While I don’t ‘miss’ having to go into an office per se, I do miss the hour of podcast listening on either end of the day. My commute to my office is about 10 minutes door-to-door so an hour long podcast is 3 days listening (I skip ads, intros, outros, etc.) And yes, I could listen at a faster speed, but you people who do that are monsters. Listening shouldn’t be work.

Like my mailing lists, I fell behind on things and declared podcast bankruptcy. I’ve caught up to 2025 on the ones that survived.

Anyhow, here’s whats in my podcast queue these days, alphabetically.

  • Excuse Me – This started as a a bunch of quick hit videos of asking people ‘If you could own any piece of Art, what would it be and why?’ which is a fabuloud question. Its morphed into a full fledged podcast. Which you really need to watch rather than listen to because its about art.
  • Fatman Beyond – Pop Culture fluff. And Marc’s ‘writer brain’ has made me a better, more critical consumer of media. And his teardowns of movies make me want to watch his version more than the original most of the time.
  • Freakonomics Radio – I love everything about this show and have listened since almost the beginning. I mean, I did name my company after something that Stephen said on an episode. Economics controls everything.
  • Startups For The Rest Of Us – Single handedly responsible for a lot of my startup opinions. (Lean Startup comes a close second.) I’ve been listening since episode 2.
  • The Economics of Everyday Things – Another Freakonomics podcast (you’ll notice a trend…) that just got added to the feed. Ironically, the next day a post came in announcing it was on indefinite hiatus. Ah well. I’ve heard some of the episodes when it has crossed over to the main feed and they are super fun.
  • Uncanny Japan – Bite sized bits of Japanese folklore. I kinda want an ‘Uncanny’ for every country.
  • Under The Influence – Fun advertising and marketing stories from someone who was ridiculously in the right place at the right time. His books are pretty good too. There was a live taping a season or two ago that had someone starting to have a coughing fit 2/3 of the way through – that was me.
  • Writing Excuses – I don’t have a work of fiction in me, but I love the craft of writing fiction. 20 years strong and it still feels fresh.
  • You Must Remeber This – Hollywood was a messed up place. Hard to imagine in this media saturated landscape things playing out now they way they did. And yet, we have oligopolies again…

Of course, there are podcasts that have been pruned because they either stopped being updated or I declared bankruptcy on them

  • 20 Minute Delay – A travel podcast, that’s more of a conversation about the logistics of travel than the travel itself.
  • Ditch Diggers – Companion show to I Should Be Writing, but about the business side of writing. Which is fascinating.
  • I Should Be Writing – Another ‘craft of writing’ podcast which I found to be a bit repetative after over a decade of listening. Which shouldn’t be too too shocking. Mur’s writing is great and I’ll buy anything she publishes at this point.
  • No Stupid Questions – People send in Questions (yes, capital Q) and they answer it. A spinoff of Freakonomics Radio and Angela is ridiculously smart.
  • People I (Mostly) Admire – Not your normal ‘interview’ show. And, spoiler, a Freakonomics Radio spinoff.
  • Planet Money – Kinda a hybrid of Freakonomics Radio and The Economics of Everyday Things. But more US-centric. I’ll probably add it back once I’m fully caught up on everything.
  • Radiolab – I have no idea when I stopped listening to this one. I want to start to listen again, but there is so many in the archive and I’m a completionist.
  • The Z list Dead List – The summary she provides as ‘a podcast about obscure people from history’ really does nail it.