Podcasts: What I feed my brain

Following is the list of podcasts I currently listen to each week. The list is broken down into general categories and also notes the normal length of each podcast and how frequently a new episode is released.

  • Creativity & Story
    • News From Lake Wobegon (20m weekly)
    • The Moth Podcast (20m weekly)
    • This American Life (60m weekly)
    • True Story (10m occasional)
    • WNYC’s Radiolab (60m weekly)
    • The Accidental Creative (20m weekly)
    • 99% Invisible (20m weekly)
  • Writing & Books
    • The Writer’s Almanac (5m daily)
    • NYT Book Review-NYT (30m weekly)
    • Grammar Girl (15m weekly)
    • I Should Be Writing (10m weekly)
    • Nerdist Writers Panel (60m weekly)
    • NPR: Books Podcast (30m weekly)
    • Reading and Writing Podcast (10m weekly)
    • The Tolkien Professor (90m semi-weekly)
    • Wordplay: Helping Writers Become Authors (10m weekly)
    • Writing Excuses (15m weekly)
  • Finance & Economics
    • APM: Marketplace (30m weekdays)
    • Freakonomics Radio (30m weekly)
    • The Invisible Hand (60m weekly)
    • Planet Money (25m semi-weekly)
    • WSJ’s Your Money Matters (5m weekdays AM & PM)
  • Business & Leadership
    • Andy Stanley Leadership Podcast (30m monthly)
    • Career Tools (30m weekly)
    • HBR IdeaCast (15m weekly)
    • The Look & Sound of Leadership (15m occasional)
    • Manager Tools (30m weekly)
    • NPR Topics: Business Story of the Day (5m weekdays)
    • This Is Your Life – Michael Hyatt (30m weekly)
  • Sports
    • The Baseball Show with Rany and Joe (60m occasional in-season)
    • FanBall Weekly (15m weekly in-season)
    • NFL Rants & Raves (90m semi-weekly in-season)
    • NPR Columns: Sports with Frank Deford (5m weekly)
  • News & Politics
    • Best of the Left Podcast (70m semi-weekly)
    • The Economist (10m semi-weekly)
    • KCRW’s Le Show – Harry Shearer (60m weekly)
    • New Yorker: The Political Scene (20m weekly)
    • NPR Topics: Story of the Day (5m weekdays)
    • It’s All Politics (20m weekly)
    • Real Time with Bill Maher (75m weekly)
    • Slate’s Political Gabfest (60m weekly)
  • Information
    • Brainstuff (5m semi-weekly)
    • Fresh Air (60m weekdays)
    • NPR: How To Do Everything (20m weekly)
    • Slate’s Culture Gabfest (45m weekly)
    • Talk of the Nation (120m weekdays)
    • TEDTalks video (20m weekdays)
    • TechStuff (40m semi-weekly)
  • Entertainment
    • Good Job, Brain! (50m weekly)
    • Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me! (60m weekly)
  • Movies & Music
    • KCRW’s Film Reviews (5m weekly)
    • KCRW’s Today’s Top Tune (5m weekdays)
    • KEXP Song of the Day (5m weekdays)
    • The Current Song of the Day (5m weekdays)
  • Health & Fitness
    • Fit Girl (15m weekly)
    • The Nutrition Diva (15m weekly)
  • Homesteading
    • BubbaTanicals Podcast (60m irregular)
    • Save Our Skills (60m irregular)
    • You Bet Your Garden (60m weekly)
  • Sermons & Religion
    • Mosaic (40m weekly)
    • North Point Community Church (40m weekly)
    • NPR Topics: Religion Podcast (30m weekly)
    • The Phil Vischer Podcast (50m weekly)
    • Relevant Podcast (70m weekly)
    • Woodland Hill’s Church (50m weekly)

Do you listen to any of these? Is there anything else I should be listening to?

3 Responses to “Podcasts: What I feed my brain”

  1. SarahC February 12, 2013 at 5:36 pm #

    Have you tried Snap Judgement?

  2. SarahC February 12, 2013 at 5:42 pm #

    Also, there’s an interesting one of England called Unbelievable? (the ? is part of the name).

  3. admin February 12, 2013 at 10:40 pm #

    I shall look into them. What genre are they?

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