Tag: Longform Podcast

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 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 […]

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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 […]

Tags 2 Dope Queens, American Innovations, Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Ask Me Another, Bon Appetit Foodcast, Bookworm, Bullseye with Jesse Thorn, Celebration Rock, Comedy Bang! Bang!, Crazy/Genius, Curious with Josh Peck, Deviate with Rolf Potts, Ear Hustle, Eater Upsell, Fake the Nation, Great Debates, Here’s the Thing with Alec Baldwin, House of Carbs, How Did This Get Made?, How I Built This with Guy Raz, I Have to Ask, ID10T, It’s Been a Minute with Sam Sanders, Kondabolu Brothers, Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air, Late Night Whenever With Michelle Buteau, Lend Me Your Ears, Longform Podcast, Love Letters, Modern Love, Nerdificent, Off Message, Oprah's SuperSoul Conversations, Outside Podcast, Pod Save America, Public Intellectual, Queery, R U Talkin’ R.E.M. RE: ME?, Recode Decode, Reply All, Revisionist History, Rockin' the Suburbs, Snap Judgment, Song Exploder, Sports Media with Richard Deitsch, Stay Tuned with Preet, Strictly Business, Talkhouse, The Adam Carolla Show, The Axe Files with David Axelrod, The Big Picture, The Bob Lefsetz Podcast, The Ezra Klein Show, The Gist with Mike Pesca, The Joe Rogan Experience, The Moment With Brian Koppelman, The New Yorker Radio Hour, The Tim Ferriss Show, The Treatment, The Truth, The Watch, The Word from Mouth, Unfictional, Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, WSJ The Future of Everything, 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: Seeing mom while in prison, dad on the Millennium Falcon, and the most compelling pod of 2018 (#5)

Post author By Michael Yessis
Post date March 16, 2018

10 Pod Takes 1) “I don’t know how to hug my mom.” Ear Hustle: Firsts, March 14 (7:31) The heartbreaking words of Adnan Khan, before greeting his mother the first time she visits him in prison. He’d been locked up for 10 years. It’s the centerpiece story of an incredible first episode of Ear Hustle’s second season. 2) […]

Tags All Songs Considered, American History Tellers, Another Mother Runner, Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Bookworm, Dear Hank & John, Ear Hustle, Eater Upsell, Freakonomics Radio, Fresh Air, Heaven's Gate, Here’s the Thing with Alec Baldwin, Hidden Brain, I Have to Ask, ID10T, If Then, Invisibilia, It’s Been a Minute with Sam Sanders, Longform Podcast, Pardon My Take, Planet Fútbol with Grant Wahl, Pod Save America, Pop Culture Happy Hour, Punch Up the Jam, Recode Decode, Skimm’d from The Couch, The Adam Carolla Show, The Bill Simmons Podcast, The Bob Lefsetz Podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, The Moment With Brian Koppelman, The Rewatchables, The Sporkful, The Wolf Den, Trumpcast, Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, WTF with Marc Maron

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This Week in Podcasts: Oscars takes, liberating the truth and why emotions matter in science (#3)

Post author By Michael Yessis
Post date March 2, 2018

10 Pod Takes 1) “It’s liberating to speak the truth.” The Daily, Feb. 26 (21:45) Mona Charen speaks her truth on The New York Times pod after being booed at the Conservative Political Action Conference. Her perceived sin: highlighting Republican hypocrisy. Specifically, the longtime conservative calls out Republicans’ behavior regarding sexual harassment and #MeToo. 2) “I don’t […]

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