Remember when Rub & Tug was a movie which could actually get financed and made when there was a star actress associated with it?

“In hindsight, I mishandled that situation. I was not sensitive, my initial reaction to it. I wasn’t totally aware of how the trans community felt about those three actors playing—and how they felt in general about cis actors playing—transgender people. I wasn’t aware of that conversation—I was uneducated. So I…

She played a robot that was created in Japan and made to look American. yawn.

Once upon a time, part of the appeal of British and Australian actors was that they were cheaper than American stars. I can’t imagine, given their current ubiquity, that that’s still the case.

“There probably wouldn’t have been a second date for the photogenic, Tinder-crossed lawless lovers of Melina Matsoukas’ debut feature, Queen & Slim, if the first one hadn’t . . . escalate[d] . . . into . . . 132 minutes . . . of . . . increasingly heated boning.”

Except that isn’t even always even close to true.

There are, however, BOTH leads being from Britain.

Little weird to argue Joe Rogan should be on the list but then quibble with Maron’s exclusion given that (1) Rogan was also already a celebrity when he started, and almost certainly a bigger celebrity than Maron, (2) they basically do the same thing, but Maron started his podcast before Rogan (by a few months) and (3)…

I can’t listen to other “bad movie” podcasts because they tend to be too obsessed with “beat by beat plot summary” in the way of a bad AV Club TV episode review (not naming names because I don’t track these by name...but can we stop with the TV reviews that are just plot summaries? ...I digress). HDTGM is easier to…

I don’t know, I think this is where we begin to approach axiomatic differences in worldview, taste, and the function of comedy. I think there’s a well-intentioned but limiting orthodoxy around never “punching down” that’s divorced from a lot of specific and interesting comic sensibilities and misunderstands what…

Really not a fan of Missing Richard Simmons, it felt like tabloid podcasting at points. There are several points in the series where the author should have taken the advice of his interviewees and and left the man alone.

From that list I only like Chapo, but you’re right that a few of those should have been included. And frankly if it’s just one, it should probably be Rogan, even though I have no interest in his show. 

I had a brief but torrid affair with podcasts. I’d say the Joe Rogan Experience was at the center of it all, but I listened to all of the bigger ones of the era. I’d often spend an entire work day powering through the backlog. Just keeping up with the JRE was a chore in and of itself, as it seemed like the guy would…

I don’t listen to Chapo or Joe Rogan but they’re inescapable. Definitely huge parts of the american podcast landscape. 

Yeah, I actively dislike Rogan but it’s basically criminal (podcast related pun intended) to not have him on here!

I feel like the Dollop should get a mention. It is a great show and has inspired the formats of many of the other shows I listen to: Citation Needed, Knowledge Fight, and Behind the Bastards.

Also, All Fantasy Everything is the show I drop everything for each and every Thursday.

I can’t believe the Giant Bombcast isn’t on this list. The New Yorker described it as ‘charmingly garrulous’! Who can forget Knife vs Bat?

As loathsome as he has become (or always was perhaps?), Adam Carolla’s podcast should probably be listed as well.

Reminder: This list and every Podmass is just AVClub recommending whatever fits their milquetoast neo-liberal agenda. Refer to comments section for what people actually are listening to and enjoying. 

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