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Best Pods of 2018, Subjectively.

I listen to a lot of pods, but not all of them. This is the best of the podcasts that interested me, a human american male, Caucasian, mid 30’s, privileged, living on land of the Chinook, Clackamas, Kalapuya, and other native tribes.

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Created December 26, 2018

Updated November 18, 2022

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  1. Vox.com had an amazing year for podcasts!

  2. Today, Explained

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    Today, Explained is Vox's daily news explainer podcast. Hosts Sean Rameswaram and Noel King will guide you through the most important stories of the day.Part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
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  3. The Impact

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    In Washington, DC, the story often ends when Congress passes a law. For us, that’s where the story begins. We examine the consequences of what happens when powerful people act — or fail to act. This season, Jillian Weinberger explores the big i
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  4. Future Perfect

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    Future Perfect explores provocative ideas with the potential to radically improve the world. We tackle big questions about the most effective ways to save lives, fight global warming, and end world poverty to create a more perfect future.In sea
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  5. Comedy and good times 🤣

  6. Harmontown

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    Self destructive writer Dan Harmon claims he will one day found a colony of like-minded misfits. He’s appointed suit-clad gadabout Jeff Davis as his Comptroller and bearded dreamboat Spencer Crittenden as his Dungeon Master. It’s like a neuroti
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  7. Mystery Solver

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    Sunnie Huggs was the quirky host of "Mystery Loves Company," a popular podcast where she investigated mysteries for her minor celebrity friends. But when her show gets canceled for going insanely over budget, Sunnie's adorable world is turned u
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  8. Mission To Zyxx

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    An improvised science fiction sitcom following a team of ambassadors as they attempt to establish diplomatic relations with planets in the remote and chaotic Zyxx Quadrant… better known as the "ass end of space."
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  9. The Incomparable Game Show

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    The people of The Incomparable play various games, including trivia, classic board games, word games, and even a few reimagined classic game shows from years gone by.
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  10. Beware of the Leopard: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy podcast

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    New additions to the book with the famous words "Don't Panic" on the cover. Smart and funny, fusing real-world observation with a writing style Douglas Adams fans have sorely missed.With each topic, the panel of authors and performers present
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  11. Fiction! 🎭

  12. The Shadows

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    Kaitlin Prest, creator and host of the Prix-Italia winner The Heart, presents the first audio fiction from CBC Podcasts. The Shadows is a story about the anatomy of a relationship: a crush, a choice, ...
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  13. The Phenomenon

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    When a supernatural threat drives mankind to the point of extinction, survivors around the globe struggle to endure in a world with just three rules:Do not look outside. Do not look at the sky. Do not make noise.
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  14. Serendipity City

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    Serendipity City is an actual-play podcast that takes place in a sprawling, dieselpunk metropolis with a magical underworld (in more ways than one). Anarchists fight corrupt companies, shapeshifters fight for turf, dwarves work in the caves und
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  15. The Truth

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    THE TRUTH makes movies for your ears. They're short stories that are sometimes dark, sometimes funny, and always intriguing. Every story is different, but they all take you to unexpected places using only sound. If you're new, some good startin
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  16. Non-Fiction and history 👨‍🏫

  17. Switched on Pop

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    A podcast all about the making and meaning of popular music. Musicologist Nate Sloan & songwriter Charlie Harding pull back the curtain on how pop hits work magic on our ears & our culture. From Vulture and the Vox Media Podcast Network.
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  18. Slow Burn

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    In 1978, state Sen. John Briggs put a bold proposition on the California ballot. If it passed, the Briggs Initiative would ban gays and lesbians from working in public schools—and fuel a growing backlash against LGBTQ+ people in all corners of
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  19. Bag Man

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    Is it possible for an American Vice President to carry out a criminal enterprise inside the White House and have nobody remember? To have one of the most brazen political bribery scandals in American history play out before the country while no
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  20. UnErased: The Deportation of Adoptees in America

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    More than 35,000 adult adoptees in the United States spent their entire lives completely unaware that they lacked citizenship and faced deportation. Their stories deserve to be heard -  in their own words. Their stories deserve to be UnErased.
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  21. 99% Invisible

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    Design is everywhere in our lives, perhaps most importantly in the places where we've just stopped noticing. 99% Invisible is a weekly exploration of the process and power of design and architecture. From award winning producer Roman Mars. Lear
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  22. More Perfect

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    We’re taught the Supreme Court was designed to be above the fray of politics. But at a time when partisanship seeps into every pore of American life, are the nine justices living up to that promise? More Perfect is a guide to the current moment
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  23. Bitrate

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    Join Brendan Hutchins 🙈 and Mark Steadman 🧔🏻 as they digest the very latest in podcast culture.
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  24. The Dream

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    From Little Everywhere and Pushkin Industries, and hosted by Jane Marie, comes the third season of The Dream. Past seasons of this award-winning investigative podcast looked at pyramid schemes and the world of wellness. This season we're gettin
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  25. And yes, even one Gimlet podcast:

  26. The Cut

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    In Her Shoes from the Cut is a weekly conversation between a special guest and Lindsay Peoples, The Cut's Editor-in-Chief, exploring culture, style, sex, politics and more. Intimate, provocative, and probing, the Cut aims to ask questions befor
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