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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: Curiosity, Craziness, and Googling the Queen (#33)

Post author By Michael Yessis
Post date October 12, 2018

Some happy personal news: I’m cleared to walk without a brace, so less listening on the stationary bike, more listening while walking. 7 Pod Takes 1) “I feel like there’s an America out there that isn’t as crazy as we are.” Listen: The Argument: Is The Supreme Court Broken? Should Democrats Run on #MeToo? (9:01) That’s Ross […]

Tags 16 Shots, All Songs Considered, Anna Faris is Unqualified, Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Bookworm, Comedy Bang! Bang!, Conversations With Tyler, Curious with Josh Peck, Dear Hank & John, Deviate with Rolf Potts, Dueling Decades, Fast Company’s Creative Conversation, FilmStruck, Forked Up, Freakonomics Radio, Fresh Air, HBR Ideacast, Here’s the Thing with Alec Baldwin, How It Is, Inside of You, Inside the Hive, Keep It!, Kickass News, Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air, Legal Wars, Maltin on Movies, Modern Love, Monocle 24: The Big Interview, Nobody Told Me!, Off Camera With Sam Jones, Off Message, On Being, One to Grow On, Oprah's Master Class, Oprah's SuperSoul Conversations, Origins, Pardon My Take, Playback, Pretty Big Deal, Punch Up the Jam, Reply All, Skimm’d from The Couch, Slow Burn, Sold in America, Stay Tuned with Preet, Talkhouse, Ted Talks Daily, The Adam Buxton Podcast, The Adam Carolla Show, The Argument, The Big Picture, The Bill Simmons Podcast, The Daily, The Ezra Klein Show, The Gist with Mike Pesca, The Hilarious World of Depression, The J.J. Redick Podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, The Lowe Post, The Mash-Up Americans, The New Yorker Radio Hour, This Song, Tilted, Underdog, Weather Geeks, Women in Charge, Write-minded Podcast, WTF with Marc Maron

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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: 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: 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: Villains, Sandwiches, and Spam on Christmas Eve (#29)

Post author By Michael Yessis
Post date September 14, 2018

I’m at the ride-a-stationary-bike-for-many-hours stage of my Achilles recovery, so I binged while pedaling this week. Dropped several inspirational sports and fitness pods into my media diet, too. I also listened to Slow Burn. I don’t think getting infuriated by Linda Tripp helped my recovery any. 7 Pod Takes 1) “It’s the most crushing […]

Tags Anna Faris is Unqualified, Another Mother Runner, Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Binge Mode, Bon Appetit Foodcast, Bookworm, Comedy Bang! Bang!, Curious with Josh Peck, Directionally Challenged, Ear Hustle, Ellen on the Go, Everything is Alive, Fast Company’s Creative Conversation, Feminists Don’t Wear Pink, FilmStruck, Freakonomics Radio, Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness, HBR Ideacast, Here’s the Thing with Alec Baldwin, House of Carbs, How I Built This with Guy Raz, How It Is, I Think You're Interesting, Inside of You, Inside the Hive, Invisibilia, It’s Been a Minute with Sam Sanders, Kickass News, Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air, Maltin on Movies, Modern Love, Not Too Deep with Grace Helbig, Off Message, On Being, Oprah's Master Class, Pod Save America, Pod Save the World, Queerly Beloved, Queery, Raising the Bar with Alli and Michael, Recode Decode, Recode Media with Peter Kafka, Remote Controlled, Scriptnotes, Skimm’d from The Couch, Slow Burn, Strictly Business, The Axe Files with David Axelrod, The Bechdel Cast, The Big Picture, The Bill Simmons Podcast, The Breakfast Club, The Daily, The Ezra Klein Show, The Good Place: The Podcast, The Goop Podcast, The H3 Podcast, The J.J. Redick Podcast, The Jamie Weinstein Show, The Joe Rogan Experience, The Josh Marshall Podcast, The Mash-Up Americans, The Oval Office Tapes, The Rewatchables, The Rubin Report, The Secret History of the Future, The Soft Spot, The Substack Podcast, The Tim Ferriss Show, Uncover: Escaping NXIVM, Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, Waking Up with Sam Harris, Wolverine: The Long Night, 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: 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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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: 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