Top and Best 24 Podcasts of 2024 on Great Pods

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MVP! MVP! That's for the Most Viewed Podcast, or as I like to call it now, "Top of the Pods" for 2024.

It's that time of year and you get ready all the lists you can hope for. For us, we don't pick 'em. We let the web visitors like you pick via the podcast pages you visit. So I bring you, the top 24 podcasts of 2024. The dates picked are from December 1, 2023 - December 1, 2024. How many have you listened to? Or did you just find a new listen?

You can click on any images to read the reviews and listen on your favorite app. Of the top publishers with the most in the most viewed category, 3 are from Serial | The New York Times and iHeart. 2 are from the BBC.

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24. The Price of Paradise - Wondery

Critic Podcast Reviews - The Price of Paradise
When ex-Bunny girl Jayne Gaskin spots the desert island of her dreams for sale online, she decides to risk it all. Trading in their English village home, Jayne and her family relocate to their own private paradise, just off the coast of Nicaragua. And a reality TV crew follows them to film a new sho…
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23. Scamfluencers - Wondery

Critic Podcast Reviews - Scamfluencers
You never really know someone…especially online. In today’s world, the power of influence can be the quickest path to money and fame, and it often ends in ruin. These are the stories of the world’s most insidious Scamfluencers. And we are their prey. On Wondery’s new weekly series, join co-hosts Sca…
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22. The Rest is History - Goalhanger

Critic Podcast Reviews - The Rest Is History
The world’s most popular history podcast, with Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook.Join The Rest Is History Club (www.therestishistory.com) for ad-free listening to the full archive, weekly bonus episodes, live streamed shows and access to an exclusive chatroom community.Here are some of our favourite…
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21. Handsome - Headgum

Critic Podcast Reviews - Handsome
“Handsome” is a podcast from comedians Tig Notaro, Fortune Feimster, and Mae Martin. Every week, the handsome hosts field a question from a friend and attempt to answer it together, covering every subject you could think of. Along the way, Tig, Fortune and Mae tell plenty of stories and just general…
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20. Dr. Death S4 - Wondery

Critic Podcast Reviews - Dr. Death | S4: Bad Magic
When a charismatic young doctor announces revolutionary treatments for cancer and HIV, patients from around the world turn to him for their last chance. As medical experts praise Serhat Gumrukcu’s genius, the company he co-founded rockets in value to over half a billion dollars. But when a team of r…
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19. What Now? w/ Trevor Noah - Spotify

Critic Podcast Reviews - What Now? with Trevor Noah
Trevor currently hosts a Spotify original weekly podcast titled What Now? with Trevor Noah. In this new podcast, listeners get a chance to hear Trevor like never before. Trevor is joined each episode by celebrities, thought leaders, athletes, and friends to chat about the contemporary topics on ever…
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18. Fail Better w/ David Duchovny - Lemonada Media

Critic Podcast Reviews - Fail Better with David Duchovny
To be human is to fail – period. And not just to fail once, but to fail a lot. As the author Samuel Beckett said: “Fail again. Fail better.” This saying means a lot to me and my family – so much so that my daughter got a tattoo of it. Why are we, and so many others, so deeply concerned by failure? A…
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17. You Probably Think This Story Is About You - LARJ Media

Critic Podcast Reviews - You Probably Think this Story’s About You
This isn’t your typical true crime story.Brittani Ard steps back into the shadowy labyrinth of memories, scars, and fragile ties that bind us to our past. Where wounds still ache and the bonds of connection blur between salvation and entrapment. After revealing her own story in the first 8 chapters,…
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16. Sweet Bobby - Tortoise Media

Critic Podcast Reviews - Sweet Bobby
How much do you know about the person you love? Sweet Bobby is the #1 chart-topping, award-winning investigative series in search of the world’s most sophisticated catfisher. Listen to the full six-part series, and bonus episodes today. For the premium Tortoise listening experience, curated by our j…
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15. Call Her Daddy - Unwell, SiriusXM

Critic Podcast Reviews - Call Her Daddy
The most-listened to podcast by women. Alex Cooper’s Call Her Daddy has been creating conversation since 2018. Cooper cuts through the BS with topics and guests - asking the burning questions you want the answers to. There will be laughter, there will be tears. There will be everything in between. N…
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14. Ghost Story - Wondery, Pineapple Street Studios

Critic Podcast Reviews - Ghost Story
Host Tristan Redman is a seasoned journalist who doesn’t believe in ghosts. But weird things happened in the bedroom he lived in as a teenager. When he discovers years later that subsequent occupants of the same house have been visited by the ghost of a faceless woman, he’s curious. Because it just…
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13. Things Fell Apart - BBC

Critic Podcast Reviews - Things Fell Apart
A series of strange, unexpected human stories from the history of the culture wars. If you’ve ever yelled at someone on social media about, say, cancel culture or mask-wearing, then you are a soldier in the culture wars - those everyday battles for dominance between conflicting values.
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12. The Rest Is Entertainment - Goalhanger

Critic Podcast Reviews - The Rest is Entertainment
The Rest Is Entertainment pulls back the curtain on television, movies, journalism and more with Richard Osman and Marina Hyde using their years of knowledge, enviable contact book and wit to bring you what’s hot, and what’s not in the world of entertainment.
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11. Scamanda - Lionsgate Sound

Critic Podcast Reviews - Scamanda
Amanda is a wife. A mother. A blogger. A Christian.A charming, beautiful, bubbly, young woman who lives life to the fullest.But Amanda is dying, with a secret she doesn’t want anyone to know.She starts a blog detailing her cancer journey, and becomes an inspiration, touching and captivating her loca…
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10. Amy and T.J. Podcast - iHeart

Critic Podcast Reviews - Amy and T.J. Podcast
“Amy & T.J.” is hosted by renowned television news anchors Amy Robach and T. J. Holmes. Hosts and executive producers Robach and Holmes are a formidable broadcasting team with decades of experience delivering headline news and captivating viewers nationwide. Now, the duo will get behind the microph…
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9. A Muslim and a Jew - Instinct Productions

Critic Podcast Reviews - A Muslim & A Jew Go There
“A Muslim & A Jew Go There” is a brand new podcast produced by Instinct Productions, hosted by comedian David Baddiel (author of “Jews Don’t Count”) and politician Sayeeda Warsi (“Muslims Don’t Matter”) who will take on whatever controversy hits the headlines each week, providing context and discuss…
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8. Empire - Goalhanger

Critic Podcast Reviews - Empire
How do empires rise? Why do they fall? And how have they shaped the world around us today?William Dalrymple and Anita Anand explore the stories, personalities and events of empire over the course of history.
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7. Archetypes - Lemonada Media

Critic Podcast Reviews - Archetypes
Archetypes with Meghan - a podcast where we investigate, dissect, and subvert the labels that try to hold women back. Sales and Distribution by Lemonada Media https://lemonadamedia.com/
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6. Sidebar: A Suits Watch Podcast - SiriusXM

Critic Podcast Reviews - Sidebar: A Suits Watch Podcast
Join Patrick J. Adams and Sarah Rafferty as they recap episodes from the hit TV show “Suits” where they played Mike Ross and Donna Paulson respectively on the show. Sarah and Patrick share their personal experience being on the show, interview fellow cast members, answer listener questions, and shar…
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5. Wiser Than Me w/ Julia - Lemonada Media

Critic Podcast Reviews - Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Julia Louis-Dreyfus returns for Season 3 of her award-winning podcast, Wiser Than Me™. Each week, she has funny, touching, personal conversations with iconic older women who are brimming with the kind of unapologetic attitude and wisdom that only comes with age. Julia sits at the feet of some extrao…
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4. The Diary of a CEO - Steven Bartlett

Critic Podcast Reviews - The Diary of a CEO with Steven Bartlett
I was a broke, university dropout, at 18 I built an industry leading social media marketing company, and at 27 I resigned as CEO. At 28 I co-founded Flight Story – a marketing and communications company, and thirdweb - a software platform, making it easy to build web3 applications. I then launched p…
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3. Who killed JFK? - iHeart

Critic Podcast Reviews - Who Killed JFK?
Who Killed JFK? For 60 years, we are still asking that question. In commemoration of the 60th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s tragic assassination, legendary filmmaker Rob Reiner teams up with award-winning journalist Soledad O’Brien to tell the history of America’s greatest murder myster…
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2.  Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra - MSNBC

Critic Podcast Reviews - Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra
As a new authoritarian movement rises in American politics, stoked by one of the country’s most outrageous demagogues, there is an all-out international manhunt for an American traitor. The U.S. Army’s Nazi war crimes trials in Germany have been infiltrated by a spy -- a mole for the other side. A g…
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  1. Who Shat? - Who Shat on the Floor at my Wedding? (Independent)
Critic Podcast Reviews - Who shat on the floor at my wedding?
Who Shat On The Floor At My Wedding? was a question shared by brides Helen McLaughlin and Karen Whitehouse after they tied the knot on 11 August, 2018 on a boat in Amsterdam. It was a question that launched a podcast, which led to the hiring of unqualified detective Lauren Kilby, the purchase of a €…
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Of the bunch, the top 3 publishers were Wondery (4), Lemonada Media (3), and Goalhanger podcasts (3).

Archetypes with Megan Markle hung around because of the new partnership with Lemonada Media. New new episodes released under the banner yet.

Who Shat? remained on the top thanks to their much anticipated 2nd season "The Case of the Tiny Suit."

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Happy New Year wherever you may be and thank you for making 2024 memorable.

Peace, love, and GAP.

Captain Ron