Podcasts I Listen To

I first discovered podcasts back in 2006. At work, I did a thing and it got recognized, and I was nominated for and won a recognition award for my hard work. Part of that award was an iPod. I had an iPod but it was a Nano, which only held about 2G of stuff, and what I mostly had on it were audiobooks. So here I was suddenly with an iPod Classic with 320G of storage. What would I do with all that storage?

I started slow. I had heard of these “pod-casts” (say it like someone tasting the word for the first time ever), but had no idea what they were. I had a vague notion that they were low-quality and amateurish. I searched and found something called Skepticality. It was very much not low-quality, nor was it amateurish.

At the time, I was very much into the Skeptical community, and when I realized there were podcasts related to it, Skepticality wasn’t the only one, it was just the first of many. Then I discovered Grammar Girl. And not long after that, the obsession — nay, addiction — set in.

These days, when I’m engaged in activities during which writing would be dangerous or at the very least bad for me (driving, showering, working, exercise), I’m usually listening to podcasts. If you don’t know what a podcast is, what time frame have you traveled here from, and how did you find my page? I kid, I kid! I know podcasts are not necessarily “mainstream.”

In case you don’t know, podcasts are like radio shows that are recorded and can then be downloaded onto whatever device you like, and then listened to on your own schedule. Or they can be like audiobooks. Or videos. They can be strongly about a single topic or generally about whatever pops into the host(s)’s head(s). They can be entertaining or informative. Or they can be just two guys talking into microphones about nothing (picture Seinfeld, only it’s just Jerry and George or Kramer or Elaine sitting in a room talking for a period of time, and you’re watching / listening).

I listen to so many on so many varied topics that I’ve curated them into smart playlists by podcast, and again by smart playlist for subject matter, and again by smart playlist for length (sometimes I only have 10 minutes, and it’s nice to be able to go to my “< 10 minutes” playlist and go from there). What follows is my list of podcasts I subscribe to by subject matter (Genre). And within each genre, the sort might change. From time to time. Alphabetic, usually, but don’t be surprised if it’s something else. :)


I have to tell you this last little bit, because it shows how my brain works. I try to make order out of chaos. Hence these lists. I kept track of them in a huge spreadsheet, which is how I first noticed that I had a lot of ‘True Crime’ podcasts, and that they needed their own subcategory. But the list on this site was originally made — painstakingly — by hand. Which meant I never updated it because doing that would take away time I could use writing listening to podcasts.

In a fit of annoyance, I thought, “I wish I had a way to automate the creation of the table!”

And that snide, oh-so-annoying voice in my head said, “Dummy. You’re a software engineer. You design software for a living. Capisce?” (I don’t know why my inner voice speaks with an Italian mobster dialect, but it does. Don’t judge me.)

So, I wrote a little program in C# that took my Excel spreadsheet (kinda) and generated something similar to the table you see below, beginning with the “Podcasts by Genre.” It counted them for me, arranged all the bold and italic and strike-through and the hovertext. With that simple application, I could regenerate this page whenever I felt like it. And although I spent about twelve hours over the course of two days (Weekend days, I might add!) working on this to the exclusion of all else, it only took about 10 minutes to output the spreadsheet and run the program to generate this page. And 9 minutes 45 seconds of that 10 minutes was saving the individual sheets of the spreadsheet in a form my program could read. :)


Then…Apple — IN. ITS. INFITIE. WISDOM. — decided that iTunes was too good. It worked too well for too many people. “How,” they must have mused, “can we completely destroy iTunes so that no one will be able to get any use out of it?”

So they brainstormed it and discarded anything that had any sort of use until someone — Lucifer himself, I’m sure — suggested, “I know!” — and here, he must have chortled most evilly — “Let’s take away smart playlists! And, for that matter, playlists altogether! And tell our users that…oh, let’s call them ‘stations’!…are the same thing as smart playlists!” And here, I’m sure he paused to laugh so hard, sulfurous fumes poured out his nose, and all those present joined in, slapping their knees in pure joy. “And this way, we make it truly official that we care not a single iota about podcasts! I mean, they’re not making us any money, right?” And yea, verily, all at Apple thought it was a great idea, and thus was ‘Apple Podcasts’ thrust, unwanted, uncelebrated, untested, unloved, upon an unsuspecting world.

Now, you may be getting the feeling, here, that I’m not overly enthused about “Apple Podcasts.” Heh. “Not overly enthused” is…definitely…a phrase. That might apply. If one were so egregiously understating that…let’s put it a different way.

I would say that ‘Apple Podcasts’ is the Poltergeist II of the app world.

No, worse! It is the Matrix II.

No! I have it, now! Worse still, it’s the Highlander II of the app world!

(And yes, I know that The Highlander never had any sequels, but if it had, how very awful they would have been.)

So I searched around and found an app called Overcast that does…almost everything I need it to do. It has playlists and smart playlists, it allows me (a premium user who pays for the privilege) to upload my own files to the app (for back episodes of long-forgotten podcasts that I have stored on my hard drive). I duplicated, as best I could, the setup I had in iTunes.

The only thing Overcast did not do that I needed for it to do was allow me to create smart playlists based on something other than lists of podcasts. Like length or genre or whatever.

You know that little voice I mentioned earlier? The one that has an Italian mobster accent? Yeah, it spoke up again. “Yo, fannullone, remember that little talk we had? You’re a freakin’ software developer. Write your own, you perditempo!” (My inner voice has somehow gotten more Italian mobsterish over time.)

So, as I type this sentence in late July, 2021, I have spent the better part of over a year — in my copious spare time — doing just that. It’s called PodCatcher, because I’m really bad at naming things. It’s not for public consumption and I don’t ever plan on it being for public consumption. This is 1) a project of love, 2) specific to how I used iTunes to curate podcasts, with some changes I wanted iTunes to make but they never did (because Apple clearly hated their users), and 3) allows me to learn more about C# programming on a project I actually care about.

And one of the things I literally just recently (finally) added to the application is the ability to output my curated podcasts in the format needed for below. And because I am the developer, I can’t bitch, moan, and complain that it doesn’t work like I want it to, because I can just open the code, change it, and then make it work like I want it to.

It’s good to be the king.

So now, it only takes about one minute to generate the HTML code to display the part of the page below “Podcasts by Genre.”


Key

Entries will have the following form:

PodcastName {#UnheardEpisodes} (Creator) MostRecentEpisodeDate [Frequency] [Link]
If you see… It means…
An Underlined Title The description of the podcast will pop up in a little window if you hover over it. Give it a try to the left. Hover your mouse over ‘An Underlined Title.’
A Bold Title There is a (often vast) backlog of episodes that I’m listening to to catch up to current. To the right of name is the {number} of episodes in said backlog.
A Crossed-Out Title The podcast is “on hiatus,” whether announced or not. In other words, it may be between “seasons,” or it may have just sort of stopped without any sort of announcement, and is probably dead. I still subscribe, just in case.
A Normal Title This is a live podcast, currently in production, and I’m caught up, listening to new episodes as they go live (within a week or so, usually).
Green background (Current) I have listened to all available episodes and listen live to new ones as they release
Yellow background (Both Ends) I listen to new episodes as they come out, but there are older episodes I have not caught up on, and I’m actively trying to do so.
Red background (Archive) I occasionally listen to episodes, but I mostly store them for listening later.
Blue background (Trial) I’m trying these out and am unsure whether I’ll continue to listen.
Purple background (CatchUp) I’m downloading new ones, but only listening from the beginning. Usually a serial situation.

And those “stack,” by the way; I could have a bold, struck-out title with an underline. Meaning it is on hiatus but I have a backlog, and you can see the description if you hover.


Podcasts by Genre(289 total podcasts; 20774 total unheard episodes; 1774d 20h 26m 44s total listening time):

  1. Comedy (7 podcasts; 234 unheard episodes; 2d 19h 48m 20s total listening time)

    These are podcasts that exist primarily for the purpose of getting a laugh.

      Nobody Listens to Paula Poundstone (Lipstick Nancy, Inc. & Glassbox Media) 10/24/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Mike Birbiglia’s Working It Out (Mike Birbiglia) 10/23/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! (NPR) 10/21/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Geologic Podcast (George Hrab) 10/18/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Making Podcasts Great Again {83} (Making Podcasts Great Again) 10/24/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Bugle, The {58} (The Bugle) 10/24/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Says You! {93} (Pipit and Finch) 10/20/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
  2. Education (38 podcasts; 1032 unheard episodes; 13d 3h 29m 44s total listening time)

    The primary purpose of an episode is to impart knowledge or teach the listener something. Often done in an entertaining way, so a number of these could fall in other categories such as ‘Entertainment,’ ‘Science,’ or ‘Writing.’

      Nutrition Diva, The (QuickAndDirtyTips.com, Monica Reinagel) 10/25/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      History Daily (Airship | Noiser | Wondery) 10/25/2023 [Daily] [Link]
      Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day (Merriam-Webster) 10/25/2023 [Daily] [Link]
      Everything Everywhere Daily (Gary Arndt | Glassbox Media) 10/24/2023 [Daily] [Link]
      Grammar Girl (QuickAndDirtyTips.com) 10/24/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Modern Mentor (QuickAndDirtyTips.com) 10/24/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Skeptoid (Brian Dunning) 10/24/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Way with Words, A (Hosted by Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett. Produced by Stefanie Levine.) 10/23/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Economics of Everyday Things, The (Freakonomics Network & Zachary Crockett) 10/22/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Savvy Psychologist, The (QuickAndDirtyTips.com) 10/20/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Lingthusiasm (Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne) 10/19/2023 [Monthly] [Link]
      Safe For Work (Wondery) 10/19/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Freakonomics Radio (Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher) 10/18/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Subtitle (Quiet Juice) 10/18/2023 [Biweekly] [Link]
      Our Fake History (PodcastOne) 10/17/2023 [Biweekly] [Link]
      Change Academy (Monica Reinagel) 10/16/2023 [Biweekly] [Link]
      Bone and Sickle (Al Ridenour) 10/15/2023 [Semimonthly] [Link]
      Folklore Podcast, The (Mark Norman) 10/14/2023 [Biweekly] [Link]
      History of English Podcast, The (Kevin Stroud) 10/9/2023 [Semimonthly] [Link]
      Kevin Stroud (Kevin Stroud) 10/9/2023 [Monthly] [Link]
      Because Language (Daniel Midgley, Ben Ainslie, and Hedvig Skirgård) 10/1/2023 [Biweekly] [Link]
      Lexicon Valley (Lexicon Valley) 9/29/2023 [Biweekly] [Link]
      Carry the Two (IMSI) 9/19/2023 [Biweekly] [Link]
      Pseudo-Archaeology {72} (Andrew Kinkella) 10/25/2023 [Biweekly] [Link]
      Myths and Legends {191} (Jason Weiser, Carissa Weiser, Nextpod) 10/25/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Tides of History {133} (Wondery / Patrick Wyman) 10/23/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Problem Squared, A {40} (Matt Parker & Bec Hill) 10/22/2023 [Biweekly] [Link]
      No Stupid Questions {22} (Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher) 10/22/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Myths Your Teacher Hated Podcast {54} (M. C. Williams) 10/21/2023 [Biweekly] [Link]
      Revisionist History {18} (Pushkin Industries) 10/19/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      You Are Not So Smart {55} (You Are Not So Smart) 10/15/2023 [Biweekly] [Link]
      Let’s Learn Everything! {26} (Maximum Fun) 10/12/2023 [Biweekly] [Link]
      Darknet Diaries {92} (Jack Rhysider) 10/3/2023 [Biweekly] [Link]
      Constant, The {116} (Mark Chrisler) 10/24/2023 [Biweekly] [Link]
      Data Over Dogma {17} (Daniel McClellan and Daniel Beecher) 10/23/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Whole 9 Yards {154} (Big Science Pods) 10/20/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Search Engine {5} (PJ Vogt, Audacy, Jigsaw) 10/25/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Futuremakers {37} (Oxford University) 9/21/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
  3. Entertainment (34 podcasts; 1803 unheard episodes; 20d 6h 35m 54s total listening time)

    The primary purpose of an episode is to entertain the listener. The line can get very blurry between ‘Education’ and ‘Entertainment,’ sometimes. Which one I put a podcast in is entirely how I feel about the entertainment content of the podcast.

      It’s Going To Be OK (Feelings & Co) 10/25/2023 [Daily] [Link]
      Mobituaries with Mo Rocca (CBS News & iHeartPodcasts) 10/25/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Song of the Day – KEXP (KEXP) 10/25/2023 [Daily] [Link]
      Song of the Day – The Current (Minnesota Public Radio) 10/25/2023 [Daily] [Link]
      My Unsung Hero (Hidden Brain) 10/24/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Song of the Day – KUTX (KUT & KUTX Studios) 10/24/2023 [Daily] [Link]
      Hidden Brain (Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam) 10/23/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      American Innovations (Wondery) 10/23/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Lore (Aaron Mahnke and Grim & Mild) 10/23/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Allusionist, The (Helen Zaltzman) 10/22/2023 [Biweekly] [Link]
      Radiolab (WNYC Studios) 10/20/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Grim & Mild Presents (iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild) 10/19/2023 [Biweekly] [Link]
      Welcome to Paradise (It Sucks) (Cloud10 and Cryptic County) 10/19/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Ungeniused (Relay FM) 10/17/2023 [Biweekly] [Link]
      Kind World (WBUR) 10/6/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Everything is Alive {19} (Radiotopia) 10/25/2023 [Biweekly] [Link]
      99% Invisible {60} (Roman Mars) 10/24/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Aaron Mahnke’s Cabinet of Curiosities {12} (iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild) 10/24/2023 [Semi-weekly] [Link]
      Freaky Folklore {10} (Eeriecast Network) 10/23/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Story Collider, The {249} (Story Collider, Inc.) 10/19/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      No Such Thing As A Fish {266} (No Such Thing As A Fish) 10/19/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Radio Diaries {166} (Radio Diaries & Radiotopia) 10/19/2023 [Biweekly] [Link]
      Dead Pilots Society {19} (Ben Blacker and Andrew Reich) 10/19/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Inquiring Minds {167} (Indre Viskontas) 10/18/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Kitchen Sisters Present, The {195} (The Kitchen Sisters & Radiotopia) 10/17/2023 [Biweekly] [Link]
      Terrible, Thanks For Asking {106} (Feelings & Co.) 10/17/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      memory palace, the {40} (Nate DiMeo) 10/7/2023 [Biweekly] [Link]
      Office Ladies {125} (Earwolf & Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey) 10/25/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Rewatcher: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The {35} (Wondery | Morbid Network) 10/23/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Devil’s Trap {102} (Don’t Be A Dick Productions) 10/20/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Psychologists Are In, The {50} (Cloud10) 10/19/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      MASHmouth {26} (Valiantly Off Balance) 10/13/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      I’ve Heard It Both Ways {57} (Billy D) 9/19/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      M*A*S*HCast {99} (Fire and Water Podcast Network) 9/13/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
  4. Fiction (26 podcasts; 3465 unheard episodes; 44d 2h 22m 55s total listening time)

    A single, contained (shorter – drabble, flash, short stories, novelettes, and novellas) story in a single episode, whether that be 5 minutes or 3 hours. Usually read by one person, and without music or sound effects. Just a good, old-fashioned reading of a story.

      Cast of Wonders (Escape Artists, Inc) 10/25/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      PodCastle (Escape Artists, Inc) 10/24/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      LeVar Burton Reads (LeVar Burton and Stitcher) 10/24/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      PseudoPod (Escape Artists Foundation) 10/24/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Gay Erotica by Liam Williams (Liam Williams) 10/23/2023 [Biweekly] [Link]
      Escape Pod (Escape Artists Foundation) 10/19/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Acephale: Horror Fiction (Jeffrey Walker) 10/16/2023 [Bimonthly] [Link]
      Knifepoint Horror (Soren Narnia) 10/13/2023 [Semi-weekly] [Link]
      CatsCast (Escape Artists, Inc.) 10/4/2023 [Monthly] [Link]
      Asimov’s Science Fiction (Asimov’s Science Fiction) 9/27/2023 [Bimonthly] [Link]
      Fantasy Magazine (Fantasy Magazine) 9/26/2023 [Biweekly] [Link]
      Other Stories, The {391} (Hawk & Cleaver | A Digital Story Studio bringing you the best new stories to watch, read, sniff, and absorb.) 10/24/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Fantasy Magazine 2 {15} (Adamant Press) 10/24/2023 [Biweekly] [Link]
      Sudden Fictions {25} (Various) 10/23/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Metaphorosis Magazine {76} (Metaphorosis Publishing) 10/20/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Lightspeed Magazine {440} (Adamant Press) 10/19/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Beneath Ceaseless Skies Audio Fiction Podcasts {144} (Beneath Ceaseless Skies Audio Fiction Podcasts) 10/19/2023 [Biweekly] [Link]
      Nightmare Magazine {190} (Adamant Press) 10/18/2023 [Biweekly] [Link]
      Nocturnal Transmissions {97} (Horror Enthusiast, Voice Actor, Podcaster – Kristin Holland) 10/17/2023 [Biweekly] [Link]
      Nobilis Erotica {338} (Nobilis Reed) 10/14/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Clarkesworld Magazine {454} (Clarkesworld Magazine) 9/26/2023 [Daily] [Link]
      Strange Horizons {537} (Strange Horizons) 9/25/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Serving Worlds {213} (John Mierau) 10/25/2023 [Daily] [Link]
      Sleepy {281} (Otis Gray) 10/22/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Journey Into… {252} (Marshal Latham) 10/19/2023 [Daily] [Link]
      Twisted Mirror {12} (The Twisted Mirror) 10/12/2023 [Semi-weekly] [Link]
  5. Fiction – Anthology (19 podcasts; 2456 unheard episodes; 27d 18h 41m 14s total listening time)

    Two or more stories (often both poetry and prose) in many episodes, sometimes accompanied by commentary, review, opinion, or discussion pieces by the host(s). Still just readings, but kind of like an audio magazine instead of an audiobook.

      Lost Sci-Fi (Scott Miller) 10/25/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Be Careful Out There (Kelstopher) 10/23/2023 [Semi-weekly] [Link]
      Let’s Not Meet (Andy Tate) 10/23/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Odd Trails (Andy Tate and Brandon Lanier) 10/23/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Stories To Keep You Up At Night (Realm) 10/20/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      TERROR RADIO (Radio Show Nerd) 10/20/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Kaleidocast (Kaleidocast NYC) 10/10/2023 [Biweekly] [Link]
      Uncanny Magazine Podcast (Uncanny Magazine) 10/3/2023 [Monthly] [Link]
      Skinner Co. Network, The {869} (JRD Skinner) 10/25/2023 [Semi-weekly] [Link]
      Scarecast, The {53} (Michael Crutchfield) 10/24/2023 [Daily] [Link]
      Wrong Station {132} (The Wrong Station) 10/24/2023 [Biweekly] [Link]
      Creepy {228} (Bloody FM) 10/24/2023 [Daily] [Link]
      Tales from the Break Room {28} (Eeriecast Network) 10/24/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      District of Wonders Patreon {102} (District of Wonders Exclusive RSS Podcast Feed) 10/24/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Tales to Terrify {311} (Drew Sebesteny) 10/20/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Paul Sating {229} (Paul Sating) 10/12/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Drabblecast Audio Fiction Podcast, The {386} (Norm Sherman) 10/9/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Witchever Path {60} (Witchever Path) 10/11/2023 [Semimonthly] [Link]
      Seminar {58} (Pendant Productions) 9/27/2023 [Bimonthly] [Link]
  6. Fiction – Audiobooks (0 podcasts; 0 unheard episodes; 0s total listening time)

    Generally a single reader reading a long-form piece (novel or a long novella) over numerous episodes. Occasionally also done as a full-cast recording with music and sound effects: an audio ‘movie,’ as it were. Each short episode will have the podcast’s intro and outro section, so it’s less like an audiobook in that respect. Sometimes includes Q&A episodes or other commentary from the author.

  7. Fiction – Audiodrama (45 podcasts; 1101 unheard episodes; 15d 17h 42m 13s total listening time)

    In the Golden Days of radio, a lot of shows were audiodramas. They had music, sound effects, and multiple voice actors. This lost art is coming back, but in the form of podcasts rather than on the radio. These are performances by actors, not just straight readings. The distinguishing feature: ongoing stories with arcs that go on for multiple episodes or seasons.

      Radio Mystery Theater (CBSRMT.com) (Radio Mystery Theater) 10/25/2023 [Daily] [Link]
      WOE.BEGONE (WOE.BEGONE Industries LLC) 10/25/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Within the Wires (Night Vale Presents) 10/24/2023 [Biweekly] [Link]
      Tower 4 (Bloody FM) 10/23/2023 [Monthly] [Link]
      Realms of Peril & Glory (The Light & Tragic Company) 10/23/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Liminal Lands, The (Waymon Alexander) 10/22/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Spider King (Realm) 10/20/2023 [Semimonthly] [Link]
      Undertow (Realm) 10/20/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Maxine Miles: Volume I (iHeartPodcasts) 10/19/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      SCP Archives (Bloody FM) 10/19/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Redwood Bureau (Eeriecast Network) 10/17/2023 [Biweekly] [Link]
      Midnight Burger (Business Goose Media) 10/17/2023 [Biweekly] [Link]
      Old Time Radiocast (Andy Tate) 10/16/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Epic (Realm) 10/16/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Welcome to Night Vale (Night Vale Presents) 10/15/2023 [Biweekly] [Link]
      Forgive Me! (Rogue Dialogue) 10/15/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      How i Died (Audiohm Media) 10/13/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Thirteen (Imaginary Comma) 10/12/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Magic Isn’t Real (Magic Isn’t Real) 10/10/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Stories from Among the Stars (Tor Labs / Gideon Media / Macmillan) 10/10/2023 [Semi-weekly] [Link]
      TANIS (Public Radio Alliance) 10/3/2023 [Biweekly] [Link]
      Rabbits (Terry Miles) 10/3/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Mayfair Watchers Society (Bloody FM) 10/3/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Sight Unseen (Wondery) 10/2/2023 [Semimonthly] [Link]
      Malevolent (Harlan Guthrie) 9/30/2023 [Monthly] [Link]
      Tiny Tales (R. E. Rule (Writer) & Frank Nawrot (Composer/Audio Engineer)) 9/25/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      DUST (Gunpowder & Sky) 9/18/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Ad Lucem (QCODE) 9/18/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Amelia Project, The (Imploding Fictions) 9/15/2023 [Biweekly] [Link]
      Almelem (Sean Williams) 9/14/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Red Moon Roleplaying {343} (Red Moon Roleplaying) 10/20/2023 [Semi-weekly] [Link]
      Nightlight {41} (Ransom Media Productions) 10/19/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Thrilling Adventure Hour, The {74} (WorkJuice Corp) 10/16/2023 [Monthly] [Link]
      SessionsX {25} (Matheus H. Macedo) 10/3/2023 [Biweekly] [Link]
      White Vault, The {71} (Fool and Scholar Productions) 10/24/2023 [Biweekly] [Link]
      Magnus Archives, The {264} (Rusty Quill) 9/19/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Memory Lane {15} (Realm) 10/20/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Antiquarium of Sinister Happenings, The {10} (Bloody FM) 10/19/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Once Upon A Wasteland: A Fallout Story {25} (Brad Williams) 10/20/2023 [Semimonthly] [Link]
      Unwell, a Midwestern Gothic Mystery {78} (HartLife NFP) 10/25/2023 [Biweekly] [Link]
      Shadows at the Door {38} (Shadows at the Door Publishing | Realm) 10/11/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Storage Papers, The {80} (Jeremy Enfinger) 10/10/2023 [Biweekly] [Link]
      Give Me Away {11} (Gideon Media) 9/26/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      DERELICT {12} (Night Rocket Productions) 9/18/2023 [Biweekly] [Link]
      Curious Matter Anthology {14} (Knightsville Workshop) 9/12/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
  8. Fiction – Comedy (7 podcasts; 467 unheard episodes; 4d 16h 2m 29s total listening time)

    These are fiction podcasts for which the comedy element is the most important. Quite a few of them are improv, which may eventually become its own category.

      Madison On The Air (Chrisi Talyn Saje) 10/20/2023 [Biweekly] [Link]
      Spaceships (Headstage) 10/1/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Dispatches from the Multiverse {137} (Dispatches from the Multiverse) 10/17/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      My Dad Wrote A Porno {162} (My Dad Wrote A Porno) 10/22/2023 [Semi-weekly] [Link]
      Oz 9 {113} (Gated Galaxies) 10/1/2023 [Biweekly] [Link]
      Hello From The Magic Tavern {26} (Arnie Niekamp) 10/23/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Civilized {29} (Fable and Folly Productions) 10/4/2023 [Biweekly] [Link]
  9. Interview (9 podcasts; 710 unheard episodes; 12d 5h 29m 20s total listening time)

    People interviewing other people! About Things™. The subject varies, but the interview is the reason for the podcast. A lot of these could fit in two or three categories.

      Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda (Alan Alda) 10/24/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD (Ginger Campbell, MD) 9/22/2023 [Monthly] [Link]
      Mayim Bialik’s Breakdown {48} (Mayim Bialik) 10/24/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Talk Nerdy with Cara Santa Maria {158} (Cara Santa Maria) 10/23/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Alyssa Milano: Sorry Not Sorry {164} (Peace By Peace Productions) 10/23/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      FBI Retired Case File Review {244} (Jerri Williams) 10/18/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Ologies with Alie Ward {67} (Alie Ward) 10/18/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Eating the Fantastic {12} (Scott Edelman) 10/24/2023 [Biweekly] [Link]
      Numberphile Podcast, The {17} (Brady Haran) 10/12/2023 [Semimonthly] [Link]
  10. News & Politics (29 podcasts; 3387 unheard episodes; 39d 23h 49m 38s total listening time)

    The primary purpose of an episode is to inform the listener on current events in the news and politics.

      7, The (The Washington Post) 10/25/2023 [Daily] [Link]
      Up First (NPR) 10/25/2023 [Daily] [Link]
      Cleanup on Aisle 45 (MSW Media) 10/25/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      NPR Politics Podcast, The (NPR) 10/24/2023 [Daily] [Link]
      Consider This from NPR (NPR) 10/24/2023 [Daily] [Link]
      State of the World from NPR (NPR) 10/25/2023 [Daily] [Link]
      This Day in Esoteric Political History (Jody Avirgan & Radiotopia) 10/24/2023 [Semi-weekly] [Link]
      Civics 101 (NHPR) 10/24/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Past Present (Niki, Neil, and Natalia) 10/24/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Slate Debates (Slate Podcasts) 10/24/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Prosecuting Donald Trump (MSNBC) 10/23/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      FiveThirtyEight Politics (ABC News, 538, FiveThirtyEight, Galen Druke) 10/23/2023 [Semi-weekly] [Link]
      Where There’s Woke Patron Feed (Where There’s Woke Patron Feed) 10/20/2023 [Daily] [Link]
      Where There’s Woke (Thomas Smith) 10/20/2023 [Semi-weekly] [Link]
      Can He Do That? (The Washington Post) 10/20/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      That’s Just Weird with Aaron Mahnke (Aaron Mahnke) 10/20/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Throughline (NPR) 10/19/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Embedded (NPR) 10/19/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Trump, Inc. (WNYC Studios) 10/13/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law (Roman Mars) 9/18/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Today, Explained {626} (Vox) 10/25/2023 [Daily] [Link]
      Post Reports {515} (The Washington Post) 10/24/2023 [Daily] [Link]
      Gray Area with Sean Illing, The {545} (Vox) 10/23/2023 [Semi-weekly] [Link]
      Jack {239} (MSW Media) 10/22/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Focus Group, The {8} (The Focus Group Podcast) 10/21/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Real Story, The {347} (BBC World Service) 10/20/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Serious Inquiries Only Patron Feed {454} (Serious Inquiries Only) 10/19/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Serious Inquiries Only {576} (seriouspod.com) 10/19/2023 [Semi-weekly] [Link]
      Citations Needed {77} (Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson) 10/18/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
  11. Science (38 podcasts; 3106 unheard episodes; 46d 9h 10m 20s total listening time)

    The first few podcasts I ever listened to were science- or skepticism-related. I lump them together because, to me, they are inextricably bound. I have far fewer podcasts in this category because they started to repeat one another, and . . . Frankly, it was a lot of preaching to the choir. The few I still really enjoy are here.

      Nature Podcast (Springer Nature Limited) 10/25/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Science, Quickly (Scientific American) 10/25/2023 [Daily] [Link]
      Unexplainable (Vox) 10/25/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Short Wave (NPR) 10/25/2023 [Daily] [Link]
      Oh No, Ross and Carrie (Ross and Carrie) 10/24/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Astronomy Cast (Fraser Cain and Dr. Pamela Gay) 10/23/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Sean Carroll’s Mindscape (Sean Carroll | Wondery) 10/23/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      MonsterTalk (Blake Smith) 10/23/2023 [Biweekly] [Link]
      Skeptic Zone, The (Richard Saunders) 10/21/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe, The (Dr. Steven Novella) 10/21/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Stable And Able (NikWik Productions) 10/21/2023 [Biweekly] [Link]
      What The If? (Philip Shane, Matt Stanley, Gabrielle Paniccia) 10/20/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      European Skeptics Podcast, The (TheESP.eu) 10/19/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      This Week in Science (Dr. Kirsten Sanford Science Media) 10/19/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Taboo Science (Ashley Hamer) 10/19/2023 [Biweekly] [Link]
      Science Vs (Spotify Studios) 10/19/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Lost Women of Science (Lost Women of Science) 10/19/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Malicious Life (Malicious Life) 10/17/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Podcast Of Unnecessary Detail, A (Festival of the Spoken Nerd) 10/10/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      PNAS Science Sessions (PNAS) 10/9/2023 [Biweekly] [Link]
      Richard Wiseman’s On Your Mind {5} (Podimo & TellTale) 10/25/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Curiosity Daily {99} (Discovery) 10/25/2023 [Daily] [Link]
      Universe Today Podcast {1022} (Fraser Cain) 10/24/2023 [Daily] [Link]
      This Podcast Will Kill You {119} (Exactly Right Media – the original true crime comedy network) 10/24/2023 [Biweekly] [Link]
      Science Weekly {108} (The Guardian) 10/24/2023 [Semi-weekly] [Link]
      Sean Carroll’s Patreon {258} (Sean Carroll) 10/23/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Strange Animals Podcast {48} (Katherine Shaw) 10/23/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      MonsterTalk Patron Only RSS Feed {175} (MonsterTalk Patron Only RSS Feed) 10/22/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Squaring the Strange {9} (Pascual Romero and Ben Radford) 10/20/2023 [Biweekly] [Link]
      Houston We Have a Podcast {59} (National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)) 10/20/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Just the Zoo of Us {189} (Ellen & Christian Weatherford) 10/19/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      I Know Dino {382} (Garret and Sabrina) 10/18/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      You’re Wrong About {168} (Sarah Marshall) 10/17/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Knowing Animals {210} (Josh Milburn) 10/16/2023 [Biweekly] [Link]
      Strange Animals Podcast Patreon Feed {45} (Feed the Patrons) 10/1/2023 [Biweekly] [Link]
      This Week in Evolution {46} (Vincent Racaniello) 9/29/2023 [Bimonthly] [Link]
      Rational View podcast with Dr. Al Scott, The {71} (Al Scott) 10/21/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Conspiracy Skeptic, The {93} (The HiveMind Group) 10/1/2023 [Biweekly] [Link]
  12. True Crime, Mystery, Weird (12 podcasts; 157 unheard episodes; 23h 28m 17s total listening time)

    I realized I had a number of podcasts on my feed all dealing with true crime, mysteries, or just ‘weird’ topics in general. I created this group as a place to put them all, even if they’re not obviously interrelated.

      Nighttime (Jordan Bonaparte / Curiouscast) 10/24/2023 [Semi-weekly] [Link]
      Southern Fried True Crime (Erica Kelley) 10/23/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Unexplained (iHeartPodcasts) 10/20/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Criminal (Vox Media Podcast Network) 10/20/2023 [Biweekly] [Link]
      Destination Terror (Eeriecast Network) 10/19/2023 [Biweekly] [Link]
      Serial (Serial Productions & The New York Times) 10/19/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan (Obsessed Network) 10/19/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Dr. Death (Wondery) 10/17/2023 [Biweekly] [Link]
      Algorithm (iHeartPodcasts and TenderfootTV) 9/14/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Secret Room, The {13} (Ben Hamm) 10/24/2023 [Biweekly] [Link]
      One Strange Thing {82} (One Strange Thing) 10/23/2023 [Biweekly] [Link]
      Nocturne {62} (Vanessa Lowe) 10/18/2023 [Monthly] [Link]
  13. Two Guys Talking (7 podcasts; 681 unheard episodes; 10d 17h 24m 44s total listening time)

    Basically, it’s just two people, usually men, talking to each other about . . . things. And stuff. <waves hands vaguely> Subjects vary. It’s the relationship of the hosts and their interaction that is the whole purpose of the podcast.

      No Dumb Questions (Destin Sandlin and Matt Whitman) 10/12/2023 [Biweekly] [Link]
      Artifexian Podcast, The (Edgar Grunewald & Bill McGrath) 10/3/2023 [Monthly] [Link]
      Cortex (Relay FM) 9/19/2023 [Biweekly] [Link]
      MASH Matters {61} (Jeff Maxwell & Ryan Patrick) 10/15/2023 [Biweekly] [Link]
      Unmade Podcast, The {57} (Tim Hein and Brady Haran) 10/12/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Conlangery Podcast {126} (Conlangery Podcast) 10/5/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Dead Robots’ Society {437} (The Dead Robots’ Society) 9/23/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
  14. Writing (18 podcasts; 2175 unheard episodes; 26d 21h 26m 45s total listening time)

    The primary purpose of these podcasts is to discuss or teach about writing or publishing.

      Let’s Make A Horror (CBC) 10/24/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Creative Penn, The (Joanna Penn) 10/23/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Writing Excuses (Mary Robinette Kowal, DongWon Song, Erin Roberts, Dan Wells, and Howard Tayler) 10/22/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Fabulist-only Murverse Feed (Mur Lafferty) 10/20/2023 [Daily] [Link]
      Creative Penn Patreon, The (Jo Penn) 10/16/2023 [Monthly] [Link]
      Escape Artists Premium Content audio feed (Escape Artists Premium Content audio feed) 10/1/2023 [Monthly] [Link]
      Shining Moon: A Speculative Fiction Podcast {5} (Deborah L. Davitt) 10/25/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Dialogue Doctor Podcast, The {34} (Jeff Elkins) 10/23/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Just Keep Writing {73} (justkeepwriting) 10/20/2023 [Biweekly] [Link]
      Shit No One Tells You About Writing, The {73} (Bianca Marais, Carly Watters and CeCe Lyra) 10/19/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Imaginary Worlds {41} (Eric Molinsky) 10/11/2023 [Biweekly] [Link]
      Helping Writers Become Authors {574} (K.M. Weiland) 10/9/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Breaking the Glass Slipper {192} (Megan Leigh, Charlotte Bond, and Lucy Hounsom) 10/5/2023 [Biweekly] [Link]
      Odyssey SF/F Writing Workshop Podcasts {62} (Odyssey SF/F Workshop) 10/2/2023 [Monthly] [Link]
      This Is Horror Podcast {513} (Michael David Wilson and Bob Pastorella) 10/25/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy {535} (David Barr Kirtley and John Joseph Adams) 10/17/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Write-Minded {47} (Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner (NaNoWriMo)) 10/23/2023 [Weekly] [Link]
      Write Now with Scrivener {26} (Literature & Latte) 10/4/2023 [Monthly] [Link]

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