The Pods This Week.

Ep 645 - Pimpology

Happiness Expert Dr. Arthur Brooks | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #695

Robyn | Good Hang with Amy Poehler

Robyn likes to lie on the floor, and after an hour on Amy Poehler's Good Hang you start to think she's onto something.

• Zara Larsson turns up before Robyn, an unbilled bonus for pop fans.
• Robyn and Amy get into dadaist theater, of all things.
• Robyn's method for staying out longer at the club, plus her favorite Swedish holidays.

KT #793 - BIG JAY OAKERSON + ZAC BROWN + MIKE FINOIA

Brain Queef | Tuesdays with Stories #681 w/ Mark Normand and Joe List

Mark Normand loses a fight with his own travel plans on Tuesdays with Stories, and Joe List throws a three-year-old a party.

• Mark Normand botches his travel more than once in a single weekend.
• Joe's son turns three, and Stavros and Feehan compete for best gift.
• Joe List takes a few minutes to set the record straight.

Dustin Hoffman Part I (Full Episode) | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

Dustin Hoffman, 89, sits down with Conan O'Brien and spends the hour gently declining to be interviewed, which is the best kind.

• Hoffman on using his old job as a Macy's toy salesman as an acting exercise.
• Hoffman on what it was like working alongside Laurence Olivier.
• Hoffman on going from "designated failure" to Hollywood icon, the road his new memoir Look at Me covers.

Just Us w/ Mark Normand & Sam Morril | We Might Be Drunk Podcast

Mark Normand and Sam Morril go guestless on We Might Be Drunk, and a Brooklyn date night falls to forty-dollar deviled eggs.

• Mark and Sam punch up a new bit about how having a baby turns marriage into a hostage negotiation.
• Mark Normand on nearly missing his flight to Portland.
• A Brooklyn date night undone by $40 deviled eggs, and a bodega that won't let you pet the cats.

Midterm Reaction | The Tim Dillon Show #520

Tim Dillon reviews the midterms on The Tim Dillon Show with the calm of a man reading a will he isn't named in.

• Tim's read on the Republican strategy on transgender issues, in the middle of a midterm post-mortem.
• The longest stretch is about fifteen minutes on Trump's pivot to the tech billionaires.
• Tim gets into data centers and what the country does from here.

Kings of Leon’s Caleb Followill | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #694

Theo Von gets Kings of Leon's Caleb Followill talking about brothers and fame, two things that seldom leave a man in peace.

• Caleb Followill on growing up a preacher's kid before rock stardom found him.
• Followill on how sudden fame nearly tore Kings of Leon apart.
• Most-watched clip: Followill on why Kings of Leon got so big in the U.K.

Ep 644 - Bum Check (feat. SWIM)

SWIM sits in on Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast, where a free Election Day bus ride turns into a full civic dispute.

• On a free Election Day bus, the driver charges fares anyway, and the riders he charged turn on him.
• A treadmill VO2 max test in a mask, a revealing body scan, and blood work that flags a massive cortisol spike.
• Why comedy is the one art people call bad to your face, and why Helium crowds think they're comics after two beers.

Corporate Watchdog: You’re Being Experimented On Every Time You Shop | Lindsay Owens #693

• Lindsay Owens on how food delivery apps track your behavior and change prices to match.
• Owens explains how dynamic pricing gets fans to pay more for tickets.
• Most-watched clip: Owens on where digital price tags are headed, and why she calls that future dangerous.

Chris Rock Talks Hollywood Ups & Downs, His SNL Life Lesson & The Diagnosis That Changed His Life

• Rock looks back on his 1996 special Bring the Pain, 30 years later, around the 31-minute mark.
• Chris Rock says he won't go back to the Oscars, with one condition attached.
• Most-watched clip: Rock on finding out his trouble reading social cues was a nonverbal learning disorder, after a friend blurted it out.

Alanis Morissette (Live) | Good Hang with Amy Poehler

• Alanis Morissette on fangirling over John Ritter.
• Morissette makes the case that meditation is overrated.
• Amy and Morissette get into what it's like to have good hair privilege.

KT #792 - JIMMY CARR + LUIS J GOMEZ + STEVE RANNAZZISI

Christopher Walk-In | Tuesdays with Stories #680 w/ Mark Normand and Joe List

Olivia Colman (Full Episode) | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

• Olivia Colman got through an emotional scene in The Crown with a little help from the sound department.
• Conan and Gourley campaign for Colman to play M in the next Bond film, a part she says she's desperate for.
• Most-watched clip: Conan's team exposes a fan-made promo video Matt Gourley put together for Late Night.

Michael Che w/ Sam Morril & Mark Normand - We Might Be Drunk Podcast