Benjamin Wallace of The New York Times writes about “Odd Lots,” the Bloomberg News podcast hosted by Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway.
Wallace writes, “Over its nearly 10-year existence, the podcast has become a reliable decryption key for a world upended by geopolitical and macroeconomic change. But since ‘Liberation Day,’ President Trump’s announcement of extreme tariffs on April 2, few media outlets have felt as essential as ‘Odd Lots’ to understanding the economic moment.
“The numbers bear this out. ‘Odd Lots’ averaged one and a half million monthly downloads in the first half of 2025, according to a Bloomberg spokesperson; its downloads in the second quarter grew 52 percent from the first quarter, and in April they hit a new high of 2.5 million. That month, the show, which had been releasing two or three episodes a week, put out 23.
“‘April was truly insane just from a sheer volume of news standpoint,’ Mr. Weisenthal said in an interview. (That month, Mr. Weisenthal, who said he used the nicotine product Zyn ‘probably more than is optimal,’ was going through a full 15-pouch can a day.)”
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