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+title: "Podcasts I'm listening to in late 2024"
+date: 2024-12-16T11:24:28Z
+description: a brief discussion of some podcasts that I've been listening to recently
+url: /2024/12/16/podcasts-late-2024
+type: posts
+tags:
+  - personal
+  - podcasts
+  - indieweb
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+I thought I would also write about my podcast listening habits after reading [Laura](https://www.laurahilliger.com/models/podcasts-im-listening-to-in-late-2024/) and [Dr Doug's](https://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2024/12/11/podcasts-im-listening-to-in-late-2024/) posts on the subject.
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+Like Dr Doug, I typically listen via AntennaPod on my phone if I'm out and about. I normally listen whilst out on my daily walks at lunch time or sometimes if I'm on a train or a flight and a TV show or Movie or book doesn't appeal.
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+Pods I 've been listening to recently include:
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+- [**Three Bean Salad**](https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/three-bean-salad/id1564066507) is one of my staples and the only podcast that I'm a regular paying subscriber to. Its a surrealist comedy podcast featuring a panel of three regular hosts including Mike Wozniak of [Taskmaster](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lH571lzgGw) and [Junior Taskmaster](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0q_vjeVY_vQ), Henry Paker [children's illustrator](https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/445989/kays-incredible-inventions-by-kay-adam/9780241540800) and Ben Partridge who does other funny pods including the [Beef and Dairy Network](https://benjaminpartridge.com/The-Beef-And-Dairy-Network-Podcast). The guys normally talk about weird and wonderful topics interspersed with jingles and songs. I'd describe the humour as surreal observational' kind of like [Ross Noble](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyFw-BnDyes) or [Suzy Izzard's](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVH0gZO5lq0) standup. This year they started doing amateur film reviews for paying subscribers. I particularly enjoyed their take on Dune 2.
+- [**Tower 4**](https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/tower-4/id1533736348) - a fiction/drama series about a guy who goes to live in a fire lookout tower in a national Park. and some supernatural gangs on that he is subjected to and involved in. I was initially pulled in whilst looking for stories about going somewhere quiet and Isolated for a bit and I stayed for the drama. Some of the themes are pretty upsetting though (drug abuse, domestic violence).
+- [**The Missing Crypto Queen**](https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-missing-cryptoqueen/id1480370173). - I Just got into this one in the last couple of weeks and I'm enjoying it a lot. It's a journalist's investigation into One Coin which was a huge crypto scan that didn't even involve crypto (the 'currency' was just a traditional database application). OneCoin's charismatic founder Dr Ruja Ignatova went missing in 2018 and has never been seen again. She is still [on the FBI's most wanted list](https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/ruja-ignatova). It gave me similar vibes to [A very british cult](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m001kvf8) which I listened to around this time last year and very much enjoyed.
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+I've also caught odd episodes from:
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+- [**Feel Better, Live More**](https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/feel-better-live-more-with-dr-rangan-chatterjee/id1333552422), another commonality with Dr Doug. I'm not an avid listener but sometimes I catch the odd episode.
+- [**Better Offline**](https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/better-offline/id1730587238) - tech critic [Ed Zitron](https://www.wheresyoured.at/)'s podcast where he talks about some of the themes and issues that he's been exploring on social media or in his newsletter. I've listened to a few bits and bobs but I typically read his newsletters rather than listen to the pod.