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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: 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: 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: “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: “The Hope Diamond’s curse can smell fear.” (#26)

Post author By Michael Yessis
Post date August 10, 2018

The new season of Slow Burn started this week and, yeah, it’s great. It’s now at the top of my pod queue for my upcoming vacation. Reminder: While I’m away, I’ll be taking a break from the newsletter. The next full edition comes out August 31. Thanks again for reading. Subscribe to This Week in […]

Tags Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Binge Mode, Business Wars, Comedy Bang! Bang!, Curious with Josh Peck, Dear Hank & John, Digiday Podcast, Eater Upsell, Filmspotting, Geoff Lloyd’s Hometown Glory, I Think You're Interesting, Kalki Presents: My Indian Life, Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air, Longform Podcast, Modern Love, NPC Update-1, Off Camera With Sam Jones, Off Message, Oprah's Master Class, Oprah's SuperSoul Conversations, Playback, Pod Save America, Pod Save the People, Pop Culture Happy Hour, Popcast, Remote Controlled, Required Listening, Scriptnotes, Skimm’d from The Couch, Slow Burn, Smithsonian Sidedoor, StartUp, Stay Tuned with Preet, The Adam Carolla Show, The Axe Files with David Axelrod, The Bill Simmons Podcast, The Dave Chang Show, The Ezra Klein Show, The Good Place: The Podcast, The Great God of Depression, The Joe Rogan Experience, The Moment With Brian Koppelman, The New Yorker Radio Hour, The Sporkful, The Treatment, The Watch, Trumpcast, Walking the Floor, Words Matter, WTF with Marc Maron

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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: “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 […]

Tags American Innovations, And the Writer is..., Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Bon Appetit Foodcast, Bullseye with Jesse Thorn, Business Wars Daily, Curious with Josh Peck, Dear Sugars, Everything is Alive, Filmspotting, Forked Up, Here’s the Thing with Alec Baldwin, How I Built This with Guy Raz, I Think You're Interesting, Important Not Important, Inside of You, It’s Been a Minute with Sam Sanders, Late Night Whenever With Michelle Buteau, Longform Podcast, Maltin on Movies, Modern Love, Mortified Podcast, Nobody Listens to Paula Poundstone, On Being, Oprah's Master Class, Original Content, Pardon My Take, Passions in America, Pod Save the People, Pop Culture Happy Hour, Race Chaser, Recode Decode, Recode Media with Peter Kafka, Remade in America with Bassem Youssef, Scriptnotes, Skimm’d from The Couch, Srsly, Stay Tuned with Preet, Strictly Business, 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 Deadline Podcast, The Ezra Klein Show, The Good Place: The Podcast, The Goop Podcast, The H3 Podcast, The Indicator from Planet Money, The Joe Rogan Experience, The Realness, The Tim Ferriss Show, The Treatment, The Wilderness, This Must Be the Gig, Trumpcast, Wrong Skin, 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: 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: 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. […]

Tags American Fiasco, American Innovations, Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Beyond the Plate, Bookworm, Bullseye with Jesse Thorn, Committed, Conversations With Tyler, Crazy/Genius, Curious with Josh Peck, Death Sex & Money, Ear Hustle, Eater Upsell, Forked Up, Fresh Air, Great Women of Business, Hidden Brain, Houston We Have a Podcast, ID10T, If Then, Inbox, Inside of You, Keep It!, Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air, Longform Podcast, Lost in America, Men in Blazers, Obscure with Michael Ian Black, Oprah's SuperSoul Conversations, Pardon My Take, Planet Fútbol with Grant Wahl, Pop Culture Happy Hour, Recode Decode, Recode Media with Peter Kafka, Remade in America with Bassem Youssef, Ringer FC, Skimm’d from The Couch, Smashed, Sound Opinions, Stay Tuned with Preet, Talkhouse, The Axe Files with David Axelrod, The Big Picture, The Bill Simmons Podcast, The Daily, The Dave Chang Show, The Ezra Klein Show, The Gist with Mike Pesca, The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast, The Josh Marshall Podcast, The Lowe Post, The Moment With Brian Koppelman, The New Yorker Radio Hour, The RFK Tapes, The Watch, This Must Be the Gig, This Song, Upon Further Review, We Came to Win, Weather Geeks, WSJ The Future of Everything, WTF with Marc Maron

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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 […]

Tags 30 for 30, Aftermath, All Songs Considered, Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Beyond the Plate, BIKRAM, Bon Appetit Foodcast, Bullseye with Jesse Thorn, Comedy Bang! Bang!, Converge, Curious with Josh Peck, Danny in the Valley, Dear Sugars, Eater Upsell, Filmspotting, Fresh Air, ID10T, If Then, Maltin on Movies, Modern Love, My Favorite Murder, Not Too Deep with Grace Helbig, Off Message, Oprah's SuperSoul Conversations, Otherppl with Brad Listi, Outside Podcast, Pardon My Take, Pod Save America, Pop Culture Happy Hour, Popcast, Queery, Radiolab, Recode Decode, Skimm’d from The Couch, Slow Burn, Stay Tuned with Preet, The Axe Files with David Axelrod, The Big Picture, The Children's Book Podcast, The Ezra Klein Show, The Gist with Mike Pesca, The Indicator from Planet Money, The J.J. Redick Podcast, The Jamie Weinstein Show, The Joe Rogan Experience, The Moment With Brian Koppelman, The Mother Jones Podcast, The Rewatchables, The Sporkful, This Song, Unorthodox, Upon Further Review, Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, Weather Geeks, Wise Traditions, WTF with Marc Maron, You Made it Weird with Pete Holmes

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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 […]

Tags Anna Faris is Unqualified, Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Binge Mode, Bookworm, Dear Hank & John, Decoder Ring, Fresh Air, How I Built This with Guy Raz, I Have to Ask, In the Dark, Inside Trader Joe’s, KFCRadio, Maltin on Movies, Matt Mackowiak’s Mack on Politics, Mic Drop, Not Too Deep with Grace Helbig, Oprah's SuperSoul Conversations, Pardon My Take, Pod Save America, Pod Save the World, Pop Culture Happy Hour, Popcast, Press Play, R U Talkin’ R.E.M. RE: ME?, Recode Media with Peter Kafka, Represent, Required Listening, Sooo Many White Guys, Switched On Pop, Talkhouse, The Adam Carolla Show, The Axe Files with David Axelrod, The Dave Chang Show, The Ezra Klein Show, The Gist with Mike Pesca, The Goop Podcast, The H3 Podcast, The Moment With Brian Koppelman, The New Yorker Radio Hour, The Sporkful, The Tim Ferriss Show, This Movie Changed Me, Van Lathan’s The Red Pill, Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, WTF with Marc Maron

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This Week in Podcasts: The power of Las Vegas, the Ezra Klein/Sam Harris debate and crying with the cast of “This is Us” (#9)

Post author By Michael Yessis
Post date April 13, 2018

It’s Friday again and I’ve got tacos in my future. All is well. Thanks for reading! 8 Pod Takes: Provocative Thoughts From This Week’s Podcasts 1) “What happens when the thing that you’re really good at is the thing that is killing your soul.” Listen: Pop Culture Happy Hour: Barry (7:05) That’s Eric Deggans, who adds, […]

Tags 99% Invisible, Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Binge Mode, Bookworm, Bullseye with Jesse Thorn, Comedy Bang! Bang!, Conversations With Tyler, Cooking by Ear, Danny in the Valley, Forked Up, Here’s the Thing with Alec Baldwin, House of Carbs, How I Built This with Guy Raz, I Have to Ask, ID10T, It’s Been a Minute with Sam Sanders, Jamie Roxx’s Pop Roxx Talk Radio Show, Maltin on Movies, Monocle 24: The Big Interview, Not Your Little Lady, Pardon My Take, Pod Save America, Pop Culture Happy Hour, Recode Decode, Recode Media with Peter Kafka, Rockin' the Suburbs, Scriptnotes, Skimm’d from The Couch, Ted Talks Daily, The Adam Carolla Show, The Alabama Take, The Atlantic Interview, The Axe Files with David Axelrod, The Bob Lefsetz Podcast, The Ezra Klein Show, The Gist with Mike Pesca, The Indicator from Planet Money, The Moment With Brian Koppelman, The Nod, The Ringer MLB Show, The Sporkful, The Tim Ferriss Show, The Watch, This Must Be the Gig, This Song, Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, Waking Up with Sam Harris, 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: Sister Jean, a new true crime binge and the benefits of not listening to your mother (#7)

Post author By Michael Yessis
Post date March 30, 2018

Greetings from Chicago, where I’m feeling the city’s love for Sister Jean. Look for her in the newsletter — and for a few format tweaks. I’m still calibrating based on your feedback. Send any suggestions, thoughts, etc. for future newsletters my way. Thanks for reading! 8 Pod Takes: Provocative Thoughts From This Week’s Podcasts 1) […]

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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: Black Panther, the beauty of simplicity, horrific guys in the White House and more (#1)

Post author By Michael Yessis
Post date February 16, 2018

10 Pod Takes 1) “The one problem you have at the Trump White House is you are surrounded 100 percent by people who would work at the Trump White House.” Pod Save America: “The worst Cirque du Soleil ever.” (LIVE from Las Vegas), Feb. 12 (9:42) Says Jon Lovett. What ever could he be talking […]