“Being a fat lady and trying to do all the things that fat ladies are supposed to do took me right there,” Ms. Gordon said. “I’ve been doing all the things, and it’s not really producing the result that I’ve been promised for, you know, the majority of…
An Absolute Magnet for Bad Tempered Online Debate
Do Taxes Fund Spending? But, of course, this is the whole point of “Modern Monetary Theory” – as I regularly and apparently irritatingly point out, the first word of that phrase is an adverb modifying the adjective, not an adjective modifying the noun….
BNPL is not a winner-takes-all game
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture-capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. Natasha and Mary Ann took over this week’s show with Chris and Grace, which meant that our overdeveloped senses of curiosity filled up the script just fine (even on a somewhat short week). Unintentionally, today’s episode was built around […]
Whatever Kind Of Mood You’re In Tonight
On Strong Songs Kirk Hamilton, “takes listeners inside a piece of music, breaking it down and figuring out what makes it work.” In this episode Kirk tackles Billy Joel’s magnum opus, “Scenes From an Italian Restaurant” “Pull up a table and join Kirk f…
176: Low-Key Podcast
Hey, it’s episode 176 of the MeFi podcast with cortex and jessamyn!
The Kraken Busters
The Kraken Busters [via mefi projects] is a deep dive (apologies for the pun) into the US response to the sea monster threat post WW2. The host has really done their research, drawing from first person accounts right from before the first sighting of E…
The bar for behavioral health startups just got higher
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. Happy Saturday! After news broke that meditation app Headspace and on-demand mental health care platform Ginger were merging, we couldn’t resist hopping on the mics to do a bonus episode. And, because we were in the mood for […]
TJ Eckleberg, green light, boats, current, etc. etc.
You can find plenty of free audiobooks at LibriVox (related AskMes),
and Phoebe Judge is still bringing her fine podcasting voice to Phoebe Reads A Mystery, one chapter of a book every day,
and now (hooray!) Nate DiMeo of The Memory Palace has jumped o…
Spotify’s Podcasts Subscriptions service is now open to all U.S. creators
Spotify is today opening up access to Podcast Subscriptions to all podcast creators in the U.S., after first launching the service for testing with a smaller number of creators back in April. Through Spotify’s podcast creation tool Anchor, podcasters of all sizes will now able to mark select episodes as subscriber-only content, then publish them […]
Spotify expands its radio DJ-like format, Music + Talk, to global creators
Last fall, Spotify introduced a new format that combined spoken word commentary with music, allowing creators to reproduce the radio-like experience of listening to a DJ or music journalist who shared their perspective on the tracks they would then play. Today, the company is making the format, which it calls “Music + Talk,” available to […]