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This Week in Podcasts: Bonus Content Edition (#40)

Post author By Michael Yessis
Post date November 30, 2018

Shouts to two new podcast ventures: My Favorite Murder’s Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark launched Exactly Right. Slow Burn’s Leon Neyfakh left Slate to launch a new pod called Fiasco. As promised, I’ve rolled some Pod Takes from last week to this week. Happy bonus content. 6 Pod Takes 1) “The robots, most economists think, will win out.” Listen: The […]

Tags All Songs Considered, Anna Faris is Unqualified, Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Ask Me Another, Assasinations, Broken Record, Business Schooled, Charitable Radio, Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda, Code Switch, Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend, Darknet Diaries, Employee of the Month, Everything is Alive, Fresh Air, How I Built This with Guy Raz, How It Is, How to Be Amazing with Michael Ian Black, ID10T, Inside of You, It’s Been a Minute with Sam Sanders, Katie Couric, Kickass News, Last Seen, Monocle 24: The Big Interview, Off Camera With Sam Jones, On Being, Oprah's SuperSoul Conversations, Planet Money, Playback, Queery, Recode Decode, Scriptnotes, Sinisterhood, Sound Opinions, StarTalk Radio, Super Awesome Science Show, TBD with Tina Brown, The Adam Buxton Podcast, The Adam Carolla Show, The Axe Files with David Axelrod, The Bill Simmons Podcast, The Daily, The Dave Ramsey Show, The Ezra Klein Show, The Gist with Mike Pesca, The Goop Podcast, The Hilarious World of Depression, The Indicator from Planet Money, The Joe Rogan Experience, The Moment With Brian Koppelman, The New Yorker Radio Hour, The Slowdown, The Sporkful, The Tim Ferriss Show, The Treatment, Theory of Everything, This Must Be the Gig, Travel Genius, UnErased, Villains, Why is This Happening? with Chris Hayes, Why'd You Push That Button?, Winging It, 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: 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: “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: “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: Truth telling, the defining question of our time and the search for the next Ronaldo (#20)

Post author By Michael Yessis
Post date June 29, 2018

News pods had a big, heavy week (as usual) with immigration, border separations, shootings, the Supreme Court and more. But there’s still room for a little levity in TWIP. Let’s go. 7 Pod Takes 1) “The exercise of curiosity requires a risk, a sacrifice, a commitment.” Listen: Revisionist History: Malcolm Gladwell’s 12 Rules for Life […]

Tags Amy Schumer Presents: 3 Girls 1 Keith, Anna Faris is Unqualified, At Liberty, Business Wars, But That's Another Story, Caliphate, Cher and Retweet, Comedy Bang! Bang!, Decoder Ring, Deviate with Rolf Potts, Fake the Nation, FiveThirtyEight, Hidden Brain, How I Built This with Guy Raz, How to Be Amazing with Michael Ian Black, Hysteria, I Think You're Interesting, Inside Jaws, Inside of You, Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air, NPR Politics, Oprah's SuperSoul Conversations, Outside Podcast, Pardon My Take, Planet Fútbol with Grant Wahl, Political Gabfest, Popcast, Punch Up the Jam, Recode Decode, Remade in America with Bassem Youssef, Remote Controlled, Revisionist History, The Axe Files with David Axelrod, The Bob Lefsetz Podcast, The Control Group, The Daily, The Dave Chang Show, The Ezra Klein Show, The Good Place: The Podcast, The Indicator from Planet Money, The Joe Rogan Experience, The Kitchen Sisters Present, The New Yorker Radio Hour, The Treatment, Up First, Weather Geeks, Why is This Happening? with Chris Hayes, WTF with Marc Maron

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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? […]

Tags All Songs Considered, American Fiasco, Anderson Cooper 360, Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Binge Mode, Bon Appetit Foodcast, Bookworm, Bubble, Bullseye with Jesse Thorn, But That's Another Story, Celebration Rock, Comeback Szn, Comedy Bang! Bang!, Curious with Josh Peck, Dear Hank & John, Deviate with Rolf Potts, Fresh Air, Gossip, Hannibal Buress: Handsome Rambler, House of Carbs, How to Be Amazing with Michael Ian Black, I Have to Ask, I Think You're Interesting, ID10T, Inside of You, Lovett or Leave It, Middle:Below, Modern Love, Not Too Deep with Grace Helbig, Off Message, Oprah's SuperSoul Conversations, Pardon My Take, Pop Culture Happy Hour, Punch Up the Jam, R U Talkin’ R.E.M. RE: ME?, Recode Decode, Remade in America with Bassem Youssef, Rough Translation, RuPaul: What's the Tee with Michelle Visage, Scriptnotes, Sound Opinions, StarTalk Radio, Still Processing, Talkhouse, The Bechdel Cast, The Big Picture, The Bill Simmons Podcast, The Gender Knot, The Gist with Mike Pesca, The Good Place: The Podcast, The Indicator from Planet Money, The J.J. Redick Podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, The Lowe Post, The Press Box, The Sporkful, The Tim Ferriss Show, The Treatment, The Watch, This Must Be the Gig, Whine Down, Why is This Happening? with Chris Hayes, WTF with Marc Maron, You Made it Weird with Pete Holmes, ZigZag

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This Week in Podcasts: “The Americans,” being Ken Bone and the power of dinosaur erotica (#16)

Post author By Michael Yessis
Post date June 1, 2018

More true crime debuts this week, and the pods were all over the finale of “The Americans.” I’m still reeling from Paige’s decision. 8 Pod Takes: Provocative Thoughts From This Week’s Podcasts 1) “Memes are people too.” Listen: Endless Thread: I, Ken Bone (23:50) Ben Brock Johnson advocates for humanity on the internet, specifically regarding those who’ve been […]

Tags Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Business Wars, Celebration Rock, Comedy Bang! Bang!, Cover-Up, Covert, Endless Thread, Fresh Air, How to Be Amazing with Michael Ian Black, I Have to Ask, I Think You're Interesting, It’s Been a Minute with Sam Sanders, Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air, Late Night Whenever With Michelle Buteau, Longform Podcast, Men in Blazers, Modern Love, Oprah's SuperSoul Conversations, Otherppl with Brad Listi, Planet Fútbol with Grant Wahl, Pod Save America, Recode Media with Peter Kafka, Remade in America with Bassem Youssef, She Says, Skimm’d from The Couch, Sooo Many White Guys, The A24 Podcast, The American Podcast, The Anthropocene Reviewed, The Axe Files with David Axelrod, The Bob Lefsetz Podcast, The Dave Chang Show, The Director's Cut, The Gateway, The Gist with Mike Pesca, The J.J. Redick Podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, The Josh Marshall Podcast, The Limit Does Not Exist, The Rewatchables, The Sporkful, The Tim Ferriss Show, The Treatment, The West Wing Weekly, This Movie Changed Me, This Must Be the Gig, Trumpcast, Unravel True Crime, Unspooled, Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, Waking Up with Sam Harris, Weather Geeks, Why is This Happening? with Chris Hayes, WTF with Marc Maron

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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 […]

Tags All Songs Considered, American History Tellers, Beyond the Plate, Bon Appetit Foodcast, Bookworm, Bullseye with Jesse Thorn, Bundyville, Business Wars, Celebration Rock, Danny in the Valley, Deviate with Rolf Potts, Dissect, Documentary on One, Eater Upsell, Fresh Air, Heat Rocks, Hidden Brain, House of Carbs, How I Built This with Guy Raz, How It Is, How to Be Amazing with Michael Ian Black, It’s Been a Minute with Sam Sanders, Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air, Late Night Whenever With Michelle Buteau, Longform Podcast, Love + Radio, Otherppl with Brad Listi, Pod Save America, Queery, R U Talkin’ R.E.M. RE: ME?, Recode Decode, Required Listening, Revisionist History, Skimm’d from The Couch, Sooo Many White Guys, Stay Tuned with Preet, Still Processing, Switched On Pop, Ted Talks Daily, The Adam Buxton Podcast, The Adam Carolla Show, The Axe Files with David Axelrod, The Big Picture, The Bill Simmons Podcast, The Bob Lefsetz Podcast, The Dan Wootton Interview, The Dave Chang Show, The Ezra Klein Show, The Gist with Mike Pesca, The Jamie Weinstein Show, The Joe Rogan Experience, The Tim Ferriss Show, The Treatment, The Watch, The Wonderland Murders, This Song, Unspooled, Upon Further Review, We Came to Win, When Meghan Met Harry, Why is This Happening? with Chris Hayes, Words To That Effect, WTF with Marc Maron

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This Week in Podcasts: Finding Cleo, sandwiches from 1978 and how not to win The New Yorker’s caption contest (#8)

Post author By Michael Yessis
Post date April 6, 2018

Happy Friday. I’m fighting a cold, and I passed some cold-medicine induced downtime with extra listening. So it’s a big newsletter this week. Thanks for reading! 8 Pod Takes: Provocative Thoughts From This Week’s Podcasts 1) “You don’t need antipathy and acrimony to create great art.” Listen: The West Wing Weekly: Hamilton Special (with Lin-Manuel Miranda […]

Tags Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Bullseye with Jesse Thorn, But That's Another Story, Decrypted, Deviate with Rolf Potts, Edge of Fame, Finding Cleo, Freakonomics Radio, Fresh Air, Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness, House of Carbs, How I Built This with Guy Raz, How to Be Amazing with Michael Ian Black, I Have to Ask, ID10T, It’s Been a Minute with Sam Sanders, King's Last March, Late Night Whenever With Michelle Buteau, Longform Podcast, Mortified Podcast, My Brother My Brother and Me, My Favorite Murder, Oprah's SuperSoul Conversations, Otherppl with Brad Listi, Pardon My Take, Pop Culture Happy Hour, Rockin' the Suburbs, Scriptnotes, Switched On Pop, Talkhouse, The Atlantic Interview, The Axe Files with David Axelrod, The Big Picture, The Bill Simmons Podcast, The Ezra Klein Show, The Joe Rogan Experience, The Josh Marshall Podcast, The Limit Does Not Exist, The Moment With Brian Koppelman, The New Yorker Radio Hour, The Tim Ferriss Show, The West Wing Weekly, Today Explained, Trumpcast, U Talkin’ U2 To Me?, We Met Online..., WTF with Marc Maron

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This Week in Podcasts: Atlanta Monster’s finale, beautiful trash and debating Jay-Z’s travel preference (#6)

Post author By Michael Yessis
Post date March 23, 2018

Happy Friday. It’s a landmark newsletter today: We’ve used our first umlaut, along with the usual great takes and binge recommendations. Also, our new section debuts: Podcast reviews and recommendations. Thanks for reading! 10 Pod Takes: Provocative Thoughts From This Week’s Podcasts 1) “The real lesson … is just how beautiful something that’s seen as […]

Tags 99% Invisible, Anna Faris is Unqualified, Atlanta Monster, Bon Appetit Foodcast, Bookworm, Bullseye with Jesse Thorn, Comedy Bang! Bang!, Culture Gabfest, Edge of Fame, Endless Thread, Freakonomics Radio, Great Debates, House of Carbs, How I Built This with Guy Raz, How to Be Amazing with Michael Ian Black, How to Keep Your Day Job, I Have to Ask, ID10T, It’s Been a Minute with Sam Sanders, Let’s Talk Bitcoin!, Maltin on Movies, Oprah's SuperSoul Conversations, Pod Save America, Recode Decode, Recode Media with Peter Kafka, Skimm’d from The Couch, Sound Opinions, StartUp, Ted Talks Daily, The Adam Carolla Show, The Bill Simmons Podcast, The Bob Lefsetz Podcast, The Moment With Brian Koppelman, The New Yorker Radio Hour, The PosCast, The Rewatchables, The Watch, This Movie Changed Me, This Week in Travel, Today Explained, WorkLife with Adam Grant, WTF with Marc Maron

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This Week in Podcasts: Dissecting the Netflix effect, Afrofuturism and mutant bears (#2)

Post author By Michael Yessis
Post date February 23, 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. 10 Pod Takes 1) “When you get crushed and you live to fight another day, you realize […]