Tag: Scriptnotes

This Week in Podcasts: Overload Edition (#80)

Post author By Michael Yessis
Post date October 4, 2019

Another bounty of intriguing new podcasts this week. Next week’s looking bountiful, too. This week’s counts: 63 notable guests, 15 new podcasts, seven deep dives and one music legend set for her podcast close-up. Pod Take of the Week “The right-wing machine for pumping out this kind of misinformation is like the chocolates moving in […]

Tags 1865, All Songs Considered, America Dissected, Anna Faris is Unqualified, Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Bear and a Banjo, Beyond the Plate, Bookworm, Borrowed Future, Broken Record, Bullseye with Jesse Thorn, Business Wars, Call Your Girlfriend, Cold Call, Con Artists, Condition, Conversations, Cry Power with Hozier, Cryptids, Culture Kings, Dolly Parton's America, Explore the World, Full Disclosure with James O'Brien, Go Fact Yourself, Happier with Gretchen Rubin, HBR Ideacast, Heads of Sierra Blanca, ID10T, It’s Been a Minute with Sam Sanders, Keep It!, Latino USA, Life is Short with Justin Long, Longform Podcast, Mother of All Shows, Off Book, Oprah's SuperSoul Conversations, Pod Save America, Pod Save the World, Queery, Recode Media with Peter Kafka, Scam Goddess, Scriptnotes, Sonic Boom, Spilled Milk, StartUp, Stay Tuned with Preet, Still Processing, Strictly Business, Studio 360, Talkhouse, Talks at Google, The Al Franken Podcast, The Bill Simmons Podcast, The Dave Chang Show, The Documentary Podcast, The Ezra Klein Show, The Gist with Mike Pesca, The Goodie Goodie with Sabrina Jalees, The H3 Podcast, The Hilarious World of Depression, The Joe Rogan Experience, The Jordan Harbinger Show, The Law and Order: SVU Podcast, The Lead, The Left Ear, The Moment With Brian Koppelman, The Mysterious Mr. Epstein, The Portal, The Road Taken, The Vergecast, This Must Be the Gig, Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, Wheels Off, Wisdom From the Top, Work in Progress with Sophia Bush, Worst Year Ever, WTF with Marc Maron, You Made it Weird with Pete Holmes

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This Week in Podcasts: Dark Magic Edition (#78)

Post author By Michael Yessis
Post date September 21, 2019

We’ve set a newsletter record for the amount of new podcasts featured this week. Congrats to all! The counts: 54 notable guests, 23 new podcasts, six deep dives and one endangered letter of the alphabet. Pod Take of the Week “The alphabet should be reordered.” Listen: The Hottest Take (:46) That’s Tyler Parker, with a scorching take […]

Tags Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Beyond the Plate, Bookworm, Call Your Girlfriend, Campaign HQ, Comedy Bang! Bang!, Conversations, Correct Opinions with Trey Kennedy, Death Sex & Money, Doughboys, Down to Date with Kendall Long, Filling the Void, Finding Van Gogh, Foodgod:OMFG, Forked Up, Freakonomics Radio, Fresh Air, Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness, Here’s the Thing with Alec Baldwin, How I Built This with Guy Raz, ID10T, Inside Podcasting, It’s Been a Minute with Sam Sanders, Keep It!, Kickass News, Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air, Latino USA, Life is Short with Justin Long, London Actually, Long May They Run, Longform Podcast, Lovett or Leave It, Motive, My Life of Crime, Not Too Deep with Grace Helbig, Off Camera With Sam Jones, Off Menu, Oprah's SuperSoul Conversations, Out Travel the System, Passenger List, Recode Decode, Reminiscent, Ringer Dish, Scared to Death, Science Weekly, Scriptnotes, She Makes Money Moves, Skimm’d from The Couch, Splitting Upward, Sports Criminals, StarTalk Radio, Studio 360, Stuff You Should Know, Switched On Pop, Talks at Google, The Bill Simmons Podcast, The Daily, The Ezra Klein Show, The Gist with Mike Pesca, The Hilarious World of Depression, The Hottest Take, The Joe Rogan Experience, The Lead, The Moment With Brian Koppelman, The New Yorker Radio Hour, The Open Ears Project, The PosCast, The Thing About Pam, The Three Questions with Andy Richter, The Thrive Global Podcast, Three Big Points, Throughline, UnStyled, We Hear, Wide Open with Tony Gonzalez, With Friends Like These, Without Fail, Women Who Travel, Work in Progress with Sophia Bush, Working Daughter, WTF with Marc Maron, Yo Is This Racist?, You Made it Weird with Pete Holmes

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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: 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: 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: “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: 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: Beychella, Comey and whether all pet names should end in a vowel (#10)

Post author By Michael Yessis
Post date April 20, 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. Beycomé? Seems like every other podcast this week featured Beyoncé and/or James Comey. Lots from and about […]

Tags 5 Things, All Songs Considered, Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Bullseye with Jesse Thorn, Business Wars, Caliphate, Channel 33, Comedy Bang! Bang!, Culture Gabfest, David Ortiz: The Big Papi Story, Dear Sugars, Decrypted, Deviate with Rolf Potts, Duncan Trussell Family Hour, Ear Hustle, Fake the Nation, FiveThirtyEight, Fresh Air, Friends at Work, How Did This Get Made?, ID10T, It’s Been a Minute with Sam Sanders, Judge John Hodgman, Keep It!, Maltin on Movies, Monocle 24: The Big Interview, NPR Politics, Oprah's SuperSoul Conversations, Otherppl with Brad Listi, Outside Podcast, Pardon My Take, Pod Save America, Political Gabfest, R U Talkin’ R.E.M. RE: ME?, Radiolab, Sandra, Scriptnotes, Sound Opinions, Stay Tuned with Preet, Still Processing, Strictly Business, Talkhouse, The Atlantic Interview, The Axe Files with David Axelrod, The Ben Shapiro Show, The Big Picture, The Communication Guys Podcast, The Daily, The Dan Wootton Interview, The Ezra Klein Show, The Gist with Mike Pesca, The Habitat, The Jamie Weinstein Show, The Joe Rogan Experience, The New Yorker Radio Hour, The Nod, The Read, The Sporkful, The Tim Ferriss Show, Trump Inc., WTF with Marc Maron

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This Week in Podcasts: The power of Las Vegas, the Ezra Klein/Sam Harris debate and crying with the cast of “This is Us” (#9)

Post author By Michael Yessis
Post date April 13, 2018

It’s Friday again and I’ve got tacos in my future. All is well. Thanks for reading! 8 Pod Takes: Provocative Thoughts From This Week’s Podcasts 1) “What happens when the thing that you’re really good at is the thing that is killing your soul.” Listen: Pop Culture Happy Hour: Barry (7:05) That’s Eric Deggans, who adds, […]

Tags 99% Invisible, Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Binge Mode, Bookworm, Bullseye with Jesse Thorn, Comedy Bang! Bang!, Conversations With Tyler, Cooking by Ear, Danny in the Valley, Forked Up, Here’s the Thing with Alec Baldwin, House of Carbs, How I Built This with Guy Raz, I Have to Ask, ID10T, It’s Been a Minute with Sam Sanders, Jamie Roxx’s Pop Roxx Talk Radio Show, Maltin on Movies, Monocle 24: The Big Interview, Not Your Little Lady, Pardon My Take, Pod Save America, Pop Culture Happy Hour, Recode Decode, Recode Media with Peter Kafka, Rockin' the Suburbs, Scriptnotes, Skimm’d from The Couch, Ted Talks Daily, The Adam Carolla Show, The Alabama Take, The Atlantic Interview, The Axe Files with David Axelrod, The Bob Lefsetz Podcast, The Ezra Klein Show, The Gist with Mike Pesca, The Indicator from Planet Money, The Moment With Brian Koppelman, The Nod, The Ringer MLB Show, The Sporkful, The Tim Ferriss Show, The Watch, This Must Be the Gig, 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: Finding Cleo, sandwiches from 1978 and how not to win The New Yorker’s caption contest (#8)

Post author By Michael Yessis
Post date April 6, 2018

Happy Friday. I’m fighting a cold, and I passed some cold-medicine induced downtime with extra listening. So it’s a big newsletter this week. Thanks for reading! 8 Pod Takes: Provocative Thoughts From This Week’s Podcasts 1) “You don’t need antipathy and acrimony to create great art.” Listen: The West Wing Weekly: Hamilton Special (with Lin-Manuel Miranda […]

Tags Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Bullseye with Jesse Thorn, But That's Another Story, Decrypted, Deviate with Rolf Potts, Edge of Fame, Finding Cleo, Freakonomics Radio, Fresh Air, Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness, House of Carbs, How I Built This with Guy Raz, How to Be Amazing with Michael Ian Black, I Have to Ask, ID10T, It’s Been a Minute with Sam Sanders, King's Last March, Late Night Whenever With Michelle Buteau, Longform Podcast, Mortified Podcast, My Brother My Brother and Me, My Favorite Murder, Oprah's SuperSoul Conversations, Otherppl with Brad Listi, Pardon My Take, Pop Culture Happy Hour, Rockin' the Suburbs, Scriptnotes, Switched On Pop, Talkhouse, The Atlantic Interview, The Axe Files with David Axelrod, The Big Picture, The Bill Simmons Podcast, The Ezra Klein Show, The Joe Rogan Experience, The Josh Marshall Podcast, The Limit Does Not Exist, The Moment With Brian Koppelman, The New Yorker Radio Hour, The Tim Ferriss Show, The West Wing Weekly, Today Explained, Trumpcast, U Talkin’ U2 To Me?, We Met Online..., WTF with Marc Maron