Photo by My Colorful Past “FIGHT LIKE THE DEVIL” In Episode 2 of Legends fo the Old West Podcast: Texas Rangers, Captain Jack Hays, Samuel Walker and a company of Rangers fight a small battle with Comanches that ends up impacting the entire history of the American West. Lieutenant Ben McCulloch joins Jack Hays…
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Welcome to Hot Pod, a newsletter about podcasts. This is issue 209, published May 14, 2019. The state of play, mid-2019. Last week, a good portion of the podcast community got glimmers of something they’ve long wanted: seemingly structural-level solutions to discovery, one in the form of playable Google search listings and one in the…
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KANSAS CITY — Over the last 15 games, Phillies starting pitchers have a glistening 2.36 ERA. The latest gem was turned in by a guy who has never thrown hard enough to excite the folks who put together those Top 10 prospect lists, a guy who simply gets out and wins ballgames. There’s nothing sexy about…
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BEIJING — Kou Aizhe, the creator and host of one of China’s most popular storytelling podcasts, has only one criterion for selecting stories. “Any subject can work,” he said, “as long as it surprises me.” What emerges is a collection of unusual stories told with an authenticity rarely heard in the country’s tightly scripted, propaganda-heavy…
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Jewelyn Butron If you couldn’t get enough of The Act each week, keep close tabs on Elizabeth Holmes’ ongoing investigation, and watched Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile the **second** it hit Netflix, true crime podcasts are definitely going to be your jam. Anyone who’s listened to a true crime podcast **cough Serial cough** will…
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KANSAS CITY — In Aaron Nola, the Phillies have one of the top young starters in baseball, a pitcher who can potentially do something special every time he takes the mound. In Jake Arrieta, the Phils have a proven veteran who, despite no longer being at his Cy Young peak, will more often than not give…
Read MoreNPR’s Ari Shapiro talks with Scarlett Newman, freelance writer for Teen Vogue, and Glen Weldon of NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast, about camp and its popularization in pop culture. ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Yesterday was the first Monday of May, which means some of New York’s fashion elites put on their most outrageous outfits for…
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Carrie Griffin Basas and her family | image: Libby Lewis Welcome to another Feminist Friday column – that part of our week where we share a handful of our fave videos and pieces of content we can’t get enough of at the moment. This week we’re doing another podcast round-up (we know, it’s been a…
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The true-crime podcast universe is ever expanding. We’re here to make it a bit smaller and a bit more manageable. There are a lot of great shows, and each has a lot of great episodes, so we want to highlight the noteworthy and the exceptional. Each week, our crack team of podcast enthusiasts and specialists will pick…
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