Eli Horowitz and Micah Bloomberg never meant for a Homecoming TV show to happen. When they created Homecoming, the podcast from Gimlet Media, their only intent was to make a great fictional podcast, to tell an inventive story in the burgeoning audio fiction medium. And, to their credit, they did. Homecoming was a hit among…
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You may have noticed the flood of podcasts that’s been pouring out of the BBC since the launch of its BBC Sounds app. This is supposed to give us easier access to the programme archive but actually has been an excuse to show off the podcasts now made by the corporation, from the specially made…
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After a long overdue staycation, Random Thoughts is back. Since its been a while since the last games took place, there’s little reason to review last week’s games as that has been done already, for now I’ll stick to some off the on and off the floor items of interest. Banner Raising Night The…
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Villains is an eight-episode podcast series about movie villains. Each episode will be about a different villain from a specific kind of movie. What I mean is, there’s an episode about a high school movie villain (Regina George, she’s the second episode in the series), and an episode about a superhero movie villain (Killmonger from…
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Stephen Thompson is an editor and reviewer for NPR Music, where he writes the advice column The Good Listener, fusses over the placement of commas and appears as a frequent panelist on All Songs Considered. Since 2010, Thompson has been a fixture on the weekly NPR roundtable podcast Pop Culture Happy Hour, which he created…
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Welcome to Hot Pod, a newsletter about podcasts. This is issue 190, published January 8, 2018. Happy new year, everyone! Let me begin by saying something that’s extremely typical: I spent a good deal of the holiday season either thinking about work or actually working. Which is to say, I totally vibe with what Anne…
Read MoreThe Kings of Dope Criticism, Pharaohs of Prolific Opinion, and Emperors of Elevated Thought are back at it again. In this episode JustShola & your boy Harris dive into: • MUSIC POTPOURRI. We speak about ‘Surviving R. Kelly’. In 2010 Drake showed he’s nasty; is there a bigger pattern to be observed? Jay Z &…
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Episode Notes Zach and Ade stop by for a brief New Year’s intermission in this special episode of the Living Corporate podcast. Living Corporate’s CBE Week Series continues next week, but for now, enjoy this check-in! They discuss the importance of effective goal setting and share their New Year’s resolutions. Find out more about CBEWeek…
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We’re kicking off 2018 in Berlin! Meet Abimbola Idowu, a software engineer for SAP, one of the largest tech companies in Europe. Abimbola may be fairly new to Berlin, but he’s already making his mark and spends his spare time cycling and exploring the city with his family. Our conversation began with a walk through…
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Slowly but surely, mental health has moved from the sidelines to the center of our national conversation around well-being. But discussing feelings and emotions is still a touchy subject in certain communities. After realizing that many African Americans weren’t embracing the importance of mental health, Joy Harden Bradford, an Atlanta-based therapist and founder of the…
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