The 2 Best Medium Playback Podcast Episodes
1) Ben Blum: "The Lifespan of a Lie"
This week's Playback features an investigative showdown. Journalist Ben Blum looks into the reality of the most famous psychology study to ever be conducted, The Stanford Prison Experiment, and makes ...Show More
2) Roxane Gay: "What Fullness Is"
For the first episode of our first-ever podcast, there was only one guest we had in mind: bestselling author Roxane Gay. Her powerful and devastatingly honest essay “What Fullness Is” is one of the mo...Show More
3) "The Edge of Adulthood"
The final episode of Medium Playback's first season is about those who are just peering into the adult years that lay ahead. Right now, teenagers face a deeply unstable future — but maybe that's alwa...Show More
4) Meghan Daum: "Nuance: A Love Story"
The dark web was her safe space. Meghan Daum, a long-time L.A. Times columnist, faced two endings: Obama’s government and her marriage. What resulted was a distancing from her gentrified bubble and a ...Show More
5) Morgan Jerkins: "Traveling While Black"
Is there any place where a black person can just be herself? Three contributors to the collection Traveling While Black — Mateo Askaripour, Jamilah Lemieux, and collection editor Morgan Jerkins — read...Show More
6) Douglas Rushkoff: "Survival of the Richest"
This week’s Playback gets into the psyche of some big-money overlords — the ones who can’t make it to Mars with Elon, anyway. In his wildly popular story “Survival of the Richest,” researcher Douglas ...Show More
7) Kristi Coulter: "Enjoli"
This week, Playback is a throwback, but the story timeless. Society is fine-tuned for hardworking women — executives, moms, daughters, creatives, and yogis alike — to get drunk. In “Enjoli,” writer an...Show More
8) Mike Monteiro: "Design's Lost Generation
For episode four, we hear from designer and founder Mike Monteiro, who has a strong word for his creative ilk. In “Design’s Lost Generation,” he insists that designers, especially UX designers — who p...Show More
9) Jonathan Parks-Ramage: "Jesus, Mary, and Joe Jonas"
Episode three is all about Jesus Christ and his superstars. In his piece “Jesus, Mary, and Joe Jonas,” writer Jonathan Parks-Ramage discovers Reality L.A., an evangelical Christian church that attract...Show More
10) Baratunde Thurston: "How To Do a Data Detox In a Zillion Easy Steps"
For our second episode, futurist, comedian, and activist Baratunde Thurston joins the podcast with a word — and then some — on big data, big tech, and his own data detox. In his story "How To Do a D...Show More