With perfectly manicured lawns dominating the suburban landscape, you would think that suburban prisoners would have abdicated the throne of houseplant supremacy to urban Millennials. However, for the overly competitive brats in the suburbs, houseplant preeminence was payback for all those outrageous tolls cities erected so those suburban commuters could…

There are two genres, where many of the top podcasts began their media journey as a radio show and then added podcasting later on. First, we have conservative talk shows, where turning Americans against one another has been elevated to an art form. You can play a drinking game and…

I’m watching a rerun of the TV show Alias on Amazon Prime. The thriller was last broadcast in 2006 with first-run episodes, but like a lot of TV shows, it has been resurrected for near immortality in the fertile soil of TV rerun land. This example shows how TV has…

What podcast made me think this week? It’s Playing Anne Frank, a new podcast released on January 24. Using archival material and interviews with surviving cast and crew members, executive editor of the Jewish weekly publication, Forward, Adam Langer presents a story that’s never been told: the backstory of “The…

Author: Christopher P. Jones Rating: Four out of Four Claude Monet waterlilies Ease Of Reading: 80 pages. The author’s words paint a wonderfully chromatic canvas for interpreting great art throughout history. When To read: After your retired father insists that art is “woke, a waste of time, and only attracts…

Sadly, gender classification has become a weapon of crass destruction by those who breathe intolerance and excrete grievance. But how about genre classification? Some podcasts don’t neatly fit into the genre categories defined by Apple, Spotify, or other podcast feeds. That’s the story of the Lore podcast. Is it in…

Sound Judgment podcast talks hostiness with Speakers HOFer Elaine Appleton Grant, the creator and host of the Sound Judgment podcast tells this story: “National Speakers Association Hall of Famer Jay Baer told me something recently about the financial value of a story that had never occurred to me. “And made me glad that I’m a huge believer in…

Freakonomics Radio podcast rescues your Lab Mix and your Tabby People today can get riled up over the dumbest things. The shape of the M&M cartoon character. The new name of a sports team, or the political color of the state in which you reside. But when they come for your pets, we are all united in the battle the…

The freshman season of the Mentally Gil podcast exemplifies what makes podcasting such an ideal media format for listeners. I’ll just note that there are more podcasts that instruct you how to get washboard abs than get your head straight. In a battle between a six-pack and finding my mental…