November 20 - 26, 2016
1. Reply All - "Hello? (#82)"
Channeling the ethos of a radio call-in show, PJ and Alex decide to open up a hotline and accept calls from listeners for 48 straight hours without sleeping. It's a simple premise and may likely sound quite boring, yet I found it to be utterly compelling. Granted, the audio was cut down to a small fraction of the total experiment and surely underwent some painstaking editing. Even still, I was more taken with the romance of the episode's scope than with any of the things the listeners had to say.
2. The Cracked Podcast - "Why A Second Civil War Is Frighteningly Possible"
The title of this episode may seem alarmist and conspiratorial in nature, and the conversation is rooted in a theory about America being divided into 11 nations that may appear to teeter on the brink of irrationality. Make no mistake, the tone is somber and it's no coincidence that the show was originally released on the day before the election. But the end of the show delivers a hopeful conceit, proposing that what America needs is more internal exchanges in schools to broaden horizons before biases set in and turn us against each other.
3. Planet Money - "President Trump (#735)"
Like every other facet of the media, the podcasting sphere is flooded by Trump transition news. This primer from Planet Money is the type of journalism we need - not flat-out rejection of the president's legitimacy, but a detailed, facts-based journalism that takes apart an issue in a digestible way. Of course this particular angle is economically based, as one might expect, but it sets a good precedent for the rest of the media.
Channeling the ethos of a radio call-in show, PJ and Alex decide to open up a hotline and accept calls from listeners for 48 straight hours without sleeping. It's a simple premise and may likely sound quite boring, yet I found it to be utterly compelling. Granted, the audio was cut down to a small fraction of the total experiment and surely underwent some painstaking editing. Even still, I was more taken with the romance of the episode's scope than with any of the things the listeners had to say.
2. The Cracked Podcast - "Why A Second Civil War Is Frighteningly Possible"
The title of this episode may seem alarmist and conspiratorial in nature, and the conversation is rooted in a theory about America being divided into 11 nations that may appear to teeter on the brink of irrationality. Make no mistake, the tone is somber and it's no coincidence that the show was originally released on the day before the election. But the end of the show delivers a hopeful conceit, proposing that what America needs is more internal exchanges in schools to broaden horizons before biases set in and turn us against each other.
3. Planet Money - "President Trump (#735)"
Like every other facet of the media, the podcasting sphere is flooded by Trump transition news. This primer from Planet Money is the type of journalism we need - not flat-out rejection of the president's legitimacy, but a detailed, facts-based journalism that takes apart an issue in a digestible way. Of course this particular angle is economically based, as one might expect, but it sets a good precedent for the rest of the media.
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