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+Floodlines host new pod and FTX meltdown, just added & top 5
Heyy Poddy People!
I did it. I ran my first (most likely last) full marathon. Ya, I’m proud. Ya, I pushed through. Ya, my feet hurt. Bucket list done. Special shoutout to the K9 Youth Alliance, and friends that donated to the cause. Let’s go!
In this week’s newsletter:
3 recs
Just Added: 24 - Yup!
Demo Day
Top 5
Social Sizzles
I’ll be demoing Great Pods on campus at USC this April put on by student-run Troy Labs with other startups. I have to figure out what to bring…
I’m starting to sprinkle in video edits onto socials from the interviews we captured. This is a teaser reel I made. Check out the description for info on who the podcasters are. Like and follow of course. Click on the image to watch and stay tuned.
Early spikes in our web traffic for the release of Kelly Ripa’s new podcast and the fiction podcast, The Mantawauk Caves, this week. No reviews added yet.
We are also seeing interest in the new Smartless Media (Smartless) podcast, Bad Dates with Jameela Jamil launching next week. Check out the trailer here.
Wendy Williams’ podcast may not be actually happening. That news came from a “source.” Read more here. The podcast website is still up.
It’s the first day of Ramadan and potentially listening to this new podcast. When I read “reconciling the hipsterfication of Ramadan” in Podnews, I giggled and added it to my queue.
Time to bring this bad boy back for dinner:
Just Added This Week: (24)
Pinkalicious & Peterrific
Lost In Panama
Holy Week
Shock and War: Iraq 20 Years On
We Met At Acme
Next Year In Moscow
Party Crews: The Untold Story
6 Degrees of Cats
The Naked Emperor
Up The Bracket: 20 years of The Libertines
XS Long Player: Classic Indie Albums
Indiecast
The Trust Race
Countered Terrorism
Pop Culture with Chanté Joseph
Smoke Screen: Deadly Cure
City of Tents: Veterans Row
Dynamite Doug
Thru
Movers and Shakers: a podcast about life with Parkinson's
London Calling
The Rest Is Politics
900 Degrees
Made with Love
On to my picks this week…
Podcast: Holy Week
Genre: History, Society
Publisher: The Atlantic
About: The story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination on April 4, 1968, is often recounted as a conclusion to a powerful era of civil rights in America, but how did this hero’s murder come to be the stitching used to tie together a narrative of victory? The week that followed his killing was one of the most fiery, disruptive, and revolutionary, and is nearly forgotten. Over the course of eight episodes, Holy Week brings forward the stories of the activists who turned heartbreak into action, families scorched by chaos, and politicians who worked to contain the grief.
From Host Vann R. Newkirk II, from the excellent and list-topping Floodlines, comes this new, important, and amazing podcast. Much like Floodlines, you have a story building around the aftermath of the assassination from the people that lived it. I have no notes. Just listen.
Nicholas Quah • Vulture
“The score is rich with jazz-inflected minimalist ambience, heavy on brass, resulting in a vivid sense of melancholia. These elements add to and are complemented by Newkirk’s dependably engaging voice: quiet, inquiring, dutiful.”
Podcast: The Naked Emperor
Genre: Crypto, True Crime
Publisher: CBC
About: In The Naked Emperor journalist Jacob Silverman explains how Sam Bankman-Fried built and destroyed FTX, a multi-billion dollar crypto currency empire. Who helped? Who was hurt? And will anything change following one of the most stunning financial collapses in modern history?
We average folk, just know about the surface-level information in the news. So when FTX went down the toilet, government hearings, arrests, and audits were being made. Now as the dust settles, what happened? As Stephen mentions below, ‘some of the facts are wild.’ A CEO that wants regulation, choosing the company name, and credibility all come to play here. Meanwhile, I’m just trying to run an honest business. ;)
Stephen O. • Podcast Delivery
"...host Jacob Silverman only deals with facts and some of these facts are wild. The Naked Emperor avoids the fluff and fodder…and makes a point to look at the details like how the lack of boundaries between FTX and Alameda Research was unorthodox, to say the least."
Podcast: Really? No, Really?
Genre: Comedy, Society
Publisher: iHeart
About: … friends Jason Alexander and Peter Tilden are joined by experts, newsmakers and celebrities in an attempt to find answers to the things that make us go…"Really? No, Really?”
Two friends, sit down, and chat about whatever. It just so happens that one of them is George Costanza from Seinfeld, one of the biggest TV sitcoms ever. The podcast isn’t really treading new ground here. The first episode on toilets alone was amusing and informative. There is a quick gushing of Jason Alexander from the experts-guests they have on the show. It’s cute.
Marc Hershon • Vulture
“this show’s a little bit silly, a little bit serious, and a whole lot of entertaining. Yada, yada, yada.”
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