![]() ![]() Ratliff has slowly circled the interview with Hanks himself, even scheduling Hanks’ son Colin Hanks this season. Ratliff isn’t bitter: the podcast is surprisingly funny and empathetic. So decades later, he started a podcast in which he interviewed famous people, ranging from Jon Hamm to Damon Lindelof, about their own professional rejections. But at the last minute, Ratliff was told they were recasting the part because Hanks thought he had “dead eyes.” The rejection put Ratliff on a totally different career trajectory, but the pain stuck with him. Back in the early 2000s, Ratliff had been cast in the Hanks-produced HBO series Band of Brothers, a much-hyped drama that wound up churning out stars like Tom Hardy, Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy, Andrew Scott, and Damian Lewis. For two years now, comedian Connor Ratliff has pursued an interview with Hanks. I never should have doubted that Tom Hanks would be an amazing podcast guest. Read More: The 10 Best Podcasts of 2021 Dead Eyes Your mileage may vary on Vogt, but there’s no denying that the podcast itself is one of the most entertaining shows produced in years. He weighs the potential democratizing benefits that its fans tout with the chaos that always seems to result from true democracy on the Internet. Vogt approaches the stories with a healthy dose of skepticism and just the right amount of empathy for the typically young, revolutionary-minded, but often naive advocates of cryptocurrency. In this series, Vogt focuses on the particularly bizarre land of crypto, where acolytes are trying to build crypto-only societies (hence the name, Crypto Island) and outbid billionaires for copies of the Constitution. ![]() (Vogt left Reply All and Gimlet after he was accused of union busting and blindness toward his own privilege.) Whatever you may think of Vogt, there’s no denying that Crypto Island plays like vintage Reply All: crazy stories about the Internet often sold as nail-biting mysteries. ![]() Fans of Reply All may remember Vogt as the former co-host of that series. So when two of my favorite Bon Appétit Test Kitchen alums Carla Lalli Music and Rick Martinez announced that they were launching a cooking podcast, I eagerly awaited the first episode. I’m a sucker for a fun food podcast and was crestfallen when my favorite example of the genre, Home Cooking with cookbook author Samin Nosrat and podcasting vet Hrishikesh Hirway, wrapped up its pandemic run. All those podcasters have found their way onto this roundup as hosts, interviewers, or producers of new series. In past years I’ve included podcasts hosted by Clare Malone (formerly of FiveThirtyEight Politics Podcast), Hrishikesh Hirway ( Song Exploder, West Wing Weekly, Home Cooking), Connor Ratliff ( Dead Eyes), Brian Reed ( S-Town), Esther Perel ( Where Should We Begin?), Jon Ronson (The Butterfly Effect, The Last Days of August), and PJ Vogt ( Reply All) on my “best of” lists. Thankfully, plenty of podcasting veterans are producing new, addictive shows. As I wade through the ocean of stories, interviews, and investigations on various podcasting platforms, I find myself returning to trusted voices-people who know how to spin a good yarn in this specific format. ![]()
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