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I am a podcast fanatic. I subscribe to over fifty podcasts. The subjects of the podcasts I listen to range from money to tech to short stories to history. But the subject with the softest spot in my heart is the entertainment ones and this is a list of my top 7 entertainment podcasts at the moment.
Armchair Expert
As I’ve mentioned before, this is my FAVORITE podcast. I look forward to this podcast every week and I’m glad they pump out quality content regularly.
I should also add they are not a purely “entertainment” podcast. They also do what they call “Experts on Experts” where they bring in doctors and thought leaders and basically smart people to talk about what they know. And it is fascinating. Two thumbs up for Dax and Monica.
Movie Crush
Chuck Bryant, the host, is just a loveable guy. I like everything he does. I just want to sit on a couch and watch a movie with him. And whiskey must be involved!
As someone who listened to this podcast from the beginning, I don’t think this ended up being what they had imagined. That being said, although it became something else, it’s still great! The main episodes talk in detail about a specific movie with a guest.
How Did This Get Made?
How Did This Get Made? is the most organized shit show in podcasting. It’s bad movies and a ton of grade school level jokes, but it’s great! The three hosts, Paul Scheer, Jason Mantzoukas AND June Diane Raphael are all three childishly funny and yet sooooo unbelievably smart. They make this podcast!
Listen to How Did This Get Made?
Anna Faris is Unqualified
When I first got into podcasting, Anna Faris is Unqualified was number one on the charts. In desperately looking for my fix (that I now have too much of) I subscribed. I have pretty faithfully listened to this show since I subscribed. My opinion of Anna Faris is between she is the most annoying bitch on earth to I want to be her best friend. She is the cool girl who I can’t figure out why I think so. And that is why I still listen.
Listen to Anna Faris is Unqualified
Fake Doctors, Real Friends
All popular shows need to do what Fake Doctors, Real Friends has done. I spend forty minutes a week watching Scrubs and at least two hours a week listening to the podcast. It’s become one of my favorite weekly rituals.
The idea is each podcast episode covers, in chronological order starting with the pilot, each television episode. They talk about the back end of things. How things were done, all the mistakes, the problems, the random actors actually being crew they pulled in for a quick scene. They talk about the mythology and the rumors. It’s great! Let’s do this for Save By The Bell, Full House, Friends, and all other other great (I’d even be up for not so great) television shows of the past.
Listen to Fake Doctors, Real Friends
Penpals
I found this podcast after buying tickets to 2019 Clusterfest, a Comedy Central music festival like event for people like me, people who prefer spoken word over music. And I fell in love. Not just with Daniel Van Kirk, who is damn sexy. (Yes, I fell in love when he walked on stage at Clusterfest.) But with the entire thing. They are hilarious and fun. I want to be their best friends… or their penpal.
ID10T with Chris Hardwick
I started listening to ID10T when it was Nerdest. Singled Out’s (yes, the Singled Out from the prime of MTV) host Chris Hardwick started a podcast before podcasting was cool. It sprouted into an entire company called Nerdest which he sold to another company.
The company owned the Nerdest name but not the podcast. Hardwick changed the name to ID10T (pronounced I-D-10-T), an IT worker’s joke. It’s a little geeky but it’s also just good conversation.
