Tag: American History Tellers

This Week in Podcasts: Fake Teeth Edition (#51)

Post author By Michael Yessis
Post date February 22, 2019

It’s Oscars weekend. I’ve seen just one Best Picture nominee. Gonna rectify that soon after I hit send. This week’s counts: 35 notable guests, eight new podcasts, seven deep dives and one controversial set of fake teeth. Pod Take of the Week “I don’t want him to win for talking through a retainer.” Listen: Pop Culture […]

Tags 10 Things That Scare Me, a16z Podcast, American History Tellers, Anna Faris is Unqualified, Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Bookworm, Bullseye with Jesse Thorn, But That's Another Story, Crime Beat, Crimes of Passion, Fresh Air, Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness, Good One, Kickass News, Knuckleheads, Longform Podcast, National Parks Traveler, Nobody Told Me!, Not Too Deep with Grace Helbig, Off Camera With Sam Jones, On Being, One Plus One, Pardon My Take, Planet Fútbol with Grant Wahl, Pod Save America, Political Beats, Pop Culture Happy Hour, Recode Decode, Scriptnotes, Should This Exist?, Skullduggery, SmoshCast, Song Exploder, Stay Tuned with Preet, Studio 360, TBD with Tina Brown, Ted Talks Daily, The Adam Carolla Show, The Dan Wootton Interview, The Double Shift, The Gist with Mike Pesca, The H3 Podcast, The Kitchen Sisters Present, The Trip, 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: 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: “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: 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: 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