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Category Archives: Podthoughts

Podthoughts: You Made it Weird

Vital stats: Format: one-on-one comedy/sex/God conversations Episode duration: 50m-1h45m Frequency: 3-7 per month You’ve surely heard the name Pete Holmes resonating through the halls of alternative and/or podcast-y comedy lately. The words themselves could, by their broad pan-American nature, gain only the loosest purchase on anyone’s memory — far less than the evangelical fervor with […]

Podthoughts: Point of Inquiry

  Vital stats: Format: interviews with bigtime skeptics Episode duration: 30m-1h Frequency: weekly “In-KWAI-ree.” That’s how the hosts of Point of Inquiry [RSS] [iTunes] pronounce, sometimes with great deliberateness, the final word of their program’s title. Does this sound strange? Not terribly. Is it even not the standard pronunciation? Admittedly, I don’t know. But at […]

Podthoughts: Roderick on the Line

I haven’t posted much here about Podthoughts, the podcast-review column I’ve written for the past three years at MaximumFun.org. (You’ll know them for their own podcasts like Bullseye, a.k.a. the former Sound of Young America, and Jordan, Jesse, Go!) Perhaps I should. This week’s column examines (two-time Marketplace of Ideas) guest Merlin Mann’s latest podcasting […]