The five podcasts you can’t miss in February 2023
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Black humor done right (other than Fedez), crazy experiments on the media and busts of Lenin. But also bears and fugitives. The ranking of the best “things to listen to” released (more or less) this month. Because it takes an ear
65 percent of Italians regularly listen to audiobooks, podcasts or audio series. Listening is now a consolidated habit: this is confirmed by Audible Compass 2022, an international survey carried out by Kantar on behalf of the Amazon platform. According to the survey, we especially like original content: more than 6 out of 10 respondents said they were enthusiastic about stories meant to be listened to, rather than read or watched. Also to orient ourselves in this great sea we have thought of Podiocast, the appointment of the Sheet with the new podcasts looking for listeners. We point out – without formalizing ourselves too much on the dates of publication – the most interesting Italian podcasts coming out or recently available online. In short, the freshest and most interesting ones that we would put on the “podium” this month. Happy listening.
Matthew’s Island
Where to listen: on Audible
by Matteo Caccia
The assist of current events is a kiss, as they say. We can only start with a podcast that talks about the most discussed case of the last month: the arrest of mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, the one who until recently was the last still fugitive member of the now dissolved Cosa Nostra regional commission. And, given the scope of the news, podcasts have sprung up like mushrooms. There is that of Mario Calabresi for Chora, who together with the journalist Giovanni Bianconi and the founder of Libera don Luigi Ciotti tells who Messina Denaro is and his thirty years on the run and why his arrest is so important for the fight against the mafia . There is “Cosa Resta” (which tells the story of Falcone and Borsellino but has two extra episodes written after the Ros raid in Palermo) written by Francesco Oggiano and Carlo Notarpietro for Will Media. There is “The capture”, in which Mario Pescio on Audible recounts the decisive week in January 1993 which led to the arrest of Totò Riina, after 24 years on the run (a week that becomes the story of an era). There is that of Roberto Savaiano on the maxi trial, which again on Audible in recent weeks has been at the top of the rankings and is the story of the state’s victory over the Cosa Nostra.
But the best podcast, in our unquestionable opinion, in terms of quality and content, is “L’isola di Matteo”. Zero rhetoric, zero anti-mafia militancy and conspiracy theorists, zero questionable interviews with the “judge’s barber” and the like. Also for this reason the fact that he has now turned two does not make him dated at all, on the contrary. In June of 2020 Matteo Caccia and Luca Micheli they visited western Sicily, the land that gave birth and hid one of the most dangerous criminals in the world, still a fugitive at the time. They were led by Giacomo di Girolamo, who has always been involved in telling the things of the mafia, the flashy and the minute, the extraordinary and the everyday ones. A “resident” journalist, as he likes to call himself, in defiance of the rhetoric of “resilient and resistant” journalism. One that readers of Il Foglio cannot help but like, not only for his genuine sympathy and extraordinary story-telling. Giacomo never feels sorry, he never gives up, he laughs at himself and at that land “without anger and without indignation”, he jokes about lawsuits and threats, he doesn’t ask for escorts, he doesn’t proclaim himself a victim, he remains at his microphone every day and to his computer, why telling stories of that territory is the only way to keep it awake.
This is not only the story of Matteo Messina Denaro. Indeed, the figure of him can be seen, gigantic and sprawling, but only in filigree. This is a story of anti-racket associations that aren’t really anti-racket associations, of those characters that the mafia generates, of the shopping center business, of a concierge who no longer speaks to you because, after you have received a parcel bomb and she has collected , was summoned by the carabinieri: an intolerable affront for a decent person. Meetings with friends, family and colleagues of Giacomo but also with the son of the only repentant of the Messina Denaro family introduce us to an ancient world made up of understandings and innuendos where the family still commands everything and everyone, where the underworld hides in every corner but where beauty covers and hides everything.
Don’t Open That Podcast – Season 4
Where to listen to it: on Spotify and Podtails
by J-Ax, Matteo Lenardon, Pedar
Warning, this podcast deals with topics that could mislead young minds and impress easily triggered bigots. It is recommended to listen to an audience that does not drink soy milk.
The initial discaimer, recited by the unmistakable voice of Maria De Filippi, as well as the opening theme, are now cult. Don’t Open That Podcast comes to the fourth season. “Something I never bet I’d find myself saying,” he says J-Ax in presenting the first of ten new episodes. The founder of Article 31 (we already know who to root for in Sanremo) the journalist (and author) Matthew Lenardon and rapper Pedar give new meaning to the definition of true crime, the genre in which the stories of crimes that really happened are pigeonholed. And that takes the lion’s share of audio production at the moment. The series, produced by Spotify Studios and Willy L’Orbo, the singer’s creative workshop, tackles the diabolical mysteries of the criminal, supernatural and paranormal world in an irreverent and sarcastic tone. A lesson for Fedez: this is what true “black humor” is. And also for some local TV: crime news can be told even without morbidity. Starting from this new season and recovering the first three. “Ah! It’s a wonderful work!”.
A new episode every Thursday
Broth
Where to listen to it: on Spotify and Podtails
by The Pills, produced by Show Reel Agency in collaboration with Spotify Studios
“Was that really necessary? Avoja!” The Roman comedians Luca Vecchi, Luigi Di Capua, Matteo Corradini, The Pills, thus present their new podcast, or rather vodcast, because in addition to the audio there is also a “seen” on the smartphone. Result? For now it’s a no. The Pills are hilarious and in fact Brodo immediately shot to first place in the Spotify chart. And the format is truly innovative: even of Don’t Open That Podcastfor example, you can see faces, winks and grimaces of the three conductors on your mobile phone screen, but in Broth this becomes almost indispensable. Each episode consists of a first part of interviews and irreverent chats with a guest followed by another of fiction, with sketches related to the creation of a hypothetical podcast in an invented agency: playing with the clichés and contradictions of the sector , in the usual style that made the trio famous on YouTube. And yet, we may be lazy, but the beauty of the podcast is also that of leaving her mobile phone charged or in her pocket, and forgetting it there, while with your hands you hold onto the handlebars of a bike, the handrail of the tram or peel onions ( “and I feel them on/on my skin”). In any case Luca, Luigi and Matteo, who don’t give a damn and do well, have fun and amuse us. “Brodo is a multilingual intergalactic guide to learn about society, to broaden our horizons and to unite points of view that we think are irreconcilable”, they say. “Our goal is to create small short circuits between us and with the guests”.
A new episode every Wednesday
cult
Where to listen: On all platforms
by Eleonora Sacco and Angelo Zinna
Listening begins with a phone call, or rather with what looks like a voice message bottled up on Whatsapp and left in the current of the summer, waiting to land:
Hi Ele, how are you? Listen, there’s something new: a certain Nicola from the municipality of Cavriago contacted me. I don’t know if you remember Cavriago, we talked about it some time ago… They would like to do a podcast to tell the story of the bust of Lenin they have there, in the square. Since he liked ‘Cement’, he asked us if we were interested in doing it ourselves. I’ll throw it there, I don’t know what plans you have for the next few months, but it could be a fun thing to do this winter…
A fun thing to do, but also to listen to. After the success of “Cement”, podcast that talked about east new and oldof travel and of Soviet curiosities that make us return to places we can barely pronounce, Eleonora Sacco (Pain de Route) e Angelo Zinna (Collisions), they come back with a new job.
For exactly one hundred years, Lenin and Cavriago have been linked. Offlaga Disco Pax fans already know what the leader of the October Revolution has to do with the small town in the province of Reggio Emilia. For all the others, Kult takes care of it. “We went to dissect”, explained Sacco to Meridiano 13, “the eternal image of Leninwhich has become a stereotype of the Soviet Union – the ubiquitous statue of Lenin, now also the queen of Instagram – which is infinitely replicated as an empty simulacrum, but behind which there is a world of meanings. Kult refers to the birth of the personality cult of Lenin after his death, which gave the ‘la’ to that of many other communist leaders in the world, from Stalin himself to Enver Hoxha, to Nicolae Ceaușescu, up to the Kim dynasty in Korea of the North, Mao in China and beyond – with the difference that they were alive. But this time too the name is also a bit of a play on words: the very birth of socialism has something of a cult”.
Ursa Minor
Where to listen to it: on RaiPlay Sound
by Francesca Camilla D’Amico with Paolo Barberi and Gianluca Stazi
Confidence killed the bear. Juan Carrito died on 24 January. He was hit by a car on highway 17 near Castel di Sangro. M20, better known as Juan Carrito, was the Marsican bear that roamed the inhabited centers of Abruzzo and stole sweets from the pastry shop window, which allowed itself to be photographed by the curious and did not want to know that it was afraid of humans. She was a mascot, a nice “Gian Burrasca”, as Giovanni Cannata, president of the national park of Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise, had defined him. His death was a pain for many, but what would change in our lives if all the bears disappeared? Can we afford to do without it? In this RaiPlay Sound podcast in collaboration with the nature reserve, the stories of the biologists of the national park intertwine with the stories of bears and their environment, on their way to save themselves and their species. From the lair to the ancient forests, from the forays into the town to the encounters with tourists, barriers to be crossed between one territory and another in search of expansion, in this piece of the Apennines that tries to preserve the heart of wild nature but in contact with the lives of men, one of the many animal species that inhabit this land and “certainly the most intrusive”, to quote Daniela D’Amico, responsible for the promotion and communication of the park.
For those who haven’t had enough, always on RaiPlay Sound there is also “Muso a muso”, the story of the encounters (or clashes) between men and bears and wolves who have returned to live next to their homes. An exploration through original interviews and voices of the past kept by the Teca.
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