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This Week in Podcasts: Long Haul Edition (#97)

Post author By Michael Yessis
Post date February 21, 2020

I’m changing the status of the This Week in Podcasts Twitter from minimally updated to much more than minimally updated. Follow TWIP there, too, for podcast love on days other than Friday. This week’s counts: 53 notable guests, 13 new podcasts, four deep dives and one interview…with a podcast. Pod Take of the Week “I always wondered […]

Tags Angry Americans, Anna Faris is Unqualified, Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Back From Broken, Bad Friends, Black Wall Street 1921, Broken Record, Bullseye, Bullseye with Jesse Thorn, Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend, Cuddle Club with Lou Sanders, Curious with Josh Peck, Ernie Ball: Striking a Chord, ESPN Daily, Filling the Void, Flashback, Freakonomics Radio, Good For You, Green Eggs and Dan, How I Built This with Guy Raz, How To! With Charles Duhigg, I Podivs, ID10T, Inside of You, Jensen and Holes: The Murder Squad, Judge John Hodgman, Keep It!, Latino USA, Longform Podcast, Monocle 24: Meet the Writers, Music Exists, Naked with Catt Sadler, On Purpose, Oprah's SuperSoul Conversations, Over the Road, Pardon My Take, Pretty Big Deal, Punch Up the Jam, Questlove Supreme, R U Talkin’ R.E.M. RE: ME?, Richard's Famous Food Podcasts, Sodajerker On Songwriting, StarTalk Radio, Stay Tuned with Preet, Sticky Beak, Talkhouse, Talks at Google, The Adam Carolla Show, The Bechdel Cast, The Big Picture, The Big Ticket, The Daily, The David Banner Podcast, The Eleventh, The Ezra Klein Show, The Goop Podcast, The Last Degree of Kevin Bacon, The Moment With Brian Koppelman, The Nobody Zone, The Rhino Podcast, The Stage Podcast: Seven Stages, The Test Drivers, The Three Questions with Andy Richter, The Tim Ferriss Show, The Watch, Walk-Ins Welcome, Walking the Floor, Wheels Off, Without Fail, Work in Progress with Sophia Bush, Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions, WTF with Marc Maron

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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: Glorious Fiasco Edition (#81)

Post author By Michael Yessis
Post date October 12, 2019

Another Saturday issue, another glorious mix of podcasts. The Reply All episode highlighted in the Pod Take of the Week is an all-timer. This week’s counts: 38 notable guests, 14 new podcasts, five deep dives and one tweet that triggered a global crisis. Pod Take of the Week “I’m not saying feral hogs is the only […]

Tags American Elections: Wicked Game, Andrea Savage: A Grown-Up Woman #buttholes, Anna Faris is Unqualified, Another Mother Runner, Bad Batch, Broken Record, Bullseye with Jesse Thorn, California Burning, Camp Monsters, Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend, Derailed, Dissect, Doughboys, ExpediTIously, Feedback with EarBuds, Good Game, Hidden Brain, Hotboxin with Mike Tyson, In Pursuit, Inside the Big Day Out, Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air, Latino USA, Life is Short with Justin Long, Longform Podcast, Monocle 24: The Big Interview, Moonface, Oprah's SuperSoul Conversations, Pardon My Take, Pod Save America, Pod Save the People, Recode Decode, Recode Media with Peter Kafka, Reply All, Ringer Dish, Rolling Stone Music Now, Stay Tuned with Preet, Striped: The Story of the White Stripes, Studio 360, The Big Ticket, The Bill Simmons Podcast, The Challengers, The Daily, The Gist with Mike Pesca, The Joe Rogan Experience, The Journal, The Last Voyage of the Pong Su, The Moment With Brian Koppelman, The National Podcast of Texas, The Open Ears Project, The Perfect Scam, The Road Taken, The Ron Burgundy Podcast, The Storyteller, The Thrive Global Podcast, The Undercovers, This Song, Today Explained, Unspooled, Who? Weekly, Work in Progress with Sophia Bush, WTF with Marc Maron, Yo Is This Racist?

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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: Burrowing in the Arts Edition (#52)

Post author By Michael Yessis
Post date March 1, 2019

On Nick Hornby’s implied advice, here’s an (almost) Michael Cohen- and Donald Trump-free edition. This week’s counts: 31 notable guests, nine new podcasts, eight deep dives and one conspiracy theorist at the top of the charts. Pod Take of the Week “It’s very hard to feel like any push toward activism is going to do […]

Tags Anna Faris is Unqualified, Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Ask Me Another, Beyond the Plate, Bobbycast, Bullseye with Jesse Thorn, Business Wars, Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend, Conversations With Tyler, Curious with Josh Peck, Decoder Ring, Employee of the Month, Fresh Air, Great Debates, How I Built This with Guy Raz, Inside Conan, Killer Instinct, Men in Blazers, Nancy, Obsession, On Being, On the Rebound, Oprah's Master Class, Oprah's SuperSoul Conversations, Pardon My Take, Parentland, Pod Save America, RuPaul's Drag Race, Stay Free: The Story of the Clash, TBD with Tina Brown, Techopolis, TED Radio Hour, The Adam Carolla Show, The Axe Files with David Axelrod, The Bechdel Cast, The Dan Wootton Interview, The History Chicks, The Joe Rogan Experience, The Moment With Brian Koppelman, The Rewatchables, The Ron Burgundy Podcast, To Live and Die in L.A., Trump Inc., WSJ The Future of Everything, WTF with Marc Maron

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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: Inside Your Head Edition (#48)

Post author By Michael Yessis
Post date February 1, 2019

This week’s counts: 25 notable guests, 14 new podcasts, five pod takes, three deep dives and one dancing bear. 5 Pod Takes 1) “Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on Earth does that mean it’s not real?” Listen: Binge Mode: The Farewell | Harry Potter(2:06:41) That’s Mallory Rubin, channeling Albus Dumbledore in an […]

Tags 1A, Against All Odds, Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Binge Mode, Bullseye with Jesse Thorn, Case Closed, Comedy Bang! Bang!, Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend, Conversations With People Who Hate Me, David Tennant Does a Podcast With..., Extraterrestrial, Finale, Freakonomics Radio, Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness, Great Debates, ID10T, Julie: The Unwinding of the Miracle, KFCRadio, Kickass News, Le Batard & Friends - STUpodity, Let's Get Civical, Making Sense with Sam Harris, Murder Book, On Being, Once Upon a Timestamp, Peace of Mind with Bhi Bhiman, Pod Save America, Punch Up the Jam, Queery, Russia Rising, Stay Tuned with Preet, The Anthropocene Reviewed, The Art of Process with Aimee Mann and Ted Leo, The Bill Simmons Podcast, The Dan Wootton Interview, The Fatherly Podcast, The Intelligence, The Lowe Post, The Strategerist, The Treatment, We Called Your Mom, WTF with Marc Maron

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This Week in Podcasts: Too Much to Eat Edition (#39)

Post author By Michael Yessis
Post date November 23, 2018

It’s an abbreviated post-Thanksgiving edition. No pod takes. I’ll roll a few into the next edition, though. For now, please enjoy the tweet of the week. Go Deep 1) Hallmark Christmas Movies Listen: Deck the Hallmark Three guys, 37 Hallmark Christmas movies. They’re 11 movies into their binge and review of each of this year’s so-cheesy-they’re-good flicks. […]

Tags All Songs Considered, Anna Faris is Unqualified, Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Bon Appetit Foodcast, Broken Record, Bullseye with Jesse Thorn, Cameron Knows Nothing, Code Switch, Comedy Bang! Bang!, Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend, Curious with Josh Peck, Deck the Hallmark, Fresh Air, Good One, Here’s the Thing with Alec Baldwin, How Did This Get Made?, ID10T, If Then, Impaulsive with Logan Paul, Inside the Studio, Katie Couric, Kickass News, Last Seen, Maltin on Movies, My Best Break-Up, Off Camera With Sam Jones, Oprah's Master Class, Oprah's SuperSoul Conversations, Playback, Pod Save America, Political Beats, Pop Culture Happy Hour, Queery, Recode Decode, Recode Media with Peter Kafka, Skimm’d from The Couch, Sports Media with Richard Deitsch, Stay Tuned with Preet, The Adam Carolla Show, The Axe Files with David Axelrod, The Bill Simmons Podcast, The Director's Cut, The Gist with Mike Pesca, The Goop Podcast, The Hilarious World of Depression, The History of Standup, The TED Interview, The Treatment, The Watch, The West Wing Weekly, Travel Genius, Villains, Who Runs That?, Why is This Happening? with Chris Hayes, Without Fail, WTF with Marc Maron

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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: 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: Memories, Embarrassment, and Claustrophobic Sameness (#32)

Post author By Michael Yessis
Post date October 5, 2018

I’m including eleven new and returning podcasts this week. A move also known as blowing up your listening queue. And my own, too. 7 Pod Takes 1) “Don’t be afraid to sit down in a crappy place and order every single thing you don’t recognize on the fucking menu.” Listen: The Trip: A damn fine […]

Tags All Songs Considered, American Innovations, Anna Faris is Unqualified, Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Bear Brook, Bullseye with Jesse Thorn, Comedy Bang! Bang!, Crimetown, Decoder Ring, Fangs, Fresh Air, Great Debates, Halloween Unmasked, Heavyweight, Houston We Have a Podcast, How It Is, How to Be Amazing with Michael Ian Black, Hysteria, I Have to Ask, Inside of You, It’s Been a Minute with Sam Sanders, Katie Couric, Keep It!, Kickass News, Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air, Longform Podcast, Mad Influence, Nerdificent, Off Camera With Sam Jones, Off Message, Oprah's Master Class, Origins, Playback, Pretty Big Deal, Queery, Recode Decode, Recode Media with Peter Kafka, Remote Controlled, Song Exploder, Stay Tuned with Preet, Talkhouse, The A24 Podcast, The Adam Carolla Show, The Axe Files with David Axelrod, The Bill Simmons Podcast, The Church of What's Happening Now, The Ezra Klein Show, The Gist with Mike Pesca, The Joe Rogan Experience, The Moment With Brian Koppelman, The New Yorker Radio Hour, The Rewatchables, The Sporkful, The Tim Ferriss Show, The Trip, This Movie Changed Me, This Song, Threedom, Today Explained, Unobscured, Waking Up with Sam Harris, Why is This Happening? with Chris Hayes, Wild Thing, Without Fail, WTF with Marc Maron, You Made it Weird with Pete Holmes

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This Week in Podcasts: Serial! Serial! Serial! (#30)

Post author By Michael Yessis
Post date September 21, 2018

Quite the week for bingers and lovers of serialized podcasts. Have you heard Serial’s back? Also, Last Seen is finally here and Dr. Death is almost finished. Five of the top six pods on the iTunes charts today are deep-dive narratives. The intruder: The Joe Rogan Experience (No. 5). Though his three-hour episodes qualify as […]

Tags American History Tellers, American Scandal, Anna Faris is Unqualified, Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Bullseye with Jesse Thorn, Comedy Bang! Bang!, Countdown to Capture, Curious with Josh Peck, Death Sex & Money, Deviate with Rolf Potts, Forked Up, Fresh Air, Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness, How I Built This with Guy Raz, I Have to Ask, I Think You're Interesting, Kickass News, Last Seen, Longform Podcast, Lost in America, Lovett or Leave It, More Perfect, No Feeling is Final, Off Book, Off Message, On Being, Oprah's Master Class, Oprah's SuperSoul Conversations, Origins, Pod Save America, Pod Save the World, Political Beats, Public Intellectual, Recode Media with Peter Kafka, Remote Controlled, Rockin' the Suburbs, Serial, Skimm’d from The Couch, Sound Opinions, Stay Tuned with Preet, Talkhouse, The Adam Carolla Show, The Axe Files with David Axelrod, The Big Picture, The Bill Simmons Podcast, The Dan Wootton Interview, The Dave Chang Show, The Ezra Klein Show, The Gist with Mike Pesca, The Good Place: The Podcast, The Goop Podcast, The History of Standup, The Moment With Brian Koppelman, The New Yorker Radio Hour, The Sporkful, The West Wing Weekly, This Must Be the Gig, Waking Up with Sam Harris, WTF with Marc Maron

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This Week in Podcasts: “Punk is a free space.” (#28)

Post author By Michael Yessis
Post date September 7, 2018

Elon Musk made waves smoking a blunt with Joe Rogan. But, damn, many more interesting big names graced the pods. It was a massive week. 7 Pod Takes 1) “There’s an argument to be made that we’re born with the raw elements of Beatles songs in our heads.” Listen: WTF with Marc Maron: Episode 948 – […]

Tags All Songs Considered, Animal Sound Safari, Anna Faris is Unqualified, Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Bullseye with Jesse Thorn, Business Wars, Curious with Josh Peck, Deviate with Rolf Potts, Dr. Death, Drunk Women Solving Crime, Eater Upsell, Filmspotting, Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness, How I Built This with Guy Raz, How to Be Amazing with Michael Ian Black, If Then, Inside of You, Kickass News, Not Too Deep with Grace Helbig, Off Camera With Sam Jones, Oprah's Master Class, Oprah's SuperSoul Conversations, Pardon My Take, Playback, Pod Save America, Pop Culture Happy Hour, R U Talkin’ R.E.M. RE: ME?, Radio Atlantic, Recode Decode, Run Like a Girl, Skimm’d from The Couch, Switched On Pop, The Adam Carolla Show, The Axe Files with David Axelrod, The Big Picture, The Bill Simmons Podcast, The Bob Lefsetz Podcast, The Daily, The Dan Wootton Interview, The Ezra Klein Show, The Gist with Mike Pesca, The Good Place: The Podcast, The Jamie Weinstein Show, The Joe Rogan Experience, The Moment With Brian Koppelman, The New Yorker Radio Hour, The Pat McAfee Show 2.0, The RFK Tapes, The Tim Ferriss Show, This Must Be the Gig, Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, Why is This Happening? with Chris Hayes, Women Belong in the House, WTF with Marc Maron, You Made it Weird with Pete Holmes

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This Week in Podcasts: “It’s always better to have company when you’re a captive.” (#25)

Post author By Michael Yessis
Post date August 3, 2018

Shout out to fellow MCHS grad Michael Scott Moore for his appearance on this week’s No. 1 iTunes podcast. He survived more than two-and-a-half years as a hostage of Somali pirates. Glad you made it out, Michael. Schedule note: I’m taking a vacation soon, so I won’t be sending newsletters Aug. 17 and Aug. 24. […]

Tags All Songs Considered, American History Tellers, Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Binge Mode, Bullseye with Jesse Thorn, Celebration Rock, Comedy Bang! Bang!, Culture Gabfest, Curious with Josh Peck, Dear Sugars, Election 2000: Over/Time, Fake the Nation, Fast Company’s Creative Conversation, Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness, Here’s the Thing with Alec Baldwin, How I Built This with Guy Raz, I Survivor, I Think You're Interesting, Inside of You, It’s Been a Minute with Sam Sanders, Men in Blazers, Offended: The Musical, On Being, Oprah's Master Class, Pod Save America, Pod Save the World, R U Talkin’ R.E.M. RE: ME?, Remote Controlled, Skimm’d from The Couch, Song Exploder, Sound Opinions, The Adam Carolla Show, The Alice Fraser Trilogy, The Bill Simmons Podcast, The Ezra Klein Show, The Girls: Find Sadie, The Gist with Mike Pesca, The Joe Rogan Experience, The Moment With Brian Koppelman, The PosCast, The Rewatchables, The Soft Spot, The Sporkful, The Substack Podcast, The Thin Layer, The Watch, This Must Be the Gig, Trump Inc., WTF with Marc Maron

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This Week in Podcasts: “Nanette,” Burnham, Zuckerberg and Denzel (#23)

Post author By Michael Yessis
Post date July 20, 2018

We’ve come to the end of one hell of a week of podcasts. Podcasts broke news. Podcasts soothed (me, at least). Podcasts put things into perspective. Podcasts featured A-listers. Podcasts interviewed inanimate objects. And people are still listening to Serial! As of this afternoon, it’s No. 13 on the iTunes chart.Lastly, shouts to all who […]

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This Week in Podcasts

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

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

The Moby Dick of tacos, The Canterbury Tales of sports bars and Michael Chabon (#15)

Post author By Michael Yessis
Post date May 25, 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. We’re all literary up in podland this week. We’re still obsessed with criminals, too. Four pods about […]

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