{"id":7681,"date":"2018-05-04T15:07:50","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T23:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=7681"},"modified":"2018-05-03T15:08:21","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T23:08:21","slug":"podcast-roundup-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/podcast-roundup-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zo<\/span>\u00eb<\/span> Strickland | Editor-in-Chief<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cDecoder Ring\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Hosted by Willa Pasket, TV critic for Slate, \u201cDecoder Ring\u201d aims to demystify certain aspects of culture. The podcast was launched on April 29 and has only produced one episode \u2014 a 30-minute piece on the history of the Laff Box, the first laugh-track machine. According to Slate\u2019s website, every month Pasket will, \u201c<\/span>take on a cultural question, object, idea, or habit and speak with experts, historians and obsessives to figure out where it comes from, what it means and why it matters.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cDecoder Ring\u201d is interesting to listen to because it does just that. The show makes listeners think about aspects of culture that may not be on their mind \u2014 I can honestly tell you that I had never thought about laugh tracks as in-depth as this show talked about them.<\/span><\/p>\n

Photo by:\u00a0player.fm<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cI Need My Space\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI Need My Space\u201d is a podcast put out by Inverse, a website that\u2019s aimed at exploring science, innovation and new ideas. The show is hosted by Rae Paoletta, senior editor for the site, and comedian Steve Ward. While \u201cI Need My Space\u201d explores questions relating to space and intergalactic travel, it does so in a more lighthearted way than podcasts like \u201cStarTalk Radio.\u201d Paoletta and Ward interview both space experts and space enthusiasts to answer a myriad of questions that range from \u201cwhat do aliens really look like?\u201d to \u201cwhy do we love shooting things into space?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI Need My Space\u201d is a must-listen for people who are interested in space, but who also love to ponder the questions that may be less serious. It\u2019s important to know what Elon Musk is doing, but it\u2019s also fun to think about what life in a spacecraft is like.<\/span><\/p>\n

Photo by:\u00a0Inverse.com<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cDear Franklin Jones\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

I discovered this podcast while scrolling through the available podcast options in the Google Play store. \u201cDear Franklin Jones\u201d follows Jonathan Hirsch, the show\u2019s producer, as he tries to uncover the truth about a group led by Franklin Jones that he was raised in \u2014 the group has been deemed controversial because of speculation that they\u2019re a cult.<\/span><\/p>\n

The \u2018cast consists of seven short episodes that document Hirsch\u2019s journey as he tries to understand Jones\u2019s effect on Hirsch life, family and the lives of the people who followed Jones. \u201cDear Franklin Jones\u201d is an explorative podcast that follows the same vein of productions like \u201cMissing Richard Simmons\u201d \u2014 Hirsch uses extensive interviews, research, as well as his own self-reflection to work towards uncovering information about Jones.<\/span><\/p>\n

Photo by:\u00a0www.stitcher.com<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cNancy\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cNancy\u201d is the only podcast on this list that wasn\u2019t introduced in April 2018 \u2014 but it turned a year old in April. Hosted by Kathy Tu and Tobin Low, the podcast focuses on showcasing different perspectives from people in the LGBTQ+ community. Though the podcast begins with Tu and Low talking about their individual coming out stories, it shifts into being a podcast that relies on interviews with celebrities like Lena Waithe and Nico Tortorella, or people closer to their lives like their moms. <\/span><\/p>\n

Though \u201cNancy\u201d helps give a voice to people throughout the community, it stands out because of the heart that Tu and Low have. Both hosts are clearly invested in the stories that they\u2019re presenting and it shows.<\/span><\/p>\n

Photo by: npr.org<\/p>\n

Contact the author at journaleditor@wou.edu<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Zo\u00eb Strickland | Editor-in-Chief \u201cDecoder Ring\u201d Hosted by Willa Pasket, TV critic for Slate, \u201cDecoder Ring\u201d aims to demystify certain aspects of culture. The podcast was launched on April 29 and has only produced one episode \u2014 a 30-minute piece on the history of the Laff Box, the first laugh-track machine. According to Slate\u2019s website, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1030,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1030"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}