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EXCLUSIVE: Pineapple Street Studios was 1 of nan premier podcast accumulation companies making communicative bid specified arsenic Wind of Change, Missing Richard Simmons and The Clearing.
A twelvemonth aft nan company’s proprietor Audacy revenge for bankruptcy, it unopen down nan studio.
Two of nan company’s apical executives person now started their ain podcast workplace and person started moving pinch immoderate of nan figures that helped thrust nan communicative podcast roar from a fewer years ago.
Joel Lovell, who was Executive Editor astatine Pineapple Street, and Henry Molofsky, an Executive Producer, who were some astatine nan institution from its motorboat successful 2016 done to its end, person launched Please and Thanks Productions.
Please and Thanks is now launching its debut project, a bid pinch Amazon’s Audible Originals from Dan Taberski, who was besides responsible for bid including Running From Cops, Surviving Y2K, The Line, 9/12 and Hysterical.
It has besides collaborated pinch Amy Poehler‘s Paper Kite Productions, which is down nan Parks and Recreation star’s Good Hang, and Patrick Radden Keefe, nan man down Scorpions-infused CIA communicative Wind of Change, connected caller projects.
Its first merchandise is Dan Taberski‘s Manifesto!. The six-part series, hosted by Taberski ,sees him group disconnected connected his astir analyzable quest yet. He attempts to reclaim nan manifesto from nan sweaty clutches of wide shooters and return it to its rightful place: pinch nan artists, nan warriors, nan visionaries, and nan mildly crazy regular folks pinch thing to say. Along nan way, he moreover writes his own.
Its task pinch Poehler’s Paper Kite is nan company’s foray into documentary audio and has besides conscionable been sold to Universal Studio Group Audio. The investigative audio bid is expected to motorboat successful 2027 and is produced successful relation pinch Long Run.
Paper Kite’s audio section is now headed up by Jenna Weiss-Berman, who co-founded Pineapple Street, and worked intimately pinch Lovell and Molofsky.
The task pinch Radden Keefe, writer of caller deed book London Falling, is an audio-documentary podcast successful nan euphony abstraction utilizing his investigative reporting.
“At a clip erstwhile less companies are making communicative documentary podcasts, Please & Thanks is built connected nan belief that nan appetite for awesome audio storytelling ne'er went away, moreover arsenic business models person changed. If you show bully stories and nutrient them astatine nan highest level, audiences will springiness you their clip and attention, and that’s worthwhile culturally and arsenic a business,” Lovell and Molofsky said.
