Game Show Podcast Recommendations

Game Show Podcast Recommendations📺

January 01, 2023

Five podcast episodes on a theme, each week curated by a different person

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Happy 2023! I LOVE when the first of the year lands on an EarBuds email day. It gives me a chance to do what I love right at the start of a new year...recommend podcasts!Next month, EarBuds will turn six! Time flies. I'll share more information soon about how we'll celebrate (spoiler: you're invited). For now, take a scroll on through this week's recommendations. We're starting the year off with some games! We're also introducing a new section in partnership with Realm Media — a fiction podcast pairing. Each week, they'll handpick a fiction podcast to go along with our EarBuds theme. Happy listening!— Arielle Nissenblatt, EarBuds founder

Game Show Podcast Recommendations🎲

CuratorJessica Alpert (she/her), founder of Rococo Punch

Why did you choose this theme?

It's post-holiday mood swing time. Maybe you're ready to take on 2023 (all cute with that list of resolutions) or maybe you just want to hide under your comforter. No matter what, I think there's nothing like a game show podcast to get your day going.Game shows in audio form are a super fun challenge and this list celebrates the awesome people who are thinking, doing, analyzing, and creating.

PODCAST PICKS:Click on the podcast art to listen 👂

SpectacleThe Bachelor/Bachelorette, Our Problematic FaveEarBuds curator Jessica Alpert loves this podcast's exploration of The Bachelor and its problematic, intoxicating, and ridiculous allure. When she was developing her podcast, Queen of Hearts, she studied the casting strategies of The Bachelor and used it as a syllabus for creating hilarious pairings that hook you in immediately. Whether you like or hate The Bachelor, you can't deny that the casting always hits a chord.

This American LifeIt's a Game Show!In this episode of This American Life, true stories are told in the form of a game show. One of the segments is about the podcast Normal Gossip and explores why gossip spreads. And what's better than a game of telephone?

Family Road Trip Trivia Podcast

Wait Wait… Don't Tell Me!Robin ThedeStill the OG news quiz show. When you develop a game show, there is a delicate balance between creating a fun vibe and an actual sense of gameplay. You have to respect how Wait, Wait has found its flow and continues to introduce new voices whenever possible. Wait, Wait reached out to hilarious viral Instagram comic Vinny Thomas via Twitter and he joined as a guest writer for a few shows. It's awesome when a legacy show never stops reinventing itself.

Queen of HeartsAmateur Orgasm Scholar Seeks Naughty Study BuddyJujubee (Ru Paul's Drag Race and Dragnificent) is the amazing host of the Rococo Punch/Wondery blind-dating game show podcast. No one can see anyone else until the end of the game show. It's inclusive, mind-blowing, and fun to play along with. Root for (or hate-listen to) these amazing contestants. Jujubee is absolute gold and keeps the vibe funny but kind. Definitely an 18+ listen.

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New in 2023: We've partnered with Realm Media on pairing a fiction podcast with our theme. This week, games!

Epic: Ctrl-Alt-DestroyGame shows, you say? Here’s a show about the most dangerous game of all! In Epic: Ctrl-Alt-Destroy, "Firefly's" Summer Glau stars as Tandy, a video game designer who ends up trapped in her own virtual game, where nations compete and losers face catastrophic consequences.

FEEDBACK WITH EARBUDS:

This week on our podcast...(Click on Jessica to listen)Jessica is sharing game show podcasts so you can test your knowledge, challenge yourself, and have some fun. We'll hear about her recommendations on our podcast this week.ALSO: We tell you about this week's Spotlight pick, Skyline Drive, a show about astrology and why people keep looking to the stars for answers. Subscribe

COMMUNITY:

🎤This week in Podcast The Newsletter: Lauren shares an article she wrote for Lifehacker about the 13 best new podcasts of 2022. Check out the list here. 🫂Join 1000+ podcast creators and listeners in the Podcasting Community on Discord.🎙️On The EarBuds Blog: 

  • EarBuds founder Arielle Nissenblatt shared 30 podcast episodes she loved from 2022. Read it here.

  • Katharine Maller writes about 10 ways to discover new podcasts. Shoutout to Podcast Delivery, Pocket Casts, year-end best-of lists, podcast networks, and more. Read it here.

  • Contribute to our next EarBuds blog post by telling us about something you learned from a podcast in 2022. Submit here.

✨Send your updates for us to include in our Community section. Submit!

CLASSIFIEDS:

⛰️Three years ago, The Wind published its first episode from a small handmade desk in the mountains. The Wind returns this month with a slate of episodes about performers; listening closely to the way rodeo clowns, powwow singers, and Lucha Libre announcers create space through sound.💼The Daily Upside is a business newsletter that covers the most important stories in business in a style that's engaging, insightful, and fun. It delivers quality insights and surfaces unique stories you won't read elsewhere. Sign up here. 

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PODCAST SPOTLIGHT:

Host Mangesh Hattikudur dives into the ways astrology presents itself in modern society: from NASA employees who keep their belief in astrology in the closet to world leaders who’ve used astrologers to guide foreign policy, to moneyball statisticians who use astrology more than statistics to build baseball teams.

Hattikudur tries to decipher why we keep looking to the stars for answers, and what happens when you don’t believe in astrology but astrology keeps happening to you.

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