A timely idea arrives from several directions. Podcasts I listen to.

• I spotted it here: Podcast Listening Late 2024 Blog Chain (plus peeking at the uncontrollable ecosystem of data) – CogDogBlog
• It started here: Podcasts I’m listening to in late 2024 | Bryan Alexander
• And I’ve seen it here ‘Podcasts I’m listening to in late 2024 – Open Thinkering and here: Podcasts I’m listening to in late 2024 – Laura Hilliger

I listen to podcast pretty exclusively when commuting. I am in the car nearly a couple of hours a day. I seldom listen elsewhere. If I am on foot I prefer to listen to what is around me. At home I listen to music when cooking.

Here are some regulars.

The BBC

• The Archers, a daily soap opera covers the first 13 minutes of my drive to work.
• Scotland Outdoors a magazine show with a very wide remit.
• The Verb poetry and spoken word.

I wish the BBC and everyone else made it simpler to find RSS feeds.

Tech

• I listen to Core Init, by Manton and Daniel it is aimed at Mac developers, but often strays onto blogging, AI and other interesting topics.
• More Mac: ATP & The Talk Show, I don’t listen to all of the episodes but catch up with one occasionally.
• WordPress briefing. Seems to have dried up as the host moved out of a role at WordPress.

Other

• Eat this podcast. Never less than fascinating on all sorts of aspects about food.
• Is it rolling Bob? Talking Dylan. Seemed to have dried up, l’d quite like to find another Dylan podcast, but there are too many to choose from.
• Backlisted Book talk

Recent additions

• The Poetry Exchange

Huffduffer

I like to listen to odd episodes of podcasts without subscribing. Huffduffer created a RSS feed from audio on webpages. I mourn the passing of Huffduffer-video which let you add YouTube and other media to your huffduff feed as audio. Using the huffduffer bookmarklet is interesting. Increasingly some podcast hide links to audio files. This leads to some tedious workarounds. (Find the rss link, open that in Firefox and copy the episode audio url).

John Johnston on Huffduffer is what I’ve huffduffed.

Castro Sideloads

The app I use to listen to podcasts has a few nice features. You can just drop an mp3 into an iCloud folder and it appears in the app. Better still you can use an app extension to get audio from a webpage or rip a YouTube to audio. I hope that it will replace huffduff-video for me for video.

For what it is worth here in my Castro opml export and some of them as html. The html has links to the site and RSS¹.

Many of the feeds in my opml are no longer being updated. Some I subscribed to long after they existed. Castros’s triage system, allowing you to build a play order from feeds is very handy for this.

1. My horrible combination of google sheets and bash didn’t manage to convert them all. Castro’s opml export didn’t have links to the sites, just the RSS. ↩︎