It didn’t take that much convincing to get actor Garrett Hedlund to star in Stephen King‘s very first podcast adaptation: “Strawberry Spring,” a short story from 1978’s creepy collection Night Shift. Jared Gutstadt, of podcast network Audio Up, first approached the Mudbound actor about the concept. “He said, ‘I want …
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Pamela Hupp, the subject of the 2019 Dateline podcast The Thing About Pam, has been charged with the 2011 murder of her friend Betsy Faria. Lincoln County Prosecuting Attorney Michael Wood announced Monday that he would seek the death penalty against Hupp whom he says murdered her friend “for greed,” …
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When Brendan James and Noah Kulwin were trying to figure out what to cover on the second season of their history podcast Blowback there were, unfortunately, a lot of options — after all, the show grapples with the machinations, mishaps, and misdeeds of the American empire. Blowback debuted last year …
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In the latest socially distanced episode of our Useful Idiotspodcast, hostsMatt Taibbi and Katie Halper are joined by friend-of-the-podcast Shahid Buttar, a constitutional lawyer and 2020 challenger of Nancy Pelosi. For this week’s “Republicans Suck,” Matt and Katie take a look at a Tennessee GOP push to prohibit kneeling during …
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Spotify and Gimlet Media have released the trailer for journalist Connie Walker’s upcoming true-crime podcast, Stolen: The Search for Jermain, which will premiere March 1st. The eight-episode series will center around the mysterious disappearance of Jermain Charlo, an indigenous woman, who went missing in 2018 after going out to a …
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Common is getting his own podcast,Mind Power Mixtape, hosted by Audible. The six-episode series launches on November 19th. Mind Power Mixtape will feature Common in conversation with notable artists and activists, including actor Mahershala Ali, dancer Misty Copeland, comedians Tiffany Haddish and Hasan Minhaj, civil rights activist Bryan Stevenson, and …
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For nearly three decades, Dateline has dominated true crime TV, drawing channel surfers and devoted fans alike into tantalizing whodunnit investigations. Now the franchise is staking its claim as a major contributor to the crime podcast craze, as well. Earlier this year, NBC launched its Dateline podcast, an ongoing rollout …
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If there’s anything true crime fans love more than stories about unsolved murders and serial killers, it’s speculating wildly about serial killers and unsolved murders. Playing armchair sleuth has become something of a sport in itself, and entire podcasts are devoted to little more than gossamer theories about who may …
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Only a few short years ago, Elizabeth Holmes, a Stanford University dropout turned technology startup CEO, was the youngest self-made female billionaire in the world and heralded as “the next Steve Jobs” by Silicon Valley’s elite. Theranos, the biotech company she founded in 2003, at age 19, raked in nearly …
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