You’ve heard of “Netflix and chill”—a phrase that connotes staying at home on Saturday nights with a cuddly someone and bingeing episode after episode of The Staircase, or Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, or whatever else it is you’re bingeing these days.
But have you heard of “podcast and drive”? No?
Well, that’s because it’s a simple new phrase we’re trying out—one that connotes you and your road-tripping companions on a particularly mundane stretch of Midwestern cornfields, engrossed in some form of audio storytelling, hanging on every word, minds wandering (yet focused on the road ahead). And it’s something we’re putting to the test with these seven, highly bingeable new podcasts.
Download them wisely.
For true crime fanatics who still aren’t over Serial: In the Dark
The first season of American Public Media’s In the Dark investigated the circumstances that led to the murder of an 11-year-old boy in 1989, and the reverberations in the…
