Antenna Pod is great! Lately I’ve been using Podcast Republic and I can’t remember why I tried it specifically, but importantly it has very in-depth retention and download rules so I can exclude previews of the paid feed that are only 20 minutes long, sort podcasts by date or by title (handy if you pull in LibriVox books by RSS feed), create a podcast from a folder of files, and various other handy features.
Jon Stewart’s podcast is also good if you want interviews with experts. He also gets far more nerdy and into the weeds in his podcast than he ever was allowed to on TV or streaming
Dude my last 2 job changes were due to layoffs. I had to take the first job offer I got after about 50 job applications because the job market absolutely sucks right now, and honestly I’m not happy with the job I could land because availability forced me to accept some red flags and compromises that I could see from the get-go of the interview process. I’m going to keep applying but I’m not holding my breath at this stage of things
I keep subscribing, listening regularly then stopping and unsubscribing from various NPR podcasts and honestly I can only conclude that they bake in ads based on the listener and will do less ads for new listeners because I swear it’s always a very small amount of ads initially every time
Having started primarily listening to audio books and sneaking in some podcasts between books it’s very night and day comparing the experience of listening to each, with shitloads of ads vs none (or just “this is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. To learn more or to volunteer visit LibriVox.org”) so it’s much more hands off with audio books at least