What podcasts did you listen to the most this year
Just curious what are the top 3 podcasts you listened to this year on whatever platform. Antennapod released a feature that summarized your year and well the amount of hours kinda surprised me in a good way, haha.
Edit: Mine were
- The let's read podcast
- Therapy gecko
- How To Survive
What will Darknet Diaries give me?
Show website:
Wikipedia:
That seems right up my alley, I'll subscribe to that.
Great! I hope you enjoy it!
Eww. Already overwhelmed with such tales from random internet read. More cozy is Soft Voice for mW.
I've never heard of antennapod. How do ads work on it? Does it work well connecting to car Bluetooth? My wife signed up for duo Spotify, so I'm wondering if there's any reason to switch since we're already paying for that either way.
I listened to an absolute shitload of 1upsmanship, but iHeart didn't renew :(
Other podcasts I listened to were Fake Doctors Real Friends (except during the strike), Behind the Bastards, Even More News, What A Day, and I've recently started Dungeons and Daddies and I'm fucking loving it.
I also gave Your Favorite Band Sucks a shot, but I really can't recommend it other than their episode on The Beatles. That one was so good that it made me want to know what they had to say about other bands I like, but they just came off as pretentious non-conformists who were bitterly jealous of the bands' success, fame, and popularity. Their credibility as supposedly knowledgeable music experts went out the window when they said that Pearl Jam sucks, but Limp Bizkit and Creed are good. Everybody is entitled to opinions and preferences, but I expected more objectivity from a podcast that seemed to be aiming to challenge me to think critically about my music tastes and who I should give my money to. Telling me that Eddie Vedder can't sing isn't stating a fact or even a decent argument to begin to make to somebody who enjoys listening to him sing. I've ranted for too long about these guys here, but I just wanted to provide some supporting evidence to back up my claim that their podcast sucks. If only they did the same in their quest to explain how and why various bands suck... 🤔
Behind the Police is a good, limited run that everybody should listen to. I think it's only 6 episodes long and original aired in summer 2020 😬
Antennapod is essentially an MP3 player app for Android which downloads the MP3 files it finds in podcast feeds. If the MP3 file contains ads, those will be played (but you can skip them). If there are no ads in the file, there are no ads.
I think it supports Android Auto.
Spotify does not really have podcasts, in the technical sense. Spotify simply decided to usurp the word, but use it for "internet on-demand streaming radio show gated with accounts and DRM" rather than "downloadable audio file discovered via RSS feed file".
In any case, Antennapod is free, as is almost the entire regular podcast universe.
Thanks! I always download my podcasts while on Wi-Fi anyway because we're on Google Fi. This way, our phone bill for two is usually under $60/month since we don't use much data.
Since it's free, there's no reason for me to not try it out!
AntennaPod doesn't have any in-app ads, but the podcasts you listen to will still have them.
Thanks! That makes sense. I'm sure I'll still experience the same amount of ads, but can still skip them then.
I wonder if something like sponsor block is feasible for podcasts 🤔
Ads in podcasts are dynamically inserted right when you download them, or while you're streaming, so I don't think that's possible. Not everyone is going to get the same ad. It'll give you an ad depending on your location sometimes.
https://antennapod.org/documentation/general/ads
I've definitely had both. Sometimes the hosts of the actual podcast read an ad using their own voices. In this case everyone gets the same audio file and crowdsourcing the timestamps would work.
For dynamically inserted ads, it will be more complicated. Maybe a system like content id that has a library of known ads and detects them in the audio.
Yes, though some of those are dynamically inserted as well.
I sometimes watch years old podcast episodes, and it'll insert a pre-recorded current day ad where the host is doing it. And when I listen to the episode months later, the ads change again sometimes, but it is still the host doing it.
Also, maybe it's just the podcasts I listen to, but all podcasts I listen to seems to always be the host doing the ad.
AntennaPod is great. It's open source and has everything you need. The only ads are whatever the podcast has in them, but you can skip forward past them. I also pay for Spotify, but I still use AntennaPod for podcasts.
According to Antennapod:
However, I was listening to a LOT of Philosophize This prior to switching to Antennapod, so I expect that that would really take first place.
Sean Carroll's Mindscape
The History Of Rock Music in 500 Songs
What The Fuck Is Going On with Mark Steel
I just switched to Antennapod, so I don't have data from this year yet. I would guess my top three were:
Lateral with Tom Scott (game show about random and obscure trivia, heavily inspired by QI)
Beautiful/Anonymous with Chris Gethard (hour long phone conversations with anonymous callers, it can get either super deep and emotional or just batshit insane)
A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein (queer politics and culture)
Top 3 on antennapod:
Knowledge Fight! Pretty much the only I regularly listen to. It's two friends listening to Alex Jones. The premise is that one of them knows nothing about the insane stuff Alex Jones spouts and the other one has researched it and kinda shows it to Jordan (the one who knows nothing about Alex). They are hundreds of episodes and the show is still as funny and informative as day one.
The Formulaic Objections episodes are fantastic. Somebody made a Spotify playlist of them and the trial recaps.
Thank you for providing a starting point! Jumping into a long-running show can be daunting. I’m going to check this one out.
Blowback.
If you want to know about the history of American wars and interventions, that is the best podcast by far.
Anyone see a pattern? 🙃
You subscribed to the first 15 things that pop up when you search for "Linux"? :D
not quite ahaha, im just a big fan on linux related content :P
Way more than 3, lol.
Haha opsi..
Behind the Bastards The Daily Zeitgeist Factually!
Ologies with Alie Ward
The History of WWII podcast from Ray Harris JR
Myths and legends podcast from Jason Weiser
Levar Burton Reads from Levar Burton
I use Google podcasts for the first and podcast addict for the other two. But these were all marathoned when I didn't have an audiobook to listen to while I'm at work, so they weren't consistently listened to through the year
Google podcasts is shutting down, just FYI.
Revolutions
History Of The Great War
Aristoteleen kantapää
Where's the feature in AntennaPod? I've only found the total numbers
Last Podcast on the Left
Someplace Under Neith
Fraudsters
Well There's Your Problem
Black Box Down
This Podcast Will Kill You
Apparently, I like listening to stories about death and disaster
You might like some episodes of cautionary tales with Tim harford. Quite a few are about engineering oopsies with big consequences.
I didn't listen to any other podcasts because there's enough in these series to fill my work time and induce a rabid research of the topics discussed.
• Click Here • Ask Noah Show • Linux Unplugged • Self Hosting • Darknet Diaries • The Privacy and Security OSINT show.
A shame the privacy and security osint show is no longer gonna be producing podcasts.. Not indefinite though, so one can hope he comes back 🤞
Making It - Bob Clagett (I Like to Make Stuff on youtube), Jimmy Diresta (on youtube), David Picciuto (Make Anything on youtube) discuss their projects, being a maker, being on youtube, etc.
Safety Third - William Osman (on youtube), Allen Pan (on youtube), Kevin (Backyard Scientist on youtube), and guests (supposed to be Nigel of NileRed, but he never shows up). Nominally, they talk about being science youtubers, but it descends into chaos pretty rapidly.
A podcast of 3 of my friends just shooting the shit, being morons to each other.
5-4 You're Wrong About (listening to back catalog) Planet Money
The Skeptics Guide to the Universe was my top for this year.
99pi. I started from the beginning two years ago, and now I am just 40 or so episodes behind.
The WAN Show
Shaping Fire
Conspiracy Theories, a Spotify Original From Parcast
A mixture of comedy, news and true crime, all on Podcast Addict.
History of philosophy without any gaps
The Glass Cannon
The Daily Beans
Behind the Bastards
5-4 - learned a lot about how much the supreme Court socks.
How Did This Get Made - I have laughed out loud listening to every episode I've ever listened to of this podcast.
Drum Tower - art, history, current events lend a look into China presented by correspondents in China, Taiwan and SE Asia.
Maybe I'm just a dummy. I can't figure out where antennapod tells you this?
You need to update the app if you don't do that automatically.
You need the latest update, then it shows up as a card on the home screen of the app.
I struggled with finding it as well, as I have the Queue-screen as my root screen.
Thanks. I had to set home as my default page and then it showed up
I don't see it either.
I don't use antennapod, but at a guess mine would be:
I mostly listened to:
To a lesser extent:
As I list these out I realize none of the podcasts have a very happy theme.
If you like D&D, improv comedy, and/or Anthony Burch (he wrote Borderlands 2), then I have a happier podcast recommendation for you: Dungeons and Daddies. 4 dad characters find themselves in the D&D universe and need to rescue their children. Burch runs the campaign. Dad jokes aplenty. I'm only a few episodes in so far, but my wife is much further and says it's incredible. I'm already very sold on it and have been since like episode 2.
I’ve never played D&D but have a general understanding of the concept and how it’s played. I listened to the first episode and they definitely started to hit their stride towards the end of the first episode, I’m mostly through the second episode and starting to really enjoy it. Thank you for the recommendation!
Happy to help! I love that it doesn't really require much knowledge of the systems and player options. It's just good collaborative storytelling. I've played and DMed 5e quite a bit and it really is as fun as it sounds if you have a decent group. And because of COVID, it's become much more viable to meet people online and play that way if you get excited enough to read the players handbook and want to pick it up one day. Have fun!
I think I listened only one podcast.
It's finnish. It's about a woman who decided to be an self-sustaining mother (not to be mixed with single parent) and her thoughts and research between before and after getting the child.
Sold a Story
According to pocket casts I listened to a ton of No Such Thing As A Fish. I would say my next best is This American Life but apparently I only actually listened to 2 episodes? I think I unconsciously transitioned to listening to mostly audiobooks this year
Top 47,858 Games
Brad and Will Made a Tech Pod
538 Politics
Next 3 are probably 8-4 Play, The Adventure Zone, and Rude Tales of Magic.
no such thing as a fish the adam ragusea podcast lateral with tom scott
I've tried out quite a few, but the ones I've stuck with are:
Destination Linux: I haven't listened to it in a whule because I barely have any time left for it, but it can often be very interesting and educational.
Tech over Tea: It's an Interview-style podcast where Brodie Robertson, a well-known Linux YouTuber, interviews a member of the Open Source community, usually a developer, about their project and you could often get some interesting insights into the life and responsibilities of an open source developer, as well as some interesting stories during development and insights into what the future of the project might look like.
Are those podcasts any good for Linux noobs? I recently bought a used Steam Deck and love the OS so much that I'm considering building a beefy Chimera OS desktop to rival my PS5 in the living room and also replace my 2015 gaming laptop. I'm hesitant because I haven't seen much info on how Chimera does outside of gaming since I still want to be able to also do standard browsing and stream TV/movies.
I don't know much about programming, so I'm a little nervous about where to start with making sure I'm prepared for troubleshooting Linux issues that I know I'll encounter. I did okay with Windows issues but I've heard nothing but complaints about 11.
Linux Unplugged and Selfhosted are the podcasts I started to listen to when getting into Linux. Otherwise I posted a full list of other Linux podcasts that I like in the comments 👍
You can watch them but they aren't made to be educational, so if you're looking for educational content, I'd say DL is okay, while Tech over Tea, while it is my favorite, is not exactly a channel used to learn about Linux. If you want to learn Linux as a career, I'd point to Learn Linux TV. Learning about Linux for general usage, I'd recommend CTT, DistroTube, InfinitelyGalactic, OldTechBloke, and The Linux Experiment.
Not much of a podcaster. I only listen to Toni and Ryan. They’re hilarious.
Poorhammer is the only podcast i listen to
Levat Burton Reads
Darknet Diaries
Bitcoin dad pod Linux unplugged Ask Noah Office ladies 2.5 admins
These are my top five this year.
285 hours listened to this year? Yeesh.
By hour count this year:
Omnibus. Ten Percent Happier. Madigan's Pubcast.
Oh shit. Can't believe you got my exact top 3. Especially since Cautionary Tales isn't even BBC and likely much more of a niche show.
Haha great! I got into cautionary tales because of 'more or less', searched for Tim harford because I liked he's presenting!
Oh wow. You really are me. This is surreal. Care to share your whole podcast list? I'd be interested in discovering new shows from someone with similar interests.
Sure, it's mostly BBC and mostly science.
My all time favorite podcast is Elements. It's from 2014-2016, but still worth the listen! Every episode explores an element or a group of similar elements on the periodic table. Physics and chemistry is often very theoretical and weird and hard to understand (for me), but in this podcast it gets very applied and business oriented: which industry uses this stuff, why, how ...? It was my gateway-podcast into the BBC really.
One that doesn't really fit the others but i liked very much: death in ice valley.
And then a few in german and dutch language, mostly politics/society, i'm just gonna assume you don't understand dutch or german ;)
Care to share some of yours?
Awesome, thanks. Here are some of the ones I would recommend:
The Reith Lectures - Lecture series from an expert on a topic. Tend to release episodes close to the end of the year only (episodes are releasing now talking about the state of democracy). The backlog is worth listening to.
The Dream- investigative podcast looked at pyramid schemes and the world of wellness.
The Jordan Harbinger Show - In-depth conversations with people at the top of their game.
Playing God - Medical ethics. Life-and-death dilemmas. New medical technologies. Controversial treatments.
Hot Money: The New Narcos - The backlog has excellent episodes about investigating the financing structures in the porn industry. They're just preparing to launch a new series now but I don't know what they're going to look at now.
You Are Not So Smart - about reasoning, biases, judgments, and decision-making.
The Happiness Lab - the science of happiness
Your Parenting Mojo - Respectful, research-based parenting ideas
CrowdScience - Listener questions about a science issue that the presenters then try to find experts to answer
The Real Story - examination of some current event issue.
The Inquiry - gets beyond the headlines to explore the trends, forces and ideas shaping the world.
The Infinite Monkey Cage - a witty, irreverent look at the world through scientists
Darknet Diaries - true stories of the dark side of the Internet
Revisionist History - Malcolm Gladwelllooks at things overlooked and the misunderstood
Owls at Dawn - Two dudes from SoCal who studied philosophy, politics, and religion around the globe who decided to start a podcast where we could bullshit with impunity.
If Books Could Kill - Two guys talk about books that are popular and tear apart how bad they are. I mostly find you don't need to have read the book and the books tend to be pretty popular.
The Forum - The programme that explains the present by exploring the past. Expert panel discussion about any subject area.
Law in Action - legal magazine programme, featuring reports and discussion on matters relating to law (UK based)
All Consuming - explore our culture of consumption through products that have changed the world.
Sound of Gaming - video game soundtracks and an interview with a sound designer from a popular video game.
Bad People - true crime with a criminologist and a comedian. This show has ended but the backlog is great.
AntennaPod told me my favourites are:
Strike Force Five and Off Topic
{THUNDERCLAP}
Runners up:
Jung & naiv And Aufwachen Podcast
Are the best ones.- but they are german
Für mich: Logbuch Netzpolitk, Lage der Nation, UKW, Raumzeit, Forschergeist, Hoaxilla. DAS PODCAST UFO, Stay Forever und "WTFM 100, Null" für's Entertainment. Aber Jung & Naiv ist auch super. Tilo auf der Bundespressekonferenz ist immer ein highlight.
The Nerd Nest
Two Cool Moms
Monday Morning Podcast
Shut up and sit down, funniest board game podcast
I haven't listened to many podcasts lately, so this will be over the past couple years.
Office Ladies is pretty much the only thing I listen to. I'm almost through s3.
The Right Time with Bomani Jones.
I wonder what he'll be doing next since he was let go from ESPN in the great 2023 purge.
https://www.youtube.com/@righttimebomani - he's keeping it going
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://www.piped.video/@righttimebomani
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.
Basic tech bro stuff but, WAN Show
How is WAN show lately? I tried to listen a while back but Linus... comes off really, really full of himself and it was hard tolerate to get to the substance.
He def has an ego but, I think he’s a good person and I agree with the majority of broader ethical opinions he has so, nothing that turns me off a ton
This Week in Virology
Nocturne
Serious Trouble
The Daily
EMS 20/20
That’s pretty much it. For anyone curious they take user submitted EMS calls and review/critique them. I find it funny as hell but their humor certainly won’t be for everyone. And if you’re not even tangentially working near the EMS field it might not be interesting at all.
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
Learn Japanese with Masa-Sensei
Security now
Last Podcast on the Left
Pod Save the World
Crime in Sports
According to Podcast Addict:
How Did This Get Made
Hello From the Magic Tavern
The White Vault.
Hadn't heard of "How Did This Get Made", gonna check it out. Thank you!
Got me through a lot of walking/jogging
comedians/musicians on joe rogan
1001 album reviews podcast
the lex fridman review with todd howard
i dont listen to a lot of podcasts
Maybe I'm just a dummy. I can't figure out where antennapod tells you this?
Lately, I have started listening to Soft Voice, and I enjoy it too.
These are my staples.
Can Apple Podcasts or like a regular podcast app use OSINT to dox you with this info?
Uhhhhhh, probably not? Using antenna pod at least and you don't need to create an account. Subscriptions are just stored in a local OPML file.