Welcome back to Podcast Pillowfort, the podcast about podcasts.
Coming up in this episode, we look what’s new, news and notable things in the podcasting world, we will both report back on the podcasts that we pitched last time, we will send to podcasts into the Podcast Smackdown and finally we will look at what we learned this week
So grab your headphones, a tall drink and join us in the pillowfort.
The Show
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New and News
- Car Talk‘ Co-Host Tom Magliozzi, one half of the wisecracking Car Talk duo known as “Click and Clack the Tappet Brothers,” has died from complications of Alzheimer’s disease. He was 77. Fun fact: he was an MIT graduate. But if you haven’t listened to the wake episode of Car Talk, it’s a great place to start.
- Discussion: Is this the Golden Age of Podcasting? Gimlet ‘‘This American Life’ Producer Raises $1.5 Million for Podcast Startup Gimlet;
- The Serial Juggernaut marches on:
- The mispronunciation of ‘Mail Chimp’ to MailKimp in the Serial ad has become a thing.
- Serial/Miley mash up
- Slate Spoiler Special about NPRs Serial so we will be talking on a podcast about podcasts about a podcast on a podcast
- The Serial Serial. The AV Club’s new podcast about Serial
- Serial Podcast Catches Fire from Wall Street Journal
- “It’s the first break-out podcast,” argues Matt Deegan, creative director at radio consultancy Folder Media. “Serial could be to podcasting what House of Cards was to Netflix.” From article on The Independent ‘Radio gaga: Is podcast binge listening replacing TV?’
Podcast Smackdown
Introducing in the blue box corner, coming in at 100 episodes and wearing the black trunks it’s the Doctor Who Verity Podcast! and in the other corner, coming in 13 episodes and wearing the yellow trunks it’s Gilmore Guys: A Gilmore Girls Stars Hallowcast!
Other Doctor Who links
- Two Minute Time Lord [Podcast]
- Doctor Who: The TARDIS Tavern [Podcast]
- Doctor Who: The Memory Cheats [Podcast]
- Doctor Who? Cats Who Look Like Peter Capaldi [Cat related links]
Other Gilmore Girls links
- Return to Stars Hollow [Podcast]
- Friday Night Dinner [Podcast]
- Gilmore Girls Boys [Podcast]
The Pitch (Redux)
Amy and Richard previous tried to sell each other on one of their favourite podcasts. Amy jumps inside a Film Sack, while Richard reports back on The Read.
What I Learned This Week
Amy and Richard do some self-teaching out there in podland
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Theme music used in this episode is called “Monkeys Spinning Monkeys” and “Serial Ball”, the remix of the Serial theme/Miley Cyrus’s “Wrecking Ball”
