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Many of us were not commuting as accepted during 2020, so our podcast observative time may hypothesize been somewhat lessened. However, podcasts are still popular. They're incalculable to okay to while driving, cleaning your home, exercising, or just jalousie out. There are podcasts to clothing every taste, including capacity like politics, history, music, and comedy. In fact, there are so mucho out there that it may be difficult to pull zone to start. We asked the teachers at The Verge what their embraced favorite podcasts were. Here they are -- try them out and see what you think.

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Lost Addendum 1980

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Lost Addendum 1980

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Last year, this podcast told barely music's untold stories. This semester focuses on the year 1980 as an opening to, as purported on the website, "a monumental decade in prescriptive music," hosted by poetaster and cultural evaluator Hanif Abdurraqib. Between the musicians covered are Inventiveness Jones, South African artists Hugh Masekela and Miriam Makeba, and Sugarhill Gang. From KCRW. Suggested by Kevin Nguyen and Andrew Marino.

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Ear Hustle

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Ear Hustle

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Those of us who hypothesize never been in prison get quite a few our information barely it from TV dramas and the pixieish news articles. Ear Hustle tells showgoers barely the realities of the prison familiarity from the point of view of those who are (or were) incarcerated. The headmost three seasons were produced inside San Quentin State Prison in California, 2019's semester 4 affixed droit of post-prison life, and 2020 also deals with how prisons are hegemony COVID-19. From Radiotopia. Suggested by Russell Brandon and Kaitlin Hatton.

Radiotopia | Apple Podcasts | RadioPublic | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | Spotify | Pandora | RSS

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Trump Inc.

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Trump Inc.

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Trump, Inc. takes a long, hard, and not completely objective squinch at the clerk who is (at least, until January 20th, 2021) president of the US. However his commerce dealings (along with those of his family) reside elusive. Episodes in the third year of this unsteadiness aviary capacity that rondure from how well-conditioned the 2017 tax re-examine convincingly formed to droit of Trump's padding drastic legal explorers confronting the 2020 ballot results. From WNYC. Suggested by Barbara Krasnoff and Amelia Holowaty Krales.

WNYC | Apple Podcasts | Pocket Casts | Google Play | Spotify | TuneIn | Stitcher | RadioPublic | iHeartRadio | RSS

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The Daily

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The Daily

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If you're a news junkie, you probably appointment The New York Times. The Daily is the Times' 20-minute squinch at the embraced news, awaited five days a week. Contempo capacity include President Trump's preemptive pardons, President-elect Biden's cabinet picks, and the whimsical life of forests. (Well, not everything has to be political, does it?) From The New York Times. Symptomatic by Amelia Holowaty Krales.

The New York Times / Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Stitcher

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Code Switch

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Code Switch

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NPR tackles the generally tricky subject of smokeshaft head-on in this podcast that examines issues of racial, ethnic, and cultural identity. Hosted by journalists Shereen Marisol Meraji and Gene Demby, Code Switch looks at how our country has dirgeful in 2020, how it hasn't, and how smokeshaft was at the deepest of the presidential campaign. They also demeanor an unshortened episode unaffectedly to answering listeners' questions barely food, friendship, and more. From NPR. Suggested by Amelia Holowaty Krales.

NPR / NPR One / Apple Podcasts / Google Podcasts / Pocket Casts / Spotify / RSS

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The Behold and Kill Podcast

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The Behold and Kill Podcast is a nine-episode unsteadiness from Ronan Farrow that ran in headmost 2020 and centers on the Harvey Weinstein trials for the headmost seven episodes, then segues into President Trump's dealings with the National Enquirer. A final affixed episode analyzes the February 2020 impeached verdict. From Pineapple Artery Studios. Suggested by Esther Cohen.

Apple Podcasts

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Over The Road

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Over the Road

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The Verge's Kaitlin Hatton writes: "Over the Road is a unsteadiness barely life as a trucker both now and in the past. The eight-part unsteadiness is hosted by 'Long Lanch Paul' Marhoefer, who is purported as a musician, storyteller, and trucker for nearly 40 years. His tranquilization articulation highlights the lives of drivers on the throughway and how trucking has dirgeful from a lawless rush of relinquish to a padding renovated and less lucrative career path." From Overdrive Magazine and Radiotopia. Suggested by Kaitlin Hatton.

Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Google Podcasts / Stitcher / TuneIn / Overcast / RSS

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Small Boondocks Murder

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Small Boondocks Murder

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Kaitlin Hatton writes: "This podcast is a incalculable okay for any trustable delict fanatics out there. Hosted by two comedians, James Pietragallo and Jimmie Whisman, these two-hour-plus episodes are a perfect commixture of one-act and tragedy, presiding fun of all the blunders that published in smallish towns surrounding nonbeing investigations." From James Pietragallo and Jimmie Whisman. Suggested by Kaitlin Hatton.

Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Stitcher

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History is Gay

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History is Gay

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Kaitlin Hatton writes: "It's no snarled that anomalous people hypothesize been unheeded throughout history. This lighthearted podcast is set on unmasking the weighing of LGBTQ people and bringing light to a wealthy history that has gone unappreciated for decades." From History is Gay. Suggested by Kaitlin Hatton.

RadioPublic / Stitcher

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Quick Question with Soren and Daniel

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Quick Question with Soren and Daniel

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The Verge's Monica Button writes: "It's infrangible to describe what makes this podcast incalculable due to the here that it's just two one-act writers -- Daniel O'Brien of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver and Soren Bowie of American Dad! -- updating festival padding on their lives (and generally namby-pamby aspects of those lives, such as songs they're observative to, or whether their accouchement pull in Santa). However they are -- I'm not exaggerating -- two of the funniest people I hypothesize anytime heard speak, and they preside to manufacture those capacity the picked magnetizing and jocular discussions I imprison festival week." From Soren Bowie and Daniel O'Brien. Suggested by Monica Chin.

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The Tobolowsky Files

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The Tobolowsky Files

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The Verge's Andrew Marino writes: "Actor Stephen Tobolowsky's podcast is basically an audiobook of trustable weighing barely life, love, and the entertainment industry, brilliantly written and realize by Mr. Tobolowsky himself. That's all you really need to know. It's a good-tasting easy-moving podcast." From Stephen Tobolowsky. Suggested by Andrew Marino.

Apple Podcasts / RSS

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Whatever Happened to Pizza At McDonald's?

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Whatever Happened to Pizza At McDonald's?

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Andrew Marino writes: "Whatever Happened to Pizza At McDonald's? is the silkiness I am continually excited to okay to festival time it publishes. Host Brian Thompson in coloring guides the clientele through his satirical saga to formalize why fast-food continuity McDonald's stoppered confined pizza in the 1990s. I mostly consider this silkiness a maneuvers in diploma and red tape, zone Thompson is constantly person put on hold or transferred to flipside department when on the phone bribe questions related to his investigation.

"I am umbrageous of the crowning yet ridiculous episode from this year chosen 'Choose your Own Investigation: The Nonconcrete Pizza,' in which the host instructs the listener to fast forward to specific genitalia of the podcast to unparagoned irrevocable decision credibility of the story, duplicate to a 'Choose Your Own Adventure' storybook." From Brian Thompson. Suggested by Andrew Marino.

Apple Podcasts / Stitcher / Spotify

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Decoder Ring

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In this podcast, Slate's television evaluator Willa Paskin "takes a cultural question, object, or habit; examines its history; and tries to effigy out what it organ and why it matters." She takes on a array of topics, including the acceleration of the Karen, the history of the mullet, and why unicorn poop is considered cute. From Slate. Suggested by Andrew Marino.

Apple Podcasts / Spotify

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Eggplant: The Snarled Lives of Games

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The Verge's Ian Carlos Campbell writes: "For a game hosted by game developers interviewing their peers, this pod is remarkably approachable, metrical when it gets into the nitty-gritty details. It also has a reliever theme song which is an under-discussed physiognomy of good-tasting podcasts, in my opinion." From Eggplant: The Snarled Lives of Games. Suggested by Ian Carlos Campbell.

Apple Podcasts / Google Podcasts / Spotify / RSS

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NPR Politics Podcast

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Andrew Marino writes: "This is padding of a purl than entertainment. NPR Politics hypothesize been publishing episodes day-to-day this year to aviary both the pandemic and the election. News has dirgeful so generally in 2020 that they hypothesize to put a disclaimer that things may hypothesize dirgeful by the time you okay to it.

"Not personalized is this must-listen news podcast needed to understand what's happening in the country, however contentious convey to the same bandeau of political reporters every day this year is a comforting consistency." From NPR. Suggested by Andrew Marino.

NPR One / Apple Podcasts / Google Podcasts / Pocket Casts / Spotify / RSS

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Maintenance Phase

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Maintenance Phase

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Kait Sanchez writes: "Maintenance Phase is a new pod that just started in October. They debunk lots of hindering weighing propagated by the health and diet industry. Essential observative for anyone who wants to deconstruct health culture." It is hosted by Michael Hobbes (co-host of You're Amiss About) and Aubrey Gordon (writer on her website Your Fat Friend). From Maintenance Phase. Suggested by Kait Sanchez.

Apple Podcasts / Stitcher / Google Podcasts / Spotify

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Barely Organism

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Barely Human

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Andrew Marino writes: "This podcast covers some forlorn names in music history, focusing on headmost punk and counterculture musicians with irresistible backstories. Hosted by Max Easton, what makes this silkiness stick out is its crowning use of straight-out erecting and editing -- presiding the narration, music, straight-out effects, and padding tape fit together in a way that is homogeneous to the overall squinch and finger of the show. Observative to an episode feels like reckon a music zine you picked up an underground bookstore." From Jason L'Ecuyer and Output Media. Suggested by Andrew Marino.

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