In its first year is was the abominable “Grown Ups 2.” Now in it’s second year they’ve graduated to the even more offensively terrible “Sex in the City 2.” Before you laugh off the idea, think about the implications of watching a terrible film so often it eclipses any other piece of media you consume in your life. Once a week for an entire year, Tim & Guy sit down and watch the same objectively terrible film. But there is something insidiously enjoyable about The Worst Idea of All Time. On its face, the concept of another movie review podcast, even starring rising comedians Guy Montgomery and Tim Batt, sounds like another drop in the audio bucket.
Sometimes genius comes stumbled upon like a drunk falling out of a pub. Sometimes genius comes from years spent in meditative study and dedication to craft. Now that podcasting has slowly but surely made its way into the mainstream spotlight, we should have an ear to the ground to the people pushing the format. Podcasting is over 10 years old and those who spent their adolescence and college years listening to podcasts are starting to put their hats into the ring, and that’s a good thing. This is a list of 20 people that really should be on the podcast world’s radar in 2015. This list is by no means comprehensive, and definitely is not some power ranking of the best podcasters young enough to have watched “All That” on Nickelodeon.
A Forbes “30 Under 30” for podcasting, except in this case it’s more like a “20 (mostly) in their 20s of Podcasting.” But who are they, what are they doing, and why should we pay attention to them? Consider this piece a chance at answering that question.
While the podcasting giants of today start to age into their late 30s, 40s, and 50s, a new crop of creatives are beginning to go the way of their audio idols. If you listen to podcasts, you listen to as many podcasts as you can handle, and if you hear someone isn’t listening, it has just become your worldly imperative to convince them of the terrible, terrible life decision they have made.īut Millennials aren’t just listening anymore. There is something about consuming content that can be done while, working, cleaning, driving, and, above all, texting that makes podcast the perfect medium for kids of the late 80s and early 90s.
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