JUST GOOGLE IT
Whatever you like listening to. Duh.
Ratings and best of lists and all that assume that you respect the author as some kind of authority on the subject. But a lot of this stuff is subjective.
And with Cancel Culture and polarization, people look for any excuse to hate and lash out and cheer along if the message is what they agree with, forget about quality.
I used to listen a lot while working or walking, but these days my Podcasts app on my phone ends up full and I wash it out. As I lay on the sofa, I’ll fire something up on the TV.
Anyway, these podcasts have been my inspiration time and time again:
- 20,000 Hertz
- 99% Invisible
- Ayaan Hrsi Ali
- Daily Giz Wiz
- Decoder Ring
- Dennis Prager
- Freakonomics
- Gilbert Gottfried’s Amazing Colossal Podcast*
- Hooting Yard*
- How I Built This
- The Indicator
- Jordan Peterson
- Maltin on Movies
- The Memory Palace
- Planet Money
- Potomac Watch by WSJ
- Reason Roundtable
- Revisionist History
- Stuff You Should Know
- Trail Blazers
- Welcome to Night Vale
- WYNC Radiolab
Search for them in your preferred podcast listening application (Stitcher, iTunes, YouTube, etc.).
There are some that I’ve liked in the past but not so much anymore.
Adam Conover in Factually can be radical with his anti-capitalism. His presentation style is bombastic and energetic, but his views are almost always wrong and there’s only so many times a host can single your demographic out for hate before you tune out.
Frank Santopadre of Gilbert Gottfried’s podcast is an excellent researcher, but he’s… kinda ugh with the crap he wrote for The View panel to spew. Gilbert is dead, so I listened, I’m done.
My attention span is too short for the stories that Norm Sherman presents in the various Drabblecasts. The Choadsworth stories were… well… but he’s had a ton of good stuff to check out.
Welcome to Night Vale started great with world building and lore and characters, but something changed there. Maybe it was success?
Hooting Yard with Frank Key was amazing. The world lost a great storyteller.
I got tired of that NPR game show because it was just a weekly panel of far leftists being rude or mean instead of funny. It’s what comedy is turning into these days, I guess.
You take the good with the bad, I suppose.