Tag: The Sporkful

This Week in Podcasts: The Floss Edition (#50)

Post author By Michael Yessis
Post date February 15, 2019

I kinda like last week’s streamlined format. Going with it again. If you’re missing more pod takes, or want to see anything else in the newsletter, drop me a note. Onward to this week’s counts: 37 notable guests, 10 deep dives, nine new podcasts and one litigious kid with a backpack. Pod Take of the […]

Tags 10 Things That Scare Me, American Innovations, Anna Faris is Unqualified, Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Better Worlds, Beyond the Plate, Bobbycast, Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend, Danny in the Valley, Equal Parts, Family Secrets, Forked Up, ID10T, Kickass News, Nerdificent, Off Camera With Sam Jones, On Purpose, Oprah's Master Class, Oprah's SuperSoul Conversations, Over My Dead Body, Pardon My Take, Pod Save America, Recode Decode, Rockin' the Suburbs, Smithsonian Sidedoor, Sound Opinions, Stay Tuned with Preet, Still Processing, Strong Black Legends, TBD with Tina Brown, The Bill Simmons Podcast, The Book Review, The Ezra Klein Show, The Good Place: The Podcast, The Indicator from Planet Money, The Investigation, The Joe Rogan Experience, The Rewatchables, The Ron Burgundy Podcast, The Sporkful, The Tim Ferriss Show, The Treatment, The Vergecast, The West Wing Weekly, Theory of Everything, This American Life, Thruline, TV Take, Voyage to the Stars, Who the Hell is Hamish?, Without Fail, Working, Wrongful Conviction, WTF with Marc Maron

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26 Essential Podcast Episodes of 2018

Post author By Michael Yessis
Post date December 22, 2018

Since starting This Week in Podcasts in February (subscribe to the newsletter here) I’ve featured 511 different podcasts. From one perspective, it’s a sliver of the more than 600,000 different podcasts available via iTunes alone. From another perspective, over 42 weeks, I’ve covered a lot of podcasts. This list is comprised of knockout episodes from […]

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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: Push-ups with Bishop Tutu Edition (#38)

Post author By Michael Yessis
Post date November 16, 2018

A lot of beginnings this week — welcome new pods about villains, Y2K, Stan Lee, hysteria and, yeah, true crime. And a couple notable endings — farewell Serial season three and 2 Dope Queens. Note: Next week’s newsletter will be an abbreviated edition. Taking some Thanksgiving time with family and a Baltimore Bomb pie. 5 Pod […]

Tags 2 Dope Queens, All Songs Considered, American Hysteria, Anna Faris is Unqualified, Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Behind the Scenes, Big Questions, Bookworm, Broken Record, Bullseye with Jesse Thorn, Celebration Rock, Cold, Curious with Josh Peck, Deviate with Rolf Potts, Drilled, Eater Upsell, Employee of the Month, Finale, Forked Up, Fresh Air, Function with Anil Dash, Good One, Headlong: Surviving Y2K, How I Built This with Guy Raz, How to Be Amazing with Michael Ian Black, I Think You're Interesting, It’s Been a Minute with Sam Sanders, Katie Couric, Kickass News, Maltin on Movies, Monocle on Design, My Dad Wrote a Porno, No Man's Land, Off Book, Off Camera With Sam Jones, Oprah's Master Class, Oprah's SuperSoul Conversations, Origins, Otherppl with Brad Listi, Pardon My Take, People Like Us, Pod Save America, Queery, Recode Decode, Remote Controlled, Run Like a Girl, Scandal, SciShow Tangents, Serial, Skimm’d from The Couch, Skullduggery, Studio 360, Talkhouse, Talking Points, Ted Talks Daily, The Adam Buxton Podcast, The Adam Carolla Show, The Bechdel Cast, The Bill Simmons Podcast, The Daily, The Ezra Klein Show, The Gist with Mike Pesca, The Goop Podcast, The Jamie Weinstein Show, The Joe Rogan Experience, The Jordan Harbinger Show, The Moment With Brian Koppelman, The New Yorker Radio Hour, The Sporkful, The TED Interview, The Tim Ferriss Show, This Week in Travel, Travel Genius, Villains, Waking Up with Sam Harris, Where Ya From?, Without Fail, WSJ The Future of Everything, 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: 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: “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: 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: “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 […]

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: 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 […]

Tags 5 Things, All Songs Considered, Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Bullseye with Jesse Thorn, Business Wars, Caliphate, Channel 33, Comedy Bang! Bang!, Culture Gabfest, David Ortiz: The Big Papi Story, Dear Sugars, Decrypted, Deviate with Rolf Potts, Duncan Trussell Family Hour, Ear Hustle, Fake the Nation, FiveThirtyEight, Fresh Air, Friends at Work, How Did This Get Made?, ID10T, It’s Been a Minute with Sam Sanders, Judge John Hodgman, Keep It!, Maltin on Movies, Monocle 24: The Big Interview, NPR Politics, Oprah's SuperSoul Conversations, Otherppl with Brad Listi, Outside Podcast, Pardon My Take, Pod Save America, Political Gabfest, R U Talkin’ R.E.M. RE: ME?, Radiolab, Sandra, Scriptnotes, Sound Opinions, Stay Tuned with Preet, Still Processing, Strictly Business, Talkhouse, The Atlantic Interview, The Axe Files with David Axelrod, The Ben Shapiro Show, The Big Picture, The Communication Guys Podcast, The Daily, The Dan Wootton Interview, The Ezra Klein Show, The Gist with Mike Pesca, The Habitat, The Jamie Weinstein Show, The Joe Rogan Experience, The New Yorker Radio Hour, The Nod, The Read, The Sporkful, The Tim Ferriss Show, Trump Inc., 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: 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: 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 […]