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Best Podcasts of 2019

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#1 🎙️ Old Gods of Appalachia (2019) A cosmic-horror anthology set in an alternate Appalachia where the mountains have always been wrong, and the things beneath them have always been listening. Fiction
#2 🎙️ KidNuz (2019) A 5-minute daily news podcast for kids — current events explained at a level they can actually understand. Kids News
#3 🎙️ The Daily Show: Ears Edition (2019) The audio cut of The Daily Show — segments, interviews, and behind-the-scenes from the Comedy Central late-night newsroom. Arts Comedy
#4 🎙️ ESPN Daily (2019) A weekday news-style ESPN podcast that picks one major sports story and gives it 20-30 minutes of feature-style reporting. Sports News
#5 🎙️ The Liz Moody Podcast (2019) A journalist interviews researchers, doctors, and authors about evidence-based nutrition, sleep, stress, and wellbeing. Health
#6 🎙️ Stay Sexy and Don't Get Murdered (2019) The non-murder spin-off of My Favorite Murder, focused on mental health, anxiety, and the messy work of being a person. Health Self-Improvement
#7 🎙️ Las Cosas (2019) A Spanish-language Latin American interview show featuring stars from music, film, and TV from across the Spanish-speaking world. Interview
#8 🎙️ The Big Story (2019) A Canadian daily news show that picks one big story each day and interviews the journalist who has been reporting it. Storytelling News
#9 🎙️ Heavy Topics (2019) A storytelling podcast that pairs first-person essays with reported context on social issues — debt, grief, illness, recovery. Storytelling Society
#10 🎙️ Cautionary Tales (2019) A FT columnist tells stories of historical disasters and human folly — and the lessons we keep failing to learn from them. History Storytelling
#11 🎙️ Throughline (2019) NPR's weekly long-form history show — connecting the present moment to its often-forgotten origins. History News
#12 🎙️ Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Q&A (2019) Monthly listener-questions episodes from the Mindscape host — physics, philosophy, complexity, and everything that touches them. Science
#13 🎙️ Short Wave (2019) NPR's 12-minute daily science podcast — one fresh, accessible story a day, told with curiosity and care. Science Education
#14 🎙️ The Twenty Minute VC: Founders Friday (2019) A spin-off of 20VC focused on the founder side — deep-dives with the operators of breakout startups instead of the investors backing them. Business
#15 🎙️ Strict Scrutiny (2019) Three legal scholars dissect the US Supreme Court — its arguments, its opinions, and its evolving constitutional reasoning — with humor and bite. Politics Education
#16 🎙️ The Rundown (2019) A weekly digest of the most important political stories of the week, with PBS NewsHour reporters and Capitol Hill correspondents. News Politics
#17 🎙️ The Journal (2019) The Wall Street Journal's daily business-and-news show. One big story, often financial, broken down for the rest of us. News Business
#18 🎙️ Office Ladies (2019) Two stars of The Office go back through every episode of the series, with behind-the-scenes anecdotes and surprise cast guests. Comedy Arts
#19 Over My Dead Body (2019) Each season unspools one shocking crime — a power-couple divorce gone homicidal, a family secret, a small-town murder. True Crime
#20 Tom Brown's Body (2019) A Texas Monthly writer investigates the case of a small-town teen whose body turned up six months after he vanished, and the suspects everyone in town knew. True Crime
#21 Hunting Warhead (2019) A globe-spanning investigation into the dark-web child-exploitation ring known as the Warhead, and the journalists and cops who infiltrated it. True Crime
#22 To Live and Die in LA (2019) A bestselling author investigates the disappearance of a young actress in Los Angeles, in real time. True Crime

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