diff --git a/learning_resources/etl/podcast.py b/learning_resources/etl/podcast.py
index 0b07b84a7b..c1256003ca 100644
--- a/learning_resources/etl/podcast.py
+++ b/learning_resources/etl/podcast.py
@@ -19,6 +19,11 @@
 CONFIG_FILE_REPO = "mitodl/open-podcast-data"
 CONFIG_FILE_FOLDER = "podcasts"
 TIMESTAMP_FORMAT = "%a, %d %b %Y  %H:%M:%S %z"
+BROWSER_UA_HEADERS = {
+    "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_1) "
+    "AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) "
+    "Chrome/39.0.2171.95 Safari/537.36"
+}
 
 log = logging.getLogger()
 
@@ -128,7 +133,7 @@ def extract():
     for playlist_config in configs:
         rss_url = playlist_config["rss_url"]
         try:
-            response = requests.get(rss_url)  # noqa: S113
+            response = requests.get(rss_url, headers=BROWSER_UA_HEADERS)  # noqa: S113
             response.raise_for_status()
 
             feed = bs(response.content, "xml")