Fun fact nuggets with This Week I Learned
The Mastercast
10/12/22
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This week we look at "This Week I Learned."
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Hey Pod lovers. I’m your host Marie and If you’re joining us for the first time: Welcome! The Mastercast is a podcast recommendation show that brings you a brand new non-spoiler binge-worthy review every week of the best podcasts in a short and sweet 2-3 minute summary on everything you could want to know, from the number of hosts to on average how long you can expect each episode to be. New episodes come out every Monday. You can find the week’s other reviews on the show’s social on Instagram @themastercast and Twitter @mastercastpods. If you like what you hear and want to help out this independent show you can find me on Buy me a coffee by searching The Mastercast. I’d really appreciate it. This week’s review is on
This Week I learned
Not to be confused with the weirdest thing I learned this week by popular science, this podcast from the magazine The Week is made up of fun bite sized bits on interesting and diverse topics. Some of the other shows The Week has include Seven minute explainer, The Week Unwrapped, and Seven-Minute Opinions. Host Lauren Hansen is a fun and charming host, coupled with lovely short music weaved into facts and the studies behind them. Science, history, and psychology are just a few of the subjects that were presented by the show during its run. The podcast ended in 2017 but with 79 episodes all about 18 minutes long you have at least 23 hours of amazing content to listen to. My favorite episodes which I recommend starting with were “Ep. 74: This week I learned the dinosaurs could still be alive today if the asteroid had hit pretty much anywhere else, and more” and “Ep. 36: This week I learned why we're all suckers for the good cop/bad cop routine, and more.” For its short run the show has 4.2 out of 5 stars and 239 ratings. You should give it a listen and a review, you never know what shows can be brought back.
Similar pods: The Fact of the Matter, Unexplainable by Vox, and NOVA Now
All right, guys, that’s all for this week but remember if you want to see the cover art, sources or the written transcript for this episode be sure to check out the show notes. You can also send us an email at themastercastpodlist@gmail.com. There you can tell us if you have music you would like played on the show or submit a podcast to be recommended. This week’s music came from Universal Music Productions. Remember to share the show with the pod lovers in your life and tune in next Monday. Thanks for listening.
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Museum sneak peaks with Sidedoor
October 3, 2022
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This week we look at the Smithsonian Institute's podcast Sidedoor.
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Hey Pod lovers. I’m your host Marie and If you’re joining us for the first time: Welcome! The Mastercast is a podcast recommendation show that brings you a brand new non-spoiler binge-worthy review every week of the best podcasts in a short and sweet 2-3 minute summary on everything you could want to know, from the number of hosts to on average how long you can expect each episode to be. New episodes come out every Monday. You can find the week’s other reviews on the show’s social on Instagram @themastercast and Twitter @mastercastpods. If you like what you hear and want to help out this independent show you can find me on Buy me a coffee by searching The Mastercast. I’d really appreciate it. This week’s review is on
Sidedoor - No spoilers!
I’ve only been to the Smithsonian Institution in D.C. once as a kid but this bi-weekly podcast the museum produces makes you feel like you’re walking through the halls. Perfect for those who are still cautious about going out. Not only does it cover an extreme variety topics (history, science, art, space, and nature to name a few) but it covers some that aren’t on exhibit so even if you were to go you wouldn’t experience these stories. How many could there possibly be I hear you ask. Well the archives of the museum are filled with around 155 million artifacts each one with a story to tell. The institution is made up of 21 museum and the natural zoo. This podcast pulls from all of them and puts the objects discussed into captivating narratives that make the information you learn stay with you. Host Lizzie Peabody weaves interviews with facts that will leave you passionately curious about whatever the topic. The show, which first aired in October of 2016, has 4.6 stars and 1,700 ratings. So far there 150 episodes each about 25 minutes long. Perfect for the average commute. Their website has the show coming out every other Wednesday but on Pocketcasts and other players the days seem more sporadic. Owltail has the most listened to episodes as “Special Delivery” and “The Curse of the Hope Diamond.” My favorites were “The Dinosaur War” and “Murder Is Her Hobby” Music is quick and unremarkable. No trigger warnings for this one.
Similar pods: Museum Confidential, Museums n'That, and Museum Archipelago
All right, guys, that’s all for this week but remember if you want to see the cover art, sources or the written transcript for this episode be sure to check out the show notes. You can also send us an email at themastercastpodlist@gmail.com. There you can tell us if you have music you would like played on the show or submit a podcast to be recommended. This week’s music came from Universal Music Productions. Remember to share the show with the pod lovers in your life and tune in next Monday. Thanks for listening.
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True evil with Tenfold More Wicked: Wicked Words
October 17, 2022
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This week we look at Tenfold More Wicked: Wicked Words.
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Hey Pod lovers. I’m your host Marie and If you’re joining us for the first time: Welcome! The Mastercast is a podcast recommendation show that brings you a brand new non-spoiler binge-worthy review every week of the best podcasts in a short and sweet 2-3 minute summary on everything you could want to know, from the number of hosts to on average how long you can expect each episode to be. New episodes come out every Monday. You can find the week’s other reviews on the show’s social on Instagram @themastercast and Twitter @mastercastpods. If you like what you hear and want to help out this independent show you can find me on Buy me a coffee by searching The Mastercast. I’d really appreciate it. This week’s review is on
Historical crime is a hard thing to cover. With monotone hosts or lack of research it can too easily be made to seem like a story so far away in time and place that it never existed. That’s why what host Kate Winkler Dawson has done with the Exactly Right network is all the more impressive. Dawson is professor, crime historian, author and has reported for the likes of The New York Times, WCBS News and many more. On the level of Crimes of the Centuries this podcast has everything expected of a grade A show (gripping narrative, well researched, voices from those close to the cases) and so much more. For those who find older cases to be boring or unrelatable this podcast will change that. In all honesty I do love a period piece but Dawson transports listeners through history without sounding like she’s reading from a script. Instead every episode has the tone of a chilling true campfire story. Originally the show released case specific seasons that were 6 episodes long each but after the third season the podcast started a new series in the same feed made up of episodes that covered individual cases. These individual case episodes are now produced in between the main seasons and involve Dawson interviewing an expert in the case (usually an author). I’ve mentioned before how I generally am not a fan of interview podcasts but this is one of the good ones. Host and guest work together to tell very interesting stories. So far there are six main seasons and 58 standalone. On average, episodes are about 40 minutes long. It’s difficult to tell the most popular episodes/season because of this uniquerelease schedule and Owltail’s faulty algorithm. Moving forward I’m not sure Owltail can be trusted to reliable report the most popular episodes. My favorites are hard to choose because they are all so good. If you haven’t heard the pod before I would start with the first season’s first episode “All That is Wicked: The Schutts” or if you’re looking for an individual case episode, try “Bryan Burrough: The Demon Next Door.” Music is perfect.
Similar pods: Accused, Buried Bones, and Ye Olde Crime.
All right, guys, that’s all for this week but remember if you want to see the cover art, sources or the written transcript for this episode be sure to check out the show notes. You can also send us an email at themastercastpodlist@gmail.com. There you can tell us if you have music you would like played on the show or submit a podcast to be recommended. This week’s music came from Universal Music Productions. Remember to share the show with the pod lovers in your life and tune in next Monday. Thanks for listening
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