Fallen Angel

About Fallen Angel

Journalist Vanessa Grigoriadis talks to friends, experts, and celebrities about the chaos of dealing with aging parents. From Medicaid nightmares to emotional meltdowns in storage units, it’s a brutally honest, often hilarious look at one of life’s most disorienting stages. Come for the catharsis, stay for the gallows humor and unfiltered conversations. If you’re currently the parent to your parents, this is your group chat in podcast form.

Publisher

Vanessa Grigoriadis

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

4 Oct 2021

Latest episode

14 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

42 of 56 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   14 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Longevity and Parents with Mangesh Hattikudur: Listen to Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever

   Host Mangesh Hattikudur explores longevity science and biohacking, interviewing experts on the pursuit of extended lifespans.

2. 

   23 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT

   How To Avoid Scams with Patrick Coughlin

   Cybersecurity expert Patrick Coughlin shares with host Vanessa how to protect aging parents from increasingly sophisticated scams like AI voice cloning.

3. 

   16 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Boosting Your Brain Health with Dr. Silky Pahlajani

   Host Vanessa speaks with Dr. Silky Pahlajani, a neurologist at Weill Cornell, about actionable strategies for protecting cognitive health through lifestyle and managing key health factors.

Inside a recent episode

Longevity and Parents with Mangesh Hattikudur: Listen to Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever

Published 14 Jul 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And this, this is what leads Dr. Prima's to fall down the longevity rabbit hole. This glimpse into a not so distant future. Kurzweil is the computer scientist and futurist who, among other things, helped popularize a concept that would come to be known as longevity escape philosophy. If you're diligent, you'll use up a year of your longevity with the year passing, but you'll get back a full year. And past 2020, you'll get back more than a year. So you'll actually go backwards in time. It's a heady concept, but the idea of basically not aging or getting time back, it's one that feels less far-fetched in an age of AI and miracle drugs. […]

Who has been a guest on Fallen Angel

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Patrick Coughlin
• Silky Pahlajani
• Neil Nagraj
• Laura House
• Lewis Black

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.5 / 5

939 ratings

Spotify

4.7 / 5

654 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 26 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

22

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

76

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