Defiant & Status Untraced Podcasts Premiere; 2024 IABC Upfronts Hosts Announced

In this article, we have a new politics podcast from a Brooklyn Dad. Then, a new true-crime podcast about a missing tech entrepreneur, and finally, the announcement of the hosts for the 2024 IAB Upfront in May where we’ll hear about all the new podcasts coming our way.

If you’re old like me, you can compare the “Upfront” to receiving the September new season issue of the TV Guide magazine and making sure you were the first in your family to read it.

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Audio Up, a leading podcast production company, has just released a new series featuring a devout member of the Democratic Party who boasts 1.3 million X (Twitter) followers, Majid Padellan. He is apparently known as Brooklyn Dad Defiant. (Yo, you talkin’ to me?) On this new show, Padellan will talk to the political types and try to make sense of anything Donald Trump says, while repudiating MAGA political propaganda.

The podcast’s producers note: “It is the place to come for those not only seeking answers, but the roadmap, engaging and educating listeners along the way.”

The show will air weekly and began April 15th with the first guest Frank Figliuzzi who is the former Deputy Assistant Director of…