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The Catch and Kill, Cut and Run, Second Life
Oi you. Yes you. It's time to find your newest podcast to listen to, via our Castologists. This week Nick gets on the true crime bandwagon with Ronan Farrow's The Catch and Kill; Liz goes with not-so-true crime with the Audible Original podcast (that's technically an audiobook) Cut and Run; and Zane gets his feminst on with a podcast on female entrepreneurship, Second Life. Then, stay tuned for all the reviews you can handle from last week's recommendations.
Liz Recommends - Cut and Run
https://www.audible.com/pd/Cut-and-Run-Audiobook/B082YHVMCG
Welcome to a tale of love, adventure, and organ theft.
In this charming, scripted audio crime comedy, Samantha Dugan (D’Arcy Carden) and Abe Lally (Sam Richardson) are best friends and partners in crime. They steal kidneys. Like all jobs, it’s complicated. Despite being Robin Hoods of organ thievery, Abe and Samantha are just the sweetest people.
Samantha, a professional con artist, uses her charms to steal kidneys from bad people and get them to good ones. Abe, Sam’s surgeon-in-crime on their illicit kidney theft operation, is using unfettered access to the human body to advance his research to cure diabetes. This gig is hell on their social lives.
This hilarious and twisted Audible Original tale features just about everything you could hope for: crime, punishment, law, order, love, romance, air travel, Ed Begley Jr., and a quinceañera.
Cut and Run, a star-studded scripted audio performance, boasts the talents of Meg Ryan (You’ve Got Mail) as The Narrator; Sam Richardson (VEEP) as Abe Lally; and D’Arcy Carden (The Good Place) as Samantha Dugan—plus the aforementioned Ed Begley, Jr. (Arrested Development) as Gordon Grimbsy, the amiable crime boss; Rachel Bloom (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) as Katie Reynolds, Abe’s girlfriend and best selling children’s book author; and Thomas Lennon (Reno 911) as Jeff Calvert, an FBI agent and unwitting organ donor. This Audible Original also features Eugene Cordero, Baron Vaughn, Carlos Alazraqui, Arturo del Puerto, Dustin Ybarra, Aaron Abrams, Ginger Gonzaga, Greg Santos, Oscar Montoya, Roberta Valderrama, and Shulie Cowen.
Cut and Run was written and co-produced by Ben Acker and Ben Blacker, the inventors of the first narrative fiction podcast, The Thrilling Adventure Hour.
For both: It's a serial, start from the start.
https://www.audible.com/pd/Cut-and-Run-Audiobook/B082YHVMCG
Nick Recommends - The Catch and Kill
For the past two years, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Ronan Farrow has been following a trail of clues from his investigation of Harvey Weinstein to other blockbuster stories about the systems that protect powerful men accused of terrible crimes in Hollywood, Washington, and beyond. But he didn’t bring that information to light on his own. A compelling cast of sources—from brave whistleblowers to shadowy undercover operatives—decided the fate of these investigations, sometimes risking everything in the process. The Catch and Kill Podcast brings you their stories, in their own words, for the first time.
For both: It's a serial, start from the start.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-catch-and-kill-podcast-with-ronan-farrow/id1487730212
Zane Recommends - Second Life
www.secondlifepod.com
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181. Adventures in New America, Ladies, We Need to Talk, Crypto Island
33:57||Season 2, Ep. 181Zane Recommends - Adventures in New Americahttps://newamericapodcast.com/#scripted #fiction #comedyAdventures in New America is the first sci-fi, political satire, Afrofuturistic buddy comedy, serialized for New Americans in a new and desperate time.Set a few years in the future, Adventures in New America follows the escapades of two mismatched African-New-American best friends — fat, lonely, curmudgeon IA and lesbian sneak-thief Simon Carr — who take on a series of increasingly wild heists to get quick cash to pay for IA’s medical treatment while attempting to survive the wilds of New New York City — and a secret cabal of Tetchy Terrorist Vampire Zombies from outer space. Intrigued? Good! Frequently, there will be musical numbers... and radical reflections on our dangerous, beautiful, heart-pounding world.https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1434863731Britt Recommends - Ladies, We Need to Talkhttps://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/ladies-we-need-to-talk/episodes#Conversational #HealthAndFitness #SexAndRelationships #HardConversationsWant to know how to close the orgasm gap? Riding your hormonal rollercoaster blindfolded? Feel like kicking your mental load to the kerb? You're not the only one. Ladies, We Need To Talk dives headfirst into the tricky topics we often avoid talking about, like our alcohol consumption, the struggles of monogamy, and the wonders of our vaginas. With sensitivity, personal stories, and serious smarts, this show is for women who feel the squeeze between work, their private life, and their pelvic floor. Join host Yumi Stynes as she tears open the sealed section on life.https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/ladies-we-need-to-talk/id1277424411Harry Recommends - Crypto IslandA new series from a founding host of Reply All, Crypto Island explores the frontiers of a strange new world. Host PJ Vogt investigates ‘Web 3’, the opaque and mysterious world of blockchains, ephemera, and imaginary utopias. For those interested in podcasting news and contemporary history, check out this salient article on Vogt in the wake of Reply All: https://www.vulture.com/2022/04/crypto-island-podcast-pj-vogt.html https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/crypto-island/id1614253637180. Harrycast - Harry's Other Podcast
10:55||Season 2, Ep. 180Harry waxes lyrical about his own work while Zane and Britt chime in periodically to keep his ego in check. This episode is a shameless plug for Bookworms and Barflies, Harry’s other podcast. If you like books, banter, and booze, this one's for you!179. Ballsy History, Articles of Interest, Normal Gossip
28:20||Season 2, Ep. 179Zane Recommends - Ballsy Historyhttps://ballsyhistory.fireside.fm/#history #scripted #lightheartedBallsy History is a weekly-ish podcast about big personalities and little-known stories. Join us for a tour of the outrageous acts, incredible stories, and outsized characters that shape history.Your hosts are a four female family with a penchant for uncovering the quirky side of the past (and, sometimes, not so distant past). Ballsy History was born during stay-at-home orders during the COVID pandemic.https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1543648297Britt Recommends - Articles of Interesthttps://99percentinvisible.org/aoi/#ArtHistory #Fashion #Informative #TheArtsArticles of Interest is a show about what we wear. It's a twelve-part series from 99% Invisible, looking at clothing.Produced and Hosted by Avery Trufelmanhttps://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/articles-of-interest/id1455169228Harry Recommends - Normal GossipNormal Gossip delivers juicy, strange, funny, and utterly banal gossip about people you’ll never know and never meet. Host Kelsey McKinney discusses reader-submitted comedic gossip with guests, diving into the lives and decisions of complete strangers. The second-hand truth really is stranger than fiction. Produced by Alex Sujong Laughlin. Show art by Tara Jacoby.https://open.spotify.com/show/0KVZ16mLZ1bbNlnKemYTzm178. Zanecast - Best New 2022 Podcasts
11:59||Season 2, Ep. 178Sweet Bobby#limited series #documentary #truecrime #serioushttps://www.tortoisemedia.com/listen/sweet-bobby/Kirat is a successful radio presenter. On Facebook she meets Bobby, a handsome cardiologist. He’s a catch. Soon, they get tangled up in a love affair full of lies and manipulation. Then... Kirat discovers a deception of almost unimaginable proportions.From the makers of Finding Q, this is Sweet Bobby. A live investigation, in six parts, in search of one of the world's most sophisticated catfishers.https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/sweet-bobby/id1590561275American Radical by MSNBC#limited series #documentary #serioushttps://american-radical.simplecast.comRosanne Boyland hated politics. She was shy, and she rarely left her home in Georgia. But then her family got a shocking call: Rosanne had died at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, in the middle of a crowd trying to force its way past a police line.From the depths of their grief, the Boylands vow to figure out what happened to Rosanne. Her brother-in-law, Justin Cave, reaches out to an old high school friend he hopes can help: MSNBC journalist Ayman Mohyeldin.The quest for the truth takes Ayman back to his hometown of Kennesaw, Georgia, where he retraces the last six months of Rosanne's life and picks up a trail that leads to childhood haunts, missing boyfriends, and down shadowy internet rabbit holes. American Radical is a five part serieshttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/Things Fell Apart by BBC Radio 4#8 part series #interviewA series of strange, unexpected human stories from the history of the culture wars. Hosted by Jon Ronson.https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0011cprFood Crime#2 hosts #truecrime #comedyA comedian and a die-hard true crime fan come together to dig up fact-packed and funny stories about food getting caught up in the world of crime. Murder, poison, heists… all with a side of piss-taking and taste testing. Brought to you by Nat and Jules from Nat’s What I Reckon. Only available on Spotify right now.https://open.spotify.com/show/7mxeLBgewG9c9lJMfJ388l?si=a9e756f964d6416d177. DRILLED, The Worst Idea of All Time, Reply All
36:24||Season 2, Ep. 177Zane Recommends - DRILLEDhttps://www.drilledpodcast.com/#interview #science #dry #angrymakingA true-crime podcast about climate change, hosted and reported by award-winning investigative journalist Amy Westervelt. Climate accountability — investigating the various drivers of delay on climate action — is critical to understanding and addressing climate change. Drilled is an independent news outlet focused on climate accountability. The Drilled podcast, launched in 2017, now has an audience of more than one million listeners worldwide and is consistently among the top 100 science podcasts. Drilled has earned rave reviews from The New Yorker, The Guardian, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and received a 2019 “Excellence in Digital Storytelling” award from the Online News Association, as well as the 2021 Covering Climate Now award for audio. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1439735906Britt Recommends - The Worst Idea of All Timehttps://www.worstideaofalltime.com/#Chillingwiththeboys #Movies #Comedy #NZHumour #OZHumour #TrashFunTWIOAT is an award-winning smash hit comedy podcast hosted by kiwi comedians Guy 'Flash' Montgomery and Tim 'Timbly' Batt (known jointly as the Frost Fellas, The Boiz, etc). The pair have been punishing themselves with movies for your enjoyment since Feb 2014, starting by watching and reviewing Grown-Ups 2 once a week, every week, for a full year. They applied the same treatment to Sex and The City 2, Sex and The City, We Are You Friends, and are now watching and reviewing every softcore adult film in the Emmanuelle franchise. Sub-projects include My Week With Cats, where the pair went to see CATS (2019) at the cinema every day for a week, and Podcast In A Tree which saw them record while in different trees around Aotearoa New Zealand. https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-worst-idea-of-all-time/id824108207 Harry Recommends- Reply AllAt its most basic, Reply all is a podcast about the internet. It explores stories about how people shape the internet, and how the internet shapes people. Hugely successful and arguably seminal, Reply All gained a massive listenership based on the originality of its stories, and intelligence of its writing, and the chemistry of its hosts. In 2021 it released a controversial episode series that led to its decline and eventual cancellation in recent history. https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all176. HARRYCAST Getting to Know Harry
08:59||Season 2, Ep. 176Introducing the second of our new Castologists! Introducing, Harry!175. Strange Air
30:26||Season 2, Ep. 175174. BRITTCAST Getting to know Brit
07:36||Season 2, Ep. 174Let's get to know one of our new Castologists! Introducing, Britt!173. Left Right Out, No Silly Questions, Working Class History
41:00||Season 2, Ep. 173Britt Recommends - Left Right Out#AussiePolitics #Conversational #SimplifiedPolitics #ExplainItToMeLikeIm5https://www.instagram.com/left.right.out/The show for anyone who wants to understand Australian politics but doesn’t know where to start. Each week, Elfy and Justine answer *your* questions. Because politics is for everybody and no one should feel left out of this convo.https://open.spotify.com/show/0g6ZFdMk1GoQsEwooJnTl3?si=e01beb3e54274cddHarry Recommends - No Silly QuestionsFrom The Daily Aus - creators of the viral news page, podcast and newsletter followed by over 350,000 Australians on social media - comes No Silly Questions. It's the podcast that will arm young people with everything they need to get involved in dinner table conversations ahead of the next federal election.The series will feature in-depth interviews with key politicians, experts, and advocates.https://open.spotify.com/show/6eHW3ZeUIO8kytACR9fQ3hZane Recommends - Working Class History#solo host #scripted #documentary stylehttps://workingclasshistory.com/History is not made by the actions of a few rich and powerful individuals, like so much of the history we learn in school. History is made by the combined everyday actions of hundreds of millions of us: women, men, youth, people of colour, migrants, indigenous people, LGBTQ+ people, disabled people, workers, the unemployed, housewives - the working class. Our project is dedicated to all those who have struggled in the past for a better world, and who continue to do so now.As well as our podcast and social media outlets we are working on building an interactive website and global map of people's history. We are committed to being completely independent, and making our history available to everyone, so we have no adverts and apart from a bit of bonus content we don't put anything behind a paywall. We are not academics or experts, we are just ordinary workers doing this on our own time to try to help educate and inspire a new generation of activists with lessons from the past. This podcast is about how we, together, have fought for a better world.https://podfollow.com/1355066333