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The 25 Best Podcasts from 2019

This is a list of the best podcasts of 2019. I've discovered a lot of new podcasts this year and compiled them into a list of the best of the best. There are a ton of great new podcasts this year, so this list could have been the "top 500 podcasts of 2019" but I decided to limit it to the best 25 podcasts. I may incrementally increase that number when I find a podcast that has to be added to the list. I hope you enjoy this list. I've included a bunch of different categories including comedy, documentary, discussion, news, and other genres. Some of these need to be streamed from the beginning, while others you can jump into any episode and enjoy.

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Reginald

Created July 12, 2019

Updated October 22, 2023

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  1. The Dropout

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    Money. Romance. Tragedy. Deception. The story of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos is an unbelievable tale of ambition and fame gone terribly wrong. How did the world’s youngest self-made female billionaire lose it all in the blink of an eye? How d
    True Crime
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  2. The Wild with Chris Morgan

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    "THE WILD with Chris Morgan" explores how nature survives and thrives alongside (and often despite) humans. Taking listeners across the Pacific Northwest and around the world, host Chris Morgan explores wildlife and the complex web of ecosystem
    ScienceMedicine
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  3. 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
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  4. Headlong: Running from COPS

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    Dan Taberski and the team behind Missing Richard Simmons investigate COPS — the longest running reality show in TV history — and its cultural impact on policing in America. Our story begins with the footage of a routine arrest behind a church i
    SocietyCulture
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  5. The Dream

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    From Little Everywhere and Pushkin Industries, and hosted by Jane Marie, comes the third season of The Dream. Past seasons of this award-winning investigative podcast looked at pyramid schemes and the world of wellness. This season we're gettin
    True CrimeSocietyCulture

  6. Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin

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    Akimbo is an ancient word, from the bend in the river or the bend in an archer's bow. It's become a symbol for strength, a posture of possibility, the idea that when we stand tall, arms bent, looking right at it, we can make a difference.Akimbo
    PhilosophySocietyCulture

  7. Over My Dead Body

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    Over My Dead Body is an anthology series about people who are pushed beyond their limits and do unspeakable things.Season 4: Gone Hunting - When Mike Williams vanishes on a hunting trip, the authorities presume he was eaten by alligators but on
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    True CrimeNews

  8. Ologies with Alie Ward

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    Volcanoes. Trees. Drunk butterflies. Mars missions. Slug sex. Death. Beauty standards. Anxiety busters. Beer science. Bee drama. Take away a pocket full of science knowledge and charming, bizarre stories about what fuels these professional -olo
    ScienceComedy

  9. Inside Star Wars

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    From the creators of Inside Psycho, Inside the Exorcist, and Inside Jaws, comes a new immersive audio biopic about the making of the original 1977 Star Wars. It was a movie made on a shoestring and dumped into a handful of movie theaters. And t
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  10. Blackout

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    Academy Award® winner Rami Malek stars in this apocalyptic thriller as a small-town radio DJ fighting to protect his family and community after the power grid goes down nationwide, upending modern civilization.Season 2 picks up after Simon’s f
    Audio DramaArts

  11. Broken Harts

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    Markis, Hannah, Devonte, Abigail, Jeremiah, and Sierra Hart—six beautiful black children, ranging in age from 12 to 19—were all adopted by Sarah and Jennifer Hart, both white. On Jen’s Facebook page, it looked as if they were the perfect blende
    True CrimeSocietyCulture

  12. 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

  13. Proof

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    We take America's Test Kitchen's inquisitive and relentless approach to telling unexpected, funny, and thought-provoking narratives about food and drink. This is not a recipe show. And this is not a show about celebrity chefs or what they like
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  14. The NewsWorthy

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    The day’s news made fast, fair and fun – in 10 minutes. Erica Mandy is like a trusted friend who always ‘gets’ both sides. She’s a veteran journalist who was tired of talking heads, alarmist headlines and monotone voices, so she created somethi
    NewsPolitics

  15. 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
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  16. Culpable

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    Explore unsettled true crime cases where culpability has yet to be established. Host Dennis Cooper covers new cases in Culpable: Case Review. In season one, Dennis explored the case of Christian Andreacchio, whose death in 2014 was ruled a suic
    True CrimeSocietyCulture

  17. Against the Rules with Michael Lewis: The Trial of Sam Bankman-Fried

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    From Michael Lewis and Against The Rules comes a special series – Judging Sam: The Trial of Sam Bankman-Fried. Judging Sam will follow the daily courtroom drama as the former FTX CEO is tried for financial crimes, with expert commentary from au
    SocietyCulture

  18. Switched on Pop

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    A podcast all about the making and meaning of popular music. Musicologist Nate Sloan & songwriter Charlie Harding pull back the curtain on how pop hits work magic on our ears & our culture. From Vulture and the Vox Media Podcast Network.
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  19. The Shrink Next Door

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    Veteran journalist Joe Nocera’s neighbor in the Hamptons was a therapist named Ike. Ike counted celebrities and Manhattan elites as his patients. He’d host star-studded parties at his eccentric vacation house. But one summer, Joe discovered tha
    SocietyCultureNews

  20. Ritual

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    Ritual is a podcast about how humans make patterns of meaning in a maddening world. The rituals we discuss will span centuries and civilizations. They will run the gamut from the ornately performative to the relatively mundane. Season One focus

  21. 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

  22. Darknet Diaries

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    Explore true stories of the dark side of the Internet with host Jack Rhysider as he takes you on a journey through the chilling world of hacking, data breaches, and cyber crime.
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  23. Dreamboy

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    Set over a few flickering nights in Cleveland, Ohio, this is a story of creatures, human and otherwise, caught in the eternal pornography of the cosmos, told in the blockbuster cinematic style of Spielberg classics.
    Audio DramaDramaFiction

  24. HORSE

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    The NBA is now a 365-day league and it's never been more present in pop culture. On HORSE, we don’t analyze wins and losses. We talk beefs, dig into Internet drama, and have fun. New episodes every other Monday.
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  25. 10 Things That Scare Me

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    A tiny podcast about our biggest fears.
    SocietyCulture

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