10 episodes
Stiffed iHeartPodcasts
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4.0 • 21 Ratings
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New York City, 1973. Bob Guccione, the founder of the men’s magazine Penthouse, is about to drop his latest project, and it’s not quite what anyone is expecting. Enter Viva, an erotic magazine for women published by a porn king but staffed by – drumroll – a bunch of feminist writers and editors. Viva features groundbreaking full-frontal male nudes, writing by feminist icons like Betty Friedan, and profiles of literary legends like Maya Angelou. Its cover stars include Bianca Jagger and Shelley Duvall. Anna Wintour is even Viva’s fashion editor at one point. But what is originally conceived as a high-end, progressive, sexual utopia for women… doesn't quite turn out that way.
Stiffed is an Original Series from Crooked Media and iHeartPodcasts. You can listen to all 8 episodes out now, wherever you get your podcasts.
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Introducing: Dreamtown: The Story of Adelanto
What happens when a city on the verge of collapse tries to reinvent itself? How much will it cost? Who will pay the price? Reporter David Weinberg spent years following one city in California’s Mojave desert as it tried to transform itself from a city of prisons to a city of pot. And it worked…for a while. Until it, spectacularly, didn’t. From Crooked Media, this is Dreamtown: The Story of Adelanto. Listen to Dreamtown: The Story of Adelanto starting June 7th, wherever you get your podcasts.
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The Last Word
As the 1970s come to a close, so does Viva’s run as one of America’s first feminist porn magazines. We explore what the legacy of Viva magazine tells us about issues of female sexuality and sexual autonomy, and how many of these battles are still being fought today.
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Wintour of Their Discontent
As a last Hail Mary to save Viva, Bob and Kathy hire a young, up-and-coming fashion director — none other than a fresh-faced, pre-Vogue Anna Wintour. But will she be enough to save the floundering publication?
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Midlife Crisis
As Viva reaches the third of its six-year run, it’s having its own version of a midlife crisis, and the editors have to make some tough decisions about what kind of magazine Viva needs to be to survive.
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Not-So-Porno Chic
As Viva continues to stumble along and figure itself out, so does seemingly everyone else in the 1970s. In the midst of the sexual revolution and the rise of “Porno Chic,” there’s a chorus of anti-porn feminists attacking Bob Guccione’s publishing empire, and Viva’s caught in the middle.
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Phallus in Wonderland
The Viva staff have hit their stride and are finally publishing smart, progressive, feminist content alongside the magazine’s male nudes, and their latest issue is about to be their most revolutionary – and controversial – one to date.
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Customer Reviews
Good content. An astonishing number of ads.
Generally speaking, I love Crooked Media content, and have been a devoted listener to PSTW, PSA and Lovett or Leave It for years. I haven’t even minded the increase in ads on the flagship podcasts because they do their best to make them funny.
And this podcast is not exception, content-wise: It’s a great topic, it’s well-researched, we’ll-written and well-produced.
But the sheer number, duration and repetitiveness of the ad breaks in Stiffed is unbelievable. I’ve only listened to 3 episodes so far and I can already pretty much recite the ads word for word, since I’m hearing them at least 3 times each, per episode. And the episodes are only 30 minutes long!
I know the iHeart overlords are stern taskmasters who don’t mind rendering the podcasts in their stable virtually unlistenable due to ad breaks, but holy geez I thought Crooked had more influence - like I thought they could insist on fewer ad breaks by demonstrating they could generate more revenue per ad (“because we’re known for quality, not like those slapped-together Wondery podcasts”).
Anyhow, if you plan to listen to this, do yourself a favour and make sure you’ve got your hands free to fast forward past 3 minutes of ads for every 6 minutes of content.
Obscene amount of ads
So many cringey ads that I can’t even bear to listen to it.
Astonishing amount of ads
I was very interested in this podcast and the topic story telling was great. However I couldn’t listen past three episodes because the amount of ads repetitive and long were incredible. I couldn’t even stay focused on the story because of how frequent the ads were. I understand the need for and appreciate and respect ads for free content but the content ad ratio was too much.