However, finding one that meets your professional needs isn’t always easy. With dozens of fantastic podcasts available today, sales professionals have no shortage of insights and tips at their disposal. Why all the podcast love? Convenience, and with over 2,000,000 podcasts there is a treasure trove of choices, giving listeners easy access to engaging shows that cover every topic imaginable – from sports and crime thrillers to business and politics. population has listened to a podcast, up from 51% the previous year according to Podcast Insights. As they say in every episode, sometimes those checks clear, and sometimes “they bounce, baby.There’s no denying the massive popularity of podcasts.
Their overarching focus is unpacking the elusive “blank check” movies: the ones like Ang Lee’s Hulk, in which a director has gained success and trust from a studio and is offered a blank check to make whatever he wants. Unlike other movie podcasts, Griffin and David’s approach to evaluating cinema is rooted in filmographies with few exceptions, they track a single director’s entire oeuvre, film by film, charting the progression of some of our greatest directors by the movie, the scene, and sometimes, even shot-by-shot. How many more lighthearted podcasts devoted to scrutinizing every minor detail of cinema could I fit on my iPhone? Six months later, Blank Check is the only podcast to which I return, episode after episode. So, when a close friend recommended I listen to Blank Check, hosted by actor/comedian Griffin Newman and Atlantic film writer David Sims, I was reluctant.
In the ever-seething avalanche of film and comedy podcasts, it has become difficult to distinguish one series from another. In fact, start with the first episode, in which Shepard interviews Bell, and the two get real about their relationship. Plus, the wonderful Kristen Bell obviously sees something in Shepard because she married him, so that's reason enough to give it a try. But it's all part of the vaguely obnoxious "armchair expert" vibe, which Shepard's co-host and producer, Monica Padman, punctures at the end of each episode when she fact-checks his many claims. Yes, Dax can be obnoxious his inflated sense of self is particularly grating.
Yet Shepard's impressive and often unexpected guests-combined with his ability to pull stories and commentary that you wouldn't hear on a TV talk show or in most print interviews (like Ira Glass remarking on threesomes)-has quickly vaulted him into the elite realm of podcast host. Comedians like Marc Maron and Pete Holmes have already cornered it (and besides, Terry Gross was outdoing everyone long before the term podcast existed). There's no room for growth in this genre. The host, Dax Shepard, interviews famous people and the occasional scholar or journalist. Armchair Expert shouldn't be as good as it is.
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