Listen to This: The Best Podcasts to Perk Up Your Commute

Your daily commute is about 30 minutes (longer if you live in LA). Two times a day, that’s one hour. Five days a week; five hours. Twenty hours a month for 12 months. So maybe you spend about 240 hours in your car per year (a low-ball estimate). Music can get boring, so try a podcast! Here are some of our favorites: 

Music: Ever wonder how your friend always knows the hippest songs before they are out. He/she has some help from some type of music blog or podcast. One of our favorites is “All Songs Considered.”

Science: If you love science and you are naturally curious, “Radiolab” will make time fly on your car rides. The hosts blend science, philosophy and human experience in a quirky and entertaining fashion. 

Culture: “This American Life” covers a variety of stories, including hard hitting news stories about the financial crisis to seemingly irrelevant themes like the politics of being a child. No matter what the topic is, the show looks at popular culture in a fascinating new light. 

Random: “Stuff You Should Know” is a smorgasbord of random information that will most likely not come up in random conversation. But it’s awesome. Talks range from “Was Atlantis a real place?”, “How did language evolve?” and “Body Odor: You Stink.”