That’s too many, you say! Maybe so, but I really do follow 22 podcasts.

First, though, I should say that I started following a 23rd podcast today. But another one that I followed up through yesterday is no longer producing new episodes, so I have to drop it from the list. Net change: zero. So it’s still 22.

I will organize my list in Consumer Reports style: Highly Recommended, Recommended, and Not Recommended. So here are the lists, in alpha order within each category. If I have miscounted, chalk it up to being a math teacher:

Highly Recommended

• Because Language with Daniel Midgley, Hedvig Skirgård, and Ben Ainslie
• Five Thirty Eight with Nate Silver and team
• Lexicon Valley with John McWhorter
• Lingthusiasm with Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne
• Offline with Jon Favreau
• On the Media with Brooke Gladstone
• Pod Save America with Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, Dan Pfeiffer, and Tommy Vietor
• Special Sauce with Ed Levine
• Stay Tuned with Preet with Preet Bharara
• Subtitle with Patrick Cox
• That’s What they Say with Anne Curzan and Rebecca Kruth
• Unorthodox with Mark Oppenheimer, Stephanie Butnick, and Liel Leibovitz
• A Way with Words with Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett
• Words for Granted with Ray Belli

Recommended

• The Allusionist with Helen Zaltzman
• Beat the Press with Emily Rooney
• Buffering the Vampire Slayer (just started listening to it) with Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo
• Freakonomics with Stephen Dubner
• Hidden Brain with Shankar Vedantam
• Radio Omniglot with Simon Ager
• Spectacular Vernacular (no new episodes) with Nicole Holliday and Ben Zimmer
• Star Trek and the Jews with Hava and Josh
• Understanding Train Station with Josh (not the same Josh) and Feli

Not Recommended

There is nothing in this category, as I wouldn’t still be following a podcast if I didn’t recommend it!

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