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Class Action
Objection!Listenhere.
Once, in college, I joined a mock trial team.
It was an ill-fated venture.
Recalling the humiliation always causes me to shut the tab.
Anyway, the mock trial teams documented inClass Actionare anything but unprepared.
Let the tape run free, Id say.
But the concept is nevertheless clicking for me.
Class Action is available on all platforms.
Created, produced, written, and edited by Kevin Huffman and Lisa Gray.
Executive producers are Taylor Chicoine and Katrina Norvell.
Sound design and further editing by Chicoine and Evan Tyor.
Newts
The end of the world, with a side of salamanders.Listenhere.
Which is to say, theres a lot going on in the eccentric, bizarro, hard-to-describeNewts.
Total war breaks out; events conspire; (spoiler?)
Newtsis a production of PRX andThe Truth, Jonathan Mitchells long-running fiction podcast operation thats part of Radiotopia.
Expect sea shanties, grand theatricality, and squishy sounds standing in for the salamanders.
Newts is available on all platforms.
Directed by Sam Jay Gold.
Music and sound design by Ian Coss.
Executive producers are Jocelyn Gonzalez and Jonathan Mitchell, who also served as story editor.
Speaking of cool people: Molly Lambertwas on Longformrecently to talk about her podcast, HeidiWorld.
and her noting of You Must Remember This and Once Upon a Time… as direct points of inspiration.
We here at 1.5x Speed remain committed tocertifying the Cool Girl Podcast as an actual aesthetic movement.
Las Culturistas … Culture Awards?At the Lincoln Center?
Why yes, yes indeed.
Did you hear that Kara Swisher iscoming back to Vox Media?
Well, I mean, shes already co-hostingPivotwith Scott Galloway for my employer.
And thats a wrap for1.5x Speed!
Hope you enjoyed it.
