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?
Have you tried Snap Judgement?
Also, there’s an interesting one of England called Unbelievable? (the ? is part of the name).
I shall look into them. What genre are they?