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I’ve found a new podcast I really enjoy recently, which was nice for me. One, I listen to podcasts while I work (I am listening to one as I write this). Two, I’ve culled a couple podcasts recently, at least temporarily. If you are speaking in favor of the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes and are annoying me and make me want to hit the skip, man, you’ve got to be really grating about it. Anyway, the podcast I have been enjoying is American Scandal.
The show is different from the other shows I listen to, in that it has seasons, which seem to consist of five or six episodes. Over the course of a season, the podcast will tackle a certain scandal. The most-recent one, as of this writing, is about Spiro Agnew. What’s good about this season style, which I know is fairly common but is new to my listening habits, is that I can skip over seasons I’m not into. I’ve listened to, I believe, four seasons thus far, with more to come. I have found myself listening to an entire season in the course of a day, with episodes usually coming in at 35-40 minutes.
Lindsay Graham serves as the host (not the politician, mercifully), and it’s entirely scripted, from his telling of the story to the dramatizations of events. In the first series, those dramatizations took some getting used to, but now I like them. It’s a storytelling podcast, but about American history.
If you like history at all, and like a consumable amount of storytelling, this is a well-produced, interesting podcast. American Scandal will definitely remain in my rotation.
