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Ear Worthy -- Podcast reviews, recommendations, trends & trash
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Ear Worthy provides curated daily tours of the best podcasts, focusing on independent podcasts.
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In 2026, Ear Worthy will launch a marketing campaign called "Independent Podcasts: Where The Magic Happens!"

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January 6, 2026 at 11:05 AM
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The Rest Is Science Podcast: Turning Scientific Ideas Inside Out -- The show explores big scientific questions twice a week. Yet, the superb co-hosts aren't immune to injecting humor into the proceedings.
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January 6, 2026 at 11:03 AM
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Underfoot is a new investigative podcast from the Brooklyn nonprofit Flatbush Cats, uncovering how New York City’s cat overpopulation crisis became a symptom of larger urban failures — in housing, affordability, and access to care.

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Underfoot Podcast: Connecting Urban Failures And Cat Overpopulation
If you’re searching for a cat podcast that is the audio equivalent of those YouTube cat videos, where felines are filmed doing the cutest…
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January 5, 2026 at 10:44 AM
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Happy New Year 2026, from Ear Worthy: Hope For A Better World -- I suggest a different path for resolutions this year. Instead of working on ourselves, let's work on our relationship to others in the community. We need to be kinder to one another.

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Happy New Year 2026 From Ear Worthy: Hope For A Better World
It’s amazing what the prospect of a new year may bring. Suddenly, a night with a large Doritos bag and your favorite streaming channel…
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January 1, 2026 at 10:42 AM
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Why Doesn't AI Recommend Indie Podcasts When Asked By Users? -- Ear Worthy conducts an experiment and discovers that AI actually stands for AGAINST INDIES!

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Why Doesn’t AI Recommend Indie Podcasts When Asked By Users?
As 2025 ends and 2026 approaches, the time for BEST OF… and 2026 podcast recommendations is on the minds of many podcast fans.
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December 31, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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Grave Matters Season Two: Bodies, Zombies, Crime Scenes & Rituals -- The podcast explores grief, death care, and the business of dying, asking experts the questions we’re all too scared to ask.

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Grave Matters Season Two: Bodies, Zombies, Crime Scenes & Rituals
I must admit that the Australian podcast Grave Matters: a lively look at death has discovered a niche that is not flooded with thousands of…
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December 30, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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When Podcasting Starts Changing You | A Live Conversation on Storytelling and Hosting -- Matt Gilhooly of The Life Shift and Angela Holowell of Honey & Hustle collaborate, cooperate, support each other, and act as first responders for other indie podcasters.

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When Podcasting Starts Changing You
A Live Conversation on Storytelling and Hosting
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December 29, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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Merry Christmas: My Gifts To You Are Indie Podcasts To Meet Every Need! -- What we thought we'd offer readers is a list of indie podcasts that could meet your needs in 2026. We'll try to match your needs, wants, personality, and life situation to indie podcasts.

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Merry Christmas: My Gifts To You Are Indie Podcasts To Meet Every Need!
What I’ve always loved about Santa Claus is that he knows what children want for Christmas. He has the master list.
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December 25, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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The Power Of Host-Read Ads In Podcasting -- A real-life example of how one podcast host -- Amanda B. of Six Degrees Of Cats -- increased book sales by 200% with her host-read ad. Spoiler: She killed it on the ad!

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December 24, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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Creators by TrueFans is a podcast from TrueFans.fm that spotlights independent podcast creators and music artists, offering them increased visibility and a platform to connect with their fans.

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December 23, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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Much Ado About Nothing by Play On Podcasts Debuts-The play, written around 1598-1599, features a "merry war" of words, deception, mistaken identity, and bumbling. It's Shakespeare in modern English and brilliantly performed as an audio drama!

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Much Ado About Nothing By Play On Podcasts Debuts
Much Ado About Nothing is a comedy by William Shakespeare, set in Messina, Italy, that contrasts two love stories: the witty, antagonistic…
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December 22, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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Mercury Podcasts has two big announcements: Second Helpings -- about mental health -- begins its second season & PastMaster releases a Christmas special on December 22 and announces 2026 plans.

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December 20, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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Your Mic Podcast: Hosted by Freddy Cruz, who is the founder of Speke Podcasting, Your Mic offers insights, tactics, and mindset strategies. Each episode features practical advice to help listeners build and grow a top 1% podcast.

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Your Mic Podcast: Cruising Audio With Freddy Cruz
Twenty years ago, podcasting was the infant and over-the-air radio was the parent. That relationship has gradually morphed over the last…
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December 19, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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Becoming Self Made Podcast -- Hosted by bestselling author and money expert Mike Michalowicz, the podcast dives into the unfiltered stories of founders and entrepreneurs who built their businesses from the ground up and kept pushing as the stakes got higher.

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December 18, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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One of the best independent podcasts to cover the Golden Era of Old Hollywood is From Beneath The Hollywood Sign, a superb entertainment podcast that features splendid film analysis and criticism, riveting biographies of movie stars, and carefully researched narratives.
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December 17, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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Ten Of The Best New Indie Podcasts Of 2025 -- If you want the formulaic and the predictable, by all means, check out Amazon, iHeart, SiriusXM, and Spotify. But if you want fresh, creative, a little "out there," and unexpected, then listen to indie podcasts.
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December 16, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Echoes in the First Person Podcast is a storytelling podcast that reclaims overlooked narratives and breathes life into the forgotten and the misremembered. Each episode offers a cinematic encounter with the past, where emotional truth takes center stage.

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December 15, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Each week, Liam Heffernan is joined by the world’s leading historians, academics, experts, and broadcasters to explore the forces that forged America and continue to define it today.

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December 13, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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History & Factoids About Today Podcast is a daily podcast about all the interesting and historical events of that day, birthdays, national days, fun facts, and trivia. Creator/host Jeff Stampka has a machine-gun style delivery, full of enthusiasm and fun facts.

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History & Factoids About Today Podcast: Fast-Paced Daily Fun
History and Factoids About Today is a daily podcast about all the interesting and historical events of that day, birthdays, national days…
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December 12, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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Why Aren't Indie Podcasters Major Players In Awards And Festivals? I'm sick of these festivals and awards ignoring the core of podcasting -- the independent podcasters. In the United Kingdom, there is a thriving Independent Podcast Award process. Why not in the U.S.?

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Why Aren’t Indie Podcasters Major Players In Awards And Festivals
Adolescence is a painful time for any of us. If you were the football QB or beauty queen, more power to you, as long as you didn’t abuse…
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December 11, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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What is TGR Unplugged? Each of the nine episodes features DJ and OG Podcaster Suzy Chase telling one story through the lens of one track, from the nights that shaped her youth to the turning points that defined her creative life.

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December 10, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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In the Sauce Podcast is an excellent destination for listeners who enjoy hearing about brand building in business, especially the natural food industry, and about food as a business.
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December 9, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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Season two of Uncovering Roots is another example of Max Saakyan's artistic craftsmanship as a podcaster. His documentary style is absolutely captivating, and he liquifies geopolitical events into the personal, the tragic, and the painful.

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December 8, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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Crow's Feet: Life As We Age Podcast: The show tackles Senior-Targeted Scams And Longevity — There are approximately 1,900 true-crime podcasts for every one that focuses on aging and people who have many birthdays under their belt.

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Crow's Feet: Life As We Age Podcast: Senior-Targeted Scams And Longevity
Crow's Feet: Life As We Age Podcast: Senior-Targeted Scams And Longevity
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December 6, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Recurrent Podcast Season Two: Examining Cultural Heritage -- The beauty of ReCurrent is that the show reminds us of who we were, who we are, and who we should strive to be.
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December 5, 2025 at 10:32 AM