What are your favorites? I enjoy them while walking and for solitary road trips.
Pod Save America (liberal politics)
How to be a Girl (trans child)
Science Vs (takes things like fads and urban legends and puts them to a scientific test)
NPR has some good ones too. I especially like their global health ones.
Pod Save America and NPR Politics
My daughter just binge listened to Up and Vanished, but I’m having a hard time getting into it.
Other daughter recommended The Vanished Podcast, which I like better. Both of the Vanished podcasts are because we were Serial fans, but they don’t come close to being as compelling as Serial.
Dear Sugar
Strangers
Modern Love
Radiolab
Invisibilia
Reply All
Writing Class Radio
This American Life
Sporkful (“it’s not for foodies, it’s for eaters”)
The Gist (Slate’s current culture & politics)
The President’s InBox (the best, most intelligent and apolitical podcast out there – does one issue at a time. Very educational!)
Planet Money
Just the Right Book
Invisibilia
and of course, Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me
fwiw, I hated RadioLab!
Sword and Scale
Pod Save America
Happier With Gretchen Rubin
I have a few that I have downloaded / subscribed to but havent started yet.:
S-Town
Faculty of Horror
LeVar Burton Reads
Undiscovered (Interesting science stories)
60 Second Science
Science Friday (noticing a trend here?)
The Moth
Overdue Books (but only when I’ve read the book)
Amicus (Slate podcast about the Suprene Court)
The West Wing Weekly
StoryCorp
The Axe Files (great interviews of various political people by David Axelrod)
The Pulse (health related stories)
Fresh Air
FiveThirtyEight Politics
Up First
Radiolab is a little hit and miss, but I usually like it
Pod Save America
With Friends like These
Modern Love
The Hidden Brain
The Gabfest, Slate’s weekly political discussion with John Dickerson, host of CBS’s Face the Nation, Supreme Court expert and New York Times Magazine contributor Emily Bazelon, and Atlas Obscura CEO David Plotz. They’ve been explaining the world to me for years, and feel like old friends at this point.
I also like The Moth.
My Pod saves America fans!
What do you like to listen to? This comes up every few months I think.
If you haven’t listened to them yet, S town and looking for Richard Simmons (that’s close enough to the title) are good short complete series. In the dark was also good.
I also listen to NPR Politics and 538 politics, 1A, Katie Couric has a good podcast. ESPN has a new podcast, 30 for 30 podcast, the first episode was very good.
The Washington Post had a podcast last year, Presidential that I’ve been listening to. Every episode is about a president. There is a new season called Constitutional, I’m looking forward to it.
Outliers, at the movies with Arch and Ann, two movie critics from the Washington Post dish about movies and tv. The First, stories of inventions.
I like a lot of podcasts, but find Imost look forward to new ones from 99% Invisible. This podcast is about things that ma have been right in front of you all along that you neve knew the backstory about. They are typically about 25 minutes long. If you like Radiolab and Invisibilia, you would probably like this one too.
West Wing Weekly
On the Media
Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me
WTF with Marc Maron
Pod Save America
Pop Culture Happy Hour
The Axe Files with David Axelrod
Planet Money
Invisibilia
Freakonomics
Hidden Brain
Sporkful
Cooking Issues
Revisionist History
This American Life
S Town
How I Built This
Ted Talks
Good Food
Tell me something I don’t know
West Wing Weekly
Modern Love
Pod Save America - love it so much that I just bought a Friend of the Pod shirt
Masterpiece Studio - lovely background info on all the Masterpiece shows; airs irregularly, so a subscription is a must for this one
I listed to podcasts while I run, so I go through a lot. These are my favorites:
*The Moth (storytelling)
*Strangers (personal stories told through interviews with Lea Thau, who eventually annoys when she interjects her personal politics into the stories but is great as long as she sticks to the stories)
*This American Life, of course
*Snap Judgment (personal stories, similar to Strangers but, well, snappier)
*Criminal (15’ish minute stories on crime)
*Stranglers (a series on the Boston Strangler)
*Accused (a series on an unsolved murder in 1978, done by the Cincinnati Enquirer)
*S-Town (highly entertaining series)
*Lapse (storytelling, but Canadian)
Looking forward to more suggestions.
Wow. I think I’ve been living under a rock! I’ve never listened to a podcast. I’m not a runner but need to walk more but don’t like to without a buddy to talk to. Maybe this will be the motivation I need (once I get one of my kids to show me how to access/download one onto my phone)!
I haven’t really gotten into pods, but I mean to. My D is an enormous Pod Save America fan, so I’ve listened to them. It’s heartwarming to hear how many of you all follow them.
Rhod Gilbert’s Best Bits. From BBC Radio Wales. Family friendly excerpts from his Sat AM radio show, only one I’m subscribed to at the moment.