Wednesday, February 7, 2018

Podcast Junkie


Podcast Junkie


I am a podcast junkie. It has probably been five years that I have been listening to podcasts. I started with A Prairie Home Companion and then moved on to Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me. It was so nice to listen to these shows at my convenience. And after this became a routine, I expanded my repertoire of shows. I moved on to The Moth, This American Life and The Writer’s Almanac.

I used to listen to these podcasts in the middle of the day. But then I discovered that Garrison Keillor’s voice lured me to sleep. So, I would put his show on and nod off peacefully to sleep at night. Sometimes he would play all night long and I would be in and out of sleep and hear bits and pieces of the gossip of Lake Wobegon.

In the morning, I would remember hearing something about Pastor Liz. I would then go back to the podcast to pick up the missing pieces. This habit led me to listening to podcast early in the morning. I listen to stories for about an hour before I finally get out of bed in the morning.

With this new routine, I had to find more podcasts. Now I listen to 20 a week and so many of them fascinate me that I spend the rest of the week telling everybody what I learned. No one seems as interested in this as me. But that does not deter me from running on the mouth about all these fascinating stories from other people around the world.

A Prairie Home Companion
Fresh Air
Heavyweight
How I Built This
Lore
On This Day podcast
Outside Podcast
Radio Diaries
Radio Lab
Risk
S-town
Second Story
Serial
She Explores
Snap Judgment
State of Human
Story Corpse
Story Worthy
TED Radio Hour
The Heart
The Kitchen Sisters
The Lapse Story Telling Podcast
The Mortify podcasts
The Moth
The Writer’s Almanac
This American Life
True Story
Unfictional
Up and Vanished
Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me

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