K-Town, The UK and Back Down!
Fish, Rabbits, and K-Pop +Just Added, Top 5, and lots of links!
Hey Poddy People,
I’m a bit gassed today after standing all day yesterday for Demo Day on campus. Welcome, all the student subscribers I met and chatted with about Great Pods! As always, send feedback! On that note, let’s go!
Updates:
Shoutout to my fellow USC Incubator startup friends, Rolli and Sisu VR among 30+ other companies that were there last yesterday.
I have a new pose now… Podcast buddy, Maya Chupkov (Proud Stutter) is hosting a PR Workshop tonight in SF w/ KQED. Check the Eventbrite here.
I’ll be on a virtual panel organized by TPA (The Podcast Academy) moderated by Arielle and featuring Keelin (Mentally? A Magpie), Alice Orr (PodcastReview.org), and Ximena (Stuff NZ) on April 11th.
TPA Masterclass: Meet the Critics - Why Podcasting Needs Critics & How To Get Coverage - It’s free and open to everyone. RSVP for the Zoom link here.
Webby Award nominations were announced. There are a lot of podcasts to vote on if you register for a free account. More here.
K-Pop Dreaming (California Love - Season 2) is hosting a live event tonight in Pasadena. More here. I’m going.
Wild Season 2 live event on April 19th from LAist studios with special guest Sam Sanders (Into It). Event information here. I’m going.
Rewatch podcast, Pod Meets World, announced a live event to celebrate 30 years of Boy Meets World on April 26th at the iHeartRadio theater in LA/Burbank. Tickets here. (I will be trying to go)
Ryan Reynolds guest-hosted History Daily podcast on April Fools Day. Not sure how he has time for anything. Episode here.
Just Added This Week:
Reclaimed: The Story of Mamie Till-Mobley
This Little Light
The Mantawauk Caves
Rental Health
Bad Dates with Jameela Jamil
Tell Me About It
The No Good, Terribly Kind, Wonderful Lives and Tragic Deaths of Barry and Honey Sherman
Class of 1989
Overlooked
On to my picks this week…
Podcast: K-Pop Dreaming | California Love Season 2
Genre: Personal Journal, History, Music
Publisher: LAist Studios
About: The newest season, K-pop Dreaming, is about the rise and history of K-pop in the United States, as told from the point-of-view of the Korean diaspora in Los Angeles. Host Vivian Yoon takes listeners on a journey from K-pop’s origins in Korean trot music and American presence in post-war South Korea to the 1992 LA Uprising and the booming global popularity of K-pop in the present day, all juxtaposed against Yoon’s own coming-of-age as a second generation immigrant in Los Angeles, struggling to fit in and come to terms with her own identity.
Storytime: I used to work at a Korean-owned laptop sales/repair shop in Southern California. So my coworkers started influencing me in a lot of ways like my love of Karaoke. But in relation to this podcast, they also shared their 2000s KPop. Hey, I knew PSY before Gangnam Style!
With this podcast, the structure was interesting that took me 2-3 episodes to appreciate. Vivian’s own personal history is interwoven with Korean history with music, society, and family. I’m interested in history, but throwing in how your parents met when American soldiers were stationed in South Korea makes for a real-life scenario.
Lauren Passell • Podcast The Newsletter
“It’s tricking us into a lesson in K-Pop with a coming of age story that will make us think about the own joys we harbored when we were younger, and the freedom to embrace those things as grown ass adults.”
Podcast: Rabbit Hole Detectives
Genre: History
Publisher: Folding Pocket
About: Join Reverend Richard Coles, Dr Cat Jarman and Charles Spencer as they chase the provenance of historical objects both real and metaphorical.
Now we are flying across the pond to a couple of British-run podcasts. It was mildly annoying at first because as Miranda Sawyer puts it, “madly pos” but then transforms into amusing.
Miranda Sawyer • The Guardian
“it’s all madly posh, in a good way: eccentric, well-lived, entertaining, with the delightful assumption that the listeners know stuff too. I liked it far more than I expected."
Podcast: No Such Thing As A Fish
Genre: History
Publisher: No Such Thing As A Fish
About: Award-winning podcast from the QI offices in which the writers of the hit BBC show discuss the best things they've found out this week.
Patricia Nicol namedropped No Such Thing As Fish in her review of Rabbit Hole Detectives, so I podcast dropped it into my queue. While similar in structure, these four hosts are more entertaining and lively than that of Rabbit Hole Detectives. You get to decide which one tickles your fancy.
Emma Dibdin • New York Times
“such a wealth of reliably weird, fascinating knowledge at their fingertips that the show has never had a dud episode”
Weekly Charts (March 26-April 2, 2023)
The Mantawauk Caves
The Witch Trials of JK Rowling
Archetypes
The Coldest Case In Laramie
Valley Heat
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