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The second episode of Someone Knows Something begins with a hook much different than that presented in the first. Rather than using sound effects to bring the listener in, Ridgen describes a dream he commonly…

This episode of Noble Blood is one of several episodes covering the lives of the wives of English King Henry VIII. The techniques host Dana Schwartz uses appear very similar to the ones she used…

For the past few weeks, I have been listening to episodes of the podcast “Heavyweight”. In this podcast, host Jonathan Goldstein explores stories of real-life people and connects with them to help them resolve a…

This is my second post about the podcast “Throughline,” the podcast that tells historical stories related to contemporary issues. In this episode, “The Most Sacred Right,” the topic is Frederick Douglass and voting rights. The…

The podcast Crimetown creates a consistent identity despite covering and following tangential stories through repeated stylistic decisions. Starting with the soundtrack, the podcast employs stylistically similar and even the same songs across different episodes. Crimetown…

For my second blogpost entry I will be discussing Alex Goldman’s and PJ Vogt’s Reply All. This one was the 100th episode, Friends and Blasphemers. I enjoyed the style the podcast I responded to in…

To recap, “Serial Killers” is a podcast in which the hosts, Greg Polcyn and Vanessa Richardson, take a deep look into the minds and stories of the most prolific serial killers. They go through extensive…

Through episodes 2-4, host Sarah Koenig continues her development of the case of Beau Bergdahl as she furthers the explanation of her findings through Season 02 of Serial. In these developing episodes, Koenig dives into…

The Mortified Podcast released this episode around late May, where in a normal year, graduation would be taking place as normal. However, in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the producers cleverly used senior superlatives to…

“Someone Knows Something” is a podcast hosted and narrated by David Ridgen where, in order to shed light on what victim’s family members have long believed to be a cold case, Ridgen revisits old leads…