The Compendium Podcast: An Assembly of Fascinating and Intriguing Things

About The Compendium Podcast: An Assembly of Fascinating and Intriguing Things

Love strange true stories, true crime, dark history and real-life mysteries, but not ten-part series that turn listening into homework? The Compendium is a weekly documentary-style podcast that gives you one complete, thoroughly researched story from beginning to end in a single listen. Each week, Kyle Risi takes co-host Adam Cox inside one remarkable real-life story that Adam has not heard before. As Adam asks the questions you are thinking, Kyle unpacks the context, the characters, the chaos, the terrible decisions and the tiny details that make you say, “Wait… how did this actually happen?” From infamous crimes and forgotten history to cults, frauds, survival stories, celebrity scandals and remarkable people, the subject changes every week.

Publisher

Strange True Stories with Kyle Risi & Adam Cox

Category

history · society & culture · true crime

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

28 Mar 2023

Latest episode

13 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

34 of 204 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   13 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Facebook's Social Reckoning: Whistleblowers Frances Haugen & Sarah Wynn-Williams

   Whistleblowers Frances Haugen and Sarah Wynn-Williams discuss Facebook's societal impact and the effectiveness of Meta's financial penalties in this interview.

2. 

   26 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Unabomber Part 1: The Biggest Manhunt in FBI History

   FBI agents detail the intense, years-long pursuit of the elusive Unabomber, from early bombings to the manifesto that exposed his identity.

3. 

   26 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Unabomber Part 2: The Manifesto That Exposed Ted Kaczynski

   Host [Host Name] interviews [Guest Name, Credential] about how Ted Kaczynski's manifesto exposed him, detailing his journey from Harvard to arrest and his legal battle.

Inside a recent episode

Facebook's Social Reckoning: Whistleblowers Frances Haugen & Sarah Wynn-Williams

Published 13 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] So Facebook's rules get enforced mostly by algorithms and moderators reviewing flag posts at scale millions of times a day. And sometimes that system gets it wrong and it takes down like a senator's post by mistake, or it will flag something from a journalist that was totally fine. So each one of them, you might take a couple of minutes to fix, but if it happens to the wrong person, it's also a headline for a famous person that Facebook has sent But what Facebook did was kind of build a workaround, a second track for anyone with a profile big enough to make a mistake expensive. […]

Reach and audience

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

YouTube views

16,794,705

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.8 / 5

123 ratings

Spotify

4.9 / 5

931 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 78 / 100

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

Quality

84

Social presence

0

YouTube

93

Engagement

89

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