Sean Kelly's podcast recommendations

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These are the podcasts I listen to and/or recommend, organized loosely by category. Updated 2021-06-05.

General Interest

• 99% Invisible
• Apple Events (video)
• Decoder Ring
• Endless Thread
• Everything Everywhere Daily
• Freakonomics Radio
• Land of the Giants
• Land of the Giants
• LEGO Technic
• Part Time Genius
• Planet Money
• Revisionist History
• Robot or Not?
• Stuff You Should Know
• TED Radio Hour
• The Economics of Everyday Things
• The Last Archive
• This American Life
• Anthropocene Reviewed inactive

Music and Audio

• Twenty Thousand Hertz
• The Soundtrack Show too much depth; 3 episodes on Home Alone 😩

Media

• The Redemption of Jar Jar Binks
• This Is Jeopardy! The Story of America's Favorite Quiz Show
• Ty & That Guy
• Be Podding You ended
• I, Podius ended

Linguistics

• The Allusionist (support on Patreon!)
• Lexicon Valley too little content, too many showtunes, too many ads

News

• Rachel Maddow Presents: Déjà NEws
• The Daily
• Today, Explained
• Up First

Buddhism

• A Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment
• Secular Buddhism
• The Lion's Roar
• Recovery Dharma all played out!

Technology

• Accidental Tech Podcast
• Hard Fork
• What's Your Problem?
• Reply All ended
• Sleepwalkers no new episodes
• The Future of Everything no longer compelling

Science

• Flash Forward
• Radiolab
• Science Vs
• Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
• StarTalk Radio
• Unexplainable
• Science Rules inactive
• The End of the World no new episodes

History

• Cautionary Tales
• Hardcore History
• The Memory Palace total ads exceeded total content

Cooking

• Gastropod
• Milk Street Radio
• Proof
• The Splendid Table
• The Sporkful
• Burnt Toast low audio quality

Crime

• Serial (no longer strictly crime, but still strictly great)
• Deep Cover no longer interested

Politics

• Against the Rules with Michael Lewis
• Can He Do That
• Make No Law
• More Perfect
• On the Media
• Prosecuting Donald Trump
• The Stakes
• The United States of Anxiety
• Trump, Inc
• What Trump Can Teach Us About Con Law (must subscribe by URL http://feeds.trumpconlaw.com/TrumpConLaw)
• The Disconnect: Power, Politics, and the Texas Blackout ended

Comedy

• Beef and Dairy Podcast Network
• Judge John Hodgman
• The Ron Burgundy Podcast
• Bubble lost track midseason, but recall it was pretty funny

Psychology and Health

• Body Stuff with Dr Jen Gunter
• Hidden Brain
• Nudge
• Am I Normal? with Mona Chalabi inactive
• Invisibilia ended

Sleepytime

• Meditative Story
• Sleep with Me (support on Patreon)
• Sleeping with Celebrities
• ZZZ — The podcast that helps you sleep