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Terius Youngdell Nash, better known by his stage name The-Dream, is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. His co-writing credits include songs with "Me Against the Music" (2003) for Britney Spears, "Ride" (2010) for Ciara, "Umbrella" (2007) for Rihanna, "Single Ladies " (2008) and "Partition" (2013) for Beyoncé, "Touch My Body" (2008) for Mariah Carey, "16 @ War" for Karina Pasian (2008), "Baby" (2010) for Justin Bieber, "All of the Lights"(2010) for Kanye West, and "No Church in the Wild" (2013) for Jay-Z and Kanye West. As a solo recording artist, he released five studio albums between 2007 and 2013: Love/Hate (2007), Love vs. Money (2009), Love King (2010), 1977 (2011) and IV Play (2013). His most recent album releases were the 2018 triple album Ménage à Trois: Sextape Vol. 1, 2, 3 and the 2020 album Sextape 4.

Jamie Bethany Loftus is a writer, stand up alternative comedian, animator, podcast co-host, and actor based in Los Angeles. She is known for her solo work, such as her one-woman shows I Lost My Virginity on August 15, 2010 and Boss, Whom is Girl. She has also written comedic articles, and written and starred in video content, for media sites such as Adult Swim, Comedy Central, Paste, and Super Deluxe. She was nominated for an Emmy for her work on Robot Chicken in 2020.

Who? Weekly is a bi-weekly celebrity gossip podcast presented by Bobby Finger and Lindsey Weber. Focusing on tabloid coverage of celebrities, it tackles, according to the tagline, "everything you need to know about the celebrities you don't".

Who? Weekly began as an occasional newsletter written by friends and pop-culture writers Bobby Finger and Lindsey Weber before spinning off into a podcast. The first episode was aired on January 18, 2016 on the HeadGum network. The podcast is currently released independently.

In both the newsletter and in the podcast, celebrities, ex-reality television contestants, YouTube stars, broadway actors, and social media influencers are categorized as either "Whos" or "Thems" – roughly D-list vs A-list celebrities – according to their name recognition and the nature of their fame. Whos and Thems are named for the likely response to hearing a person's name: "who?" vs "oh, them!" This extends into, for example, describing behavior as "who-y", if it is seen as self-promotional or tacky, for example producing "sponcon" (sponsored content) or writing public apologies on Notes app. Although mainly dividing the celebrity landscape between "Whos" and "Thems", the podcast has also created the categories "T.H.A.M.P.S." (or THAMPS) for the pseudo-famous Trainers, Hairstylists, Agents, Makeup Artists, Publicists and Stylists, and "Nahs" for people that might be in the public eye, but are not famous enough to even be considered a Who.

Mic Dicta is an American podcast on law and current events. Hosted by attorney Charles Star and sometimes co-hosted by an anonymous person using the nickname "The Hell Dude", the show featured a rotating panel of attorney contributors who were mostly credited under pseudonyms. Dubbing itself "America's Best-Named Legal Podcast", the show's title is a pun on "Mike Ditka", "mic", and "dicta".

Vice publishes a column on the American legal system written by the podcast's contributors. Mic Dicta hosts have also been published at Deadspin and The Outline.

On September 30, 2018, Star announced on Twitter that Mic Dicta had ended.

At XFDR, Carter Moon named Mic Dicta the publication's "Podcast of the Week". Praising the sophistication of the show's content, Moon said "it doesn't feel dumbed down for the benefit of the lay-listener" and said the show positions the listener "as a fly on the wall for a bunch of legal nerds speaking as they would if they were hanging out at a bar." Moon also noted the show's "consistently sardonic, ballbusting approach that keeps things entertaining without losing the listener in the weeds." Moon recommended Episode 11 as a starting point for new listeners, highlighting its discussion of the litigation surrounding Verrückt, a water slide at Schlitterbahn Kansas City that was considered the world's tallest and which was closed following a decapitation death.

Innerland comprises the debut solo recordings by Mark Peters. Initially released in December 2017 (on limited edition cassette and packaged as a replica mini Ordnance Survey Landranger, with outer slipcase and an imaginary map) it was given a comprehensive (Vinyl/Cd/digital) release with two extra tracks ‘May Mill’ and ‘Gabriel’s Ladder’ in April 2018, as well as a limited edition version with a bonus disc entitled Ambient Innerland, which includes reworked versions of the full extended album. The songs on the album are inspired by memories of places near where Peters grew up.

Earwolf is an American comedy podcasting network founded by Scott Aukerman and Jeff Ullrich in August 2010. In 2011, they announced a partnership with Funny Or Die. It merged with podcast advertising network The Mid Roll in 2014, a separate company founded by Ullrich, to form Midroll Media. Midroll was acquired by the E. W. Scripps Company in 2015. In July 2020, Sirius XM acquired Midroll Media, which includes Stitcher Radio and Earwolf, for $325 million.

Initially built around the Comedy Death-Ray Radio podcast, the network has since grown to include many podcasts on diverse subjects. The Earwolf studios are in Los Angeles, California, United States.

A self-improvement podcast hosted by Seth Morris as his character Bob Ducca.

Slut-shaming is the practice of criticizing people, especially women and girls, who are perceived to violate expectations of behavior and appearance regarding issues related to sexuality. The term is used to reclaim the word slut and empower women and girls to have agency over their own sexuality. It may also be used in reference to gay men, who may face disapproval for promiscuous sexual behaviors. Slut-shaming rarely happens to heterosexual men.

Frank J. Gaffney Jr. is an American anti-Muslim conspiracy theorist and the founder and president of the Center for Security Policy. In the 1970s and 1980s, he worked for the federal government in multiple posts, including seven months as Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs during the Reagan administration.

Fearne Wood is an English broadcaster and author. She began her career in the late 1990s presenting various children's television shows for GMTV, CITV and CBBC. In 2007, she presented The Xtra Factor, an ITV2 spin-off from the main show. Cotton presented Top of the Pops from 2004 to 2021, and the Red Nose Day and Children in Need telethons. From 2008 to 2018, she was a team captain on the ITV2 comedy panel show Celebrity Juice.

Dana Jae Schwartz (born January 7, 1993) is an American journalist, screenwriter and author. She was previously a correspondent at Entertainment Weekly; she is also the author of four books. She also writes and hosts Noble Blood, a historical weekly podcast for iHeartMedia about the dark side of monarchy.

Schwartz grew up in Highland Park, Illinois and was raised in a Jewish household. Schwartz attended Brown University on a public policy and a pre-medical course, but ultimately decided to become a writer. Schwartz was a Presidential Scholar.

After internships with Conan O'Brien and at The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, she began a career as a writer.

While an undergraduate, Schwartz attracted attention by setting up two parodic Twitter profiles, @GuyInYourMFA parodying pretentious and patronizing aspiring writers, and @DystopianYA parodying young adult fiction such as the Hunger Games series set in a dystopian future, both of which became popular with readers. Schwartz's success on Twitter helped launch her career in writing and publishing. She was named one of the hundred most influential people in Brooklyn culture by Brooklyn Magazine in 2016.

You're Wrong About is an American history and pop culture podcast created by journalist Michael Hobbes and writer Sarah Marshall. It has been hosted by Marshall since its inception; Hobbes also hosted until 2021. Launched in May 2018, the show explores misunderstood media events by interrogating why and how the public got things wrong. Show topics have included events like the Challenger Disaster, O. J. Simpson Trial, and the Murder of Kitty Genovese and covered people such as Anna Nicole Smith, Yoko Ono, Tonya Harding, and Lorena Bobbitt. It was named one of the ten best podcasts by Time in 2019.

Michael Hobbes is an American journalist and a former reporter for HuffPost. He is also the co-host of the podcast Maintenance Phase with Aubrey Gordon. Sarah Marshall is an American writer whose work has appeared in BuzzFeed, The Believer, and The New Republic. She is known for an interest in the mischaracterization of women by the mainstream media best demonstrated in her 2014 long-form profile of Tonya Harding. The show began after Hobbes reached out to Marshall and proposed that they try to recreate their deep-dive research processes in audio format. The pair only met in person after recording the show remotely for the first five months.