Podcast: Apple Podcasts announces the 2023 Show of the Year

Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus

has won the Apple Podcasts Award. The award every recognises and honours a show that demonstrates quality and innovation in podcasting. Over the course of the show’s 10-episode debut season, accomplished actor and comedian Louis-Dreyfus employs her signature wit to mine nuggets of advice from women who have lived long enough and well enough to truly have perspective on it all.
The first-time podcasthost brings personalities like singer Darlene Love, 82, and author Amy Tan, 71, to the microphone for far-ranging conversations.“All of these women have demonstrated how to live a life,” Louis-Dreyfus says of her guests. “That doesn’t mean they didn’t make mistakes, but there’s something about being older where perhaps you feel not as protective in terms of sharing. And so I’ve taken advantage of the intimacy that offers. That availability to be real and to be open is a great gift.”
No topic is off-limits for the show’s guests, who gamely approach the mic with an unguarded vulnerability as they discuss their highest highs and their lowest lows, along with weighty topics like sex, divorce, politics, sexism in the workplace, death, and the physical realities of aging.
After its successful first season,

Wiser Than Me

is gearing up for more as it has been announced that the second season will premiere in spring 2024.

Wiser Than Me

attracted a massive audience on Apple Podcasts, spending 29 days straight as the number one show in the US overall — a feat that has yet to be topped in 2023.