For any industry, keeping tabs on the customer is critical. Are you listening, Spirit Airlines? Recently, Frontier Airlines dropped all customer service phone support for customers. I’m sure their customers were asking for that downgrade. Thankfully, podcasting does a better job checking the blood pressure of listeners. Cumulus Media, in…

Slow Burn Podcast wins Apple’s new podcast prize Apple Podcasts has introduced an award for “Show of the Year,” with its inaugural honor going to Slate’s Slow Burn. In the weeks leading up to the Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade in June, Slow Burn published an in-depth account of the history behind the landmark 1973 case. …

A podcast on astrology? Really? How about a podcast on phrenology? Or alchemy? For many, astrology is that belief that tends to mark an acolyte as someone “a little bit out there.” When Mangesh Hattikudur (Part-Time Genius podcast and Humans Growing Stuff) set out to do a big, sweeping show…

Over seven episodes, The Last Resort has explored Calexit’s founding story, if California could be returned to indigenous tribes, the roots of the Civil War, far-right activists in Shasta County, California, the state’s water rights and laws, and Mexico’s Zapatista movement — all culminating to where Calexit stands today. You…

Every week, Arielle Nissenblatt distributes the EarBuds Podcast Collective recommendations by topic. Five podcasts are recommended according to a theme, and they are curated by a different person. This week, the recommendation curator is Amy Martin, the founder and executive producer of the Threshold podcast. Threshold is a Peabody Award-winning…

Author: Amanda Skenandore Rating: Four out of Four antiseptic bandages Ease Of Reading: 352 pages. Relax because you’re in the hands of a master narrator. Plenty of narrative balls to juggle with no risk of dropping any of them. When To read: After watching several episodes of Grey’s Anatomy and…

Author: Yascha Mounk Rating: Four out of Four multicultural flags Ease Of Reading: 291 pages. A Harvard man who is able to write for readers who don’t have a PhD. When To read: After you’ve visited your in-laws, who watch the news every waking hour and insist that America was…

Let me set the stage for you. I am vacationing with my wife and about 20 people from her family in a VRBO home on stilts on the beach in North Carolina. I’m lucky because my wife’s family have somehow escaped the oddball chromosome or switched-on “nutbag on steroids” gene…

Billionaires behaving badly. When is that ever happened? Elon Musk? Jeff Bezos? Jeffrey Epstein? Donald Trump? Now there’s a podcast about one such billionaire. New York Magazine and the Vox Media Podcast Network released the latest episode of the series, Cover Story: Seed Money. Hosted by New York’s editorial director…