Dec 6, 2022The Cedric Maxwell Podcast Is Heartier Than Your Grandma’s CornbreadA Review For GreatPods! Y’all know I’m a Boston Celtics megafan. I’ve written about it before in my review for John Karalis’ Locked On Celtics podcast, which I listen to every morning. I wear Celtics gear multiple times a week and if my wife let me, we’d probably have Celtics…Podcast3 min readPodcast3 min read
Nov 15, 2022American Scandal: Iran-Contra Is Part Of the ProblemA Review For Greatpods! “Worse than Watergate, just not as interesting.” This is how Charles Haden-Savage, played by the inner-circle hall of famer Steve Martin in Hulu’s podcast-inspired True Crime show Only Murders in the Building, describes the Iran-Contra scandal during a back and forth with his counterpart, Oliver Putnam…Podcast5 min readPodcast5 min read
Oct 6, 2022Northwoods Baseball Sleep Radio Is A HitA Review For Greatpods.co! Hey all you sports fans, I got a special one for you this week. Y’all know I like to review independent shows. Some are so independent, you may actually call them niche. Well this one certainty falls into that category. Here’s the premise: you’re a baseball…Podcast4 min readPodcast4 min read
Sep 23, 2022The New Books Network’s Drugs, Addiction and Recovery Channel Will Teach You TonsA Review For Great Pods! This week’s review is a bit different. Instead of a single show, I want to turn you on to a network, through the lens of one of its individual channels. That network is the New Books Network, and the channel is the one that focuses…Podcast3 min readPodcast3 min read
Sep 6, 2022F*cking Sober Brings The FeelsA review for GreatPods! This week’s review is in honor of the memorial, well not holiday so to speak, but observance. August 31st is International Overdose Awareness Day and I wrote a piece, a long post really, on where my head was. For those of you who don’t know, I…Sobriety6 min readSobriety6 min read
Aug 31, 2022International Overdose Awareness Day 2022It’s International Overdose Awareness Day and I’m thinking of this guy. A few months after this pic was taken, he survived an OD. Probably not too surprising, because, let’s be honest, he’s not looking so hot. From the perspective of today, of hindsight’s 2020, over 12 years later, this guy…Overdose2 min readOverdose2 min read
Aug 17, 2022I Am Blown Away By ImmigrantlyA Review For GreatPods! Wow. That’s my first reaction at the show I chose to review this week, Immigrantly. The second of what I’m calling the Nissenblatt Reviews (see last week’s review if you missed it to understand this), Immigrantly is an independent, woman of color-hosted podcast that tackles the…Podcast3 min readPodcast3 min read
Aug 15, 2022Next Door Villain Brings The PainA review for Great Pods! It’s Review Time! Early this week, pod-rockstar Arielle Nissenblatt (https://twitter.com/arithisandthat) tweeted to her almost 13K followers a list of the reviewers she works with, yours truly included. And I got a number of pitches. So many pitches that to review them all, it would take…Podcast3 min readPodcast3 min read
Aug 8, 2022Embedded: An NPR Podcast That May Convince You To #DefundthepoliceA Review for Great Pods! Welcome to the Thunderdome! If this is the first time you’ve checked out my reviews, then welcome. For everyone else, you know I normally review independent podcasts, and only stray from that when there’s a podcast that really sticks with me. …Podcast4 min readPodcast4 min read
Jul 22, 2022Walzon Prime Makes Me Incredibly Uncomfortable… As It’s Supposed ToA review of Walzone Prime for Great Pods For this week’s review, I checked out the first episode of Walzon Prime, a not-yet complete audio drama podcast from actor, podcaster, and writer Joe Godley. Let me get this out of the way first; there’s a couple of caveats I have…Podcast4 min readPodcast4 min read
