Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Julia Louis-Dreyfus had one of the greatest sitcom careers in television history, and she's using that platform to do something genuinely lovely: sit down with older women and just listen. Wiser Than Me pairs Julia with iconic women who have the kind of unapologetic wisdom that only comes from decades of living -- and each episode also includes a segment with her 91-year-old mother, Judith, which is consistently the most charming part of the show. Now in its fourth season on Lemonada Media, the podcast features hour-long conversations with guests like Diana Nyad, Glenn Close, Sister Helen Prejean, and Catherine O'Hara. The common thread is women who have stopped caring about what people think and have something real to say about it. Julia is a surprisingly skilled interviewer -- she's funny, obviously, but she also knows when to get out of the way and let her guests talk. The show has 107 episodes, a 4.7-star rating from over 10,000 reviews, and it fills a space that most media ignores entirely: the wisdom of older women. In a culture that tends to push women past a certain age out of the spotlight, this podcast pulls them back in and hands them the microphone. It's warm without being sentimental, funny without being frivolous, and genuinely moving in ways you don't expect from a comedy podcast.