Who is going to clean up this mess?🧹
Not the Hoover vacuum, radicals, or conmen + Just Added and Tours!
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Podcast on TV: Longtime YouTube/Influencer, Emma Chamberlain was on Jimmy Fallon with a shoutout to her podcast. Anything Goes.
TV with a Podcast: Only Murder In The Building Season 2 is almost here! 6/28.
Martin Short showing us podcast advice in that clip. Always be recording.
Podcast Live: I missed out on Betches U Up? live podcast last night in LA, but you can still go to Chicago, Austin, or NYC.
Podcast Live: Tonight I am going to My Dad Wrote A Porno live. You can too until the end of the month.
Disclaimer: I know the premise and want to go in not knowing much, see how the fans react, and then write about it. Stay tuned!
Live Question: Do you know of other live podcast shows touring? Hook me up with the 411.
Website Growth: Last time I mentioned we had reached our highest Daily Active Users (DAU) in a day from the post-Reddit era, but that was short-lived as we broke it this week with another high. I hope to be saying that every week.
On to my picks this week…
Podcast: The People Vs J Edgar Hoover
Genre: History
Publisher: BBC
I submit to you The People vs. J Edgar Hoover. BBC is just great at documentaries in podcasting. In one of Emily Maitlis’ final gigs with the BBC, she guides on 15-minute episodes about Hoover’s legacy still remains in American politics today.
BBC Sounds have all episodes available in the UK and for us Non-UK folks, we have to wait weekly for the drops. The first episode was such a tease. Should I VPN it?
Darragh McManus • Independent.ie
“It’s constructed around great old audio footage — a lot of it has that evocative static crackle — of some of those involved in the strange days when Hoover basically turned a huge nation into his own personal peep show.”
Podcast: Mother Country Radicals
Genre: History
Publisher: Crooked Media, Audacy
In line with history podcasts in today’s newsletter is the well-marketed Mother Country Radicals.
About: Zayd takes us back to the 1970s, when his parents and their young friends in the Weather Underground Organization declared war on the United States government.
What’s alarming to me is the amount of recent history that school does not teach, even with Hoover. I’ve never heard about this ever so it never occurred to me to google or pre-google, go to the library, and look it up. It’s an astonishing story when you find out your mom is a violent radical!
Lauren Passell • Podcast The Newsletter
“...it’s so rich and detailed and I didn’t want to miss a nuanced breath or small detail. This story could be a mess—there are so many timelines and pivotal moments but this show is perfectly pieced together.”
Zayd sets up episode one around his mom. However, in episode two, I have one small quip, where Zayd brings the focus to his dad. While the content is there, it took almost 10 minutes of the intro to technically start the episode. Nitpicky, I know. Other than that, great!
Podcast: Persona - The French Deception
Genre: True Crime Con
Publisher: Wondery - Pineapple Street
Storytime: I was scammed-conned once. I was literally a victim of an eBay scam where I actually wired money! I WIRED money! Who does that?
eBay didn’t have proper buyer protections, so I’ll just blame them from a decade ago.
This is most likely why I’m a sucker for con stories. Lazarus Heist, Sweet Bobby, Sympathy Pains, and now Persona. Chikli is a good conman character. Too good. Evan Ratliff, Longform, takes us on the journey of this $50 million dollar con.
I had to look into it a little more and it turns out there is a 2015 French movie made about it. Je compte sur vous. I also read more about the con via this article about French-Israeli extradition treaties. It might be a spoiler alert.
Fiona Sturges • Financial Times
“It’s a hell of a story...The series is smartly scripted and sleekly produced, functioning both as a character study and a cautionary tale about the persuasion tactics of globe-trotting con artists. Ratliff goes deep into the methodology, showing how artfully constructed lies can create a skewed reality.”
The music they use is a French banger. Be right back, I have to hop over to an outdoor cafe and eat a fresh croissant from le boulangerie.
Just Added:
Life is Short with Justin Long
Hot Money: Who Rules Porn - Pushkin, Financial Times
Welcome to Provincetown - Rococo Punch, Room Tone, Stitcher, Witness Docs
Queen of Hearts - Amazon, Rococo Punch, Wondery
Drugs and Stuff: A Podcast from the Drug Policy Alliance - Drug Policy Alliance
First Person - NY Times
Visible Women with Caroline Criado Perez - Tortoise Media
Loose Units: The Podcast - Pillow Talk Productions
web3 with a16z - Andreessen Horowitz, Chris Dixon, Sonal Chokshi
Stay safe, be empathetic, save water, and be kind!
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Captain Ron
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