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This Week in Podcasts: There’s a Place For Us Edition (#96)

Post author By Michael Yessis
Post date February 14, 2020

Looks like we’re getting an “Academy Awards of Podcasting.” The Golden Mics are coming in 2021. This week’s counts: 50 notable guests, seven new podcasts, six deep dives and one love songs deep dive. Happy Valentine’s Day. Pod Take of the Week “We get to the right destination by walking down the wrong trail many times over […]

Tags All Songs Considered, All's Fair with Laura Wasser, American Diagnosis, Anna Faris is Unqualified, Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Big Questions, Bookworm, Broken Record, Bullseye with Jesse Thorn, Citizen Critic, Comedy Bang! Bang!, Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend, Dating While Gray, Death Sex & Money, Dying for Sex, Future Hindsight, Green Eggs and Dan, ID10T, Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air, Latino USA, Life is Short with Justin Long, Maltin on Movies, More with Anna Maria Tremonti, Nobody Told Me!, Off Menu, Office Ladies, On Being, Oprah's SuperSoul Conversations, Pardon My Take, Questlove Supreme, Remarkable People, Reminiscent, Rolling Stone Music Now, Second Life, Studio 360, Talkhouse, The Adam Carolla Show, The Al Franken Podcast, The Awardist, The Axe Files with David Axelrod, The Big Ticket, The Bill Simmons Podcast, The Cold War: What We Saw, The CouRage and Nadeshot Show, The Goop Podcast, The Great Fail, The H3 Podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, The Last Degree of Kevin Bacon, The Margaret Cho, The Read, The Redheads Book Club, The Rewatchables, The Seventh Daughter, The Tortoise Podcast, Thirst Aid Kit, This Must Be the Gig, UnStyled, Vocal Point, Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, WorkLife with Adam Grant, WTF with Marc Maron, You Made it Weird with Pete Holmes

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This Week in Podcasts: Overload Edition (#80)

Post author By Michael Yessis
Post date October 4, 2019

Another bounty of intriguing new podcasts this week. Next week’s looking bountiful, too. This week’s counts: 63 notable guests, 15 new podcasts, seven deep dives and one music legend set for her podcast close-up. Pod Take of the Week “The right-wing machine for pumping out this kind of misinformation is like the chocolates moving in […]

Tags 1865, All Songs Considered, America Dissected, Anna Faris is Unqualified, Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Bear and a Banjo, Beyond the Plate, Bookworm, Borrowed Future, Broken Record, Bullseye with Jesse Thorn, Business Wars, Call Your Girlfriend, Cold Call, Con Artists, Condition, Conversations, Cry Power with Hozier, Cryptids, Culture Kings, Dolly Parton's America, Explore the World, Full Disclosure with James O'Brien, Go Fact Yourself, Happier with Gretchen Rubin, HBR Ideacast, Heads of Sierra Blanca, ID10T, It’s Been a Minute with Sam Sanders, Keep It!, Latino USA, Life is Short with Justin Long, Longform Podcast, Mother of All Shows, Off Book, Oprah's SuperSoul Conversations, Pod Save America, Pod Save the World, Queery, Recode Media with Peter Kafka, Scam Goddess, Scriptnotes, Sonic Boom, Spilled Milk, StartUp, Stay Tuned with Preet, Still Processing, Strictly Business, Studio 360, Talkhouse, Talks at Google, The Al Franken Podcast, The Bill Simmons Podcast, The Dave Chang Show, The Documentary Podcast, The Ezra Klein Show, The Gist with Mike Pesca, The Goodie Goodie with Sabrina Jalees, The H3 Podcast, The Hilarious World of Depression, The Joe Rogan Experience, The Jordan Harbinger Show, The Law and Order: SVU Podcast, The Lead, The Left Ear, The Moment With Brian Koppelman, The Mysterious Mr. Epstein, The Portal, The Road Taken, The Vergecast, This Must Be the Gig, Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, Wheels Off, Wisdom From the Top, Work in Progress with Sophia Bush, Worst Year Ever, WTF with Marc Maron, You Made it Weird with Pete Holmes

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This Week in Podcasts: Renovation Edition (#79)

Post author By Michael Yessis
Post date September 27, 2019

Sooo many Trump emergency pods this week. But I won’t let it bog down the newsletter. The counts: 53 notable guests, 12 new podcasts, five deep dives and one Shakespeare reference. And one more thing: Sunday’s #ShareYourBudsSunday, a day to share your love of podcasts with family and friends. Learn more from #ShareYourBudsSunday co-founders and friends of […]

Tags American Innovations, Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Bookworm, Business Casual, Comedy Bang! Bang!, Culture Gabfest, Culture Kings, Curious with Josh Peck, Deviate with Rolf Potts, Edge of Sleep, ExpediTIously, Filling the Void, FiveThirtyEight, Frontier Tween, Full Disclosure with James O'Brien, Go Fact Yourself, Hear to Slay, How I Built This with Guy Raz, ID10T, Inside Podcasting, Inside the Hive, It’s Been a Minute with Sam Sanders, Kickass News, Last Day, Latino USA, Life is Short with Justin Long, Longform Podcast, Lost at the Smithsonian, Metaphysical Milkshake, Naked with Catt Sadler, Next Question with Katie Couric, Off Camera With Sam Jones, Outside Podcast, Past Gas, Pod Save America, Points South, Radio Atlantic, Recode Decode, School Colors, Sound Opinions, Ted Talks Daily, The Al Franken Podcast, The Axe Files with David Axelrod, The Ben Shapiro Show, The Big Ticket, The Bill Simmons Podcast, The Daily, The Dan Wootton Interview, The Dave Chang Show, The Gist with Mike Pesca, The Good Place: The Podcast, The Goop Podcast, The Hilarious World of Depression, The Jordan Harbinger Show, The New Yorker Radio Hour, The Open Ears Project, The Rewatchables, The Road Taken, The Ron Burgundy Podcast, The Strategerist, The TED Interview, The Three Questions with Andy Richter, The Tim Ferriss Show, Thick Skin with Jeff Ross, Thirst Aid Kit, UnStyled, Vocal Point, Work in Progress with Sophia Bush, WTF with Marc Maron, Yo Is This Racist?, You Made it Weird with Pete Holmes, You're Dead to Me

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This Week in Podcasts: Dark Magic Edition (#78)

Post author By Michael Yessis
Post date September 21, 2019

We’ve set a newsletter record for the amount of new podcasts featured this week. Congrats to all! The counts: 54 notable guests, 23 new podcasts, six deep dives and one endangered letter of the alphabet. Pod Take of the Week “The alphabet should be reordered.” Listen: The Hottest Take (:46) That’s Tyler Parker, with a scorching take […]

Tags Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Beyond the Plate, Bookworm, Call Your Girlfriend, Campaign HQ, Comedy Bang! Bang!, Conversations, Correct Opinions with Trey Kennedy, Death Sex & Money, Doughboys, Down to Date with Kendall Long, Filling the Void, Finding Van Gogh, Foodgod:OMFG, Forked Up, Freakonomics Radio, Fresh Air, Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness, Here’s the Thing with Alec Baldwin, How I Built This with Guy Raz, ID10T, Inside Podcasting, It’s Been a Minute with Sam Sanders, Keep It!, Kickass News, Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air, Latino USA, Life is Short with Justin Long, London Actually, Long May They Run, Longform Podcast, Lovett or Leave It, Motive, My Life of Crime, Not Too Deep with Grace Helbig, Off Camera With Sam Jones, Off Menu, Oprah's SuperSoul Conversations, Out Travel the System, Passenger List, Recode Decode, Reminiscent, Ringer Dish, Scared to Death, Science Weekly, Scriptnotes, She Makes Money Moves, Skimm’d from The Couch, Splitting Upward, Sports Criminals, StarTalk Radio, Studio 360, Stuff You Should Know, Switched On Pop, Talks at Google, The Bill Simmons Podcast, The Daily, The Ezra Klein Show, The Gist with Mike Pesca, The Hilarious World of Depression, The Hottest Take, The Joe Rogan Experience, The Lead, The Moment With Brian Koppelman, The New Yorker Radio Hour, The Open Ears Project, The PosCast, The Thing About Pam, The Three Questions with Andy Richter, The Thrive Global Podcast, Three Big Points, Throughline, UnStyled, We Hear, Wide Open with Tony Gonzalez, With Friends Like These, Without Fail, Women Who Travel, Work in Progress with Sophia Bush, Working Daughter, WTF with Marc Maron, Yo Is This Racist?, You Made it Weird with Pete Holmes

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This Week in Podcasts: Fake Teeth Edition (#51)

Post author By Michael Yessis
Post date February 22, 2019

It’s Oscars weekend. I’ve seen just one Best Picture nominee. Gonna rectify that soon after I hit send. This week’s counts: 35 notable guests, eight new podcasts, seven deep dives and one controversial set of fake teeth. Pod Take of the Week “I don’t want him to win for talking through a retainer.” Listen: Pop Culture […]

Tags 10 Things That Scare Me, a16z Podcast, American History Tellers, Anna Faris is Unqualified, Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Bookworm, Bullseye with Jesse Thorn, But That's Another Story, Crime Beat, Crimes of Passion, Fresh Air, Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness, Good One, Kickass News, Knuckleheads, Longform Podcast, National Parks Traveler, Nobody Told Me!, Not Too Deep with Grace Helbig, Off Camera With Sam Jones, On Being, One Plus One, Pardon My Take, Planet Fútbol with Grant Wahl, Pod Save America, Political Beats, Pop Culture Happy Hour, Recode Decode, Scriptnotes, Should This Exist?, Skullduggery, SmoshCast, Song Exploder, Stay Tuned with Preet, Studio 360, TBD with Tina Brown, Ted Talks Daily, The Adam Carolla Show, The Dan Wootton Interview, The Double Shift, The Gist with Mike Pesca, The H3 Podcast, The Kitchen Sisters Present, The Trip, WTF with Marc Maron

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This Week in Podcasts: The Teacher’s Pet Edition (#41)

Post author By Michael Yessis
Post date December 7, 2018

Big news out of Sydney: Police arrested Chris Dawson and charged him with the murder of his wife, Lynette Dawson, whose disappearance has been the subject of The Teacher’s Pet podcast. Before I get to more on that, a shout out to Bello Collective’s 100 Outstanding Podcasts of 2018. I shared a few picks, and found […]

Tags 10 Things That Scare Me, Anna Faris is Unqualified, Aria Code, Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Ask Me Another, Better at Everything, Big Questions, Bookworm, Broken Harts, Celebration Rock, Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend, Conversations With Tyler, Doug Loves Movies, Eater Upsell, Fresh Air, Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness, Good One, Hannahlize This, Heat Rocks, How I Built This with Guy Raz, I Am Rapaport, ID10T, It’s Been a Minute with Sam Sanders, Kickass News, Longform Podcast, Maltin on Movies, Monocle 24: The Big Interview, My Best Break-Up, Numbers Geek, Off Book, Off Camera With Sam Jones, On Being, Oprah's Master Class, Oprah's SuperSoul Conversations, Otherppl with Brad Listi, Pod Save America, Pod Save the People, Pop Culture Happy Hour, Post Reports, Public Intellectual, Recode Decode, Remote Controlled, Skimm’d from The Couch, Sports Media with Richard Deitsch, Stay Tuned with Preet, Talkhouse, TBD with Tina Brown, Ted Talks Daily, The Adam Carolla Show, The Axe Files with David Axelrod, The Bill Simmons Podcast, The Corp, The Daily, The Ezra Klein Show, The Good Place: The Podcast, The Goop Podcast, The H3 Podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, The Moment With Brian Koppelman, The New Yorker: Fiction, The Teacher's Pet, The TED Interview, The Tim Ferriss Show, The Treatment, The Trip, These Miracles Work: A Hold Steady Podcast, This Song, Villains, Ways to Change the World, Wealth of Knowledge, Without Fail, WTF with Marc Maron, You Made it Weird with Pete Holmes

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This Week in Podcasts: Push-ups with Bishop Tutu Edition (#38)

Post author By Michael Yessis
Post date November 16, 2018

A lot of beginnings this week — welcome new pods about villains, Y2K, Stan Lee, hysteria and, yeah, true crime. And a couple notable endings — farewell Serial season three and 2 Dope Queens. Note: Next week’s newsletter will be an abbreviated edition. Taking some Thanksgiving time with family and a Baltimore Bomb pie. 5 Pod […]

Tags 2 Dope Queens, All Songs Considered, American Hysteria, Anna Faris is Unqualified, Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Behind the Scenes, Big Questions, Bookworm, Broken Record, Bullseye with Jesse Thorn, Celebration Rock, Cold, Curious with Josh Peck, Deviate with Rolf Potts, Drilled, Eater Upsell, Employee of the Month, Finale, Forked Up, Fresh Air, Function with Anil Dash, Good One, Headlong: Surviving Y2K, How I Built This with Guy Raz, How to Be Amazing with Michael Ian Black, I Think You're Interesting, It’s Been a Minute with Sam Sanders, Katie Couric, Kickass News, Maltin on Movies, Monocle on Design, My Dad Wrote a Porno, No Man's Land, Off Book, Off Camera With Sam Jones, Oprah's Master Class, Oprah's SuperSoul Conversations, Origins, Otherppl with Brad Listi, Pardon My Take, People Like Us, Pod Save America, Queery, Recode Decode, Remote Controlled, Run Like a Girl, Scandal, SciShow Tangents, Serial, Skimm’d from The Couch, Skullduggery, Studio 360, Talkhouse, Talking Points, Ted Talks Daily, The Adam Buxton Podcast, The Adam Carolla Show, The Bechdel Cast, The Bill Simmons Podcast, The Daily, The Ezra Klein Show, The Gist with Mike Pesca, The Goop Podcast, The Jamie Weinstein Show, The Joe Rogan Experience, The Jordan Harbinger Show, The Moment With Brian Koppelman, The New Yorker Radio Hour, The Sporkful, The TED Interview, The Tim Ferriss Show, This Week in Travel, Travel Genius, Villains, Waking Up with Sam Harris, Where Ya From?, Without Fail, WSJ The Future of Everything, WTF with Marc Maron

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This Week in Podcasts: Blue Waves and Lazy Brains Edition (#37)

Post author By Michael Yessis
Post date November 9, 2018

Big week for political podcasts. Let’s get right to what consumed podcastland this week — at least in the U.S. 5 Pod Takes 1) “How does Paul Bunyan’s ox say hello?” “How?” “It’s a blue wave.” Listen: Pod Save America: “We won.” (3:35) That’s Jon Lovett, with the corny but satisfyingly accurate take about the results […]

Tags American History Tellers, Anna Faris is Unqualified, Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Ask Me Another, Bookworm, Bullseye with Jesse Thorn, Business Wars, Chat Sematary, Comedy Bang! Bang!, Conversations, Culture Kings, Curious with Josh Peck, Death Sex & Money, Deviate with Rolf Potts, Eater Upsell, FilmStruck, Finale, Forever Ago, Fresh Air, Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness, HBR Ideacast, Here’s the Thing with Alec Baldwin, How I Built This with Guy Raz, Hysteria, I Have to Ask, I Think You're Interesting, Imagined Life, Inside of You, Inside the Studio, It’s Been a Minute with Sam Sanders, Keep It!, Kickass News, Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air, Longform Podcast, Lost in America, Maltin on Movies, Monocle 24: The Big Interview, Nobody Told Me!, Not Too Deep with Grace Helbig, Off Book, Off Camera With Sam Jones, On Being, Oprah's Master Class, Oprah's SuperSoul Conversations, Pardon My Take, Planet Fútbol with Grant Wahl, Playback, Players with Lindsay Czarniak, Pod Save America, Pretty Big Deal, Prognosis, Recode Decode, Recode Media with Peter Kafka, Song Exploder, Sports Media with Richard Deitsch, Studio 360, Talkhouse, Ted Talks Daily, The Adam Carolla Show, The Axe Files with David Axelrod, The Bechdel Cast, The Bill Simmons Podcast, The Brilliant Idiots, The Dave Chang Show, The Director's Cut, The End of the World with Josh Clark, The Ezra Klein Show, The Gist with Mike Pesca, The H3 Podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, The Jordan Harbinger Show, The New Yorker Radio Hour, The Rewatchables, The Secret History of the Future, The TED Interview, The Thrive Global Podcast, The Tim Ferriss Show, The Treatment, Trump Inc., Waking Up with Sam Harris, WTF with Marc Maron

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This Week in Podcasts: Ringing Like a Bell Edition (#36)

Post author By Michael Yessis
Post date November 2, 2018

Coming at you today from the excellent Sound Education in Boston. Made some more tweaks this week based on your feedback, with small expansions to the guest and new podcast sections. And I scaled back the Pod Takes. I’m trying to keep the length from getting out of control. As always, I’m grateful for any and all […]

Tags Amy Schumer Presents: 3 Girls 1 Keith, Anna Faris is Unqualified, Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Bag Man, Bon Appetit Foodcast, Bookworm, Chapo: Kingpin on Trial, Curious with Josh Peck, Dissect, Doughboys, Endless Thread, Everything is Alive, Freakonomics Radio, Fresh Air, Front Burner, Function with Anil Dash, Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness, Good One, Heat Rocks, I Have to Ask, Inside the Hive, Inside the Studio, It’s Been a Minute with Sam Sanders, Kickass News, Kingpins, Lethal Lit, Longform Podcast, Missing Richard Simmons, Monocle 24: The Big Interview, Nobody Told Me!, Not Too Deep with Grace Helbig, Off Camera With Sam Jones, Off Message, On a Mission, On Being, Oprah's Master Class, Oprah's SuperSoul Conversations, Otherppl with Brad Listi, Pardon My Take, Playback, Pod Save America, Political Gabfest, Proof, Recode Decode, Recode Media with Peter Kafka, Remote Controlled, Shedunnit, Skimm’d from The Couch, Sports Media with Richard Deitsch, Standoff, StartUp, Studio 360, Ted Talks Daily, The A24 Podcast, The Adam Carolla Show, The Axe Files with David Axelrod, The Children's Book Podcast, The Ezra Klein Show, The Goop Podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, The Lowe Post, The Moment With Brian Koppelman, The New Yorker Radio Hour, The Press Box, The Rewind with Guy Raz, The Sporkful, The TED Interview, The Tim Ferriss Show, The West Wing Weekly, Trump Inc., Undiscovered, Women in Charge, WTF with Marc Maron, You Made it Weird with Pete Holmes

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This Week in Podcasts: Hot Mess Edition (#35)

Post author By Michael Yessis
Post date October 26, 2018

I’ll be at Sound Education in Boston next week. If you see me there, say hello or drop me a note. I’d love to connect. 7 Pod Takes 1) “I believe the scholarly term is ‘hot mess.’” Listen: Code Switch: The Cost to Cast a Ballot (21:11) That’s Carol Anderson, historian and a professor of African-American studies at Emory University, […]

Tags All Songs Considered, Anna Faris is Unqualified, Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Believed, Binge Mode, Blackwood, Bobbycast, Bookworm, Bullseye with Jesse Thorn, Code Switch, Comedy Bang! Bang!, Conversations With Tyler, Dreamboy, Fast Company’s Creative Conversation, Freakonomics Radio, Fresh Air, FWD: Thinking, Good One, Halloween Unmasked, Here’s the Thing with Alec Baldwin, House of Carbs, How Did This Get Made?, Inside of You, Instant Message, It Seemed Smart, It’s Been a Minute with Sam Sanders, Katie Couric, Keep It!, Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air, Longform Podcast, Maltin on Movies, My Best Break-Up, Oprah's Master Class, Oprah's SuperSoul Conversations, Origins, Outside Podcast, Outside/In, Playback, Pod Save America, Pop Culture Happy Hour, Pretty Big Deal, Radiolab, Recode Decode, Remote Controlled, Skimm’d from The Couch, Sounds & Vision, Stay Tuned with Preet, Tai Asks Why, Talkhouse, The Adam Carolla Show, The Big Picture, The Bill Simmons Podcast, The Daily, The Dan Wootton Interview, The Ezra Klein Show, The Gender Knot, The Good Place: The Podcast, The History of Standup, The Joe Rogan Experience, The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast, The New Yorker Radio Hour, The Treatment, The West Wing Weekly, WTF with Marc Maron, You Made it Weird with Pete Holmes

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This Week in Podcasts: Murder, Robots, and Shady Deals (#34)

Post author By Michael Yessis
Post date October 19, 2018

The deluge of new podcasts continues. I’ve noted 16 this week. If you’ve got a new pod coming up that you’d like me to consider covering, please send it along. 7 Pod Takes 1) “Spoiler alert: Everything’s about to get worse.” Listen: Trump, Inc.: Pump and Trump (23:23) That’s Trump, Inc.’s Andrea Bernstein, in the middle of […]

Tags 2038, 30 for 30, Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Bookworm, Bullseye with Jesse Thorn, But That's Another Story, Carruth, Curious with Josh Peck, Fresh Air, Future Perfect, Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness, Gladiator, Good One, HBR Ideacast, Hell and Gone, Hostage, How I Built This with Guy Raz, I Have to Ask, I Think You're Interesting, If Then, Inside the Hive, Inside the Studio, Katie Couric, Keep It!, Kickass News, Long Distance, Longform Podcast, Maculate Conception, Men in Blazers, Nobody Told Me!, Not Too Deep with Grace Helbig, Off Message, Oprah's Master Class, Oprah's SuperSoul Conversations, Origins, Otherppl with Brad Listi, Pardon My Take, Playback, Political Beats, Pretty Big Deal, Recode Decode, Remote Controlled, Skimm’d from The Couch, Song Exploder, Sports? With Katie Nolan, Steve McNair: Fall of a Titan, The Adam Carolla Show, The Axe Files with David Axelrod, The Big Picture, The Bill Simmons Podcast, The Brights, The Cut on Tuesdays, The Daily, The Dave Chang Show, The Ezra Klein Show, The Gist with Mike Pesca, The Good Place: The Podcast, The Goop Podcast, The Happier Hour, The Hilarious World of Depression, The Horror of Dolores Roach, The Indicator from Planet Money, The Jamie Weinstein Show, The New Yorker Radio Hour, The Sporkful, The TED Interview, The Thrive Global Podcast, The Tim Ferriss Show, This Song, Trump Inc., Unspookable, Waking Up with Sam Harris, What Next, Women in Charge, WSJ The Future of Everything, WTF with Marc Maron, You Made it Weird with Pete Holmes

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This Week in Podcasts: Curiosity, Craziness, and Googling the Queen (#33)

Post author By Michael Yessis
Post date October 12, 2018

Some happy personal news: I’m cleared to walk without a brace, so less listening on the stationary bike, more listening while walking. 7 Pod Takes 1) “I feel like there’s an America out there that isn’t as crazy as we are.” Listen: The Argument: Is The Supreme Court Broken? Should Democrats Run on #MeToo? (9:01) That’s Ross […]

Tags 16 Shots, All Songs Considered, Anna Faris is Unqualified, Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Bookworm, Comedy Bang! Bang!, Conversations With Tyler, Curious with Josh Peck, Dear Hank & John, Deviate with Rolf Potts, Dueling Decades, Fast Company’s Creative Conversation, FilmStruck, Forked Up, Freakonomics Radio, Fresh Air, HBR Ideacast, Here’s the Thing with Alec Baldwin, How It Is, Inside of You, Inside the Hive, Keep It!, Kickass News, Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air, Legal Wars, Maltin on Movies, Modern Love, Monocle 24: The Big Interview, Nobody Told Me!, Off Camera With Sam Jones, Off Message, On Being, One to Grow On, Oprah's Master Class, Oprah's SuperSoul Conversations, Origins, Pardon My Take, Playback, Pretty Big Deal, Punch Up the Jam, Reply All, Skimm’d from The Couch, Slow Burn, Sold in America, Stay Tuned with Preet, Talkhouse, Ted Talks Daily, The Adam Buxton Podcast, The Adam Carolla Show, The Argument, The Big Picture, The Bill Simmons Podcast, The Daily, The Ezra Klein Show, The Gist with Mike Pesca, The Hilarious World of Depression, The J.J. Redick Podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, The Lowe Post, The Mash-Up Americans, The New Yorker Radio Hour, This Song, Tilted, Underdog, Weather Geeks, Women in Charge, Write-minded Podcast, WTF with Marc Maron

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This Week in Podcasts: Villains, Sandwiches, and Spam on Christmas Eve (#29)

Post author By Michael Yessis
Post date September 14, 2018

I’m at the ride-a-stationary-bike-for-many-hours stage of my Achilles recovery, so I binged while pedaling this week. Dropped several inspirational sports and fitness pods into my media diet, too. I also listened to Slow Burn. I don’t think getting infuriated by Linda Tripp helped my recovery any. 7 Pod Takes 1) “It’s the most crushing […]

Tags Anna Faris is Unqualified, Another Mother Runner, Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Binge Mode, Bon Appetit Foodcast, Bookworm, Comedy Bang! Bang!, Curious with Josh Peck, Directionally Challenged, Ear Hustle, Ellen on the Go, Everything is Alive, Fast Company’s Creative Conversation, Feminists Don’t Wear Pink, FilmStruck, Freakonomics Radio, Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness, HBR Ideacast, Here’s the Thing with Alec Baldwin, House of Carbs, How I Built This with Guy Raz, How It Is, I Think You're Interesting, Inside of You, Inside the Hive, Invisibilia, It’s Been a Minute with Sam Sanders, Kickass News, Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air, Maltin on Movies, Modern Love, Not Too Deep with Grace Helbig, Off Message, On Being, Oprah's Master Class, Pod Save America, Pod Save the World, Queerly Beloved, Queery, Raising the Bar with Alli and Michael, Recode Decode, Recode Media with Peter Kafka, Remote Controlled, Scriptnotes, Skimm’d from The Couch, Slow Burn, Strictly Business, The Axe Files with David Axelrod, The Bechdel Cast, The Big Picture, The Bill Simmons Podcast, The Breakfast Club, The Daily, The Ezra Klein Show, The Good Place: The Podcast, The Goop Podcast, The H3 Podcast, The J.J. Redick Podcast, The Jamie Weinstein Show, The Joe Rogan Experience, The Josh Marshall Podcast, The Mash-Up Americans, The Oval Office Tapes, The Rewatchables, The Rubin Report, The Secret History of the Future, The Soft Spot, The Substack Podcast, The Tim Ferriss Show, Uncover: Escaping NXIVM, Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, Waking Up with Sam Harris, Wolverine: The Long Night, WTF with Marc Maron, You Made it Weird with Pete Holmes

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This Week in Podcasts: “It’s hard to untangle luck from choice” (#24)

Post author By Michael Yessis
Post date July 27, 2018

So how does podcast-land try to top the incredible week it had last week? With Bono. 7 Pod Takes 1) “It’s hard to untangle luck from choice.” Listen: Ministry of Ideas: Shifting Blame (23:53) That’s host Zachary Davis, on a lesson learned during this smart, insightful pod about how “luck shapes our judgment, and whether we should let it.” […]

Tags Anna Faris is Unqualified, Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Bite, Bookworm, Death Sex & Money, Eater Upsell, Fatal Voyage: The Mysterious Death of Natalie Wood, Footnote: Castle Rock, Freakonomics Radio, Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness, Good Food on the Road, Household Name, How I Built This with Guy Raz, I Think You're Interesting, It’s Been a Minute with Sam Sanders, Late Night Whenever With Michelle Buteau, Longform Podcast, Ministry of Ideas, On Being, Oprah's Master Class, Oprah's SuperSoul Conversations, Passions in America, Playback, Pod Save the World, Pop Culture Happy Hour, Popcast, Press Play, Pro Rata, Pull Up with CJ McCollum, Punch Up the Jam, Raising the Bar with Alli and Michael, Recode Decode, Recode Media with Peter Kafka, Skimm’d from The Couch, Talkhouse, The Adam Carolla Show, The Big Picture, The Bosscast, The Daily, The Dave Chang Show, The Gist with Mike Pesca, The Goop Podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, The Moment With Brian Koppelman, The Press Box, The Tim Ferriss Show, The Treatment, The Watch, This Movie Changed Me, U Talkin’ U2 To Me?, Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, Walking the Floor, WTF with Marc Maron

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This Week in Podcasts: “I thought we weren’t going to get to the Nazis until at least 30 minutes in.” (#22)

Post author By Michael Yessis
Post date July 13, 2018

I’m (lying on my) back. So far so good with my recovery from my Achilles rupture. My podcast listening has suffered though. I usually listen while hiking, exercising or driving, and I’ll be doing none of those things for a while. Your recommendations for hot pod takes, binges and new pod recommendations are welcome more […]

Tags Aaron Mahnke’s Cabinet of Curiosities, Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Ask Me Another, Binge Mode, Bookworm, Business Wars, But That's Another Story, Celebration Rock, Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda, Comedy Bang! Bang!, Deviate with Rolf Potts, Don't @ Me, Duncan Trussell Family Hour, Gaslit Nation, How to Be Amazing with Michael Ian Black, Inside of You, It’s Been a Minute with Sam Sanders, Jesus and Jollof, Junk, Longform Podcast, Maltin on Movies, On Being, Oprah's SuperSoul Conversations, Pardon My Take, Pod Save America, Pod Save the World, Pop Culture Happy Hour, Recode Decode, Remote Controlled, Rockin' the Suburbs, Sidenote, Talkhouse, The Adam Carolla Show, The Bechdel Cast, The Big Picture, The Bob Lefsetz Podcast, The Dave Chang Show, The Ezra Klein Show, The Gist with Mike Pesca, The Good Place: The Podcast, The Moment With Brian Koppelman, The Organist, The Treatment, This American Life, Waking Up with Sam Harris, WTF with Marc Maron, You Must Remember This

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This Week in Podcasts: Remembering Anthony Bourdain, revisiting “Harry Potter” and the return of Rough Translation (#18)

Post author By Michael Yessis
Post date June 15, 2018

Good luck to the World Cup pods out there. We’re all counting on you. 7 Pod Takes: Provocative Thoughts From This Week’s Podcasts 1) “If I heard the phrase ‘bucket list’ one more time … I was gonna just beat someone severely with a baseball bat.” Listen: The Sporkful: Is This Pizza Worth Waiting For? […]

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This Week in Podcasts: World Cup madness, Rihanna’s superpower and punchable faces (#17)

Post author By Michael Yessis
Post date June 8, 2018

Two of the top pods on iTunes today are about the Kennedys. Guess in 50 years the charts will be dominated by pods about the Trumps. The rest of this week’s newsletter? Trump free. Thanks to everyone who sent feedback during the last few weeks. I tightened things a bit, and I’ll continue to calibrate. […]

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This Week in Podcasts: How to be a genius, binging the royal wedding and the awesome power of a semicolon (#14)

Post author By Michael Yessis
Post date May 18, 2018

Podcasters prepped for the royal wedding, and they’re still excited about Donald Glover and the epic return of Malcolm Gladwell. He nailed it this week talking about punctuation. Subscribe to This Week in Podcasts! Enter your email below and every Friday I’ll email you a skimmable recap of the week’s podcasts, highlighting provocative takes, great […]

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This Week in Podcasts: Donald Glover’s moment, hot Malcolm Gladwell takes and a new way to look at cereal (#13)

Post author By Michael Yessis
Post date May 11, 2018

Gladwell’s back and Glover’s artistic breakthroughs blew away podcasters. All that and more in this week’s deep dive into the podcast universe. 8 Pod Takes: Provocative Thoughts From This Week’s Podcasts 1) “Rooting for the underdog is a form of moral weakness.” Listen: Revisionist History: Malcolm Gladwell debates Adam Grant (33:58) Gladwell’s gonna Gladwell. The […]

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This Week in Podcasts: Trader Joe’s starts a podcast, In the Dark returns and eating broccolini during the apocalypse (#12)

Post author By Michael Yessis
Post date May 4, 2018

Subscribe to This Week in Podcasts! Enter your email below and every Friday I’ll email you a skimmable recap of the week’s podcasts, highlighting provocative takes, great binges, new pods and a comprehensive list of notable podcast guests. Who knew we were all so eager for a podcast about Trader Joe’s? Go deep with that […]

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