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

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 […]

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

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 […]

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

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 […]

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

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? […]