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Sometimes one of my favourite podcasts will throw in an episode that's a little different to usual, and makes me love the show even more.
Helen Zaltzman hosts Answer Me This!, and The Allusionist, which is part of Radiotopia (www.radiotopia.fm) from PRX.
Helen Zaltzman hosts Answer Me This!, and The Allusionist, which is part of Radiotopia (www.radiotopia.fm) from PRX.
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OK, this one is not a gamechanger at all: it’s the greatest radio format of all time, featuring the most amiable movie star of our age, so no surprise the episode was going to be a total treat. Listen to it because it will cheer you up.
Me, crying in the street listening to this episode about the oldest continuously-running gay bar in the USA? No, that was you.
FINE, it was me. But also you.
I’m not condoning the crime of stealing petrified wood from national parks, but as a change of pace from Criminal’s more serious episodes, this is irresistable.
This episode was a game-changer for my intellectual self-esteem. In a bad way. I’d covered the hashtag/pound sign/octothorpe/# on my podcast Answer Me This a while before, so didn’t think there was anything for me to learn. But of course, 99PI does its usual trick of showing you there’s so much more than you thought you knew about a subject. I could never achieve what they achieve. Ugh, how do they DO it? Every time!
Benjamen Walker deploys the preternaturally cheerful Andrew Callaway to work for a month in the ‘sharing economy’. By the third episode, poor Andrew is significantly less chipper. This is a very jolly, humorous polemic, but a polemic nonetheless.
I hadn’t heard anyone as witty as Merrill Garbus on the show before (no offense to host Hrishikesh Hirway, who in real life is very witty, but keeps a low-profile presence on Song Exploder). Musician with bewitching personality + intriguing production methods + strong lyrics = the epitome of a Song Exploder episode.
In this miniseries, and the five Other People’s Food episodes earlier in the year, food is the prism through which to examine race, culture, stereotypes, shame, and the line between cultural appreciation and cultural appropriation.
The first few years of podcasting were dominated by white men. This episode, for me, was the unequivocal announcement that other people exist and everyone should damn well pay attention to what they’re saying. Getting Hillary Clinton as a guest was a big deal for a relatively new show, but it proved that Heben and Tracy are super-smart and dauntless in politics as they are in everything.
1This is the first podcast to make me blush. I was listening on the bus, and was worried everyone could hear it through my skull or something.
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