Podcasts are being unleashed on audiences at a pace that can only be called Usain Bolt-like. Studios rush to release audio content in the podcast-sphere to capture the growing popularity of the media format.
Of course, the question is: Are we as listeners receiving quality or quantity?
An answer would require an exhaustive examination of all new podcasts that have hit the "ear ways" and you don't have time for that.
Here's just a small sample of quality podcasts by one of the many networks spicing up the content bowl.
These podcasts are from the Vox Podcast Network.
Forty years ago, Houston's Latino community was plagued by discrimination, police violence and a growing number of unsolved murders. With tensions between police and the community at their peak, five young officers were placed in an audacious experiment: A new all-Latino homicide squad, with little training and few resources, assigned to solve the city’s most vicious crimes. Hosted by actress, writer, and activist Cristela Alonzo, the critically acclaimed podcast featured on NBC’s Today, and in the New York Times, The New Yorker, Texas Monthly, and more, tells the true story of these men, their divided loyalties, and a city on the brink.
The first season took listeners on a global tour of utopian experiments over the ages, from the Jamestown colony, to the sci-fi debacle that was Biosphere 2. In season two, Nice Try! takes the premise of the show one step further, exploring humanity's quest for perfection through the lens of consumerism. Delving into the past and present of items like the crockpot, the barbell, the vacuum, and more, host Avery Trufelman looks at the struggle for individual improvement, and how over and over again throughout the decades, consumers have been sold iterations of the same products. Speaking with historians, entrepreneurs, and other experts, Trufelman takes a curious and open-minded look at the world of lifestyle technology – and the promises that these products have made, kept, and broken.
Land of the Giants: The Apple Revolution
Big tech is transforming every aspect of our world. But how? And at what cost? This year, Land of the Giants launched three seasons, covering Google, Apple and delivery apps. The show is hosted by Recode senior correspondent Peter Kafka. The award-winning series explores how the original FAANG (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Google) companies developed their world-changing products - and changed itself along the way.
Expanding on Vox’s popular “explainer” franchise, which includes a successful Netflix series and an award-winning daily podcast, Unexplainable looks at the most fascinating unanswered questions in science, and the mind-bending ways scientists are trying to answer them.
Co-created by host and producer Noam Hassenfeld, reporter and producer Byrd Pinkerton, and Vox’s senior science reporter Brian Resnick, Unexplainable fosters conversations about what we don’t know, and why the questions we ask are just as important as the answers, delving into a wide range of scientific mysteries including everything we still don’t know about how smell works, a failed journey to the center of the earth and what it taught us about our planet, ancient DNA, ball lightning, and more.
Vox’s award-winning daily news show Today, Explained released a number of special series that unpacked some of the biggest issues plaguing Americans, including “Infrastructure Week,” which explored the ideas that will bring America into the future, “Earth Month,” which brought a number of different shows from Vox’s audio operation together to cover some of the most significant environmental issues facing our world today, and “The Future of Work,” which shed light on the ways that the pandemic has changed how we think about work.
Whether in its episode that broke down Biden’s first 17 actions in 17 minutes or in Postcards from Pandemic Purgatory where they traveled around the world to hear how different people are experiencing the pandemic, the Today, Explained team continues to experiment with new formats.
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