Listener Reviews

My mom love‘a hidden brain 💗I love to listen to it when my mom listens to hidden brain:)

because i’m very unhappy about this Hidden Brain + thing! Why must the great podcasts do this? i love this host and the guests are phenomenal. It’s very classist of the podcast to keep the bonus episodes from us poor listeners who can’t afford to pay extra.

I love listening to Hidden Brain because the topics are so relatable and the interviews are always easy to listen to.

Super interesting topics and great picks of interviewees. One of my favorite podcasts!!

So I really rally really really really really really like this it’s in my 2nd favorite 🤩 but……STOP REAPEATING EPISODES! Please I beg you 🙏🏻 it’s so annoying I put it when I sleep so every time I wake up I find that A BUNCH! Of episodes I Already played get *REPLAYED* WHY!? I know I’m quite angry about THATS RIGHT IM QUITE ANGRY RIGHT NOW! But I’m gonna be respectful and shut up 🤐 And BTW * by the way* I LOVE science so I recommend it for ME I am gonna give it a 5 star ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ just as bonus for how MUCH I LOVE IT 😻 and if you like books or things to help you sleep I prefer the sleepy Bookshelf because it’s 1 hour or more per episode LOVE IT 😍 Well not ALL the things they say are facts AHEM! Hey you Shanker Vedantam your quite nice but🍑 *quitley* please try boba tea *soooooo yummy* but the fact that IT KEEPS GETTING REPLAYED IS ANNOYING. But I love history and science so I really recommend for history and science attracted people

Shankar & guests have kept me company on countless long trips. Far too many to calculate. I have learned a lot from the episodes. While not all episodes are for me, an overwhelming majority are ones I’ve found captivating. Thank you, Shankar & all on the production team for your tireless work.

If psychology and human behavior is a subject you like, then you will love this show. Shankar articulates very well and his team produces an insightful and interesting podcast every week. I myself have learned a lot. I have taken the advice of experts from the show and applied it to my own life with great results. I highly recommend!

It was great. Thank you for this helpful episode.

I’ve been a listener since the beginning, and I think this podcast is helping to change the world for the better. I recently listened to the path to enough and the paradox of pleasure. As a person in recovery from addiction, these episodes really helped me understand addiction in even a deeper way than I did before…thus bringing more happiness in my life! 🥰

This 2 part series was fascinating and also hit home with depression and self medicating. The 4 week break is sound advice which I recently did for myself regarding a habitual glass of wine. I’ve stopped buying it for six weeks now. Next I need to apply it to my sugar addiction which, not surprisingly, got worse when I gave up wine. I do also turn to the Bible for sound guidance such as this: Galatians 5:17: For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever you want.

I’m a scientist but I study microbes, so I learn new things every episode! Fantastic podcast! Great interviews of interesting people doing fascinating research that applies to all of us.

I listen to a lot of podcasts and I really loved the production value, great questions, and interesting topics this one explores. I first learned about it when some of the producers came to NASA Goddard and gave us a talk about how the show, and podcasts in general, get made. That talk was so excellent I subscribed as I walked back to my office. However, I have come across no other podcast that puts so many reruns in its feed. I’d rather have no new episode than a rerun. If there’s ever a separate feed of only new episodes, I’ll subscribe to that… but for now, the podcast will remain only a memory for me.

One of the best interviews I’ve ever heard. Such an important subject for our troubled times

I have been intrigued every episode so far. Starting from the beginning. Very educational.

I listen to a LOT of podcasts. I’ve never felt strongly enough to write a review about any of them, but I’ve just listened to The Paradox of Pleasure and The Path to Enough and… here I am. I am so grateful for Hidden Brain and in particular for these two episodes. Another reviewer described this podcast as “life changing,” and for once I don’t think that description is hyperbole. Shankar Vedantum is a consistently wonderful host (thoughtful, engaging and gently humorous), and the topics covered are always fascinating. These two episodes with psychiatrist Anna Lembke is a must-lesson. Her work gives me hope and a way to both understand my own struggles and to implement some changes.

Wonderful podcast, but you really need to lose the Twizzler ads. Hard to take the content as seriously (e.g., excellent episodes touching on food addiction, etc.), when the pod breaks to sell you Twizzlers for when you are bored. This Pod is above that!

Less music Less bad sound effects Please

This podcast is amazing. The topics are so on point for modern life. The guests are always highly qualified as you would expect, but they are also interesting. The host seems to be such a sincere, thoughtful, loving, caring, and intelligent person. Very grateful for it.

Very thought-provoking and inspiring!

Shankar Vendantam's podcasts on human behavior are excellent! The guests are reporting on cutting research and advances in the field of human behavior. Vendantam's questions are probing and insightful. Overall, each podcast is informative and stimulating. One complaint: I was intrigued by the Hidden Brain+ offering. It purportedly gave listeners the opportunity to ask experts on a podcast questions following the airing of podcast. I signed up for the free week (followed by a $49 annual fee). After doing so, I could not find anywhere on the podcast website where I could pose my question. I wanted to ask my question via text btw. Anyway, I cancelled. (Shankar- you may want to check this out.)

This show always gives me fascinating new ways to think about myself and the people and world around me. It is simultaneously mind-blowing and grounding, and enhances my understanding and experience of every moment I am out in the world!

I love this podcast! There are always engaging guests tackling fascinating issues. Well done!

I regularly welcome the download of Hidden Brain and the wonderful insight each episode provides me about our mind and our general bias. There is a great variety of topics and super interesting guest not to forget Shankar’s skills at interviewing. I was pleasantly surprised the other week when I heard him for the first time ask a question which placed the guest (I thought) on their back foot. So tactfully done. Then allow space for the guest to acknowledge in their own way and to the guests credit, they remained open & vulnerable, owning what Shankar asked. Only through great interviewing techniques, can dialogue like this open up.

I love this show, especially how the host, Shankar asks insightful questions or summarizes a scientific lesson in simple words. I always look forward to taking my walks so I can listen to it. Thanks for doing an amazing job !