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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

This Week in Podcasts: Inside Your Head Edition (#48)

Post author By Michael Yessis
Post date February 1, 2019

This week’s counts: 25 notable guests, 14 new podcasts, five pod takes, three deep dives and one dancing bear. 5 Pod Takes 1) “Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on Earth does that mean it’s not real?” Listen: Binge Mode: The Farewell | Harry Potter(2:06:41) That’s Mallory Rubin, channeling Albus Dumbledore in an […]

Tags 1A, Against All Odds, Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Binge Mode, Bullseye with Jesse Thorn, Case Closed, Comedy Bang! Bang!, Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend, Conversations With People Who Hate Me, David Tennant Does a Podcast With..., Extraterrestrial, Finale, Freakonomics Radio, Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness, Great Debates, ID10T, Julie: The Unwinding of the Miracle, KFCRadio, Kickass News, Le Batard & Friends - STUpodity, Let's Get Civical, Making Sense with Sam Harris, Murder Book, On Being, Once Upon a Timestamp, Peace of Mind with Bhi Bhiman, Pod Save America, Punch Up the Jam, Queery, Russia Rising, Stay Tuned with Preet, The Anthropocene Reviewed, The Art of Process with Aimee Mann and Ted Leo, The Bill Simmons Podcast, The Dan Wootton Interview, The Fatherly Podcast, The Intelligence, The Lowe Post, The Strategerist, The Treatment, We Called Your Mom, 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: Hot Mess Edition (#35)

Post author By Michael Yessis
Post date October 26, 2018

I’ll be at Sound Education in Boston next week. If you see me there, say hello or drop me a note. I’d love to connect. 7 Pod Takes 1) “I believe the scholarly term is ‘hot mess.’” Listen: Code Switch: The Cost to Cast a Ballot (21:11) That’s Carol Anderson, historian and a professor of African-American studies at Emory University, […]

Tags All Songs Considered, Anna Faris is Unqualified, Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Believed, Binge Mode, Blackwood, Bobbycast, Bookworm, Bullseye with Jesse Thorn, Code Switch, Comedy Bang! Bang!, Conversations With Tyler, Dreamboy, Fast Company’s Creative Conversation, Freakonomics Radio, Fresh Air, FWD: Thinking, Good One, Halloween Unmasked, Here’s the Thing with Alec Baldwin, House of Carbs, How Did This Get Made?, Inside of You, Instant Message, It Seemed Smart, It’s Been a Minute with Sam Sanders, Katie Couric, Keep It!, Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air, Longform Podcast, Maltin on Movies, My Best Break-Up, Oprah's Master Class, Oprah's SuperSoul Conversations, Origins, Outside Podcast, Outside/In, Playback, Pod Save America, Pop Culture Happy Hour, Pretty Big Deal, Radiolab, Recode Decode, Remote Controlled, Skimm’d from The Couch, Sounds & Vision, Stay Tuned with Preet, Tai Asks Why, Talkhouse, The Adam Carolla Show, The Big Picture, The Bill Simmons Podcast, The Daily, The Dan Wootton Interview, The Ezra Klein Show, The Gender Knot, The Good Place: The Podcast, The History of Standup, The Joe Rogan Experience, The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast, The New Yorker Radio Hour, The Treatment, The West Wing Weekly, 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 hard to untangle luck from choice” (#24)

Post author By Michael Yessis
Post date July 27, 2018

So how does podcast-land try to top the incredible week it had last week? With Bono. 7 Pod Takes 1) “It’s hard to untangle luck from choice.” Listen: Ministry of Ideas: Shifting Blame (23:53) That’s host Zachary Davis, on a lesson learned during this smart, insightful pod about how “luck shapes our judgment, and whether we should let it.” […]

Tags Anna Faris is Unqualified, Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Bite, Bookworm, Death Sex & Money, Eater Upsell, Fatal Voyage: The Mysterious Death of Natalie Wood, Footnote: Castle Rock, Freakonomics Radio, Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness, Good Food on the Road, Household Name, How I Built This with Guy Raz, I Think You're Interesting, It’s Been a Minute with Sam Sanders, Late Night Whenever With Michelle Buteau, Longform Podcast, Ministry of Ideas, On Being, Oprah's Master Class, Oprah's SuperSoul Conversations, Passions in America, Playback, Pod Save the World, Pop Culture Happy Hour, Popcast, Press Play, Pro Rata, Pull Up with CJ McCollum, Punch Up the Jam, Raising the Bar with Alli and Michael, Recode Decode, Recode Media with Peter Kafka, Skimm’d from The Couch, Talkhouse, The Adam Carolla Show, The Big Picture, The Bosscast, The Daily, The Dave Chang Show, The Gist with Mike Pesca, The Goop Podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, The Moment With Brian Koppelman, The Press Box, The Tim Ferriss Show, The Treatment, The Watch, This Movie Changed Me, U Talkin’ U2 To Me?, Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, Walking the Floor, 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: “I thought we weren’t going to get to the Nazis until at least 30 minutes in.” (#22)

Post author By Michael Yessis
Post date July 13, 2018

I’m (lying on my) back. So far so good with my recovery from my Achilles rupture. My podcast listening has suffered though. I usually listen while hiking, exercising or driving, and I’ll be doing none of those things for a while. Your recommendations for hot pod takes, binges and new pod recommendations are welcome more […]

Tags Aaron Mahnke’s Cabinet of Curiosities, Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Ask Me Another, Binge Mode, Bookworm, Business Wars, But That's Another Story, Celebration Rock, Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda, Comedy Bang! Bang!, Deviate with Rolf Potts, Don't @ Me, Duncan Trussell Family Hour, Gaslit Nation, How to Be Amazing with Michael Ian Black, Inside of You, It’s Been a Minute with Sam Sanders, Jesus and Jollof, Junk, Longform Podcast, Maltin on Movies, On Being, Oprah's SuperSoul Conversations, Pardon My Take, Pod Save America, Pod Save the World, Pop Culture Happy Hour, Recode Decode, Remote Controlled, Rockin' the Suburbs, Sidenote, Talkhouse, The Adam Carolla Show, The Bechdel Cast, The Big Picture, The Bob Lefsetz Podcast, The Dave Chang Show, The Ezra Klein Show, The Gist with Mike Pesca, The Good Place: The Podcast, The Moment With Brian Koppelman, The Organist, The Treatment, This American Life, Waking Up with Sam Harris, WTF with Marc Maron, You Must Remember This

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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 […]

Tags Amy Schumer Presents: 3 Girls 1 Keith, Anna Faris is Unqualified, At Liberty, Business Wars, But That's Another Story, Caliphate, Cher and Retweet, Comedy Bang! Bang!, Decoder Ring, Deviate with Rolf Potts, Fake the Nation, FiveThirtyEight, Hidden Brain, How I Built This with Guy Raz, How to Be Amazing with Michael Ian Black, Hysteria, I Think You're Interesting, Inside Jaws, Inside of You, Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air, NPR Politics, Oprah's SuperSoul Conversations, Outside Podcast, Pardon My Take, Planet Fútbol with Grant Wahl, Political Gabfest, Popcast, Punch Up the Jam, Recode Decode, Remade in America with Bassem Youssef, Remote Controlled, Revisionist History, The Axe Files with David Axelrod, The Bob Lefsetz Podcast, The Control Group, The Daily, The Dave Chang Show, The Ezra Klein Show, The Good Place: The Podcast, The Indicator from Planet Money, The Joe Rogan Experience, The Kitchen Sisters Present, The New Yorker Radio Hour, The Treatment, Up First, Weather Geeks, Why is This Happening? with Chris Hayes, WTF with Marc Maron

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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 […]

Tags Aftereffect, All Songs Considered, Amy Schumer Presents: 3 Girls 1 Keith, Anna Faris is Unqualified, Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Celebration Rock, Crazy/Genius, Dear Sugars, Deviate with Rolf Potts, FilmStruck, Hannahlize This, Hannibal Buress: Handsome Rambler, Hard Factor, HBR Ideacast, Heat Rocks, Here’s the Thing with Alec Baldwin, Hey Babe, Hollywood in Color, How I Built This with Guy Raz, I Think You're Interesting, Inside of You, 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, Not Too Deep with Grace Helbig, Off Message, Oprah's SuperSoul Conversations, Outside Podcast, Pardon My Take, Planet Fútbol with Grant Wahl, Pod Save America, Recode Decode, Recode Media with Peter Kafka, Remade in America with Bassem Youssef, Remote Controlled, Rivers of Oil, Switched On Pop, The Adam Carolla Show, The Axe Files with David Axelrod, The Bechdel Cast, The Bob Lefsetz Podcast, The Ezra Klein Show, The Gist with Mike Pesca, The Good Place: The Podcast, The Goop Podcast, The H3 Podcast, The J.J. Redick Podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, The Moment With Brian Koppelman, The Monocle Culture Show, The Press Box, The Tim Ferriss Show, The Treatment, This Must Be the Gig, This Past Weekend, 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: 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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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 […]

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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 […]

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