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Discover Pods: The Best Podcasts of 2019 (so far)

We're a little past the midway mark of 2019, so Discover Pods took a retrospective look at the best podcasts of 2019 ... so far. Which new podcasts have made an impression? Which podcasts have upped their game this year? Various podcasters, producers, writers, and other people in the greater podcast landscape weigh in to see what they've been listening to in 2019 that's deserving of recognition in a "best of" list. ? Read the full article with reviews on Discover Pods: https://discoverpods.com/best-podcasts-2019-so-far/

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Created August 05, 2019

Updated November 17, 2022

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  1. This is Love

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    Love is more than you think.From the creators of Criminal. New episodes twice a month.Part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
    SocietyCulturePersonal Journals

  2. Uncover

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    Crime. Investigation. Revelation. Uncover brings you explosive, high-caliber true crime year-round. From CIA mind control to serial abuse, mysterious disappearances to wrongful imprisonment. Each season features a new host who is deeply connect
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    True Crime

  3. Gay Future

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    The year is 2062 and everyone is gay. It’s a conservative’s worst nightmare: a totalitarian government rules over what’s left of North America to spread its insidious gay agenda. Humanity’s only hope for a rebellion rests on the shoulders of a
    Gay & LesbianArts

  4. POPS! The Louis Armstrong Story with Reno Wilson

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    The incredible untold story of Louis Armstrong, an American original, an African American cultural touchstone, one of the most important figures in the history of Jazz, and one of the greatest American entertainers of the 20th century. From a d
    ArtsPerforming Arts

  5. Unwell, a Midwestern Gothic Mystery

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    Unwell, a Midwestern Gothic Mystery is a new audio drama from HartLife NFP.Releases every other week during season.Lillian Harper moves to the small town of Mt. Absalom, Ohio, to care for her estranged mother Dorothy after an injury. Living i
    Audio DramaDramaFiction

  6. The Last Bohemians

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    The Last Bohemians is an award-winning, critically acclaimed, independent podcast series that meets maverick and radical women in arts and culture and takes listeners on a vivid, hallucinatory trip through their extraordinary lives. From subver
    ArtsSociety

  7. Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

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    After 25 years at the Late Night desk, Conan realized that the only people at his holiday party are the men and women who work for him. Over the years and despite thousands of interviews, Conan has never made a real and lasting friendship with
    Comedy

  8. The Deca Tapes

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    An eight-part mystery story. Recordings have surfaced of ten people that are locked into the same space together. We don’t know where they are, or if they'll get out. But the answers must be somewhere on these tapes.
    Audio DramaArts

  9. The RFK Tapes

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    Zac Stuart-Pontier and Bill Klaber take a trip down a rabbit hole surrounding the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy. Featuring never-before heard police recordings, The RFK Tapes starts out a murder investigation and ends up revealing
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    SocietyCultureHistory

  10. This Sounds Serious

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    In 1991, TV producer Kirk Todd was supposed to direct his first movie, Grand Casino, but the movie was never made. Kirk disappeared with the film’s budget and was revealed to be a con man named Jeremy Weaver. We follow host Gwen Radford as she
    Audio DramaComedy

  11. CARAVAN

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    CARAVAN is a story about getting through Hell with the people you love. When Samir and his best friend Carlyle take a camping trip to the Canyon, they don't plan on getting caught in a thunderstorm. Even worse, they don't plan on Samir falling
    FictionDrama

  12. An Arm and a Leg

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    A show about why health care costs so freaking much, and what we can (maybe) do about it. Hosted by award-winning reporter Dan Weissmann (Marketplace, 99 Percent Invisible, Planet Money, Reveal). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more
    ScienceMedicine

  13. The Rewatchables 1999

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    The Rewatchables 1999, featuring The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and a rotating cast from the Ringer universe, dissects the most iconic movies from 1999, an all-time great year in film. Each episode breaks down a different movie with highly specific
    TVFilm

  14. Hackable?

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    We see lots of movies and TV shows where hackers can infiltrate our lives with just a few keystrokes. But is it real? We’re here to find out. Malicious cat photos, sketchy Wi-Fi networks, rogue rentals, all-knowing webcams - those are just a fe
    TechnologyTech News

  15. Lost Notes

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    KCRW’s acclaimed music documentary podcast, Lost Notes, is back for its fourth season! Co-hosts Novena Carmel (KCRW) and Michael Barnes (KCRW / KPFK / Artform Radio) guide you through eight wildly different and deeply human stories, each set ag
    Music

  16. The Big Disaster: The Big Burn

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    From LAist Studios, the creators of The Big One, the second season of The Big Disaster series will provide you with a wildfire survival guide that includes not just tangible safety tips — but hope for our future.  As the world enters a new age
    Science

  17. Nice Try!

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    Nice Try's second season, Interior, is all about the lifestyle products that have been sold to us over and over, and the promises of domestic self improvement they have made, kept and broken.From Curbed, New York Magazine and the Vox Media Pod
    ArtsDesign

  18. Dinner SOS by Bon Appétit

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    A last-minute party with no menu inspiration. A kitchen with no space. A toddler who will only eat buttered pasta. Name your dinner emergency—Bon Appétit is here to help. Dinner SOS is the podcast where we answer desperate home cooks' cries fo
    ArtsFood

  19. Confronting

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    Season 2 - Confronting: Columbine The events of April 20th, 1999 shaped our nation and altered the American narrative. One of America’s deadliest school shootings took place in a small town in Colorado, leaving thirteen dead and another twen
    True CrimeSociety

  20. Above & Beyond: Group Therapy

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    Group Therapy is the weekly radio show from Above & Beyond also known as ABGT
    Music

  21. Spicy Eyes

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    Spicy Eyes is a podcast about food and culture in Las Vegas, hosted by Kristy Totten and Sonja Swanson.
    ArtsFood

  22. Cold

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    Cold is a narrative podcast series focused on missing persons cases. Investigative journalist and host Dave Cawley takes on a single story with each season.Season 3: The Search for Sheree follows two suspects in the 1985 disappearance of Sheree
    True CrimeSocietyCulture

  23. Smash Boom Best: A funny, smart debate show for kids and family

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    Smash Boom Best is a funny, smart debate show for kids and families from the makers of the award-winning podcast, Brains On! from APM Studios. Every episode takes two cool things, smashes them together and lets you decide which is best: Pikachu
    KidsFamily

  24. Mobituaries with Mo Rocca

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    “CBS News Sunday Morning” correspondent Mo Rocca has always loved obituaries. Each episode of Mobituaries covers his favorite dearly departed people and things. This season profiles legendary athlete Jim Thorpe in "Death of an All-American", ic
    HistorySocietyCulture

  25. NB: My Non-Binary Life

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    You might have heard the term non-binary. This is how it feels.Join Caitlin Benedict & Amrou Al-Kadhi as they ask the big questions about gender & identity.

  26. Swindled

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    Utilizes narrative storytelling, archival audio, and immersive soundscapes to explore true stories of white-collar criminals, con artists, and corporate evil. From corruption and fraud to Ponzi schemes and environmental disasters, these financi
    True CrimeBusiness

  27. Spectacular Failures

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    Corporate crookedness. Family feuding. Hilariously half-baked decisions. Host Lauren Ober tackles some of the most spectacular business failures of all time, and what could have been done to avoid them. Some of these stories are shocking. Some
    BusinessManagement

  28. Victoriocity

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    A detective comedy drama || Even Greater London, 1887. In this vast metropolis, Inspector Archibald Fleet and journalist Clara Entwhistle investigate a murder, only to find themselves at the centre of a conspiracy of impossible proportions.
    Audio DramaArts

  29. Just the Beginning

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    This is Just the Beginning, a new podcast from Kickstarter featuring stories about how independent creators bring their ideas to life. Meet an engineer turning air pollution into ink, a married couple who invented a device that lets you sing li
    ArtsBusinessTechnology

  30. Not Another D&D Podcast

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    Welcome to NADDPOD! Join Dungeon Master Brian Murphy as he leads players Emily Axford, Caldwell Tanner and Jake Hurwitz on a comedic, actual-play adventure through the realms of Bahumia and Beyond. The show also features a score composed and pe
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    Dungeons & DragonsComedy

  31. A Scientist Walks Into A Bar

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    Give a scientist a beer and listen to what happens! This podcast presents live presentations from real scientists on topics from neuroscience to animal mating behavior. Recorded at Science on Tap events in Portland, OR, and Vancouver, WA, the e
    ScienceEducation

  32. All My Relations Podcast

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    Welcome! All My Relations is a podcast hosted by Matika Wilbur (Swinomish and Tulalip), and Dr. Adrienne Keene (Cherokee Nation) to explore our relationships— relationships to land, to our creatural relatives, and to one another.  Each episode
    SocietyCulture

  33. Hit Parade | Music History and Music Trivia

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    What makes a song a smash? Talent? Luck? Timing? All that—and more. Chris Molanphy, pop-chart analyst and author of Slate’s “Why Is This Song No. 1?” series, tells tales from a half-century of chart history. Through storytelling, trivia and son
    Music

  34. Womanica

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    Thinking back to our history classes growing up, we had one question: Where the ladies at? Enter, Womanica. In just 5 minutes a day, learn about different incredible women from throughout history. On Wonder Media Network’s award-winning podcast
    HistorySociety

  35. The Anthropocene Reviewed

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    The Anthropocene is the current geological age, in which human activity has profoundly shaped the planet and its biodiversity. On The Anthropocene Reviewed, #1 New York Times bestselling author John Green (The Fault in Our Stars, Turtles All th
    short episodesPersonal Journals

  36. Preserve This Podcast

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    Preserve This Podcast is an Andrew W. Mellon grant-funded project hosted by the Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO) to help podcasters protect their work against the threats of digital decay.
    TechnologyEducation

  37. Good One: A Podcast About Jokes

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    Good One: A Podcast About Jokes is a podcast about - well - jokes, and the people who tell them. Each week, a comedian will play one of their jokes and then break it down with Vulture.com Senior Editor Jesse David Fox.
    Comedy

  38. Sneak Attack!

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    Sneak Attack! is a homebrew actual play tabletop RPG podcast set in the world of Brannis, as well as the depths of outer space. While in season, new episodes release every Friday.
    GamesHobbies

  39. The Titans of All'Terra

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    Jump into a classic fantasy story, set in the original world of All'Terra, and told through the collaborative story structure of 5th Edition Dungeons & Dragons!Join Josh, our Dungeon Master, as he leads four unlikely heroes on an adventure tha
    GamesFiction

  40. Mission To Zyxx

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    An improvised science fiction sitcom following a team of ambassadors as they attempt to establish diplomatic relations with planets in the remote and chaotic Zyxx Quadrant… better known as the "ass end of space."
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    Audio DramaArtsComedy

  41. The Teacher's Pet

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    Lyn and Chris Dawson appear to have the perfect marriage. He's a star footballer and popular high school teacher. She's a devoted wife and mother. They share a beautiful home above Sydney's northern beaches. But when Lyn goes missing, dark secr
    NewsSocietyCulture

  42. Producing The Beatles

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    The podcast dedicated to exploring the untold story behind producer George Martin's revolutionary collaboration with The Beatles.
    The BeatlesArts

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