January 25, 2024
jmunney
Best of 2023, Podcasts
A Lucky Life, Best of 2023, Comedy Bang! Bang!, Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend, Doughboys, Drifting Off with Joe Pera, Podcasts, Scott Hasn't Seen, Strike Force Five, That's Auntertainment, U Spring' Springsteen on My Bean?
Whenever I’m doing something that doesn’t require my full attention, chances are I’m also pushing play on a podcast. I’m a loyal listener to a couple dozen or so podcasts every year, so I like to put together some annual thoughts on the shows that left a big impression on me.
This isn’t a ranking of the best podcasts of the year (which would be woefully inadequate in such a massive medium anyway), but rather, just a collection of musings that I feel like broadcasting out to the world. This isn’t an exhaustive cataloging of every podcast I listened to in 2023, but it is a pretty good snapshot of my Podcast Personality.
So read on, let me know what you’re listening to as well, and maybe we can podcast together sometime, too!
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January 9, 2023
jmunney
Best of 2022, Podcasts
Best of 2022, Bjork: Sonic Symbolism, Blank Check with Griffin & David, Comedy Bang! Bang!, Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend, Dead Eyes, Doughboys, Girls on Porn, Holly Randall Unfiltered, How Did This Get Made?, However I Wish You Luck, Inside Jeopardy!, Into It, Judge John Hodgman, Podcasts, Pop Culture Happy Hour, Pop Mom, Ruined, Scott Hasn't Seen, Six Seasons & a Podcast, Squirrel Girl, Squirrel Girl podcast, That's Auntertainment, The Letterboxd Show, Wastelanders: Wolverine, Welcome to Our Show, You Can't Disappoint a Podcast, You Must Rember This
Podcast, anyone?* More like Podcasts, everyone! What I’m trying to say is, it seems like everyone in the whole entire world is making a podcast nowadays. Or at least listening to them.
I’ve certainly been listening to dozens, if not hundreds**, in the past year. So without further ado, (and instead with further adon’t), here’s my roundup of my biggest takeaways from listening to podcasts in 2022, organized by category.
(*-Like “Tennis, anyone?” but replace “tennis” with “podcast.”)
(**-I guess it depends on if you count by the show or by the episode. Or how kooky you’re feeling.)
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January 10, 2022
jmunney
Best of 2021, Podcasts
Best of 2021, Blank Check with Griffin & David, Comedy Bang! Bang!, Conan O'Brien, Dead Eyes, Dom and Andre in the Morning, Doughboys, Greendale Human Podcasters, How Did This Get Made?, Podcasts, Pop Mom, Too Long Didn't Watch
For 2021, I’ve decided to elucidate my favorite podcasts of the year by recognizing the ones that I was most excited to listen to every week. (Or however often a new episode is posted!) But first, I’ve made a list of every podcast that I currently subscribe to on my feed and which I listened to at least one new episode of in 2021, because each and every one of them deserves to be called The Best!
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January 11, 2021
jmunney
Best of 2020, Podcasts
A.P. Bio, A.P. Bio: The Podcast, Advanced Community Studies, Apartment 303, Best of 2020, Blank Check with Griffin & David, Comedy Bang! Bang!, Communication Studies, Community, Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend, Cool Abed Films Chat, Cult Movie Cult, Dead Eyes, Dead Times, Dom and Andre in the Morning, Drag Her, Fighting in the War Room, Fluffy Town, Good Morning Greendale, Good One, How Did This Get Made?, Inside Conan: An Important Hollywood Podcast, Judge John Hodgman, MetaMeta, Newcomers, Oh Hello the P'dcast, Podcasts, Pop Culture Happy Hour, Pop Mom, Save Greendale Committee, Shipping Room Podcast, Six Seasons & a Podcast, That's Auntertainment, The Anonymous Advice Podcast, The AP Bio Rewatch Podcast, The Community Rewatch Podcast, The Darkest Timeline, The Greendale Seven Podcast, The Record, The Ron Burgundy Podcast, U Talkin' Talking Heads 2 My Talking Head?, Unspooled, Welcome to Greendale, You Can't Disappoint a Podcast
Any ranking of the best entertainment of the year is necessarily incomplete and represents the personal proclivities of the ranker, and that’s especially true in the case of podcasts. I listen to more podcasts than anyone I know personally (by a wide margin), but that’s still less than approximately 0.0001% of all the podcasts out there. So for my Best Podcasts of 2020 feature, I decided to make it particularly personal by listing ALL the podcasts that I listened to in the past year, because they’re all special, and all worth shouting out. I’ve organized them into a few categories: 2020 Debuts, Veterans, a few specialty categories that you’ll discover when you get to them, and Podcasts That I Host.
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March 26, 2020
jmunney
Best of the 2010s, Best of the Decade, Television
30 Rock, American Dad!, Atlanta, Baskets, Best of the 2010s, Best of the Decade, Better Call Saul, Billy on the Street, Bob's Burgers, Bojack Horseman, Comedy Bang! Bang!, Community, Documentary Now!, Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23, Halt and Catch Fire, Hannibal, Key & Peele, Mad Men, Man Seeking Woman, Nathan for You, New Girl, Pose, Review, Review (TV Series), Rick and Morty, The Eric Andre Show, The Middle, Twin Peaks, Twin Peaks The Return
CREDIT: YouTube Screenshots
As a voracious consumer of Peak TV, I could have easily filled my list of the Best TV Shows of the 2010s with hundreds of entries. But instead, I chose to zero in on a golden set of 25 that I am absolutely sure I love and will continue to love for years to come. These are the shows that affected me profoundly when I first watched them and that continued to linger in my brain and my soul as the decade marched on.
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March 19, 2020
jmunney
Best of the 2010s, Best of the Decade, Podcasts
And a Movie: A Community Retrospective, Andy Daly Podcast Pilot Project, Best of the 2010s, Best of the Decade, Blank Check with Griffin & David, Comedy Bang! Bang!, Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend, Cult Movie Cult, Dead Times, Drag Her, Fighting in the War Room, Fluffy Town, Fundamentals of Community Podcasting, Good One, Harmontown, How Did This Get Made?, I Think You're Interesting, In Your Dreams, Inside Conan: An Important Hollywood Podcast, Judge John Hodgman, Podcasts, Pop Culture Happy Hour, Pop Mom, Primetime, R U Talkin' R.E.M. RE:ME?, Shipping Room Podcast, Show and Yell, That's Auntertainment, The Awards Show Show, The Ron Burgundy Podcast, The Vulture TV Podcast, Topics, U Talkin' U2 to Me?, Unspooled, WTF
Any ranking of the best of the best must come with the caveat that the ranker hasn’t seen/heard everything, and that’s especially true in the case of podcasting, despite it being one of the youngest entertainment mediums around. Obviously I didn’t listen to every podcast released in the 2010s, but I did listen to my fair share. My feed mainly consisted of comedy, pop culture, and comedic pop culture shows. But even if I confine myself to those categories, I cannot claim that I was anywhere near comprehensive. So then, what you are about to read is the revelation of my podcast journey I went on in the past decade.
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February 16, 2020
jmunney
Best of 2019, Podcasts
Best of 2019, Blank Check with Griffin & David, Comedy Bang! Bang!, Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend, Good One, Harmontown, How Did This Get Made?, Judge John Hodgman, Podcasts, Pop Culture Happy Hour, Pop Mom, R U Talkin' R.E.M. RE: ME?, The Ron Burgundy Podcast, Unspooled
I continued my regimen of podcast listening as usual in 2019, so here’s a quick rundown of the audio shows that were tickling my ears and my brain the best the past year.
1. Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend
2. Black Check with Griffin and David
3. How Did This Get Made?
4. Harmontown
5. Judge John Hodgman
6. The Ron Burgundy Podcast
7. Pop Mom
8. Pop Culture Happy Hour
9. Unspooled
10. Good One: A Podcast About Jokes
Honorable Mentions
R U Talkin’ R.E.M. RE: ME (Always a transcendent pleasure, but only released four new episodes in 2019.)
Comedy Bang! Bang! (Released plenty of episodes, but I only listened to a few of them.)
December 7, 2016
jmunney
Television, What Won TV?
Arrow, Comedy Bang! Bang!, Jane the Virgin, Legends of Tomorrow, Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Saturday Night Live, SNL, Westworld
In this feature, I look back at each day of the past week and determine what shows “won TV” for the night. That is, I consider every episode of television I watched that aired on a particular day and declare which was the best.
Sunday – Westworld
Monday – Jane the Virgin
Tuesday – Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Wednesday – Arrow
Thursday – Legends of Tomorrow, Successful Crossovers of Today
Friday – Comedy Bang! Bang! says Comedy Bye! Bye!
Saturday – SNL, mostly for those Woodbridge HS kids
October 30, 2016
jmunney
Television, What Won TV?
Atlanta, Comedy Bang! Bang!, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, Documentary Now!, Jane the Virgin, Last Week Tonight, The Good Place
In this feature, I look back at each day of the past week and determine what shows “won TV” for the night. That is, I consider every episode of television I watched that aired on a particular day and declare which was the best.
Sunday – Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Monday – Jane the Virgin
Tuesday – Atlanta
Wednesday – Documentary Now!
Thursday – The Good Place just got even good-er.
Friday – Comedy Bang! Bang! takes us to the gun show.
Saturday – The end of Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency let us in on a little secret.
July 3, 2016
jmunney
Television, What Won TV?
Another Period, Comedy Bang! Bang!, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, Jeopardy!, Last Week Tonight, Not Safe with Nikki Glaser, Wimbledon
In this feature, I look back at each day of the past week and determine what shows “won TV” for the night. That is, I consider every episode of television I watched that aired on a particular day and declare which was the best.
Sunday – Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Monday – Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
Tuesday – Not Safe with Nikki Glaser
Wednesday – Another Period
Thursday – Jeopardy!
Friday – Comedy Bang! Bang! reached 100 episodes. Attaboy!
Saturday – A crazy, rainy Wimbeldon
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