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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Hi everybody, and welcome to another edition of Access podcast,
the podcast about Podcasts. I'm Maddie Stout and this week
I was gonna tell you that this is a special
episode where we give you our podcast picks, which is
which is what it is? You know, this week we
are going to tell you a podcast that we're listening
to and that you should be listening to. But the
real reason we're doing this podcast, Z, is because you
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didn't do your job. We didn't get a guest this week.
Just be on, let's just listen play out, Let's be honest.
Z dropped the ball and completely blew it. Guys really bad.
That's strike one. Okay, I'll take it of who knows,
probably so listen. But this is fun. We're just gonna
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talk about some podcasts that we're listening to right now that,
of course, you can also find these on I Heart
radio and anywhere else that you listen to podcasts. You know,
we we we say anyway you can listen to a podcast,
listen to a podcast. I've got my list. I think
a couple of them I've talked about maybe before, but
I want to reiterate the importance of listening to these shows.
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You've got three that you've picked out. The next time
we do this, I think we're gonna do this probably
once a month. We're gonna start walking around the offices
and getting opinions from people and actually doing a little
more production on it. But again, this week ball dropped.
This is what you get. This is what you get.
Thank you the tens of people who have been listening
in our fans. We appreciate you, um and hopefully you'll
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appreciate this episode. So anyway, uh, let's get things started.
I want to start with the podcast that everybody should
listen to. I this is the one podcast stuff stops
when this one comes on. I tell people listen. This
is the one that I make time for. This is
my Wednesday mornings I do. I get up at like
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five am and and have a little workout regimen and
I this is my my jam. It's from Gimlet Media,
which we all know I love. It's called Reply All,
PJ Vote, Alex Goldman. I love them, by the way.
I just I never look at their pictures. Z I
never looked because I just like to imagine I'm an
old school radio guy. I don't go and look to
see what people look like, because it's usually disappointing. PJ
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vote good looking dude, right, I was kind of I
was impressed. I couldn't really tell from the picture of Alex,
but but I you in my head it's like, oh,
you know, I expect two giant nerds. This is a
podcast about the Internet. And I know when you hear that,
you're like, oh, that doesn't sound cool at all, but
it is very cool. When they first came out, they
were the first podcast Gimlet put out after startup, and
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I didn't listen to it because I was like, I
don't listen to a podcast about the Internet. But they
do a lot of different segments, and one of the
segments I really love z is called yes s No.
It's where they take something from the internet, a tweet
and explain it. Now this past week they did this,
Uh I guess this was two weeks ago and the
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entire episode was talking about one tweet and it's fascinating. Well,
you have to listen to the show. I can't really,
honestly like for me to explain it, it it would take
a long time. But if you, if you like, if
you if you want to know what it was, here's
a little taste of it so you can get an idea.
So four quadrants famine, war, death, pestilence. I have never
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been happier than listening to you describe this tweet. It's
so funny. Nothing, nothing makes sense. And also up at
the top there's this text. I guess it's sort of
like a creole patois sort of dialect brought as we
will fight wars for the Queen and find the way
and way is spelled w A E and Queen is
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spelled q w E E. N okay. I think this
is the most complicated tweet that you've brought into Yes,
now do do you listen to that show? I've listened
a few episodes because I know you talked about it
so much, but um, I haven't listened to their entire
track list yet. It is being a bowl. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
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that's what I here. And their production levels insane. It's great.
Uh They're they're there, producers, Domiano, Shruthy. I'm missing a
few of them. Uh Fhia Bennon. Uh, I'm a producer.
I pay attention. And by the way, any of you
are invited on this program. I know, I know Z's
reached out a couple of times. Please email me back. Yeah, emails. Hey,
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if you get an email from Z, that's a big deal.
This is a big deal show. You know, the entire
weight of I heart radio podcasting revolves around this f
and show. It does the whole thing. If we go down,
it all goes down. Keep us alive. Yeah, I got
a couple of we're we have a new podcast studio,
by the way, it's beautiful and well have we have
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cameras and and all kinds of stuff that will be
unleashing on onto the public pretty soon. Because I'll be
honest with you, we're pretty good looking. Yeah, especially Yeah, yeah,
he's not wrong. Me a little long in the tooth,
but I'm all right, all right, listen, what do you
got for me? All right? So this is gonna be
real millennial on me. I want to hear that. So, um,
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you've heard of BuzzFeed? Correct? They Yeah, you've heard of you?
I know you guys should have seen his face. I
was like, wite. Um. So there's two girls on BuzzFeed.
Their name is Kelsey and Kate, and they started their
own like podcast. They're hilariously they're so funny. Kelsey is
probably one of the most popular BuzzFeed like personalities, and
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it's just it's called adult Ship and it's everything. It's
basically catered towards women and with what we go through
in our day to day lives, and they just make
it so funny. And a lot of my friends and
I listened to it and we always talked about it after.
And it's from there called f boys. I'm not going
to say it, but like, okay, dealing with them and
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just girl stuff that we go through and dating, and
it's I know, and I know it sounds boring. It
was like, oh what those girls can talk about it,
but they just make it so funny. They just talk
about it for an hour straight and a minute. I'm
always there. Let's check it out. Look, when you're in
a romantic city and you're hanging out with someone for
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a week straight, all day every day. Some feelings were
exchanged over the trip. It was raining, we had have
a lot of wine. I think I'm dating my body.
I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. Probably not for me,
probably not for you. But it's not you know. That's
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the great thing about podcasting. Doesn't have to be But
what if they if you start a podcast and you
and you tell me this show is going to be
liked by everyone, I'm going to tell you no one
will like it. Nobody will like it. Yeah, it doesn't work.
You gotta you have to have a focus when you
do a podcast. A little lesson for you have a
mission statement, stick to it. If your content doesn't fit
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inside what your mission statement is of your show, don't
do that content. Boom. Yeah, that's somebody from sales the
other day like, oh, maybe we can get the LinkedIn
CEO and have him on your podcast. I said, no,
he's not a podcaster. I don't care if he's the
LinkedIn CEO. I mean he's I'd love to do an
interview with him, but not for my podcast. Doesn't make sense,
doesn't fit in the mission statement. A podcast about podcast
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listen over. Okay, the next podcast that I picked out
is my favorite new podcast and I say anything that's
been out recently within the last year as a new podcast.
It's from the folks at ESPN thirty for thirty. I mean,
they already make incredible, incredible documentaries. I saw a quote
that referred to this podcast as the This American Life
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of Sports, and it is it is the same level
of production, the same amount of thought. Um. I adore
this show. I can't wait when episodes come out. The
seasons have been shorter, but it's thirty for thirty podcasts. Uh.
And the episode that I'm going to suggest that you
listen to is called Yankee Suck and they Yeah. Well,
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it's about the guys who came up with the Yankee
T shirts. And it is incredible the story behind the
kids who came up with this and the empire that
they built out of these T shirts. Because anyway, if
you've ever I lived in New York, you'll see Yankees
Suck T shirt, you know, you know when people come
to town or you especially in Boston. They I mean,
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you know, that's that's exactly you know, you see somebody
wearing a shirt. You know they're from Boston. It's just
about these Boston or a Mets fan, but really big
in Boston. But anyway, this is a great podcast. It's
so well done, and it's another one if you're on
a road trip sticking on listening. All there's not I mean,
there's not a bad episode. They don't exist. And it's
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really interesting because they make such great films I'm interested
to see how they translate just to audio because for
the films, I love seeing the visuals obviously, but I'm
excited to listen to that. Oh it's so good. All right,
check out this club. What better flashpoint for this then
a final ship? Oh, a bunch of people. There's a
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playoff game happening, and Ray and Eric come out with
the shirt in the font of SSD Control that says
Yankee Sucking Blue and on the back the day of
the show and the name of not their band, right,
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So it's like a double bootleg, which you have to
give them kudos for not only bootlegging their friends band,
but bootlegging you know, the Yankees. You want to listen
to the rest of them, absolutely, all right. My next
one is also a new one from Crooked Media. They're
the guys that do pod Save America, pot Save the World,
your favorite, my favorite. Why haven't you gotten any of
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those guys on what's going on? I don't know. I'm nervous.
I should email them. I'll email them. Let's just say this.
Let me give Z a little credit here. Z has
never produced a radio show before. This is true at all.
This is true. This is her first time we're producing
a radio show, and I've I've put her in a
position of of of a lot of responsibility, and I
give her a hard time. But I'm just trying to
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just trying to make you better pushes me. I want
to make you the best, best that and I hold
you to my standard. And I was the best producer
in the history of radio. Well, I was so good.
I was the best. In fact, I'm sure somewhere there
is a monument to me up in at least three cities. Wow. Actually,
but I was really, really good, really good. Just I'm
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so good. I hate myself. I had a salesperson the
other day. Why are you always like so self deprecating.
I'm because I suck. It's much better to just know
that and move on with your life. All right, what
do you got? All right? So keep it. It's UM
with Ira Madison the Third, Ira Madison the Third. Yes,
I already like it. Um. He's a culture columnist and
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he kind of brings He brings everybody from journalists to
comedians to actors onto his podcast to talk about anything
that kind of crosses over with pop culture and politics.
The latest episode was Woody Allen's controversy. Right, so he
is a man in this film, but what with everything
that's going around him with his daughter and all of that,
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and the fact that he married his daughter well also
Dylan Farrow like and how I don't even get started disgusting.
So it's just a really great way to mix pop
culture and politics if you're trying to get into both
those things. All r. Let's check it out. Alec Baldwin
and Diane Keaton are acting, They're creating a start. So
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amidst other actors coming forward to rebuke Woody Allen, for
some reason, Alec Baldwin and Diane Keaton just decided to
jump out the fucking window this week and be like,
I support wood fuck everybody else while wearing her fiercest
belted trench. What's that guy's name again? Ira Madison the Third?
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I will check out that podcast. It sounds interesting to me.
I grew up with a guy named Harry Lips Junior.
Harry Lips Junior, so not yes that, Yeah, you missed
the point of that. Harry Lips Jr. Yeah, So did
his parents do that to him on purpose? Yeah? His
dad named me Harry Lips on purpose? I mean yeah,
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his son that he went through. Yeah, Harry Lips JR. Romney,
West Virginia. Where it up. Alright, My final podcast is
one it's been on since I've been in podcasting, and
that's ten years. I was very I'm proud of this
podcast because it was the first one that I found
and really really promoted on Stitcher. This was the first
podcast that I was like, this is one that we
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need to like make an important podcast and put on
Stitcher and like put in a very prominent position. It's
called The Moth. A lot of you know about the Moth.
The Moth is stories told from a first person perspective,
so people on stage, unscripted and they tell us stories
about their lives. There are so many good episodes of
this of this podcast because there are so many good
moths because they do them all over the country now
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pretty much if you're in a large city, they do moths.
They have a they'll have a you know, if you
look in your your lifestyle pages, they'll probably have a moth.
And it's and it's normal people um telling a true
story and they just submit themselves into it or yeah,
or just or just show up it if it's an
open cause there a genre for each episode, like they'll
have a they'll have a theme, and then all the
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stories are based on that theme and the podcast. Again,
it's been out for quite a long time, but you
know it's you know, pretty simple concept. They take the
stories from the stage and put them on a podcast. Um,
I haven't, I haven't. I have to find this episode.
And I'm really excited that I did. Uh, this is
a really old one, but I enjoy it because the
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guy's telling a story I really enjoy. And it's a
story about you know, he was a cop and and
that's a cool thing, like you'll have these guys who
became writers and other things who had other careers or
and they and uh, this story involves just him finding
a young man riding on a bicycle with another guy
late at night, and and and I can't do you
any more than to just check out this little taste
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of it. And then well, well, all these episodes that
we talk about today, we'll put up links on our
Facebook page so you can go check them out. But
check this one out. There. There are two cops up front,
and I'm sitting in the back. And when I ride
with these guys, I don't really comment about what they do.
I don't engage them, you know, in any kind of debates.
It's like I'm I'm there to bear witness and then
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see what I can do with it, you know, in
my work. Anyways, they're they're riding up SX Street. It's
kind of Miller time, you know, and I love it already.
It's just good stuff. So um the Moth to check
that out if you haven't already. If you don't know
about the Moth, then this this is one of those
put on your like must listen to list right after
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s Town serial. You know that. My last one is
from Gimlet Media. What What What? And I mentioned this
before way back in UM some of our earlier episodes.
But it's called Homecoming, and it is a scripted series,
which I never thought i'd really get into, like for podcasts,
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but this has Katherine Keener, Oscar Isaac, David Schimmer, Dave Cross,
Michael Sarah, a whole bunch of people. And I love
this podcast so much. Katherine Keener already has a voice
I can listen to all the time, and it is
about she is a case worker for this experimental factory
and she was retired and she works in a diner
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and someone David Schwimmer's character comes back and kind of
asked her to come back about this certain project. So
if you're really getting into if you like storytelling and
you want a scripted podcast, I would start with Homecoming.
Rand I'm sorry, I'm might certainly understand what you're suggesting. Yeah,
I mean, I mean, when I'm just floating this idea,
why we grab bergman wife for clean Homecoming? For existence?
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Homecoming did exist? Randolph? No, I mean I know that. No,
it does. It does exist. So let me just make
sure I understand. Your solution is to repeat the exact
sequence of wonders that led to the situation. No, Audrey,
Audrey a series of rash misuses of experimental medication. That's
your solution. That's the idea you're floating around. You know,
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he's a big fan of that podcast. Musin and Seth Lynd,
who were on our very first episode. Yeah, that show
is doing really well. And I saw I don't know
if it was her or not, I swear it was
her on I've been watching Amy Sedaris is news. Oh
my god, so her her new TV show at Home
with Amy Sedaris. Holy hell? Is it funny. It is
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so funny. I mean, I mean, I know this is
a show about podcast so we shouldn't talk about TV,
but put that on your list. But anyway, yeah, so
I I I swear it with her on this episode
and they're in the groundlings together and I'm sure, like
you know, but I looked on IMDb and I didn't
see her, but I'm like, I know that was her.
So if you're listening, let me know. If anybody knows,
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you don't follow us on Twitter, shame on you because
we don't have a lot of followers right now. And
this is the quality of people following us that don't
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listen to. I don't know how hard that is to understand,
and how hard is that to understand. Kelly Clarkson wants
to listen to a podcast. She is a dog, she's
a good dog. You can't have a podcast? Yeah, well
she could. She has a Facebook page. Yeah, but she's not.
She's not barking into a mike for he tells me
what to pose. Smart dog is I got a lot
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