I like to listen to podcasts too. I listen to these quilting podcasts: American Patchwork and Quilting, Simple Handmade Everyday, A quilting Life, and Quilting for the rest of us. I don’t listen to political podcasts. My other podcasts are financial podcasts as that’s my job in the family. I like This American Life for outside of both of those topics. There are so many of those you can pick the topics you’re interested in.
I can also take out audio books from the library. DH and I listened to two great ones on the way home: Horse by Pulitzer Prize winner Geraldine Brooks. Very engaging. I usually avoid the books that have won literary prizes but this one was really good. And for those who are traveling like we do, or in an RV: Take me with You by Catherine Ryan Hyde. The book had some of the same places we had travelled to while were on our trip.
I can’t usually watch shows while I”m quilting but audio books and podcasts keep me motivated in the sewing room.