of forgotten screenplays that sets her on a journey to uncover the truth about their author: her late uncle, Galen. She discovers that he was a leader of a Chinese gang, that he went to jail, and, in a final twist, that he poured his life story into a screenplay that was turned into a ’90s Hollywood action movie…starring Rob Lowe, Burt Reynolds, and Ice-T.
Making Gay History
Intimate, personal portraits of both known and long-forgotten champions, heroes, and witnesses to history brought to you from rare archival interviews.
Million Dollar Advice
Million Dollar Advice is a work and career advice podcast hosted by friends and colleagues Kim Lessing and Kate Arend. Together Kim and Kate run Amy Poehler’s Paper Kite Productions and are very cool and good at their jobs. Each week, they will help live callers with their work-related dilemmas. Whether you have a question or you just like listening to other people’s problems, this show will change your life.
Missing Richard Simmons
On February 15, 2014, fitness guru Richard Simmons disappeared. What happened? Filmmaker (and friend) Dan Taberski leads us down a winding road to find the star.
My Fugitive
In this eight-part series, Nina Gilden Seavey investigates what happened to Howard Mechanic– one of the longest-running fugitives in US history.
Never Before with Janet Mock
Janet Mock and your faves have conversations about work, love and life — like you’ve never heard before.
Noisemakers
Noisemakers is a 6-part series which examines the impact of harassment, gender inequality, and pay inequity on women in the workplace. Celebrity activists such as Jessica Chastain, Padma Lakshmi, and Janet Mock speak with women from all walks of life who are fighting for equality in the workplace and inspiring others to do the same.
Persona: The French Deception
What does it feel like to pick up the phone and scam someone out of $50 million? Host and award-winning journalist Evan Ratliff investigates the story of Gilbert Chikli, one of the greatest con artists of all time.
Project Unabom
Hosted by Eric Benson, Project Unabom takes an in-depth look back at the Unabomber saga and Ted Kaczynski's legacy from the perspective of FBI agents who worked to solve the case, his brother who turned him in, and Ted’s very own writings.
Running From Cops
Host Dan Taberski and the team behind Missing Richard Simmons investigate COPS — the longest running reality show in TV history — and its cultural impact on policing in America.
Stay Away From Matthew MaGill
A series of coincidences leads reporter Eric Mennel to the box, sending him on a five-year search to understand the truth about its owner: Matthew MaGill. But as Mennel learns who MaGill really was, he is confronted with questions about his own life, his own mistakes, and his own family secrets.
Stay Tuned with Preet
Join former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara as he breaks down legal topics in the news and engages thought leaders in a podcast about power, policy, and justice.
Still Processing
Wesley Morris and J Wortham are working it out in this weekly show about culture in the broadest sense. That means television, film, books, music — but also the culture of work, dating, the internet and how those all fit together.
Surviving Y2K
In Surviving Y2K, Dan Taberski takes you back to the turn of the millennium to meet the people for whom it was anything but a joke — computer coders, conspiracy theorists, survivalists, and true believers — as they each face their own version of the apocalypse.
Suspicious Activity: Inside the FinCEN Files
Pineapple Street Studios and BuzzFeed News bring you this five-part series investigating how the most powerful banks in the world can facilitate the worst of humanity – terrorism, human trafficking, the drug trade – all in plain sight of the government.
Underdog
Go inside the most expensive, most talked-about political race of 2018: the U.S. Senate contest between Congressman Beto O’Rourke and Senator Ted Cruz.
Undistracted with Brittany Packnett Cunningham
Brittany Packnett Cunningham is an activist, educator, and popular TV commentator—and a trusted voice for millions of people interested in social justice. Now, with UNDISTRACTED—she aims her focus on the most pressing issues of our time through the lens of intersectional feminism.
Unhappy Hour
From professional whiner and award-winning drunk Matt Bellassai comes Unhappy Hour, the podcast about everything we love to hate. Join Matt and his co-host Bari Finkel as they rant about all things political, personal and cultural.
Welcome To Your Fantasy
In the 1980s the “male exotic dancers” of Chippendales were everywhere. But behind the powerful mullets, oiled pecs, and non-stop parties lies a much darker story of greed, corruption and murder. Historian Natalia Petrzela exposes one of the great, sordid, unexamined stories in American culture.
What Now? with Trevor Noah
Hear Trevor Noah in a way you’ve never heard him before. “What Now? with Trevor Noah” is a show wherein each episode Trevor will go deep with a special guest, including entertainers, CEOs, actors, athletes, and thought leaders. These are the kind of conversations that happen behind the scenes, full of radical candor, authentic back-and-forths, and honest reactions, with Trevor bringing to bear his classic, effortlessly playful and equally probing style.
Will Be Wild
Will Be Wild is an 8-part series about the forces that led to the January 6th insurrection and what comes next. Through in-depth stories from a wide range of characters – hosts Andrea Bernstein and Ilya Marritz explore the ongoing effort to bring autocracy to America, the lasting damage that effort is doing to our democracy, and the fate of our attempts to combat those anti-democratic forces.
Women of the Hour with Lena Dunham
Lena Dunham hosts this podcast miniseries about friendship, love, work, bodies and more.
The Wonder of Stevie
This seven-episode podcast covers Stevie Wonder’s iconic legacy with a focus on his “classic period,” from 1972-1976, when the musician, songwriter, and singer released a streak of five albums that forever changed American music. Hosted by two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning culture critic Wesley Morris, featuring exclusive conversations with Stevie Wonder and a wide range of A-list fans, Higher Ground and Audacy’s Pineapple Street Studios produced the series alongside Questlove through his Two One Five Entertainment banner with Stevie Wonder executive producing.
Wind of Change
It’s 1990. The Berlin Wall just fell. The Soviet Union is on the verge of collapse. And the soundtrack to the revolution is one of the best selling songs of all time, “Wind of Change,” by the Scorpions. Decades later, journalist Patrick Radden Keefe heard a rumor: the song wasn’t written by the Scorpions. It was written by the CIA. This is his journey to find the truth. Hulu is now adapting Wind of Change into a television series.
With Her
What's it like to be on the road to history? Running for president is a big deal, but on With Her, you'll hear from Hillary Clinton, Tim Kaine, their supporters, and staff about the little details from the campaign trail they'll never forget.