So I’ve run my own show for just about ten years now. We’ve never had ads or sponsorships of any kind other than a Patreon plug at the very end.

When I go out into the world and listen to other podcasts I’m perpetually annoyed at the lengthy, frequent ad-breaks. I don’t mind being reminded to engage or click on their link or go to a show’s Ko-Fi page, but a two minute dollar shave club or AG1 ad is just too much. And, honestly, the amount of advertising dollars some shows take makes me question their integrity just a bit. I know it might be a bit old-fashioned to think that, but I can’t help it.

What are you favorite sponsorship-free, ad-free podcasts?

  • bluelanderOP
    1·
    4 hours ago

    That’s quite the pile of political shows! I’ll dig through them and pick out the ones that hook me. Thanks for taking the time to link them all, makes it easier to use an online took to yank out the RSS feeds for subscription.

    • davelAEnglish
      2·
      4 hours ago

      I’m not sure those links will render RSS feeds. I just pulled them from my Apple Podcasts app. None of them are exclusive to Apple, though, so if you’re not in the Apple ecosystem you can still find them.

      • bluelanderOP
        3·
        4 hours ago

        Oh they will, I use a website that yanks the feeds. Having them all in one list like that makes it easier for me to parse through them though.

        If you ever need to yank the RSS from a show then I have lots of success with: https://www.labnol.org/podcast. It’s specifically for just this kind of thing. Weirdly a lot of shows, even on their own websites, don’t make RSS feeds readily available.

          • bluelanderOP
            2·
            4 hours ago

            Oh wow I didn’t realize it was so simple. I couple just slap that into a bash script and save the effort of going through a website…maybe even use it for bulk processing when I get lots of recommendations.

            • davelAEnglish
              2·
              3 hours ago
              #!/bin/sh

# Get the original RSS feed URL from an Apple Podcast show URL.

podcast="$1"
id=$(echo "$podcast" | awk '{sub(/^.*\/id/, ""); print}')
curl -s "https://itunes.apple.com/lookup?id=%24id" | jq -r '.results.[0].feedUrl'

              There seems to be a bug in Lemmy that messes up the script’s rendering a little, but you’ll figure it out.