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
- Behind the Bastards
- Darknet Diaries
- The Daily
What will Darknet Diaries give me?
True stories from the dark side of the Internet
This is a podcast about hackers, breaches, shadow government activity, hacktivism, cybercrime, and all the things that dwell on the hidden parts of the network.
Darknet Diaries is an investigative podcast created by Jack Rhysider (/riːˈsaɪdər/), chronicling true stories about crackers, malware, botnets, cryptography, cryptocurrency, cybercrime, and Internet privacy, all subjects falling under the umbrella of “tales from the dark side of the Internet”.
That seems right up my alley, I’ll subscribe to that.
Great! I hope you enjoy it!
Eww. Already overwhelmed with such tales from random internet read. More cozy is Soft Voice for mW.
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… 🤔
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 😬
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.
Thanks! I always download my podcasts while on Wi-Fi anyway because we’re on Google Fi. This way, our phone bill for two is usually under $60/month since we don’t use much data.
Since it’s free, there’s no reason for me to not try it out!
AntennaPod doesn’t have any in-app ads, but the podcasts you listen to will still have them.
Thanks! That makes sense. I’m sure I’ll still experience the same amount of ads, but can still skip them then.
I wonder if something like sponsor block is feasible for podcasts 🤔
Ads in podcasts are dynamically inserted right when you download them, or while you’re streaming, so I don’t think that’s possible. Not everyone is going to get the same ad. It’ll give you an ad depending on your location sometimes.
I’ve definitely had both. Sometimes the hosts of the actual podcast read an ad using their own voices. In this case everyone gets the same audio file and crowdsourcing the timestamps would work.
For dynamically inserted ads, it will be more complicated. Maybe a system like content id that has a library of known ads and detects them in the audio.
Sometimes the hosts of the actual podcast read an ad using their own voices.
Yes, though some of those are dynamically inserted as well.
I sometimes watch years old podcast episodes, and it’ll insert a pre-recorded current day ad where the host is doing it. And when I listen to the episode months later, the ads change again sometimes, but it is still the host doing it.
Also, maybe it’s just the podcasts I listen to, but all podcasts I listen to seems to always be the host doing the ad.
AntennaPod is great. It’s open source and has everything you need. The only ads are whatever the podcast has in them, but you can skip forward past them. I also pay for Spotify, but I still use AntennaPod for podcasts.
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.
Blowback.
If you want to know about the history of American wars and interventions, that is the best podcast by far.
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.
Sean Carroll’s Mindscape
The History Of Rock Music in 500 Songs
What The Fuck Is Going On with Mark Steel
Top 3 on antennapod:
- Crime Junkie
- And then they were gone
- True Crime Couple
Behind the Bastards The Daily Zeitgeist Factually!
- Behind the Bastards
- 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.
- Knowledge fight
- Qanon Anonymous
- God Awful Movies
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Lateral with Tom Scott (game show about random and obscure trivia, heavily inspired by QI)
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Beautiful/Anonymous with Chris Gethard (hour long phone conversations with anonymous callers, it can get either super deep and emotional or just batshit insane)
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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.
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.
The Formulaic Objections episodes are fantastic. Somebody made a Spotify playlist of them and the trial recaps.
Thank you for providing a starting point! Jumping into a long-running show can be daunting. I’m going to check this one out.
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.
Well There’s Your Problem
Black Box Down
This Podcast Will Kill YouApparently, I like listening to stories about death and disaster
You might like some episodes of cautionary tales with Tim harford. Quite a few are about engineering oopsies with big consequences.
