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This Week in Podcasts: Glorious Fiasco Edition (#81)

Post author By Michael Yessis
Post date October 12, 2019

Another Saturday issue, another glorious mix of podcasts. The Reply All episode highlighted in the Pod Take of the Week is an all-timer. This week’s counts: 38 notable guests, 14 new podcasts, five deep dives and one tweet that triggered a global crisis. Pod Take of the Week “I’m not saying feral hogs is the only […]

Tags American Elections: Wicked Game, Andrea Savage: A Grown-Up Woman #buttholes, Anna Faris is Unqualified, Another Mother Runner, Bad Batch, Broken Record, Bullseye with Jesse Thorn, California Burning, Camp Monsters, Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend, Derailed, Dissect, Doughboys, ExpediTIously, Feedback with EarBuds, Good Game, Hidden Brain, Hotboxin with Mike Tyson, In Pursuit, Inside the Big Day Out, Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air, Latino USA, Life is Short with Justin Long, Longform Podcast, Monocle 24: The Big Interview, Moonface, Oprah's SuperSoul Conversations, Pardon My Take, Pod Save America, Pod Save the People, Recode Decode, Recode Media with Peter Kafka, Reply All, Ringer Dish, Rolling Stone Music Now, Stay Tuned with Preet, Striped: The Story of the White Stripes, Studio 360, The Big Ticket, The Bill Simmons Podcast, The Challengers, The Daily, The Gist with Mike Pesca, The Joe Rogan Experience, The Journal, The Last Voyage of the Pong Su, The Moment With Brian Koppelman, The National Podcast of Texas, The Open Ears Project, The Perfect Scam, The Road Taken, The Ron Burgundy Podcast, The Storyteller, The Thrive Global Podcast, The Undercovers, This Song, Today Explained, Unspooled, Who? Weekly, Work in Progress with Sophia Bush, WTF with Marc Maron, Yo Is This Racist?

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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: Words, Whispers, and Outrage (#31)

Post author By Michael Yessis
Post date September 28, 2018

I, too, was captivated by yesterday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearings. Prepare for a politics-heavy edition. Also, apologies to Dame Judi Dench for misspelling her name last week. 7 Pod Takes 1) “She had me at the word hippocampus.” Listen: Political Gabfest: The “One Hundred Percent Certain” Edition (3:41) That’s Emily Bazelon, crystallizing her reaction to Dr. […]

Tags 99% Invisible, Adventures in New America, Anna Faris is Unqualified, Another Mother Runner, Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Articles of Interest, Business Wars, Comedy Bang! Bang!, Crazy/Genius, Curious with Josh Peck, Dissect, Fast Company’s Creative Conversation, Forked Up, Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness, Happy Face, HBR Ideacast, Heat Rocks, Here’s the Thing with Alec Baldwin, Hidden Brain, How I Built This with Guy Raz, Inside of You, It’s Been a Minute with Sam Sanders, Keep It!, Kickass News, Longform Podcast, Maltin on Movies, Modern Love, Off Camera With Sam Jones, Off Message, On Being, Oprah's SuperSoul Conversations, Pardon My Take, Pod Save America, Political Gabfest, Queery, Recode Decode, Required Listening, Skimm’d from The Couch, The Axe Files with David Axelrod, The Bill Simmons Podcast, The City, The Dream, The Ezra Klein Show, The Gender Knot, The Gist with Mike Pesca, The Good Place: The Podcast, The Goop Podcast, The Hilarious World of Depression, The Joe Rogan Experience, The Moment With Brian Koppelman, The Nod, The Shadows, The Wilderness, Tides of History, Time to Parent, Why is This Happening? with Chris Hayes, Women in Charge, WTF with Marc Maron, You Made it Weird with Pete Holmes

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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: 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: 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: 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