The 2025 Podcast Roundup

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CREDIT: How Did This Get Made?

My annual Best of the Year coverage currently encompasses the worlds of Cinema, Television, Music, and Podcasts. That last medium is perhaps the most expansive, despite also being the youngest. So since listening to every new podcast of 2025 would have been a disturbingly Herculean task, this isn’t a countdown of the best podcasts of the year, but instead a collection of highlights from the ones on my playlist.

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The 2024 Podcast Roundup

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My annual podcast roundup isn’t a countdown of my favorites, but rather a reflection on some of the audio programs that made the biggest impact on me over the past trip around the Sun. Maybe you enjoyed some of these as well. Or maybe you have some of your own favorites that you’d like to recommend to me and everyone else. Podcasts are everywhere these days! If you want your own, all you have to do is go viral on the street (or do nothing at all, frankly).

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Entertainment To-Do List: Week of 4/12/24

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Look at him go! (CREDIT: Max/Screenshot)

Every week, I list all the upcoming (or recently released) movies, TV shows, albums, podcasts, etc. that I believe are worth checking out.

Movies
Arcadian (Theaters) – Nicolas Cage. And Jaeden Martell, too.
Civil War (Theaters)
Sasquatch Sunset (Theaters)
Sting (Theaters) – I was just checking the release calendar and noticed this intriguing spider horror movie, which I hadn’t heard about previously.

TV
Conan O’Brien Must Go (April 18 on Max)

Music
-Blue Öyster Cult, Ghost Stories
-girl in red, I’m Doing It Again Baby!
-Tori Kelly, Tori. – This came out last week, but somehow I missed it then.
-Mark Knopfler, One Deep River
-Maggie Rogers, Don’t Forget Me

Podcasts
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast – Talkin’ ’bout Digital Shorts.
Newcomers Season Premiere – Lauren and Nicole are talking Martin Scorsese!

Sports
-Boston Marathon (April 15 on ESPN2)