Tag: The Gist with Mike Pesca

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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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 […]

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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: 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 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: Beychella, Comey and whether all pet names should end in a vowel (#10)

Post author By Michael Yessis
Post date April 20, 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. Beycomé? Seems like every other podcast this week featured Beyoncé and/or James Comey. Lots from and about […]

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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, […]

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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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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 […]