What are some good ad-free podcasts? (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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[-] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 8 hours ago

I used to like kexp song of the day but they changed the format.

Now I like https://kutkutx.studio/category/song-of-the-day/feed

Also many good shows on WFMU, some music, some talk. https://wfmu.org/podcast

My favorites are:

Downtown Soulville with Mr. Fine Wine
Honky Tonk Radio Girl with Becky
Techtonic with Mark Hurst
Bucci (warning this one is weird but in a good way

Other good ad free ones:

Birdnote. https://feeds.simplecast.com/OB7SrYSf
Derrière le son (French language) https://feeds.podcastics.com/podcastics/podcasts/rss/5423_17676b1841af819ae181d6abb1a2e320.rss
Molly White's Citation Needed (interesting but lower production value) https://www.spreaker.com/show/6019906/episodes/feed

Let me know if any of these have ads I'm pretty sure they all don't.

[-] bluelander@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 hours ago

I'll have to sit down tomorrow to go through these ones, but thanks for listing them all out in such a nice format!

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