This Year Gave Us Some Good Stuff, Too

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4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2020

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

The year is almost over, which means top 10 lists are rolling in. But what’s it like to pick favorites in such an emotionally intense year?

Greta talks with podcast expert Nick Quah, TV critic Margaret Lyons and Vocalo host Jill Hopkins about the best stuff this year.

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0:13.6	From W be easy Chicago this is Nernet.
0:19.4	I'm Greta Johnson and I cannot believe I am actually saying this but 2020 is almost over. The end is near.
0:27.2	It's been a super weird year. I don't have to tell you that. But we still thought it would be worthwhile to check in with some critics about some of the best stuff of 20-20 up first is podcast expert Nick qua Nick hey
0:40.0	Hello it is the end. But it's a good end.
0:45.0	It's like this is the apocalypse we've been waiting for, right?
0:48.0	Yes, like it's the end of the movie Melanchoia, but my arms are wide open and I'm chill.
0:53.0	So how weird was it for you to think about the best stuff of this year given just how
1:00.0	weird the year was?
1:02.0	I, okay it was pretty weird.
1:03.4	In large part because I, moving through the year, did not expect that it would be this hard to
1:09.7	compile as of best podcasts.
1:11.3	Like I thought, oh, you know know everybody's freaked out about COVID
1:14.2	there's like there's just fewer emotional relationships I thought that I
1:18.0	formed with enough shows but when I was going through the process turns
1:21.5	out no this year has caused me to be very emotional,
1:24.8	and therefore I had a lot of shows that I really loved, and it was really hard to build a top 10 list.
1:29.7	So I'm going to be really obnoxious and just ask you for your top one list.
1:33.3	What do you think was the best new podcast of 2020?
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