My Favorite Podcasts of 2024 (Premium)

2024 was a banner year for podcasts, with three major new additions, two of which are now among my favorites of all time.

My listening habits haven't changed too much year-over-year.

I still use Pocket Casts, which is available everywhere and syncs my listening position in episodes reliably. It's free on mobile and web, but it looks like you have to pay for a subscription to access the app on desktop or wearables now. I paid for this service across all supported platforms years ago, but I usually just use the mobile app. My wife listens to podcasts with Spotify, which I guess I get though I feel very strongly that podcasts are not music, and I don't like seeing the two mixed in a single app.

I subscribed to Wondery+ last January because I like their content and have binged-listened to many of their shows over time, including several that don't make the list this year because I finished them in the past. But I will let it go when the subscription ends this coming month, as I didn't use it as much as I'd expected.

The collection of podcasts I subscribe to is still a mix of shows I listen to religiously and those that I cherry-pick episodes with specific topics.
?The podcasts I subscribe to
I subscribe to the following podcasts:

American Story Tellers
American Scandal
Behind the Tech with Kevin Scott
CDMX Expats
The Earful Tower: Paris
Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman
If Books Could Kill ⭐
Made by Google
Maintenance Phase
.NET Rocks! ⭐
No Such Podcast
The Rewatchables ⭐
Rolling Stone Music Now
RunAsRadio ⭐
Scott & Mark Learn to... ⭐
Sync Up by Microsoft 365
Talks at Google
That Chapter Podcast

?My top podcasts by listening time
According to Pocket Casts, my top five podcasts of 2024 by listening time are:

The Rewatchables
If Books Could Kill
.NET Rocks!
American Scandal
That Chapter Podcast

?New podcasts of 2024
As noted up top, I added three podcasts to Pocket Casts this past year, and each is notable because they're all binge-listens in that I will, in time, listen to every episode they make. They are:

The Rewatchables
Scott & Mark Learn to...
No Such Podcast

But the first two, The Rewatchables and Scott & Mark Learn to..., are even more notable because they have instantly catapulted to the top of my lists of favorite podcasts. They're both terrific. On that note...
?My favorite bingeable podcasts of 2024
Sometimes you find a podcast that is so good that you go back and listen to every single episode from the past and then listen immediately to new episodes when they appear. One early example of this for me was How Did This Get Made?, though I found myself listening less and less a decade later and then finally unsubscribed this past year. But I still have a few similar go-to's, including the two noted above, that are new to 2024. That's amazing to me.

In order, they are:

⭐The Rewatchables. I was so excited to...