Jake's Take with Jacob Elyachar

Episode #337: Best of 2024 Podcast (State of the Podcast, Top 15 Reality TV Performances, & Top 15 Albums)

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2024 is winding down, and it’s time for Jake’s Take with Jacob Elyachar’s annual Best of series!  

State of the Podcast: But first…let’s do the state of The Jake’s Take with Jacob Elyachar Podcast! The fifth anniversary season has ended, and what a year! Our downloads were the best since 2021 and crossed the 10,000 and 11,000 lifetime downloads milestones. Listeners were the second best since 2021, with listeners from 71 countries! I want to thank the listeners of the United States, Sweden, Canada, United Kingdom, Singapore, India, Australia, Germany, Thailand, and the Netherlands as they listened to the podcast the most.   Our most downloaded episodes of 2024 were with Canada’s Got Talent standouts Geneviève Côté and Matthew Cooper, social media sensations Ana Saia (the eighth most viewed on my YouTube channel) and Brandon Farris; Billboard charting saxophonist Boney James, The Challenge cast members Derrick Kosinski, Jenny West, and Paulie Calafiore, and my friends Paige of Most Likely Podcast and the hosts of AGT Time Pod.  

 Best of 2024 – Music:  2024 was full of impeccable music! Here are my Top 15 Albums of the year 

 Previewing 2025: 2025 will be a massive year for the Jake’s Take with Jacob Elyachar brand. Nine episodes of the podcast’s sixth season have been recorded. Award-winning journalist Shawn Edwards, one of my mentors, will kick off the season. Actors Derek Yates (Days of Our Lives) and the legendary Lenore Zahn (Rogue, X-Men: The Animated Series & X-Men ’97), Marcel Katz (the Art Plug), best-selling author Kate Gladdin and our old friend Underground Music Collective founder Gerard Longo are some of the guests that will visit the Jake’s Take with Jacob Elyachar Podcast.   America’s Got Talent (AGT) is expected to air its twentieth anniversary season during the summer of 2025. Season 20 will be the fourteenth season I have covered since launching the blog in 2011.  I hope to bring some of my favorite acts, creatives, and judges onto my platform that made the NBC talent competition show the juggernaut it is today.  

In Memoriam:  Jake’s Take with Jacob Elyachar wants to pay homage to several impeccable people who passed away throughout 2024. Charles Osgood, Chita Rivera, James Earl Jones, Johnny Wactor, Liam Payne, Dame Maggie Smith, Martin Mull, Pete Rose, Phil Donahue, Richard Simmons, Dr. Ruth Westheimer, and Shannen Doherty all left remarkable imprints on pop culture, and they will be missed.   We also want to remember guests comedian Kabir Singh, who I had the privilege to speak with him in 2021 when he competed on AGT: Season 16, and actor and model Mike Heslin, who was one of the podcast’s first guests in 2019 with his husband and longtime friend Scotty Dynamo.

Finally, I would like to pay tribute to two men who impacted my life from 2003 to 2007 while I attended Blue Valley Northwest High School in my hometown of Overland Park, Kansas. My choir teacher, Dale Eaton, and my 12th-grade English teacher, Dr. Rick Pribyl, impacted me and countless students during their time at BVNW. Thank you for the memories, Mr. Eaton and Dr. Pribyl.    

Season’s Greetings:  Thank you, everyone, for all your support this year! I want to thank all my guests who took time out of their schedules to visit the podcast, as well as the media teams who trusted my platform so their clients could see and share their stories. I also want to give a special shoutout to my family: mom Gloria, dad Matthew, brother Aaron, sister-in-law Whitney, nephew Nash, and niece Emory. I love you all to pieces!   Finally, thank you to the readers and listeners who followed me on this journey! I hope 2025 will be a phenomenal year for all of us!    

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