I would also like to take this opportunity to recommend a new podcast I've been enjoying very much: Mystery Show, hosted by Starlee Kine.
In the post-Serial world, we are all searching for something to fill the gap left by the still-burning questions of Adnan Syed's innocence and Sarah Koenig's personal opinion about that matter. In searching for such filler, I stumbled on Mystery Show, which is actually nothing like Serial at all, and may even be better, in my opinion. The podcast is a light-hearted exploration of the human existence in the form of solving various mysteries involving otherwise boring minutiae of daily life. Adorable and disarming host Kine begins each episode by introducing a mystery, usually brought to her by a friend of acquaintance, which she then sets out to solve. The mysteries themselves are nowhere near as heavy as did a high school kid murder his ex-girlfriend and dump her body in the woods. The series' first mystery: What happened to a video store that mysteriously vanished from NYC back in 2003? Another fun one: What was Brittany Spears doing with an author and friend of the hosts book at a restaurant, and did she like the book? Often times the answer to the mysteries are second place to the interesting tangents and conversations she has with whatever interesting people she meets along the way. Like WTF Podcast, Mystery Show comes highly recommended by yours truly.
