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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: “It’s always better to have company when you’re a captive.” (#25)

Post author By Michael Yessis
Post date August 3, 2018

Shout out to fellow MCHS grad Michael Scott Moore for his appearance on this week’s No. 1 iTunes podcast. He survived more than two-and-a-half years as a hostage of Somali pirates. Glad you made it out, Michael. Schedule note: I’m taking a vacation soon, so I won’t be sending newsletters Aug. 17 and Aug. 24. […]

Tags All Songs Considered, American History Tellers, Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Binge Mode, Bullseye with Jesse Thorn, Celebration Rock, Comedy Bang! Bang!, Culture Gabfest, Curious with Josh Peck, Dear Sugars, Election 2000: Over/Time, Fake the Nation, Fast Company’s Creative Conversation, Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness, Here’s the Thing with Alec Baldwin, How I Built This with Guy Raz, I Survivor, I Think You're Interesting, Inside of You, It’s Been a Minute with Sam Sanders, Men in Blazers, Offended: The Musical, On Being, Oprah's Master Class, Pod Save America, Pod Save the World, R U Talkin’ R.E.M. RE: ME?, Remote Controlled, Skimm’d from The Couch, Song Exploder, Sound Opinions, The Adam Carolla Show, The Alice Fraser Trilogy, The Bill Simmons Podcast, The Ezra Klein Show, The Girls: Find Sadie, The Gist with Mike Pesca, The Joe Rogan Experience, The Moment With Brian Koppelman, The PosCast, The Rewatchables, The Soft Spot, The Sporkful, The Substack Podcast, The Thin Layer, The Watch, This Must Be the Gig, Trump Inc., 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: 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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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: The Golden State Killer, “The Female Persuasion” and Rick Astley’s superpower (#11)

Post author By Michael Yessis
Post date April 27, 2018

We go deep with true crime pods and the arrest of the alleged Golden State Killer. We also tweak the newsletter’s format again based on your feedback. Thanks so much for your thoughts and suggestions. Keep ’em coming. If you like The Week in Podcasts, please pass it along to someone else who might like […]

Tags Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Bitrate, Celebration Rock, Comedy Bang! Bang!, Conversations With Tyler, Cooking by Ear, Crime Writers On..., Freakonomics Radio, Fresh Air, Generation Why, Here’s the Thing with Alec Baldwin, House of Carbs, How It Is, It’s Been a Minute with Sam Sanders, Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air, Late Night Whenever With Michelle Buteau, Love Letters, Maltin on Movies, Ministry of Ideas, Modern Love, My Favorite Murder, Oprah's SuperSoul Conversations, Otherppl with Brad Listi, Planet Fútbol with Grant Wahl, Pod Save America, Podcast Brunch Club, Punch Up the Jam, Radiolab, Song Exploder, Stay Tuned with Preet, Talkhouse, Ted Talks Daily, The Adam Carolla Show, The Bill Simmons Podcast, The Bob Lefsetz Podcast, The Dave Chang Show, The Ezra Klein Show, The Gist with Mike Pesca, The Goop Podcast, The Habitat, The Indicator from Planet Money, The Infinite City, The Jamie Weinstein Show, The Josh Marshall Podcast, The Moth, The Press Box, The Tim Ferriss Show, The Treatment, The Watch, This Must Be the Gig, We Came to Win, WorkLife with Adam Grant, WTF with Marc Maron, You Made it Weird with Pete Holmes

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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: 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: 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: Information warfare, food fights and romantic ideas of New Jersey (#4)

Post author By Michael Yessis
Post date March 9, 2018

10 Pod Takes 1) “I, for one, am very excited to stay at the Trump Pyongyang.” Pod Save America: “Give Ruth a Break.” (LIVE from Houston, March 9 (6:05) Jon Lovett senses a motive in President Trump’s acceptance of Kim Jong Un’s invitation to talk. 2) “We all need to cultivate a more relaxed attitude about […]

Tags All Songs Considered, Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Bullseye with Jesse Thorn, Celebration Rock, Deviate with Rolf Potts, Falling Uphill, Forked Up, Fresh Air, Happy Hour, I Am Rapaport, Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air, Lovett or Leave It, Pardon My Take, Planet Fútbol with Grant Wahl, Pod Save America, Recode Decode, Rockin' the Suburbs, Skimm’d from The Couch, Stay Tuned with Preet, Still Processing, The Axe Files with David Axelrod, The Bill Simmons Podcast, The Ezra Klein Show, The Goop Podcast, The J.J. Redick Podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, The Moment With Brian Koppelman, The New Yorker Radio Hour, The Nod, The PosCast, The Sporkful, The Tim Ferriss Show, The Watch, This Movie Changed Me, This Week in Travel, 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 […]

Tags Anna Faris is Unqualified, Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Bookworm, Channel 33, Comedy Bang! Bang!, Eater Upsell, Edge of Fame, Freakonomics Radio, Here’s the Thing with Alec Baldwin, House of Carbs, How Did This Get Made?, How I Built This with Guy Raz, ID10T, If Then, Launch, Life (After Cancer), Longform Podcast, Neighbors, No Limits with Rebecca Jarvis, Otherppl with Brad Listi, Pardon My Take, Pod Save America, Pod Save the People, Sooo Many White Guys, Sports? With Katie Nolan, Stay Tuned with Preet, Ted Talks Daily, The A24 Podcast, The Adam Buxton Podcast, The Big Picture, The Bill Simmons Podcast, The Daily, The Ezra Klein Show, The Gist with Mike Pesca, The Joe Rogan Experience, The Josh Marshall Podcast, The Lowe Post, The New Yorker Radio Hour, The Pat McAfee Show, The Rewatchables, Trump Inc., Trumpcast, 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 […]

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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 […]