I got into listening to podcasts during quarantine. Usually, I listen when I'm doing stuff around the house or driving but I need some new ones. My focus has changed - probably want more interesting ones, or even entertaining vs. all news/science info now that we are trying to break out of our Covid bubble a bit. Can we do an updated version of recommended podcasts?
Some I listen to regularly are:
The Daily
Armchair Expert
Pivot and Sway
The Holderness Family
Not as often as before but TWiV and In the Bubble
I also enjoyed The Dream and Believed
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05-12-2021 #1
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What are Your Current Favorite Podcasts??
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Armchair Expert and Smartless
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Podcasts:
Trashy Divorces
How I Built This
Michelle Obama
Crime Junkie
Criminal
Smartless
Bon Appetite Foodcast
Eater’s Digest
Series Podcasts:
Serial Season 1
The Shrink Next Door
S-Town
Believed
Bear Brook
The Dream Season 1 & 2
Counterclock
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Since you liked "The Dream", you might like "Illegal Tender". They have a segment on MLMs. I also enjoyed their episodes on Aubrey McClendon and on Anna Delvey.
Originally Posted by carolinamama
"Pretend - a true crime documentary podcast" is about various con artists and people pretending to be someone else.
"Criminal" is great. True crime, but not true-crimey. It's like elevated true crime.
Just different angles. Really like.
"California City" (re: basically a land scam) and "The Dropout" (re: Elizabeth Holmes/Theranos) are good ones about scammy people.
I also enjoy "Smartless".
Another scammy one is "Chameleon: Hollywood Con Queen".
I wish there was a way to download and sort your listening history! I know I have so many that I've enjoyed but there's no good way to keep track!.
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I usually listen while I'm cleaning, but I feel weird blaring a sweary podcast with DH working upstairs (our house has a weird layout; he's on the 3rd floor/loft area, but it's mostly open and the sound carries) so I've fallen behind on my usual (Slate's Mom and Dad Are Fighting) which I've liked less as the format's shifted due to restructuring of the Slate company & the introduction of their paywall.
Anyway, I'm also enjoying:
Maintenance Phase
You're Wrong About
Seth Rudetsky's Back to School==========================================
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Cold is a good one if you like crime. Other than that I've been listening to a lot of health ones like Just Ingredients and ADHD ones from ADDitude.
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DS2 (Apr 2017)
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view...Until you climb inside his skin and walk around in it."
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My faves are Didn’t I Just Feed You and The Lazy Genius. I am subscribed to others but these two are the shows I listen to first.
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You're Wrong About is my favorite! Originally Posted by lizzywednesday
Others that I listen to a lot:
Dear Hank and John
The Anthropocene Reviewed
99% Invisible
Planet Money
Hidden Brian
Invisibilia
Slate's Political Gabfest (probably the first podcast I got hooked on in the mid 2000s!)
Revisionist History
SciFri
Science Vs
TWiV (but I often just listen to Daniel Griffin's clinical updates these days)
Dear Prudence
The Satellite SistersTara
living a crazy life with 3 boys
I am thinking now
of grief, and of getting past it;
I feel my boots
trying to leave the ground,
I feel my heart
pumping hard. I want
to think again of dangerous and noble things.
I want to be light and frolicsome.
I want to be improbable beautiful and afraid of nothing,
as though I had wings.
~Mary Oliver
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My fav is Happier with Gretchen Rubin. I've gone back and am listening from the beginning.
Also enjoy when it's a guest or topic i care about:
Armchair Expert (dax shepherd)
Rob Lowe's Literally
Seth Rudetsky's Back to School
Your Teen with Sue and Steph
The Shared Shutter (sarah krieg)
Pop Culture Happy Hour (NPR)
Goop and also Goop's Beauty Closet
Homemade (by allrecipes) and Four Courses with Geoffrey Zakarian
The Holderness FamilyLast edited by fauve01; 05-14-2021 at 04:00 PM.
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Thank you for all these suggestions. So many of the podcasts look like ones I'll like. Now to start cleaning so I can listen!
Mom to Two Wild and Crazy Boys and One Sweet Baby Girl
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