Best podcasts
“What podcast do you never skip?”
30 answers from 28 people · Updated Nov 2, 2026
Podcasts I Will Always Listen To
5 recs
No skips, immediate play always. For the folks that enjoy podcasts featuring smart women or weird stories.
Only if you’ve been on a desert island would you have missed the phenomena that is Normal Gossip. The best for high drama gossip that takes odd turns.
The perfect podcast. The host reads a poem, talks about the poem, and then reads the poem again. Some episodes are like attending a mini poetry lecture with a funny, warm, and Irish professor. Others feel like church, in the best way. I never regret a listen.
4
Some of the most riveting storytelling and impressive investigative journalism I’ve ever come across. Truly anwesome and just gutsy. Season two is a tour de force but season one is just amazing.
My classic comfort listen.
One of the best out there when it comes to storytelling. Heavyweight’s episodes focus on an individual and a defining moment or person in their life—a car accident, a summer in Italy with a stranger-turned-friend, witnessing a terrible injury in the ER, being on a jury, finding a suitcase full of love letters—and the stories that grew from those moments. Each episode is so full of compassion and humanity. I went through and listed some of my favorites, below: #12 Jesse #14 Isabel #18 Sven #35 Rachel & Jon #37 John #40 Barbara Shutt / #41 Barbara Wilson #50 Nick
3
Mummy and Daddy, a lot of pods are fun to get a parasocial buzz, but Steven and Lily are no-skips funny. They make a boring subject hilarious, and a funny subject, a potential car crash
2
This podcast is best experienced as ritual. Sunday morning, coffee in hand, listening to the millennial response to Terry Gross interview everyone interesting (including Terry Gross). Episodes listen like reading a really rich and juicy magazine profile.
31
So well researched, so thoughtful and empathetic. Every episode looks at a sliver of American culture and history and dissects it, figuring out where we went wrong in our collective memory of it.
The greatest (+ shortest) podcast created.
No better way to pass the time with your elderly parents in the car (am I the only person spending a lot of time with my elderly parents in the car?). Insanely cozy British guys knowing everything about history and making it fun. Loved the Joan of Arc and Harald Hardrada series.
61
ILY Sean and Amanda. The only* podcast I listen to anymore, love the movie news and Sean does great interviews. *Time Crisis is an internet radio show
11
Chris and Jason. TJ and CB. The only straight men I listen to consistently 3 times a week since the beginning. I've created many of monsters recommending this pod, and everyone loves it. My boys!!
Every rabbit hole you never knew you needed by absolutely do. Fanology, squidology, quantum-ontology and more than I can’t attempt to spell without checking, all delightfully wrapped up with asides, facts, humor and swears.
9
a constant in my weekly podcast rotation!
Poog with Kate Berlant and Jacqueline Novak
This podcast gives me LIFE! They are so funny, smart, relatable and goddamn entertaining! Hag for life!
61
if you want to laugh laugh laugh, these brilliant gay guys are for you. I can't get enough of Sam & George and highly recommend their Patreon as well.
2
Pleasing on the ears, good for the mind.
The funniest Bravo-heads in the game, in my opinion!
The perfect Venn diagram of animal facts and “true crime”.
You probably already know about this podcast. It is pretty popular, but in case you don't, it's worth a listen. Start with the Costco episode. I didn't want it to end.
1
Ok I'm not a total movie nerd but I do love this podcast... each episode breaks down a different movie, with fun recurring segments like "most rewatchable moment" or "best 'that guy' award" (the best performance by an actor that you immediately recognize but can't name) or "casting what ifs" (how would the movie be different if the casting was changed?). My gateway episode was about Before Sunrise. This is technically a rec from my dad who showed me this podcast last year ;)
4
Hilarious podcast about a man and his two friends reading through his dad’s porn novel. It’s silly fun and short enough to fit in your schedule if you need a pick me up.
91
The best true crime podcast I've ever listened to. Season 1 especially
