Podcast fanatics and festival fanatics alike will be ecstatic to hear that their favorite podcasters are taking over the Now Hear This Podcast Festival. The cool kids of podcasting including Marc Maron, Lauren Lapkus, Scott Aukerman, and Paul Scheer will be in attendance with their respective podcasts. Now Hear This will take place this October on the 28th to the 30th at the Anaheim Marriott. Additionally, thirty other live podcast recordings will be going down. There will also be meet and greets with who’s who in the podcasting world. To go along with Howl’s moniker “Netflix for podcasts,” festival organizer Midroll Media is dubbing this the “Comic Con of podcasting.” I can’t wait until they start a “church of podcasts” and we have to study our “devotions of podcasting.” TIckets go on sale on July 11.
Jemaine Clement's Howl Podcast is finally premiering next month
If you fell for Midroll's newest premium podcast subscription service Howl, touted as the "Netflix for podcasts," then you'd be one of several people disappointed not only with the launch but the following months of execution. It's been what seems like a year since Howl started and, yet, there aren't many of the promised exclusives or ad-free shows. One of the most anticipated series comes from Flight of the Concords star/bandmate Jemaine Clement and it's called The Mysterious Secrets of Uncle Bertie’s Botanarium. The pre-written series follows Clements' Lord Joseph Banks, a botanist who travels on the seas towards New Zealand in the early 1700s. The crew encounters plant-worshipers, cannibalistic sausages and even treacherous butterflies on their journey. The series is written by Duncan Sarkies, James Milne, and Stephen Templer.