LISTEN TO THIS | Mind-blowing Trumps Justice

I’m a pod­cast junkie, and LISTEN TO THIS is a recap of my favorite tid­bits, sound­bites and short bursts of bril­liance from this week. After digest­ing 14 hours and 43 min­utes of pod­casts, here’s my top three must-listen-to moments.

Though Parts of Her Were Con­sid­er­ably Younger

THE CULTURE GABFEST | 25 Sex Moves He Secretly Wishes You’d Try Edition

With the pass­ing of 90-year-old Helen Gur­ley Brown, the Gabfest crew explores the pos­i­tive and appalling sides of how she influ­enced women in Amer­ica. I love lis­ten­ing to the debate about all the won­der­ful advance­ments she did along with all the neg­a­tive stereo­types she helped rein­force. It’s the first story in this episode, so you can start at the begin­ning or fast for­ward to 1:55.

And If I’m Proven Wrong, I Want to be Part of It

BUILD AND ANALYZE | This Per­son Isn’t Really Here

Marco and Dan dis­cuss the launch of app.net start­ing at 23:10. What makes this con­ver­sa­tion worth lis­ten­ing to is the dia­log around the effec­tive­ness of the fund rais­ing cam­paign and Marco’s pro­posed next steps for suc­cess. I also found the points on the func­tion of each social net­work and the pur­pose of post­ing on each thought-provoking (38:50). If you want to hear a lit­tle more about app.net, Dan York also cov­ered it on his report on For Imme­di­ate Release at 31:15.

The Ther­mal Det­o­na­tor You’re Carrying

JUDGE JOHN HODGMAN | Prob­a­ble Cos-Play

This pod­cast has earned it’s way into my top five sub­scrip­tions. The for­mat is so dif­fer­ent, and Hodg­man is engag­ing, clever, and smart. This week, the court docket included a cou­ple headed to a Star Wars con­ven­tion with their 4-year-old son. Dad and son are plan­ning to dress in jedi garb, and dad was seek­ing a rul­ing to man­date mom dress up as well. After the rul­ing, Judge Hodg­man came back into the vir­tual, fake court­room and asked the hus­band to step out. Then he offered a fan­tas­tic idea for the wife stat­ing that the rul­ing stands, but “Some­times mind-blowing trumps jus­tice.” Not sure if it will make much sense with­out lis­ten­ing to the entire case, but his bonus sug­ges­tion starts at 32:52.

Pod­cast Test Drives:

I branched out quite a bit this week try­ing two new shows on 5by5 and another two Slate pod­casts. In addi­tion to Build and Ana­lyze and The Cul­tural Gabfest above, I also lis­tened to:

• The Incom­pa­ra­ble — delight­ful pan­elist con­ver­sa­tion on the Pixar movie Brave. I like and will keep test­ing for a few weeks.
• The Polit­i­cal Gabfest — I was not that thrilled with this week’s dis­cus­sion, but two of the nor­mal pan­elist were out. I’ll give it another shot next week.

I also went back to my old Day­tum account and set up a dash­board for pod­casts lis­ten­ing to actu­ally track what and when I’m lis­ten­ing to.

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What about you? What pod­casts did you enjoy this week and what do you rec­om­mend? Leave your favorites in the com­ments below.