Tag: Sound Opinions

This Week in Podcasts: Renovation Edition (#79)

Post author By Michael Yessis
Post date September 27, 2019

Sooo many Trump emergency pods this week. But I won’t let it bog down the newsletter. The counts: 53 notable guests, 12 new podcasts, five deep dives and one Shakespeare reference. And one more thing: Sunday’s #ShareYourBudsSunday, a day to share your love of podcasts with family and friends. Learn more from #ShareYourBudsSunday co-founders and friends of […]

Tags American Innovations, Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Bookworm, Business Casual, Comedy Bang! Bang!, Culture Gabfest, Culture Kings, Curious with Josh Peck, Deviate with Rolf Potts, Edge of Sleep, ExpediTIously, Filling the Void, FiveThirtyEight, Frontier Tween, Full Disclosure with James O'Brien, Go Fact Yourself, Hear to Slay, How I Built This with Guy Raz, ID10T, Inside Podcasting, Inside the Hive, It’s Been a Minute with Sam Sanders, Kickass News, Last Day, Latino USA, Life is Short with Justin Long, Longform Podcast, Lost at the Smithsonian, Metaphysical Milkshake, Naked with Catt Sadler, Next Question with Katie Couric, Off Camera With Sam Jones, Outside Podcast, Past Gas, Pod Save America, Points South, Radio Atlantic, Recode Decode, School Colors, Sound Opinions, Ted Talks Daily, The Al Franken Podcast, The Axe Files with David Axelrod, The Ben Shapiro Show, The Big Ticket, The Bill Simmons Podcast, The Daily, The Dan Wootton Interview, The Dave Chang Show, The Gist with Mike Pesca, The Good Place: The Podcast, The Goop Podcast, The Hilarious World of Depression, The Jordan Harbinger Show, The New Yorker Radio Hour, The Open Ears Project, The Rewatchables, The Road Taken, The Ron Burgundy Podcast, The Strategerist, The TED Interview, The Three Questions with Andy Richter, The Tim Ferriss Show, Thick Skin with Jeff Ross, Thirst Aid Kit, UnStyled, Vocal Point, Work in Progress with Sophia Bush, WTF with Marc Maron, Yo Is This Racist?, You Made it Weird with Pete Holmes, You're Dead to Me

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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Atlanta Monster’s finale, beautiful trash and debating Jay-Z’s travel preference (#6)

Post author By Michael Yessis
Post date March 23, 2018

Happy Friday. It’s a landmark newsletter today: We’ve used our first umlaut, along with the usual great takes and binge recommendations. Also, our new section debuts: Podcast reviews and recommendations. Thanks for reading! 10 Pod Takes: Provocative Thoughts From This Week’s Podcasts 1) “The real lesson … is just how beautiful something that’s seen as […]

Tags 99% Invisible, Anna Faris is Unqualified, Atlanta Monster, Bon Appetit Foodcast, Bookworm, Bullseye with Jesse Thorn, Comedy Bang! Bang!, Culture Gabfest, Edge of Fame, Endless Thread, Freakonomics Radio, Great Debates, House of Carbs, How I Built This with Guy Raz, How to Be Amazing with Michael Ian Black, How to Keep Your Day Job, I Have to Ask, ID10T, It’s Been a Minute with Sam Sanders, Let’s Talk Bitcoin!, Maltin on Movies, Oprah's SuperSoul Conversations, Pod Save America, Recode Decode, Recode Media with Peter Kafka, Skimm’d from The Couch, Sound Opinions, StartUp, Ted Talks Daily, The Adam Carolla Show, The Bill Simmons Podcast, The Bob Lefsetz Podcast, The Moment With Brian Koppelman, The New Yorker Radio Hour, The PosCast, The Rewatchables, The Watch, This Movie Changed Me, This Week in Travel, Today Explained, WorkLife with Adam Grant, WTF with Marc Maron