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This Week in Podcasts: Long Haul Edition (#97)

Post author By Michael Yessis
Post date February 21, 2020

I’m changing the status of the This Week in Podcasts Twitter from minimally updated to much more than minimally updated. Follow TWIP there, too, for podcast love on days other than Friday. This week’s counts: 53 notable guests, 13 new podcasts, four deep dives and one interview…with a podcast. Pod Take of the Week “I always wondered […]

Tags Angry Americans, Anna Faris is Unqualified, Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Back From Broken, Bad Friends, Black Wall Street 1921, Broken Record, Bullseye, Bullseye with Jesse Thorn, Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend, Cuddle Club with Lou Sanders, Curious with Josh Peck, Ernie Ball: Striking a Chord, ESPN Daily, Filling the Void, Flashback, Freakonomics Radio, Good For You, Green Eggs and Dan, How I Built This with Guy Raz, How To! With Charles Duhigg, I Podivs, ID10T, Inside of You, Jensen and Holes: The Murder Squad, Judge John Hodgman, Keep It!, Latino USA, Longform Podcast, Monocle 24: Meet the Writers, Music Exists, Naked with Catt Sadler, On Purpose, Oprah's SuperSoul Conversations, Over the Road, Pardon My Take, Pretty Big Deal, Punch Up the Jam, Questlove Supreme, R U Talkin’ R.E.M. RE: ME?, Richard's Famous Food Podcasts, Sodajerker On Songwriting, StarTalk Radio, Stay Tuned with Preet, Sticky Beak, Talkhouse, Talks at Google, The Adam Carolla Show, The Bechdel Cast, The Big Picture, The Big Ticket, The Daily, The David Banner Podcast, The Eleventh, The Ezra Klein Show, The Goop Podcast, The Last Degree of Kevin Bacon, The Moment With Brian Koppelman, The Nobody Zone, The Rhino Podcast, The Stage Podcast: Seven Stages, The Test Drivers, The Three Questions with Andy Richter, The Tim Ferriss Show, The Watch, Walk-Ins Welcome, Walking the Floor, Wheels Off, Without Fail, Work in Progress with Sophia Bush, Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions, WTF with Marc Maron

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This Week in Podcasts: There’s a Place For Us Edition (#96)

Post author By Michael Yessis
Post date February 14, 2020

Looks like we’re getting an “Academy Awards of Podcasting.” The Golden Mics are coming in 2021. This week’s counts: 50 notable guests, seven new podcasts, six deep dives and one love songs deep dive. Happy Valentine’s Day. Pod Take of the Week “We get to the right destination by walking down the wrong trail many times over […]

Tags All Songs Considered, All's Fair with Laura Wasser, American Diagnosis, Anna Faris is Unqualified, Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Big Questions, Bookworm, Broken Record, Bullseye with Jesse Thorn, Citizen Critic, Comedy Bang! Bang!, Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend, Dating While Gray, Death Sex & Money, Dying for Sex, Future Hindsight, Green Eggs and Dan, ID10T, Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air, Latino USA, Life is Short with Justin Long, Maltin on Movies, More with Anna Maria Tremonti, Nobody Told Me!, Off Menu, Office Ladies, On Being, Oprah's SuperSoul Conversations, Pardon My Take, Questlove Supreme, Remarkable People, Reminiscent, Rolling Stone Music Now, Second Life, Studio 360, Talkhouse, The Adam Carolla Show, The Al Franken Podcast, The Awardist, The Axe Files with David Axelrod, The Big Ticket, The Bill Simmons Podcast, The Cold War: What We Saw, The CouRage and Nadeshot Show, The Goop Podcast, The Great Fail, The H3 Podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, The Last Degree of Kevin Bacon, The Margaret Cho, The Read, The Redheads Book Club, The Rewatchables, The Seventh Daughter, The Tortoise Podcast, Thirst Aid Kit, This Must Be the Gig, UnStyled, Vocal Point, Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, WorkLife with Adam Grant, WTF with Marc Maron, You Made it Weird with Pete Holmes

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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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This Week in Podcasts: Burrowing in the Arts Edition (#52)

Post author By Michael Yessis
Post date March 1, 2019

On Nick Hornby’s implied advice, here’s an (almost) Michael Cohen- and Donald Trump-free edition. This week’s counts: 31 notable guests, nine new podcasts, eight deep dives and one conspiracy theorist at the top of the charts. Pod Take of the Week “It’s very hard to feel like any push toward activism is going to do […]

Tags Anna Faris is Unqualified, Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Ask Me Another, Beyond the Plate, Bobbycast, Bullseye with Jesse Thorn, Business Wars, Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend, Conversations With Tyler, Curious with Josh Peck, Decoder Ring, Employee of the Month, Fresh Air, Great Debates, How I Built This with Guy Raz, Inside Conan, Killer Instinct, Men in Blazers, Nancy, Obsession, On Being, On the Rebound, Oprah's Master Class, Oprah's SuperSoul Conversations, Pardon My Take, Parentland, Pod Save America, RuPaul's Drag Race, Stay Free: The Story of the Clash, TBD with Tina Brown, Techopolis, TED Radio Hour, The Adam Carolla Show, The Axe Files with David Axelrod, The Bechdel Cast, The Dan Wootton Interview, The History Chicks, The Joe Rogan Experience, The Moment With Brian Koppelman, The Rewatchables, The Ron Burgundy Podcast, To Live and Die in L.A., Trump Inc., WSJ The Future of Everything, WTF with Marc Maron

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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: 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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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: 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: 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: 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: “Punk is a free space.” (#28)

Post author By Michael Yessis
Post date September 7, 2018

Elon Musk made waves smoking a blunt with Joe Rogan. But, damn, many more interesting big names graced the pods. It was a massive week. 7 Pod Takes 1) “There’s an argument to be made that we’re born with the raw elements of Beatles songs in our heads.” Listen: WTF with Marc Maron: Episode 948 – […]

Tags All Songs Considered, Animal Sound Safari, Anna Faris is Unqualified, Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Bullseye with Jesse Thorn, Business Wars, Curious with Josh Peck, Deviate with Rolf Potts, Dr. Death, Drunk Women Solving Crime, Eater Upsell, Filmspotting, Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness, How I Built This with Guy Raz, How to Be Amazing with Michael Ian Black, If Then, Inside of You, Kickass News, Not Too Deep with Grace Helbig, Off Camera With Sam Jones, Oprah's Master Class, Oprah's SuperSoul Conversations, Pardon My Take, Playback, Pod Save America, Pop Culture Happy Hour, R U Talkin’ R.E.M. RE: ME?, Radio Atlantic, Recode Decode, Run Like a Girl, Skimm’d from The Couch, Switched On Pop, The Adam Carolla Show, The Axe Files with David Axelrod, The Big Picture, The Bill Simmons Podcast, The Bob Lefsetz Podcast, The Daily, The Dan Wootton Interview, The Ezra Klein Show, The Gist with Mike Pesca, The Good Place: The Podcast, The Jamie Weinstein Show, The Joe Rogan Experience, The Moment With Brian Koppelman, The New Yorker Radio Hour, The Pat McAfee Show 2.0, The RFK Tapes, The Tim Ferriss Show, This Must Be the Gig, Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, Why is This Happening? with Chris Hayes, Women Belong in the House, WTF with Marc Maron, You Made it Weird with Pete Holmes

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This Week in Podcasts: There Is Crying in Podcasts (#27)

Post author By Michael Yessis
Post date August 31, 2018

I go away for two weeks and come back to everyone talking about Serial again? Thanks, Kim. It’s been great catching up on the pods, though. So many excellent eps this week. 7 Pod Takes 1) “Just as a warning, if you’re listening with kids, today’s episode features Mel Gibson.” Listen: Today Explained: Don’t call it a […]

Tags 70 Million, Anna Faris is Unqualified, Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Ask Me Another, Bon Appetit Foodcast, Conversations With Tyler, Everything is Alive, Fast Company’s Creative Conversation, Forked Up, Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness, HBR Ideacast, Heat and Light, Here’s the Thing with Alec Baldwin, I Think You're Interesting, It’s Been a Minute with Sam Sanders, Kickass News, Longform Podcast, Maltin on Movies, More than Seven Dirty Words, Nerdificent, Not Too Deep with Grace Helbig, Off Camera With Sam Jones, On Being, Oprah's SuperSoul Conversations, Pardon My Take, Pod Save America, Pod Save the People, Punch Up the Jam, RBG: Beyond Notorious, Recode Decode, Remote Controlled, Sleuth, Sports Media with Richard Deitsch, The A24 Podcast, The Anthropocene Reviewed, The Axe Files with David Axelrod, The Bechdel Cast, The Big Picture, The Bill Simmons Podcast, The Bob Lefsetz Podcast, The Gateway, The Good Place: The Podcast, The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast, The Lowe Post, The Moment With Brian Koppelman, The New Yorker Radio Hour, The Punies, This Song, Today Explained, Waking Up with Sam Harris, Ways to Change the World, Weather Geeks, WTF with Marc Maron, You Made it Weird with Pete Holmes

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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? […]

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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. […]

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