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Best Podcasts of 2018

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  1. #1 Taylor Talk: The Taylor Swift Podcast | reputation | 1989 | Red | Speak Now | Fearless | Taylor Swift (2018) Taylor Talk is the biggest, baddest, most AWESOME Taylor Swift Podcast in the world!! Listen as our expert team of hosts, made up of fans like you, take you through the latest Tayl… Music Interview
  2. #2 🎙️ Wolverine: The Long Night (2018) Two federal agents arrive in a small Alaskan town to investigate a string of murders that may have been committed by Logan, aka Wolverine. Fiction
  3. #3 🎙️ Pinkalicious Storytime (2018) A storytime podcast for preschoolers based on the Pinkalicious book series — short, gentle, and bedtime-ready. Kids Storytelling
  4. #4 🎙️ Smash Boom Best (2018) A debate podcast for kids — pineapple vs. mango, cats vs. dogs, Mario vs. Sonic — judged by a panel of kids in the audience. Kids Comedy
  5. #5 🎙️ Broken Record (2018) Long-form interviews with musicians about creativity and craft, with the production legend Rick Rubin asking the questions that matter. Music Interview
  6. #6 🎙️ Disgraceland (2018) True-crime-style stories from the seedy side of rock and roll — the murders, robberies, and feuds behind the music. Music True Crime
  7. #7 🎙️ Akimbo (2018) The marketing guru Seth Godin offers short, generative essays about culture, work, and what it means to make things that matter. Self-Improvement Business
  8. #8 🎙️ The Daily Stoic (2018) Short daily meditations on Stoic philosophy and how the ancient framework applies to modern life — plus weekly long-form interviews. Self-Improvement Religion
  9. #9 🎙️ JOE Wrestling (2018) A weekly pro-wrestling roundtable covering WWE, AEW, NJPW, and the international scene. Sports
  10. #10 🎙️ The Ryen Russillo Podcast (2018) A veteran ESPN host, now at The Ringer, breaks down the NFL, NBA, and college football with a rotating cast of beat reporters. Sports
  11. #11 🎙️ Get Up (2018) ESPN's morning sports debate show, with rotating analysts arguing about every league's headlines before lunch. Sports News
  12. #12 🎙️ The Goop Podcast (2018) Gwyneth Paltrow's wellness brand hosts conversations with healers, doctors, and authors about the intersection of mind, body, and meaning. Health
  13. #13 🎙️ On Purpose (2018) A former monk-turned-life-coach interviews celebrities, scientists, and meditation teachers about purpose, relationships, and wellbeing. Health Self-Improvement
  14. #14 🎙️ Feel Better, Live More (2018) A British GP interviews global health and lifestyle experts about evidence-based ways to feel better in mind and body. Health
  15. #15 🎙️ The Drive (2018) Long, technical interviews on exercise physiology, nutrition science, and clinical medicine, hosted by a longevity physician. Health Interview
  16. #16 🎙️ The Peter Attia Drive (2018) A longevity-focused physician interviews researchers about sleep, nutrition, cardiovascular disease, and the science of living longer and better. Health Science
  17. #17 🎙️ Talk Art (2018) An actor and a former gallery director interview the most exciting artists, curators, and collectors working today. Interview Arts
  18. #18 🎙️ The Last Bookstore (2018) Long author interviews with the staff of LA's sprawling independent bookstore — a guided tour of the new fiction worth reading. Interview Arts
  19. #19 🎙️ Getting Curious (2018) The Queer Eye grooming expert asks experts to teach him about one specific topic per episode — politics, ferns, monarchies, neutrons. Interview Education
  20. #20 🎙️ Modern Wisdom (2018) A British host interviews scientists, athletes, executives, and writers about evolutionary psychology, productivity, and what makes a meaningful life. Interview Self-Improvement
  21. #21 🎙️ Slate Presents: Decoder Ring (2018) A monthly pop-culture mystery podcast. Each episode investigates one strange cultural artifact — a slogan, a meme, a forgotten star — and what it reveals. Storytelling Arts
  22. #22 🎙️ The Anthropocene Reviewed (2018) The bestselling author reviews different facets of the human-centered planet on a five-star scale — essays both whimsical and devastating. Storytelling Arts
  23. #23 🎙️ You're Wrong About (2018) Reconsidering the public figures, news events, and moral panics we all "remember" — with a feminist eye and a remarkable amount of compassion. Society History
  24. #24 🎙️ The Argument (2018) A weekly NYT podcast in which two or three columnists with different politics debate a single live issue. Society Politics
  25. #25 🎙️ Practical AI (2018) A weekly show covering practical applications of artificial intelligence — focused on the engineering and the use cases, not the hype. Technology Education
  26. #26 🎙️ Lex Fridman Podcast (2018) Marathon interviews — often 3+ hours — with researchers, entrepreneurs, and public intellectuals about AI, science, history, and consciousness. Technology Interview
  27. #27 🎙️ Behind the Bastards (2018) An investigative journalist turned podcaster recounts in-depth the lives of the worst people in history, with a rotating comic guest. History Comedy
  28. #28 🎙️ American History Tellers (2018) Multi-part narrative seasons about pivotal moments in US history — Prohibition, the Cold War, the Space Race, the Gold Rush. History Storytelling
  29. #29 🎙️ Tides of History (2018) A trained historian guides listeners through the long sweep of world history — late antiquity, the Renaissance, the rise of the modern world. History
  30. #30 🎙️ Mindscape (2018) A Caltech theoretical physicist interviews top scientists, philosophers, and economists about ideas — heavy on physics and complexity science. Science Interview

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