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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: Renovation Edition (#79)

Post author By Michael Yessis
Post date September 27, 2019

Sooo many Trump emergency pods this week. But I won’t let it bog down the newsletter. The counts: 53 notable guests, 12 new podcasts, five deep dives and one Shakespeare reference. And one more thing: Sunday’s #ShareYourBudsSunday, a day to share your love of podcasts with family and friends. Learn more from #ShareYourBudsSunday co-founders and friends of […]

Tags American Innovations, Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Bookworm, Business Casual, Comedy Bang! Bang!, Culture Gabfest, Culture Kings, Curious with Josh Peck, Deviate with Rolf Potts, Edge of Sleep, ExpediTIously, Filling the Void, FiveThirtyEight, Frontier Tween, Full Disclosure with James O'Brien, Go Fact Yourself, Hear to Slay, How I Built This with Guy Raz, ID10T, Inside Podcasting, Inside the Hive, It’s Been a Minute with Sam Sanders, Kickass News, Last Day, Latino USA, Life is Short with Justin Long, Longform Podcast, Lost at the Smithsonian, Metaphysical Milkshake, Naked with Catt Sadler, Next Question with Katie Couric, Off Camera With Sam Jones, Outside Podcast, Past Gas, Pod Save America, Points South, Radio Atlantic, Recode Decode, School Colors, Sound Opinions, Ted Talks Daily, The Al Franken Podcast, The Axe Files with David Axelrod, The Ben Shapiro Show, The Big Ticket, The Bill Simmons Podcast, The Daily, The Dan Wootton Interview, The Dave Chang Show, The Gist with Mike Pesca, The Good Place: The Podcast, The Goop Podcast, The Hilarious World of Depression, The Jordan Harbinger Show, The New Yorker Radio Hour, The Open Ears Project, The Rewatchables, The Road Taken, The Ron Burgundy Podcast, The Strategerist, The TED Interview, The Three Questions with Andy Richter, The Tim Ferriss Show, Thick Skin with Jeff Ross, Thirst Aid Kit, UnStyled, Vocal Point, Work in Progress with Sophia Bush, WTF with Marc Maron, Yo Is This Racist?, You Made it Weird with Pete Holmes, You're Dead to Me

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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Ringing Like a Bell Edition (#36)

Post author By Michael Yessis
Post date November 2, 2018

Coming at you today from the excellent Sound Education in Boston. Made some more tweaks this week based on your feedback, with small expansions to the guest and new podcast sections. And I scaled back the Pod Takes. I’m trying to keep the length from getting out of control. As always, I’m grateful for any and all […]

Tags Amy Schumer Presents: 3 Girls 1 Keith, Anna Faris is Unqualified, Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Bag Man, Bon Appetit Foodcast, Bookworm, Chapo: Kingpin on Trial, Curious with Josh Peck, Dissect, Doughboys, Endless Thread, Everything is Alive, Freakonomics Radio, Fresh Air, Front Burner, Function with Anil Dash, Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness, Good One, Heat Rocks, I Have to Ask, Inside the Hive, Inside the Studio, It’s Been a Minute with Sam Sanders, Kickass News, Kingpins, Lethal Lit, Longform Podcast, Missing Richard Simmons, Monocle 24: The Big Interview, Nobody Told Me!, Not Too Deep with Grace Helbig, Off Camera With Sam Jones, Off Message, On a Mission, On Being, Oprah's Master Class, Oprah's SuperSoul Conversations, Otherppl with Brad Listi, Pardon My Take, Playback, Pod Save America, Political Gabfest, Proof, Recode Decode, Recode Media with Peter Kafka, Remote Controlled, Shedunnit, Skimm’d from The Couch, Sports Media with Richard Deitsch, Standoff, StartUp, Studio 360, Ted Talks Daily, The A24 Podcast, The Adam Carolla Show, The Axe Files with David Axelrod, The Children's Book Podcast, The Ezra Klein Show, The Goop Podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, The Lowe Post, The Moment With Brian Koppelman, The New Yorker Radio Hour, The Press Box, The Rewind with Guy Raz, The Sporkful, The TED Interview, The Tim Ferriss Show, The West Wing Weekly, Trump Inc., Undiscovered, Women in Charge, 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: Words, Whispers, and Outrage (#31)

Post author By Michael Yessis
Post date September 28, 2018

I, too, was captivated by yesterday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearings. Prepare for a politics-heavy edition. Also, apologies to Dame Judi Dench for misspelling her name last week. 7 Pod Takes 1) “She had me at the word hippocampus.” Listen: Political Gabfest: The “One Hundred Percent Certain” Edition (3:41) That’s Emily Bazelon, crystallizing her reaction to Dr. […]

Tags 99% Invisible, Adventures in New America, Anna Faris is Unqualified, Another Mother Runner, Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Articles of Interest, Business Wars, Comedy Bang! Bang!, Crazy/Genius, Curious with Josh Peck, Dissect, Fast Company’s Creative Conversation, Forked Up, Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness, Happy Face, HBR Ideacast, Heat Rocks, Here’s the Thing with Alec Baldwin, Hidden Brain, How I Built This with Guy Raz, Inside of You, It’s Been a Minute with Sam Sanders, Keep It!, Kickass News, Longform Podcast, Maltin on Movies, Modern Love, Off Camera With Sam Jones, Off Message, On Being, Oprah's SuperSoul Conversations, Pardon My Take, Pod Save America, Political Gabfest, Queery, Recode Decode, Required Listening, Skimm’d from The Couch, The Axe Files with David Axelrod, The Bill Simmons Podcast, The City, The Dream, The Ezra Klein Show, The Gender Knot, The Gist with Mike Pesca, The Good Place: The Podcast, The Goop Podcast, The Hilarious World of Depression, The Joe Rogan Experience, The Moment With Brian Koppelman, The Nod, The Shadows, The Wilderness, Tides of History, Time to Parent, Why is This Happening? with Chris Hayes, Women in Charge, 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: Villains, Sandwiches, and Spam on Christmas Eve (#29)

Post author By Michael Yessis
Post date September 14, 2018

I’m at the ride-a-stationary-bike-for-many-hours stage of my Achilles recovery, so I binged while pedaling this week. Dropped several inspirational sports and fitness pods into my media diet, too. I also listened to Slow Burn. I don’t think getting infuriated by Linda Tripp helped my recovery any. 7 Pod Takes 1) “It’s the most crushing […]

Tags Anna Faris is Unqualified, Another Mother Runner, Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Binge Mode, Bon Appetit Foodcast, Bookworm, Comedy Bang! Bang!, Curious with Josh Peck, Directionally Challenged, Ear Hustle, Ellen on the Go, Everything is Alive, Fast Company’s Creative Conversation, Feminists Don’t Wear Pink, FilmStruck, Freakonomics Radio, Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness, HBR Ideacast, Here’s the Thing with Alec Baldwin, House of Carbs, How I Built This with Guy Raz, How It Is, I Think You're Interesting, Inside of You, Inside the Hive, Invisibilia, It’s Been a Minute with Sam Sanders, Kickass News, Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air, Maltin on Movies, Modern Love, Not Too Deep with Grace Helbig, Off Message, On Being, Oprah's Master Class, Pod Save America, Pod Save the World, Queerly Beloved, Queery, Raising the Bar with Alli and Michael, Recode Decode, Recode Media with Peter Kafka, Remote Controlled, Scriptnotes, Skimm’d from The Couch, Slow Burn, Strictly Business, The Axe Files with David Axelrod, The Bechdel Cast, The Big Picture, The Bill Simmons Podcast, The Breakfast Club, The Daily, The Ezra Klein Show, The Good Place: The Podcast, The Goop Podcast, The H3 Podcast, The J.J. Redick Podcast, The Jamie Weinstein Show, The Joe Rogan Experience, The Josh Marshall Podcast, The Mash-Up Americans, The Oval Office Tapes, The Rewatchables, The Rubin Report, The Secret History of the Future, The Soft Spot, The Substack Podcast, The Tim Ferriss Show, Uncover: Escaping NXIVM, Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, Waking Up with Sam Harris, Wolverine: The Long Night, 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: There Is Crying in Podcasts (#27)

Post author By Michael Yessis
Post date August 31, 2018

I go away for two weeks and come back to everyone talking about Serial again? Thanks, Kim. It’s been great catching up on the pods, though. So many excellent eps this week. 7 Pod Takes 1) “Just as a warning, if you’re listening with kids, today’s episode features Mel Gibson.” Listen: Today Explained: Don’t call it a […]

Tags 70 Million, Anna Faris is Unqualified, Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Ask Me Another, Bon Appetit Foodcast, Conversations With Tyler, Everything is Alive, Fast Company’s Creative Conversation, Forked Up, Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness, HBR Ideacast, Heat and Light, Here’s the Thing with Alec Baldwin, I Think You're Interesting, It’s Been a Minute with Sam Sanders, Kickass News, Longform Podcast, Maltin on Movies, More than Seven Dirty Words, Nerdificent, Not Too Deep with Grace Helbig, Off Camera With Sam Jones, On Being, Oprah's SuperSoul Conversations, Pardon My Take, Pod Save America, Pod Save the People, Punch Up the Jam, RBG: Beyond Notorious, Recode Decode, Remote Controlled, Sleuth, Sports Media with Richard Deitsch, The A24 Podcast, The Anthropocene Reviewed, The Axe Files with David Axelrod, The Bechdel Cast, The Big Picture, The Bill Simmons Podcast, The Bob Lefsetz Podcast, The Gateway, The Good Place: The Podcast, The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast, The Lowe Post, The Moment With Brian Koppelman, The New Yorker Radio Hour, The Punies, This Song, Today Explained, Waking Up with Sam Harris, Ways to Change the World, Weather Geeks, 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: “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: 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 […]

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This Week in Podcasts

This Week in Podcasts: Amy Schumer’s new podcast, songs of summer and how rage rooms are like burritos (#19)

Post author By Michael Yessis
Post date June 22, 2018

Summer’s officially here, and so is Amy Schumer’s million dollar podcast. A few words on that and takes on aliens, burritos, songs of summer, Trump’s inhumanity and more in this week’s pods. 7 Pod Takes 1) “I think you can be in love and not love the person.” Listen: Amy Schumer Presents: 3 Girls, 1 […]

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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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