Welcome to Hot Pod, a newsletter about podcasts. This is issue 200, published March 19, 2019.
Issue 200. Crazy, huh? Look, I’ve never held a proper job for more than nine months, and so it’s more surprising to me than to anyone else that I’ve sent out two hundred of these comically lengthy newsletters for a living. (And that doesn’t even count all the Insider and emergency issues.) Running this thing is hard, hard work — there hasn’t been a second when I’m not thinking about the newsletter since the first issue went out way back in November 2014 — but it’s been a really rewarding experience, and the fact never escapes me that it’s a privilege to serve this readership every week. So thanks for being a reader — and to the Insider subscribers, thanks for helping to keep the lights on.
While we’re here: I made two media appearances last week where I had the opportunity to talk through bigger-picture stuff: CNN’s Reliable Sources podcast with Brian Stelter,…
