Podcasts Started by Unlikely Duos
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Q 01Which podcast, recorded in a garage nicknamed 'the Cat Ranch', ended in October 2025 with a second Obama interview?
- AWTF
- BThe Joe Rogan Experience
- CConan O'Brien Needs a Friend
- DArmchair Expert
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WTF
Marc Maron launched the show in September 2009 after his Air America radio programme was cancelled and ran it for 1,686 episodes; Slate once called his two-part Louis C.K. interview the greatest podcast episode of all time.
Q 02Which comedian co-hosts the true-crime podcast "My Favorite Murder" alongside Georgia Hardstark?
- AMaria Bamford
- BAmy Schumer
- CKaren Kilgariff
- DTig Notaro
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Karen Kilgariff
The pair released their first episode in January 2016 and turned a live-show hobby into one of the biggest podcasts in the genre.
Q 03What is Malcolm Gladwell's 2016 podcast reexamining overlooked or misunderstood events and ideas called?
- AStuff You Should Know
- BRevisionist History
- CFreakonomics Radio
- DThe Daily
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Revisionist History
Gladwell was talked into podcasting by his friend Jacob Weisberg of The Slate Group; the two later co-founded Pushkin Industries, which has produced the show since 2018.
Q 04"Stuff You Should Know", hosted by Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant, debuted in what year?
- A2008
- B2010
- C2011
- D2009
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2008
The first episode went out on 17 April 2008 under HowStuffWorks; the show later moved to iHeartRadio and is still running.
Q 05"Reply All" became famous for internet mysteries and stories. Which podcast network originally hosted it?
- AMaximum Fun
- BSerial Productions
- CRadiotopia
- DGimlet Media
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Gimlet Media
Reply All launched on Gimlet Media in November 2014 with PJ Vogt and Alex Goldman as hosts, and Emmanuel Dzotsi joined them in 2020; the show ended in June 2022, by which point Gimlet belonged to Spotify.
Q 06Two men incarcerated at which prison co-created Ear Hustle, the first podcast made entirely inside a prison?
- ARikers Island
- BFolsom
- CAttica
- DSan Quentin
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San Quentin
It won Radiotopia's Podquest contest in 2016, and in 2018 Governor Jerry Brown commuted co-host Earlonne Woods' sentence, citing the show as evidence of his rehabilitation.
Q 07Roughly how much did Amazon pay for the SmartLess podcast in 2021?
- A$20 million
- B$80 million
- C$40 million
- D$60 million
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$80 million
Amazon then sold it on: SiriusXM picked the podcast up in 2024 for a reported $100 million, a rare case of a chat show appreciating in value.
Q 08Which two co-stars of The Office launched the rewatch podcast Office Ladies on Earwolf in October 2019?
- AMindy Kaling and Ellie Kemper
- BRainn Wilson and John Krasinski
- CJenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey
- DKate Flannery and Phyllis Smith
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Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey
They played Pam Beesly and Angela Martin, and worked through all nine seasons scene by scene before rebranding as 'Office Ladies 6.0' for deeper dives and interviews.
Q 09Which ex-Conservative minister co-hosts The Rest Is Politics with Alastair Campbell?
- AMichael Portillo
- BRory Stewart
- CDavid Gauke
- DDominic Grieve
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Rory Stewart
Stewart had been Theresa May's prisons minister and international development secretary; the Goalhanger show launched in March 2022 and spun off an American edition in 2024 with Anthony Scaramucci and Katty Kay.
Q 10Obama and Springsteen recorded their 2021 podcast Renegades at Springsteen's home in which state?
- ANew York
- BCalifornia
- CConnecticut
- DNew Jersey
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New Jersey
The eight episodes, released from 22 February 2021, ranged over race, fatherhood, money and the pair's unlikely friendship, and were recorded at Springsteen's place in Colts Neck Township.
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