My podcast diet: August 2018

I listen to several dozen podcasts, usually when doing boring tasks like errands, dishes, or car trips, on the order of 5-8 hours per week, and mostly at the expense of time I used to spend listening to music.

Podcast discovery is still a mostly-broken problem, so I thought I'd share what I normally listen to, and how I prioritize them. To date, I probably found most of these on the word-of-mouth recommendations of a friend or random links in Twitter or Facebook. There isn't really a good app to share podcasts quite yet (Breaker seems to be getting there), so posts like this will suffice. I hope you spot something you're interested in, because everything here is something I've enjoyed. Also, if you run a podcast and see it on this list, know that I love you and your work but I only have so many hours in the day so I had to prioritize somehow so try not to take it personally if your podcast is low on these lists.

I drop everything to listen to these, usually within hours of them coming out:

• Roderick on the Line
• Reply All
• Ear Hustle
• Do By Friday & Do By Friday After Show
• Friendly Fire

These are my next priority, and I usually listen to these within a day or two of release:

• Death, Sex & Money
• Judge John Hodgman
• The Golden Horseshoe Review: A Disney Theme Park Podcast
• The Good Place: The Podcast
• The Allusionist
• Welcome to Macintosh
• Omnibus! With Ken Jennings and John Roderick
• Heavyweight
• My Brother, My Brother And Me
• Earn Yr Death
• Movie Crush
• Who Shot Ya?

I listen to these within a week of them coming out

• 99% Invisible
• Bullseye with Jesse Thorn
• Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
• Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It
• the memory palace
• The Hilarious World of Depression
• Criminal
• Track Changes
• Invisibilia
• Medium Playback
• Couples Therapy with Candice and Casey
• Revisionist History
• Road Work
• Science Vs
• Zebracast
• On Margins

I get to these eventually, usually on a long road trip, or when I want to binge listen after letting a bunch of shows stack up:

• Still Untitled: The Adam Savage Project
• StartUp Podcast
• Hello From The Magic Tavern
• Converge with Casey Newton
• Stoner

One-off, special short run shows that don't come up often:

• Bubble
• S-Town
• The Turnaround with Jesse Thorn
• Containers
• Serial

Shows I occasionally pick up an episode when I hear it's a good one:

• Radiolab
• Back to Work
• My Dad Wrote A Porno
• Chapo Trap House
• Reasonably Sound
• Rookie

I miss these long-gone shows so much:

• BuzzFeed’s Internet Explorer
• Politically Re-Active with W. Kamau Bell & Hari Kondabolu
• The Awl

(by the way, it may seem like a shit-ton of podcasts here, but on average only about a quarter of them are publishing once a week steadily. Many go weeks or months without a new episode.)