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5 great podcasts to discover…

Welcome to the 239th edition of Find That Pod. 

I’m going to keep things pretty short this week, but as always welcome new subscribers.

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Here are this week’s podcast recommendations:

HISTORY

Don’t Drink the Milk

Starting in a different European country each episode, we trace the unexpected backstory of things we all think we know well and how they made their way around the world – by force, by chance or by choice.

Website | Listen: Pod.link | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Overcast | Castro | Pocket Casts

Not sure where to start? Start with the first episode.

COMEDY

IAP Radio

In A Pickle is a show devoted to the less glamorous side of Sports. Each week Dave and Sarah discuss how players, teams, and cities, had it all and then lost it to drugs, alcohol, murder, and stupidity.  Even your favorite team makes the dumbest mistakes! Comedy, True Crime, and Sports all in one show!

Website | Listen: Pod.link | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Overcast | Castro | Pocket Casts

Not sure where to start? Start with any episode.

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NEWS

Media Storm

Where fact-checking meets fun, reporting meets road-trip and the mainstream media meets its match... Media Storm is a news podcast that starts with the people who are usually asked last. "Migrants", "criminals" and "sex workers" are some of the biggest stars in the headlines, yet we rarely actually hear from them. Here, we provide a space for these minority groups to get their right of reply.

Website | Listen: Pod.link | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Overcast | Castro | Pocket Casts

Not sure where to start? Start with the latest episode.

BUSINESS

Connection Request

Connection Request is a podcast about career journeys, produced by Shrug Content. Hosted by Joel Leeman, a producer and strategist who has spent the past 10 years making media for the Internet, the show profiles a variety of fascinating people, digging into how they spend their waking hours, what they’ve learned along the way, how they make decisions, and why they do what they do.

Website | Listen: Pod.link | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Overcast | Castro | Pocket Casts

Not sure where to start? Start with this episode: Restaurateur Tim Niver on navigating the ever-changing business of food

ARTS

Borrowed and Banned

BPL's (Brooklyn Public Library) new podcast series Borrowed and Banned tells the story of America's ideological war with its bookshelves. In seven episodes, we'll talk with students on the frontlines, librarians and teachers whose livelihoods are endangered when they speak up, and writers whose books have become political battleground.

Website | Listen: Pod.link | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Overcast | Castro | Pocket Casts

Not sure where to start? Start with any episode.

industry news

• Spotify has released it’s 2023 Wrapped for podcasters.

• The top 2023 podcasts according to Spotify.

• The trends of 2023 as told by podcasts, according to, yep, you guessed it, Spotify.

• The Verge ponders about the cross-overs between Apple’s and Spotify’s top podcasts this year.

• This is incredibly crappy news. It sounds like the Castro podcast app (a previous sponsor of this newsletter) might be getting shut down. Seems like at some point its parent company started to lose interest in the podcasting space. It’s a real shame because it’s one of the last remaining REALLY good iOS podcasting apps. It also looks like the rumour has now been confirmed by Mohit Mamoria, partner at Tiny Capital, the company that bought Castro in 2018.

• Here’s Apple’s top podcasts of 2023. Not too many surprises on this list.

• Blubrry is introducing premium podcasting for podcasters.

• I really don’t know how this is going to work. Basically taking other people’s content (podcasts), stripping the advertising out of it, and then charging other people for it. What?!

• Podpage has released what may seemingly be one of the only good podcast name generators.

• Descript continues to release more AI features for podcasters. Now you can find and clip your best highlights.

• A new AI-powered podcast insights service has launched. Going to sign-up and tell you if it’s any good next week.

• Pocket Casts have released their own version of a year-end roundup.

• A useful guide for finding jobs in the podcasting industry.

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