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it's official podcast pandemonium is

definitely a thing with David POG we

listen up quiet please in exactly 15

seconds we'll be on the air you may have

heard people refer to the 1930s and 40s

as the Golden Age of

radio well today we're living in the

Golden Age of

podcasts oh spdy make that chewy go like

a bowl of Stewie T Peter had all the

makings of a modern man a podcast is

like a pre-recorded radio show that you

can listen to on your phone as you

commute do errands cook or work out

podcasts are available on demand so in

the same way you can go watch Netflix

shows anytime you want you can listen to

our podcast anytime you want Alex

blumberg and Matt Liber are the

co-founders of gimlet media yeah so

these are our Studios which they hope to

build into the HBO of podcast Studios

its 120 employees produce 24 podcast

shows in 13 state-of-the-art recording

studios podcasts are free paid for by

ads or sponsorship I think she had so

much less there are a lot of podcasts at

last count over 630,000 different

podcasts on every conceivable topics all

right well I'm going to search right now

knitting are you okay here we go we have

like a lot of knitting podcasts there's

the knitting pipeline there's two 's

never not knitting never not knitting

never not knitting here we go hi this is

Alana and you're listening to the never

not knitting podcast there you

go the shows that are popular right now

go across all categories a president is

impeachable if he attempts to subvert

the Constitution people love crime they

love True Crime I knew I had one bullet

left I shot him again there's also more

kids shows these days welcome back to

Chompers your morning and night

toothbrushing show news is a bigger

category so the New York Times Daily is

one of the most popular shows on Monday

ah yes the

daily the wildly popular 25-minute News

podcast that the New York Times releases

every morning at 6:00 a.m. this is the

daily the daily has turned host Michael

Barbaro into a minor celebrity when I

bump into people on the subway and they

say are you Michael do you host the day

I want to know everything about how they

listen when they listen when it fits

into people's lives they have such a

strong connection to the show what are

the elements that have made the daily

such a hit I think it's the way we

choose to tell stories so what is

happening today the curtain is removed

it's you it's us we're telling you about

our process you're hearing how we search

for the news and our own uncertainty

sometimes as we're kind of grasping at

the truth and figuring it out she has

all these details of like what it's been

like inside the justice apartment so I

feel like people are saying that right

now is Peak podcast yes what is going on

everybody has these smartphones in their

lives and I think the quality of podcast

is just soared with all con artists and

everything these days most of the

popular podcasts are produced by large

companies but there's still plenty of

room for the little guy we get about

15,000 downloads a month which to me

seems great because we have no marketing

no advertising you know no

all just Word of Mouth from people who

listen all the time Ken and Martha

wisman are retired teachers and the

creators of the RV Navigator podcast

where they talk about the motor home

lifestyle we just sit down and wherever

we are we can sit on our bed we can sit

in the RV we can sit here and it's just

a matter of finding a quiet so here we

are in our lavish Studios but mostly

they record their podcast where else in

their RV hello listeners where the

entire Studio consists of a microphone

and a computer in a campground near you

if you're in Titusville Florida the

wiseman's podcast doesn't play ads and

doesn't make any

money they get a different kind of

reward for their efforts we always end

our podcast with we hope to see you in a

campground near us and it's amazing that

we do get people seeing us in a

campground near them we will run into

somebody who maybe takes us out to lunch

and talks to us about good things to see

do in their area and it's really

enriched Our Lives last year alone

200,000 new podcasts made their debuts

advertisers are expected to double the

amount they spend on podcasts by 2020

and 44% of Americans say they've

listened to a podcast Plus at least a

dozen podcasts are now being adapted

into TV shows including lore two dope

Queens cereal and homecoming but then

again but deep down as the times is

Michael Barbaro points out podcasts are

still just a new spin on a very old

idea the beauty of it is that it's been

made new in a very kind of urgent and

lovely way