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I really enjoy podcasts, and YouTubers, and choose to support quite a few of those I consume regularly. Some of these I have supported for years, typically at nz$2-5/month but some more, others I’ve more recently discovered* and added to the list:
- AirSide Radio: Aviation news and views | as Bring Our Birds Home (Patreon) *
- All Killa No Filla (Patreon)
- Andrew Zarian and Paul Thurott - What the Tech (Patreon)
- Betty Thesky – Betty in the sky with a suitcase (Patreon)
- Big Car | YouTube (Patreon) *
- Bring our Birds Home | NZ Aviation Podcast (Patreon) *
- Cara Santa Maria - Talk Nerdy (Patreon)
- Cosmic Shambles (Patreon)
- Clear+Vivid (Alan Alda) Podcast (Patreon)
- Cycling About | YouTube (Patreon) *
- Do the Right Thing (Patreon)
- DriveNation | YouTube (Patreon)
- The Fully Charged Show | YouTube (Patreon)
- Furious Driving | YouTube (Patreon) *
- George Hrab – Geologic Podcast
- Hubnut | YouTube (Patreon) *
- Ice Coffee: the history of human activity in Antarctica - Matthew Alan McArthur (Patreon) *
- JayEmm on Cars | YouTube (Patreon) *
- Level Up Human (Patreon New)
- Lovecars | YouTube (Patreon New) *
- Matt Parker | Standup Mathematician (Patreon New)
- Maximum Fun Podcast Network
- Mentour Pilot | YouTube (Patreon) *
- Miller Corner | YouTube (Patreon New)
- Mike Smith & Justin Scott – Poorly Summarized (Patreon)
- Motoring Podcast (Alan Bradley on Patreon)
- Radiolab | WNYC Studios
- Richard Saunders - The Skeptic Zone
- Richard Herring – RHLSTP Monthly Badger
- Sean Carroll – Preposterous Universe (Patreon)
- Sofie Hagen - Made of Human Podcast (Patreon)
- Technology Connections | YouTube (Patreon)
- Techmoan | YouTube (Patreon)
- The Podcaster's Guide to the Conspiracy (Dr. M R. X. Dentith and Josh Addison on Patreon)
- The Skeptics Guide to the Universe (Patreon Biopunk Level)
- The Merseyside Skeptics Society (Patreon) – Skeptics with a K, InKredulous & Be Reasonable
- Whatever Happened to Pizza at McDonald's - Brian Thompson | (Patreon)
Podcasts | How I listen
I listen to the majority of podcasts on my phone while commuting, cycling or walking. I use the app Pocket Casts which has iOS, Android versions. Your feed list, listened/archived and current episode listen progress is stored in the cloud, synced to each device, and for the Plus version I purchased, desktop apps & browser sessions. It is great to log into any device and have your podcasts there ready to go.
The best podcast listening accessory are my, recently acquired, Aftershokz Aeropex bone conduction headphones. Awesome to hear podcasts without being cut off from the world, especially when biking or walking, best of both!
I stack up the playlist manually for those podcasts where I don't listen to every episode. My favourite podcasts are set to auto-download and 'Play Next" so they jump the manual queue to be heard when fresh. It means the optional ones take a bit of time to hear but they are usually not topical.
Podcasts in my feed
I can’t share my actual podcast feed as it has subscription details embedded but these are the podcasts I actively listen to now or in my feed as have listened to over the years. Obviously, I don’t hear every episode of all of these, and some are now dormant; there in the hope they come back!
(To make this list I exported the feed list from Pocket Casts to OPML, opened it with Excel (it's an xml format), split to delimited columns and copied the title list)
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5 Live Science Podcast
50 Things That Made the Modern Economy
99% Invisible
A Bit Of A Chat With Ken Plume - FRED Entertainment
A Christian and an Atheist
A History of the World in 100 Objects
a16z Podcast
About The Music
Adam Ruins Everything
AEC Business
Aerospace Engineering Podcast
AirSide Radio: Aviation news and views
Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin
All About Android (MP3)
All Hail Kale
All in the Mind
All In The Mind - ABC RN
All Killa No Filla
Antarctica Unfrozen
Any Stupid Questions?
Apple Keynotes (HD)
Ardent Atheist with Emery Emery
Astronomy Cast
Atheism 101 Podcast
Athletes Unfiltered – Strava Podcast
Auckland Writers Festival
AutodeskAEC
AvTalk - Aviation Podcast
Banachek's Brain
Based on a True Story
BBC Inside Science
Be Reasonable
Behind the Bastards
Behind The Glass
Behind The Tech with Kevin Scott
Better Off Dead
Betty in the Sky with a Suitcase!
Big Ideas - Full program podcast
Big Picture Science
BIMThoughts
Black Sheep
Book Shambles Patreon Exclusive Feed
Boyer Lectures - Fair Australia: Social Justice and the Health Gap
Brain Yapping
Brainstorm Podcast
Business Is Boring
By Design - Full program podcast
Channel 9
Charged Tech Podcast
Chequered Flag Formula 1
Chips with everything - The Guardian
Choiceology with Katy Milkman
Citizens Of Nowhere
Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda
Click
Cognitive Dissonance
Cognitive Gamer
Comedians Telling Stuff Podcast
Comedy of the Week
Common Sense with Dan Carlin
Conversations
Conversations with Tyler
Corner Office from Marketplace
Creature Feature
Ctrl-Walt-Delete
Dan Carlin's Hardcore History
Dan Carlin's Hardcore History: Addendum
Dear Joan and Jericha (Julia Davis and Vicki Pepperdine)
Death, Sex & Money
Desert Island Discs
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip
Do The Right Thing
DocTales
Dogma Debate
Doing Good Podcast - Amra Naidoo
Dolly Parton's America
Dr Karl Podcast
Dr Karl's Blogcast
Dressed: The History of Fashion
Drinking Wine Talking Tech
Drunk Women Solving Crime
Dumb White Guy With Brendon Burns
Dumbed Down Atheist Podcast
Duvet Days
EdgeCast
Elis James and John Robins on Radio X Podcast
Encyclopedia Brunch
Everything Under The Sun
Evil Genius with Russell Kane
Eyewitness
F1: Beyond The Grid
F2: The Road To F1
Factually! with Adam Conover
Fearless, Adversarial Journalism – Spoken Edition
Fingers On Buzzers
Firing Blanks
First Ring Daily
Flight Deck Podcast
Flip
For Immediate Release
Freakonomics Radio
Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4
Friendly Atheist Podcast
Frontiers
Future Tense - Full program podcast
Gadget Lab: Weekly Tech News
Geek's Guide to the Galaxy - Science Fiction Interviews, Movie Reviews, Sci-Fi Books and Writing
GeekWire
Geologic Podcast
Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast
Global Pillage
God Awful Movies
Gone By Lunchtime
GOSSIPMONGERS
Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
Great Ideas
Great Lives
Great Moments In Science - with Dr Karl Kruszelnicki
Griefcast
GrownUpLand
H2O Show
Hardtalk
Here We Are
Hidden Brain
Home Theater Geeks (MP3)
How I Found My Voice
In Our Time
InKredulous
Inquiring Minds
International Waters
Internet of Awesome Things
Intrigue
Invisibilia
Jesse vs Cancer
Kermode and Mayo's Film Review
Let's Talk About Tech
Level Up Human
Like Minded Friends with Tom Allen & Suzi Ruffell
Lingthusiasm - A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics
Little Atoms
Live from the Poundstone Institute
Longer, looser, lovelier(?) versions of Do The Right Thing
Loose Ends
Love + Radio
MacBreak Weekly (MP3)
Made Of Human with Sofie Hagen
Making History
Making Obama
Mamamia Out Loud
Material World
MaxFun Bonus Materials
Maximum Fun Bonus Content 2019
Merge Now
Microsoft Keynotes (Video)
Microsoft Mechanics Podcast
Microsoft Research Podcast
Mike Smith's Mission Journal
MinuteEarth
MinutePhysics
MohPod
Moonshot
More or Less: Behind the Stats
Motoring Podcast - News Show
Motoring Podcast - Rear View
My Dad Wrote A Porno
My Kiwi Life
Nancy
New Yorker: Comment
No Such Thing As A Fish
Nobody Listens to Paula Poundstone
NOVA scienceNOW
NZ Business Podcast
NZ Entertainment Podcast
NZ Everyday Investor
NZ Motoring Podcast
NZ Tech Podcast
NZ Young Professionals Podcast
Observed Tech PODCAST
Ockham's Razor - Program podcast
Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster
Off Track - ABC RN
Oh No Ross and Carrie
Older and Wider Podcast
Ologies with Alie Ward
Omitted
On The Rag
Overheard at National Geographic
Patreon Donors Audio Feed
Penn's Sunday School
Pessimists Archive Podcast
Pivot
pixelfondue
Plane Talking UK's Podcast
Planet Jarre: The Podcast
Planet Maynard
Planet Money
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
Podcast - N of Us
Poorly Summarized
Pretend - a true crime documentary podcast
Probably Science
ProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money Blogging
Professor Brian Cox Live Q and A Podcast
Punt PI
Q+A
QuackCast
Quirks and Quarks Complete Show from CBC Radio
Quiz-o-Tron
Radio 4 Quiz
Radiolab
Radiolab Presents: More Perfect
Rain City Supercars
Rationally Speaking
Real Time with Bill Maher
Reasonable Doubts Podcast
Recode Decode, hosted by Kara Swisher
Reply All
Revisionist History
RHLSTP with Richard Herring
'rial talk
Ricky Gervais is Deadly Sirius
RNZ: BANG!
RNZ: Elemental
RNZ: Focus on Politics
RNZ: Healthy or Hoax
RNZ: Insight
RNZ: Jesse Mulligan, 1–4pm
RNZ: Kākāpō Files
RNZ: KILLJOY
RNZ: Lately
RNZ: Mediawatch
RNZ: Morning Report
RNZ: Nanogirl's Great Science Adventures
RNZ: Nights
RNZ: Nine To Noon
RNZ: Pants on Fire
RNZ: Saturday Morning
RNZ: Spectrum
RNZ: Sunday Morning
RNZ: The 9th Floor
RNZ: The Long Way Home
RNZ: The Lost
RNZ: The Panel
RNZ: The Science Of…
RNZ: The Worst Sitcom Ever Made
RNZ: This Way Up
Robert Llewellyn's CarPool
Robin and Brian's Loungecast
Robin and Josie's Utter Shambles
Rough Translation
Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine
Science and Creativity from Studio 360
Science for the People
Science Friday
Science Salon—A Podcast of Skeptic Magazine
Science Shambles
Science Talk
Science Vs - New Season
Science(ish)
Sealed Section
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
Serious Inquiries Only
Seriously…
Shirtloads of Science
Short Cuts
SimplyComplex Podcast for AECO+
Skepticality:The Official Podcast of Skeptic Magazine
Skeptically Challenged
Skepticism Today
Skeptics with a K
Skeptoid
Sleek Geeks
Slow Burn
Smooth Traffic
So That's Your Thing
Space Boffins, from the Naked Scientists
Standard Issue Magazine
StarTalk All-Stars
StarTalk Radio
Stephen Fry's Great Leap Years
Stone Clearing With Richard Herring
Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
Stuff You Should Know
Stupid Questions for Scientists
Susan Calman's Mrs Brightside
TALK NERDY
Tangentially Speaking with Dr. Christopher Ryan
Techmoan Audio RSS
Techno Odyssey
TED Talks Technology
TEDTalks (audio)
Tell Me Something I Don't Know
THE ADAM BUXTON PODCAST
The Art of Construction
The Atheist Experience
The Betoota Advocate Podcast
The Big Question Podcast - The Big Question
The Boring Talks
The Brain Candy Podcast
The Collapsed Wavefunction
The Collecting Cars Podcast with Chris Harris
The Completely Unnecessary Skeptical Podcast
The Cosmic Skeptic Podcast
The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry
The Cyclist Pod
The Documentary Podcast
The Dropout
The Fear
The Fully Charged Show Podcast
The Future According to Now
The Guardian's Audio Long Reads
The Guardian's Science Weekly
The Guilty Feminist
The Herd Mentality
The Horne Section Podcast
The Imaginary Friends Show
The Incomplete Map of the Cosmic Genome Podcast
The Infinite Monkey Cage
The Inquiry
The Joe Rogan Experience
The Laborastory
The Last Days of August
The Last Tuesday Project
The Life Scientific
The ManBuyCow Podcast
the memory palace
The Missing Cryptoqueen
The Moth
The Naked Podcast
The Naked Scientists Podcast
The Nerd Degree
The Nerdist
The New Screen Savers (Video-HI)
The New Yorker: Politics and More
The News Quiz Extra
The Overstory
The ParaPod
The Parc Fermé
The Phil Ferguson Show
The Pod Delusion
The Podcaster's Guide to the Conspiracy
The Podcaster's Guide to the Conspiracy Patron Only Feed
The Prude And The Pornstar
The Pseudoscientists
The Rambles and Shambles Show
The Ra-Men Podcast
The Real Pod
The Revit OpEd Podcast
The Ricky Gervais Podcast
The Sams Report
The Science Enthusiast Podcast
The Science Show - Full program podcast
The Simply Complex Podcast
The Skeptic Zone
The Skeptics' Guide To The Universe
The Slightly Correct Political Show
The Story Collider
The Story with John Campbell
The Tech Informist - For fans of Apple, Google, Microsoft & other technology
The Titanium Physicists Podcast
The Tobolowsky Files
The Vergecast
The War on Cars
The Why Factor
The Wings Over New Zealand Show
The World of Business
The Z List Dead List
Think Again – a Big Think Podcast
Thinking Allowed
Thinking Clearly
This American Life
This Is 42 Podcast
This Is Uncomfortable
This Podcast is Self Care
This Week in Google (MP3)
This Week in Tech (MP3)
Token Skeptic Podcast
Triangulation (MP3)
Trump, Inc. (WNYC)
Twinsies
TWiT Live Specials (MP3)
TWiT Live Specials (Video-HI)
Two Girls One Mic: The Porncast
Under The Skin with Russell Brand
Undiscovered
UnErased: The History of Conversion Therapy in America
UnFictional
Unravel True Crime: Snowball
Useful Science
Vegan Athletic
Verge Extras
Very Bad Wizards
Vitriola Music Shambles
Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!
Waking Up AMA
Waking Up with Sam Harris
We Have Ways of Making You Talk
Weekend Variety Wireless with Graeme Hill on RadioLIVE
What The Tech Podcast
Whatever Happened to Pizza at McDonald's
White Silence
WILOSOPHY with Wil Anderson
Windows Central Podcast
Windows Weekly (MP3)
Windows Weekly (Video HI)
Women Talking About Cars
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Xtended
You Are Not So Smart
You're Dead To Me
Zealot
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