Year-End Lists

Brendan Menapace: The 20 Best Podcasts of 2025, as published by Esquire

• WTF with Marc Maron
• Panic World
• Staying Alive
• It's Called Soccer!
• Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)
• Bandsplain
• Good One
• Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story
• If Books Could Kill
• Only If You Get Caught
• The Adam Friedland Show
• Guys: With Bryan Quinby
• Good Hang with Amy Poehler
• What's Our Podcast?
• What Are We Even Doing?
• Dan Carlin's Hardcore History
• No Such Thing
• The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
• Oh Gatekeeper
• Against the Rules