Podcasts

The Nerdist Podcast

• Hosted by: Chris Hardwick, Jonah Ray, and Matt Mira.
• You’ll love it if you: watch Doctor Who, Mythbusters or any show on AMC,  would consider yourself “one who creates,” or perhaps even if you are breathing.
• You’ll end the podcast: with a smile on your face and itching to create one form of material or another.

Doug Loves Movies

• Hosted By: Doug Benson
• You’ll love it if you: Enjoy laughing yourself to tears, watching comedy central, or movie knowledge.
• You’ll end the podcast: Laughing, while searching for friends willing to play the Leonard Maltin Game with you.

Relevant

• Hosted By: The Staff of Relevant Magazine
• You’ll love it if you: are attracted to the word “progressive,” consider yourself a music-fan, or enjoy discussion in general.
• You’ll end the podcast: feeling as you just left a room with people you’ve known forever.

The Moth Podcast

• Hosted By: Dan Kennedy
• You’ll love it if you: consider yourself a people person, are in tune with your emotions, or like listening to people tell true tales they’ve experienced.
• You’ll end the podcast: crafting your own stories.

Risk!

• Hosted By: Kevin Allison
• You’ll love it if you: want to know more about the people you “know,” see interest in often taboo subjects, and appreciate boldness.
• You’ll end the podcast: ready for the next episode.

The Sporkful

• Hosted By: Dan Pashman and Mark Garrison
• You’ll love it if you: eat, prepare, discuss, dissect or care deeply about food.
• You’ll end the podcast: in the kitchen, trying some combination you never would have thought of on your own.

Stuff You Missed in History Class

• Hosted By: Sarah Dowdey and Deblina Chakraborty
• You’ll love it if you: watch the History channel, love #presidentialfunfacts, or realized after you graduated that you actually would have been interested in History class had you of paid attention.
• You’ll end the podcast: educated, but not in an annoying way; more like a fun party conversation kind of way.

This American Life

• Hosted By: Ira Glass
• You’ll love it if you: breathe. [seriously, I’ve never met a listener who doesn't love TAL]
• You’ll end the podcast: on baited breath for the next episode.

Two Fit Chicks and a Microphone

• Hosted By: Shauna Reid and Carla Birnberg
• You’ll love it if you: are at all interested in healthy living of any kind, like honesty from bloggers/hosts, or are on the hunt for the best food and fitness tips from real life experiences.
• You’ll end the podcast: feeling like you just gained two new best friends – Shauna and Carla.

WYNC’s Radiolab

• Hosted By: Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich
• You’ll love it if you: love This American Life, enjoy learning of any kind, or just need something refreshing in your life.
• You’ll end the podcast: with an unexplainable determination to share knowledge, and possibly take a lesson in sound editing.

 

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