Quantity is so often the enemy of quality, a truth made plainly apparent across podcast feeds these days: Everyone and their cousin—or, rather, everyone and their Series B investor—is trying to do a lengthy chat show, seated behind high-end video cameras and the same set of Shure mics that Joe Rogan uses.

In other words, our feeds are ever more cluttered with—sorry, to say it—slop.

Yet as you can tell from the list of the best new tech and business podcasts below, some real gems did wash up alongside the flotsam this year, like NPR's "Embedded: Alternate Realities," which is hosted by Zachary Mack, an industry veteran who has spent time at The Ringer and producing several seasons of "Land of Giants," a Vox series on tech companies.