Welcome to Feedback with EarBuds, the podcast recommendation podcast. Our newsletter brings you five podcast recommendations each week according to a theme, and curated by a different person. Our podcast is an audio version of the newsletter.

Subscribe to the newsletter here: http://eepurl.com/cIcBuH

This week's theme is Hopepunk Audio Dramas. The curator is Tal Minear, a podcast producer at Realm Media.

Why did Tal choose this theme? "Hopepunk is a word that means a lot of things, but to me, hopepunk shows are about making the best of the worst. These shows are stories about the end a world, with characters that persevere despite it. They're bittersweet, hopeful, dystopian, inspiring, and heartfelt, all wrapped up into one.”

This week’s episode of Feedback with EarBuds is brought to you in part by Focusrite’s Vocaster:

The new audio recording interface, Vocaster, showcases all-new features, including:
- Auto Gain: Set levels quickly and easily
- Enhance: Get your voice sounding its best in one click
- Connect your phone: Record phone calls, high quality music, or other audio from your device
- Record to a camera: Record directly to its memory card
- And so much more!

Focusrite interfaces sit at the heart of more studios than any other. Now, let your voice be heard like never before.

Learn more at https://focusrite.com/en/podcasters?utm_source=media-partner&utm_medium=email-third-party&utm_campaign=mk_focusrite_podcasters&utm_content=advert&utm_term=earbuds.

We are also proud to be sponsored this week by Square Peg:

In this podcast, an American suburban dad gets sucked into the bizarre world of a vengeful, one-eyed British curmudgeon on a decades-long mission to have his brother imprisoned... and things get weird. Square Peg tells a story about bitterness and the things we bury in the past.

Listen at https://www.squarepegpodcast.com/.

Links mentioned in this episode:
- Grimdark definition: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/grimdark
- Hopepunk definition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopepunk#:~:text=Hopepunk%20is%20a%20subgenre%20of,and%20communal%20responses%20to%20challenges.
- Vox Article about Hopepunk: https://www.vox.com/2018/12/27/18137571/what-is-hopepunk-noblebright-grimdark
- Realm Media: https://www.realm.fm/
- Find Nina on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ninajoss/
- Find Nina on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ninajoss_
- Explore Nina’s website: https://ninacjoss.myportfolio.com/
- Someone Dies In This Elevator Crowdfunding Campaign: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/sdite-season-two#/
- SALT: https://salt.audio/
- Listen to Cyclical Symbolism and Fugitive Space with Kristen Mathis from Living in Cycles: https://pod.link/1612960441/episode/bbf0526b74996ceb1b8a1310265d1bf5

Find this week's podcast recommendation list here: https: