Favorite Podcast Episodes of 2023
30 podcast episodes from 2023 that taught me something new and intriguing, made me think about life in a different way, or had me laughing out loud. Enjoy the listen.
Tech Won't Save Us
Don't Fall for the AI Hype w/ Timnit Gebru, January 19
If Books Could Kill
The NY Times War on Trans Kids, February 28
Normal Gossip
The Only Single Girl at Disney with Blythe Roberson, April 11
I Love All Corgis with Dr. Eve L. Ewing, April 18
Into It
The End of Search as You Know It, May 16
How #FreeBritney Split into Two, August 1
Britney Was Always Trying to Tell Us Who She Was, October 24
The War on Cars
Paved Paradise with Henry Grabar, May 23
Nick Offerman, June 6
ICYMI
How To: Succeed at Social Media, May 27
A Former School Shooter is a TikTok Star. Should He Even Be Allowed Online?, October 25
The Sloppy Boys
Lavender Haze Lemonade, June 16
Behind the Bastards
Let's Read the Proud Boys Membership Manual, July 6
Hard Fork
Escape from Burning Man + Musk vs. the A.D.L. + Listener Questions, September 8
Personalized GPTs Are Here + F.T.C. Chair Lina Khan on A.I. Competition, and Mayhem at Apefest, November 10
Our 2024 Predictions + Jenny Slate Answers Your Hard Questions, December 22
The Journal
JPMorgan's $75 Million Jeffrey Epstein Settlement, September 27
Design Better
Llisa Demetrios: Ray and Charles Eames's grandaughter on their legacy and influence on mid century modern design, October 10
Rewind: Midcentury modern design principles and Heath Ceramics, December 26
Vergecast
The poster's guide to the internet of the future, October 23
15 Minutes in Hell
Kari Byron, October 23
Code Switch
Giving Up on Identity with Ada Limon, October 25
This is what "real self-care" looks like with Dr. Pooja Lakshmin, December 11
Pivot
AI Ethics at Code 2023, October 25
Reveal
America Goes Psychedelic, Again, October 27
Land of Giants
A Million Different Twitters, November 1
Joe the Gardener
Legends of the Leaf: The Secrets of Well-Known Houseplants, with Jane Perrone, November 1
An Introduction to Growing Microgreens, December 6
There are No Girls on the Internet
Author loses her book deal after review-bombing authors on Goodreads, December 19
Fluently Forward
The Bot Episode, December 28