What are some good ad-free podcasts? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 19 hours ago by bluelander@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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So I've run my own show for just about ten years now. We've never had ads or sponsorships of any kind other than a Patreon plug at the very end.

When I go out into the world and listen to other podcasts I'm perpetually annoyed at the lengthy, frequent ad-breaks. I don't mind being reminded to engage or click on their link or go to a show's Ko-Fi page, but a two minute dollar shave club or AG1 ad is just too much. And, honestly, the amount of advertising dollars some shows take makes me question their integrity just a bit. I know it might be a bit old-fashioned to think that, but I can't help it.

What are you favorite sponsorship-free, ad-free podcasts?

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[-] davel@lemmy.ml 9 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

[-] Know_not_Scotty_does@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago

Well, there's your problem is another one.

[-] bluelander@lemmy.ml 1 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

That's quite the pile of political shows! I'll dig through them and pick out the ones that hook me. Thanks for taking the time to link them all, makes it easier to use an online took to yank out the RSS feeds for subscription.

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 2 points 17 hours ago

I’m not sure those links will render RSS feeds. I just pulled them from my Apple Podcasts app. None of them are exclusive to Apple, though, so if you’re not in the Apple ecosystem you can still find them.

[-] bluelander@lemmy.ml 3 points 17 hours ago

Oh they will, I use a website that yanks the feeds. Having them all in one list like that makes it easier for me to parse through them though.

If you ever need to yank the RSS from a show then I have lots of success with: https://www.labnol.org/podcast. It's specifically for just this kind of thing. Weirdly a lot of shows, even on their own websites, don't make RSS feeds readily available.

[-] Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 hours ago

This has just let me recover a podcast where the feed from the site I was using stopped working, thank you :D

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 2 points 17 hours ago

Interesting! You extract the ID from the link (e.g. the 1258545975 from https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/citations-needed/id1258545975) and then:

$ curl -s 'https://itunes.apple.com/lookup?id=1258545975' | jq -r '.results.[0].feedUrl'
https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/rss
$

[-] bluelander@lemmy.ml 2 points 17 hours ago

Oh wow I didn't realize it was so simple. I couple just slap that into a bash script and save the effort of going through a website...maybe even use it for bulk processing when I get lots of recommendations.

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

#!/bin/sh

# Get the original RSS feed URL from an Apple Podcast show URL.

podcast="$1"
id=$(echo "$podcast" | awk '{sub(/^.*\/id/, ""); print}')
curl -s "https://itunes.apple.com/lookup?id=%24id" | jq -r '.results.[0].feedUrl'

There seems to be a bug in Lemmy that messes up the script’s rendering a little, but you’ll figure it out.

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