What Podcast Made You Fall in Love With Podcasts?

Posted on May 9, 2023 by resourcefulman

In 2022, I spent 97 days and 20 hours listening to podcasts on Pocket Casts only. (Add in the time I listened on Spotify and other platforms and the total becomes more shocking.) I’m not sure how this is possible, or what it says about my social life, but here we are. I know podcasts. I once had a podcast called Podcast Podcast and now host Feed the Queue , both shows are designed to help others find the podcasts they love. I have a podcast newsletter and a podcast marketing newsletter . I have been a judge for the Signal Awards and the International Women’s Podcast Awards and am also a member of The Podcast Academy . I teach podcast classes at Harvard and lead discussions at SXSW and the Podcast Movement on how to grow their shows, and I started a podcast marketing company . And of course, I write about podcasts for you right here .

I mean, I know a lot about podcasts and have listened to a ton of them. But there are over three million podcasts, and one girl can only cover that much. I try to experiment with everything – indie, news, sci-fi, crime, comedy, sex, movies, food and digital security podcasts, bats, magicians and even more niche podcasts (some of which I wrote about here ). . I wrote Lifehacker about podcasts covering mental health , TV , secrets , game shows , D&D , books , scams and more .

Then my question to you is what did I miss? What show made you fall in love with podcasts? (Also: What’s your favorite show right now? What’s the podcast everyone loves that you can’t stand?) Let me know in the comments – and to start the conversation, here are three of my favorites.

Lizzie Cooperman in your arms

In Lizzy Cooperman’s In Your Hands, Lizzy offers her listeners two options for what she’ll do next in her life. They vote for their choice on her Instagram and she does everything she wins. This is literally Lizzy’s adventure of choice. Lizzy is fun-loving and brings in comedians and experts to help her listeners decide. Her life is literally in our hands, and our choices have dictated some of her wildest adventures. Because of the show, Lizzie got several piercings, became a Los Angeles tour guide for the TV show This Is Us , burned her diaries, and created a workout routine that she does every day. Lizzy is currently on hiatus, which means you have plenty of time to catch up on her wild adventures.

daily zeitgeist

Every Monday through Friday at The Daily Zeitgeist , Jack O’Brien and Miles Gray bring a comedian (or other tough guy) onto the show to talk about what was in the zeitgeist that day, from the ban on abortion to the newest Taco Bell menu item. . The guys start the conversation with user-submitted comments and ask the guest to name something underrated, overrated, and something revealing from their Google search history, before flipping through weekly updates on politics, coal gas research, UFOs, and more. . Even on those dark days when the headlines will make you crawl back into bed, Jack and Miles’ progressive moves will make you feel a little better about the state of the world. Plus, there are mini-episodes out in the evenings to talk about what’s trending on Twitter, in case you still haven’t had enough. (Never can.)

Straightiolab

Comedians George Siveris and Sam Taggart break down straight culture piece by piece with the help of funny guests. Their conversations, which are about 75% wild, are so out of the ordinary that they go from weird to downright brilliant. However outrageous, subtle connections they find between hot topic and queerness, they inevitably veer into quasi-philosophical conversations about gender. Think of it like an academic comedy. Each show starts with a stupid game segment that doesn’t make sense (and no one is allowed to ask questions about it), and George, Sam, and the guests end each episode with TRL-style yells. To steal from George and Sam: “If this review doesn’t make you want to listen to the show, then congratulations, you’re probably gay.”