Zach Lowe is probably the best NBA writer on the planet and he was very good on the BS Report. Hopefully he goes to The Ringer when his contract is up. I really liked Andrew Sharp's stuff as well,
This may have been mentioned, but Keri has already moved on from ESPN and is now at Sports Illustrated (and I think the MLB network). Not sure if any of that precludes him from writing for Simmons, though.
No Laying Up is pretty good, though it is sporadic. Golf Weekly out of Ireland is the best one I've found. It naturally leans a little to Rory/Euro topics, but I think it's an excellent, funny listen. The only problem is that it comes out on Thursday or Friday, so you don't always get recaps of that week's events. Here is a link:
Yeah, I have listened to them, too - Rory and Shane Lowry are probably my two favorite players on tour, so I certainly don't mind that bias. Shane Ryan is a semi-regular guest (and is much better in smaller doses where he is being interviewed by more polished broadcaster types).
He or Bill mentioned on a podcast awhile back that he works as some sort of consultant/govt contractor in D.C., no real specifics beyond that.
Hell yeah. The Ringer hires Kevin Clark away from the WSJ to cover the NFL:
Sean Bean has also sort of been doing movies for a while, but perhaps he doesn't count since he only had one season on GOT.
Is Channel 33 the only pod out there that is a collection of different pods?
Deathsquad podcast is a similar model featuring a handful of different shows on the same feed. A few that were part of it have since spun off into their own independent shows. Rebel Force Radio is another with a bunch of shows released on the same feed, tied together by the common Star Wars theme.
I agree that it is a high quality, insider's view. My main concern is that it will hew too closely to my own current political perspective; I'd appreciate a different (non-shouty) POV. The best Maher shows are when he has a strong conservative counterbalance, although that show that obviously devolves into talking points more often than not.
Vox.com has one (The Weeds, with Matt Yglesias, Ezra Klein, Sarah Kliff) that I think is very good, although I imagine people who don't care to hear about policy from Vox.com and those three in particular would not find it so. It is true to its name in terms of digging deeply into the issues it covers.
No, that's Mallory Rubin. I especially loathed her "viewer" recaps of Game of Thrones when it was clear she was just spoiling book stuff. Conception 4EVA!
Yeah, she has some weird valley girlish inflections while also sounding like she is drunkenly slurring her words together.
The way she finishes her words is definitely a valley girl inflection and it's brutal. It isn't her voice as much as the inflection on the ends of all her words. Yeah, you're young, I get it but you're doing a vocal podcast. Finish your words.
Fwiw, this is pretty standard "email newsletter" format. Two others I get - Emma Roller's and Erik Malinowski's - work the same way. And Joe Sheehan's, when I subscribed to it, was just a wall of text.
The newsletter is easier to monetize than a site, too. Ad buyers like email ads and podcast ads way more than banner ads.
I enjoyed the podcast. Happy to hear a Republican viewpoint on the Trump aspect of the GOP's chances. I have enjoyed this pod so far and previously my only political pods were episodic if an NPR pod covered a topic.
I had a tough time with their voices too, but felt bad about it for all the nonsense female reporters have to deal with this issue. I stopped listening because I thought their analysis wasn't very good.
Super-interesting that it's under the Ringer brand but being put on HBO. If that's not a one-off deal, the post-Grantland conclusion that could be drawn about Simmons is that he's focusing entirely on content and hoping to offload distribution entirely to a partner network.
Frankly, I find this pretty surprising. I understand the advantages to the Ringer brand and to HBO itself. But Ryan and Greenwald often come across as very dismissive of the show. They haven't read the books, which is fine, but many of their discussions of "Game of Thrones" come more out of obligation to participating in the cultural phenomenon than enjoyment of the experience. I am having trouble putting my thoughts into words, but their criticism goes beyond critiquing the show and comes across, to me anyway, as "why are we stuck watching this." Not all the time, but often enough to make me think that this has the potential to be uneven at best.
They did a podcast a few weeks ago about the GoT trailer and they were basically salivating the entire time. I didn't hear any dismissiveness at all, and definitely not from Ryan. Greenwald is just dismissive in general, as part of his overall ethos and being "cool".
You might be right. You might have put your finger on it. I still feel that this type of effort is better for a Chris Hardwick type superfan talking about "Doctor Who" or "The Walking Dead," but I'll give it a shot, especially if they bring on their regular "Watch the Thrones" guests.
