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🎙️Welcome to the 286th edition of Find That Pod 🎙️
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Here are this week’s podcast recommendations:
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TRUE CRIME
Scamtown
Welcome to Scamtown! It’s a place where the true crime is stranger than fiction and the stories are filled with quirks and moral ambiguity. Join the mayors of Scamtown, Emmy-nominated filmmakers and Signal Podcast Award winners James Lee Hernandez and Brian Lazarte (McMillion$ and The Big Conn), as they take you through stories ranging from the strange to the unbelievable. Wild scams, surprising heists, forbidden love, and massive explosions are just a little taste of what’s in store.
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Not sure where to start? Start with this episode: Extra Virgin Hustle
BUSINESS
Channels with Peter Kafka
Media and tech aren’t just intersecting — they’re fully intertwined. And to understand how those worlds work, and what they mean for you, veteran journalist Peter Kafka talks to industry leaders, upstarts and observers - and gets them to spell it out in plain, BS-free English.
Not sure where to start? Start with this episode: I tried Orion, Mark Zuckerberg’s $10k face computer
CLASSIFIEDS
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CAREERS
Let’s Talk Offline
Each week on Let's Talk Offline, LinkedIn's Gianna Prudente and Jamé Jackson Gadsden answer your unfiltered questions about work life, from negotiating pay to setting boundaries to navigating office friendships. Gianna – an early career development editor and resident Gen Zer – and Jamé – a community manager, workshop host and millennial – get real about their own career experiences (spoiler: they're still figuring it out, too) and confide in expert guests who've been there, done that. Through it all, you'll learn what it takes to thrive in the early years of your career — without sacrificing your values, sanity or sleep.
Not sure where to start? Start with this episode: Navigating the Unspoken Rules of Work
BUSINESS
The Best Idea Yet
The untold stories behind the products you’re obsessed with and the bold risk-takers who made them go viral. How did Birkenstocks go from a German cobbler’s passion project 250 years ago to a starring role in the Barbie movie? Who created that bottle of Sriracha permanently living in your fridge? Did you know the Air Jordans were initially banned by the NBA, or that Super Mario became the best-selling video game character ever thanks to a strategy called “The Infinite Game?”
On Wondery’s new weekly podcast The Best Idea Yet, Nick Martell and Jack Crivici-Kramer (hosts of the award-winning daily pop-business podcast, The Best One Yet) have identified the most viral products of all time and reveal their untold origin stories — plus the bold risk-takers who brought them to life. From the Happy Meal to Levi’s 501 jeans, come for the products you’re obsessed with, stay for the business insights that’ll make you the most interesting person at your next brunch.
Not sure where to start? Start with this episode: Super Mario Bros: Nintendo’s Infinite Game
POLITICS
Fortress Europe
This summer saw far-right mobs unleash devastating violence towards migrants and asylum seekers in Britain. It’s a far cry from the outpouring of sympathy shown during the European refugee crisis a decade ago. The new seven-part documentary podcast Fortress Europe shows how years of increasingly brutal and dehumanizing anti-migrant policies have fanned the flames of extremism but still failed to prevent record high asylum applications. We travel across the continent hearing from people making treacherous journeys, those trying to stop them, and those standing up for their rights.
Not sure where to start? Start with the first episode.
industry news
🎙️ Here’s a good tutorial for anyone considering Adobe Audition as their podcast editing software.
😳 An AI powered podcast will bring someone back from the dead. Sort of. I don’t know how to feel about this.
🇮🇳 A new podcast recommendation newsletter has launched. This one focuses on Indian podcasts. Welcome to the racket!
🤣 Intuit did an interview with Decoder’s Nilay Patel and then went on to ask for The Verge to delete a part of the podcast they didn’t like. As you can imagine, The Verge declined.
🎙️ I’ve never come across this directory before, but here’s a cool website that is dedicated to showcasing completed audio fiction series.
📈 Chartr reports that podcasts just keep growing in popularity.
🌎 Discover the top ranking podcasts in a whole bunch of countries.
🎙️ According to this report by Acast, listeners rank podcasts as the best way to access content and topics they’re interested in (34%). YouTube ranks a close second at 32%.
🏆 The Signal Awards have been announced. Tons of interesting podcasts to discover.
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