Podcast Recommendations: Sounds, Songs & Their Stories🎶

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

Curator

Nathan Wizard

Why did you choose this theme?

Audio editing decisions, and the distinct sounds and songs that have become cultural staples, mean something different to every person listening. Here are a few episodes from vastly different podcasts where the hosts and guests dissect songs, soundtracks, artists, or stories that are good, bad, or wild and off the wall.

They include fun anecdotes, trivia, and history behind the sounds, feelings, and creative processes of the people and bands that created them. Being able to put work out into the world and have it impact people in ways you’d never imagine is a feeling I hope listeners will be excited about.

PODCAST PICKS:

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Punch Up The Jam
'Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm' by Crash Test Dummies (w/ Ayo Edebiri)

This podcast, created by comedians Miel Bredouw and Demi Adejuyigbe in 2017, takes notable songs from pop culture, breaks them down, and rewrites them. In this episode, Miel is joined by comedian Ayo Edebiri to remix a hypnotic '90s hum anthem. The show's a real treat, and EarBuds curator Nathan Wizard earnestly recommends the entire catalogue.

Song Exploder
100 gecs - Money Machine

In each episode of this podcast, host Hrishikesh Hirway speaks with a musical artist to break down one of their songs and hear the thought process that went into creating it. This episode features the musical duo 100 gecs, which is widely known within the hyperpop genre.

Teen Creeps
R.L. Stine's Bad Moonlight

Hosts Kelly Nugent and Lindsay Katai review (mostly) young-adult pulp fiction, mystery, and other notable horror-based pop culture pieces. In this episode, they read Bad Moonlight by R.L. Stine, the story of a girl who joins a band, but it turns out to be all werewolves.

Lizard People: Comedy and Conspiracy Theories
Beyoncé is Solange’s Mother with Oscar Montoya

Host Katelyn Hempstead invites a friend on each episode of this podcast to posit a conspiracy theory to her. The guests aim to win her over with their argument and evidence by the end of the episode. Topics range from realistic to outright asinine. In this episode, actor and comedian Oscar Montoya presents the theory that Beyoncé is (her sister) Solange's mother.

Get Played
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Hosts Heather Anne Campbell, Nick Wiger, and Matt Apodaca discuss notable video games throughout history in this podcast. EarBuds curator Nathan Wizard recommends this as a good slice of life podcast if you want to tune in to a group of friends chatting. In this episode, Nick, Heather, and Matt go through every single gaming console's startup sound and rank them.

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Hear about this week’s podcast picks and about our curator, Nathan Wizard’s interest in sound and music.

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PODCAST SPOTLIGHT:

Goodniks

Goodniks is an audio project exploring the journey and meaning of doing good in the world — for people who do good or are just thinking about it. As we follow along the journey of these Goodniks, we dig into who and what inspired them, what keeps them up at night, their sacrifices, their rewards, their failures, and what it means for their relationships.

What does it really mean to do good over the course of a life, or a moment, or a season?

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