Podcasts 103-118

Podcast 103. JYP Podcast. Released August 17, 2026. "Inside 3RACHA's Inspiration. Current ranking is 62. This is a Korean language podcast with English subtitles. Unfortunately, I can't read the subtitles as I listen while I am doing other things. I did listen to it and understood words such as: Harry Potter, playlist, and Youtube. The only part of the subtitles I read was when they said Harry Potter. One of the guys says around Christmas every year, he puts the Harry Potter movies on in the background. Even if he doesn't watch all of it, it's in the background every year. Podcast 104. Nourish Move Love Home Workouts. August 20, 2026. "7 Min Deep Core + Pelvic Floor Workout. No Equipment, No Repeat." Current ranking 71. I didn't realize that any home workouts would be on Spotify's top 100. I thought about doing the workout for my daily exercise but I didn't because this workout is designed for women. It did test my determination to listen to all these podcasts but I passed. I just listened to it so I heard instructions on what to do and a bunch of counting. They had two people that viewers could model their exercise after one was for beginners and one was for advanced. Podcast 105. Scandal. August 21, 2026. "Lindsay Clancy Case Rocked by Explosive Witness Testimony." Current ranking 75. This is the second podcast I have listened to about the Lindsay Clancy case. This podcast showed more of the trial while the other podcast was more with the assumption that the listener had already heard the trial and it went into analysis. One thing that I think is a serious flaw in our legal system is expert witnesses getting highly paid to say what one side wants them to say. Here this Dr. Zeizel gets paid tons of money by the defense. A guest on this podcast praises Dr. Zeizel for what a good job he did for the defense but I think it is pretty scummy to be a hired gun who would say anything for money that can help a murderer get off. Another problem with this legal system is how mental illness can be used to escape legal consequences. In the other podcast the host at the end mentioned how it is a dangerous message to tell people with mental health problems that they don't have agency. I think to ask a jury to know what is inside someone's brain beyond a reasonable doubt is too much. Lindsay Clancy strangled her three children to death and deserves prison. She can use mental health as an excuse but that is pure evil and I hope it doesn't work. Podcast 106. The Truth about Natalie. August 24, 2026. "Episode 3: Red Flags." Current ranking 67.This podcast explored the death of Natalie Jones. Police believe she died of a drug overdose but a no drugs were found in her system. I don't have confidence in police to care enough about things to get it right. There were some things not adding up but I wasn't a fan of this podcast because I think the host had some bad logic. Such as acting as if there were no way she would park her car in the spot where she was because she couldn't open her door. But if she were on drugs and she were dying she might not be thinking of such things. Podcast 107. Murder with my husband. August 24, 2026. "335. The Aliso Viejo Spa Bombing- The Murder of Ildiko Krajnyak." They started this podcast talking about Lindsay Clancy. The host was talking about how he didn't really look into it too much but then he did a bunch of speculation. If I were a podcast host I would definitely research such things before talking. Most of the podcast was about this bombing. His wife talks most the time. She did the research on the story and he reacts to what she says. I thought the case was interesting to listen to. Ildiko Krajnyak was a serial cheater who was married and had many boyfriends. One of them got mad when he found out about the others and killed her with a bomb. Podcast 108. Park Predators. August 25, 2026. "The Pavillion." This podcast told the story of a murder in the 1970s. Podcast 109. Are You Garbage? Comedy Podcast. August 24, 2026. "Midwestern Dirtbag w/ Prof!" The hosts interviewed a rapper named Prof. We got background on him growing up. He had some interesting stories like how his dad burned down his house after an argument. Prof got a lot of money from flipping a house and dealing drugs before he bacame a successful rapper. not yet Podcast 110. Snook. August 24, 2026. "Stalker Reddit Threads." 111. . July 8. "Terrifying Canadian Wilderness Horror Stories." missed writing about. Podcast 112. The Ringer Fantasy Football Show. August 28, 2026. "The Boring Players That Will Win Your League." They talk about players that they think others will overlook. I suspect now that the NFL season is starting there will be a bunch of fantasy football podcasts making the top 100. This is the second one now. Podcast 113. Stavvy's World. September 7, 2026. "#197- Joe List and Dan Soder." They talk about sports, politics, and do jokes. Crude humor. Podcast 114. Countdown To. September 9, 2026. "Riley Green: Countdown To That's Just Me (with Pat McAfee). I thought this was going to be about football and it was a little bit but it was mostly about music as Riley Green is apparently a successful country music singer. Podcast 115. Live Free with Josh Howerton. September 14, 2026. "How to Study the Bible (and ACTUALLY Grow Spiritually)." This podcast seemed like it had some good tips on different ways to study the Bible. They showed some methods to go into depth. They completley lost me when they did their Charlie Kirk montage on the end. It is terrible to honor someone who spread lies that led to the January 6 insurrection. They clipped Trump speaking favorably about Kirk. Only a false Christian teacher would lead people to support Donald Trump. Podcast 116. Boho Beautiful Meditation. September 21, 2026. "10 Minute Guided Meditation for Inner Peace. Let Go of The Past & Trust Your Path." This is currently ranked number 21. This is 10 minutes of meditation. A soft soothing voice saying nice things with soft music in the background. I can't speak to the effectiveness of if it makes you feel better as I was emptying all of our garbages during this time instead of following the instructions to sit in a quiet place and breathe at the right times. Podcast 117. Nova Wellness. September 23, 2026. "20 min Upper Body Burn. This is currently ranked 29 and it is my second exericise podcast. The first time I didn't follow along because the exercises were directed towards women. This one, I am sure, is primarily directed towards women as well but I thought I could benefit from it. When I have been exercising I usually run on the elliptical. I don't do enough strength exercises. I am changing that next week and want to do three days of cardio and three days of strength exercises. I did the exercises of this podcast for 20 minutes and felt like I got a good workout. When you don't do strength exercises for years, then you definitely feel it. Podcast 118. Journey with Johnny. September 23, 2026. "Are You Young-Keu-Keu or Old Keu-Keu? What's Trending in Korea." He talked about trends in Korea and America. It reminded me of this lady in A Series of Unfortunate Events who was obsessed with what was in and what was out.

102 Podcasts

I am too far behind on writing about my podcasts. I am just going to write a short thing about them. This post will catch me up to 102 podcasts I have listened on the Spotify 100. Because of movement in and out of the top 100 it will take a lot more than 100 to complete this list. Next up is number 62 ranked JYP Podcast. I will try to not get so behind on updating this. 64. The Rest is History. I listened to an episode released May 19 titled, "Empress Matilda: Civil War and the Fight for the Throne." It was interesting hearing the history behind some royalty power battles in the Roman Empire in 1110. 65. Part of the Problem. I listened to an episode released May 20 titled, "Ryan Grim." The conversation here was largely about the Iran war from a libertarian perspective. They were critical of Trump. I looked back and the host of the podcast endorsed Trump. Insane to me that anyone would think this current behavior from Trump is surprising when he literally campaigned on committing war crimes in his 2016 presidential campaign. Yet, he somehow got a bunch of anti-war types to support him just based on his word. Which is also crazy considering his track record of constantly lying. 66. The Factenate. I listened to an episode released May 19 titled, "Roy Rogers: The 'King of the Cowboys.'" The cool thing about listening to random podcasts like this is discovering that I can find it interesting to learn the history of a person who I knew nothing about to begin with. The only thing I knew about Roy Rogers before this is that he has a famous name. It was cool hearing the background of how he came from a rural area and found fame. 67. Big Deal. I listened to an episode released May 21 titled, "How to be more successful than 99% of people." Some interesting ideas about how people should not try to go to the best universities but go to quality universities where they can be among the best there. If you can't be toward the top it is better to go to a lower university. 68. Jamie Social. I listened to an episode released May 18 titled, "No one wants to hear you because you do this." This podcast is talking about a specific problem people have with talking too much and not asking enough questions. It says you should try to talk about others if you want to have conversation. I learned this same thing from a mission companion I had, Elder Erekson, who was really good with people. I told him how I think it's difficult talking to people. He said to me something like, "You like talking about yourself right? Everybody does. If you want people to want to talk to you then ask them questions and get them to talk about themselves." I think this is true. 69. BBC Radio 1. I listened to an episode released May 26 titled, "Lola Young (Radio 1's Big Weekend 2026)." This was basically just listening to a short concert. I am not sure how Spotify classifies this as a podcast. Sometimes it is just music. But I think it's probably good for me to be exposed to some different types of music. I am not big into music. This is kind of too far away to remember exactly how I liked it but I think the music was okay. 70. The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby. I listened to an episode released May 27 and titled, "Love is Blind, Baby#2 & Postpartum Depression w/ Zack and Bliss." Once again, I think it is amazing that I can be interested in just hearing the background of people who I don't know. Zack and Bliss met on some reality show called Love is Blind where you talk to each other a lot but don't see each other. They are now married and have a second baby on the way. I would have no interest in watching a reality show like this but it was interesting hearing their story. 71. Girls Gotta Eat. I listened to an episode released June 1 titled, "If this Was YOur Last Single Summer featuring Tunde Oyeneyin." The good thing about listening to all these podcasts I would not normally listen to is I am often exposed to podcasts that I think are interesting even though they are out of the zone of what I would normally listen to. This is not one of those times. I thought they were just annoying. 72. Memes. I listened to this "episode" released April 11, 2023 titled, "Wazzup Beijing." This "podcast" is only 8 seconds long and only two words are said during it. Those words are "Wazzup Beijing." Not exactly sure how a podcast with an 8 second episode with the latest one in 2023 is currently ranked number 53 in Spotify's list. 73. Murder in America. I listened to an episode released May 29 titled, "Episode 247-Serial Killer: The Torso Killer-Richard Cottingham Part 2." This goes into a detective who went through unsolved cases and found many of them connected to a guy who was in prison for an attempted murder. The detective linked 20 murders to this guy. And the murderer claimed to have killed more than 80 people. They don't know the true number but they think it is more than twenty. 74. This American Life. I listened to an episode released May 31 titled, "137: The Book That Changed Your Life." This podcast tells four stories of books that changed people's lives. The most interesting to me was this guy who started collecting Lewis and Clark books. He wouldn't read them, he just collected them. He collected more and more until he had the biggest Lewis and Clark collection in the world. He worked in construction and used all his money beyond his needs on collecting Lewis and Clark books. He eventually started reading the books and became an expert on Lewis and Clark. He sold him books to a university and would go there and read and talk about Lewis and Clark. 75. The Deck. I listened to an episode released June 3. It was titled, "Clarence and Marjorie Paulson (2 of Clubs, Minnesota)." This was about a double murder in July 1984 in Minnesota. The podcast reviewed evidence and there is a suspect but nothing is proven and the case is unsolved. 76. My Favorite Murder. The episode I listened to was released June 3 and was titled, "Rewind with Karen & Georgia -99 Shink Kick." This episode revisits an episode originally released in December 2017. The two hosts both told one murder story. One was about a girl who lied so much for tha approval of her parents. She faked report cards, she faked like she was going to a university, she even bought books and learned about the topics of her study to trick her parents into thinking she was studying it for school. Eventually, she and her boyfriend plotted to murder her parents for the life insurance money. They staged a break in to look like a robbery and murder. Her mom was killed but her dad survived the attack. There is a Netflix documentary on this murder titled, "What Jennifer Did" that I am putting on my list of movies to watch. The other murder was a woman who was murdered in 1960 by a Catholic priest. The priest was convicted of the murder 57 years later in 2017. 77. Dr. Insanity. The episode I listened to was released June 1. It was titled, "Mom Discovers Her 13 Year Old Son Just Killed Someone." This tells the story of a 13 year old who is obsessed with serial killers who wants to be a serial killer himself. He likes following the story of murderers. He likes the TV show Dexter. In my opinion, you are a bad mom if you let your 13 year old watch Dexter. He murdered his elderly neighbor across the street. 78. Danny Jones. Episode released June 8. Title is "'Pentagon is on Red Alert' Mossad Just Declared as #1 Threat.'" Anti every war. Thought it was interesting how they could criticize other presidents but wouldn't mention Trump's name when criticizing him until the end. They use the dumb "Russia-gate" terminology and can't say Ukraine is the good guy. 79. We Might be Drunk. Episode June 8. Titled "Anthony Jeselnik w/ Sam Morril & Mark Normand." They talked some about Norm MacDonald. He was my favorite back in my teenage days. 80. The Megyn Kelly Show. June 12. "Austin Metcalf's Father Speaks Out, Plus False Karmelo Anthony Narratives, and Blake Lively Legal Fees Ruling, with Mark Geragos and Arthur..." Megyn Kelly is annoying. I embarrassingly used to like her back in my Fox News days. Shed efinitely has some fake anger issues. 81. Science vs. June 25. "Raw Milk: Secret Superfood." Interesting podcast debunking some pro raw milk propaganda. Apparently there is a reason pasteurization exists. There are some risks to drinking raw milk. 82. House of R. June 29. "'House of the Dragon' Season 3 Episode 2 Reactions. Talk the Throne." I was wondering if this would get me interested in this show but it didn't. I don't think I would like this show as I do prefer there to be at least one good guy and it doesn't sound like there is. 83. The Rest is Science. June 28. "The Audio Illusion That Proves We Don't Experience Reality." Talked a lot about different illusions. Some audio where some people hear Laurel and some hear Yanny. They say it is based on experiences. 84. Friends Keep Secrets. May 26. "The Halsey Episode." Most interesting thing in the episode was when two people who write music were talking to each other. One of them always writes the words first and the music second. The other always writes the music first and the words second. Writing words first seems easier to me but the one who always writes the music first says it is the only way he has ever done it. I did find this episode interesting and thought all the people on it were likeable. 85. Flightless Bird. June 30. "Live in Austin: Bats, Lizardman, Rosabel, & The Yogurt Shop Murders." This podcast was filmed in front of a large audience in Austin, Texas. They travelled there. Most interesting part of the podcast was hearing the bat expert talk about how misunderstood bats are and how they help the environment. 86. The Prestige TV Podcast. June 29. "'The Bear' Season 5, Episodes 5-8: Every Second Counts." This podcast they talk about The Bear. Apparently early on this was a cultural penomenon. They said the show would have been better if they ended a season early but at the same time said that people who quit the show early missed out. I keep hoping that I can find podcasts talking about TV shows interesting but that hasn't happened and it hasn't made me want to watch the show. 87. The Big Picture. June 29. "The 10 Best Movies of 2026...So Far." Lists of movies people liked on this podcast for the first half of the year: 28 Years Later, Project Hail Mary, Furious, Disclosure Day, Masters of the Universe, Maddie's Secret, Back Rooms, The Drama, Blue Heron, Obsession, Nirvana the band the show the movie. Only one I have seen is Project Hail Mary which I listened to the book as well. I thought it was an awesome book and movie. The others I looked into a bit to see if I wanted to watch them and I don't. 88. The Zach Lowe Show. July 2. "Emergency Pod! The Celtics Trade Jaylen Brown to the 76ers!" The hosts thing the Jaylen Brown trade was worse than doing nothing for the Celtics. They talked a little bit about the Lakers Jazz Walker Kessler trade and they said the Jazz made out like bandits. 89. Stan:a. July 3. "Over 20 Million Views?! Why Are People Absolutely Obsessed With K-pop Reaction Videos?" This is a Korean language podcast. It had English captions but I was listening to this in the van as I drove. I dutifully listened to the entire thing in Korean. Words I understood: "K-pop," "music video," and "autoplay." I thought it was interesting in Korean they use the English words for these things. 90. Day in the Life. June 25. "Day in the Life with Cody Johnson." Heard some music here. 91. The Deck. July 1. "An Important Announcement from Ashley Flowers." This episode was only 4 minutes long and it was her announcing that she was going to end the podcast at the end of the summer. 92. So True with Caleb Hearon. July 2. "Jack Martin Returns." These guys talked about being in Pizza Movie. 93. The Matt Walsh Show. July 8. "She Slept With Her Celebrity Crush?! Uncovering Reddit's Worst Horror Stories." Matt Walsh talks about things like marriage and dating. I agreed with a lot of what he said, especially regarding how you should make a commitment beyond dating if you expect a relationship to last. I couldn't help thinking as he was judging all these random Reddit people how he was a prominent Trump supporter last election and how he would talk about others who act like Trump compared to how he talks about Trump. 94. The Meidas Touch Podcast. July 9. "Nebraska Town Hall Erupts over Trump's Agenda." I liked this podcast because it showed a lot of a town hall where people were heckling a Republican Congressman for supporting the awful things Trump does. Unfortunately, this is surely not representative of his district and I am confident that most people in his district support thing such as ICE throwing people into concentration camps with no due process. 95. 48 Hours. July 9. "I Remember Everything." This is a story of some sexual assault and rape victims. Tells the story of an escape. How to help other victims. And a story of how victims can get blamed when reporting sexual assault when the aggressor is popular. 96. Kurgesagt-In a Nutshell. July 24. “What Actual Aliens Might Look Like.” Speculation based on scientific ideas about what aliens might look like on other planets. 97. Afro Nation Portugal 2026. July 27, 2026 “Tyla-Is it Love." This was music that I didn't really like. 98. The Fantasy Footballers- Fantasy Football Podcast. July 30, 2026. “Unsolved Mysteries + Camp Injury Updates.” This gives some advice about drafting in fantasy football. 99. Soundbuttonspace. August 4, 2026. “Momomoyouth Sound Effect” This podcast was literally 1 second long. It was a sound effect. 100. Julian Dorey Podcast. August 3, 2026. Ranked 71 when started. “Charlie Kirk Investigator Unloads on Rigged Case.” Baron Coleman. These guys have some flawed thinking about conspiracies. No evidence needed for a conspiracy. The idea that Israel wanted to assassinate Charlie Kirk because things he said is crazy to me. Baron Coleman said nobody has broken more campaign promises in history than Trump. It's interesting to hear from people who were Trump supporters and their reasons to stop supporting him. There reasons for stop supporting him aren't of course his massive corruption, but dumb things like not doing more to fight against life saving vaccines. 101. Spotify Live. August 14, 2026. Ranked 2 when started. “Camera-Live in Nashville.” Music. 102. The Prosecutors. August 19, 2026. "383. The Lindsay Clancy Trial Part 11." They talked about the Lindsay Clancy trial. I heard never heard of Lindsay Clancy but their audience is familiar with this as this is part 11. Lindsay Clancy is a mom who murdered her three children ages 5, 3, and an infant. The defense is saying she was in postpartum psychosis so she should not be criminally responsible. This podcast talked a lot about missteps by the prosecutors. Hopefully Clancy doesn't get away with this.

Flagrant Review

This is my 63rd podcast. It is currently ranked 73. I listened to an episode released April 22 titled, "Tom Segura on Surviving Joey Diaz Megadose, Discovering Andrew Tate & 'Exposing' Garth Brooks Secret." There are way too many comedy podcasts. Just more standard shock humor. I did think there was some interesting conversation about the business side of comedy. They talked about negotiating how much money they get. Some shady things clubs do when there is a bonus for selling out how they say there are last minute cancellations so it doesn't count as a sell out. They talked about Clint Eastwood making movies and how he only does one take. I give this 1/5. It gets one point for the interesting conversations.

The Why Files: Operation Podcast Review

This is my 62nd podcast. It is currently ranked 55. The episode I listened to was released April 20. It was titled, "Basement: Daniel Whiteson. CERN, Dark Matter, and the Aliens Next Door." After listening to the last podcast it was somewhat refreshing to listen to people talking who have some brain cells. Whiteson is a researcher on CERN's Large Hadron Collider. They have a machine that smashes protons together every 24 nanoseconds. They are looking for when a different than expected outcome happens from colliding protons. They talked a bunch about aliens and if they met us how we could learn from each other. Whiteson talked about a book he is writing where there are dark matter aliens who are already here but we don't know it. Whiteson is into philosophy and he says more scientists should consider philosophy as there are a lot of interesting scientific philosophical questions. I give this show a 4/5 for the interesting conversation. I minus one point for the host sincerely believing that we live in a simulation. I just think that has to be one of the least plausible explanations for things.

2 Bears 1 Cave Review

This is my 61st podcast. It is currently ranked number 46. I listened to an episode released April 20 titled, "The End is Here w/ Ari Shaffir." Another "comedy" podcast. This podcast was pro-alcohol and pro-drugs. He criticizes people who oppose it saying they really haven't experienced life and are missing out on so many experiences. Meanwhile he describes entire days and nights of doing nothing but drinking. He thinks drinking is the only experience of life and therefore those who don't do it are missing out. I bet this guy cannot comprehend the joy of a sober day of hiking. They also mentioned some event they were hosting saying Christians, Jews, and conservatives will be there. I think people like this are more influential on so-called Christians, the political type, than Jesus or anything written in the Bible. I give this 0/5 for being ridiculous and bad for the country.

TruRed Crime Review

This is my 60th podcast. This is currently out of Spotify's top 100 podcasts. I listened to an episode released April 20. The title of the episode is 15 Year Old Graped In the Playground." This podcast was mostly just playing police interviews with the suspect. I started off thinking I would like this podcast because I think it is important to tell crime stories. I thought this podcast was terrible. I learned very little context of the crime. I think the host should have given some background information. I give this 1/5 for telling the story with no context. It gets 1 point because I like listening to crime interviews but it was hard to understand the crime.

The Basement Yard Review

This is my 59th podcast. It is currently 45. I have been behind on this blog so trying to do some catch up. The episode I listened to was from April 20. It is titled, "Mr. Gabagool is Here." This is one of them comedy podcasts. One of the hosts shared a story about a woman on a plane who asked him if he was Mr. Gabagool. He was confused by this. She identified him as having a podcast but he wasn't sure where she got the name from. This podcast had too much profanity as unfunny people use profanity so others will laugh at unfunny things. I give it 1/5.