What music/podcast subscriptions do you use on the truck?

Spotify is Probabaly the best for
Music


Podcasts that I listen to are

under the hood
Mike Rowe
Adam Carolla show
Reasonable doubt
Wait wait don’t tell me
Jordan Harbinger

 

If you have access to a Time Machine, or are weird about keeping stuff, like me. You can use an iPod. This one is getting close to 25 years old seriously though, I have the Sirius as well. Still use the iPod more often though. Comfortable like an old pair of boots

 

I listen to my audiobooks on Google Books, but
I'd prefer not to have to download apps on my phone to listen to podcasts tbh.

I download BBC's In Out Time podcasts directly from the website:
BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time - Podcasts

I download Peter Adamson's History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps podcasts directly from the website:

Home | History of Philosophy without any gaps

I downloaded the History of the Ancient Mediterranean World from the Internet archives:

History 4A The Ancient Mediterranean World : Isabelle Pafford : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

I download The Bhagavad Gita discourses directly from the Spiritual Discourse website:

Bhagavadgita Discourse by Swami Nikhilananda

 

Amazon music and audible for podcasts and books.

Works for me.

 

It matters what you want to listen to all day. Personally, I like things like documentaries on almost any topic so I can always find free podcasts to listen to. I also like podcasts from certain comedians. Any topic you want to learn about has an endless number of podcasts almost always free. Of course if you use your phone then you need a data plan on your phone with enough data allowance to provide for whatever you want to use. Audio doesn't require nearly as much data as even low quality video, so I could listen almost all day, every day and still not use up my 10 or 20GB data per month.

You can get a free 3 or 4 month trial of SiriusXM, and if you get a trial they will eventually offer you a monthly subscription of $4-5 per month instead of the advertised prices on the web site. If you want to get unlimited free trials with Sirius just keep signing up for 3 month free trials with a new email address. For example, sign up for free 3 month trial using your email address of Bob@Google.com. In 29 days sign up for a new free trial using email address of Bob+Sirius1@Google.com. Any mail sent to Bob+Sirius1@Google.com shows up in the inbox of Bob@google.com. The plus sign and anything after it are considered differet addresses to Sirius but still deliver email to the same original emal address.

SiriusXM has live sports and I'm a big college football fan and sometimes MLB listener. But they have most pro and big college sports. SXM has lots of talk, news, music, etc. Just understand, while they have more variety in sources than local radio, their music channels only have say 100-150 different songs in the category of the music, like 2000s Country, or 1990s Rock, etc so you will eventually get tired of the same tunes if you listen to one channel long enough. I like the 5-10 comedy channels. Sirius also has Old Time Radio shows which can be pretty good. I'm happy to pay $5/month for Sirius but I wouldn't pay $15 per month to keep it. If you ignore their emails long enough they will offer you the $4 or $5 per month subscription. I can't think of any other paid service I would use, certainly none I would pay for. With the TuneIn and the IHeartRadio app you can listen to most radio stations for free using your phone's data plan.

 

I Heart Radio and Tune In both have ads. I think you can pay and get ad-free.
Beware screwing with your phone to change what you listen to gets you the exact same ticket as sending a text while your drive so you never touch that phone until you have first assured you are not doing anything in the next 10 seconds or so, there are no cops or anyone near you, and you double check before you even think about looking at your phone. It's a bad bad ticket to have on your your PSP. It's almost as bad as DUI for getting another job.

 

I just use the Antenna App on my phone, or whatever podcast app you prefer. When I'm stopped I download maybe a few hours or a day's worth of podcasts to listen to. Then when I drove I didn't depend on the phone network being perfect with no dead spots to interrupt what I heard. Just make sure you have enough data allowance on your phone's plan.

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One Second After is another good book about an EMP that is set near Asheville NC.

 

I download the Darknet Diaries podcast episodes directly from the website

Darknet Diaries – True stories from the dark side of the Internet.

 

It’s amazing how apple products last forever