I’m trying something new here. If you read this site regularly, you know I’m obsessed with listening to podcasts. So I’m making a list of my favorite podcast episodes of 2017. But before that I’m going to list my 10 favorite podcasts, the ones that always fill me with delight when I see that they’ve downloaded into my podcatcher:
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- 99% Invisible
- Politically Re-Active with W. Kamau Bell and Hari Kondabolu
- Slate’s Hit Parade– I reccomend listening to all 7 episodes released so far, NOW!!!
- The Memory Palace
- Risk!
- Twenty Thousand Hertz
- BackStory
- The Concert – Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
- The Mortified Podcast
- Five Questions with Betsy Rosenblatt Rosso
Okay, so here are some of the great episodes that you should make time to listen to:
- Fresh Air: The Systemic Segregation of Schools
- BackStory – World Apart
- Decode DC – How cops can legally take your car, home, or cash
- 99% Invisible – Sanctuary: Part 1, Church and Part 2, State
- Radiolab – Shots Fired, part 1, part 2
- Sound Opinions – Mavis Staples Part 1, Part 2
- Politically Re-Active – Street Heat w/ Congresswoman Barbara Lee & Linda Sarsour
- Re:Sound – The Smash the Binary Show
- All Songs +1: The Weird World Of ‘Feature’ Credits
- Have You Heard: Education Can’t Fix Poverty. So Why Keep Insisting that It Can?
- 30 for 30 Podcasts :: Hoodies Up
- The Truth :: Mall Santa
And of course, my first and only appearance on a podcast: