Do you listen to podcasts?
I discovered a whole bunch of them during the pandemic (great to listen to when getting my steps in everyday) and it created a whole new avenue of time wasting for me. Well, time-wasting to the practical side of me – although agreed, I was getting steps in at the time. And to be fair, there have been some interesting, educational ones that I’ve stumbled upon in my podcast travels. They are also great for driving trips.
Here’s a roundup of some that I used to listen to quite regularly, and pull up every so often.
1/ Smartless
Jason Bateman, Will Arnett and Sean Hayes started these sessions during the pandemic – and I gobbled them up, after all, I crave all things celebrity. Each episode, they have a guest celebrity of one of the hosts choosing, to come in for a talk. The other hosts apparently have no clue who the guest is, and they try to guess through clues at the front end, before all is revealed and they get into the meat of the interview. These guys are absolutely hilarious, I love how they keep the insults coming at each other, although sometimes they are so busy talking trash to each other, the guest becomes as much of a listener as we do, waiting until they’re done to get back into the conversation. They’ve had tons of celebrity guests, too many good ones to list here. I’m not such a regular lately, but will pull them up if I haven’t had a listen in a while.
I discovered Marc Maron while watching his Netflix special and his discussion about health supplements and turmeric. Who knew his podcast has been around forever, he has 1585 episodes, launched in 2009 ! A lot to get through. He’s also an amazing guitar player, and loves his pets. He has great celebrities and non-celebrities, sometimes it can get a bit long but if you hang around there are some zingers every so often that will just make you laugh for days.
Also a pandemic find, I was surprised at how good a conversationalist he is. He is just so darn handsome, he seems to be able to write (I read one of his memoirs and quite liked it) and he is quite funny. Perfect hair, which seems to get better with age. My husband thinks he’s such a bastard LOL.
I love the CBC, Canada’s national broadcasting station. It has such amazing programming, it’s not just about new, it’s about arts, literature, politics, celebrity, and it is uniquely Canada, this station. I know that there are folks who don’t think a publicly funded station should exist anymore, but I really hope it continues to be made available to Canadians.
One of the best shows is Q, now hosted by Tom Power. Tom is such a talented interviewer – amazing that he was first a musician only – I think that’s how he relates so well with artists and the community. He gets them. He is respectful, a fan (but he doesn’t fawn like crazy, he is reserved enough), he does his research, he’s smart and he seems just so genuinely nice. I was happy to see Q episodes show up in podcast form. They’re not long, just shorter sound bites of under 30 minutes.
I just recently discovered The Diplomat with Keri Russell and wouldn’t it be neat if it was Felicity the character who grew up to become an Ambassador! I stumbled on the Dear Felicity podcast, and what a fun blast of the past it is. I was a big fan even though I am a little older…there was a part of me that regretted not going away for school, and following Felicity’s journey to NYC was the ultimate fantasy. And I really thought about naming my son Ben when he was born (but glad I didn’t, two of his best friends growing up were Bens!
I listened to a bunch of others but just can’t keep up: The Daily, The Readout Loud, The Mel Robbins Podcast, Now What with Brooke Shields.
Do you have any podcasts to recommend?
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Well, yes I do. Mostly on totally other topics but I am always happy to check out new recommendations. I listen a lot less to podcasts these days when streaming audio books are so easily availible, but sometimes I am in need of more of a talk than a story so then I turn to podcasts.
Will check some of these out, thanks. happy weekend.
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Oh I love podcasts! My queue is ginormous even though I listen regularly. Smartless is one of my favs as well! I also like Hidden Brain and All in the Mind.
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I have hidden brain in my library too, haven’t visited in a while – yes, ginormous queue 🙂
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I’m not a podcast listener. I sort of want to be, but not sure where I’d find the time. I’m also sort of afraid of getting hooked, plus I have this feeling of arriving late to the party and not knowing what I’ve missed. Will I frantically try to go back and listen to all of them?
I listen to a rosary podcast (but I don’t think that counts/isn’t the same as the entertaining podcasts most people listen to) when I run and when I’m driving alone in the car. I did listen once to Smartless, because I’ve heard great things about it. I put it on while I was cleaning the garage.
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Same, Ernie.
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I listen to the Daily and The Ezra Klein show when I want to feel smart. I listen to This American Life and Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me when I want to laugh, and I listen to Still The Place, which is 3 of the actresses from 90’s drama Melrose Place doing a rewatch, and I LOVE IT. I used to listen to 9021OMG, which is Jennie Garth and Tori Spelling doing a watch of the original 90210, but I’ve lost that loving feeling for that one lately. The actresses in Still the Place are much smarter I think than Jennie and Tori, which helps. I think they were older when they got into it so they got to go to real school. I loved Felicity too, I might check that one out. We watched the first season of the Diplomat, but were not sucked in. I like the idea of it being the same character, that’s kind of what I thought too. I also thought maybe Felicity grew up to be a Soviet Spy, when we were watching The Americans.
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I forgot to mention my husband’s podcast, which is all about music! Planet LP.
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I will have to check out Ted’s podcast!
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I think our podcast style may be different, as I mostly listen to finance related podcasts like Planet Money, All The Hacks or Choose FI, or stories, like The Moth or This American Life.
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I listen to FAR too many podcasts to list but I tend to enjoy podcasts by women more than men. Faves are The Popcast, Currently Reading, Pod Save America, The Girl Next Door Podcast, Sarah’s Book Shelves Live, and Stuff You Should Know.
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I am huge podcast fan and have been for years. So much so that my main phone space is used up by podcasts.
I have not heard of or listened to any of these podcasts though. I need to have a closer look.
My podcasts are more on the creative/smallBusiness/Freelance/marketing side. I dont care for celebrities and gossip.
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I am probably one of the few people who rarely listen to podcasts. I just don’t find the time for it… I am impressed with people who keep up with multiple (!) podcasts every week. But thanks for the recommendations 🙂 I am always open for suggestions.
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