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On a recent phone call, I was kicking around a question for the pure academic hell of it.
Sahni pondered the query.
Its a clarity of voice, he said.
The success of the character is how well it maps onto the thing being observed.
How authentic does it feel?
We started out thinking about this project as an extension of that, said Sahni.
The original idea was to build something that could help introduce rising comedians to more people.
They submitted pitches, and we narrowed it down to ten favorites, and went from there.
There includes a fairly involved development process.
As a company, Big Money Players is coming into full view at a very interesting moment.
Institutional comedy-podcast operations are kind of all over the place these days.
The Earwolf brand has been completely subsumed by SiriusXM.
Spotify doesnt seem particularly interested in the category.
Headgum continues to be compelling but remains rather small.
Could Big Money Players be the one to fill the vacuum?
So yes, there is maybe an opportunity for Big Money Players to become the next Earwolf.
Itll depend, as usual, on boring but important things like downloads.
When I asked how big the online grid has become these days, Sahni waved away the question.
Yeah, we cant comment on that, he said.
But he quickly changed his mind: Huge.
Becca Ramos serves as supervising producer.
Big week for reunions.
The horrors, they compound.
Goldhawk is retrospectively listed as the studio behindPassenger List, that fiction podcast starring Kelly Marie Tran from 2019.
Anyway, the hook forMumbaiCrimeis how itll serve as a container for various English-language-genre audio-fiction projects produced in India.
Consider this a second plug forShameless Acquisition Target.
What Laura Mayer is doing with this incredibly offbeat personal project is well worth keeping your ear on.
