May 30, 2022
You'd think after almost two months, I'd be overflowing with podcast recommendations. Well, after my favorite sports team suffered perhaps the most embarrassing defeat of all time , my time was devoted to consuming basketball related media to try and understand what happened. After that I mostly kept busy staying current on the old standbys (i.e. The Gist , The Bill Simmons Podcast , and The Slate Culture Gabfest ) and listening to some new music (i.e. ROSALIA, Bastille, Anaïs Mitchell). I did also really dig the latest season of Against the Rules (flipping the idea of the expert on it's head) and Still Processing (in which Wesley Morris brings on a different guest host each which to aid in parsing out some pretty specific culture-related wonderings). But other than that - which, OK, is kind of a lot -there was time for one show in particular that sound-tracked my dog walks and semi-futile late-spring attempts at landscaping, and that's the main focus of this week'