About the Find That Pod Curator

Hey. My name is Sebastian, and I’m what, in Internet terms, and soon enough, real-world terms, you would call a bit of a dinosaur. As a young Gen X’er, I found my love of podcasts through my love of technology. Like some other things in the tech world, I was early to podcasts. My first iPod was the third generation with a massive 10 GB of storage. In 2005, when I heard my first podcast (This Week in Tech), it felt like suddenly, a world of knowledge and entertainment had been opened up.

When Apple introduced support for podcasts in iTunes in the summer of that year, it became clear to me that podcasting was the next great iteration of what the open Internet could offer. Podcasts quickly became the people’s radio, and democratized access to audio audiences for everyone.

A few years after that, I remember laying in bed with my girlfriend and going on a rant about how all this knowledge, wisdom, and experience was locked away in podcasts. And here we are, two decades later, and I still mostly feel the same way. AI transcription and summarization is starting to change this, but the knowledge and information inside podcasts still feels mostly locked away. I still don’t understand why a company like Google, with near-infinite resources, never solved this problem. But of-course, that’s more of a pleasing the shareholders issue more than anything.

I’ve been a heavy podcast listener for over twenty years, and since I started this podcast recommendation newsletter in 2019, I’ve recommended nearly 1,600 podcasts and listened to over 12,000 different podcasts in my quest to find and share the best podcasts in the world.

But the job is not done. Podcast discovery is still a real problem. Just look at how many people still turn to places like this to ask for podcast recommendations for a dizzying array of topics. The listening landscape is heavily splintered amongst a dozen or so applications and ecosystems. The individual recommendation algorithms on each platform are mostly not great.

So, that’s my mission. To bring you the best podcasts worth your time and to help you discover the uncatalogued wealth of information and entertainment within the enclaves of recorded audio.

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Find That Pod is proudly a Canadian publication. 🇨🇦