Just curious what are the top 3 podcasts you listened to this year on whatever platform. Antennapod released a feature that summarized your year and well the amount of hours kinda surprised me in a good way, haha.

Edit: Mine were

  • The let's read podcast
  • Therapy gecko
  • How To Survive

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[–] 25 points 2 years ago (5 children)
  • Behind the Bastards
  • Darknet Diaries
  • The Daily
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    [–] 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I've never heard of antennapod. How do ads work on it? Does it work well connecting to car Bluetooth? My wife signed up for duo Spotify, so I'm wondering if there's any reason to switch since we're already paying for that either way.

    I listened to an absolute shitload of 1upsmanship, but iHeart didn't renew :(

    Other podcasts I listened to were Fake Doctors Real Friends (except during the strike), Behind the Bastards, Even More News, What A Day, and I've recently started Dungeons and Daddies and I'm fucking loving it.

    I also gave Your Favorite Band Sucks a shot, but I really can't recommend it other than their episode on The Beatles. That one was so good that it made me want to know what they had to say about other bands I like, but they just came off as pretentious non-conformists who were bitterly jealous of the bands' success, fame, and popularity. Their credibility as supposedly knowledgeable music experts went out the window when they said that Pearl Jam sucks, but Limp Bizkit and Creed are good. Everybody is entitled to opinions and preferences, but I expected more objectivity from a podcast that seemed to be aiming to challenge me to think critically about my music tastes and who I should give my money to. Telling me that Eddie Vedder can't sing isn't stating a fact or even a decent argument to begin to make to somebody who enjoys listening to him sing. I've ranted for too long about these guys here, but I just wanted to provide some supporting evidence to back up my claim that their podcast sucks. If only they did the same in their quest to explain how and why various bands suck... πŸ€”

    Behind the Police is a good, limited run that everybody should listen to. I think it's only 6 episodes long and original aired in summer 2020 😬

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    How do ads work on it?

    Antennapod is essentially an MP3 player app for Android which downloads the MP3 files it finds in podcast feeds. If the MP3 file contains ads, those will be played (but you can skip them). If there are no ads in the file, there are no ads.

    Does it work well connecting to car Bluetooth?

    I think it supports Android Auto.

    My wife signed up for duo Spotify, so I'm wondering if there's any reason to switch since we're already paying for that either way.

    Spotify does not really have podcasts, in the technical sense. Spotify simply decided to usurp the word, but use it for "internet on-demand streaming radio show gated with accounts and DRM" rather than "downloadable audio file discovered via RSS feed file".

    In any case, Antennapod is free, as is almost the entire regular podcast universe.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    According to Antennapod:

    • In Our Time
    • Thinking Allowed
    • Revolutions

    However, I was listening to a LOT of Philosophize This prior to switching to Antennapod, so I expect that that would really take first place.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago*

    Sean Carroll's Mindscape

    The History Of Rock Music in 500 Songs

    What The Fuck Is Going On with Mark Steel

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)
    • Linux Unplugged
    • Linux Lads
    • Linux After Dark
    • Linux Downtime
    • Linux Matters
    • Linux Userspace
    • Linux Actio News
    • Linux + Open Source News, by TLE
    • Late Night Linux
    • Coder Radio
    • 2.5 Admins
    • Traceroute
    • Darknet Diaries
    • Tech over Tea
    • The Homelab Show
    • Selfhosted
    • FriendsPerSecond

    Anyone see a pattern? πŸ™ƒ

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    • Lateral with Tom Scott (game show about random and obscure trivia, heavily inspired by QI)

    • Beautiful/Anonymous with Chris Gethard (hour long phone conversations with anonymous callers, it can get either super deep and emotional or just batshit insane)

    • A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein (queer politics and culture)

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    • The Adventure Zone
    • MBMBAM
    • WVFRM

    Something about the McElroy's comedic style is perfect for me. And I've been watching MKBHD almost since he started on YouTube.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Knowledge Fight! Pretty much the only I regularly listen to. It's two friends listening to Alex Jones. The premise is that one of them knows nothing about the insane stuff Alex Jones spouts and the other one has researched it and kinda shows it to Jordan (the one who knows nothing about Alex). They are hundreds of episodes and the show is still as funny and informative as day one.

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    [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    I just switched to Antennapod, so I don't have data from this year yet. I would guess my top three were:

    • Kill James Bond
    • 538
    • possibly This Day in Esoteric Political History, but those shows are really short.
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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    Blowback.

    If you want to know about the history of American wars and interventions, that is the best podcast by far.

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    Top 3 on antennapod:

    • Crime Junkie
    • And then they were gone
    • True Crime Couple
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    Behind the Bastards The Daily Zeitgeist Factually!

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    • Srsly Wrong
    • Maintenance Phase
    • If Books Could Kill
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    1. No Such Thing As A Fish
    2. For F1's Sake
    3. F1: Chequered Flag
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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    β€’ Click Here β€’ Ask Noah Show β€’ Linux Unplugged β€’ Self Hosting β€’ Darknet Diaries β€’ The Privacy and Security OSINT show.

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    [–] 4 points 2 years ago*
    • Knowledge fight
    • Qanon Anonymous
    • God Awful Movies
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    • Revolutions

    • History Of The Great War

    • Aristoteleen kantapÀÀ

    Where's the feature in AntennaPod? I've only found the total numbers

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago*
    1. Behind the Bastards
    2. Blowback

    I didn't listen to any other podcasts because there's enough in these series to fill my work time and induce a rabid research of the topics discussed.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The History of WWII podcast from Ray Harris JR

    Myths and legends podcast from Jason Weiser

    Levar Burton Reads from Levar Burton

    I use Google podcasts for the first and podcast addict for the other two. But these were all marathoned when I didn't have an audiobook to listen to while I'm at work, so they weren't consistently listened to through the year

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    [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Making It - Bob Clagett (I Like to Make Stuff on youtube), Jimmy Diresta (on youtube), David Picciuto (Make Anything on youtube) discuss their projects, being a maker, being on youtube, etc.

    Safety Third - William Osman (on youtube), Allen Pan (on youtube), Kevin (Backyard Scientist on youtube), and guests (supposed to be Nigel of NileRed, but he never shows up). Nominally, they talk about being science youtubers, but it descends into chaos pretty rapidly.

    A podcast of 3 of my friends just shooting the shit, being morons to each other.

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    Ologies with Alie Ward

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    Last Podcast on the Left

    Someplace Under Neith

    Fraudsters

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Well There's Your Problem
    Black Box Down
    This Podcast Will Kill You

    Apparently, I like listening to stories about death and disaster

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    [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    5-4 - learned a lot about how much the supreme Court socks.

    How Did This Get Made - I have laughed out loud listening to every episode I've ever listened to of this podcast.

    Drum Tower - art, history, current events lend a look into China presented by correspondents in China, Taiwan and SE Asia.

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    • Fall of Civilisations
    • The Thing About Austen
    • Revolutions
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    • Distractible
    • Cartoon Dumpster Dive
    • SCP: Simply Creative People
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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    I don't use antennapod, but at a guess mine would be:

    • DF direct
    • Selfhosted
    • Critical Role
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    • Tuesdays with Stories!
    • We might be Drunk (Weekly epsiodes)
    • IDKAT with Jim Jeffries (probably)
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    The WAN Show

    Shaping Fire

    Conspiracy Theories, a Spotify Original From Parcast

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    History of philosophy without any gaps

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    • Blindboy
    • Weird Studies
    • Feel Better Live More
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    • Science Friday
    • Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine
    • 99% Invisible
    • The Truth
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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    99pi. I started from the beginning two years ago, and now I am just 40 or so episodes behind.

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    The Glass Cannon

    The Daily Beans

    Behind the Bastards

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    I think I listened only one podcast.

    It's finnish. It's about a woman who decided to be an self-sustaining mother (not to be mixed with single parent) and her thoughts and research between before and after getting the child.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago
    • Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend
    • Canadaland
    • Invisible Choir

    A mixture of comedy, news and true crime, all on Podcast Addict.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    According to pocket casts:

    • F**kface for 2d17h
    • Losers’ Club for 2d1h
    • ANMA for 1d7h
    • Losers’ Club (Patreon feed) for 1d18h
    • Hello Playdate Podcast for 1d1/2h

    Not sure why 3 and 4 are mixed up πŸ€·β€β™€οΈ but I did enjoy my time with each!

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    [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    The Skeptics Guide to the Universe was my top for this year.

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    5-4 You're Wrong About (listening to back catalog) Planet Money

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    Sold a Story

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago
    • The Great Gundam Project
    • Friends at the Table
    • Get Played

    I've watched so much mech anime this year...

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