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Listen, despite all the headlines since the New Year, it’s not all Spotify, Joe Rogan, and COVID misinformation here in podcast land. Sometimes we even get Jamie Lynn Spears going on Call Her Daddy and then thinking she might want to start a podcast of her own.
But while all that’s been happening, there continues to be a steady stream of new show launches, and as always, we have been keeping an eye out for the best and most interesting ones. In this opening list for 2022, I’m starting out with five new shows, but as we drift deeper into the year, I hope to mix things up a bit and throw in standout episodes from existing shows as well. The podcast universe is vast and strange, endless with its nooks…