Benjamin Cannon
@NotBenCannon
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Graphic designer, writer, and podcast obsessive. Bylines seen on @TheAVClub and @Vulture. Find me over there: @bencannon.bsky.social
Longueuil, Québec
Joined October 2008
My latest for the Podcast Canon. I examine how a crazy good Batman podcast—with Jeffrey Wright voicing the Dark Knight and like half the cast of SNL in support—failed to break through. Give it a read, and a listen!.
Dennis McNicholas' audio series should have been a massive hit. Instead, it languished in obscurity.
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RT @TheAVClub: Jonathan Goldstein's cathartic, frequently hilarious podcast is built on lessons he learned from a lifelong dedication to au….
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RT @brendohare: Really nice piece about THIS IS BRANCHBURG and a beyond flattering comparison to our biggest influence, Blue Jam.
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Slipping in under the wire with the latest entry into Podcast Canon over on @TheAVClub. This month I look at sketch comedy podcast This Is Branchburg and examine how it is related to obscure BBC comedy program from the late 90s.
To understand Brendan O’Hare and Cory Snearowski's series, we need to look back at a cult BBC radio program from the late ’90s.
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RT @FionaSturges: Pod people! Please tell me about yr ⭐️NEW⭐️ podcasts launching in JANUARY, for poss review in my @FT pod column. I like u….
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Honestly, this is everything to me. The reason I've been wanting to cover podcasts with greater depth and sensitivity is that listeners can easily miss just how much passionate and creative work goes into them!.
@TheAVClub @GeorgeThePoet @BBCSounds @ApplePodcasts @BBCCO @AbbeyRoad I think you're the first person that's ever highlighted the mixing @NotBenCannon! We've regularly got like 300 tracks of audio and sound design, vocals, programming, orchestra is all in the same session. mind boggling! Grateful to you!.
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RT @SalmanAhadK: @NotBenCannon Also really hope you can craft some space for single episodes of long running narrative shows like Snap Judg….
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RT @SalmanAhadK: @NotBenCannon I'm so excited about this!! As a longtime AV Club reader and now someone who went from a consumer to a produ….
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Well, this is just amazing. Podcast Pantheon is off to a good start, I’d say!.
Damn. This was a blessing to read @NotBenCannon. Thank you for considering what me and @benbrick do so deeply. We love audio, hope to spread that love even further 🙏🏾.
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RT @benbrick: Woah! Thank you for the review @TheAVClub. The art we create today can inspire the next generation. Here's to encouraging….
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With the launch of Podcast Pantheon @TheAVClub, we look back at the launch of @serial and the decade of podcasting which blossomed in its afterglow. @GeorgeThePoet's incandescently original, sonically daring work was the perfect fit for the first entry.
The first piece dropped today, looking at Have You Heard George's Podcast, a masterwork of sonic design and translating cinematic style storytelling to an audio-only medium.
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It's a long read. I start with podcasting's inflection point in 2014—the launch of Serial—and try to suss out why podcasts have such a small footprint in the world of cultural criticism in the decade since. But, sometimes you've got to be the change you want to see. .
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The first piece dropped today, looking at Have You Heard George's Podcast, a masterwork of sonic design and translating cinematic style storytelling to an audio-only medium.
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I am incredibly excited to announce that I'm back in @TheAVClub writing about podcasts, after a four year hiatus. This time, it's to launch Podcast Pantheon, a monthly column where I'll be looking back at the past decade of shows and highlighting the medium's best and weirdest.
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RT @emilynussbaum: I absolutely loved Teri Garr, a wonderful actress— so sad to hear about her death. She also participated in the best, mo….
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RT @ddale8: We ran an article Friday about how the Trump campaign has made a habit of deceptively using quotes in its TV ads, cutting out w….
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RT @mikiebarb: A WaPo endorsement for president had been written and was ready to publish before Jeff Bezos decided the paper would not end….
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RT @Transom_org: BIG NEWS! So excited to announce @sophiemckibben has been appointed Executive Director and will lead the Transom Story Lab….
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