Alex Honnold's Favorite Podcasts & Episodes of 2025

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2️⃣5️⃣ In Podcast The Newsletter… Lauren Passell shares a list of her favorite episodes of 2025, including one from The Dream: “…listen to Jane Marie’s conversation with Charlotte Isenberg, who at 16 became an anti-abortion spokesperson...”

✏️ From Snap Judgment, German and his family are stuck behind the walls of a rusty old pencil factory in the jungle. When a Youtuber stumbles onto the scene with a camera, he may be their only hope.

🌎Season 2 of How to Save It takes listeners on a journey to Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, Nepal, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Rwanda. Narrated by UK broadcaster Kate Humble and Whitley Fund for Nature founder Edward Whitley, the mini series features the new conservation heroes driving remarkable outcomes for nature.

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Podcast news from Podnews

• Spotify’s video deal with Netflix will include a live version of The Bill Simmons Podcast, says The Hollywood Reporter. The Sunday episodes will be live starting January 11th - the show will stream live at 11:30pm ET (in the U.S. only).

• Everything Everywhere Daily recently hit 2,000 episodes. The daily podcast, which was launched in July 2020, has had over 55 million downloads (and more than 1.3mn in the last thirty days) and has remained a one-person operation, hosted by Gary Arndt, since its inception.

• USA Today covers “how to find your next favorite podcast.”“Look at the charts,” try the recommendations," and “ask AI” are in their list; the example app used is Spotify.

Arielle’s Spotlight Podcast Pick

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SPOTLIGHT ON: Origin Stories

I’ve been chatting with a lot of creators, agencies, and media companies lately about the pressure for podcasts to produce always-on episodes in addition to the more production/resource-intensive series they put forth each year.

Campside Media has been around for awhile and has made some of the most compelling shows I’ve heard (Wild Boys, We Came To The Forest). As a listener, I love these shows, and I want more of them… and I want them more often. As a creator myself — and someone who helps others budget and strategize — I know these shows are HARD to make. THEN, there's the challenge of creating ongoing stories that match and enhance the high-quality episodes you initially promised and provided to your audience.

Origin Stories is a wonderful interview show (purposefully designed to be ongoing) from Campside that lives in its own podcast feed and intentionally-unintentionally draws listeners to the Campside sonic universe. Host Matthew Shaer (Suspect, Over My Dead Body) interviews creators, producers, and makers from across the media world about how they got started and what goes into the making of their projects.

Episode recommendation: After seeing Nuremberg last month, I got a lot out of this conversation between Shaer and screenwriter, producer, and director James Vanderbilt. I learned about the process of adapting books into movies and I enjoyed hearing Vanderbilt parse the challenge of structuring the timeline of historical events into a film format. Origin Stories has quickly become a regular listen for me.