Pod-Alization: "Freakonomics" & Crypto; "Gastropod" & Breastfeeding; "Switched On Pop" & Beyonce; Libsyn & Music Streamer

 Freakonomics & Crypto

The Freakonomics Radio podcast has released the second episode in its three-part series exploring the Blockchain. The subject this time: the boom-and-bust (for now?) of N.F.T.s.

The episode includes interviews with Etherium founder Vitalik Buterin, Miami mayor Francis Suarez, and a host of other N.F.T. artists, investors, economists, and skeptics. It also includes a trip to the park to test-fly an N.F.T. rocket, an in-real-life art project powered on the Ethereum blockchain.

Listen to the episode "Are N.F.T.s All Scams?" at freakonomics.com (there's a transcript there too) or wherever you get podcasts. And, if you missed it, find episode one "Does the Crypto Crash Mean the Blockchain Is Over?" here.

Gastropod: The Milk of Life
Breastfeeding isn’t always an option and with baby formula at a nationwide shortage, parents are in crisis. In this timely episode, Gastropod seeks to understand how we got here and what changes need to be made to make feeding babies easier in the future.

Switched on Pop: Beyonce's House
The world stops with a Beyoncé drop. On Monday, June 20th,  prayers were answered with “Break My Soul,” the lead single off of Beyonce's upcoming album, Renaissance. In this episode of Switched On Pop, co-hosts Charlie Harding and Nate Sloan unpack house music – and how Beyoncé’s “Break My Soul” fits into the genre.

New Vox podcast with Kara Swisher launches this fall
The new twice-weekly show, Listen Up,  led by Kara Swisher, will launch this fall as a sibling to Pivot, the award-winning podcast Swisher co-hosts for New York Magazine with NYU Stern Marketing professor Scott Galloway. The new podcast will feature agenda-setting conversations as Kara Swisher employs the trademark insight, humor and humanity that has made her the pre-eminent interviewer in journalism today.

Libsyn Partners with Leading Music Streamer
  Libsyn, a leading ‘Podcasting As A Service’ platform, announced a new distribution agreement with Resso, a social music streaming platform available in Brazil, Indonesia, and India. The new partnership gives Libsyn’s podcast creators another distribution point to expand and grow their listener base globally — and it’s now available on the Libsyn platform for all 75,000+ Libsyn hosted podcasts.

“Our collaboration with Resso will extend the reach of podcasts through the insertion of more content to new audiences across the platforms where they engage,” said Rob Walch, Libsyn’s Vice President of Podcaster Relations. “Libsyn is continuing to invest to be at the forefront of providing distribution tools to grow podcasting and support success for the full spectrum of podcasters – from independents to professional creators.”