All The Podcasts We're Listening To Right Now

In case you missed it, it’s the golden age of podcasting. Australians downloaded 2.8 million podcasts every day last year. That’s over one billion podcasts for the entire year, with the national obsession for the audio format increasing by a whopping 26 per cent in 2023. I’d like to think I’m responsible for at least a quarter of those stats. As well as consuming podcasts while I hang out the washing, prepare a meal, do the groceries, wait in line for even 30 seconds for a coffee, take a bath etc, I have also been known to insert my air pods while pretending to hang out with my family. Sorry guys.

And if I’m not listening to a podcast, I’m probably talking about one (apologies also to my friends who likely shudder every time I start a sentence with, “On a podcast I was listening to the other day…”). I related a little too intensely to Dolly Alderton’s protagonist in Good Material who, depressed post breakup, always has a podcast on as a sort of simulation for human company. We’ll leave the ‘Can Millennials Ever Sit Quietly With Their Own Thoughts?’ question for another article. But how does one cut through the supersaturation of podcasts to find their favourites? We turn to our more cultured and in-the-know friends of course, many of whom happen to have their own podcasts. Enjoy the list, dear listeners.

Binchtopia

"I'm a podcast obsessive and often cycle through different podcast fixations. Right now, I’m very much loving Binchtopia , a podcast that dissects pop culture through a sociological and philosophical lens, while also being incredibly funny." Selected by Maggie Zhou, writer and co-host of Culture Club podcast

The Run Through

"I am obsessed with Chioma Nnadi. I’ve been listening to her podcast The Run Through , which she co-hosts with American Vogue's digital editor Chloe Malle (also a brilliant writer and also smart, funny and chic). The pair are friends and colleagues, and their chemistry as co-hosts is exactly what every good podcast needs: warm, intimate and relaxed, like two friends catching up for coffee to talk about all the things you and your friends like to talk about. Selected by Hannah-Rose Yee, Vogue Australia’s features editor and writer

Dear Joan and Jericha

"Afake agony aunt podcast called Dear Joan and Jerich a, it’s the brainchild of two British comedians, Julia Davis and Vicki Pepperdine. If there’s one thing I like, it’s silly shit. This podcast is ridiculous, and its hosts are so atrociously committed to the bit that it is impossible not to laugh. Selected by Madeleine Gray, author of Green Dot

Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

"On any given week, Talk Easy will have Cate Blanchett shooing away her teenage daughter from the room where she’s beaming in via Zoom, filmmaker Ava DuVernay candidly laying bear the boardroom powerplay of Hollywood, or author Jenny Odell unravelling the particulars of who owns and dictates time." Selected by Isobel Beech, author of Sunbathing

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